Structure

Abstract

To provide a technique advantageous in forming a doll body that can achieve more natural deformation.SOLUTION: A structure forms at least part of the head of a doll body, and has an upper jaw and a lower jaw that form the mouth. The lower jaw is held by the head body so that the lower jaw is separated from the upper jaw to turn the mouth from a closed state to an opened state. The upper jaw is held by the head body so that, when the mouth is turned from the closed state to the opened state, the rear of the upper jaw goes down.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1B

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a structure of a doll body. [Background technology]

[0002] Patent Document 1 describes a joint structure provided at each part of a doll body, allowing the user to place such a doll body in a desired position. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] JP 2010-17264 A Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] Some doll bodies are required to be constructed so that they can transform in a more natural way.

[0005] An exemplary object of the present invention is to provide a technique that is advantageous for constructing a doll body that can achieve more natural transformation. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] One aspect of the present invention relates to a structure that constitutes at least a part of the head of a doll body, said structure having an upper jaw and a lower jaw that form a mouth, said lower jaw being held on said head body such that the mouth can be changed from a closed state to an open state by moving away from said upper jaw, and said upper jaw being held on said head body such that a rear portion of said upper jaw descends when the mouth is changed from the closed state to the open state. Effect of the Invention

[0007] According to the present invention, it is possible to construct a doll body that is capable of transforming in a more natural way. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0008] [Figure 1A] FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view of the head part of the doll body in a closed state. [Figure 1B] FIG. [Diagram 2] Exploded view of the head parts. [Figure 3A] FIG. 13 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the leg parts in a closed state. [Figure 3B] FIG. 13 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the leg parts in an open state. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0009] Hereinafter, the embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the claims, and not all combinations of features described in the embodiments are essential to the invention. Two or more features among the multiple features described in the embodiments may be arbitrarily combined. In addition, the same reference numbers are used for the same or similar configurations, and duplicated descriptions are omitted.

[0010] 1A and 1B are overall perspective views of a head part 2 of a doll body 1 according to an embodiment. In this embodiment, the doll body 1 is a model toy that imitates a quadrupedal animal (e.g., a dog), but it may also be a model that imitates a bipedal animal (e.g., a human).

[0011] In this specification, when explaining the positional relationship of each part, terms such as front, rear, left, right, up, down, inside, and outside may be used, but these terms are relative to the doll body 1. For example, the front corresponds to the front side of the doll body 1, and the rear corresponds to the back side of the doll body 1.

[0012] In this specification, each component of the doll body 1 is referred to as a "part," but the concept of a part refers not only to the smallest unit that a user can disassemble, but also to a combination of two or more of these. Therefore, the expression "part" in the following description may be replaced with "component, piece," "member," "structure," "assembly," etc., or may be omitted. For example, the head part 2 may be expressed as a head part, head member, head structure, head assembly, etc., or simply as a head. The same applies to the other parts described below.

[0013] The head part 2 includes an upper jaw part 201 and a lower jaw part 202. Although details will be described later, the upper jaw part 201 and the lower jaw part 202 are held by the main body of the head part 2. The lower jaw part 202 is held rotatably relative to the main body of the head part 2, and the upper jaw part 201 and the lower jaw part 202 form a closed state of the mouth when they are close to each other (see FIG. 1A), and form an open state of the mouth when they are separated from each other (see FIG. 1B).

[0014] 2 is an exploded perspective view of the head part 2. In addition to the upper jaw part 201 and the lower jaw part 202, the head part 2 further includes parts 203-211. The head part 2 can be configured by connecting these parts 201-211 to each other directly / indirectly, and by connecting adjacent two of these parts to each other fixedly or rotatably (or swingably). For ease of understanding, the connections between these parts are shown by dashed lines in the figure.

[0015] The concept of connection between parts may include various connection modes, such as attaching, connecting, and fixing one part to another part. For ease of understanding, expressions conforming to the embodiments are used in this specification, but the present invention is not strictly limited to those expressions (the expressions may be replaced with similar expressions). The same applies to other expressions.

[0016] Part 203 forms the left side of the head part 2 (may be referred to as the left head part). Part 204 forms the right side of the head part 2 (may be referred to as the right head part). These parts 203 and 204 are connected to each other. As will be described in detail later, the upper jaw part 201 is held below these parts 203 and 204.

[0017] The part 205 forms the upper front part of the head part 2 (may be referred to as the forehead part). The part 206 is attached to the front end of the forehead part 205 and forms the nose part (may be referred to as the nose part). These parts 205-206 are held or clamped by the left head part 203 and the right head part 204 which are connected to each other.

[0018] Part 207 is attached to the upper left side of the forehead part 205 and forms one ear (which may be referred to as the left ear part). Part 208 is attached to the upper right side of the forehead part 205 and forms the other ear (which may be referred to as the right ear part).

[0019] The parts 209 and 210 are connected to each other to support the rear part of the lower jaw part 202 so as to be able to rotate the lower jaw part 202 (either of them may be called a support part). These parts 209 and 210 are attached to the front head part 205, and are held or clamped by the left head part 203 and the right head part 204 which are connected to each other.

[0020] Also, part 211 forms the tongue and is fixed to the lower jaw part 202 (it may also be called the tongue part).

[0021] In this embodiment, the parts 203 to 210 form the main body of the head part 2, and the upper jaw part 201 and the lower jaw part 202 which form the mouth are held by this head part 2 main body.

