EP0873165A1 - Voie ferree miniature et son procede de fabrication - Google Patents

Voie ferree miniature et son procede de fabrication

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EP0873165A1
EP0873165A1 EP96946095A EP96946095A EP0873165A1 EP 0873165 A1 EP0873165 A1 EP 0873165A1 EP 96946095 A EP96946095 A EP 96946095A EP 96946095 A EP96946095 A EP 96946095A EP 0873165 A1 EP0873165 A1 EP 0873165A1
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counterpart
vehicle
train according
toy train
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Michael Klein
Christine Klein
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Manetico Spielwarenhandel GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H19/00—Model railways
    • A63H19/02—Locomotives; Motor coaches
    • A63H19/10—Locomotives; Motor coaches electrically driven
    • 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
    • A63H18/10—Highways or trackways for toys; Propulsion by special interaction between vehicle and track with magnetic means for steering
    • 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
    • A63H18/14—Drives arranged in the track, e.g. endless conveying means, magnets, driving-discs
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H19/00—Model railways
    • A63H19/30—Permanent way; Rails; Rail-joint connections

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  • the present invention relates to a toy train with a vehicle guided along a rail, which has a rail counterpart for producing a rail engagement with the rail, the rail counterpart and the rail together forming a horizontal guide device and a vertical guide device.
  • the present invention relates to a method for producing such a toy web.
  • Toy tracks of the aforementioned type are known in a wide variety of designs. Basically, the known toy tracks differ in that, on the one hand, toy tracks with a self-propulsion of the vehicle guided along the rail are known; on the other hand there are toy tracks in which the vehicle does not have such an own drive and therefore has to be driven continuously by the player himself or at least to provide a potential drive (for example by pulling it up or by arranging it in an elevated track point of the toy track) .
  • the rail used as a lane for the vehicle must allow both horizontal and vertical guidance of the vehicle.
  • a rail counterpart which is designed, for example, in the case of an unpowered wooden railway or also an electric railway provided with an electric drive, as a carriage provided with wheels, engages with the correspondingly profiled one Rail is coming.
  • longitudinal grooves provided for guiding the vehicle wheels in the rail serve to achieve vertical guidance by means of a contact between the wheels and the base of the groove and to achieve horizontal guidance by means of a contact of the wheels with the wheels on both sides ⁇ neten groove flanks.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of creating a toy track which enables a drive with minimal energy expenditure and, moreover, a new gaming experience.
  • the toy track according to the invention has a magnetic device with matching magnetization, both on the rail counterpart and on the rail, in such a way that a horizontal, magnetically generated air gap is formed between the vehicle and the rail to form the vertical guide device.
  • the vertical guidance in the toy track according to the invention is therefore contactless.
  • repulsive magnetic forces from oppositely arranged magnetic pole zones with matching magnetization are used.
  • the toy track according to the invention with the magnetically generated air gap between the rail and the vehicle or the rail counterpart of the vehicle enables a suspension railway-like operation and thus a play experience that is not possible with the known toy tracks.
  • a particularly simple design of the toy track is possible if the magnetizations are designed as permanent magnets arranged on or in the rail counterpart and the rail.
  • This type of design makes, in particular, a conventional production of the toy train possible, in which discretely designed permanent magnets are inserted into the counterparts or rails prepared for this purpose.
  • An alternative to the aforementioned embodiment of the toy track is to design the magnetic devices as current conductors arranged on or in the rail counterpart and the rail.
  • a further embodiment of the toy track which opens up particular advantages with regard to cost-effective production, consists in designing the magnetic devices as plastic layers with at least partially formed pole zones arranged on a carrier material of the rail counterpart and the rail.
  • This type of design enables the manufacture of the magnetic devices from a so-called "compound material", in which there are magnetizable particles embedded in a plastic material, which can be aligned according to predetermined pole zones and as a plastic layer with the carrier material of the rail cone icks and the rail are connectable.
  • Such plastic layers provided with magnetic pole zones can be shaped as desired and therefore, in contrast to the discrete, conventional permanent magnets, open up unlimited design possibilities.
  • such plastic layers can be produced inexpensively in a predetermined form in the extrusion process, ie in the same process with which the rail counterparts and rails can also be produced are .
  • the above-described type of manufacture of the magnetic devices also opens up the possibility of producing a toy track with rail counterparts and rails which are formed from plastic, with at least regionally formed pole zones for forming the magnetic devices in the surfaces facing one another during a rail engagement.
  • a further adaptation to the real driving behavior and the actual technical functions of a "large suspension railway” can be achieved if, according to a further embodiment, an effective magnetic braking device is provided between the rail counterpart and the rail.
