The present application is a national phase entry under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of International Application No. PCT/CN2015/070950, filed Jan. 17, 2015, which claims priority from Chinese Patent Application No. 201410575168.5 filed Oct. 25, 2014, all of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to a yo-yo ball, and particularly to a hand-held yo-yo ball capable of manually storing energy.
In the current market, a yo-yo ball consists essentially of two rotating bodies and a connecting shaft connecting the two rotating bodies. A rope entwines in the middle of the two rotating bodies. The yo-yo ball body is thrown down at full tilt so that the yo-yo ball body can rotate quickly at the end of the rope. However, limited by a recovery system and a bearing system of the yo-yo ball, a shorter user is unable to play by throwing down the yo-yo ball body using the rope. This is because the length of the rope is in direct proportion to the height of the user. For a taller user, after the ball body is thrown down, there is enough acceleration region for the ball body to accelerate to a certain speed, to complete various fancy moves. However, for a shorter player, the player is unable to complete a move because the acceleration region is too short after the ball body is thrown down and the rotational speed of the ball body is not fast enough.
An objective of the present invention is to solve the above problems, and to provide a hand-held yo-yo ball capable of manually storing energy which is interesting and which can be rotated to store energy.
The technical solution of the present invention is implemented as below:
A hand-held yo-yo ball capable of manually storing energy includes two rotating bodies and a connecting shaft connecting the two rotating bodies. Either of the rotating bodies comprises a disk body and a shell. The disk body of one rotating body is internally provided with a clutch mechanism. The disk body of the other rotating body is internally provided with an energy storage mechanism. Two ends of the connecting shaft are respectively connected to the clutch mechanism and the energy storage mechanism. The rotating body at the end where the clutch mechanism is located is manually rotated, so that energy is stored in the energy storage mechanism. Thereafter, the meshing state of the clutch mechanism is manually removed, so that the energy storage mechanism releases the energy to drive the two rotating bodies to synchronously rotate.
The clutch mechanism includes a clutch gear set consisting of a first clutch gear and a second clutch gear, and an escapement member controlling the clutch gear set to engage or disengage. A control end of the escapement member extends from a middle of the shell of the rotating bodies. The shell is fixedly connected with the first clutch gear of the clutch gear set. The energy storage mechanism matches up with the second clutch gear of the clutch gear set by means of the connecting shaft. The escapement member is controlled so that after the clutch gear set is engaged, elastic potential energy is stored in the energy storage mechanism by manually rotating the shell. Thereafter, the escapement member is controlled so that the clutch gear set is disengaged. This causes the energy storage mechanism to release the elastic potential energy to drive the two rotating bodies to synchronously rotate.
The escapement member of the present invention includes a pressing cap extending from the middle of the shell, an escapement shaft having a convex ramp surface, a top pressure column sleeved at the lower part of the escapement shaft, a stroke seat for limiting a stroke of the top pressure column, and a spring mounted under the second clutch gear of the clutch gear set. The second clutch gear is used for jacking up the second clutch gear. In this regard, a round hole in the middle of the first clutch gear of the clutch gear set is correspondingly provided with a slope surface matching up with the convex ramp surface of the escapement shaft. A groove used for implementing engagement and disengagement of the clutch gear set and a block surface. By pressing the pressing cap, the convex ramp surface of the escapement shaft is switched into the groove of the first clutch gear to achieve that under the action of the spring, the second clutch gear jacks up to be engaged with the first clutch gear. By pressing the pressing cap once again, the convex ramp surface of the escapement shaft is switched into the block surface of the first clutch gear, to achieve that the top pressure column jacks down the second clutch gear until the second clutch gear is disengaged with the first clutch gear.
In order to implement that the first clutch gear drives the energy storage mechanism to rotate to store elastic potential energy, the lower part of the stroke seat is provided with an irregular hole, and the end corresponding to the connecting shaft is correspondingly designed to an irregular jack column which is matched up and connected with the irregular hole. After the irregular hole is matched up with the irregular jack column, it is locked and fixed by means of a screw. An upper surface of the stroke seat is convexly provided with an insertion lug. The first clutch gear is correspondingly provided with an insertion hole. By matching up the insertion lug with the insertion hole, when the shell is manually rotated, the first clutch gear drives the stroke seat and the connecting shaft to synchronously rotate, and further drives, by means of the rotation of the connecting shaft, the energy storage mechanism to store elastic potential energy.
In order to ensure that the second clutch gear can move vertically upward, and when the second clutch gear is rotating, that the rotating bodies can synchronously rotate, the disk body is upward convexly provided with three lugs. Correspondingly there is provided with three springs sleeved in the lugs. The second clutch gear is correspondingly provided with three lug holes sleeved on the lugs.
The energy storage mechanism of the present invention includes an energy storage spring, a spring case in which the energy storage spring is mounted, and a one-way gear mounted above the spring case and used for preventing the energy storage spring from reversely rotating to release energy when elastic potential energy is stored. Both the energy storage spring and the one-way gear can synchronously rotate with the connecting shaft. When the rotating body at the end where the clutch mechanism is located is manually rotated, the energy storage spring and the one-way gear synchronously rotate to store elastic potential energy. Then the meshing state of the clutch mechanism is manually removed, so that the energy storage spring releases the elastic potential energy, and the one-way gear reversely rotates to drive the two rotating bodies to rotate synchronously.
