The application claims priority of Chinese patent application No. 202323013506.X, filed on Nov. 7, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entireties.
The present invention relates to the technical field of toys, and in particular to a spinning top toy.
A spinning top is a very popular game toy, which winner is determined among players that whom spinning top remains rotating after collision of the spinning top toys.
Currently, the spinning top in the prior art can be set in motion by providing an external force, such as stretching, ripcord, pulling, hand twirling or energy transmitted by a mechanical transmitter.
For example, the spinning top includes a launcher, a rotary spinning top and a ripcord, when being used, the spinning top needs to cooperate with the launcher, and the spinning top cannot be used if the launcher is damaged. Thus, the spinning top in the prior art needs to cooperate with the launcher. For example, a spinning top toy with the publication No. CN201480046429.2 includes a launcher, a spinning top and a ripcord, the spinning top is combined with the lower part of the launcher, the ripcord is partially inserted into the launcher from a side, the spinning top is driven to rotate by pulling the ripcord, and however the spinning top cannot be played by itself if the launcher or the ripcord is damaged, therefore the playing method thereof is limited by many conditions.
Therefore, the prior art needs to be improved.
The objective of the present invention is to provide a spinning top toy that can be played without a launcher or a ripcord.
To achieve the above objective, the present invention adopts the technical solution below:
The present invention provides a spinning top toy, including:
In one embodiment, the rotating shaft assembly further includes:
In one embodiment, at least two rotary bearings are provided.
In one embodiment, the elastic positioning ring includes:
In one embodiment, the elastic positioning ring further includes:
In one embodiment, four clamping claws are provided, two of which are disposed at the left short shaft part and another two are disposed at the right short shaft part, and all the four clamping claws are arranged to tilt to one side of the transmission shaft.
In one embodiment, the upper-body assembly includes:
In one embodiment, the rotating support includes:
In one embodiment, the upper-body outer part includes:
In one embodiment, the lower-body assembly includes:
The spinning top toy provided by the present invention has at least the following beneficial effects:
The present invention provides a spinning top toy, including a lower-body assembly, a counterweight component, a rotating shaft assembly and an upper-body assembly, where the counterweight component is disposed on the lower-body assembly, the rotating shaft assembly includes a transmission shaft, the transmission shaft is fixed to the lower-body assembly and penetrates through the lower-body assembly, and the upper-body assembly is rotatable and connected with one end of the transmission shaft that is away from the lower-body assembly. In the present invention, the lower-body assembly includes the counterweight component, the counterweight component can be driven to rotate by rolling the lower-body assembly, the counterweight component can release the stored rotational kinetic energy after rotating, such that the whole spinning top toy can maintain a relatively stable and long time of rotation, thus getting rid of the restriction of the playing method requiring a launcher or a ripcord, ensuring the diversified interaction between users and the spinning top toy, and achieving the purpose of attracting the player's curiosity and interesting.
To better clarify the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to illustrate the embodiments or the prior art will be simply described below. Obviously, the drawings described below merely illustrate some embodiments of the present invention. Those ordinarily skilled in the art can obtain other drawings without contributing creative labor on the basis of those drawings.
In order to make the technical problem to be solved in the present invention, technical solution and beneficial effects clearer and definer, the present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the drawings and the embodiments. It is understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely used for explaining the present invention, instead of limiting the present invention.
It is to be noted that when one component is regarded to be “fixed” or “arranged” on another component, this component may be directly or indirectly connected to the another component. When one component is regarded to be “connected” to another component, this component may be directly or indirectly connected to the another component. Orientations or positions indicated by the terms “upper”, “lower”, “left”, “right”, “front”, “rear”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer” and the like are based on the orientations or positions as shown in the drawings, for ease of describing, rather than be understood as limitations to the present invention. In addition, the terms “first” and “second” are merely used for description, instead of being understood as indicating or implying relative importance or impliedly indicating the quantity of the technical features. “A plurality of” means two or above two, unless specific indication otherwise.
With reference to
With reference to
Players A and B roll the lower-body assemblies 100 of the spinning top toys simultaneously, then the lower ends of the transmission shafts 310 of the two spinning top toys are placed on a desk or other platforms, enabling the spinning top toys to rotate for an endurance competition, and the player with longer rotating time of the spinning top toy wins the game.
Players A and B roll the lower-body assemblies 100 of the spinning top toys simultaneously, then the lower ends of the transmission shafts 310 of the two spinning top toys are placed on a desk or other platforms, enabling the spinning top toys to rotate for a collision competition, and after collision, the player with longer rotating time of the spinning top toy wins the game.