  • this embodiment also achieves the advantageous effect that contact-based guidance can be dispensed with even in order to achieve a braking effect.
  • a possible embodiment of the magnetic brake device consists in that at least one brake magnet is arranged in an opposite position both in the rail and in the rail counterpart, the brake magnets having different polarities and the pole spacing being changeable by means of a feed device.
  • a technically easy to implement and effective feed device can be realized if the feed device has an electrical conductor coil acting on a brake magnet.
  • the delivery device can be influenced by means of a receiver of a contactless remote control device arranged on the vehicle.
  • a recoil drive device In order to enable contactless guidance of the vehicle or of the rail counterpart along the rail even in the case of an embodiment of the vehicle provided with a self-propulsion, the vehicle can be provided with a recoil drive device.
  • the term "recoil drive device" is intended to refer to any type of drive in which the drive force is generated by pushing or pushing out a mass relative to the vehicle.
  • the recoil drive device is designed as a propeller drive device which is connected to the vehicle.
  • the recoil drive device Regardless of the type of design of the recoil drive device, it is advantageous if it is designed as a drive module that can be connected to the vehicle.
  • the vehicle is provided with a receiver of a contactless remote control device which is directed to an electrically actuated adjusting device Change in the drive power of the recoil drive device acts.
  • Another object of the present invention is to propose a method for the inexpensive manufacture of a toy web as described above.
  • the plastic mate ⁇ rial with the addition of magnetizable particles is trusions vide in an ex-processed into a Kunststoffstrhack and the strand of plastic in a softened state to form pole zones by orienting the magnetizable particles zu ⁇ least in sections, with a magnetizing device is applied.
  • the method according to the invention thus enables the production of rail counterparts and rails without having to use conventional, discretely designed permanent magnets.
  • the plastic strand can be used to form the rail counterpart and / or the rail
  • Plastic layer are applied to a carrier material at least in sections.
  • the plastic strand for forming the rail counterpart and / or the rail can be extruded with the cross-sectional profile of the rail counterpart and / or the rail, so that the rail counterpart or the rail can be produced together with the magnetic devices as a unit.
  • FIG. 1 shows a track section of a toy track with a vehicle guided along a rail by means of a plurality of rail counterparts
  • Fig. 2 shows an embodiment of the rail and one
  • FIG. 3 shows a further embodiment of the rail and the rail counterpart in a cross-sectional representation
  • FIG. 4 shows a further embodiment of a rail and a rail counterpart in a cross-sectional representation
  • FIG. 5 shows a further embodiment of the rail and the rail counterpart in a cross-sectional representation
  • Fig. 6 shows another embodiment of the rail and the Rail counterpart in a cross-sectional representation
  • FIG. 7 shows a further embodiment of the rail and the rail counterpart in a cross-sectional representation
  • FIG. 8 shows yet another embodiment of the rail and the rail counterpart in a cross-sectional representation.
  • FIG. 1 shows a track section 10 of a toy track 11 with a vehicle 14 guided along a rail 13 by means of counterparts 12.
  • the rail section 10 shown in FIG. 1 shows, by way of example, a rail 13 designed as a curved piece.
  • the vehicle 14 which is rigid in this exemplary embodiment, longitudinally guided to the rail 13 by means of the rail counterparts 12, the vehicle 14 is equipped with several, relative to one Vehicle body 15 movable rail counterparts 12 provided.
  • a total of three rail counterparts 12 provided on the vehicle body 15 are partly pivotally attached to the vehicle body 15, namely the two outer rail counterparts 12, and the other part, namely here the middle rail counterpart 12, guer slidably attached to the vehicle body 15.
  • FIG. 2 shows the rail 13, which is essentially rectangular in cross section, and a U-shaped rail counterpart 12, which has a base 16 with two legs 17, 18 attached to it, which grip laterally around the rail 13 and are essentially parallel Rail sides 19, 20 are arranged.
  • a permanent magnet 22 is arranged on an underside 21 of the base 16 and is located opposite a further permanent magnet 23, which is arranged on an upper side 24 of the rail 13.
  • Both permanent magnets 22, 23 have a magnetic polarity in the manner of a bar magnet, the permanent magnets 22, 23 being arranged such that poles of the same name lie opposite one another. In the exemplary embodiment shown here, the magnetic north poles are located opposite one another and the magnetic south poles are consequently facing away from one another.