Further, a through hole is formed in the middle of the spring case. The one-way gear is downward convexly provided with a lug that passes through the through hole and enters into the spring case. Along a periphery of the lug there is provided with a plurality of arc-shaped pieces distributed at interval, with a gap kept between the arc-shaped piece and the lug. At the lower end of the arc-shaped piece is provided with a hook. After the one-way gear is inserted into the through hole of the spring case, the hook stretches out of the through hole of the spring case to fasten to a side the through hole. In this way the one-way gear is relatively rotatably connected to the spring case, and an inside end of the energy storage spring is fixedly connected to the gap between the arc-shaped piece and the lug of the one-way gear.
In order to implement that the one-way gear can only unidirectionally rotate, the one-way gear includes an internal gear disk and a plurality of automatically rotatable limiting blocks positioned in the internal gear disk. A gear tooth of the internal gear disk is a helical gear tooth, and a limiting claw of the limiting block is clamped in the helical gear tooth, thereby realizing a unidirectional rotation of the one-way gear.
In order to implement that the shell at both sides the yo-yo ball can rotate to store elastic potential energy in the energy storage mechanism, on the shell of the rotating body at the end where the energy storage mechanism, there is provided a mounting position in which the limiting block is mounted. The middle of the shell is connected to the ends of the connecting shaft and locked and fixed by means of screws. In this way, when the shell is driven by the clutch mechanism to rotate in a meshing state, the energy storage spring and the one-way gear synchronously rotate to store elastic potential energy.
In order to ensure that two rotating bodies of the yo-yo ball body are consistent in weight to keep the balance of the center of gravity, the rotating body where the clutch mechanism is located is internally provided with a weight ring. The weight ring is placed in the disk body of the rotating body. A ring cover is covered on the weight ring and is locked to the disk body to fix the weight ring.
In the present invention, the disk body of one rotating body is internally provided with a clutch mechanism. The disk body of the other rotating body is internally provided with an energy storage mechanism. Two ends of the connecting shaft are respectively connected with the clutch mechanism and the energy storage mechanism. When the clutch mechanism is in a meshing state, by manually rotating the rotating body at the end where the clutch mechanism is located, both the connecting shaft and the energy storage mechanism at the other end can be driven to rotate. In this way, elastic potential energy is stored in the energy storage mechanism. After certain potential energy is stored, the meshing state of the clutch mechanism is manually removed, so that the energy storage mechanism releases the elastic potential energy to drive the two rotating bodies to synchronously rotate, i.e., the whole yo-yo ball body rotates. Therefore, it is not needed to use a rope to throw the yo-yo ball body down to make it rotate. In other words, the ball body can rotate at high speed even though the rope is too short, which is not affected by an acceleration region after the ball body is thrown down. Therefore, a user who is shorter may enjoy playing with the yo-yo ball to the fullest, and complete various fancy moves. Requirements of users at different ages and different heights can be met. Compared with an existing yo-yo ball, the hand-held yo-yo ball capable of manually storing energy increases a new operation mode and a new playing method, is more interesting, and more diversified in playing methods. In addition, an escapement member is used as an operating element for controlling the clutch gear set to engage and disengage. The escapement member is analogous to a push elastic structure of a ballpoint pen. By pressing the escapement member, the clutch gear set is engaged. By pressing the escapement member once again, the clutch gear set is disengaged, and so on. Therefore, the operation is convenient and efficient. The yo-yo ball is durable and not easy to be damaged, and the service life of the whole yo-yo ball is effectively improved. The yo-yo ball is slickly designed, not only meeting the requirements of shorter users for entertainment, but also increasing methods for playing with the yo-yo ball, being very interesting, meeting children's entertainment needs and psychology of seeking for what is novel, leaving room for players to give full scope to creativity in playing methods, and making the yo-yo ball be attractive to them for longer time.
The following further describes the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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A playing method of the yo-yo ball is as below:
The yo-yo ball is wrapped around by the rope, with one hand holding the yo-yo ball body, and the other hand pressing the pressing cap 41. After the pressing cap 41 is pressed, the first clutch gear 31 and the second clutch gear 32 are in a meshing state. Then, the shell 12 on the rotating bodies 1 is rotated. The shell 12 can only rotate towards one direction and is unable to rotate reversely because it is limited by the one-way gear 7. In the process of rotation, the energy storage spring 5 starts to store elastic potential energy. Energy storage for the energy storage spring 5 is full when the shell is unable to further rotate. Then, with a finger of one hand entwined by the rope, and with the other hand pinching middle positions at two sides of the yo-yo ball body, the yo-yo ball body does not rotate to release energy even though in a state of full energy storage. Finally, the pressing cap 41 is pressed once again and then the yo-yo ball body is released. The first clutch gear 31 is disengaged from the second clutch gear 32. The energy storage spring 5 is not limited anymore and starts to restore and release elastic potential energy, which is converted into rotational energy. The yo-yo ball body starts to rotate and falls off along the rope, and finally rotates at high speed at the end of the rope. Further various fancy moves are conducted.
Although the present invention is described by reference to embodiments, the description does not signify to limit the present invention. By reference to the description of the present invention, other variations of the embodiments discloses are expectable for those skilled in the art, and these variations shall fall within the scope limited by the claims.
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