U.S. patent application number 13/025122 was filed with the patent office on 2012-08-16 for loading/unloading module of electric toy gun.
This patent application is currently assigned to Vega Force International Corp.. Invention is credited to WEI-HUNG CHUNG, SHIH-CHE KUNG.
Application Number | 20120208430 13/025122 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 46637240 |
Filed Date | 2012-08-16 |
United States Patent
Application |
20120208430 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
KUNG; SHIH-CHE ; et
al. |
August 16, 2012 |
LOADING/UNLOADING MODULE OF ELECTRIC TOY GUN
Abstract
In a loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun, and the
toy gun includes a gun body, a piston shell installed to the gun
body, and a loading/unloading module corresponding to the piston
shell, and the loading/unloading module is provided for
loading/unloading the piston shell to/from the gun body, and the
loading/unloading module includes a fixing assembly, and the fixing
assembly includes a receiving element of the piston shell installed
to the piston shell and a latching element movably installed to the
gun body and corresponding to the receiving element, such that the
latching element can be turned to latch with the receiving element
to fix the piston shell to the gun body, and the toy gun has a high
structural stability after its assembling and can be assembled and
disassembled easily.
Inventors: |
KUNG; SHIH-CHE; (New Taipei
City, TW) ; CHUNG; WEI-HUNG; (New Taipei City,
TW) |
Assignee: |
Vega Force International
Corp.
|
Family ID: |
46637240 |
Appl. No.: |
13/025122 |
Filed: |
February 10, 2011 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
446/473 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F41B 11/646 20130101;
F41B 11/64 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
446/473 |
International
Class: |
A63H 33/30 20060101
A63H033/30 |
Claims
1. A loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun, and the
electric toy gun comprising a gun body, a piston shell installed to
the gun body, and a loading/unloading module corresponding to the
piston shell, and the loading/unloading module being provided for
loading/unloading the piston shell to/from the gun body; wherein
the loading/unloading module comprises a fixing assembly, including
a receiving portion installed to the piston shell and a latching
element movably installed to the gun body and corresponding to the
receiving portion, such that the latching element can be turned to
latch with the receiving portion to fix the piston shell to the gun
body.
2. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 1, wherein the latching element includes a pivot base
installed to the gun body and a latch bump pivotally coupled to the
pivot base.
3. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 2, wherein the latch bump is disposed between the pivot
base and the receiving portion.
4. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 2, wherein the pivot base includes a first pivot hole
formed thereon, and the latch bump includes a second pivot hole
formed thereon, and the latching element further includes a pivot
passed through the first pivot hole and the second pivot hole.
5. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 2, wherein the latch bump includes a pushing portion, and
the pivot base includes a stop portion corresponding to the pushing
portion.
6. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 5, wherein the latch bump further includes a latching
portion, and the receiving portion includes an abutting surface
corresponding to the latching portion.
7. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 6, wherein the pushing portion and the latching portion
are separated apart with a distance equal to or greater than the
distance between the stop portion and the abutting surface.
8. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 6, wherein the latch bump is disposed between the stop
portion and the abutting surface.
9. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 6, wherein both latching portion and the abutting surface
are substantially in an arc shape.
10. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 2, further comprising a lug formed on the latch bump.
11. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 1, further comprising a joint assembly, an upper slide
portion formed at a bottom edge of a front end of the piston shell,
and a lower slide portion formed at a position of the gun body and
corresponding to the upper slide portion and coupled to the upper
slide portion.
12. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 11, wherein the gun body includes a socket disposed at a
rear side of the gun body, and a rear end of the piston shell is
sheathed into the socket.
13. The loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun as recited
in claim 11, wherein the upper slide portion of the piston shell is
a slide bump laterally and separately protruded from both sides,
and the lower slide portion is a slide slot separately formed on
two internal sidewalls of the gun body, and the two slide bumps are
slid into the two slide slots respectively.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to an electric toy gun, in
particular to an improved loading/unloading module of an electric
toy gun.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] As health and fitness become increasingly more popular in
our life, toy gun is introduced as one of the leisure activities
and simulates actual combat situations. With a highly safe
environment of the activity, the toy gun not only achieves an
exercising effect, but also provides recreations and entertainments
to users, and thus the toy gun is promoted by manufacturers and
accepted by users widely.
[0003] In general, a conventional toy gun includes a gun body, a
piston module and a gear box, and a loading/unloading module is
provided for loading/unloading the piston module to/from the gun
body, and the loading/unloading module generally includes a
plurality of insert pin holes formed at corresponding positions of
the gun body and the piston module, and a plurality of insert pins
corresponding to the insert pin holes respectively, such that after
the piston module is assembled to the gun body, the insert pins are
passed into the corresponding insert pin holes respectively to fix
the piston module to the gun body. Although this fixing method is
simple, convenient and quick, the connection between the piston
module and the gear box is not secured sufficiently, and thus
causing a poor overall structural stability as well as a safety
concern.