  • permanent magnet pairings 25 and 26 with permanent magnets 27 and 28 are provided, which are arranged opposite one another, the permanent magnet 27 on an inner side 29 of the leg 17 and the permanent magnet 28 on the rail side 19 or 20 of the rail 13 is arranged.
  • the Treasurema- solenoid coils 27, 28 are arranged with respect to their magnetic polarity so ange ⁇ that like poles, also, are arranged opposite to each other here the north poles of each other and thus repulsive magnetic forces in the horizontal direction M are generated from er ⁇ .
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 A combination of FIGS. 1 and 2 makes it clear that, with suitable dimensioning of by the permanent magnets 22, 23 magnetic forces M generated, which leads to a compensation of the vehicle body 15 and the rail counterparts 12 re- sulting force of gravity, a total touch- there is a loose, relative arrangement of the vehicle 14 on the rail 13 in a defined floating state.
  • FIG. 3 shows, in an alternative embodiment, a rail 32 and a rail counterpart 33, which correspond in terms of their cross-sectional geometry to the rail counterpart 12 shown in FIG. 2 and the rail 13.
  • a rail 32 and a rail counterpart 33 which correspond in terms of their cross-sectional geometry to the rail counterpart 12 shown in FIG. 2 and the rail 13.
  • current-carrying conductor coils 34 to 39 which are combined in pairs to generate the repulsive magnetic forces M shown in FIG be used from . This takes advantage of the effect that current-carrying conductors form a magnetic field.
  • the vertical guide device 30 is formed by the conductor coils 34 and 35, which are alternately through which current flows and are arranged opposite one another in the underside 21 of the rail counterpart 33 and the upper side 24 of the rail 32 3 form a magnetic field with the magnetic polarity also specified. Consequently are also reflected in the in Fig. 3 shown execution form two magnetic poles of the same name, namely here south poles, ge ⁇ genionat that already described with reference to FIG. 2 folk ⁇ th, form repulsive magnetic forces from M. The result is also that the rail 32 forms a horizontal air gap L h from ⁇ against the action of the weight force G between the bottom 21 of the rail counterpart 33 and the top of the 24th
  • FIG. 4 shows an embodiment corresponding to the design of the magnet devices as permanent magnets, FIG. 2, with a rail 49 and a rail counterpart 50, although this is the case with the permanent magnets used here
  • the permanent magnets 40 to 45 are not standardized, conventionally designed, discrete permanent magnets in the form of the permanent magnets 22, 23 and 27, 28 shown in FIG. 2, but rather permanent magnets 40 inherently formed in a plastic material 52 of a plastic layer 46, 47 to 45.
  • the permanent magnets 40 to 45 shown in FIG. 4 correspond to the permanent magnets 22, 23 and 27, 28 shown in FIG. 2, so that no further explanations are given with regard to FIG. 4 be made.
  • the plastic layers 46, 47 shown in FIG. 4 consist of a compound material made of the plastic material 52, for example a thermoplastic, and magnetizable particles contained therein, for example ferrite particles 48.
  • the choice of a thermoplastic material as the plastic material 52 enables the production of the plastic layers 46, 47 shown in FIG. 4 in an extrusion process. After the plastic material 52 has been discharged from the extrusion device, it is in a soft to pasty state with the ferrite particles 48 arranged statistically distributed therein. If the plastic material 52 is guided along a magnetizing device in this state, the magnetizing device takes place in the area of influence a magnetic alignment of the ferrite particles 48, so that the permanent magnets 40 to 45 shown in FIG. 4 are formed with corresponding north / south polarity in defined zones.
  • the plastic layers 46, 47 shown in FIG. 4 can be extruded in such a way that they can be applied to a substrate material 51, which defines the shape of the rail 49 or the rail counterpart 50, for example by an adhesive method.
  • 5 and 6 show two examples of further possible embodiments of the rail and the rail counterpart.
  • 5 shows a rail 53 with a rail counterpart 54, the rail counterpart 54 being similar to that in FIGS 2, 3 and 4 shown rail counterparts 12, 33 and 50 for connection to a vehicle structure 15 arranged above the rails 13, 32 and 49 (FIG. 1) is used.
  • the carrier material 51 of the rail 53 does not have a rectangular, but rather a step-like configuration with a plastic layer 55 designed accordingly.
  • a plastic layer 56 connected to the carrier material 51 of the rail counterpart 54 is also designed in a step-like manner, and the plastic layers 55, 56 have, in addition to the permanent magnets 40 to 45 already mentioned with reference to FIG.
  • FIG. 6 shows an embodiment which fundamentally differs from the previously illustrated embodiments, with a rail 61 and a rail counterpart 62, which is used for connection to a vehicle 14 arranged below the rail 61.
