WO2023191657A1 - Casse-tête avec système magnétique (variantes) - Google Patents

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WO2023191657A1
WO2023191657A1 PCT/RU2023/000004 RU2023000004W WO2023191657A1 WO 2023191657 A1 WO2023191657 A1 WO 2023191657A1 RU 2023000004 W RU2023000004 W RU 2023000004W WO 2023191657 A1 WO2023191657 A1 WO 2023191657A1
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Иван Владимирович ВИНОГРАДОВ
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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
    • A63F9/34—Games using magnetically moved or magnetically held pieces, not provided for in other subgroups of group A63F9/00

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  • the claimed technical solution to a puzzle with a magnetic system relates to gaming devices, is intended for mental self-entertainment of a person and can be used for the production of intellectual games.
  • a puzzle with a magnetic system can be used in practice to achieve the ability to perform combinatorial operations in order to develop a person’s logical and spatial thinking, as well as to develop fine motor skills of the hands.
  • an analogue with the claimed technical solution consisting of at least one type of identical elements, a magnetic system with the function of a magnetic constructor.
  • This analogue and the claimed puzzle both consist of at least one type of elements containing magnets near their surfaces. In both cases, these magnets statically (not during human interaction with the puzzle) hold the elements mutually motionless, preventing the puzzles from falling apart
  • the proposed puzzle involves maintaining the relative positions of the elements during the game, in contrast to the patented version of the analogue, which involves assembling new figures by moving groups of elements.
  • the advantage of using the inventive puzzle is that the inventive puzzle allows the player to simultaneously rotate four elements touching each other around parallel but not coinciding axes. Moreover, the rotation of these elements is not independent, and the rotation of one element uniquely determines the rotations of the other three. This increases the consumer’s interest in the process of turning when playing compared to what is in the patented puzzle according to RF patent for invention No. 2699846, where there is no interconnected magnetic system that ensures the dependence of simultaneous rotations of elements around different axes.
  • a known puzzle with rotating spheres (PROTOTYPE) according to US patent No. US6386540Bl, issued under application No. US0215248W, published 07.11.2002, consisting of many overlapping spherical figures, each of which can rotate around three mutually orthogonal axes with the center as a turning point, and each of which contains a base and a plurality of parts that are symmetrically distributed around the periphery of the base, the parts being shared with adjacent figures and can be moved to corresponding positions on other spherical figures, including overlapping areas, by sequentially rotating the figures in predetermined angular increments, at In this case, the spherical figures form a three-dimensional matrix of spherical figures and are held by a casing, which has many holes that allow the spherical figures to be rotated using a special key.
  • the casing or housing surrounding and enclosing said array of spherical figures has walls that substantially restrict any movement of said spherical figures, said walls allowing each of said spherical figures to be rotated about orthogonal axes A, B and C, and the housing also includes means for guiding the spherical figures for rotation.
  • the proposed solution also contains rotating spherical figures, but their rotations during the game turn out to be connected through magnetic fields.
  • each sphere can rotate only in three directions, orthogonal to each other and parallel to the edges of the resulting cubic structure.
  • the disadvantages of the prototype are that to construct the prototype puzzle, an additional external casing is required, and it is also possible to use separate rotation of the spheres, while there is an insufficient overview of the state of the internal common elements of the spheres, to which the player does not have access, and as a result, the possibility of jamming of the elements inside the casing, and the misalignment of puzzle pieces when using it.
  • the proposed solution involves four spheres in each rotation and does not allow independent rotation of any individual sphere, and this, in practice, when used, encourages the player to perceive the proposed puzzle as a whole, and not as a set of individual spheres, allowing a solution in the form of a sequence independent rotations;
  • each ball has a finite number of stable positions relative to the other balls, namely, if during use the player slightly misturns some four balls, then under the influence of magnetic fields they themselves will turn to the end, which will allow the player to collect puzzle without spending extra time eliminating small mismatches of parts;
  • the claimed technical solution has been developed and can be implemented in two versions for the same purpose, ensuring the same technical result; the options differ both in terms of the location of the magnetic system inside the puzzle, and in terms of the more convenient location of the magnetic system in production the second option, with magnets inserted into the truncations of each ball, which are visible from the outside.
  • the claimed technical solution makes it possible to impart versatility to the task of industrial manufacturing of a puzzle, and its use allows the puzzle to operate in an optimal manner.
  • the purpose of developing the proposed technical solution for a puzzle with a magnetic system is to expand the functionality of the application, in particular, ease of use by humans and improve gaming characteristics.