[0004] In view of the aforementioned drawbacks, the inventor of the
present invention based on years of experience in the related
industry to conduct extensive researches and experiments, and
finally developed a feasible and effective loading/unloading module
of an electric toy gun in accordance with the present invention to
overcome the drawbacks of the prior art.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0005] Therefore, the present invention is to provide an improved
loading/unloading module of a toy gun, and the assembled toy gun
has a high structural stability, and the gun can be assembled
and/or disassembled easily and quickly.
[0006] The present invention discloses an improved
loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun, and the electric
toy gun comprises a gun body, a piston shell installed to the gun
body, and a loading/unloading module corresponding to the piston
shell, wherein the loading/unloading module is provided for
loading/unloading the piston shell to/from the gun body, and the
loading/unloading module includes a fixing assembly, and the fixing
assembly includes a receiving element installed to the piston shell
and a latching element movably installed to the gun body and
corresponding to the receiving element, such that the latching
element can be turned to latch with the receiving element to fix
the piston shell to the gun body.
[0007] Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the
following advantages. The piston shell and the gun body can be
assembled and/or disassembled simply, conveniently and quickly, and
thus making the repair and maintenance of the toy gun very easily
and convenient. Further, the assembled toy gun has a high
structural stability to achieve a better safety by the enhanced
stability of the connection between the piston module and the gear
box.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0008] FIG. 1 is an exploded view of the present invention;
[0009] FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the present invention;
[0010] FIG. 3 is a schematic view, showing an operation before a
piston shell is assembled in accordance with the present
invention;
[0011] FIG. 4 is a schematic view, showing an operation after a
piston shell is assembled in accordance with the present
invention;
[0012] FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of Section 5-5 of FIG.
4;
[0013] FIG. 6 is a schematic view, showing a loosened status of a
piston shell in accordance with the present invention; and
[0014] FIG. 7 is a schematic view, showing a fixed status of a
piston shell in accordance with the present invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0015] The technical characteristics and contents of the present
invention will become apparent with the following detailed
description accompanied with related drawings. The drawings are
provided for the purpose of illustrating the present invention
only, but not intended for limiting the scope of the invention.
[0016] With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 for an improved
loading/unloading module of an electric toy gun in accordance with
the present invention, the electric toy gun comprises a gun body 1,
a loading/unloading module 3 installed to the piston shell 2 of the
gun body 1 and corresponding to the piston shell 2, and provided
for loading or unloading the piston shell 2 and a gear box 6 to the
gun body 1 quickly, so that the overall structure of the assembled
electric toy gun is very secured, and the assembling and
disassembling operations is very convenient and quick.
[0017] The loading/unloading module 3 comprises a joint assembly 4
and a fixing assembly 5 (as shown in FIG. 1), it is necessary to
connect the piston shell 2 to the gun body 1 through the joint
assembly 4 before the piston shell 2 is assembled to the gun body
1. In other words, the joint assembly 4 is slidably snapped into
the slide slot formed on the internal sidewall of the gun body 1,
so that the joint assembly 4 can mount the piston shell 2 onto the
gun body 1. Since the joint assembly 4 has a simple structure, the
piston shell 2 and the gear box 6 can be assembled to the gun body
1 easily and quickly. However, the linking action of the joint
assembly 4 is insufficient to fix the piston shell 2 to the gun
body 1 securely. On the other hand, the piston shell 2 can be fixed
securely by the action of the fixing assembly 5, and the piston
shell 2 can also be used for installing components such as a
piston.
[0018] The technical characteristics and using method of the joint
assembly 4 in accordance with this preferred embodiment are
described as follows. The joint assembly 4 includes an upper slide
portion 41 formed at a bottom edge of a front end of the piston
shell 2 and a lower slide portion 40 on the gun body 1 and at a
position corresponding to the upper slide portion 41 and coupled to
the upper slide portion 41, and the lower slide portion 40 is a
slide slot formed on an internal sidewall of the gun body 1.
Therefore, the piston shell 2 can be coupled to the lower slide
portion 40 of the gun body 1 through the upper slide portion 41 in
order to fix the piston shell 2 onto gun body 1 (as shown in FIGS.
1 and 2).
[0019] The technical characteristics and using method of the joint
assembly 4 in accordance with this preferred embodiment are further
described as follows. The upper slide portion 41 of the piston
shell 2 includes two slide bumps protruded from both lateral sides
of the piston shell 2 respectively, and the lower slide portion 40
includes two slide slots formed on both internal sidewalls of the
gun body 1 respectively, and the two slide bumps are slid into the
two slide slots respectively for connecting the slide bumps with
the slide slots (as shown in FIG. 5). The slide bumps and the slide
slots are provided for achieving a quick assembling/disassembling
effect, and the details are described below.