  • the relative arrangement of the rail 61 to the rail counterpart 62 shown in FIG. 6 enables a hanging arrangement of the vehicle 14.
  • the rail counterpart 62 is essentially U-shaped with a base 63 and legs 64 attached to it laterally, which at their ends are parallel to the Have base 63 extending support flanges 65.
  • permanent magnets 68 to are used to form a vertical guide device 66 and a horizontal guide device 67
  • each permanent magnet pairing serves both for the formation of a vertical air gap L v and for the formation of a horizontal air gap L h , which as a result of the magnetic interactions is already based on the previous figures have been explained in detail.
  • FIG. 7 shows an embodiment with an embodiment of the vertical guide device 30 and the horizontal guide device 31 that is identical in terms of its design with FIG. 2 and consists of permanent magnets 22, 23 arranged opposite one another for the vertical guide device 30 and permanent magnets 27, 28 arranged opposite one another for the horizontal guide device 31.
  • a magnetic braking device 74 is provided according to FIG. 7.
  • the braking device 74 consists of two stationary brake magnets 76, 77 each arranged in the edge region of a rail 75 and two each arranged in the edge region of a rail counterpart 78, the distance a to the brake magnets 76, 77 being adjustable via an adjusting device 79 Brake magnets 80, 81.
  • the associated brake magnets 80 and 76 as well as 81 and 77 are arranged in such a way that poles of the same name lie opposite one another and consequently are sufficient small distance a between the braking gnets 80 and 76 or 81 and 77, an attractive magnetic force M anz is generated nenussi conducted a frictional engagement between the rail slat 78, causing the rail 75 miles.
  • the attractive magnetic force M anz thus counteracts a driving force directed in the direction of the longitudinal direction of the rail, so that a braking effect can be achieved.
  • the braking action can be metered by the feed device 79.
  • a stop (not shown here) is provided for the adjustable brake magnets 80, 81 in the adjustment direction in order to maintain a minimum distance a -in .
  • FIG. 8 shows a central, central arrangement of a braking device 82, a vertical guide device 83 being simultaneously used in this exemplary embodiment to form the braking device 82.
  • a permanent magnet 85 associated with a rail 84 of the vertical guide device 83 is assigned two permanent magnets 86, 87 on a rail counterpart 88, which are arranged at a distance from one another.
  • a brake magnet 91 is guided in a vertical guide 89 with respect to its distance a from the permanent magnet 85 by means of a delivery device 90.
  • the stationary brake magnet associated with the adjustable brake magnet is formed by a central portion 92 of the permanent magnet 85.
  • the feed device 90 has a conductor coil 93 which can be supplied with current, which is arranged in such a way and whose current flow direction is selected in such a way that magnetic polarity, as shown in FIG. 8, results. Poles of the same name of the conductor coil 93 and the brake magnet 91 are arranged opposite one another. This has the consequence that when current flows through the conductor coil in FIG. 8 ones shown, repulsive magnetic force M onto the brake magnet 91 acts accordingly, the magnet in the direction of the associated Treasure ⁇ is moved 85th
  • the brake magnet 91 and the associated permanent magnet 85 is arranged in such a way that non-uniform poles lie opposite one another and accordingly an attractive magnetic force Manz between the brake magnet 91 and the permanent magnet 85 becomes effective at a sufficiently small distance a.
  • pole configurations selected in the exemplary embodiments only serve to explain possible magnetic devices by way of example. Pole configurations deviating from this, such as so-called “strip magnetizations" with alternating arrangement of different pole zones in one plane, can also be used as long as the necessary magnetic effects described for the invention can be achieved.

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L'invention concerne une voie ferrée miniature et un procédé de fabrication d'une voie ferrée miniature avec une voiture (14) guidée sur un rail (13) par une contre-pièce (12) destinée à venir s'emboîter sur ce dernier, la contre-pièce (12) et le rail formant ensemble un dispositif de guidage horizontal (31) et vertical (30). Pour permettre la formation du dispositif de guidage vertical (30), la contre-pièce (12) et le rail (13) présentent chacun un dispositif magnétique (22, 23) produisant un champ magnétique correspondant, de sorte qu'un entrefer (Lh) horizontal produit magnétiquement est créé entre la voiture (14) et le rail (13).
EP96946095A 1995-12-20 1996-12-18 Voie ferree miniature et son procede de fabrication Withdrawn EP0873165A1 (fr)

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DE1995147616 DE19547616C1 (de) 1995-12-20 1995-12-20 Spielzeugbahn und Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Spielzeugbahn
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