[0022] In addition, when assembling the head part 2, the parts 209 and 210 are sandwiched between the parts 203 and 204, but this may be done before the parts 209 and 210 are attached to the front head part 205. In other words, the parts 201 to 204 and the parts 209 to 211 may be attached to the front head part 205 as a single body.

[0023] In this embodiment, the parts 201 to 211 are made of a resin such as polystyrene, but other materials having the desired strength, such as wood or metal, may also be used.

[0024] Fig. 3A is a schematic cross-sectional view of the head part 2 in a closed state. Fig. 3B is a schematic cross-sectional view of the head part 2 in an open state. To facilitate understanding of the structure, in the figure, the outlines of the head part 2 main body, upper jaw part 201, lower jaw part 202, and lower part 211 are shown by dashed lines, and shaft parts P1 and P2 and holding parts H1 and H2 described below are shown by solid lines.

[0025] 2, 3A, and 3B, a first shaft portion P1 and a second shaft portion P2 located behind the first shaft portion P1 are provided in the front portion of the upper jaw part 201. The shaft portions P1 and P2 are provided in pairs on the left and right so as to extend in the left-right direction.

[0026] 3A and 3B, the part 203 (and 204) is provided with a first holding part H1. In this embodiment, the holding part H1 is a circular opening that holds the shaft part P1 by fitting, and holds the shaft part P1 of the upper jaw part 201 so that the upper jaw part 201 can rotate with respect to the head part 2 main body.

[0027] 3A and 3B, part 203 (and 204) is provided with a second holding part H2. Holding part H2 is an elongated hole-shaped opening that slidably holds shaft part P2. This allows holding part H2 to restrict the rotation range (or movable range) of upper jaw part 201 by holding part H1.

[0028] As can be seen from Figures 3A and 3B, in this embodiment, axis P2 is located behind axis P1 (holding portion H2 is located behind holding portion H1), which allows the upper jaw part 201 to rotate properly and also allows the rotation range to be properly regulated.

[0029] A locking part E1 that can be locked to a rear part of the upper jaw part 201 is provided at a rear part of the tongue part 211. As described above, in this embodiment, the tongue part 211 is fixed to the lower jaw part 202. Therefore, as can be seen from FIG. 3A and FIG. 3B, when the lower jaw part 202 is rotated so that the mouth part changes from a closed state to an open state, the locking part E1 locks to a rear part of the upper jaw part 201. As a result, the rear part of the upper jaw part 201 moves downward as the lower jaw part 202 rotates. On the other hand, when the lower jaw part 202 is rotated so that the mouth part changes from an open state to a closed state, the upper jaw part 201 is pressed from below by the tongue part 211, and the rear part of the upper jaw part 201 moves upward.

[0030] With the above-described structure, upper jaw part 201 moves partially up and down in association with rotation of lower jaw part 202. In this embodiment, the up and down movement of upper jaw part 201 is realized by tongue part 211, but since tongue part 211 is fixed to lower jaw part 202, lower jaw part 202 and tongue part 211 may be integrally molded in another embodiment. Alternatively, tongue part 211 may be omitted, and the function of tongue part 211 may be performed by lower jaw part 202.

[0031] Furthermore, the above-described structure in which the upper jaw part 201 moves partially up and down in association with the rotation of the lower jaw part 202 is not limited to this embodiment, and other structures may be adopted. For example, in this embodiment, the holding part H2 is an elongated hole-shaped opening, but the holding part H2 may be a circular opening (similar to the holding part H1) and the upper jaw part 201 may be made of a flexible material (e.g., rubber). Even with such a structure, the upper jaw part 201 moves partially up and down in association with the rotation of the lower jaw part 202.

[0032] As described above, according to this embodiment, the upper jaw part 201 is held by the main body of the head part 2 so that the rear part of the upper jaw part 201 drops when the mouth is changed from a closed state to an open state. This structure eliminates the sense of incongruity that the jaw is dislocated when the mouth is changed from a closed state to an open state, and makes it possible to appropriately realize a natural transformation of the doll body 1.

[0033] The invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of the gist of the invention. [Explanation of symbols]

[0034] 1: Doll body, 2: Head part, 201: Upper jaw part, 202: Lower jaw part.

Claims

1. A structure constituting at least a part of the head of a doll body, having upper and lower jaws forming a mouth; The lower jaw portion is held by the head body such that the mouth portion changes from a closed state to an open state by being separated from the upper jaw portion, The upper jaw portion is held by the head body such that a rear portion of the upper jaw portion descends when the mouth portion is changed from the closed state to the open state. structure.

2. a first holding portion that holds a front portion of the upper jaw portion so that the upper jaw portion is rotatable relative to the head body; The structure of claim 1.

3. a second holding portion that holds a front portion of the upper jaw portion so as to restrict a rotation area of ​​the upper jaw portion by the first holding portion The structure of claim 2.

4. The mouth opening mechanism further includes a locking portion that locks onto the rear portion of the upper jaw when the mouth opening mechanism is changed from the closed state to the open state. A structure according to any one of claims 1 to 3.

5. a tongue portion secured to the mandible portion; The locking portion is provided at the rear portion of the tongue portion. The structure of claim 4.

6. The doll body is a model toy that imitates a quadrupedal animal. A structure according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

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