EP2495020A1 - Unité de bloc jouet disposant de 50 faces et ensemble de jeu de bloc jouet constitué des blocs jouets - Google Patents

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EP2495020A1
EP2495020A1 EP11156499A EP11156499A EP2495020A1 EP 2495020 A1 EP2495020 A1 EP 2495020A1 EP 11156499 A EP11156499 A EP 11156499A EP 11156499 A EP11156499 A EP 11156499A EP 2495020 A1 EP2495020 A1 EP 2495020A1
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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
    • A63F9/0073—Games for obtaining a particular arrangement of playing pieces in a plane or space
    • 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
    • A63F9/04—Dice; Dice-boxes; Mechanical dice-throwing devices
    • A63F9/0415—Details of dice, e.g. non-cuboid dice
    • A63F2009/0462—Details of dice, e.g. non-cuboid dice fifty-sided
    • 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
    • A63F2009/1236—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles with a final configuration thereof, i.e. the solution, being packed in a box or container

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  • the present invention relates to a toy block composed of polyhedral block unit that has 50 faces and a toy blocks game set consisted of said toy blocks.
  • the traditional toy blocks are usually made into square, triangle or other geometrical shapes for assembling different objects.
  • variety of the object which can be built is often restricted by the shapes of the toy blocks.
  • some toy blocks are composed of single or multiple spherical block units; spherical units allow the user to be able to assemble more complicate object, but since contacting surface of the spherical unit is less than other shape, the assembled object is easier to collapse.
  • a game tray having multiples grooves for receiving said block units is further provided, however the required space for the game is increased. Therefore, to find a toy block that can stand firmly on a planar surface has become the primary object of the present invention.
  • said spherical surface may become slippy as the fingers of the user are wet, making the toy block difficult to be held.
  • Applicant has dedicated to design intellectual games for years, and various models with different playing rules has been invented, such as cited document 1, US 6, 220, 919 , entitled “ASSEMBLED BUILDING BLOCK FOR FORMING VARIOUS GEOMETRICAL SHAPES WITH CORNERS HAVING ANGLES 60 DEGREES, 90 DEGREES AND 120 DEGREES", by referring to Fig. 1 of the cited document 1, it discloses a game set having 18 assembling pieces, each is formed by 3 to 6 spherical units. As each unit is joined to another horizontally or vertically, when assembling a pyramid, they can only form a square pyramid as shown in Figs. 16 ⁇ 19 , but unable to assemble a triangular pyramid.
  • US 2010/0237561 entitled “TOY BLOCK ASSEMBLY PUZZLE”, it discloses a game set including 11 assembling pieces, each is also formed by 3 to 6 spherical unit.
  • the game teaches a new concept of playing the game by limiting the pieces can only be inserted diagonally with an angle of 45 degree; however, it can't be used to form any 3-dimentional shape.
  • TW M372207 entitled “A toy block set formed by 54 block units” discloses a game set including 12 assembling pieces, having total 54 cubic block units.
  • a triangular pyramid having 21 units for the base and six units for the height can be formed by said 12 pieces; however, a 56 units is required to build the pyramids, thus a game tray having 19 position holes must be provided to complete the assembly.
  • a toy block is characterized in that said toy block is consisted of at least one block unit. Each unit comprising 50 adjacent faces, and are arranged in 7 layers, wherein:
  • the present invention teaches a toy block set comprising 12 toy blocks, composed of aforementioned block unit, wherein said 12 toy blocks are assembled to form a triangular pyramid having a base with 6 block units provided on each side and a height of 6 block units.
  • the toy block set including 8 toy blocks consisted of 5 block units and 4 toy blocks consisted of 4 block units, a sum of 56 block units; each block unit is connecting to another by a join member.
  • the first seven toy blocks of the set with a total 35 block units can be assembled to form another smaller triangular pyramid, having a base with 5 block units provided on each side and a height of 5 block units.
  • Both pyramids can be built over corresponding game trays.
  • Each game tray has pluralities position holes provided thereon, and the number of the holes matches the number of units of pyramid's base.
  • Said position holes are arranged in an outer and inner triangle. The outer triangle is set approximate the edge of the game tray and the inner triangle is set in the center of the outer triangle. Both are equilateral triangles.
