Patent Application
20230201730
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The disclosure relates to doll devices and more particularly pertains to a new doll device for facilitating a child to describe physical or sexual abuse to an adult. The device includes a doll that has a plurality of touch sensor each aligned with a respective erogenous zone in the doll. The device includes a voice unit that emits one of a plurality of verbal phrases when any of the touch sensors senses touch. In this way the voice unit can verbally express to the adult that the child has potentially been physically or sexually abused.
The prior art relates to doll devices including a doll device that has a tape-playback unit and a plurality of touch sensors each disposed in hair on the dolls head for emitting a verbal phrase when any of the touch sensors is touched. The prior art discloses a doll device that has a plurality of touch sensors and a voice unit that stores verbal instructions for solving complex logical problems. The prior art discloses a variety of teaching doll devices that each includes a plurality of touch sensors, each located at specific anatomical locations on the doll, and a voice unit that emits a verbal phrase describing the name of each anatomical location.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a doll has a torso, a head, a pair of arms and a pair of legs. A plurality of touch sensors is each integrated into the torso of the doll to sense when the torso is touched. Each of the touch sensors is located a strategic locations on the torso associated with a respective erogenous zone to facilitate a child to touch respective touch sensors associated with sexual or physical abuse. A voice unit is integrated into the doll and the voice unit is in communication with each of the touch sensors. The voice unit emits an audible alert assigned to the respective touch sensor when the respective touch sensor senses touch. In this way the voice unit can verbally communicate to an adult that the child has been inappropriately touched in the erogenous zone associated with the respective touch sensor.
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
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A plurality of touch sensors 28 is each integrated into the torso 14 of the doll 12 to sense when the torso 14 is touched. Each of the touch sensors 28 is located a strategic locations on the torso 14 associated with a respective erogenous zone. In this way each of the touch sensors 28 facilitates a child to touch respective touch sensors 28 associated with sexual or physical abuse. The plurality of touch sensors 28 includes a pair of breast sensors 30 that is each aligned with a location on a front side 32 of the torso 14 associated with breast erogenous zones. The plurality of touch sensors 28 includes a pubic sensor 34 which is aligned with a location proximate a crotch 36 of the torso 14 associated with a genital erogenous zone. Additionally, the plurality of touch sensors 28 includes an anal sensor 38 that is aligned with a location proximate an anus 40 of the torso 14 associated with an anal erogenous zone. Each of the touch sensors 28 is positioned beneath an outer surface 42 of the doll 12 such that each of the touch sensors 28 is concealed from view. Furthermore, each of the touch sensors 28 may comprise an electronic touch sensor or the like which might sense pressure, electrical conductivity or any other means of sensing when the user touches the doll 12.
A voice unit 44 is integrated into the doll 12, the voice unit 44 is in communication with each of the touch sensors 28 and the voice unit 44 stores a plurality of audible alerts. Each of the audible alerts is assigned to a respective one of the touch sensors 28. The voice unit 44 emits the audible alert assigned to the respective touch sensor 28 when the respective touch sensor 28 senses touch. In this way the voice unit 44 can verbally communicate to an adult that the child has been inappropriately touched in the erogenous zone associated with the respective touch sensor 28.
The voice unit 44 comprises a control circuit 46 that is integrated into the doll 12 and the control circuit 46 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 46. The control circuit 46 receives a breast input when either of the breast sensors 30 senses touch. Additionally, the control circuit 46 receives a pubic input when the pubic touch sensor senses touch. The control circuit 46 receives an anal input when the anal touch sensor senses touch. An array of conductors 48 is provided and the array of conductors 48 is integrated into the doll 12. Each of the array of conductors 48 is electrically coupled between a respective one of the touch sensors 28 and the control circuit 46. The array of conductors 48 may comprise a series of insulated wires or other conductors commonly employed in electronic circuitry.
An electronic memory 50 is integrated into the doll 12 and the electronic memory 50 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 46. The electronic memory 50 stores a database comprising each of the verbal phrases, and each of the verbal phrases is assigned to a respective one of the breast input, the pubic input and the anal input. The plurality of verbal phrases may include “No.”, “Bad Touch”, “Please don’t touch me there”, “I’m going to tell mommy or daddy”, “That’s not nice” and other phrases related to protesting an inappropriate touch.
A speaker 52 is integrated into the doll 12 to emit audible sounds outwardly from the doll 12 and the speaker 52 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 46. The speaker 52 receives a respective one of the verbal phrases from the electronic memory 50 when the control circuit 46 receives the breast input, the pubic input or the anal input. The speaker 52 may comprise an electronic speaker of any conventional design. A power supply 54 is integrated into the doll 12, the power supply 54 is electrically coupled to the control circuit 46 and the power supply 54 comprises a battery 56 that is positioned in the battery well 24 in the back side 22 of the torso 14. As is most clearly shown in
In use, the doll 12 is presented to the child when the child is suspected of having been physically or sexually abused. The voice unit 44 emits one of the variety of verbal phrases when the child touches the doll 12 in one of the erogenous zones in the doll 12. In this way the child can communicate where the child may have been touched when the abuse occurred. In this way the child can indirectly inform an adult of the abuse in a manner that does not require the child to directly relate the incident to the adult. Thus, the child can be protected from further abuse and the child can be given the necessary psychological care to heal from the abuse.
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.