Both players A and B hold the lower-body assemblies 100 of the spinning top toys in hands, then roll the upper-body assemblies 400 of the spinning top toys, enabling the spinning top toys to rotate for an endurance competition, and the player with longer rotating time of the spinning top toy wins the game.
Both players A and B hold the lower-body assemblies 100 of the spinning top toys in hands, and roll the upper-body assemblies 400 of the spinning top toys simultaneously, then place the lower ends of the transmission shafts 310 of the spinning top toys on a fixed holder, for example, the lower ends of the transmission shafts 310 may be fixed to a dough, enabling the spinning top toys to rotate for an endurance competition, and the player with longer rotating time of the spinning top toy wins the game.
Player A rolls the lower-body assembly 100 of the spinning top toy, then place the lower end of the transmission shaft 310 of the spinning top toy on a desk or other platforms, enabling the spinning top toy to rotate, then recording the rotating time, and the player can have the fun of the toy by recording the longer rotating time.
In the playing method 2, when the lower ends of the transmission shafts 310 of the two spinning top toys are placed on a desk or other platforms, the counterweight components 200 can release the stored rotational kinetic energy after rotating since the lower-body assemblies 100 of the spinning top toys are provided with the counterweight components 200, and at the same time a certain frictional force is provided between the upper-body assemblies 400 and the transmission shafts 310, thus driving the upper-body assemblies 400 to rotate. When the upper-body assemblies 400 of the two spinning top toys collide with each other, the upper-body assemblies 400 will change in speed after collision since the upper-body assemblies 400 is rotatable while connecting with the transmission shafts 310, for example, when the speed of the upper-body assemblies 400 reduces quickly while the speed of the lower-body assemblies 100 of the spinning top toy is constant. Then, releasing of the stored rotational kinetic energy in the lower-body assemblies 100 of the spinning top toys will drive the upper-body assemblies 400 to rotate again, and the rotating speeds of the lower-body assemblies 100 will be greater than that of the upper-body assemblies 400, then the rotating speeds of the upper-body assemblies 400 will speed up slowly, and finally, when the stored rotational kinetic energy is fully released, the rotating speeds of the lower-body assemblies 100 will reduce gradually until to stop.
In this embodiment, when rolling the lower-body assembly 100 and the placing the spinning top toy on the desk or other platforms, the rotating speed of the lower-body assembly 100 is greater than that of the upper-body assembly 400, the player can acquire the visual effect of a differential motion, and the rotating speed of the upper-body assembly 400 has an accelerated process. When a collision occurs, the rotating speed of the upper-body assembly 400 reduces quickly, then there will be another accelerated process, which brings a visual enjoyment of the speed change to the player, thus achieving the purpose of attracting the player's curiosity and interesting.
Therefore, in this embodiment, the lower-body assembly 100 is provided with the counterweight component 200, the counterweight component 200 can be driven to rotate by rolling the lower-body assembly 100, the counterweight component 200 can release the stored rotational kinetic energy after rotating, such that the whole spinning top toy can maintain a relatively stable and long time of rotation, thus getting rid of the restriction of the playing method requiring a launcher or a ripcord, ensuring the diversified interaction between users and the spinning top toy, and achieving the purpose of attracting the player's curiosity and interesting.
With reference to
In this embodiment, the rotary bearings 320 are used for achieving the rotatable connection between the upper-body assembly 400 and the transmission shaft 310, the lower-body assembly 100 can be rolled after holding the upper-body assembly 400 in hands, or the upper-body assembly 400 can be rolled after holding the lower-body assembly 100 in hands, and the differential motion of the upper-body assembly 400 and the lower-body assembly 100 can be achieved, which can bring the visual enjoyment of the differential motion to the player. The elastic positioning ring 320 is used for removably fixing the rotary bearings 320 to the transmission shaft 310, thus ensuring the relative stability when the upper-body assembly 400 rotates and prolonging the inertial rotating time, and facilitating the replacement of the transmission shaft 310 or the rotary bearings 320.
Alternatively, with reference to
For example, the at least two rotary bearings 320 are utilized, that is, the upper-body assembly 400 is connected with the rotatable transmission shaft 310 through the at least two rotary bearings 320, for example, when rolling the lower-body assembly 100, the at least two rotary bearings 320 are utilized, to ensure the relative stability during rotation, and prevent the occurrence of a jamming phenomenon.
