EP2282821B1 - Spiel mit kleinen magnetisch nebeneinander platzierbaren und stapelbaren würfeln - Google Patents

Spiel mit kleinen magnetisch nebeneinander platzierbaren und stapelbaren würfeln Download PDF

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EP2282821B1
EP2282821B1 EP08788065A EP08788065A EP2282821B1 EP 2282821 B1 EP2282821 B1 EP 2282821B1 EP 08788065 A EP08788065 A EP 08788065A EP 08788065 A EP08788065 A EP 08788065A EP 2282821 B1 EP2282821 B1 EP 2282821B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/08—Puzzles provided with elements movable in relation, i.e. movably connected, to each other
    • A63F9/0826—Three-dimensional puzzles with slidable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged, e.g. Rubik's cube
    • A63F9/0838—Three-dimensional puzzles with slidable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged, e.g. Rubik's cube with an element, e.g. invisible core, staying permanently in a central position having the function of central retaining spider and with groups of elements rotatable about at least three axes intersecting in one point
    • A63F9/0842—Three-dimensional puzzles with slidable or rotatable elements or groups of elements, the main configuration remaining unchanged, e.g. Rubik's cube with an element, e.g. invisible core, staying permanently in a central position having the function of central retaining spider and with groups of elements rotatable about at least three axes intersecting in one point each group consisting of again a central element and a plurality of additional elements rotatable about three orthogonal axes at both ends, the additional elements being rotatable about at least two axes, e.g. Rubik's cube
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/34—Games using magnetically moved or magnetically held pieces, not provided for in other subgroups of group A63F9/00
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/12—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • A63F9/1208—Connections between puzzle elements
    • A63F2009/1212—Connections between puzzle elements magnetic connections
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/12—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • A63F9/1204—Puzzles consisting of non-interlocking identical blocks, e.g. children's block puzzles

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  • the present invention relates to a set composed of small juxtaposed and superimposable cubes forming a coherent volume assembly in which subassemblies can be rotated and turned manually along different axes causing a change in the external and internal appearance.
  • Juxtaposable and stackable elements assembling assemblies are traditionally known and placed on top of one another to construct various objects or shapes.
  • the inconvenience of these games is that the cubes do not stand between them which has the effect of making the scaffolding unstable.
  • Games are also known where cubic or parallelepiped shaped elements are provided with magnets on part of their faces. Since the magnets are positioned on the surface, it is then possible to build up stable structures by stacking with the possibility of moving subsets. Thus, games are created in which the polarity of the magnets, the color of the faces or even the relations of the figures between them glued on the faces intervene.
  • the present invention provides a set consisting of small stackable elementary cubes and juxtaposable, as defined in appended claim 1.
  • the present invention is distinguished by the fact that the small cubes, in this mode numbering 27, are geometrically grouped in a single large cube and magnetically bonded but can to be separated from each other.
  • the faces in addition to their possibility of rotation about their axis can be separated and put back in place after overturning.
  • Such a device has in comparison with the Rubik's Cube® the double advantage of being able to reconstitute at any moment the game in its initial position if the player wishes it and to increase the field of movements, therefore the complexity of the puzzle by adding another dimension .
  • the present invention relates to a volume consisting of elementary cubes assembled magnetically and geometrically.
  • these six faces are designated as said faces of said elementary cube.
  • a cube whose edges have been partially or totally truncated constitutes an elementary cube whose six faces are what are left of the faces of the initial cube.
  • Non-conductive material is defined as being inert from a magnetic point of view. Examples of non-conductive materials are plastics, wood or the like.
  • a magnetic element preferably in the form of a cylindrical disk and flat (9) or cylindro-conical (16)
  • one of the facets is generally flush with the face of the cube elementary.
  • the facet of a magnetic element under a skin or a certain thickness of an outer face of an elementary cube is generally flush as long as it can interact magnetically outside the volume defined by this cube.
  • such a small cube can be constituted by the assembly of six truncated pyramidal treads with a square base (10) having in their center a circular cavity (11) having either a thin bottom (19). ), either bottomless with a circular collar such as a valve seat (18), adapted to insert or accommodate a suitable magnetic element therein: the six soles being either glued together and on the six faces of a cubic core ( 17), possibly clipped together or on a core having a suitable shape.
  • the set of so-called visible facets and so-called non-visible facets constitutes a first group of facets.
  • this first group of facets is composed of the facets of the magnetic elements flush with the visible (6) and non-visible faces (7) of the elementary cubes.
  • the set of so-called neutral facets constitutes a second group of facets.
