Puzzle toy

Abstract

A puzzle toy including: a piece set containing a plurality of component pieces; and a main body for accommodating the piece set therein, wherein each of the plurality of component pieces has a rear surface on which a plurality of lattices is formed, and the main body includes: light-emitting devices, which are arranged to correspond to the respective lattices and emit light towards the lattices, and light-receiving devices for detecting light reflected from the lattices; a signal analyzer for determining colors of the lattices by signals detected by the light-receiving devices and generating output signals for the lattices; a feedback call unit for analyzing the output signals for the lattices, recognizing the lattice arrangement of the piece set, and determining the assembly success / failure of the piece set and a type of the piece set; and a feedback processing unit for outputting information regarding the assembled piece set.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a jigsaw puzzle toy, and more particularly, to a puzzle toy of which a structure is improved to notify a user of information on the puzzle toy by detecting the assembly success / failure of the puzzle toy and a type of the assembled puzzle upon the assembly success of the puzzle toy.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In general, when a user plays with a picture or character puzzle play tool, the user constructs a completed picture or character in which pictures or characters drawn on individual puzzle pieces fit corresponding locations by arranging a puzzle piece set including a plurality of puzzle pieces in a main body such as a board. Conventionally, there exist puzzle play tools having a function of notifying a user of puzzle completion when puzzle pieces are completely assembled. However, a material having electrical conductivity is installed in each puzzle piece as a means for detecting the assembly success of a puzzle toy, and when all puzz...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention is a puzzle toy that can be assembled from multiple sets of pieces. The toy provides information to the user by easily identifying the type of piece set and the success or failure of the assembly based on the arrangement of lattices on the rear surfaces of the component pieces. This reduces the cost for the user and the manufacturer of the toy. Additionally, the toy's structure for recognizing whether the component pieces are in place is simple, improving its durability.

Problems solved by technology

However, such a puzzle play tool has a problem in that one electrical transfer path is actually cut off when discontinuity occurs between puzzle pieces due to the electrical transfer path having electrical conductivity, which is included in a set of puzzle pieces as a core component for detecting an assembly success state, and thus has a problem in that the assembly success is not properly notified since electricity is not properly transferred from one end to the other end even when the puzzle play tool is successfully assembled.

In addition, when infants or children play with the puzzle play tool, the electrical transfer path installed in the puzzle pieces may be damaged or cause the users to receive an electric shock due to water, saliva, or the like.

Thus, since a new main body should be produced for each puzzle set, the manufacturing cost is high.

However, since the structure disclosed in Korean Patent No. 0854491 should provide an optical transfer path in puzzle pieces, the manufacturing cost of each puzzle set increases, thereby increasing the entire manufacturing cost of a puzzle toy.

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