US20150298020A1

US20150298020A1 - Magnetic block toy

Info

Publication number: US20150298020A1
Application number: US14/689,777
Authority: US
Inventors: Dong Il Shin
Original assignee: Click-Block Corp
Current assignee: Click-Block Corp
Priority date: 2014-04-17
Filing date: 2015-04-17
Publication date: 2015-10-22
Also published as: KR101471335B1

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a magnetic toy block having various shapes that allow preschool toddlers and children to play and build different shapes of structures similar to Legos, and improve their creativity, space perception and understanding of different geometric shapes. The magnetic block toy includes a plurality of cylindrical protective members (100), wherein each of the plurality of cylindrical protective members (100) include a first insertion hole defined in an upper portion and a second insertion hole defined in a lower portion(111,112), wherein each of the first and second insertion holes (111,112) are configured to receive and hold a magnet (10). Reinforcing members (110) arranged between each of the plurality of cylindrical protective members (100), wherein the reinforcing members (110) are configured to connect , support and reinforce the plurality of the cylindrical protective members (100) at front, back and two sides; and wherein the plurality of cylindrical protective members (100) including a magnet installed in each of the first and second insertion holes (111,112) are arranged in two parallel rows; wherein a magnetic block is formed by placing the plurality of the cylindrical protective members (100) connected with the reinforcing members (110) in a frame and filling the frame with a resin, such that a surface of each of the magnets (10) installed in the insertion holes (111,112) is exposed.

Description

BACKGROUND

Disclosed herein is a magnetic toy block having various shapes that allow preschool toddlers and children to play and build different shapes of structures similar to Legos, and improve their creativity, space perception and understanding of different geometric shapes.
Building block toys are manufactured and sold as play equipment capable of developing the intelligence and creativity of preschool toddlers or younger elementary school children.
Such building block toys are mostly in rectangular shape having protrusions at the top and grooves at the bottom, and the protrusions in one block are inserted into the grooves on the other to connect the blocks and form a structure.
These conventional toy blocks, however, are only capable of being connected vertically and horizontally, and allow children to create limited and simple shapes causing them to lose interest quickly
Moreover, the shapes and the number of toy blocks needed to build a particular shape or design are limited, fixed, and predetermined that any creativity or imagination of a child is in fact unnecessary and unused. Further, it is impossible to build a complete structure if a single piece of block needed for a specific type or design is missing or lost.
In an effort to compensate these shortcomings, companies in recent years have been developing building block toys incorporating magnets and many of these magnetic toy blocks came in stick and ball shape. Generally, the stick shaped magnetic toy blocks had either the synthetic resin body making the outer cover and the disk type permanent magnet attached to both tips of the stick or the bar shaped permanent magnet attached to the stick covered with synthetic resin.
These stick shaped toy blocks were capable of being connected to the metal ball blocks allowing children to build more shapes and structures. Notably, two-dimensional sticks and one-dimensional ball made it possible to create various three-dimensional designs and shapes.
However, said stick and ball shaped magnetic toy blocks allowed only line or frame type of assembly.
Patent Literatures: Domestic Patent Public Bulletin No. 10-0957884 (May 6, 2010); Domestic Patent Public Bulletin No. 10-0132210 (Dec. 8, 1997); Domestic Utility Model Public Bulletin No. 20-0420630 (Jun. 28, 2006); Domestic Open Utility Model Public Bulletin No. 20-2012-0006345 (Sep. 12, 2012).

BRIEF SUMMARY

Disclosed herein is a magnetic toy block having various shapes that allow preschool toddlers and children to play and build different shapes of structures similar to Legos, and improve their creativity, space perception and understanding of different geometric shapes.
Such goal can be achieved by the invention discussed below.
First, having cylindrical protective members (100) with insertion holes (111,112) at the top and bottom where the magnets (10) may be inserted.
Several of these cylindrical protective members (100) with magnets (10) are then aligned into two rows and connected to each other by the reinforcing member (110) in every direction. The cylindrical protective members (100) connected to each other by the reinforcing member (110) are placed into a rectangular or square shaped frame and synthetic resins fill up the frame to create final shape of the main body of the block (1) having surface of each of the magnets (10) installed in the insertion holes (111,112) is exposed.
These magnetic toy blocks can be produced in rectangle, square, triangle, polygon or any other shape, and in different thicknesses ranging from 5 to 20 mm, and the magnets (10) are inserted into the cylindrical protective members (100) in particular to have the N poles and S poles alternating.
The magnetic toy blocks created in such way can further improve creativity, space perception ability, and understanding of various geometric shapes for preschool toddlers and younger elementary school children by playing with magnetic toy blocks in a same or similar way they play with other toy blocks such as Legos without limitations and shortcomings of conventional toy blocks and other magnetic toy blocks above mentioned.
Yet in another embodiment, the odor barrier layer may be formed from a blend comprising about 85 wt. % of amorphous polyamide and about 15 wt. % of a vinyl-bond rich SEPS block copolymer functionalized with a maleic anhydride, in which the vinyl-bond rich SEPS block copolymer has a glass transition temperature of about −15° C., a temperature at tangent delta peak of about −5° C., and a tangent delta of about 0.45 at room temperature.
Other aspects, objectives and advantages will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying FIGs.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGS

