JPH0321978Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a device that also serves as an interior decoration and displays the number of days remaining until a target date.

(Prior art) Conventionally, there was a device that displayed the number of days remaining until the target date, such as "0 days left until the science fair." By imitating this device, for example, a high school baseball team member could write "Koshien 〇〇 days left until Keio University Examination'', or a student writing in large letters ``〇〇 days left until Keio University Examination''.
Things were being done to tighten up their own emotions.

However, in the case of street displays, these may be displayed by electric lights, etc., and in the case of indoor displays, they may be written on blackboards, or at most,
Display the characters "until 〇〇" and the characters "day",
All that was done was to make a board with a window in the middle, and to display cards with the letters 0 to 9 written on them by replacing them in the window. If that's the case, there's no art to it, and it's not interesting, so for example,
What is desired is a quaint and witty display device for the number of days remaining that doubles as a decoration that can alleviate the brutality of a baseball club room or a student's room and comfort the idle.

Therefore, it is possible to display numbers on the surface of a cube and line them up to display the number of days remaining.
Since the cube is a hexahedron and each side has only six faces, a problem arises in that it is not possible to display the 10 digits of each digit of the number of days remaining.

(Purpose of the invention) The present invention eliminates the drawbacks of the conventional number of days remaining display device, and uses a cubic surface to double as an indoor decoration and also has some puzzle-like elements. It is an object of the present invention to provide a remaining days display device that displays the number of days and that solves the difficulty of displaying the number of days due to the use of a hexahedron as described above.

(Structure of the invention) The present invention uses cubes to display the number of days remaining, with the word "later" written on one side of each of the two cubes, and the word "day" written on each side of the other two cubes. This is a device that displays characters and arranges different numbers from 0 to 9 on the other side of each group, and displays the number of days remaining by placing these numbers side by side on a mounting table.

(Embodiments) The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a cube used in the present invention.The cube is cut into pieces of wood to create a tasteful design, and each side is marked with numbers and letters such as ``date'' or ``later.'' Display characters.

Figure 2 is a front view of the remaining days display device embodying the present invention, and Figure 3 is a left side sectional view taken along line A-A' in Figure 2. Cubes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are They are placed side by side on a mounting table 6, and the mounting table 6 is attached to a wall board 7. Further, side plates 8 and 8' are attached to both sides of the mounting table 6, but since the front surface of the mounting table 6 is open, the front surfaces of the cubes 1 to 5 placed on the mounting table 6 are viewed from the horizontal direction. Arrange them so you can see them.

FIG. 4 is an example of the arrangement of characters displayed on the surface of each of the cubes 1 to 5, in which the row 1' is on the cube of FIG. 1, the row 2' is on the cube of 2, etc. As shown in the figure, the characters to be displayed are arranged on the six sides of each cube.
Two cubes, ie, cubes 1 and 3, each display the character ``later'', and the other two cubes, ie, cubes 4 and 5, each display the character ``day''. The faces of the cubes in the two groups other than those displaying the word "ato" or "day" are from 1 to one of the two cubes in the group displaying the word "ato". The letters up to 5 are displayed on the other cube, and the letters 6 through 0 are displayed on the other 3 cube. "Day"
The two cubes in which are written are also displayed in the same way.

In this way, all the different numbers from 0 to 9 are entered in each group, ``later'' and ``day''.

The 2 cube that represents the hundreds digit number has "slightly"
, and the characters 1 to 3 are displayed.

Appropriate characters or designs are written on the wall-hanging board 7, and a blank space 9 is provided in the middle where a target date, etc. can be written as appropriate depending on the purpose, and each cube and the wall-hanging board 7 are There is a gap 1 between
0 is provided so that each cube can be conveniently picked up with one's fingers in order to exchange the positions of the cubes as described later.

The configuration of this embodiment has been described above, and it is used as follows. In other words, as shown in Figure 1, "351 more
If you want to display the word ``date'', of the two cubes 1 and 3 that have the word ``after'' written on them, bring the one without the word 5 to the far left, and then The characters are displayed in front, and the 3 side of the 2 cube is brought out in front, and the desired character is displayed in the front.

In this case, the cube displaying the word "later" and the cube displaying the word "day" each have 2
Since there are two cubes, the positions of these two cubes are exchanged depending on the desired display.

(Effect of the invention) As mentioned above, in this invention, since there are two cubes each displaying the character "later" and two cubes displaying the character "day", the remainder of the cubes in each of these two groups is There are 10 faces, and by this,
All integers from 0 to 9 can be displayed in the tens and ones digits, even though the cube only has six faces. For this reason, as in the embodiment shown in the drawings, two cubes,
By adding the characters ``only'' and characters 1 to 3, it is possible to display anything from ``399 days left'' to ``only 01 days left''.

What's more, each letter is displayed on the surface of a cube, and the user turns the cube's faces and swaps their positions every day, so it has a puzzle-like element and is a great way to change your mind from the dreary state of studying for entrance exams. It also has the effect of comforting the mindless people who are studying for exams.

Furthermore, since each character is displayed on the surface of the cube, it can also be used as a tasteful interior decoration, unlike simply replacing cards.

(Other Embodiments) The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments. Depending on the font, the Arabic numerals 6 and 9 can be displayed by reversing the same character, so "day" can be written. Display only one side of one of the cubes in a certain group, write "only" on the remaining face,
For example, it may be configured to display "only 5 days left".
Furthermore, the arrangement of characters is not limited to that illustrated in Figure 4; for example, 1, 2, etc. may be displayed alternately on each of the two cubes displaying the character ``Sun'', or two cubes in each group may be displayed alternately. On one side of the cube is the prime number 1,
Place 2, 3, 5, 7 or the above “day”
In the embodiment shown in the drawings, four or more characters to be placed on the cube displaying ``100'' may be moved to the remainder side of the 2 cube to be displayed, making it even more complicated. It may also be configured to make the image more visible. Of course, the mounting table does not have to be configured as a wall hanging, but can be configured into various shapes such as ornaments and arranged so as to be viewed from above, or can be arranged vertically using Chinese numerals, and the cubes can also be made of wood. Needless to say, the structure can be constructed of plastic or the like.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a cube used in the present invention, Figure 2 is a front view of a remaining days display device implementing the present invention, and Figure 3 is a left side cross section taken along line A-A' in Figure 2. Figure 4 is an example of the arrangement of characters displayed on the surface of each cube. In the figure, 1 to 5...cube, 6... mounting table.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Out of 4 or more cubes, 2 or more cubes should have ``later'' or a letter with a similar meaning written on one side of each, and the other 2 or more cubes should have ``later'' written on 1 side of each. On the remaining sides of each cube, different numbers from 0 to 9 are written for each group written with ``later'' and ``day'' written on the first side. Write them down so that they all fit (however, one of 6 and 9 can be omitted), change the position where each cube is lined up and the numbers and letters that appear on the side that is visible in front, and place them on the mounting table. So, “XX days left.”
A remaining days display device configured to display the number of days remaining.