Environmentally-responsive transforming vehicles
US8777689B1 · kind B1 · utility
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 13, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jul 15, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 16, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63H17/02
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A transforming toy vehicle, includes a chassis; a motive system coupled to the chassis translating a location of the chassis over a surface, the motive system including a free drive mode and an inhibited drive mode wherein the mode of the motive system establishes a state for a mode control latch, the mode control latch including a latched state and a not latched state; a housing, coupled to the chassis and responsive to the state of the mode control latch, the housing having an untransformed mode and a transformed mode, the housing transitioning from the untransformed mode to the transformed mode when the state of the mode control latch changes from the latched state to the unlatched state; and a detector, coupled to the chassis the motive system changing from the free drive mode to the inhibited drive mode when the carriage overlies the particular environmental feature wherein the housing transitions to the transformed mode.
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