US20130252503A1 - Toy brick - Google Patents
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- US20130252503A1 US20130252503A1 US13/767,430 US201313767430A US2013252503A1 US 20130252503 A1 US20130252503 A1 US 20130252503A1 US 201313767430 A US201313767430 A US 201313767430A US 2013252503 A1 US2013252503 A1 US 2013252503A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
- A63H33/00—Other toys
- A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
- A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
- A63H33/08—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
- A63H33/00—Other toys
- A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
- A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
- A63H33/062—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements with clip or snap mechanisms
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
- A63H33/00—Other toys
- A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
- A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
- A63H33/067—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements with rotation or translation, e.g. of keyhole or bayonet type
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
- A63H33/00—Other toys
- A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
- A63H33/06—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements
- A63H33/08—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails
- A63H33/086—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled without the use of additional elements provided with complementary holes, grooves, or protuberances, e.g. dovetails with primary projections fitting by friction in complementary spaces between secondary projections, e.g. sidewalls
Abstract
A toy brick is disclosed which comprises a main body; a male connecting portion and a female connecting portion being symmetrically provided at two ends of the main body respectively; the male connecting portion being shaped as a ball and the female connecting portion being shaped as a letter “U” in which one end of the U-shaped female connecting portion is connected to the main body, and the other end thereof has two projections being inwardly bent and an inner side surface that is an arc surface. The toy brock of the invention can enhance the flexible engagement effect when the male connecting portion and the female connecting portion are connected each other. Due to the above structures, the toy brick can prevent the male connecting portion from being separated from the female connecting portion, thereby obtaining a better connecting effect.
Description
- This application claims priority from Chinese Patent Application No. 201220110066.2, filed 21 Mar. 2012, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
- The present invention relates to a field of toy design, and more particularly, to a toy brick.
- There are two kinds of toy bricks which are two-dimensional and three-dimensional toy bricks in the market. The toy brick is usually made of wood or plastic, and has a cubic shape, with letters or patterns decorated on the surface thereof. The toy brick can be differently arranged or built to obtain various houses or animals.
- Lego is one of the popular toy brick in the world, which made of plastic and invented by a Dane named Ole Kirk. A convex ball is provided at one end of the Lego toy brick, and a hole suitable for the convex ball is provided at the other end of the Lego toy brick. The Lego toy brick has more than 1300 shapes, each of which has 12 different colors mainly including red, yellow, blue, white, and black. Children themselves can manually build them to obtain different constructions through their endless imagination, which renders user to be indulged in Lego, thus it is also called “magic plastic toy brick”.
- Due to unreasonable structures of the toy brick in prior art, the toy bricks can be merely directly connected to represent a line structure, and cannot be bent to form a flexible structure, which not only limit the imaginary space of users, but also decrease benefits of development of mentality by using toys. It is reported that some toy bricks with specific shape used for flexible connection are manufactured, in order to solve the above questions. But these toy bricks can only apply in specific condition or build a specific construction by means of using toy bricks, which leads to a worse compatibility.
- The object of the invention is to provide a toy brick with good compatibility and flexible connection.
- To achieve the above object, the following technical solution is adopted:
- a toy brick comprising a main body; a male connecting portion and a female connecting portion being symmetrically provided at two ends of the main body respectively; the male connecting portion being shaped as a ball and the female connecting portion being shaped as a letter “U” in which one end of the U-shaped female connecting portion is connected to the main body, and the other end thereof has two projections which are inwardly bent and an inner side surface that is an arc surface.
- According to the present invention, the male connecting portion and the female connecting portion are provided at the two ends of the main body respectively, which leads to a flexible engagement effect when the male connecting portion and the female connecting portion are connected each other. The male connecting portion is shaped as a ball and the female connecting portion is shaped as a letter “U”. When the male connecting portion is snapped into the female connecting portion, the main body can be rotated by 180° with respect to the horizontal axis. The two projections of the female portion are designed to be inwardly bent, which can enhance the engagement between the male connection portion and the female connecting portion, and can prevent the male connecting portion from being separated from the female connecting portion. Moreover, the inner arc side surface of the female connecting portion can render the surface of ball-shaped male connecting portion to be better matched the inner arc side surface of the female connecting portion, thereby obtaining a better connecting effect.