The benefits and advantages of the present embodiments will become more readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art after reviewing the following detailed description and accompanying FIGs, wherein:

FIG. 1 is the perspective view of the magnetic block toy based on the invention;

FIG. 2 is the FIG to show the inside of the magnetic block toy base on the invention;

FIG. 3 is the cross-sectional view of the magnetic block toy based on the invention; and

FIG. 4 is the FIG showing the uses of the magnetic block toy based on the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

While the present disclosure is susceptible of embodiment in various forms, there is shown in the FIGs and will hereinafter be described presently preferred embodiments with the understanding that the present disclosure is to be considered an exemplification and is not intended to limit the disclosure to the specific embodiments illustrated.
First, each part is designated with a specific code (as explained below) and the same code is used for a particular part throughout.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the magnetic toy building blocks employing the present embodiment consist of cylindrical protective members (100), the reinforcing member (110), and the magnets (10) inserted into the cylindrical protective members (100).
The cylindrical protective member (100) has a cylinder shaped body and insertion holes (111,112) on the top and bottom. There is partition (113) between the two insertion holes (111,112).
The magnets (10) are installed into the insertion holes (111,112) on the cylindrical protective member (100).
The magnets (10) are inserted into the insertion holes (111,112) on a cylindrical protective member (100) in a way that the pole N is assigned to one magnet insertion hole (111) and the pole S is assigned to the other magnet insertion hole (112).
Several units of these cylindrical protective members (100), together with the reinforcing member (110) in every direction, are produced by injection molding.
More specifically, several units of the cylindrical protective members (100) with magnets (10) are created through injection molding and these cylindrical protective members (100) are aligned into two parallel rows and connected to each other by the reinforcing member (110) in every direction.
The cylindrical protective members (100) connected by the reinforcing member (110) are then placed in the rectangular or square shaped frame, and non-toxic synthetic resin solution is injected into the frame to create the main body of the block (1) and have each of the magnets (10) installed in the insertion holes (111,112) are exposed as shown in FIG. 1.
Several units of the main body of the block (1) are produced by the same method stated above.
The main body of the block (1) is produced in rectangle, square, triangle, or polygon shape using different shapes of frames, and in different thicknesses within 5 to 20 mm range.
Moreover, as shown in FIG. 3, the magnets (10) are inserted into the cylindrical protective members (100) in a particular way to have N pole and the S pole alternating so that a main body of one block (1) can be assembled and attached to the other main body of the block (1) by virtue of magnetic principle; same poles pushing and the opposite poles pulling each other.
As such, children can enjoy and play with the magnetic building block toys as exemplified in FIG. 4.
An alteration or simple change in magnetic building block toys may be done by any person with an ordinary knowledge in the area and such alteration and/or change shall be considered to be an invention.

REFERENCE NUMBERS

1—main body of the block; 10: magnet; 100—cylindrical protective member; 111,112—insertion hole; 113—partition; 110: reinforcing member.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A magnetic block toy comprising:

a plurality of cylindrical protective members, wherein each of the plurality of cylindrical protective members includes a first insertion hole defined in an upper portion and a second insertion hole defined in a lower portion, wherein each of the first and second insertion holes are configured to receive and hold a magnet;

a magnet installed in each of the first and second insertion holes;

reinforcing members arranged between each of the plurality of cylindrical protective members, wherein the reinforcing members are configured to connect, support and reinforce the plurality of the cylindrical protective members at front, back and two sides; and

wherein the plurality of cylindrical protective members including a magnet installed in each of the first and second insertion holes are arranged in two parallel rows;

wherein a magnetic block is formed by placing the plurality of the cylindrical protective members connected with the reinforcing members in a frame and filling the frame with a resin, such that a surface of each of the magnets installed in the insertion holes is exposed.

2. The magnetic block toy of claim 1, wherein the magnetic block is injection molded into a rectangular shape, a square shape, a triangular shape, or polygonal shape, wherein the magnetic block has a thickness of about 5 mm to about 20 mm.

3. The magnetic block toy of claim 1, wherein the magnets installed in the plurality of reinforcing members arranged in two parallel rows are installed such that the poles of the magnets are cross arranged as N pole S pole, N pole S pole.