CA2010299A1

CA2010299A1 - Voice responsive toy

Info

Publication number: CA2010299A1
Application number: CA002010299A
Authority: CA
Inventors: Yoshie Itoh
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1989-09-25
Filing date: 1990-02-21
Publication date: 1991-03-25
Also published as: GB2236258A; ES1013045U; DE9001575U1; IT219153Z2; ES1013045Y; JPH0353293U; IT8953534U1; FR2652276A3; FR2652276B3; GB9016145D0; IT8953534V0

Abstract

ABSTRACT
A voice responsive toy comprising a case, a rod disposed at the one end of the case, a fluctuating member disposed at the other side of the case via a damper, the damper connected the rod with the fluctuating member, a microphone disposed inside of the case, a driving apparatus rotating the rod according to a voice input signal of the microphone to actuate the fluctuating member supposed by the damper and a controlling circuit.

Description

2f~f;~ f99 VOI~2 .RESP~f~N'SE TOY
__ _ _ Field of the In~e~tion -The present invention .elates to a voice response toy in which a fluctuating member is actuated by inputting a vo.ce.
Description of The Prior Art It is conventionally known tha~ a toy in which an electric ~otor i~ driven by receiving a voice or an acou-fffftic qignal tranfffmitted fro~
the outer thereof to per~it a ~ovable portion to ~ove in 3everal manner through a rotating mechanis~ and a fluctuating mechaniffff~ etc.
Recently a toy of which a sfte~. flower~, leave~f or acce~sorief of an i~itation flower i~
genffzffrated to torsion moving by inputting a voice or ~ound qignal has app-ared.
Problo~s Solved by Thf~f Invfcffntion Above ffffaid conventional voice re pon~fffffe i~itation flower toy of which a rod is 3tood at the center of a ste~ and an elect~ic ~otor i~
driven by proco~ing a ~fffffignal fron a voice , . .

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inputting means ~microphone) tO rotate said ro~
through a ~eries`of reduc~ion gears, the motion 2~299 thereof i~ ~imple and a lack of interest since as i~ a stem, flowers, leave~ or the like thereof is occured a torsion ~oving by wavely curving said rod along the longitudinal direction. Purhter it happens that a microphone thereof catche~ a mechanical noise occured from a reduction gear mechanis~ thereof during an operation. A4 a re3ult of the above, when a ~wltch iq lei't ON, a battery is urgently consumed since a moto~ i5 continuou~ly dri-ven even if no voice or -~ound is lnput.
An ob~ect of the present invention is to prov~de a voice respon3e toy improved in ~eparately e~ploying a rotating rod and a fluctuating ~em~er thereof enable to be ~ore intere~tlng ~otlon.
Th- other ob~ect of the present lnvention 13 to provido a voic~ re~ponse toy i~proved ln preventing a ~echanical nolse Or a drlving ~eans to drive a motor only when a voice or a sound is input.
Method for Solving Proble~s To achieve above obJect~, the pre~ent ;, , . . . .. ~ . :., . , ;. :

' ' ': , '' ~ " ' ' ,, invention has a reature that a rotating rod is connected to rhe` ~luctuating member through a damper. That is, in the present invention, 2 ~ ~ 0 2 9 9 voice response toy co~pri~es a case, a rod disposed ~t the one side of the case, a fluctuating member disposed at the other side of the case via a damper, the damper connecting the rod with the fluctuating member, a microphone disposed inside of the case, a driving neans rotating the rod accoring to a voice input signal of the microphone to actuate the fluctuating me~ber suppoqed by the damper and a controlling circuit.
The driving ~ean~ comprises an electric motor, a belt typed double reduction trans~itting mechani~, a crown gear disposed at the end of the double reduction tran3~itting ~echani3m , and a coupling di~po~ed in~ide o~
the crown gear, to which the lower end o~ the rod is enga~ed. Purther tho controllin~ ~eans comprl~es a wave ~or~ing circuit ~or tho sound input signal fro~ the microphone, an a~plifier c~rcuit, and a charge and discharge circuit ~imultaneou~ly charged with inputting a voice ~ignal and breaking the voice input ~ignal by the discharge ~hereo~, 2~ ~29~
In above ~oice response toy, when a sound input signal is p~oce~sed in a contorlling circuit to drive a drivin~ means, a rod stood on the one side of a casing is rotated to fluctuat~
a fluctuating ~ember. connected thereto through a damper. By a function of a charge and discharge circuit in the controlling circuit, even if the voice input signal is continuously input, an electric current toward a motor is interrupted temporally in a time determined oy a time conQtant of the charge and discharge circuit, then the fluctuating member i~
transmitted a complex motion by applying again the electric current after discharged.
~bodimcnts of Thc Invention P1g. 1 1s a pcrsp-ct1~- vlo~ ot i~ volc~
r-~ponJ~ toy ot th- ~rcso~t inYcnt10n, P1g. 2 i~ :
a~ Yl~ ot th ln~ld ot th ca~ing, P1~. 3 1-4~ r~ d s-ctlonal v-i~ t~k n on 11D~

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sho~i~g th~ n nn-r ot ccnn-ctlng th rod iand th co~ r aAO 19. 5 ~ho~- ~ controlling clrc~lt.

