JP2024015280A - Structure - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique advantageous in forming a doll body that can achieve more natural deformation.

SOLUTION: A structure forms at least part of the head of a doll body, and has an upper jaw and a lower jaw that form the mouth. The lower jaw is held by the head body so that the lower jaw is separated from the upper jaw to turn the mouth from a closed state to an opened state. The upper jaw is held by the head body so that, when the mouth is turned from the closed state to the opened state, the rear of the upper jaw goes down.

SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1B

COPYRIGHT: (C)2024,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a structure for a doll body.

Patent Document 1 describes a joint structure provided at each part of a doll body. A user can put such a doll body into a desired posture.

Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2010-17264

Some doll bodies are required to be configured to enable more natural deformation.

An exemplary purpose of the present invention is to provide an advantageous technique for constructing a doll body that can achieve more natural deformation.

One aspect of the present invention relates to a structure that constitutes at least a part of the head of a doll body, the structure including an upper jaw part and a lower jaw part forming a mouth part, and the lower jaw part being the upper jaw part. The upper jaw is held by the head main body so that the mouth changes from the closed state to the open state by separating from the upper jaw, is held on the head body so that the rear part of the head is lowered.

According to the present invention, it is possible to construct a doll body that can realize more natural deformation.

The whole perspective view of the closed state of the head part of the doll body. The whole perspective view of the opening state of the head part. An exploded view of the head parts. A schematic cross-sectional view of the leg parts in a closed state. A schematic cross-sectional view of the opening state of the leg parts.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the following embodiments do not limit the claimed invention, and not all combinations of features described in the embodiments are essential to the invention. Two or more features among the plurality of features described in the embodiments may be arbitrarily combined. In addition, the same or similar configurations are given the same reference numerals, and duplicate explanations will be omitted.

1A and 1B show an overall perspective view of the head part 2 of the doll body 1 according to the embodiment. In this embodiment, the doll body 1 is a toy model modeled after a quadrupedal animal (for example, a dog), but it may also be modeled after, for example, a bipedal animal (eg, a human).

In this specification, when explaining the positional relationship of each part, the following terms are used: front (front), rear (rear), left (left side), right (right side), upper (upper), and lower (lower). , 内 (inward), soto (outer), etc., but these expressions are relative with respect to the doll body 1. For example, the front corresponds to the front side of the doll body 1, and the rear corresponds to the back side of the doll body 1.

Furthermore, in this specification, individual components of the doll body 1 are expressed as "parts", but the concept of parts includes not only the smallest units that can be disassembled by the user, but also those made by combining two or more of them. Also refers to Therefore, the expression "part" in the following explanation may be replaced with "component, piece," "member," "structure," "assembly," etc. It may be omitted or may be omitted. For example, the head part 2 may be expressed as a head part, a head member, a head structure, a head assembly, etc., or may be expressed simply as a head. The same applies to other parts described below.

The head part 2 includes an upper jaw part 201 and a lower jaw part 202. Although details will be described later, the upper jaw part 201 and the lower jaw part 202 are held in the head part 2 main body. The lower jaw part 202 is rotatably held relative to the main body of the head part 2, and the upper jaw part 201 and the lower jaw part 202 form a closed mouth state when they are close to each other (see FIG. 1A). ), and when they are separated from each other, they form an open mouth (see FIG. 1B).

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the head part 2. The head part 2 further includes parts 203 to 211 in addition to the upper jaw part 201 and the lower jaw part 202. The head part 2 is configured such that these parts 201 to 211 are directly/indirectly connected to each other, and two of them that are adjacent to each other are fixed or rotatable (or swingable). They can be configured by being interconnected. For ease of understanding, the connections between these parts are indicated by broken lines in the diagram.

Note that the concept of connection between parts may include various connection modes, such as attaching one part to another part, coupling, fixing, etc. For ease of understanding, expressions based on the embodiments are used in this specification, but the present invention is not strictly limited to these expressions (the expressions can be replaced with similar expressions). ). The same applies to other expressions.

The part 203 forms the left side of the head part 2 (may also be referred to as the left side head part). The part 204 forms the right side of the head part 2 (may also be referred to as the right side head part). These parts 203 and 204 are interconnected. As will be described in detail later, the upper jaw part 201 is held at the lower part of these parts 203 and 204.

Part 205 forms the upper front part of head part 2 (may also be referred to as a forehead part). Part 206 is attached to the front end of forehead part 205 and forms a nose (may also be referred to as a nose part). These parts 205 to 206 are held or clamped by the left head part 203 and right head part 204, which are connected to each other.

The part 207 is attached to the upper left side of the forehead part 205 and forms one ear (may also be referred to as a left ear part). The part 208 is attached to the upper right side of the forehead part 205 and forms the other ear (may also be referred to as the right ear part).

The parts 209 and 210 support the rear part of the lower jaw part 202 so that the lower jaw part 202 can rotate by being connected to each other (both may be referred to as support parts). These parts 209 and 210 are attached to the forehead part 205 and held or sandwiched by the left head part 203 and right head part 204 which are connected to each other.

Furthermore, the part 211 forms a tongue and is fixed to the lower jaw part 202 (may also be referred to as a tongue part).

In this embodiment, parts 203 to 210 form a head part 2 main body, and an upper jaw part 201 and a lower jaw part 202 forming a mouth are held to this head part 2 main body. That will happen.

Note that when assembling head part 2, parts 209 and 210 are held between parts 203 and 204, but if this is done before parts 209 and 210 are attached to forehead part 205, good. That is, parts 201 to 204 and parts 209 to 211 may be attached to forehead part 205 as one unit.

In this embodiment, resin such as polystyrene is used for the parts 201 to 211, but other materials having desired strength, such as wood and metal, may be used.