  • Each position hole is a concave having 19 faces arranged in 3 layers, which match arrangement of the first to third layers or the seventh to fifth layers of the block unit, wherein:
  • a toy block set comprising 12 toy blocks in an alphabetical order from A to L, each toy block is composed of 4 or 5 block units (10), and the block unit (10) is connecting to each other by a join member (11).
  • toy blocks (A ⁇ L) are assembled to form a triangular pyramid having a base with 6 block units (10) provided on each side with a height of 6 block units (10).
  • the toy block set including 8 toy blocks (A ⁇ H) consisted of 5 block units and 4 toy blocks (I ⁇ L) consisted of 4 block units, a total 56 block units (10). Shapes of each 12 blocks (A ⁇ L) are described as follows:
  • each block unit (10) is recommended to be manufactured by plastic.
  • a permissible dimensional error is preferably set being either 1% longer or 2% shorter than an external diameter of the block unit (10), e.g. in Fig. 4 , the outer diameter (S2) is equal to the distance (S 1) between centers of two block units; if the outer diameter (S2) is 10 mm, and a radius of each block unit (10) is reduced by a 0,1 mm, an interval of 0,2 mm between two block units is produced, which is the dimensional error.
  • the dimensional error is preferably to be kept between 0,1 mm to 0,2 mm, which can be substitute by a join member (11).
  • each block unit (10) consists of 50 adjacent faces arranged in 7 layers and shapes of faces in different layers are described as follows:
  • Each face on the first and seventh layer is a regular hexagon with each internal angle ( ⁇ 1 ⁇ 6) 86) defined to be 20 degree.
  • Each face of said second and sixth layer is inclined an angle ( ⁇ 1) of 35,25 degree to a horizontal plane; each face of said third and fifth layer is inclined an angle ( ⁇ 2) of 62 degree to the horizontal plane, and each face of the forth layer is inclined an angle ( ⁇ 3) of 90 degree to the horizontal plane.
  • Said second and sixth layer is identical and designed primarily for contacting a face of another toy block.
  • Each face of both layers has two internal angles ( ⁇ l, ⁇ 2) of 115,24 degree, formed by an edge where butting the face of first layer and a lateral edge thereof, two internal angles ( ⁇ 3, ⁇ 4) of 92,99 degree, formed by two edges where butting adjacent faces of the same layer and edges butting faces of the third layer, and an internal angle ( ⁇ 5) of 123,53 degree, formed by two edges where butting faces of the third layer.
  • Each face of the forth layer has two internal angles ( ⁇ 1, ⁇ 6) of 128,09 degree, formed by two edges of two faces of third layer and two edges of two faces of fifth layer; four internal angles ( ⁇ 2 ⁇ 5) of 115,96 degree, formed by two lateral edges thereof and two edges butting the faces of the third layer and the fifth layer.
  • Said third and fifth layer is identical and each face of both layers has an internal angle ( ⁇ 1) of 79,16 degree, formed by an edge where butting face of the second layer and a lateral edge where butting adjacent face of the same layer, an internal angle ( ⁇ 2) of 115,18 degree, formed by the edge where butting face of the second layer and another lateral edge where butting adjacent face of the same layer, two internal angles ( ⁇ 3, ⁇ 4) of 112,55 degree, formed by two lateral edges and two edges butting faces of the forth layer, and an internal angle ( ⁇ 5) of 120,57 degree, formed by two edges where butting faces of the forth layer.
  • said pyramid formed by all 12 toy blocks can be set upon a first game tray (20a), as shown in Fig. 7 , having 21 position holes (21) provided thereon for receiving the 21 units of the bottom layer of the pyramid.
  • 15 of said position holes (21) are arranged in an outer triangle (23), approximate to an edge of the game tray (20a), and 6 of said position holes (21) are arranged in an inner triangle (22), set in a center of the outer triangle (23).
  • the outer triangle (23) is an equilateral triangle having 6 position holes (21) provided on each side thereof, and said inner triangle (22) is also an equilateral triangle having 3 position holes (21) provided on each side thereof.
  • Each position hole (21) is a concave having 19 faces arranged in 3 layers, which match the arrangement of the first to third layers or the seventh to fifth layers of the block unit, listed as follows:
  • Figs. 9 and 10 illustrate two possible solutions to assemble the triangular pyramid by showing the cross sectional views thereof.