- According to the present invention, a plurality of raised portions is projected on a first surface of the main body, and a plurality of grooves suitable for the raised portion is provided on a second surface of the main body.
- The above designs can enhance the compatibility of the toy brick, and can used for connecting other kinds of toy brick, which improves the practical applicability of the invention.
- According to the present invention, said toy brick is made of ABS plastic.
- By defining the material of the toy brick, the compatibility and consistency of the invention would be better.
- The present invention would be better understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
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FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the toy brick of the present invention; and -
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the toy brick shown inFIG. 1 , which is rotated by 180° with respect to the horizontal axis. - The invention will be detailed by an exemplary embodiment in combination with the accompanying drawings, in which the embodiment is only used to explain the invention, not to limit the scope of the invention.
- As illustrated in
FIG. 1 , this example discloses a toy brick comprising amain body 100, in which a male connectingportion 110 and a female connectingportion 120 are symmetrically provided at the two ends of themain body 100 respectively. The male connectingportion 110 is a ball-shaped member, and the female connectingportion 120 is a U-shaped member. One end of the female connectingportion 120 is connected to themain body 100, while the other end of the female connectingportion 120 has two projections (121,122) which are inwardly bent, and an inner side surface which is an arc surface. - As illustrated in
FIG. 1 , this example discloses a toy brick comprising amain body 100, in which a male connectingportion 110 and a female connectingportion 120 are symmetrically provided at the two ends of themain body 100 respectively. The male connectingportion 110 is a ball-shaped member, and the female connectingportion 120 is a U-shaped member. One end of the female connectingportion 120 is connected to themain body 100, while the other end of the female connectingportion 120 has two projections (121,122) which are inwardly bent, and an inner side surface which is an arc surface. - As illustrated in
FIG. 2 , a plurality of raisedportions 101 is projected on a first surface of themain body 100, and a plurality ofgrooves 102 suitable for the raisedportion 101 is provided on a second surface of themain body 100. - As illustrated in
FIG. 1 , this example discloses a toy brick comprising amain body 100, in which a male connectingportion 110 and a female connectingportion 120 are symmetrically provided at the two ends of themain body 100 respectively. The male connectingportion 110 is a ball-shaped member, and the female connectingportion 120 is a U-shaped member. One end of the female connectingportion 120 is connected to themain body 100, while the other end of the female connectingportion 120 has two projections (121,122) which are inwardly bent, and an inner side surface which is an arc surface. - As illustrated in
FIG. 2 , a plurality of raisedportions 101 is projected on a first surface of themain body 100, and a plurality ofgrooves 102 suitable for the raisedportion 101 is provided on a second surface of themain body 100. - In this example, all the members including the
mail body 100, the male connectingportion 110 and the female connectingportion 120 of the toy brick are integrated by using material of ABS plastic, so as to enhance the consistency. - While a particular embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications can be made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention. It should be understood that the embodiments of the present invention described above are illustrative only, and all the changes and modifications made by those skilled in the art are covered by the appended claims.
Claims (3)
1. A toy brick comprising:
a main body;
a male connecting portion and a female connecting portion being symmetrically provided at two ends of the main body respectively; and
the male connecting portion being shaped as a ball and the female connecting portion being shaped as a letter “U” in which one end of the U-shaped connecting portion is connected to the main body, and the other end thereof has two projections which are inwardly bent and an inner side surface that is an arc surface.
2. The toy brick according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of raised portions is projected on a first surface of the main body and a plurality of grooves suitable for the raised portion is provided on a second surface of the main body.
3. The toy brick according to claim 1 , wherein said toy brick is made of ABS plastic.
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