FIG. 3A is a schematic cross-sectional view of the head part 2 in a closed state. FIG. 3B is a schematic cross-sectional view of the head part 2 in an open state. In order to facilitate understanding of the structure, the outlines of the head part 2 body, upper jaw part 201, lower jaw part 202, and lower part 211 are indicated by broken lines in the figure, and the outlines of the shaft parts P1 and P2, which will be described later, and Holding portions H1 and H2 are indicated by solid lines.

As shown in FIGS. 2, 3A, and 3B, the front part of the upper jaw part 201 is provided with a first shaft part P1 and a second shaft part P2 located behind it. The shaft portions P1 and P2 are provided in pairs on the left and right, respectively, so as to extend in the left-right direction.

As shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the parts 203 (and 204) are provided with a first holding portion H1. In this embodiment, the holding portion H1 is a circular opening that holds the shaft portion P1 by fitting, and the holding portion H1 is a circular opening that holds the shaft portion P1 by fitting, and the holding portion H1 is a circular opening that holds the shaft portion P1 by fitting, and the holding portion H1 is a circular opening that holds the shaft portion P1 by fitting. 201 is held.

Further, as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the parts 203 (and 204) are provided with a second holding portion H2. The holding portion H2 is an opening in the shape of a long hole that slidably holds the shaft portion P2. Thereby, the holding part H2 can regulate the rotation range (or movable range) of the upper jaw part part 201 by the holding part H1.

As can be seen from FIGS. 3A and 3B, in this embodiment, the shaft portion P2 is located behind the shaft portion P1 (the holding portion H2 is located behind the holding portion H1), and thereby the upper jaw part To appropriately realize the rotation of 201 and to appropriately regulate the rotation area.

A locking part E1 that can be locked to the rear part of the upper jaw part 201 is provided at the rear part of the tongue part part 211. As described above, in this embodiment, the tongue part 211 is fixed to the lower jaw part 202. Therefore, as can be seen from FIGS. 3A and 3B, when the lower jaw part 202 is rotated so that the mouth changes from the closed state to the open state, the locking part E1 is locked to the rear part of the upper jaw part 201. do. As a result, the rear portion of the upper jaw part 201 moves downward as the lower jaw part 202 rotates. On the other hand, when the lower jaw part 202 whose mouth changes from the open state to the closed state is rotated, the upper jaw part 201 is pressed from below by the tongue part 211, and the upper jaw part 201 is pushed from behind by the tongue part 211. part moves upward.

With the above structure, the upper jaw part 201 partially moves up and down as the lower jaw part 202 rotates. In this embodiment, the vertical movement of the upper jaw part 201 is realized by the tongue part 211, but since the tongue part 211 is fixed to the lower jaw part 202, the lower jaw part 202 and the tongue The part part 211 may be integrally molded as another embodiment. Alternatively, the tongue part 211 may be omitted, and the lower jaw part 202 may also serve as the function of the tongue part 211.

Further, the above structure in which the upper jaw part part 201 partially moves up and down as the lower jaw part part 202 rotates is not limited to this embodiment, and other structures may be adopted. For example, in this embodiment, the holding part H2 is made into an elongated hole-shaped opening, but the holding part H2 is made into a circular opening (similar to the holding part H1), and the upper jaw part 201 is made of a flexible material ( For example, it may be made of rubber. Even in such a structure, the upper jaw part 201 partially moves up and down as the lower jaw part 202 rotates.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the upper jaw part 201 is held by the head part 2 main body so that the rear part of the upper jaw part 201 descends when the mouth is changed from the closed state to the open state. According to such a structure, when the mouth part is changed from the closed state to the open state, the uncomfortable feeling that the jaw is dislocated is eliminated, and natural deformation of the doll body 1 can be appropriately realized.

The invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications and changes can be made within the scope of the invention.

1: Doll body, 2: Head parts, 201: Upper jaw parts, 202: Lower jaw parts.

One aspect of the present invention relates to a structure that constitutes at least a part of the head of a doll body, the structure including an upper jaw part and a lower jaw part forming a mouth part, and the lower jaw part being the upper jaw part. The upper jaw is held by the head main body so that the mouth changes from the closed state to the open state by separating from the upper jaw, is held on the head body so that the rear part of the head is lowered. One aspect of the present invention further provides a structure constituting at least a part of the head of a doll body, the structure comprising an upper jaw part and a lower jaw part forming a mouth, at least the front part of the doll body. and a head part constituting a temporal region, wherein the upper jaw part is held below the head part, and the lower jaw part is separated from the upper jaw part so that the mouth part The lower jaw part is held by the head part so as to change from the closed state to the open state, the lower jaw part includes a locking part, and the upper jaw part is held when the mouth part changes from the closed state to the open state. , a rear part of the upper jaw part is held by the head part so as to be pushed down by the locking part.

Claims (6)

A structure forming at least a part of the head of a doll,
It has an upper jaw and a lower jaw that form the mouth,
The lower jaw part is held on the head body so that the mouth part changes from a closed state to an open state by separating from the upper jaw part,
The upper jaw part is held by the head main body so that the rear part of the upper jaw part descends when the mouth part is changed from the closed state to the open state. The structure according to claim 1, further comprising a first holding part that holds the front part of the upper jaw part so that the upper jaw part can rotate relative to the head main body. The structure according to claim 2, further comprising a second holding part that holds the front part of the upper jaw part so as to restrict a rotation area of the upper jaw part by the first holding part. The structure according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising a locking portion that locks onto the rear portion of the upper jaw when the mouth is changed from the closed state to the open state. further comprising a tongue fixed to the lower jaw,
The structure according to claim 4, wherein the locking portion is provided at a rear portion of the tongue portion. The structure according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the doll body is a toy model imitating a quadrupedal animal.

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