Patents by Inventor Troels HERMANN

Troels HERMANN 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).

  • Transformable modular toy element
    Patent number: 12151181
    Abstract: A transformable modular toy element is provided. The transformable modular toy element is for use in a toy construction system comprising a plurality of modular toy elements. The transformable modular toy element comprises a body portion and a head portion. The body portion comprises one or more coupling members, the one or more coupling members being adapted for releasably coupling the body portion with modular toy elements of the toy construction system. The head portion is attached to the body portion. The head portion comprises a cavity for receiving the body portion therein. The body portion is moveable with respect to the head portion between a retracted position where the body portion is retracted into the cavity, whereby the transformable modular toy element has a first shape, and a deployed position where the body portion is in the axial direction deployed from the cavity, whereby the transformable modular toy element has a second shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Timothy Mark Ainley, Troels Hermann, Jens Peter Haurum, Steffen Gøtske
  • Toy system having a contactless energy transfer system
    Patent number: 12021394
    Abstract: A toy system comprising a plurality of toy construction elements, having detachably interconnecting coupling members for creating coherent spatial structures. The plurality of toy construction elements include: an energy source device comprising a housing and an energy transfer circuit therein; and energy distribution devices to provide respective external conductive loops extending outside the housing and defining a respective external energy transfer zone in a proximity of the respective external conductive loops. The energy source device is configured to be brought into operational connection with the energy distribution devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Andrew James Knights, Isobel Jane Ashbey, Rosanna Elizabeth Parrish, Simon Mark Jordan, Robert George Milner, Martin Edward Brock, Thomas Alan Donaldson, Mark Ross Champkins, Radost Radoslavova Kerefeyna, Rasmus Bissenbakker Kærsgaard, Yufan Wei Wang, Troels Hermann, Arun Venkatasubramanian
  • TRANSFORMABLE MODULAR TOY ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20220339551
    Abstract: A transformable modular toy element is provided. The transformable modular toy element is for use in a toy construction system comprising a plurality of modular toy elements. The transformable modular toy element comprises a body portion and a head portion. The body portion comprises one or more coupling members, the one or more coupling members being adapted for releasably coupling the body portion with modular toy elements of the toy construction system. The head portion is attached to the body portion. The head portion comprises a cavity for receiving the body portion therein. The body portion is moveable with respect to the head portion between a retracted position where the body portion is retracted into the cavity, whereby the transformable modular toy element has a first shape, and a deployed position where the body portion is in the axial direction deployed from the cavity, whereby the transformable modular toy element has a second shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy Mark AINLEY, Troels HERMANN, Jens Peter HAURUM, Steffen GØTSKE
  • TOY SYSTEM HAVING A CONTACTLESS ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220247218
    Abstract: A toy system comprising a plurality of toy construction elements, having detachably interconnecting coupling members for creating coherent spatial structures. The plurality of toy construction elements include: an energy source device comprising a housing and an energy transfer circuit therein; and energy distribution devices to provide respective external conductive loops extending outside the housing and defining a respective external energy transfer zone in a proximity of the respective external conductive loops. The energy source device is configured to be brought into operational connection with the energy distribution devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew James KNIGHTS, Isobel Jane ASHBEY, Rosanna Elizabeth PARRISH, Simon Mark JORDAN, Robert George MILNER, Martin Edward BROCK, Thomas Alan DONALDSON, Mark Ross CHAMPKINS, Radost Radoslavova KEREFEYNA, Rasmus Bissenbakker KÆRSGAARD, Yufan Wei WANG, Troels HERMANN, Arun VENKATASUBRAMANIAN