Abstract: Systems and methods for generating sounds in a vehicle or other location are presented. In one example, a single user input may be a basis for adjusting a sound level and a frequency of occurrence of a sound that is stored in controller memory and that is output via one or more speakers.

Abstract: A flight stick cockpit simulator ground station system is provided. The system includes a base. The system also includes a yoke control module connected to the base. Further, the system includes a yaw control module connected to the base. Additionally, the system includes a throttle control module connected to the base. The system also includes a manipulator module for an aerial TUC transmitter for remote controlled aircraft connected to the base and configured to receive inputs from the yoke control module, the yaw control module, and the throttle control module and structured to mechanically control the aerial R/C transmitter without the need for electrical or computerized mechanisms.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a handheld light assembly including: a housing having a light source; a handle coupled to and extending at a length from the housing and configured to be grasped by a user; a shroud coupled to at least one of the housing or the handle and extending along at least a portion of the length of the handle, the shroud being spaced apart from the handle so as to allow access between the shroud and the handle.

Abstract: The invention is embodied in the form of a flight simulator in the conditions of vortex danger and in conditions when a pilot is informed about the possibility to penetrate into said dangerous area of vortex sheddings produced by a vortex generator.

Abstract: Novelty vehicle simulation systems including computing devices, including processors configured to execute processor executable instructions and computer readable media encoded with processor executable instructions for executing novelty vehicle simulators on the computing devices, and supports defining vehicular appearances. In some examples, supports may be configured to seat computing devices and include vehicular appearance signifying mechanisms configured to communicate encoded representations of the vehicular appearances. In some examples, computing device include vehicular appearance sensing mechanisms operatively paired with the vehicular appearance signifying mechanisms to detect the encoded representations of the vehicular appearances of the supports.

Abstract: An apparatus that mimics the physical effects of riding in a motor vehicle comprising a base structure on which a child automobile seat may be mounted to sooth an occupying child is herein disclosed. A top platform is laterally and longitudinally motioned by bottom mounted motion generating motor assemblies by means of supporting springs. A standard child's automobile seat can be fastened with the use of an integral seat belt. The apparatus is controlled by a microprocessor-based control system, which activates the motors to reproduce a gentle rocking, bumping, swerving or other motion commonly experienced in a motor vehicle. Additionally, the apparatus comprises a sound system capable of producing soothing music and a plurality of sounds designed to mimic those heard in a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A model train control system includes a controller that actively generates commands to control train operation based on user input and/or other information concerning settings of the controller, operating environment of the train, and historic operation of train control system. The model train controller includes a user throttle input for selecting a target speed for the model train. A processor in the controller is adapted to determine the commanded speed based upon at least the target speed, the processor thereby generating a speed command, to be transmitted to said train, to achieve the commanded speed. The model train controller may further include a momentum input for selecting a momentum level for the model train, in which case the processor would determine the commanded speed based on at least the target speed and a selected momentum level for the train.

Abstract: The model train control system includes a remote control device that receives user input with respect to various train functions such as desired speed and effects, and that generates commands based on that input in order to cause the model train to perform in a desired manner. In an embodiment of the invention, the model train controller comprises control input devices that permit user control over corresponding control features of the model train. A touch screen display may be coupled to the housing and adapted to receive user selections regarding the control features. A processor is operatively coupled to the control input devices and the touch screen display. The processor is adapted to generate at least one model train command to be transmitted to the model train based at least in part on a user input received from either one of the control input devices or the touch screen display.

Abstract: An infant seat base removably retaining an infant seat having a seat forward end which a seated infant faces and for simulating the sensations of travel in a road vehicle includes at least one vibration mechanism transmitting vibration into the seat for simulating vehicle vibration from tire movement over road surface irregularities; a recorded sound storing and playing mechanism for playing the sound of a moving road vehicle to an infant in the seat; a view simulation back drop structure having the appearance of a road vehicle seat backrest secured to the base at the seat forward end; and a base circuit including a power source delivering power through the circuit to the at least one vibration mechanism and to the recorded sound storing and playing mechanism.

Abstract: An adjustable video game cockpit that facilitates a number of independent adjustments to accommodate users of all sizes. The video game cockpit may include a video monitor stand and a universal video game console mount. The inclusion of the video monitor stand and universal video game console permit the cockpit to operate as a single gaming unit. The video game cockpit collapses down to a low profile for convenient relocation and storage.

Abstract: A toy driving mechanism includes a housing, a display element coupled to the housing, and a controller mounted on the housing and coupled to the display element.

