Patents Examined by Matthew B Stanczak
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Patent number: 11364446Abstract: In one aspect, there is provided a toy vehicle that includes a vehicle body, at least one motor and a plurality of wheels. The at least one motor is mounted to the vehicle body, and is sized to have a selected amount of torque. The plurality of wheels includes at least one driven wheel which includes at least one flip-over wheel which has an axis closer to one end of the vehicle than the other end. In an upright orientation the vehicle body extends above the plurality of wheels. The toy vehicle has a centre of gravity that is positioned, such that, application of torque from the at least one motor causes the vehicle body to drive rotation of the vehicle body about the axis of rotation from an inverted orientation over to the upright orientation.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: SPIN MASTER LTD.Inventors: Lee Gamble, Chaitanya Dogra, Jason C. Lee
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Patent number: 11358040Abstract: A golf club head with an adjustable weight assembly that includes a pair of stacked, rotatable circular plates with through-slots and a slidable weight that can move within the slots and clamp the plates together so that they are reversibly fixed to a body portion is disclosed herein. The plates are preferably composed of a lightweight material such as composite, and are located on the sole so that the weight assembly is visible to a user. The plate and slidable weight combination and allows for an increased range of personal performance customization by way of adjustability and interchangeability without using up available discretionary mass in the golf club head.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventor: Austin L. Frederickson
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Patent number: 11358071Abstract: An interlocking toy set comprising a plurality of interlocking pieces is disclosed herein. The interlocking pieces include a planar body having a top side, a bottom side opposite the top side, and a plurality of lateral edges that extend between and interconnect the top and bottom sides. The interlocking pieces also include a plurality of interlocking flanges that extend away from each lateral edge and configured to interlock with corresponding interlocking flanges formed on a lateral edge of an adjacent interlocking piece.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Gracewood Management, Inc.Inventor: Jim Matthews Bagley
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Patent number: 11338177Abstract: Golf ball comprising a core and a cover, wherein the core includes between 2 and 20 smaller spheres that are surrounded by a second core composition having at least one different physical property than the composition(s) forming the smaller spheres. The smaller spheres can be entirely surrounded by the second core composition; or, at least two smaller adjacent spheres may each be partially surrounded by the second core composition while also being in partial contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Edward Costa, Erin C. McDermott
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Patent number: 11331590Abstract: The present invention discloses a polyhedral block with a plurality of intermittently magnetic sides. The magnetic intermittency is caused by a freely movable magnet that resides in and traverses in an inner cavity, exerting its pull-force through the side of the block to which it is nearest. The cavity is shaped to facilitate magnet movement in response to encountering an external magnetically attractable surface. As a user rotates the block on a magnetically attractable surface, the contained magnet is caused to move within its cavity, ultimately resting in a user-selected position on the magnetically attractable surface. The block contains one or more non-magnetic connection elements on its sides. These non-magnetic connection elements serve to connect the block with compatible, non-magnetic blocks and other objects.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Inventor: Evan B. Grove
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Patent number: 11291926Abstract: An object is to provide, in place of a cube toy such as Yoshimoto Cube, a wide variety of playing patterns, playing patterns which cannot be predicted in terms of change in forms, a polyhedral toy which can be enjoyed in terms of change in form even when only one polyhedral toy is used, and a polyhedral toy having extensibility for achieving a wide variety of contents of play through combination of two or more polyhedral toys. Therefore, when a polyhedral piece (U1) forming the toy is formed with three quadrangular pyramids (G1 to G3) having, among six triangular faces (T1 to T6) of a cube (R), three faces (R1 to R3) as bottom faces, the polyhedral piece (U1) includes a triangle surface (10) formed of six triangular faces (T1 to T6) other than respective side faces of the quadrangular pyramids (G1 to G3) placed on one another. When polyhedral pieces (U1 to U8) each having the configuration described above form a toy (1) unfolded into a cuboid shape of two rows and four columns as illustrated in FIG.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: HANAYAMA INTERNATIONAL TRADING LTDInventor: Keiichi Miyazaki