  • the technical problem to be solved by the claimed invention is the expansion of the arsenal of technical means in the production of the puzzle, as well as overcoming the insufficiently high ergonomic characteristics noted in the prior art, consisting of insufficient visibility of the state of the spheres inside the puzzle, the possibility of jamming of elements and misalignment of puzzle parts, insufficiently smooth progress of moving elements.
  • the claimed invention is designed to solve the above problems and improve the efficiency of the device, increase convenience and expand the range of applications.
  • the technical objective of the present invention is to create a puzzle with a magnetic system of optimal parameters and a design that would expand the scope of use of the device and be more convenient to manufacture and operate.
  • the technical result of the claimed invention is, first of all, the implementation of a set of technical design elements that make it possible to expand the arsenal of technical means and increase the technological connectivity of the puzzle elements with each other, which increases the efficiency of the device and ensures ease of use.
  • the general technical result is the achievement of technological connectivity between the puzzle elements and the smoothness of their interaction; this applies to both options.
  • An additional technical result is the simplification of production efforts in the manufacture of a puzzle in the second version with “inserted” magnets, when each magnet is inserted into its assigned place of each ball, not inside the ball, but into the recess of the segmental truncation on the ball.
  • option 1 describes a structure of complete balls with base and meridional magnets and with additional magnets added to the base and meridional magnets, all magnets are located under the surface of all balls.
  • option 2 describes the same magnet structure as the first option (base and meridional magnets plus additional magnets), but for truncated balls, when all magnets are inserted into the corresponding holes in the center of the truncated circle in the truncated balls and are visible from the outside - which does not affect consumer quality of the gaming device. From the end user's point of view, both options will work equally well with possible small variations in smoothness, which is affected by the presence of additional magnets and truncations.
  • the essence of the invention is expressed in a set of essential features sufficient to realize its purpose.
  • a puzzle with a magnetic system consists of eight spherical elements of the same diameter, containing magnets near their surfaces to hold the magnetic system, preventing the puzzle from falling apart, and the spherical elements form with their centers cubic structure in the form of a 2x2x2 matrix and each sphere can rotate only in three directions, orthogonal to each other, while each spherical element is a ball made of solid homogeneous non-magnetic material, and containing a magnetic system, which is located under the surface of each ball permanent magnets rigidly fixed inside the balls by the material of each ball, without the possibility of any independent movement of the magnet relative to the ball containing it, and all the magnets of each ball are located at such a distance near its surface that the force of magnetic attraction is sufficient to hold the balls in the structure of the puzzle, and each the magnet of the magnetic system has such a magnetization that the attractive force of the magnetic poles of different polarities of two magnets of different balls is sufficient to hold
  • the puzzle with a magnetic system consists of eight spherical elements of the same diameter, containing magnets near their surfaces to hold the magnetic system, preventing the puzzle from falling apart, and the spherical shaped elements form with their centers a cubic structure in the form of a 2x2x2 matrix and each sphere can only rotate in three directions, orthogonal to each other, while each spherical shaped element is a truncated ball made of solid homogeneous non-magnetic material, and containing a magnetic system, which consists of permanent magnets located inside each truncated ball, rigidly held inside the balls by the material of each ball, without the possibility of any independent movement of the magnet relative to the ball containing it, and all the magnets of each truncated ball are located at such a distance near its surface that the force of magnetic attraction is sufficient to hold the truncated balls in the structure of the puzzle, and each magnet of the magnetic system has such magnetization that the force of attraction of the magnetic poles of different
  • those four balls whose base magnets are directed inside the balls with their south poles are called southern-type balls, and the remaining four balls, the base magnets of which are directed inside the ball with their north poles, are called northern-type balls.
  • Fig. 1 appearance of the puzzle with game marks applied
  • Figure 2 is a general view of the relative position of the balls and magnets inside them;
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of the orientation of the magnet in the ball
  • Fig.4 separate balls of the northern and southern types
  • Figure 5 sections of balls of the northern type (left) and southern type (right) along the equators, under which the magnets are located;
  • Figure 6 is a general view of the arrangement of the balls and additional magnets inside them;
  • Fig. 8 is a schematic representation of the location of a magnet in a truncated ball
  • Fig.9 is a sketch of the appearance of the assembled puzzle
  • Fig. 10 is a sketch of the appearance of the puzzle in a disassembled state
  • the claimed puzzle consists of eight balls of the southern 4 and northern 5 types of the same radius, made of non-magnetic material 6, containing permanent base 2 and meridional 3 magnets.
