Patent classifications
A63F9/0842
Smart cube
A smart cube is disclosed. An embodiment of the present disclosure may provide a smart cube, comprising: a main frame; and a plurality of unit blocks coupled to the main frame and constituting six faces of a regular hexahedron, wherein the unit block comprises: a display unit disposed on a surface of the unit block that is exposed to an outside; and a plurality of terminals disposed on a facing surface of the unit block facing another unit block for transferring electric power and data for the display unit, wherein the terminal is retrievably disposed in an insertion hole formed on the facing surface of the unit block, and wherein the terminal includes a permanent magnet for allowing a polarity of a retrieved end of the terminal to be opposite to a polarity of a retrieved end of a terminal of the other unit block such that the terminal is retrieved from the insertion hole and adhered to the terminal of the other unit block by a magnetic force.
3-D Puzzle with moving sectors
A 3-D puzzle is implemented as cube consisting of twenty six movable sectors configured to move about a central cross-piece created by three axels that are perpendicular to each other. Each of the three axels has a far edge attached to a plate with stationary magnets positioned on it. All movable sectors have an outer surface and an inner surface configured to house a magnet. The movable sectors are classified as eight angular ones, twelve end ones and six central ones. The angular sectors have cavities configured to host three movable elements configured to be positioned perpendicular to each other.
Smart cube and method of operating the same
Disclosed are a smart cube including a core housing having an accommodation space therein, a plurality of blocks having a surface formed therein to correspond to an outer circumference of the core housing and coupled to each other to be rotatable in a group around the core housing, and a controller configured to recognize a position of at least one of the blocks and to calculate a solution to place blocks having the same outer surface on at least one surface of the cube, wherein the block includes types of shaft blocks coupled to a center of each of top, bottom, front, rear, left, and right surfaces of the core housing, edge blocks in contact with each side surface of the shaft block, and corner blocks interposed between the adjacent edge blocks, the controller recognizes a position of at least one of the blocks based on a rotation direction and a rotation amount of the shaft block, and the plurality of blocks visually outputs a next step of a current step of the solution including a plurality of steps.
SURFACE ORIENTATION SENSING STRUCTURE AND INTELLIGENT MAGIC CUBE
The present invention discloses a surface orientation sensing structure, where six printed circuit boards are combined to form a regular hexahedron as the axis of an intelligent magic cube, and a main control chipset can recognize layer rotation by simply sweeping a copper foil through a brush sheet to cause a level change, so that the position change of the layer can be recognized more accurately, a step loss rate is reduced, parts are reduced, and the assembly process is simplified. The present invention further discloses an intelligent magic cube, where all the parts related to orientation sensing are concentrated on the axis, so that the intelligent magic cube can be operated more easily and smoothly, the intelligent functions of the intelligent magic cube can be used more smoothly, and user experience is improved.
3-DIMENSIONAL LOGIC GAME
The invention relates to a 3-dimensional logic game comprising a support structure (20, 70), an actuating structure (30, 80) attached to the support structure (20, 70) and game elements attached to the actuating structure (30, 80), characterised by that the game elements are formed as carriages (60) provided with first and second marking surfaces (62a, 62b) and being slidably mounted on rails (40) attached to the actuating structure (30, 80); the actuating structure (30, 80) is movable between a first and a second rest position, in the first rest position first groups of three rails (40) form first rail rings (48) around vertices (104) of a first tetrahedron (100) wherein the first marking surfaces (62a) of the carriages (60) are facing outwardly, in a direction away from a geometric centre (S) of the first tetrahedron (100) while the second marking surfaces (62b) are facing inwardly, and the first ring rails (48) allow for sliding the carriages (60) on the neighbouring rails (40); and in the second rest position of the actuating structure (30, 80) second groups of three rails (40) form second rail rings (48) around vertices (204) of a second tetrahedron (200) being the point reflection of the first tetrahedron (100) reflected over the geometric centre (S) thereof, wherein each rail (40) forms one of the second rail rings (48′) around one of the vertices (204) of the second tetrahedron (200) together with the two rails (40) that are positioned closest to it around neighbouring vertices (104) of the first tetrahedron (100) in the first rest position, and on the second rail rings (48) the second marking surfaces (62b) of the carriages (60) are facing outwardly, in a direction away from a geometric centre (S) of the second tetrahedron (200) while the first marking surfaces (62a) are facing inwardly, and the second ring rails (48′) allow for sliding the carriages (60) on the neighbouring rails (40); the support structure (20) comprises pushing bars (22) having skew axis with respect to each other that are arranged along medians (102, 202) of the first and second tetrahedrons (100, 200), and the actuating structure (30) comprises double-armed actuating elements (32) the arms (34) of which are each attached to one of the pushing bars (22).