  • this second group of facets is composed of the facets of the magnetic elements flush with the neutral faces (8), complementary to the visible (6) and non-visible faces (7) of the elementary cubes.
  • the invention is characterized in that all the facets of at least one of the two groups are of the same polarity.
  • FIG. 1 A preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in figure 1 in the form of a large cube (1) composed of elementary cubes that will be placed for of understanding in an orthonormal system whose center will be the center of the cube with the three axes OX, OY, OZ perpendicular respectively to the main faces of the cube.
  • This large cube may advantageously consist of 27 elementary cubes.
  • Each face of the large cube is then made of 9 cubes forming for example lines of three cubes contiguous to each other in three rows. All these elements once assembled form a large cube.
  • the magnetic elements may be partly magnets.
  • the facets of these magnetic elements belonging to the different groups of facets are then poles of these magnets, at least one of the groups of facets being of the same polarity.
  • the other magnetic elements that are not magnets can then be ferromagnetic parts, for example soft iron disks of appropriate diameter and thickness without reducing the magnetic cohesive forces that keep the small cubes together.
  • all of the magnetic elements may be magnets.
  • the poles of the first group of facets are all of the same polarity and the poles of the second group of facets are all of the opposite polarity.
  • the large cube (1) consists of three parallel slices (20) (23) and (20) perpendicular to the axis OX. Each slice consists of nine small cubes grouped three by three and located in the same plane. The outer slices (20) can be considered as faces of the large cube. It is the same for the slices (21) and (22) along the axes OZ and OY. So we see that we can virtually detach six distinct slices (or one face of the big cube) from the rest of the cube.
  • the slice (20), once detached, has all the visible faces of its small cubes of the same polarity (+) which are before the separation the visible or non-visible faces of small cubes.
  • angle cubes remain cubes of angle. It is the same for the cubes of edges and the cubes of center face.
  • the central cube (5) of the large cube (1) or core of the large cube can be provided on each of its six faces protruding elements of symmetry of revolution, for example a trunnion (13), preferably of short length, as indicated by figure.11 .
  • the center-facing cubes (4) preferably have on their visible face and their non-visible face, a hollow bowl (12) of complementary shape to the projecting elements of the core (13).
  • the faces of the small cubes provided with bowls or trunnions may keep the same type of outcropping magnets as the other faces. However one can also easily keep the coherence of the big cube by removing the magnets of these faces.
  • Faces flush with facets first group of facets may then in part or in whole presented the same projecting and / or hollow recess (14) preferably respecting the symmetry of the elementary cubes.
  • the faces flush with facets of the second group of facets then having, in whole or in part, the indentation and / or complementary projection (15), this system provides a mechanical blocking cubes between them improving the holding and the rigidity of the whole.
  • the faces of the elementary cubes have a color that is a function of the orientation of the faces in the initial configuration. This characteristic can obviously apply to all the embodiments of the invention.
  • Rubik's Cube® color marking can first be complicated by attributing a color to a face not only according to its orientation but also according to its visible or non-visible or even neutral character.
  • the invention also extends to the embodiments where the color markings are not made by elements arranged on the faces. elementary cubes but directly by the material of the faces of elementary cubes.

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  1. Spiel mit kleinen aufeinander und nebeneinander setzbaren Elementarwürfeln, die aus einem nichtleitenden Material gebildet sind, wobei jeder Elementarwürfel an seinen 6 Flächen magnetische Elemente umfasst, deren eine von mehreren Facetten an den Flächen des Würfels liegend angebracht ist, wobei die kleinen Würfel in einer Anfangskonfiguration zur Ausbildung eines Volumens zusammengesetzt sind, wobei die Facetten von jedem magnetischen Element einer ersten Gruppe, die die Facetten, die an den sichtbaren Flächen der Elementarwürfel, wobei die sichtbaren Flächen (6) solche sind, die sichtbar sind, wenn die Elementarwürfel in der Anfangskonfiguration zusammengesetzt sind, und an den nicht sichtbaren Flächen (7) der Elementarwürfel, wobei die nicht sichtbaren Flächen solche sind, die den sichtbaren Flächen gegenüberliegen, liegen, umfasst, und einer zweiten Gruppe, die die Facetten, die an den neutralen Flächen (8) der Elementarwürfel, die zusätzlich zu den sichtbaren Flächen oder den nicht sichtbaren Flächen vorhanden sind, liegen, umfasst, entsprechen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Gesamtheit der Facetten der magnetischen Elemente von einer Gruppe der zumindest zwei Gruppen die gleiche Polarität aufweist.