For example, two rotary bearings 320 are provided, that is, the upper-body assembly 400 is connected with the rotatable transmission shaft 310 through the two rotary bearings 320. It is to be understood that the usage of the rotary bearings 320 is not limited to two, and the usage of the two rotary bearings 320 may be other circumstances.
Alternatively, the rotary bearings 320 may include a plastic bearing or a ceramic bearing or a metal bearing.
Different materials for bearings can be adopted for the rotating bearing 320 according to different models and types of spinning top toys.
For example, the rotary bearings 320 may adopt the plastic bearings, and the plastic bearings are made of materials with low coefficients of friction as a whole, with a long life cycle and a low cost.
The rotary bearings 320 also have different auxiliary parts, such as a copper sheet, a polyformaldehyde (POM) gasket, a self-lubricating washer and a self-lubricating bearing.
Specifically, with reference to
In this embodiment, the elastic positioning ring 330 includes an elastic cylinder 331 and a plurality of clamping jaws 332, where the elastic cylinder 331 may be fixed to the transmission shaft 310 through its own elastic deformation, to achieve a removable connection with the transmission shaft 310, and the disassembly is simple without setting a thread or screwing a nut. The plurality of clamping jaws 332 are used for clamping the transmission shaft 310 and abutting against the rotary bearings 320, to achieve the fixation of the rotary bearings 320, and the contact area of the clamping claws 332 at a bearing position is reduced, thus reducing the frictional resistance to the rotary bearings 320 and improving the rotating function. For example, the transmission shaft 310 may be provided with a step to abut against the rotary bearings 320, and another of the rotary bearings that is away from the step is fixed by the elastic positioning ring 330.
Specifically, with reference to
With reference to
In this embodiment, the elastic cylinder 331 can be set to an elliptic elastic cylinder 331a, and arc-shaped fasteners may be disposed on inner walls of the short shaft parts 334. The two opposite short shaft parts 334 can be opened by pressing the two opposite long shaft parts 335, such that the arc-shaped fasteners are opened, and at this time the elliptic elastic cylinder 331a can maintain a movement along the transmission shaft 310. When the two opposite long shaft parts 335 are loosened, the two opposite short shaft parts 334 approach to each other, enabling the arc-shaped fasteners to be closed, and at this time the elliptic elastic cylinder 331a can be locked and fixed to the transmission shaft 310.
Specifically, with reference to
In this embodiment, the rotary bearings 320 can be supported through the four clamping claws 332, and the four clamping claws 332 can fit with the first fasteners 333 to be clamped and fixed to the transmission shaft 310, where all the four clamping claws 332 are arranged to tilt to one side of the transmission shaft 310, such that the contact area between the clamping claws 332 and the rotary bearings 320 is reduced, thus reducing the frictional resistance of the rotary bearings 320 and improving the rotating function of the rotary bearings 320. It is to be understood that the usage of the clamping jaws 332 is not limited to four, the usage of the clamping jaws 332 can be different in other circumstances, no limitations are made here.
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In this embodiment, the upper-body outer part 420 is removably connected with the rotating support 410, and the rotating support 410 is rotatable and connected with one end of the transmission shaft 310 that is away from the lower-body assembly 100. On the one hand, the rotatable connection between the upper-body outer part 420 and the transmission shaft 310 can be achieved through the rotating support 410, and on the other hand, the rotating support 410 can be removably connected with the upper-body outer part 420, facilitating the replacement of different models of upper-body outer part 420, and achieving quick disassembly.
Specifically, with reference to
In this embodiment, the hollow column 411 has an inner hexagonal hollow structure 415, and the hollow column 411 may be connected with the rotary bearings 320 of the transmission shaft 310 through the inner hexagonal hollow structure 415, such that the rotary bearings 320 are perpendicularly fixed to a central position of the upper-body outer part 420, and then the upper-body outer part 420 will not lose the balance during rotation, thus keeping a dynamic balance during rotation. An inner wall of the inner hexagonal hollow structure 415 may fasten the rotary bearings 320, such that the rotary bearings 320 will not rotate accordingly when the transmission shaft 310 rotates, thus reducing the frictional force between the transmission shaft 310 and the upper-body outer part 420, and achieving to keep a relative rotation between the transmission shaft 310 and the upper-body outer part 420.
