HK1144674A - Toy blocks - Google Patents

Description

Assembled toy

Technical Field

The present invention relates to an assembly toy, which can make planar and various stereo-shaped objects by designing and assembling unit components (pieces), and is well suitable for children to enjoy and cultivate their forming and creating abilities.

Background

The following block toys have been known for a long time: by assembling one or more kinds of blocks by using the concave portions and the convex portions, a polygonal body and/or a three-dimensional object such as a container, a ship, a castle, a house, or a wall surface can be manufactured.

If the building block toy is adopted, children can enjoy the building block toy and develop the shape creativity of the children, but the building block toy has the following defects: it is difficult to produce curved surfaces in building block assembly, and the three-dimensional objects that can be produced are limited to very single three-dimensional objects mainly composed of planes.

On the other hand, as an assembly toy having improved expressive force of a three-dimensional shaped object, an assembly toy using a metal plate member is proposed (for example, see patent document 1), the metal plate member: the length of one side of each of the regular polygons is set to be the same regardless of the number of sides, a protruding piece is protruded at the center of each side, and a slit into which the protruding piece is inserted is provided at the root of the protruding piece.

In this assembly toy, since 2 members can be assembled by abutting one face of each of 2 members on one side, inserting the protruding piece of one side of one member into the slit of the other side of the other member, and bending the tip portion of the protruding piece, and the 2 members can be assembled by the abutted faces, the angle between the faces of the 2 members can be changed arbitrarily, a curved surface can be expressed by the connecting face, and a ball such as a soccer ball can be produced by using a plurality of kinds of members such as a regular triangle, a regular quadrangle, and a regular hexagon.

Patent document 1: JP-A56-97696 (FIG. 1)

Disclosure of Invention

However, the above proposed assembly toy has the following problems: since the member is formed of a rigid plate (rigid plate), complicated assembly such as assembling the member to another member by twisting or bending is completely impossible, and the expressive force of the three-dimensional shaped object is still low.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a construction toy set having a simple structure, which can realize assembly of a complex form of a member such as a twisted or bent member combined with another member, and which can obtain a high expression force of a three-dimensional shaped object.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a construction toy set having a simple structure, which can be assembled in a more complicated form such as inserting another member into one member and connecting the other member to the one member or another member, and which can improve the expression of a three-dimensional object by one level.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 provides an assembly toy capable of forming a three-dimensional object by assembling unit members, wherein the unit members are plate bodies made of a flexible material having an outer contour formed by a pair of upper and lower short sides bent inward and a pair of left and right long sides bent inward, and wherein a protrusion is provided at a corner portion located on one diagonal line of the plate body so as to be perpendicular to a plate surface of the plate body, and a through hole into which the protrusion can be fitted is provided at a corner portion located on the other diagonal line of the plate body.

According to the invention 1, since the unit member is constituted by the plate material of the flexible material having the outer contour in which the long and short sides, which are left, right, upper, and lower, are bent inward, the member can be variously deformed: bending or flexing a member in a longitudinal direction, twisting a member around an axis in a longitudinal direction or a width direction, bending or flexing a member in a width direction, or the like; by assembling the plurality of members 1, a three-dimensional object can be easily produced by extending from 2 dimensions to 3 dimensions. Thus, by devising and assembling the unit members, various three-dimensional shapes such as balls, animals, insects, vases, and the like, or planar three-dimensional shapes including brocade (tapestry), and the like can be easily produced, and not only children can enjoy them, but also adults can enjoy them while cultivating their ability to create shapes. In addition, the unit members have simple shapes and simple structures, and the assembled toy has 1 type of the unit members, so the structure is simple and convenient.

The invention of claim 2 is characterized in that: the plate body is formed into a frame shape in which a gourd-shaped opening approximately simulating the outer contour is opened in the plate body.

Thus, the assembly of a more complicated form such as inserting a short side of the member into the opening, or inserting another member into one member and connecting the other member to the one member or another member can be performed, and the expressive force of the three-dimensional shaped object can be further improved by one level.

The invention of claim 3 is characterized in that: the corner is formed to have a substantially circular outer profile.

This enables smooth assembly of the unit members.

