EP0314090A2 - Voie miniature - Google Patents

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EP0314090A2
EP0314090A2 EP88117813A EP88117813A EP0314090A2 EP 0314090 A2 EP0314090 A2 EP 0314090A2 EP 88117813 A EP88117813 A EP 88117813A EP 88117813 A EP88117813 A EP 88117813A EP 0314090 A2 EP0314090 A2 EP 0314090A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H18/00—Highways or trackways for toys; Propulsion by special interaction between vehicle and track
    • A63H18/02—Construction or arrangement of the trackway

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  • the innovation relates to a toy train with driving toys with an electric drive motor arranged in the chassis as well as a track section formed in particular from pluggably connected links.
  • the object of the innovation in a toy train is to ensure uninterrupted driving operation by connecting it to the network over an arbitrarily long period of time and to continue driving operation in the event of failure or termination of the network connection over a subsequent predetermined period of time.
  • this object is achieved in that the links releasably carry current conductors over the entire roadway, which are connected to the poles of a power supply device, that the toy vehicle has current collectors contacting the current conductors and a rechargeable current source serving as an electrical buffer, and that the current source and the pantographs are permanently connected to the drive motor at the same time.
  • the driving toy is so z. B. over the duration of shop opening times by means of the power conductor to a voltage supplied by the power supply, which ensures an uninterrupted movement of the toy vehicle, while when the power supply device is disconnected, the internal power source is automatically used and a subsequent further driving operation until the emptying Power source allows. This leads to z. B.
  • the power supply device is preferably designed such that it supplies a voltage which is substantially 50% higher than the operating voltage of the rechargeable internal power source.
  • the current conductors can be held on the links in any way. It is intended to fix the current conductors to the limbs by means of adhesion.
  • the current conductors can be formed by continuously applied band-shaped foils or by foil sections contacting one another made of a metallic material.
  • the metal foils or metal foil sections are expediently designed to be self-adhesive, so that after the roadway has been erected, it can be equipped with current conductors in a particularly simple manner.
  • the metal foils have connectors, to which electrical conductors connected to the power supply device can be connected.
  • a connector z. B. serve in the links sheet metal parts. It is also conceivable to choose short film sections as connectors, which are connected to the current conductors stay in contact. It goes without saying that the connectors can also be designed in any other desired manner. The electrical conductors themselves can attack the connectors by soldering, clamping or the like.
  • the current conductors are arranged in the traversed areas and / or on the lateral guide bodies of the link pieces. According to the arrangement of the current conductors, it is only necessary to assign appropriately shaped current collectors. Brushes, shaped wire parts or the like can serve as current collectors as desired.
  • the current conductors are formed from molded parts made of an electrically conductive material by means of molded parts which can be clipped onto the links.
  • the molded parts have spring tabs, each of which contacts the molded parts of adjacent links. It is understood that the molded parts can be easily plugged onto the guide body and can thus be held interchangeably.
  • the molded parts are preferably held by clamping or by means of clamping members, but it is also conceivable to firmly connect the molded parts to the link pieces.
  • the links have hollow guide bodies which are open at the bottom on both sides of the road surface, and that by Insertion of connecting elements provided with clamping bodies into the cavities of the guide body, link pieces can be fixed next to one another in multiple tracks and, by means of pins or lugs made of an electrically conductive material formed centrally between the clamp bodies, simultaneously permanently contact the current conductors of the fixed adjacent link pieces.
  • a particularly simple design of the connecting elements is obtained when the clamping bodies and the pins are formed in one piece from an electrically conductive material. The contact can be made by simply contacting connecting members connected to the current conductors or by soldering, squeezing the connecting members with the pins.
  • the track section 1 can be formed by a plurality of link pieces 2 (FIG. 2).
  • the links 2 have pins 3 and pliers-like recesses 4 for connection to one another, which embrace one another.
  • Edge parts 5 on both sides next to the carriageway surface 8 serve as lateral guide bodies for driving toys 6.
  • the carriageway 1 is provided over its entire length with current conductors 7 which, in the exemplary embodiments of FIGS. 1 to 5, are made from a flexible strip applied to the links 2 metallic material, for example a preferably self-adhesive metal foil are formed.
  • the current conductors 7 are firmly but releasably connected to the link pieces 2.
  • the current conductors 7 are arranged in the embodiment of FIGS.
  • the current conductors 7 protrude Connector 9 '(Fig. 5) and electrical conductor 9 with a power supply device 10 in connection, which has a network transformer and a rectifier arrangement in a manner known per se.
  • the driving toys take an internal power source 11, e.g. a rechargeable battery.
  • an electric drive motor 12 is accommodated in the driving toy 6, which exerts a torque on the driving wheels 24 of the driving toy 6.
  • the terminals 16, 17 of the drive motor are permanently connected to the poles 14 and 15 and the internal current source 11.
  • the toy vehicle 6 carries pantographs 18, 19, which come into effect with the conductors 7.
  • the current collectors 18, 19 are permanently connected to the poles 14 and 15 of the current source 11, respectively.
  • the current collectors 18, 19 are formed by a brush arrangement, while in FIG. 4 spring wires serve as current collectors 18, 19 which protrude laterally from the toy vehicle and bear against the current conductors 7 with pretension.
  • the current supply device 10 permanently charges the current source 11.
  • the charging voltage is selected to be slightly greater than the operating voltage of the current source 11.
  • the current collectors 18, 19 establish a connection via electrical conductors 20, 21 of the drive motor 6 with the power supply device 10 ago.
  • the driving toy 6 can initially be operated as a network-operated driving toy on the roadway 1.
  • the power source 11 acting as a buffer is charged.
  • the roadway 1 can be traveled by means of the internal power source 11 by driving toys until the power source 11 is emptied in the shop window of a roadway exhibited this, eg after the evening closure of the point of sale, further driving movements of the driving toy 6 and thus advertising functions in the evening hours valuable for advertising.
  • the current conductors 7 are formed by molded parts 7 ', which can each be pushed onto the edge parts 5 of the link pieces 2.
  • the molded parts 7 ' have a substantially U-shaped clamping part 7', on each of which a contact tab 7 ′′′ is formed, which rests resiliently on the clamping part 7 'of the adjacent link 2 to form continuous current conductors 7.
  • the molded parts 7 ' are applied in the area of the road surface 8 on the links.
  • a connecting element 22 for links 2 to form multi-lane road sections is shown.
  • the connecting element 22 has clamping bodies 22 ', which can be inserted from below into the open cavities of the edge parts 5 by clamping. Between the clamping bodies 22 ', the connecting element 22 has a projection 25 which is made of an electrically conductive material, e.g. Metal is formed and on which the current conductors 7 of the multi-lane carriageway sections 1 are fixed in a conductive manner. (Fig. 11)
  • the current conductors 7 are applied to a carrier strip 23 which can be attached to the link pieces 2 together with the current conductors.

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EP88117813A 1987-10-27 1988-10-26 Voie miniature Expired - Lifetime EP0314090B1 (fr)

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AT88117813T ATE89760T1 (de) 1987-10-27 1988-10-26 Spielzeugbahn.

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DE8714278U DE8714278U1 (de) 1987-10-27 1987-10-27 Spielzeugbahn

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ATE89760T1 (de) 1993-06-15
DE3881334D1 (de) 1993-07-01
DE8714278U1 (de) 1989-02-16
EP0314090B1 (fr) 1993-05-26
EP0314090A3 (en) 1990-01-31

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