Twitch toy

US8640653B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Radio Systems Corporation · US

Inventors

• Alan J. Cook · Liverpool, GB
• Kevin John Augustyniak · Elma, US
• Gerard Fubershaw · Menlo Park, US
• Jeff Smith · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 2012
• Grant date: Feb 4, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 16, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01K15/025
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A motorized cat toy having a suspended teaser toy at the end of a detachable stretchable string connected to a flexible swing arm biased against a waveguide within a housing having a programmable electronic control, a gearbox with meshing gears including one spur gear on the rotor of the motor to provide control of the teaser toy movement to include a twitch and other erratic movements pleasing to a cat.