JP2012100695A - Intellectual training toy - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intellectual training toy that represents a three-dimensional figure at a desired height and stimulates imagination of a user.SOLUTION: The intellectual training toy comprises a base 1 formed by arranging a plurality of through-holes 4 in a lattice shape, a bottom portion 2 that constitutes the bottom surface of the base, a background board 3 interposed between the bottom portion and the base, and a plurality of rod-like members 5 that can be inserted into the through-holes of the base. The rod-like members are several types of different lengths. At least the end surfaces of the rod-like members have different colors. On the background board, a figure or pattern is drawn on the surface.

Description

  The present invention relates to an educational toy, and more particularly to an educational toy that can complete a predetermined shape by inserting a rod-like member into a through hole.

  Some conventional educational toys have a structure in which a topography can be expressed three-dimensionally by providing a hole in a base and inserting a pin (bar-shaped member) into the hole (see Patent Document 1). In this conventional technique, the depth of the hole is changed in advance so that a desired three-dimensional shape is formed by the height of the pin (bar-shaped member).

JP-A-10-232602

  Here, the above-mentioned prior art is to express the terrain three-dimensionally based on a sanitary image taken by an earth observation satellite or the like. A desired three-dimensional shape is selected in advance, and the depth calculated according to the three-dimensional shape is calculated. A hole was drilled. And the pin (bar-shaped member) to be inserted has the same length, and the height of the tip of the pin (bar-shaped member) changes depending on the depth of the hole.

  However, the above technique is for expressing a desired three-dimensional shape along the hole of the base, and the shape is determined by the depth of the hole. It was not something to express. That is, when it is used many times, the finished shape is always constant, and a different three-dimensional shape cannot be expressed. Moreover, it was not possible to express a three-dimensional shape based on the free idea of the user, and it did not arouse the creativity of the user.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned various points, and an object thereof is to provide an educational toy that can express a three-dimensional shape at any height and can evoke the imagination of the user. It is to be.

  Accordingly, the present invention provides a base portion in which a plurality of through holes are arranged in a grid, a bottom portion constituting the bottom surface of the base portion, a mount interposed between the bottom portion and the base portion, and a penetration of the base portion. And a plurality of rod-like members that can be fitted into the holes.

  According to the above configuration, since the mount is interposed between the bottom and the base, the surface of the mount can be visually recognized from above the base through the through hole of the base. In addition, the base portion has a structure in which a plurality of through holes are aligned, but since the bottom surface is formed by the bottom portion, a plurality of bottomed cylindrical portions aligned in a lattice shape are formed, and this By inserting the rod-shaped member into the bottomed cylindrical portion, the rod-shaped member can be erected at a predetermined height from the bottom. In addition, since the base and the bottom are not fixed, it is possible to replace the mount interposed between them.

  In the above-described invention, the rod-shaped member may be a plurality of types of rod-shaped members having different lengths.

  According to the above configuration, the rod-shaped member inserted into the through hole has a lower end that is in contact with the bottom and is in a certain position, so that the position of the upper end changes according to different lengths. The types having different lengths may be two types, but may be three types, four types, or more types having different lengths in stages. By using various rod-shaped members with different lengths in stages, the length of the rod-shaped members protruding upward from the base can be raised in stages, and a three-dimensional shape can appear above the base. it can.

  Moreover, in each said invention, it can be set as the structure whose said rod-shaped member is a rod-shaped member which has the color from which the front-end | tip surface differs.

  According to the said structure, the pattern which has color in the planar view of a base can be made to appear by the rod-shaped member of the state inserted in the through-hole of the base, and standing from the bottom part. Here, the color having at least the tip surface different includes not only the case where the tip surface having an appropriate area is colored, but also the case where all the surfaces of the rod-like member are colored. Therefore, when only the tip surface is colored, a pattern appears only in a plan view. However, when all surfaces are colored, the pattern appears not only in a plan view but also in a front view or a side view. Can be made. Furthermore, when using rod-shaped members having different lengths, a three-dimensional shape and a pattern can appear simultaneously.

  Further, in each of the above inventions, the base portion is a long rectangular paper material, and the base portion is formed by making the long direction perpendicular to the vertical direction while directing the short direction of the rectangle in the vertical direction. It can be set as the structure which is.

  According to the said structure, the base part which a grid | lattice-like through-hole arranges regularly can be comprised by making a some paper material orthogonally cross in length and breadth. Further, the through holes are adjacent to each other through the thick portion of the paper material, and these through holes can be formed close to each other.

  Furthermore, in the said invention, the said bottom part can be set as the structure comprised from the plane part which forms the bottom face of the said base, and the side part which surrounds the outer periphery edge of the said base.

  According to the above configuration, the position of each paper material is stabilized by surrounding the outer peripheral edge in a state where the paper materials are orthogonal to each other, and as a result, the shape of the lattice-shaped through holes is stabilized. It becomes. In other words, when crossing paper materials, it is necessary to provide kerfs at the crossing positions. When paper materials are crossed by such mutual kerfs, the crossed paper materials The angle in the longitudinal direction is free. Therefore, by determining the positions of both ends in the longitudinal direction of each paper material, the intersecting state can be determined to be an orthogonal state.