  • the base 2 and meridional 3 magnets are rigidly held inside the balls of the southern 4 and northern 5 types by non-magnetic material 6, without the possibility of any independent movement of the magnet relative to the ball containing it.
  • each magnet is oriented so that both of its poles lie on the same radius of this ball.
  • the magnets can be cylinders with axial magnetization, then these cylinders will be located so that the extensions of their symmetry axes will pass through the centers of the corresponding balls, as shown in Fig. 3.
  • All magnets are located at such a distance from the surface of the balls containing them that any two magnets belonging to different balls, one of which is oriented towards the center of its ball with the south pole, and the other with the north pole, are capable of holding these balls next to each other. Moreover, all the magnets of each ball are located under the three equators 1 of this ball, belonging to three pairwise perpendicular equatorial planes, so that the outer ends of the radii that pass through the poles of the magnets lie on these equators. The total number of magnets placed under each of these three equators 1 is the same for all equators 1 of all balls of the southern 4 and northern 5 types and is a multiple of eight.
  • the magnets are located along the equators 1 evenly and so that one base magnet 2 is located exactly under the points of their intersection, these magnets 2 are common to the two corresponding equators and lie at the ends of three mutually perpendicular diameters, there are only six such base magnets 2 inside each ball.
  • the remaining magnets are located along meridional arcs connecting the nearest base magnets; there are only 12 such arcs for each ball and they all contain the same number of meridional magnets.
  • the polarities of the base 2 and meridional 3 magnets along each equator 1 alternate, that is, a magnet directed to the center of the ball with its south pole is surrounded by magnets directed to the center of the ball with its north poles and vice versa.
  • all six base magnets 2 have the same polarity, in other words, either all six base magnets of the ball are directed to its center with the south poles, in this case the ball is called a ball of the southern type 4 , or all six base magnets of the ball are directed to its center with the north poles, in which case the ball is called a northern type 5 ball.
  • each ball is of the southern type 4 and four are of the northern type 5.
  • the eight balls are placed in space so that their centers lie at the vertices of the cube, and the balls themselves touch each other, with each ball of the southern type 4 touching three balls of the northern type 5 and vice versa.
  • a three-dimensional matrix of size 2x2x2 is obtained from balls of the northern 5 and southern 4 types.
  • Each ball in this matrix is oriented so that all three points with which it touches other balls are the ends of three mutually perpendicular diameters on which the poles of base magnets 2 lie. Consequently, each ball is oriented towards each neighboring ball one of its base magnets 2.
  • the base magnets 2 of any two touching balls are attracted, maintaining the relative position of the balls.
  • Each ball is marked with markings that allow its orientation in the matrix of balls to be clearly determined by its appearance.
  • markings One simple variant of such marking is the color marking of each ball, shown in the sketches of Figs. 9-10, using six different colors, the marks with which are applied where the base magnets are located under the surface.
  • the principle of operation of a puzzle as a gaming device is as follows.
  • the player picks up the matrix of eight balls described above and, by successive joint rotations of the balls, confuses their orientations, and then tries to restore the original orientations of all eight balls relative to each other, based on the markings applied to the balls - similar to how a Rubik's cube is played.
  • the peculiarity of the game is that due to the location of the base 2 and meridional 3 magnets, without performing mechanical work against magnetic forces, the player can only simultaneously rotate four balls located on one side of the matrix of balls. Moreover, each of the four balls rotates around its axis, which coincides with its diameter, which is perpendicular to the plane in which the centers of the rotated balls lie.
  • the magnetic connection between each ball participating in the joint rotation and the stationary ball adjacent to it, formed by their base magnets, ensures the immobility of the rotation axis of this ball relative to the entire matrix of balls, at the same time, the meridional magnets of the balls participating in the joint rotation, located along the equators perpendicular to the axes of this joint rotation, act as gear teeth connecting the rotations of these balls with each other.
  • additional magnets 7 are oriented in the same way as the other magnets, that is, both magnetic poles of each additional magnet lie on the same radius containing a given magnet of the ball, while in balls of the southern type, additional magnets 7 are directed with their south poles to their centers, and in balls of the northern type - northern, these magnets are also located at such a distance from the surface of the ball that the force of mutual attraction of the poles of different polarities of magnets of different balls is sufficient to hold these balls, while their magnetization does not exceed the magnetization of the base and meridional magnets.
