Patents Assigned to Nikko Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7733293
    Abstract: An antenna for a remote controlled toy comprises a conductor made of a metal wire and a cap portion anchored in an end of the conductor, wherein said conductor has a hook portion with a U-shaped end, a first flared portion articulated with said hook portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the perpendicular direction to said hook portion, a second flared portion articulated with the first flared portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the opposite direction from said first flared portion with regard to said hook portion, said cap portion has a T-shaped groove comprised of a horizontal groove housing said first flared portion and said second flared portion, a perpendicular groove housing said hook portion, and a hook locking part is provided inside the T-shaped groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuo Imai
  • Publication number: 20090156088
    Abstract: A reality generating device wherein a traveling toy with a chassis and a body includes: an operation sound generating unit for generating operation sounds of the traveling toy during operation; a vibration generating unit attached to the body for causing the body to vibrate; and a travel driving unit provided on the body for causing the traveling toy to travel. If desired, operation sounds and vibrations are simultaneously generated for enhanced reality of the traveling toy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
  • Publication number: 20080280527
    Abstract: A traveling toy and a radio-controlled traveling toy having a transmission which brings about an operational feeling like a real car is provided. Under a shift lever 4, there is provided a gear box 10 that covers the motor unit and is secured to a chassis rear portion 6, and a rear wheel shaft 8 extends through the gear box 10 covering a motor unit, with a crank box 12 being disposed on the gear box 10. A second slider 14 is disposed on the crank box 12, a first slider 16 is disposed on the second slider 14, and a shift shaft 18, which is a shaft portion of a shift lever 4, stands vertically from the first slider 16. On top of the shift shaft 18, a grasping section 20 is disposed to control the shift lever 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeharu SATO, Nobuo Imai
  • Publication number: 20080167160
    Abstract: To provide a spherical roller which is capable of fully rotating when moving on a rough road surface with a small contact area and which produces no obstacle to the movement in other portions. The present invention comprises a spherical roller in a globular form, a housing on the undersurface of which an opening in a circular form is provided in such a way that the spherical roller is projected in a horizontal down direction, a support roller having rotatable contact with an upper side portion of the spherical roller within the housing, and a drive roller which is arranged in the housing and driven by a drive motor to rotate the spherical roller in a direction at an angle of 90 degrees different from the direction in which the support roller rotates from immediately above for friction drive, thereby driving the spherical roller to move the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tomohiko KOIKE
  • Publication number: 20080141776
    Abstract: There are included a movable body on which an ultrasonic wave signal output part for producing and outputting an ultrasonic wave signal of a particular frequency is mounted; an ultrasonic wave signal reception part for receiving the outputted ultrasonic wave signal; a determination part for determining the difference between the frequency of the ultrasonic wave signal received by the ultrasonic wave signal reception part and the particular frequency; a calculation part for calculating the speed of the movable body from a signal of the determination difference; and a display part for displaying a result of the calculation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toyozo Kato
  • Publication number: 20080143889
    Abstract: A video reproducing apparatus which comprises a radio control signal receiving portion, a video sound data reproducing portion connected to the radio control signal receiving portion, a video projection portion connected to the radio control signal receiving portion and the video sound data reproducing portion, speakers connected to the video sound data reproducing portion, a housing for accommodating the video sound data reproducing portion, the video projection portion, and the speakers, and a housing drive portion for moving the housing, and which drives the housing according to a control signal of the housing drive portion which controls the housing drive portion and which is received by the radio control signal receiving portion, projects the video sound data onto the video projection portion according to a control signal of the video sound data reproducing portion at an arbitrary position, and reproduces the data through the speakers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji MUKAIDA, Yoichi MAEDA, Yasuo KAGAYA
  • Publication number: 20080132143
    Abstract: There is provided a device for enhancing a reality of the toy by realizing the sounds and the oscillation of the real article. The device provides an actuation sound generating unit for generating an actuation sound when the toy is actuated and an oscillation generating unit for realizing the oscillation of the running drive unit to generate the actuation sound and the oscillation simultaneously in order enhance the reality of the running toy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masao Miyaura
  • Publication number: 20080119106
    Abstract: The present invention provides an on-water/underwater movable toy which has the optimal form for high-speed on-water cruising like a leisure boat and a racing boat, and which can also cruise underwater. The on-water/underwater movable toy according to the present invention comprises: a hull having a boat-shaped deck board that is in close contact with a boat bottom without any clearance therebetween; a screw mounted under said boat bottom; a ladder controllably mounted on said boat bottom; a recess prepared on a boat stern, the recess getting deeper toward the direction of movement; and an elevator disposed at the lower end of said recess, having a shape similar to that of said recess, and being controllably pivotable about a horizontal axis defined by the two elevator-holding axis supports projecting downward from the rear portion of the boat bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: NIKKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Imai, Lim Chee Xheng