The invention of claim 4 is characterized in that: the protrusion has a length such that a protrusion head is exposed from the through hole, and the protrusion head bulges outward in the radial direction.

Thus, when the members are connected to each other by fitting the projection into the through hole, the projection is prevented from being disengaged from the through hole by the engagement of the head portion of the projection, and the members can be firmly assembled to each other.

The invention of claim 5 is characterized in that: the unit member is provided with a plurality of colors.

This improves the aesthetic appearance of the three-dimensional shaped object formed of the unit members, and further improves the expressive power.

With the present invention, it is possible to provide an assembled toy as follows: the connection of the members in a complicated form can be realized not only by simply arranging and connecting the members by twisting or bending the members or inserting another member into one member, but also by a simple structure, a three-dimensional shaped object can be formed, and high expressive power and imagination can be developed.

Drawings

Fig. 1(a) is a plan view showing a unit member according to an embodiment of the assembled toy of the present invention, fig. 1(b) is a right side view thereof, and fig. 1(c) is a bottom view thereof.

Fig. 2(a) is a sectional view taken along line B-B of fig. 1(a), and fig. 2(B) is a sectional view taken along line a-a of fig. 1 (a).

Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating a method of deforming and connecting the unit members of fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing some examples of a three-dimensional shaped object produced from the unit member of fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing an example of manufacturing a sphere from the unit member of fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing an example of horse production made from the unit members of fig. 1.

Description of reference numerals:

1: a unit member; 2: a frame-shaped plate body; 2a, 2 b: a frame portion; 3: a short side; 4: a long side; 5: an outer contour; 6: an opening; 7: a corner portion; 8: a protrusion; 9: a through hole.

Detailed Description

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the assembled toy of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Fig. 1 is a view showing a unit member in one embodiment of the built-up toy of the present invention, wherein (a) is a top view, (b) is a right side view, and (c) is a bottom view.

The assembled toy of the present invention is used to assemble the unit members 1 shown in fig. 1 to form a three-dimensional object.

In the present embodiment, the unit member 1 is formed of a flexible plate body 2 having an outer contour 5 formed by a pair of upper and lower short sides 3 bent inward and a pair of left and right long sides 4 bent inward, and is given a property of being able to twist or bend. In order to further improve the twisting or bending properties of the member 1 and to enable another member to be inserted into the member 1, for example, a gourd-shaped opening 6 substantially conforming to the outer contour 5 is opened in the plate body 2, and the plate body 2 is formed into a frame-shaped plate body. The opening 6 is opened so that the frame portions 2a and 2b remain between the opening 6 and the upper and lower short sides 3 and between the left and right long sides 4, respectively, the upper and lower frame portions 2a are formed in a band shape narrowest at a widthwise central portion of the plate body 2, and the left and right frame portions 2b are formed in a band shape imitating the left and right long sides 4.

The four corners of the plate 2 are formed as corners 7 having substantially circular outer contours 5a continuing from the short sides 3 and the long sides 4, bulging outward in the diagonal direction of the plate 2. A cylindrical protrusion 8 is provided at a corner 7 located on one diagonal line of the plate body 2 at a right angle to the plate surface of the plate body 2 as shown in a section B-B in fig. 1(a) in fig. 2 (a); a cylindrical through hole 9 into which the projection 8 can be fitted is provided in a corner portion 7 located on the other diagonal line of the plate body 2, as shown in fig. 2(b) in a cross section a-a in fig. 1 (a). The projection 8 preferably has a length protruding from the through hole 9, and a projection head 8a of the projection 8 is bulged radially outward. Thus, when 2 members 1 are connected by fitting the projection 8 and the through hole 9, the projection 8 is prevented from being disengaged from the through hole 9 by the engagement of the projection head 8a, and the 2 members 1 can be firmly assembled.