Abstract: An avionics maintenance training device to train cognitive and psychomotor skills is disclosed. The training device is a physical mock-up of an actual aircraft's cabin assembly. The avionics maintenance training device includes actual avionics components and non-functional and functional physically replicated avionics components of the actual aircraft. The avionics maintenance training device further includes an instructor workstation, a simulator/stimulator, and an interactive electronic training manual. The training device runs the actual operational flight program of the aircraft. The replicated components are three-dimensional components with physical characteristics similar to the avionics components they replicate to teach component removal and replacement skills. The actual and replicated avionics components are located in the training device in positions similar to positions of the avionics components in the aircraft to replicate accessibility.

Abstract: The present invention describes a portable simulation game apparatus that permits a user operating the game apparatus to move or control a three dimensional object. The movement or current position of the three dimensional object is sensed by a plurality of sensors and transmitted to a circuit board or a control means. The control means may then relate the movement or position of the three dimensional object to pre-programmed images displayed in front of the three dimensional object, on a display means. Typically, the pre-programmed images being displayed represent a race or a track for which the three dimensional object, being a vehicle, may interact therewith. To move the three dimensional object, the user tilts or moves the game apparatus in a specific direction the user wants the object to move.

Abstract: A toy includes a first platform with a proximate edge, a distal edge, and first and second lateral edges interconnecting the proximate and distal edges. A moving body has a front wheel, first and second rear wheels, and a turning wheel between the front and rear wheels. The moving body is provided with a driving unit coupled to the turning wheel and the first rear wheel. The turning wheel is rotatable about an axis perpendicular to that of the front and rear wheels, and is disposed higher than bottom portions of the front and rear wheels to prevent the moving body from falling off the first platform when the driving unit drives movement of the moving body on the first platform. A connecting rail has a first end portion mounted on the proximate edge, and is connected to a second platform.

Abstract: A tablet unit 10 for a vehicle includes a dashboarded-shaped body 36, a handle 42, and a touch pen hold unit 50. The dashboard-shaped body 36 includes a receiving antenna 138 which is interlocked with an operation of the handle and is moved on a tablet opposed surface 52. The receiving antenna 138 inputs electromagnetic waves from a tablet 28 and transmits positional information corresponding to the electromagnetic waves to an antenna on the touch pen 32 holding the touch pen 32 through cables 160a, 160b. A drive game is played by operating the handle, which makes the drive game realistic in comparison with that played by operating the touch pen 32. Tablet units 10 for game devices using a keyboard musical instrument, clock, athletic museum, gun and a register are also provided for malting these games realistic in comparison with that played by operating the touch pen 32.

Abstract: A multi-use children's play set in the form of a simulated vehicle having an elongated, hollow body with front and rear ends and a pair of sides. One side is designed so as to have a plurality of openings with drawers slidably held therein. One of the drawers holds a futon, and a door is provided in the one side to allow a child to enter and exit from a seating area in the interior of the vehicle. A desk and seat for play or writing is provided at one end, while the front end is hollow and may be used for storage or to hold a further futon or mattress. One or more doors may be provided in the hollow front end of the vehicle to allow access into and out of the hollow interior thereof.

Abstract: A simulated aircraft piloting device for use as a desk top pen holder or amusement device has a simulated aircraft mounted on a base for movement about simulated pitch, roll, and yaw axes relative to the base, and a simulated aircraft control stick on the base connected to the aircraft for moving the aircraft about its simulated pitch, roll, and yaw axes.

Abstract: An audio playback system for the steering wheel of a child's vehicle is provided. A central housing is provided in the steering wheel, with the housing having an open top. An audio playback module is removably contained in the housing. The playback module includes an open battery compartment. A water fight cover is provided over the open top of the housing.

Abstract: In the simulated steering apparatus, when a steering wheel is turned right or left from its neutral state, a steering reaction force in a direction opposite to the steering direction is transmitted to an operator. A steering shaft that passes through a case and a panel plate is supported rotatably via housings in which are mounted ball bearings. A steering wheel is attached to the front end of the steering shaft, and a powder clutch and an electric motor are located on either side of the steering shaft. An endless output belt is mounted around a coupled pulley that is fitted over the steering shaft, and a drive pulley for the powder clutch, while an endless input belt is mounted around a coupled pulley for the powder clutch and a drive pulley for the electric motor.

Abstract: A locomotive control simulator attachment for a model train controller having a protruding throttle control shaft reciprocally rotatable for regulating the speed of the train includes a support adapted to be attached to the controller, mechanism, such as a pinion gear and rack combination, that is engageable with the throttle control shaft for reciprocally rotating the shaft, a throttle control lever simulating a locomotive throttle, mechanism for mounting the lever on the support for reciprocal pivotal movement of the lever, and mechanism for connecting the lever to the mechanism engageable with the shaft, for operating the latter mechanism to reciprocally rotate the shaft upon reciprocal pivotal movement of the lever, whereby in regulating the speed of a model train, the lever movement simulates the movement of a full-scale railroad locomotive throttle.