  • each ball four additional magnets are located evenly around six base magnets 2 at the same distance from them, not exceeding the distance from the base magnet 2 to the nearest meridional magnet 3, while each of the additional magnets 7 is equidistant from the two meridional magnets closest to it 3.
  • 7 additional magnets play the following role in the puzzle. Due to the location and orientation, the nearby additional magnets of the 7 neighboring balls are attracted to each other and tend to rotate the balls so that they are opposite each other, but this position of all eight balls is achieved only when they are held together by magnetic connections between the base 2, and not the meridional 3 magnets, that is, when no four balls are in a state of incomplete joint rotation, in which the angles by which the balls participating in this rotation are rotated are not a multiple of 90 degrees.
  • additional magnets 7 contribute to the completion of each joint rotation at a multiple of 90 degrees, improving ease of use by increasing the smoothness of the rotation of the balls during the player’s interaction with the puzzle.
  • the stability of the puzzle can be improved by replacing eight identical balls (according to option 1) with eight identical truncated balls (according to option 2).
  • all truncations of all balls are circles of the same size, located above the magnets, in such a way that the center of each truncation lies on the radius of the truncated ball that passes through both poles of the corresponding magnet. Due to the presence of these truncations, the balls do not touch each other, but are adjacent to each other by circles of truncations, which increases the stability of the puzzle, but reduces the smoothness of its movement when the four balls rotate together, and the variation in smoothness does not affect the efficiency of the design in any embodiment.
  • the balls are 3 cm in diameter and made of PLA plastic.
  • Cylindrical magnets with axial magnetization of two types are used: base magnets 2 are magnetic cylinders with a diameter of 3 mm and a height of 8 mm with an adhesion force of 450 g, meridional 3 and additional magnets 7 are magnetic cylinders with a diameter of 3 mm and a height of 2 mm with an adhesion force of 220 d.
  • base magnets 2 are magnetic cylinders with a diameter of 3 mm and a height of 8 mm with an adhesion force of 450 g
  • meridional 3 are magnetic cylinders with a diameter of 3 mm and a height of 2 mm with an adhesion force of 220 d.
  • inside each ball all magnetic cylinders are oriented so that their axes of symmetry lie on the radii of this ball.
  • the truncated planes of the balls coincide with the planes in which the outward-facing balls at the base of the magnetic cylinders, thus exposing each magnet at one end.
  • Each magnetic cylinder is so far from the center of the ball containing it that the truncated ball passing along the outer base of this magnetic cylinder has a diameter of 3.2 mm.
  • Each meridional arc contains three meridional magnets 3, so each equator, under which the magnets are located, contains twelve meridional magnets 3 and four base magnets 2, and since the magnets are placed along the equator evenly at the same distance from each other, the angle between the axes of the base 2 and the nearest meridional 3 magnet is 22.5 degrees.
  • the additional magnets 7 are located so that the angles between the axes of each additional magnet 7 and the base magnet 2 closest to it are equal to 12 degrees.
  • option 2 of the claimed puzzle consisting of truncated balls without additional magnets
  • option 1 of the claimed puzzle consisting of complete non-truncated balls with additional magnets, can be carried out similarly to the implementation described above for balls with truncations and additional magnets 7, but without truncating each ball.
  • the location of all the magnets is the same as in the implementation of the puzzle version for balls with truncations and additional magnets 7; the magnets will be hidden by the material of the balls.
  • option 1 of the claimed puzzle consisting of non-truncated balls without additional magnets
  • option a puzzle consisting of balls without truncations, but with additional magnets 7, the only difference being that the balls in this implementation will not have truncations, but the location of the magnets will remain unchanged.

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L'invention, qui concerne un casse-tête avec un système magnétique, se rapporte aux dispositifs de jeu destinés au divertissement intellectuel individuel d'une personne. Ce casse-tête comprend des aimants de base; autour de chaque aimant de base et à égale distance entre ceux qui sont les plus proches des aimants méridionaux de base se trouvent jusqu'à quatre aimants supplémentaires; l'orientation des aimants supplémentaires est telle que les pôles magnétiques nord et sud de chaque aimant supplémentaire se situent sur un rayon comprenant l'aimant de la sphère tronquée, et la polarité de chaque aimant supplémentaire coïncide avec la polarité de l'aimant de base le plus proche de celui-ci. Ce casse-tête avec système magnétique comprend, dans chaque sphère creuse ou dans chaque sphère tronquée, entre chacun des aimants de base voisins, jusqu'à trois aimants méridionaux.
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