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Patent number: 11278771Abstract: A golf club head includes a main body having a top portion, a bottom portion, a striking face, and an interior surface. A weight member is coupled to the interior surface of the main body. In an imaginary vertical plane that passes through the weight member, the interior surface of the main body comprises a first point and a second point. An imaginary line passes through the first point and the second point. A first imaginary boundary line and a second imaginary boundary line, both passing through the weight member and being perpendicular to the imaginary line, pass through the first point and the second point, respectively. Between the first point and the second point, the interior surface of the main body has an irregularity factor of at least 1.2 and the weight member comprises a distribution factor of at most 1.0 and a conformity factor of at most 0.07.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Sam G. Lacey, Dan S. Nivanh, Nathaniel J. Radcliffe, Dustin J. Brekke
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Patent number: 11273386Abstract: A multidimensional front-and-back-sides-freely-buildable building block toy construction set includes a first module and a second module. The first module is provided with a single, a single column of, two columns of or multiple columns of first coupling short posts on a front side, and is provided with a concave surface on a back side. Multiple columns of protruding second coupling short posts are disposed on the concave surface. The second coupling short posts are distributed as follows: columns: uniformly distributed in the same columns as the first coupling short posts on the front side, and in the middle equally dividing two adjacent columns; rows: in the same columns as the first coupling short posts on the front side, each of the second coupling short posts is alternately arranged with the first coupling short posts, and is located in the middle equally dividing two first coupling short posts.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: SHANGHAI PAI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shanjun Deng, Ye Xiao
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Patent number: 11273346Abstract: A head includes a face, a sole and a crown. The crown includes a first region and a second region. The first region includes a peak portion of the crown. The first region includes a first thick portion and a narrow groove. The second region includes a second thick portion. The narrow groove extends from a toe side to a heel side so as to divide the first region. The second region extends from the toe side of the first region, through a back side of the first region, to the heel side of the first region. The second thick portion has a wall thickness smaller than that of the first thick portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Yuki Shimahara
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Patent number: 11253788Abstract: The invention concerns a toy system comprising a toy figurine and a spinner body, the spinner body having an elongate axis; a sidewall; and a bottom wall, wherein said sidewall of the spinner body comprises a top rim; an outside surface; and an inside surface, wherein said bottom wall comprises an outside bottom surface; and an inside bottom surface, wherein the inner bottom surface comprises first connection means for releasably connecting second connection means of said toy figurine to the toy spinning top, wherein said sidewall has a height from said inner bottom surface of said top rim, and wherein the height from said inner bottom surface to said top rim is equal a height of the toy figurine from second connection means formed at one end of legs to a shoulder portion of a body formed between the legs and a head resting on said shoulder portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: LEGO A/SInventors: Cerim Manovi, Aske Klejnstrup Garling, Leonardo Francisco Lopez, Jaime Sanchez Potter
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Patent number: 11247141Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic assembly for creating three-dimensional structures, said magnetic assembly comprising at least one ferromagnetic element (1), at least one magnetic element (2), magnetically couplable to said at least one ferromagnetic element (1), and at least one support panel (3) having a perimeter edge (10). Said magnetic assembly being characterised in that it further comprises at least one connection element (4), said at least one connection element (4) comprising a seat (6) for removably housing and retaining a ferromagnetic element (1) or a magnetic element, and at least one peripheral portion (9) suitable for being removably coupled to at least one portion of the perimeter edge (10) of said support panel (3), becoming locked thereto.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Plastwood Italia SRLInventor: Edoardo Pio Tusacciu
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Patent number: 11241636Abstract: A toy vehicle includes at least a chassis, a front wheel base, and a suspension system. The suspension system adjustably secures the front wheel base to the chassis in a manner that provides two operational modes. In a first mode of the two operational modes, the front wheel base is freely, resiliently supported below the chassis. In a second mode of the two operational modes, the front wheel base is selectively posable by a user over a range of orientations for different types of vehicle mobility. The suspension system retains poses when the toy vehicle is operating in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventors: Brendon Vetuskey, James A. Molina