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(room)11, a controlling portion 12, a box 13 for a driving ~eans~and a switch 14 are ~isposed 20$0~99 therein and a rod 15 and a fluetuating member 16 are respectively attached to both sides of the upper half portion lOa. The fluctuating member 16 is employed imitations of the ~u~ical instr~ment, the doll , the animal or the like, at the upper half portion thereof is engaged to the rod 15 through the first damper 17 and ~t the lower half portion thereof is elastically supported on the caYing through the second damper l8.
A battery 20 i dispo~ed in the battery containing roon 11. The controlling portion 12 i5 practically provided on a printied board 21 in~erted in to the fook portion protr~ding to the botto~ surface of the lower half portion 10b of th~ ca~ing.
A notor 22 is provided at the onc ~ide o~ the box 13 and at the other Yldo thereof a ~icrophone 2~ 1~ provided. The nicrophon- 24 i~
located Just under a aperture for inputting a voice for~ed in the upper half portion lOa in the casing.
The fir~t and ~econd horizontal ~haftY

,~, .. ~ .. , . ., . ., ., .. . . . ... . . , . . - . -~ . : . . . . -2 6, 2 7 are laid over the box 13 and a belt type 2~10~9 double reduction transmitting member is provided thereover~ That is, the first belt 30 is run between a pulley 28 at the output shaft for the motor 22 and a pulley 29 at the end portion of the first horizontal shaft 26 while the second belt 33 is run between a pulley 31 :
provided in the box and a pulley 32 of the ..
second horizontal sha.ft 27. .
At the other end of the horizontal shaft 27, a~ shown in Fig. 3, a pinion 35 is provided to engage with a crown gear 37 for a shaft 36 stood in the box. At the upper end of the shaft 36, a inner gear type coupler 38 i5 fixed. The coupler 38 i~ in~erted into a guide 39 downwardly protruded fro~ the upper wall of the box. As ~hown in Fig. S, a coupler 38 i8 designed to be received a gear 40 fixed to the lower end of the ro~ 15.
Tho rod 15 1~ covered with a tube ~2 having a retalner 41, at the upper end thereof, a~ ~hown in Fig. 1, a gripping portion 43 of the flucuating .member 16, i8 provided at the edgo of the fir~t damper 1~.
After the switch 14 i8 changed ON, the , voice sig~al is transmitt~d to the microphone 24 20~299 and processed by the controlling portion (cont~olling circuit~ 12 to drive the motor 22.
.he pinion 35 provided to the second horizontal shaft 27 ie rotated through a double reduction mechanism composed of ~he belt and the pulley by driving the motor to rotate the rod 15 through the crown gear 37, the shaft 36, the coupler 38 and the gear 40.
The rod 15, as shown in Fig. 1, is slightly curved upwardly fro~ the root portion so that , a~ indicated by an arrow, the upper end thereof plays circular motion. This circular motion ii3 transmitted to the fluct~uiaiting ~ember`16 supported to the second damper 18 through the first damper 17 to caui~e overall fluctuating motion in combined with a slightly vertical motion. During the rod 15 is driv-n, the rotation of the ~otor is transmitted by the belt typo reduction ~echanism to ell~inate a noise and a mechanical nolise occurred ~rom the transmitting portion is prevented from inputting to the ~icrophone 24.
Fig. S shows the one example of tho controlling circuit.

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1~ : ' The signal transmitted from the 20~0299 IDiC-OphOne 24 i3 wave formed by a circuit including t~ansiqtor Ql~ Q~ ànd Q3 and amplified by a transistor Q4 to drive the motor 22.
Durlng the motor 22 iY driven, the level of the point A a~ter tne wave for~ing step is input to the diode Dl, the charge and discharge circuit C4 ana Rll and charged a capacitor C4 at the sa~e ti~e of inputting a vo~ce signal. By a di3charge aSter CR ti~e, the transi~tor QS is conducted to allow the terminal voltage o~ the resistor RB to be O so that the nicrophone i3 prevented ~rom actuating and resultantly the driving o~ the ~otor ~s momentally ~topped.
When a transistor Q5 ia under the unconducted ~anner by finighin~ the discharge, the voltage is impre~sed to the resistor RB, the signal input in th~ ~icrophon- is wave ~ormed and a~plified to rotate the motor again. By repeat~ng the abov~, the rod i9 inter-ittently rotated ~o pr~v~de a co~pléxed motion to the ~luctuating ~ mb-r 16.
The Ef~ect o~ The Invention ' ' As described, the present invention :: :
provide~ a voice respon~e toy in which a rod :

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2~0~99 stood on the one side of the casing rotates and is engaged through the damper to the fluctuating member supported to the other side of the casing to transmit a motion so that the fluctuating member is allowed an interesting moving synchronizing with inputting a voice and sound.
The signal input to the microphone is prQvented by containing a belt type reduetion mechanism in a driving mQans to eliminate the meehanical noise. Further, the eharge and di~charge eireuit is eontained in a eontrollsd eireuit to automatieally interrupt the rotation o~ the motor so that the motion o~ the ~luetuating memb-r ~ecome~ more complexed and the ~aving ~or the electric consumpt~on 1~ achieved.

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Claims

1. A voice response toy comprising a case, a rod disposed at the one side of the case, a fluctuating member disposed at the other side of the case via a damper, the damper connecting the rod with the fluctuating member, a microphone disposed inside of the case, a driving apparatus rotating the rod accoring to a voice input signal of the microphone to actuate the fluctuating member supposed by the damper and a controlling circuit.

2. A voice reponse toy claimed in claim 1 wherein the driving means comprises an electric motor, a belt typed double reduction transmitting mechanism, a crown gear disposed at the end of the double reduction transmitting mechanism , and a coupling disposed inside of the crown gear ,to which the lower end of the rod is engaged.

3. A voice response toy claimed in claim 1 wherein the controlling means comprises a wave forming circuit for the sound input signal from the microphone, an amplifier circuit, and a charge and discharge circuit simultaneously charged with inputting a voice signal and breaking the voice input signal by the discharge thereof.