  According to the present invention, since the surface of the mount interposed between the base and the bottom can be seen through the through-hole, the rod-shaped member is inserted into the through-hole while looking at the figure drawn in advance on the mount surface. be able to. Since the mount can be exchanged, various figures can be three-dimensionalized with stick-shaped members by using the mount on which an arbitrary figure is drawn.

  In addition, by using a bar-shaped member having a different height, the position of the tip of the bar-shaped member protruding from the base can be changed, and when the bar-shaped member has a color, the shape formed by the bar-shaped member is changed to a color. It is also possible to apply.

  In this way, by freely expressing the three-dimensional shape using an arbitrary figure, the figure can be expressed in real, and by expressing such a three-dimensional shape or a shape to which color is applied. It is possible to make various shapes appear and arouse the imagination of the user.

It is a disassembled perspective view which shows embodiment of this invention. (A) is a top view which shows the state before inserting a rod-shaped member, (b) is explanatory drawing which shows the state which inserted the rod-shaped member. (A) is IIIA-IIIA sectional drawing, (b) is IIIB-IIIB sectional drawing. It is explanatory drawing which shows another usage pattern.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. An embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. As shown in this figure, the present embodiment includes a base 1, a box-shaped bottom 2, and a mount 3 interposed therebetween, and can be fitted into a through hole 4 formed in the base 1. A rod-like member 5 is provided.

  The base portion 1 is formed by crossing long rectangular paper materials 11 and 12 vertically and horizontally to form a through-hole 4, and both the paper materials 11 and 12 are provided with the same width dimension. The short direction is oriented in the vertical direction. In addition, the plurality of paper materials 11a, 11b,... 11z that are long in the vertical direction have their plane portions maintained in parallel, and these paper materials 11a to 11z form a groove shape at equal intervals. Furthermore, the plurality of paper materials 12a, 12b,... 12z that are long in the transverse direction intersect the perpendicular paper materials 11a to 11z perpendicularly, thereby partitioning the groove-like portion at equal intervals. The through holes 4 having a rectangular cross section (square in the present embodiment) are arranged in a lattice shape.

  In addition, kerfs 11A and 12A are provided in advance at the crossing positions of the individual paper materials 11 and 12 so as to have a length of ½ of the width dimension. 11 and 12 are configured so that the upper and lower edges of the paper materials 11 and 12 are aligned. Further, in the drawing, for convenience of explanation, a large number of through holes having a large shape are drawn with a small number, but actually, it is possible to configure a large number of finer through holes.

  The bottom portion 2 is configured in a box shape in which side surface portions 22, 23, 24, and 25 are provided in addition to the bottom surface portion 21. The bottom surface portion 21 is configured to have the same size (for example, A4 size) as the mount 3, and the side surface portions 22 to 25 are configured to surround the periphery of the base portion 1. Accordingly, the mount 3 can be placed on the bottom 2 in close contact with the bottom portion 21 of the bottom 2, and the base 1 has the lower edges of the paper materials 11 and 12 in contact with the surface of the mount 3. However, it can be installed inside the side portions 22-25. It should be noted that the lengths of the paper materials 11 and 12 constituting the base 1 are adjusted to the size of the bottom portion 2 (for example, A4 size), respectively, and the long-side leading edge 13 of the paper materials 11 and 12 is used. , 14 can come into contact with the inside of the side surface portions 22 to 25 of the bottom portion 2.

  The mount 3 is composed of a normal piece of paper. A desired shape or pattern is drawn on the surface of the mount 3. For example, as shown in the drawing, a mount 3 on which a black and white pattern panda P is drawn can be used, or a mount 3 on which a portrait or a landscape is drawn may be used, or a photograph may be printed. .

  The rod-shaped member 5 is a member having a cross-sectional shape that can be fitted into the through-hole 4. In this embodiment, the rod-shaped member 5 has a square cross-sectional shape in order to be fitted into the square through-hole 4. In addition, as long as it can fit in the square through-hole 4, the cross-sectional shape of the rod-shaped member 5 may be circular and may be an octagon. Furthermore, the rod-shaped member 5 of this embodiment has illustrated three types of rod-shaped members 5 which changed length in steps. There are three types: short 51, intermediate 52 and long 53. These three kinds of rod-shaped members 51 to 53 are prepared as 51a, 52a, 53a whose tip surface is black and 51b, 52b, 53b which are not colored. Thereby, according to the shape and pattern drawn on the mount 3, the rod-shaped members 51a to 53b can be selectively used by distinguishing the white portion and the black portion.

  Since the present embodiment is configured as described above, the basic structure is constructed by installing the mount 3 on the bottom 2 and further installing the base 1 on the bottom 2. The state at this time is shown in FIG. As shown in this figure, when viewed from above the base 1 (in plan view), it passes through the through holes 4 except for the lattice pattern of the paper materials 11 and 12, and the shape / pattern of the mount 3 (panda P in the figure). Can be visually recognized. In the figure, the thickness of the paper materials 11 and 12 is ignored, but there is no difference that the paper material 11 and 12 can be seen through.