  • the alphabet shown in the center of the unit indicates the corresponding toy block. More alternative ways can be used to form the pyramid and should not be limited to the solutions disclosed herewith.
  • the 12 toy blocks (A-L) can be divided into two groups, the first croup (10a) includes blocks A-G, while the second group (10b) includes blocks H-L.
  • the five toy blocks of said first group (10A) can be assembled to form a smaller triangular pyramid having a base with 5 block units provided on each side and a height of 5 block units.
  • the pyramid assembled by the blocks of first group (10a) is shown in Figs. 11 and 12 , and relative quantity of block units (10) to construct each layer are disclosed as follows:
  • Figs. 13 and 14 illustrate two possible solutions to assemble the mentioned pyramid by showing the cross sectional views thereof.
  • the alphabet shown in the center of each unit indicates the corresponding toy block. More alternative ways can be used to form the pyramid and should not be limited to the solutions disclosed herewith.
  • Both pyramids can be built upon the first game tray (20a) as shown in Figs. 6, 7 , 11 & 12 ; however, a smaller second game tray (20b) can be used specifically to support the pyramid built by blocks of first group (10).
  • said second game tray (20b) has 15 position holes (21) provided thereon for receiving said blocks of the first group (10a). Similar to the first game tray (20a), 12 of total 15 position holes (21) are arranged to form an outer triangle (25), approximate to an edge of the game tray (20b), and 3 position holes (21) are arranged to form an inner triangle (24), set in a center of the outer triangle.
  • the outer triangle (25) is an equilateral triangle having 5 position holes (21) provided on each side thereof, said inner triangle (24) is another equilateral triangle having 2 position holes (21) provided on each side thereof.
  • Each position hole (21) of the second game tray (20b) has the same configuration as of the first game tray (20a), therefore, no further description is described hereafter.
  • Fig. 18 shows a closer view of the arrangement of toy blocks, unlike the inventions mentioned in previous cited references, which a toy block usually contacts to another by a point.
  • the 50 faces defined on the surface of the unit increase the contacting area, which can secure the assembly, allowing both pyramids being able to stand without the game tray.
  • each unit (10) of upper layer will be support by at least 2 block units (10) of below layer, thus the stability of pyramid is improved.
  • Fig. 20 shows a unit of a toy block is provided in the position hole (21) with an inclination. Such pose can't be performed if the block unit has a spherical shape.
  • the design of the block unit can secure the position of the toy block, beneficial as the toy block needs to be placed by an inclination.
  • Comparison with conventional block unit Conventional Present application Shape Spherical Polyhedral Surface Smooth with curvature 50 faces Contact with other unit By point By face Assemble stability Easy to collapse Stable Non-slip ability Bad Good Appearance Normal Attractive Recognizable No Yes Novelty No Yes Comparison with other polyhedral block unit: No.

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GB2396569A (en) * 2002-12-24 2004-06-30 Ming-Hsien Cheng Building blocks for a constructional toy or puzzle
EP1716894A1 (fr) * 2005-04-28 2006-11-02 Lonpos Braintelligent Co., Ltd. Blocs de construction sphériques assemblables
US7140612B2 (en) 2004-08-16 2006-11-28 Wisonet, Inc. Cubic assembly puzzle and support structure
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US4988103A (en) * 1989-10-02 1991-01-29 Cheng Ming S Geometric puzzle of spheres
US6220919B1 (en) 1999-10-04 2001-04-24 Ming-Hsien Cheng Assembled building block for forming various geometrical shapes with corners having angles 60 degrees, 90 degrees and 120 degrees
GB2396569A (en) * 2002-12-24 2004-06-30 Ming-Hsien Cheng Building blocks for a constructional toy or puzzle
US7140612B2 (en) 2004-08-16 2006-11-28 Wisonet, Inc. Cubic assembly puzzle and support structure
EP1716894A1 (fr) * 2005-04-28 2006-11-02 Lonpos Braintelligent Co., Ltd. Blocs de construction sphériques assemblables
CN101301525A (zh) * 2007-05-09 2008-11-12 龙博士健康左右脑有限公司 具有平面组合或堆栈成立体三面锥体的积木装置
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WO2023131900A1 (fr) * 2022-01-06 2023-07-13 Smart Nv Puzzle comprenant des pièces de puzzle uniques et/ou multiples, plateau de puzzle et kit comprenant un puzzle et un plateau de puzzle
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