Patents by Inventor Kevin C. Dakan

Kevin C. Dakan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8596254
    Abstract: A toy launcher apparatus for discharging soft foam projectiles, the apparatus having a housing, a projectile launching assembly including a launching tube and a launching spring, a trigger and a cocking assembly. The apparatus also includes a magazine container for storing a stack of projectiles and having a projectile receiving opening to enable loading of projectiles into the magazine container without removing the magazine container from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Meredith Brooks, Kevin C. Dakan
  • Patent number: 8402956
    Abstract: A toy launcher apparatus for discharging soft foam projectiles, the apparatus having a housing and a barrel assembly, including side-by-side barrels, that simulates a real double barrel shotgun. Within the housing are two launching assemblies operatively connected to the barrels, and a trigger assembly for capturing launching tubes of the launching assemblies and for allowing a user to release the launching tubes, and launching springs mounted around the launching tubes to cause the projectiles to be “fired” when the launching tubes are released. Also mounted to the housing and the barrel assembly, and operatively connected to the launching assemblies, is a cocking assembly having an elongated link pivotally connected at one end to the barrel assembly and at an opposite end to a ratchet and compression mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Dakan, Raymond Aaron Mead, Brian Jablonski
  • Publication number: 20120125304
    Abstract: A toy launcher apparatus for discharging soft foam projectiles, the apparatus having a housing, a projectile launching assembly including a launching tube and a launching spring, a trigger and a cocking assembly. The apparatus also includes a magazine container for storing a stack of projectiles and having a projectile receiving opening to enable loading of projectiles into the magazine container without removing the magazine container from the housing. This is accomplished by the apparatus having a horizontal panel operatively connected to the magazine container's upper portion and movable between a first position where the panel is retracted and does not block the projectile receiving opening and a second position where the panel blocks the projectile receiving opening during a cocking cycle of the cocking assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventors: Meredith Brooks, Kevin C. Dakan
  • Publication number: 20120037135
    Abstract: A toy launcher apparatus for discharging soft foam projectiles, the apparatus having a housing and a barrel assembly, including side-by-side barrels, that simulates a real double barrel shotgun. Within the housing are two launching assemblies operatively connected to the barrels, and a trigger assembly for capturing launching tubes of the launching assemblies and for allowing a user to release the launching tubes, and launching springs mounted around the launching tubes to cause the projectiles to be “fired” when the launching tubes are released. Also mounted to the housing and the barrel assembly, and operatively connected to the launching assemblies, is a cocking assembly having an elongated link pivotally connected at one end to the barrel assembly and at an opposite end to a ratchet and compression mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Kevin C. Dakan, Raymond Aaron Mead, Brian Jablonski
  • Patent number: 6672189
    Abstract: A construction toy device that can be used to create multiple construction elements and methods of using the same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian L. Aiken, Jon Paul Castiglione, Kevin C. Dakan, David E. Grober, Jeffrey J. Miller, Charles W. Paddock
  • Patent number: D660922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Aaron Mead, Kevin C. Dakan, Robert James Victor
  • Patent number: D662153
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Dakan, Raymond Aaron Mead, Brian Jablonski