In an example of the specification of the unit member 1, the plate thickness of the member 1 is 1.5mm, the width of the member 1 is 36.6mm between the right and left corner portions 7, the length direction center portion is 12.5mm, the length of the member 1 is 66.6mm between the upper and lower corner portions 7, and the width direction center portion is 54.2 mm. The member 1 had a short side 3 with a radius of curvature of 17.9mm and a long side 4 with a radius of curvature of 39.1 mm. The width of the opening 6 of the member 1 was 5.7mm at the center in the longitudinal direction, the length was 48.2mm at the center in the width direction, the radius of curvature of the opening 6 was 42.1mm at the edge along the long side 4 and 6.3mm at the edge opposite to the short side. The diameter of the projection 8 of the member 1 was 3.3mm, the length to the projection head 8a was 2.4mm, the diameter of the projection head 8a was 3.6mm and the length was 0.8mm, and the diameter of the through-hole 9 was 3.3mm and the length was 1.5mm (same as the plate thickness). Of course, the size is not limited to this, and a wider variety of combinations can be realized by combining the members having the sizes. As the material of the member 1, a plastic having flexibility such as a polymer or an elastomer is used, and in the present embodiment, the member 1 is made of a soft polyethylene.

The assembled toy of the present embodiment includes a single color unit member 1 or unit members 1 of a plurality of colors such as red, blue, yellow, and green. Further, since the unit member 1 is formed of a plate material 2 of a flexible material having an outer contour 5 in which the long and short sides of the left, right, and upper and lower sides are bent inward, and a gourd-shaped opening 6 substantially conforming to the outer contour 5 is opened in the plate material 2, the member 1 can be variously deformed: bending or bending the member 1 in the longitudinal direction, inserting the short side 3 side of the member 1 into the opening 6, twisting the member 1 about an axis in the longitudinal direction or the width direction, bending or bending the member 1 in the width direction, or the like; by assembling the plurality of members 1, a three-dimensional object can be easily produced by extending from 2 dimensions to 3 dimensions, and it is needless to say that a curved surface object such as a spherical surface can be produced as a three-dimensional object of all shapes.

For example, if several examples are shown for the modification of 1 member 1, the member 1 can be twisted by inserting one short side 3 side into the opening 6 of the member 1 in the longitudinal direction, inserting the opening 6, and drawing the inserted short side 3 side in the original direction, as shown by the arrow a in fig. 3(a) (example 1).

In example 1, the projection 8 and the through hole 9 of the one short side 3 can be fitted into the through hole 9 and the projection 8 of the other short side 3 by bending and facing the other short side 3 without pulling out the one short side 3 side of the opening 6 of the piercing member 1 in the original direction (example 2). Fig. 4(b) shows the three-dimensional object obtained by the above process.

As shown by an arrow B in fig. 3(a), the member 1 can be bent in the longitudinal direction so that the short sides 3 face each other, and the protrusion 8 and the through hole 9 of one short side 3 can be fitted into the through hole 9 and the protrusion 8 of the other short side 3 (example 3).

In example 3, the corner 7 of one of the opposing short sides 3 can be twisted, and the protrusion 8 and the through hole 9 of the one short side 3 can be fitted into the through hole 9 and the protrusion 8 of the other short side 3 (example 4).

As shown by an arrow C in fig. 3(C), the member 1 can be bent in the width direction so that the long sides 4 face each other, and the protrusion 8 and the through hole 9 of one long side 3 can be fitted into the through hole 9 and the protrusion 8 of the other long side 3 (example 5).

In example 5, the corner 4 of one of the opposing long sides 4 can be twisted, and the protrusion 8 and the through hole 9 of the one long side 4 can be fitted into the through hole 9 and the protrusion 8 of the other long side 4 (example 6). Fig. 4(a) shows the three-dimensional object obtained by the above process.

The member 1 is twisted around the longitudinal axis so that the short side 3 on one side becomes the back side, and then the member is bent in the diagonal direction so that the projection 8 of the short side 3 on one side is fitted into the through hole 9 of the short side 3 on the other side (example 7).