The hollow structures 414 are provided on the hollow column 411, in a first aspect, the hollow structures 414 can dissipate the heat generated when the transmission shaft 310 and the rotary bearings 320 rotate; in a second aspect, the generation of the airflow pressure in the hollow column 411 is easily caused when the transmission shaft 310 rotates, thus increasing the resistance and affecting the unsmooth rotation of the upper-body outer part 420, and the hollow structures 414 can prevent the hollow column 411 from generating the airflow pressure when the transmission shaft 310 rotates, to ensure the smooth rotation of the upper-body outer part 420; in a third aspect, the hollow structures 414 may enable the hollow column 411 to have better elasticity, thus generating a better suspension effect and achieving a quick disassembly feature; and in a fourth aspect, the hollow structures 414 may save the manufacturing material of the hollow column 411, thus reducing the production cost and its weight.
The connecting tray 412 is disposed at a bottom of the hollow column 411 and used for connecting the upper-body outer part 420 and the hollow column 411, the connecting tray 412 can ensure the stability during rotation and be integrated with the hollow column 411, with a simple structure, easy implementation and low cost, for example, the hollow column 411 and the connecting tray 412 are integrally molded through injection molding.
The hollow structures 414 are provided on the connecting tray 412, the hollow structures 414 may save the material of the connecting tray 412, reduce the production cost and its weight, to achieve the effect of the differential motion when the lower-body assembly 100 drives the upper-body assembly 400 to rotate.
The second fasteners 413 are provided on the connecting tray 412 and used for removably connecting with the upper-body outer part 420, to achieve the quick disassembly of the upper-body outer part 420. For example, six second fasteners 413 are disposed on an outer side wall of the connecting tray 412 and uniformly distributed along a circumferential direction, and the connecting tray 412 is removably connected with the upper-body outer part 420 through the six second fasteners 413 uniformly distributed along the circumferential direction.
Specifically, with reference to
In this embodiment, the upper-body outer part 420 includes a torso part 421, a doll head 422 and an arm part 423, where the torso part 421 is removably connected with the rotating support 410, for example, the torso part 421 is removably connected with the second fasteners 413 of the connecting tray 412, therefore the players can replace different models of torso part 421 according to their own preferences.
The torso part 421 is removably connected with the doll head 422, to achieve the quick disassembly of the doll head 422 and the torso part 421. For example, the players can replace different models of doll head 422 according to their own preferences, the doll head 422 can be pulled out directly if necessary, and insert another model of doll head 422, to achieve the replacement of the another model of doll head 422.
The torso part 421 is removably connected with the arm part 423, to achieve the quick disassembly of the arm part 423 and the torso part 421. For example, the players can replace different models of arm part 423 according to their own preferences, the arm part 423 can be pulled out directly if necessary, and insert another model of arm part 423, to achieve the replacement of the another model of arm part 423.
Specifically, with reference to
In this embodiment, the lower-body component 110 is in the cone-shaped setting and can be cooperatively connected with the cover plate 120, the cover plate 120 is used for closing the lower-body component 110 and can play a role in preventing water and dust, for example, the cover plate 120 is located above the counterweight component 200, and the counterweight component 200 can be concealed inside the lower-body component 110 through the cover plate 120.
With reference to
Alternatively, the counterweight component 200 can be a conical counterweight block 210 or a disk-shaped counterweight block 220.
For example, with reference to
For example, with reference to
The outer accessory 140 is removably connected with the outer wall of the lower-body component 110, for example, the outer accessory 140 may be a spinning top weapon, and different outer accessories 140 may be configured according to different spinning top figures and animals. For example, the different torso part 421, doll head 422 and arm part 423 can be replaced, to form different spinning top figures and animals, and then the different outer accessories 140 are configured according to different spinning top figures and animals.
In conclusion, the present invention provides a spinning top toy, including a lower-body assembly, a counterweight component, a rotating shaft assembly and an upper-body assembly, where the counterweight component is disposed on the lower-body assembly, the rotating shaft assembly includes a transmission shaft, the transmission shaft is fixed to the lower-body assembly and penetrates through the lower-body assembly, and the upper-body assembly is rotatable and connected with one end of the transmission shaft that is away from the lower-body assembly. In the present invention, the lower-body assembly is provided with the counterweight component, the counterweight component can be driven to rotate by rolling the lower-body assembly, the counterweight component can release the stored rotational kinetic energy after rotating, such that the whole spinning top toy can maintain a relatively stable and long time of rotation, thus getting rid of the restriction of the playing method requiring a launcher or a ripcord, ensuring the diversified interaction between users and the spinning top toy, and achieving the purpose of attracting the player's curiosity and interesting.
The above are only optional embodiments of the present invention and not intended to limit the present invention. Any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 202323013506.X | Nov 2023 | CN | national |