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The disclosure relates to stuffed animal devices and more particularly pertains to a new stuffed animal device for warming a user that is holding a stuffed animal.
The prior art relates to stuffed animal devices including a stuffed animal with a singular heat storage mass integrated into the stuffed animal for warming the stuffed animal. The prior art discloses a stuffed animal with a transient phase material that transitions to a liquid phase when the material is heated and subsequently transitions to a solid phase when the heat is released into the stuffed animal. The prior art discloses a stuffed animal with a heating coil being integrated therein for heating the stuffed animal. The prior art discloses a variety of stuffed animals that have light emitters coupled thereto for emitting light. The prior art discloses a variety of stuffed animals that has a cavity therein and a heating element being positioned within the cavity for heating the stuffed animal.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a stuffed animal that has a body, a pair of arms, a pair of legs, a head and pair of ears. A heating element is integrated into the stuffed animal and the heating element is in thermal communication with the stuffed animal. Moreover, the heating element heats the stuffed animal to warm the user when the user holds the stuffed animal. The heating element comprises a plurality of heating coils that are distributed over the body, each of the arms and each of the legs. A control is coupled to the stuffed animal such that the control is accessible to the user. The control is electrically coupled to the heating element for turning the heating element on and off.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
As best illustrated in
A heating element 34 is provided and the heating element 34 is integrated into the stuffed animal 12. Moreover, the heating element 34 is in thermal communication with the stuffed animal 12. The heating element 34 is heated when the heating element 34 is turned on thereby heating the stuffed animal 12. In this way the stuffed animal 12 can warm the user when the user holds the stuffed animal 12. The heating element 34 comprises a plurality of heating coils 36 that includes a set of body coils 38, sets of arm coils 40 and sets of leg coils 42. The body coils 38 are distributed over the body 14, each of the arm coils 40 is distributed over a respective one of the arms 16 and each of the leg coils 42 is distributed over a respective one of the legs 18. Each of the heating coils 36 may comprise electric heating coils that have a maximum operational temperature of approximately 120.0 degrees Fahrenheit. As is most clearly shown in
A control 44 is provided and the control 44 is coupled to the stuffed animal 12 such that the control 44 is accessible to the user. The control 44 is electrically coupled to the heating element 34 for turning the heating element 34 on and off. The control 44 comprises a control circuit 46 that is integrated into the stuffed animal 12 and the control circuit 46 is electrically coupled to the heating element 34. The control 44 includes a button 48 that is movably positioned on a respective one of the ears 22 of the stuffed animal 12 to be depressed by the user and the button 48 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 46. The button 48 actuates the heating element 34 between a minimum heat, a medium heat and a high heat depending on the number of times the button 48 is depressed. Moreover, the button 48 turns the heating element 34 off when the button 48 is depressed a required number of times.
The control 44 includes a plurality of light emitters 50 is provided and each of the light emitters 50 is coupled to the stuffed animal 12 to emit light outwardly therefrom. Each of the light emitters 50 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 46. Additionally, each of the light emitters 50 is individually turned on in accordance with the heating element 34 being actuated to the minimum heat, the medium heat or the maximum heat. Each of the light emitters 50 may comprise an LED or the like and each of the light emitters 50 may emit a unique color of light with respect to each other. The control 44 includes a power supply 52 that is positioned in the well 26 in the back side 24 of the body 14, the power supply 52 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 46 and the power supply 52 comprises at least one battery 54.
In use, the button 48 is depressed once for low heat, twice for medium heat, three times for high heat or four times to turn off the heating element 34. In this way the stuffed animal 12 produces heat at a desired intensity that facilitates the user to be warmed when the user hugs the stuffed animal 12. Thus, the user can be kept warm when the user has an illness or any other time that the user wishes to keep warm. The flap 28 is opened to remove and replace the at least one battery 54 when the at least one battery 54 becomes depleted.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
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