  In this state, the desired three-dimensional shape is caused to appear above the base 1 by fitting the rod-like member 5 into the through-hole 4 according to the design P while viewing the design P of the mount 3 from above the base 1. Is possible.

  FIG. 2B shows a state where the rod-like member 5 is inserted into the through hole 4. As the inserted rod-shaped member, a plurality of types having different heights are used, and the tip surfaces of some of the rod-shaped members are black. As shown in the figure, the black part of the design (panda) P is used with a black tip surface, and the other part is white (colorless) so that the design (panda) P is the base. Appears above 1. The shape at this time is expressed as a mosaic pattern. In addition, since the figure has shown the magnitude | size of each rod-shaped member 5 as a comparatively big thing for convenience of explanation, each frame of a mosaic pattern is large and cannot express a smooth curve to a design. However, by reducing the size of the rod-like member 5 (and also reducing the through-holes), each frame of the mosaic pattern becomes smaller, and a smooth curve can be expressed.

  In addition, by changing the length at the same time as the expression of the pattern, the shape becomes three-dimensional. FIG. 3 shows a cross-sectional view in the vertical and horizontal directions. As shown in this figure, since the length of each bar-shaped member 5 is different in a state where a plurality of bar-shaped members 5 are erected, a realistic shape can be expressed above the base 1. That is, the rod-shaped members 5 having different lengths are aligned at the same height when the lower ends thereof are in contact with the bottom portion 3, and the positions of the upper ends thereof are different depending on the length of the rod-shaped member 5. Thus, the overall three-dimensional shape is constituted by the change in the position of the upper end.

  Since the present embodiment is configured as described above, the shape of the bar-shaped member 5 is set above the base 1 by standing the bar-shaped member 5 along the figure drawn on the surface of the mount 2. In addition, since the protrusion length can be freely changed according to the sensitivity of the user, a three-dimensional shape having a unique undulation can also be expressed. Therefore, the height of the bar-shaped member 5 can be adjusted (changed to a different bar-shaped member) in order to express a more realistic three-dimensional shape. It is also possible to imagine an original character by adjusting the height of the rod-like member 5 in order to express a simple three-dimensional shape. And it becomes possible to express a desired shape in three dimensions by changing the mount 3 in various ways.

  On the other hand, different usage modes are also conceivable for the three-dimensional shape. For example, it is a case where a three-dimensional shape is expressed from contour lines drawn on a map or the like. FIG. 4 shows such an example. As shown in FIG. 4A, a contour line T is drawn on the surface of the mount 3, and the rod-like member 5 is erected while changing the height along the contour line T. Since the contour line T has the same height in the range surrounded by the continuous lines, the lowest rod-shaped member 5 is set up in the range located outside the outermost contour line of the contour line T, and the next contour line The rod-shaped member 5 is replaced with a bar member 5 that is one step higher at the position, and further changed to a rod-shaped member 5 that is one step higher at the position of the next contour line. Is to be erected.

  In this way, by erecting the bar-like members 5 having different heights along the contour line T, the shape drawn by the contour line T can be expressed in three dimensions as shown in FIG. is there. In this way, because of the character of the map, etc., what expresses the difference in height with a symbol can be converted into a specific three-dimensional shape, so practice of matching the symbol such as a map with a specific three-dimensional shape It can be.

  The embodiment and usage of the present invention are as described above, but this is merely an example. That is, although not illustrated, it is apparent from the gist of the present invention that a three-dimensional shape of a complicated pattern can be expressed by using rod-shaped members colored in multiple colors. It is also possible to use a picture in which a mosaic image is drawn on the surface of the mount by mosaicing a photograph taken in advance with an image editing function.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Base part 2 Bottom part 3 Mount 4 Through-hole 5 Bar-shaped member 11,12 Paper material 13,14 Long-side edge 21 of paper material Bottom part 22,23,24,25 Side part

Claims (5)

A base part in which a plurality of through holes are arranged in a lattice pattern, a bottom part constituting the bottom surface of the base part, a mount interposed between the bottom part and the base part, and a plurality of parts that can be fitted into the through holes of the base part An educational toy characterized by comprising a bar-shaped member. The educational toy according to claim 1, wherein the rod-shaped members are a plurality of types of rod-shaped members having different lengths. The educational toy according to claim 1, wherein the bar-shaped member is a bar-shaped member having a color with a different tip surface. The base portion is a base portion that uses a long rectangular paper material, and the base portion is formed by making the short direction of the rectangle in the vertical direction and the long direction perpendicular to the vertical and horizontal directions. An educational toy according to any one of the above. The educational toy according to claim 4, wherein the bottom portion is a bottom portion configured by a flat surface portion that forms a bottom surface of the base portion and a side surface portion that surrounds an outer peripheral edge of the base portion.

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