Hovercraft toy

Abstract

Disclosed is a hovercraft toy including: a body, which includes, a fan for sending air in order to allow the body to hover and propel; a motor for rotationally driving the fan; an accumulator battery for supplying electric power to the motor; a base for supporting the fan, the motor and the battery at a top thereof; and a skirt arranged on a peripheral part of a bottom part of the base and formed in a shape of bag to be expandable and contractable, wherein the base includes an input terminal on an under surface thereof, the terminal being connectable to an external power source for charging the battery, and the skirt is formed to have an opening on an under surface thereof so as to allow the input terminal to be exposed downwardly.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a hovercraft toy.[0003]2. Related Art[0004]Heretofore, a vehicle that hovers and propels by using lifting power of an air-cushion sealed between a bottom surface of a body and a solid surface or a liquid surface is referred to as a hovercraft toy or an air-cushion vehicle. A hovercraft toy such as disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open publication No. 2005-73986 is known as a running toy representing the vehicle.[0005]Meanwhile, a stable hovering is needed to achieve smooth running of the hovercraft toy, and a weight saving of the body is needed to achieve the stable hovering. Therefore, lightweight materials such as resin or the like is adopted as a construction material of the body. Moreover, an accumulator battery, not a primary battery such as dry batteries, is adopted as a power source to be mounted on the body, for the reason that the accumulator battery i...

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Benefits of technology

[0007]The present invention was made to solve such a problem. It is, therefore, a main object of the present invention to provide a hovercraft toy capable of saving weight of the body and preventing the body from being distorted or damaged when charging the battery.

[0015]According to an aspect of the present invention, a hovercraft toy including: a body, which includes, a fan for sending air in order to allow the body to hover and propel; a motor for rotationally driving the fan; an accumulator battery for supplying electric power to the motor; a base for supporting the fan, the motor and the battery at a top thereof; and a skirt arranged on a peripheral part of a bottom part of the base and formed in a shape of bag to be expandable and contractable, wherein the base includes an input terminal on an under surface thereof, the terminal being connectable to an external power source for charging the battery, and the skirt is formed to have an opening on an under surface thereof so as to allow the input terminal to be exposed downwardly. Therefore, the body can be formed light in weight. Moreover, the base includes an input terminal on an under surface thereof, the terminal being connectable to an external power source for charging the battery, and the skirt is formed to have an opening on an under surface side thereof so as to allow the input terminal to be exposed downwardly. Therefore, an adjacent portion of the input terminal need not be grasped hardly when charging the battery, and a distortion or damage of a grasp portion can be prevented.

[0016]Moreover, the external power source is a battery charger provided separately from the body, including an output terminal for charging the battery by being touched to the input terminal, and provided on a surface on which a bottom face of the body is to be placed. Therefore, the accumulator battery can be charged by the body being placed on a surface, on which a bottom face of the body is to be placed, to allow the input terminal connected with the output terminal. Consequently, an adjacent portion of the input terminal need not be grasped hardly when charging the battery, and a distortion or damage of a grasp portion can be prevented.

[0019]Moreover, the accumulator battery includes a lithium polymer battery or a gold capacitor. Therefore, the body can be formed lighter in weight.

[0020]Moreover, the fan is composed of an ABS resin; the base is composed of a plastic material; and the skirt is composed of a polyvinyl resin. Therefore, the body can be formed lighter in weight.

Problems solved by technology

However, in the hovercraft toy disclosed in the Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open publication No. 2005-73986, the weight saving of the body causes strength reduction of the body.

Consequently, if an adjacent portion of the charging terminal is grasped hardly so that the charging terminal being connected with the battery charger, when charging the accumulator battery mounted on the body, the portion may be distorted in shape or damaged.

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