Toy vehicular electromagnetic guidance apparatus

US6322415A · kind A · utility

Inventors

• Peter Cyrus · Seattle, US
• Peter M. Maksymuk, IV · New York, US
• Leo M. Fernekes · New York, US
• Stefan Rublowsky · Brooklyn, US
• Eduard Kogan · Valley Stream, US
• Scott J. Kolb · New York, US
• Eric S. Moore · New York, US
• Dmitriy Yavid · Stony Brook, US
• Christopher Silvio Cosentino · Staten Island, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 27, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 16, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A63H18/14
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

The present invention is a guidance apparatus for movable toy vehicles that includes a track, or roadway, on which the toy vehicles move. The truck has an intersection. The intersection has a magnetic guidance mechanism for steering the toy vehicles in alternate directions through the intersection. An intersection magnetic sensing mechanism, i.e., electromagnets at the intersection and magnets in the vehicles, stops the vehicles prior to entering the intersection. Additionally, the vehicles stopped at the intersection can be actuated by a timing mechanism after passage of a predetermined time period. Furthermore, the vehicles stopped at the intersection can be actuated only after a mechanism for sensing vehicle presence in the intersection senses no vehicles in the intersection.