By bending the member 1 in the diagonal direction, the projection 8 on the short side 3 and the projection 8 on the short side 3 can be twisted so as to face each other outward or inward (example 8). The member 1 thus twisted is formed by using the 2 nd and 3 rd members 1, the through-hole 9 and the protrusion 8 on the one short side 3 of the 2 nd member 1 are fitted into the protrusion 8 on the one short side 3 of the 1 st member 1 and the through-hole 9 on the other short side 3, and the through-hole 9 and the protrusion 8 on the one short side 3 of the 3 rd member 1 are fitted into the protrusion 8 on the one short side 3 of the 1 st member 1 and the through-hole 9 on the other short side 3, whereby a three-dimensional object can be formed in which the twisted shape of the 1 st member 1 is substantially retained. Fig. 4(e) shows the three-dimensional object. In fig. 4(e), the member 1C represents the 1 st member, and the members 1A and 1B represent the 2 nd and 3 rd members, respectively.

The twisted member 1 of example 8 can be twisted in such a manner that the projection 8 on the short side 3 of one side and the projection 8 on the short side 3 of the other side of the member 1 are separated from each other in the direction away from each other from the facing positions (example 9). The member 1 twisted in this way is used as the 2 nd and 3 rd members 1, the through hole 9 on the one short side 3 side of the 2 nd member 1 is fitted to the projection 8 on the one short side 3 side of the 1 st member 1, the through hole 9 on the one short side 3 side of the 3 rd member 1 is fitted to the projection 8 on the other short side 3 side of the 1 st member 1, and the projection 8 and the through hole 9 on the other short side 3 side of the 2 nd and 3 rd members 1 are fitted to each other, whereby a three-dimensional object in which the twisted shape of the 1 st member 1 is substantially retained can be formed.

Given a few examples of the assembly of the components 1 to one another, there are the following examples. For convenience of explanation, fig. 3(B) shows a plurality of members 1 as members 1A, 1B, and … ….

In fig. 3(B), the member 1B is penetrated into the opening 6 of the member 1A in the longitudinal direction. Orientation of the protrusion 8: the protrusions 8 of the members 1A and 1B may protrude in the same direction or may protrude so as to be apart from each other (example 10). Fig. 4(c) shows the three-dimensional object obtained by the above process.

The member 1B is inserted into the opening 6 of the member 1A in the right-angle direction, and the members 1A and 1B are joined to each other in the above example 3 (example 11). Fig. 4(d) shows the three-dimensional object obtained by the above process.

In the members 1A and 1B, the first short side 3 is inserted into the opening 6 of the member 1 and bent toward the second short side 3 in accordance with the operation of example 2, and then the projection 8 and the through hole 9 of the first short side 3 are not fitted into the through hole 9 and the projection 8 of the second short side 3 in each member 1, but the projection 8 and the through hole 9 of the first short side 3 are fitted into the through hole 9 and the projection 8 of the second short side 3 between the members 1 (example 12).

The members 1A and 1B are arranged in the longitudinal direction so that the corners 7 of the short sides 3 of the opposing members 1A and 1B overlap each other in the right-left direction, and the protrusion 8 and the through hole 9 of the short side 3 of one member 1A are fitted into the through hole 9 and the protrusion 8 of the short side 3 of the other member 1B to connect the members 1A and 1B in the longitudinal direction. This operation was repeated for the members below member 1C to obtain a long article having members 1A, 1B, and 1C … … connected in the longitudinal direction (example 13).

Similarly, the members 1A and 1B are arranged in the width direction, and the protrusions 8 and the through holes 9 of the long sides 4 of one member 1A are fitted with the through holes 9 and the protrusions 8 of the long sides 4 of the other member 1B to connect the members 1A and 1B in the width direction so that the corners 7 of the long sides 4 of the opposing members 1A and 1B are vertically overlapped with each other. This operation was repeated for members below member 1C to obtain a long article in which members 1A, 1B, and 1C … … were connected in the width direction (example 14).

The projection 8 of one short side 3 of the member 1A and the through hole 9 of one short side 3 of the member 1B are fitted and connected, and this operation is repeated for members below the member 1C, and 5 members 1 are connected in a ring shape on the side of one short side 3. When the rings of 5 members 1 were assembled in a plurality of groups of 1, a football-shaped ball was obtained (example 15). The sphere is shown in fig. 5.

A through hole 9 for fitting and connecting the projection 8 of the one short side 3 of the member 1A positioned on the front surface side of the member 1B and the one short side 3 of the member 1C positioned on the back surface side of the member 1B at a position closer to the one short side 3 in the opening 6 of the member 1B; this operation was repeated for the members below the 4 th member, and 6 members 1 were connected in a ring shape on the short side 3 side, whereby a connected object that can be used for producing a curved surface was obtained (example 16).