  • Patent number: 7335084
    Abstract: A traveling toy having a plurality of steering front wheels and a plurality of rear wheels being connected with a driver, and a suspension of traveling toy in which a trailing arm having one end part supported rotatably at the upper part of a supporting wall standing from the chassis of the traveling toy at one end thereof, a first central hole part for passing a hollow tubular section projecting from the chassis through a specified interval from the supporting wall, a spring part interposed while being energized between a threaded part on top of the hollow tubular section and the end part of the first hole part, and a second hole part opening in the horizontal direction at the other end part serves to pass the axle of rear wheels through the second hole part thus absorbing a shock transmitted from the axle through the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeharu Sato
  • Patent number: 7333730
    Abstract: A steering method and system controls a plurality of infrared units with a plurality of infrared controllers. The infrared controller sets the time interval between the end of a start signal and the start of a steering signal to match a predetermined time interval specific to each infrared unit being controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youichi Maeda
  • Publication number: 20080031435
    Abstract: Radio control over a distance beyond the arriving distance of the conventional radio control and transmission of the continuous instruction signal on the real time are possible. The system provides DTMF signal generation means for modulation of a control signal for controlling a controllable section into DTMF signal, VOIP transmission means for receiving DTMF signal to generate VOIP signal for transmission to VOIP line, VOIP line capable of transmitting VOIP signal, VOIP receiving means for receiving VOIP signal for conversion into DTMF code, DTMF demodulation and retransmission means for conversion of regenerated DTMF signal into a radio control transmission signal and a controllable section for receiving the radio control transmission signal and the signal generated by DTMF signal generation means is driven by DTMF demodulation and retransmission means through VOIP line in order to control the receiving means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Kagaya, Kenji Mukaida
  • Publication number: 20070279297
    Abstract: An antenna for a remote controlled toy comprises a conductor made of a metal wire and a cap portion anchored in an end of the conductor, wherein said conductor has a hook portion with a U-shaped end, a first flared portion articulated with said hook portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the perpendicular direction to said hook portion, a second flared portion articulated with the first flared portion and provided crookedly for projecting in the opposite direction from said first flared portion with regard to said hook portion, said cap portion has a T-shaped groove comprised of a horizontal groove housing said first flared portion and said second flared portion, a perpendicular groove housing said hook portion, and a hook locking part is provided inside the T-shaped groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuo Imai
  • Patent number: 7291053
    Abstract: A radio-controlled toy two-wheeled vehicle where a front wheel support body is installed on a vehicle body without steering angle limitation and a doll portion is installed swingably on the upper part of the vehicle. The doll portion is moved by radio control vertically to an advance direction of the vehicle and parallel in a horizontal direction with respect to the vehicle body, so that steering is made by tilting the front wheel support body through the movement of doll's gravity center caused by the parallel movement of the doll. A doll movement control portion and travel control of the two-wheeled vehicle are conducted by radio. The doll movement control portion is mounted on the middle of the two-wheeled vehicle. A drive portion for driving the doll is fitted loosely in a hole portion cut in a doll's torso portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
  • Patent number: 7288017
    Abstract: A two-wheeled toy vehicle by radio control having a supporting member of a front wheel mounted on a vehicle body so as to control freely in steering angle and a rider-like doll mounted on an upper portion of the vehicle body, the doll response to the radio controlled steering operation, effecting parallel displacement vertically to traveling direction and horizontally to the vehicle body, the steering operation being effected by slanting the supporting member of the front wheel in accordance with displacement of the toy's gravity center caused by the parallel displacement of the doll. The supporting member of the front wheel includes a front fork joint provided with a connecting portion combined to the vehicle body and a long cylindrical member provided with an oval like opening portion at its upper part with opposite ends being jointed with a specific angle to the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
  • Patent number: 7202806
    Abstract: A transmitter for radio control with rotary control means on its both sides is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Mukaida
  • Patent number: D538861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D563487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takahashi
  • Patent number: D871160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: D899202
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato
  • Patent number: D934931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nikko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Sato