Abstract: The recreational equipment junction box of the invention comprises a quarter cylindrical hollow box which may be modified and configured in various ways to adapt to the designed application. Primary modifications include number and location of connected tubes, windows and ventilator panels. A further modified use for the junction box is as a control center, simulating the appearance of a vehicle cockpit.

Abstract: A flight-simulating airplane toy that consists of a two-handle control grip resembling a conventional cockpit control yoke comprising a forward-projecting shaft upon which a model aircraft is removably mounted. The shaft is rotatably journaled on a bearing in the front of the grip and is driven by a reversible motor actuated by control switches in the handles that permit a user to rotate the shaft clockwise or counterclockwise, thus simulating an aircraft roll in either direction as the grip is held stationary. The proximal end of the shaft is fitted with radial arms that are visible through a window in the grip, thus providing a bank indicator for the position of the craft with respect to the ground. The same grip can be used with different airplane models by replacing planes through a connection of the distal end of the shaft with a longitudinal opening along the back side of the plane.

Abstract: A compact landing field for use by individuals, and particularly children, to include airport landing field simulation, including a rigid first board overlying a resilient second board, with the first board having a conductive path in operative communication with various patterns of light-emitting diode lights to simulate a landing field strip of L-shaped configuration and a heliport, with the switching operative through sequencing and flashing units to effect visual and desired effects relative to the field structure.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of toy vehicles is remotely-controllable by a single associated remote controller for movement, and for the emission of a directed light beam in simulation of gunfire. Each vehicle is sensitive to the directionally emitted light beams, or simulated gunfire, of other vehicles. Such sensitivity is normally sequentially periodic in quadrants circumferentially around the vehicle, providing an element of randomness, and timing, to the registration of simulated hits from the simulated gunfire of opposing vehicles. The vehicle indicates the number of successive hits sustained, and after a predetermined number, nominally three, such hits becomes disabled until manually reset. Two such vehicles, each under the individual control of an associated remote controller, may be used to simulate combat during war gaming.

Abstract: A trainee station in a tractor-trailer training apparatus includes dummy controls simulating those of a tractor, and a display screen visible from the trainee station. At a remote diorama or terrain model a miniature tractor-trailer is moved atop the diorama in accordance with the operation of the trainee's dummy controls. A plurality of video cameras mounted within the cab of the miniature tractor provide video signals which are displayed on the mentioned screen. The fields-of-view of two of the video cameras embrace miniature rearview mirrors on the miniature tractor, providing realistic views of portions of the trailer as trainee operation of the controls moves the minature tractor-trailer about the diorama.

Abstract: A hand held control device for use by a child to simulate directional and speed control of a vehicle, which device includes a wheel for grasping by the hands of a child at opposed parts thereof, a plurality of electrical switches on the device operable to provide signals for predetermined operations of the device, the switches being positioned on the device to be operable by the fingers of a child while the child's hands are engaging the wheel, a housing member, a controller and a sound generating device in the housing member, the controller including a memory storing data representative of sounds created or creatable by the simulated vehicle including sounds simulating the sounds generated when the simulated vehicle is in motion, the sound generating device being coupled to said controller to convert stored data into audio, the finger operated switches providing input signals to the controller to cause the controller to produce sound data to the sound generating device for audio generation.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a desk including a plurality of legs designed to support the desk on a floor surface, a planar surface substantially perpendicular to the legs and designed as a support surface for supporting various articles and to be used as a writing surface. Finally, the desk includes at its rearmost portion an upstanding structure which is made to resemble the dashboard of a vehicle including the visualization of an instrument panel, ventilation ducts and the like. The dashboard facing further includes a working high-fidelity stereo system which may include an AM-FM stereo receiver, tape deck, graphic equalizer and other stereo equipment as desired. Furthermore, at each end of the facing, speakers are mounted which are functional. If desired, the facing may include the visualization of a steering wheel, and the instrument visualization as well as the indicators for the stereo equipment may include selectively operable backlighting.

Abstract: A flight simulating aircraft toy is provided having a harness member adapted to be worn upon the chest of a child, and an aircraft model pivotably supported by the harness member. When the toy is worn by the child, the aircraft model can be manipulated to simulate actual flight movements. The aircraft model can also be removed from the harness for independent use.

Abstract: A toy airplane amusement game has a plurality of flip-up targets which are randomly laterally and longitudinally spaced on a web, and are transported past a miniature airplane facing the oncoming targets. The airplane is provided with manual controls for moving the airplane laterally and vertically across the web and into the paths of the successively oncoming targets for knocking them down. The controls include a linkage to allow the operator to align the airplane parallel to the path of travel of the oncoming targets in any selected position across the width of the web.