MAGIC CUBE WITH VISIBLE MAGNETIC CABINS
A magic cube with visible magnetic cabins includes a central shaft piece, six central blocks, eight corner blocks, and twelve edge blocks. Corner block magnetic cabins and edge block magnetic cabins are respectively arranged on the corner blocks and the edge blocks. Magnets and magnetic pieces are respectively arranged in the corner block magnetic cabins and the edge block magnetic cabins. Elastic force between the central blocks and the central shaft piece is adjusted by gear adjusting pieces arranged in the central blocks. By arranging the corner block and edge block magnetic cabins, stability of installation positions of the magnets and magnetic pieces is ensured and an assembly accuracy is improved. The magnetic pieces do not fall off or offset during use. By arranging the gear adjusting pieces in the central blocks, it is convenient to quickly adjust elastic force between the central blocks and the central shaft piece.
Surface orientation sensing structure and intelligent magic cube
The present invention discloses a surface orientation sensing structure, where six printed circuit boards are combined to form a regular hexahedron as the axis of an intelligent magic cube, and a main control chipset can recognize layer rotation by simply sweeping a copper foil through a brush sheet to cause a level change, so that the position change of the layer can be recognized more accurately, a step loss rate is reduced, parts are reduced, and the assembly process is simplified. The present invention further discloses an intelligent magic cube, where all the parts related to orientation sensing are concentrated on the axis, so that the intelligent magic cube can be operated more easily and smoothly, the intelligent functions of the intelligent magic cube can be used more smoothly, and user experience is improved.
Puzzle cube
A puzzle cube includes a core having a plurality of center cubies movably associated thereto, a plurality of edge cubies, and a plurality of corner cubies, each of the center, edge and corner cubies having respectively one, two and three facelets in view. The core includes a plurality of turrets, to which the center cubies are rotatably engaged, and each edge cubie is rotatably draggable with one of the two center cubies, the facelet of which is coplanar with one of the two facelets of the edge cubie. Each corner cubie is rotatably draggable with one of the three center cubies, the facelet of which is coplanar with one of the three facelets of the corner cubie, and each of the facelets of the edge cubies and of the corner cubies can change from an inactive condition to an active condition when coplanar to a facelet of a predetermined center cubie, with which it is associated. The active and inactive conditions of the facelets are distinguishable, and in the inactive condition the facelets are indistinguishable from each other.
CUBIC PUZZLE
The present invention provides a cubic puzzle which is capable of changing its entire body into a cubic block shape ad has an improved entertainment property as a toy.
A controller automatically changes a display pattern to a reference pattern by an actuator, making it a minimum condition that a current pattern being a display pattern at that point of time when identified by a pattern identifying means is different from a reference pattern being a predetermined reference display pattern, while a start state detecting means detects a predetermined start state.
Bluetooth communication timing device for speed cube
The present invention provides a magic cube timing device based on Bluetooth communication, including a timer main body and a non-slip mat. The timer main body is fastened to the non-slip mat. The timer main body includes a main body housing, a main control PCB board, a display apparatus, and two magnetic surface stickers. Two through holes are disposed in the main body housing. One end of the magnetic surface sticker penetrates through the through hole to connect to the main control PCB board. According to the magic cube timing device based on Bluetooth communication in the present invention, each use result in the magic cube timing device is transmitted to an external terminal by using a Bluetooth module, to effectively collect statistics on and store timing data.