  2. Spiel gemäß dem vorangehenden Anspruch, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Facetten der ersten und zweiten Gruppe entgegengesetzte Polaritäten aufweisen.
  3. Spiel gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die magnetischen Elemente Permanentmagneten aufweisen, und dass die Facetten der magnetischen Elemente der ersten und/oder der zweiten Gruppe Pole dieser Permanentmagneten sind.
  4. Spiel gemäß dem vorangehenden Anspruch, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sämtliche der magnetischen Elemente, die der einen der zumindest zwei Gruppen von Facetten zugeordnet sind, aus Permanentmagneten ausgebildet sind.
  5. Spiel gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die magnetischen Elemente ferromagnetische Teile, insbesondere eine Weicheisenkernscheibe, aufweisen.
  6. Spiel gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass bestimmte Elementarwürfel von zumindest den Paaren aus zwei angrenzenden Elementarwürfeln Vertiefungen und/oder Vorsprünge aufweisen, welche jeweils an ihren angrenzenden Flächen komplementär zueinander sind.
  7. Spiel gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Flächen, an denen die Facetten der einen gleichen Gruppe liegen, Vorsprünge und/oder Vertiefungen aufweisen, und dass die Flächen, an denen die Facetten der anderen Gruppe liegen, das jeweils andere Element aus den Vorsprüngen und/oder Vertiefungen aufweisen.
  8. Spiel gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass bestimmte Flächen von zumindest den bestimmten Elementarwürfeln drehsymmetrisch hervorstehende Elemente aufweisen, die komplementär zu den Einsenkungen sind, die an den angrenzenden Flächen angeordnet sind, um eine Drehführung in Bezug auf eine Untereinheit des Spiels zu ermöglichen.
  9. Spiel gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sämtliche der sichtbaren Flächen der kleinen Würfel in ihrer Ursprungsposition dieselbe Farbe aufweisen, und dass die nicht sichtbaren Flächen eine andere oder die gleiche Farbe aufweisen.
  10. Spiel gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die sichtbaren Flächen und die nicht sichtbaren Flächen von jedem kleinen Würfel in ihrer Ursprungsposition und isoliert betrachtet jeweils eine gleiche Farbe gemeinsam für eine identische Richtung aufweisen.
  11. Spiel gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Flächen in ihrer Ursprungsposition und isoliert betrachtet, die eine Gesamtheit der sichtbaren Flächen, eine Gesamtheit der nicht sichtbaren Flächen oder schließlich eine Gesamtheit der neutralen Flächen sind, eine gleiche Farbe haben, die eine Farbfunktion für ihre Richtung ist.
  12. Spiel gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 11 zur Ausbildung eines großen Würfels, der 27 aufeinander und nebeneinander setzbare Elementarwürfel umfasst, die aus einem nichtleitenden Material ausgebildet sind, wobei die 27 Elementarwürfel unterteilt sind in:
    8 kleine Eckwürfel (2), wovon jeder 3 sichtbare Flächen (6) und 3 andere nicht sichtbare Flächen (7) hat;
    12 kleine Kantenwürfel (3) mit 2 sichtbaren Flächen (6) und 2 nicht sichtbaren Flächen (7), so dass zwei Flächen (8) neutral oder verborgen sind;
    6 kleine Zentralflächenwürfel (4) mit einer einzigen sichtbaren Fläche (6) und einer anderen nicht sichtbaren Fläche (7), so dass 4 andere Flächen (8) neutral oder verborgen sind;
    ein kleiner Zentralwürfel oder Kern (5) mit weder einer sichtbaren Fläche noch einer nicht sichtbaren Fläche, so dass 6 Flächen (8) neutral oder verborgen sind,
    wobei jeder Elementarwürfel an seinen Flächen Permanentmagnete aufweist, die über einen ihrer Pole an den Flächen des Würfels liegend angebracht sind, wobei die Magnetpole der sichtbaren Flächen und der nicht sichtbaren Flächen eine erste Gruppe ausbilden und die Magnetpole der neutralen oder verborgenen Flächen eine zweite Gruppe ausbilden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Pole der ersten und die Pole der zweiten Gruppe jeweils entgegengesetzte Polaritäten aufweisen, und dass eine ebene Scheibe aus 9 Würfeln (20, 22, 23) um seine Hauptachse, die senkrecht auf der Hauptfläche der Scheibe steht, schwenken kann und erneut nach einer Drehung um 0°C, 90°C, 180°C, 270°C auf eine mechanische und magnetische Weise angebracht werden kann, dann gegebenenfalls zurückgedreht werden kann, dann erneut auf magnetische und mechanische Weise angebracht werden kann.
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