4 pieces of members 1 were connected to one long side 4 side, and the members were set as 1 group of the 1 st links, and the long sides 4 of the 1 st links were shared, and the groups of the 1 st links were repeated in the longitudinal and circumferential directions to assemble a cylindrical shape, and the other 4 pieces of members 1 were inserted in the lateral direction into the openings 6 of the members 1 of the 1 st links, and the other 4 pieces of members 1 were connected to one short side 3 side, and the groups of the 2 nd links were repeated in the longitudinal and lateral directions to assemble a cylindrical shape so that the gaps of the cylinders of the 1 st links were filled with the 2 nd links, thereby obtaining a cylindrical vase (example 17).

As described above, the assembly toy of the present embodiment can produce various three-dimensional shaped objects by the assembly unit member 1.

Fig. 4 shows an example of a three-dimensional object obtained by the assembled toy of the present embodiment. (a) The three-dimensional object of example 6, (b) the three-dimensional object of example 2, (c) the three-dimensional object of example 10, (d) the three-dimensional object of example 12, and (e) the three-dimensional object of example 8.

Fig. 5 shows an example of a three-dimensional object obtained by the assembled toy of the present embodiment. The sphere was the three-dimensional object of example 15 above.

Fig. 6 shows still another example of a three-dimensional object obtained by the assembled toy of the present embodiment. The three-dimensional object is a horse constituted by 7 unit members 1.

In the above, the embodiment of the toy set of the present invention has been described by giving several examples of producing a three-dimensional shaped object, but the toy set of the present invention: since the unit member is made of a sheet material of a flexible material having an outer contour in which the long and short sides of the right and left upper and lower sides are bent inward, the member can be variously deformed: bending or flexing a member in a longitudinal direction, twisting a member around an axis in a longitudinal direction or a width direction, bending or flexing a member in a width direction, or the like; by assembling a plurality of members, a three-dimensional object can be easily produced by extending from 2 dimensions to 3 dimensions. Thus, by conceiving and assembling the unit members, various three-dimensional objects including a planar three-dimensional object such as a sphere, an animal, an insect, a vase, and the like, or a brocade, can be produced, and not only can children enjoy them, but also their ability to create a figure, can children enjoy them, and also, for example, the combined members can be used for accessories and other accessories, and can also be enjoyed by adults.

In particular, in the case where a gourd-shaped opening approximately simulating the outer contour is formed in the plate material, more complicated assembly such as inserting the short side of the member into the opening, or inserting another member into one member and connecting the other member to the one member or the still another member can be realized, and the expressive force of the three-dimensional shaped object can be further improved by one level.

In addition, the unit members are simple in shape and structure, and the assembled toy includes 1 type of the unit members, thus being simple in construction. Further, by assembling members having the same shape and size, a wider variety of three-dimensional objects can be formed.

Claims (5)

1. An assembly toy which can be made into a three-dimensional shape by assembling unit members (1),

the unit member (1) is a flexible plate body (2) having an outer contour (5) formed by a pair of upper and lower inwardly bent short sides (3) and a pair of left and right inwardly bent long sides (4), wherein a protrusion (8) is provided at a corner (7) located on one diagonal of the plate body (2) so as to be perpendicular to the plate surface of the plate body (2), and a through hole (9) into which the protrusion (8) can be fitted is provided at a corner (7) located on the other diagonal of the plate body (2).

2. The assembly toy of claim 1,

the plate body (2) is formed into a frame shape in which a gourd-shaped opening (6) approximately simulating the external contour (5) is opened in the plate body (2).

3. A constructional toy as claimed in claim 1 or 2,

the corner (7) is formed to have a substantially rounded outer profile.

4. A toy set according to any one of claims 1 to 3,

the protrusion (8) has a length in which a protrusion head (8a) is exposed from the through hole (9), and the protrusion head (8a) bulges outward in the radial direction.

5. A toy set according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein,

the unit member (1) is provided with a plurality of colors.