Abstract: A non-functioning or pseudo-brake designed for use by passengers in a moving vehicle to depress when they desire the vehicle driver to brake or slow down. A portable brake pedal 14 (FIGS. 1-4) is positioned on the vehicle floor in front of a passenger, and when the passenger presses pedal 14, a warning light 30 and/or buzzer is actuated by switch 26 to let the driver know that his passenger(s) are concerned about his driving. A pivotal support arm 16 and a coil spring 20 support pedal 14 spaced from a heavy metal plate 12. Plate 12 is augmented by granular filled bags 42, 43 to maintain the device positioned on the vehicle floorboard. A battery 24 supplies power to actuate light 30 and/or the buzzer. Light housing 30 is releasably attached to the vehicle dashboard via a magnet 31, suction cup, double-backed adhesive tape, or the like.In a modified form of the invention warning light 50 is factory installed and provided with an outlet 51 for connection with pin 52 leading to the pedal assembly.

Abstract: A fully enclosed toy craft intended for both amusement and educational purposes having the ability to assume a multitude of forms with each form resembling a different type of vehicle. The craft's interior resembles a scaled down version of a commander's cabin in a real craft and includes, among other things, audio visual material, calculating apparatus, and an assortment of readout or instrumentation devices. In addition, an analog computer interacting with various items in the commander's cabin, in response to stimuli provided by the operator moving hand or foot control devices gives the operator the illusion of being in control of a real craft.

Abstract: An infant's toy (20) is disclosed as being made from soft, spongy members fixed together so as to form a simulated dashboard, or the like, of an automobile. The toy includes a soft steering wheel (26), an opening and closing simulated glove compartment (48) with its own toy (58) contained therein, and held by a cord (62) to prevent loss. A pocket (38) containing keys (40) or the like is also fixed to the toy. A further cord (41) prevents loss of the keys. A soft moveable gear shift lever (30) and soft operable radio (42) are also fixed to the simulated dashboard. Soft washable fabric (24) covers the elements of the toy, and the overall configuration and make up prevents harm or damage if a child strikes the toy, or is struck by the toy.

Abstract: A toy wherein remote objects are moved in response to the rotation of a steering wheel. A first embodiment has a pulley keyed to the shaft of the steering wheel, a second pulley journaled in the base of the toy and a belt therebetween. A drive arm arranged to snap into a slot on the side of a toy vehicle is affixed to the second pulley whereby its rotation will cause the drive arm and the vehicle to rotate. The drive arm includes a hinged center portion to permit vertical movement of its end in addition to the horizontal movement.In a second embodiment a ninety degree sector is secured at one apex to the steering wheel shaft, the sector being restrained to rotate only about ninety degrees before being returned to its original position. A rigid link has one end attached to a further apex of the sector and the other to a ratchet arm secured to a center post in the base of the toy. Also secured to the center post for rotation thereon is a ratchet wheel to which the drive arm is fixed.

Abstract: A spaceship type toy is disclosed employing a lower base assembly, a duct, and a generally spherical toy space capsule closely received by the tube. A fan assembly within the base provides air pressure to the lower portion of the duct which, when sufficiently great, causes the toy capsule to translate within the tube, thus simulating space travel over a limited distance. By providing an adjustable electrical power supply to the fan assembly, the position of the capsule within the tube can be controlled by the user. In accordance with another feature of this invention, within the capsule is a seat which supports a toy astronaut figure. This seat can be rotated between two positions, which causes an electrical switching action upon a visual display within the spacecraft. The toy astronaut figure chair is further movable to expose a battery compartment within the spacecraft.

Abstract: A downwardly opening canopy is provided and supported from an inflatable skeletal frame including a generally rectangular base portion and crossed-intersecting inflatable arch members. The canopy is constructed of translucent material and has an ocean ship sailing scene, in color, thereon with the scene being visible from within and from without the canopy. A yieldably supported pedestal is mounted within the area enclosed by the canopy and rotatably mounts a simulated ship's wheel therefrom. In addition, a compass pointer is rotatably journalled from the upper portion of the pedestal and the ship's wheel is drivingly connected to the compass needle for rotating the latter responsive to rotation of the ship's wheel.

Abstract: Generally speaking, the present invention contemplates a toy motorcycle. It has a molded seat unit which imitates the body of a real motorcycle. There is a handlebar unit molded so as to imitate the handlebars of a real motorcycle which is rotatably attached to the seat unit. An imitation speedometer, an imitation fuel gauge, and an imitation flasher are provided on the handlebar unit with rotary discs provided within these imitation speedometer and fuel gauge to provide the illusion of speed and fuel. There is also an imitation flasher and a motor operated by turning grips on the handlebar unit. These illusion creating arrangements are operated by a gear train and other power-transmitting parts to which the motor drive shaft the rotary discs and flasher vanes are connected.