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Patent number: 11235208Abstract: A golf club head having a hollow portion therein includes a face portion for striking a ball and defining a leading edge, a sole portion extending rearwardly of the club head from the face portion and having an inner surface thereof facing the hollow portion, a club head thickness being equal to or less than 39.0 mm. The sole portion is provided on the inner surface with a weight portion extending along the leading edge and a thin wall region between the leading edge and the weight portion. The thin wall region has a length L of from 14.0 to 23.0 mm in a head front-rear direction. The thin wall region has a ratio t/L of a maximum thickness t (mm) thereof to the length L (mm) is in a range of from 0.040 to 0.080.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11224821Abstract: A magnetic toy construction block includes an inner shell and an outer shell which are arranged to form a module having a shell-within-a-shell construction. Disc-shaped magnets are rotatably received and maintained in pockets formed in the inner shell of the module. The inner shell is permanently housed within the outer shell such that the magnets lie in close proximity to its sidewalls and hence sidewalls of the module itself.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: LAROSE INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Lawrence Rosen, Parviz Daftari
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Patent number: 11207609Abstract: A magnetic toy construction block has an interior configured to house a radially magnetized ring magnet, which is rotatably supported within the block by a pair of pedestals extending into the interior of the block from opposite ends thereof. The positions of the poles of the ring magnet are variable relative to the sides of the block in response to the rotation of the ring magnet.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: LAROSE INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Lawrence Rosen, Parviz Daftari
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Patent number: 11202968Abstract: A hand toy device is described that when manipulated, emits a distinct sound and provides a tactile response. The hand toy device includes a cover over a pan containing a granular and/or other sound-generating material, a plunger movable to contact and displace the sound-generating material, and a biasing member configured to bias the plunger away from the sound-generating material.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Toy Tech CorpInventor: Rachel Bellinsky
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Patent number: 11173413Abstract: A block member set includes a plurality of box-shaped block bodies each having an open bottom surface, a plurality of flat-plate-shaped joint members, and a plurality of box-shaped joint members, wherein each of the plurality of flat-plate-shaped joint member placed on an upper surface of each of the plurality of box-shaped block body and each of plurality of the box-shaped joint member accommodated in the box-shaped block body are connected to each other by a rod-shaped connecting member which passes through an insertion hole formed in the box-shaped block body thus being integrally formed with each other and forming a block.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: TAKAHARA LUMBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Shingo Ishimatsu
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Patent number: 11154769Abstract: A battle arena game apparatus with one or more symmetrical side tracks creating a one-way flow pattern that repeatedly exits spinning tops into a middle area of a battling surface to maximize the frequency of collisions between actively spinning tops for enhanced game play and fun for a user. A barrier at an exit of the one or more side tracks prevents the one or more spinning tops from entering the exit of the side tracks creating a one-way flow pattern of the one or more spinning tops from a periphery area of the battling surface to launch into the middle area of the battling surface to continuously engage spinning toy tops in combat.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: TOMY COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Douglas Arthur Schultheis, Hama Hiroyuki, Saito Shina, Charles Latham Gaines, Luke Lohan
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Patent number: 11141674Abstract: The invention relates to children's construction kits for assembling building toys from connecting elements. The technical result is an increase in functional capabilities, permitting the assembly of simple and complex spatial constructions with dynamic properties. This technical result is achieved by virtue of a building toy consisting of a set of flat shape-forming and decorative modular elements made of a flexible resilient material and having fastening elements attached to the surfaces thereof, said fastening elements forming detachable joints capable of holding together connected portions of the surfaces, wherein each of the fastening elements takes the form of the centre of axial rotation of at least the held portion of the surface of a connected modular element, and each of the shape-forming modular elements has on its opposite surfaces at least one coaxial pair of fastening elements which are rigidly interconnected and have oppositely oriented mating surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Inventors: Rodions Zenevics, Olga Litvinova
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Patent number: 11135525Abstract: Embodiments may relate to a foldable play structure which may be easily assembled and which may be form of four or more panels each connected to another to provide an accordion fold structure; corner hinges comprising a first hinge portion attached to one panel of the at least four panels; a second hinge portion attached to another panel of the at least four panels; and a fastener configured to be retained within either the first portion or the second portion; and mid-wall hinge(s) attached to two of the panels and located between the corner hinges. Typically, in a first configuration, the panels of the accordion fold structure are folded to be stacked in substantially parallel planes, and in a second configuration, the panels are unfolded forming a play structure. The retained fastener may be used to secure the corner panels together.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: KidKraft, Inc.Inventors: Frederick Rieber, David Barr