[0020] With reference to FIGS. 3 and 4, after the gear box 6 is
installed into the gun body 1, the piston shell 2 is assembled from
top to bottom of the gun body 1, and the piston shell 2 is situated
at a front end of the assembling position, such that the upper
slide portion 41 of the piston shell 2 is situated in front of the
lower slide portion 40 of the gun body (as shown in FIG. 3). Now,
the piston shell 2 is pushed from the rear of the gun body 1, so
that the upper slide portion 41 of piston shell 2 slides into the
lower slide portion 40 of the gun body 1 (as shown in FIG. 4), and
this method can assemble and/or disassemble the piston shell 2 and
the gun body 1 quickly to achieve the effect of assembling and/or
disassembling the gear box of the electric toy gun in an easy,
convenient and quick manner.
[0021] More specifically, a socket 12 can be formed on an end
portion 11 at the rear side of the gun body 1, such that when the
piston shell 2 is mounted onto the gun body 1, the piston shell 2
is pushed backward (as described above) to sheath the rear end of
the piston shell 2 into the socket 12 to further provide a fixing
effect to the rear end of the piston shell 2.
[0022] In the present invention, the piston shell 2 is mounted onto
the gun body 1, and then the fixing assembly 5 is provided for
performing an operation of fixing the piston shell 2. The technical
characteristics and using method of the fixing assembly 5 in
accordance with this preferred embodiment comprises a receiving
portion 10 and a latching element 20, and the receiving portion 10
is disposed at an end of the piston shell 2, and the latching
element 20 is movably installed to the gun body 1 and corresponsive
to the receiving portion 10, such that the latching element 20 can
be turned to latch the receiving portion 10 to fix the piston shell
2 to the gun body 1 (as shown in FIG. 2).
[0023] The technical characteristics and using method of the fixing
assembly 5 in accordance with this preferred embodiment are
described as follows. The receiving portion 10 includes an abutting
surface 100, preferably a portion of an end of the piston shell 2,
but not limited to such arrangement only. The abutting surface 100
can be a component fixed to the piston shell 2 as well. The
abutting surface 100 is corresponsive to the latching element 20,
and its details will be described below.
[0024] The latching element 20 includes a pivot base 200, a latch
bump 300 and a pivot 400, and the pivot base 200 is installed and
secured onto the gun body 2, and the latch bump 300 is pivotally
coupled to the pivot base 200, and the pivot 400 is pivotally
passed through the latch bump 300 and the pivot base 200, and the
latch bump 300 is disposed between the pivot base 200 and the
receiving element 10. More specifically, the pivot base 200
includes a first pivot hole 210 formed thereon, and the latch bump
300 includes a second pivot hole 310 formed thereon and disposed
corresponding to the first pivot hole 210, such that when the pivot
400 is passed through the first pivot hole 210 and the second pivot
hole 310, the latch bump 300 can be pivotally moved on the pivot
base 200 (as shown in FIG. 6).
[0025] The latch bump 300 includes a pushing portion 320, and the
pivot base 200 includes a stop portion 220 corresponding to the
pushing portion 320, and the latch bump 300 further includes a
latching portion 330 corresponding to the abutting surface 100.
Preferably, the pushing portion 320 and the latching portion 330
are formed at both ends of the diameter of an internal periphery of
the second pivot hole 310 of the latch bump 300 respectively. When
the latch bump 300 is pivotally turned, the pushing portion 320 and
the latching portion 330 are moved in opposite directions of the
tangential velocity (as shown in FIG. 6).
[0026] In this preferred embodiment, the latch bump 300 is
preferably disposed between the stop portion 220 and the abutting
surface 100. In actual practice, when the latching portion 330 and
the abutting surface 100 are latched with each other (as shown in
FIG. 7), the distance between a position of the pushing portion 320
used for abutting the stop portion 220 and a position of the
latching portion 330 used for latching the abutting surface 100 is
not smaller than the distance between a position of the stop
portion 220 used for stopping the pushing portion 320 and a
position of the abutting surface 100 used for latching the latching
portion 330.
[0027] If the pushing portion 320 is not abutted against the stop
portion 220, or the stop portion 220 is not in the state of
stopping the pushing portion 320, while the latching portion 330
and the abutting surface 100 are not latched with each other, then
the piston shell 2 will not be fixed to the gun body 1 securely,
such that the piston shell is in a loosened status (as shown in
FIG. 6).
[0028] The latch bump 300 is turned to latch the latch bump 300
between the stop portion 220 and the abutting surface 100 (as shown
in FIG. 7). Now, the movement of an end of the piston shell 2 is
limited by the joint assembly 4, and the distance between the stop
portion 220 and the abutting surface 100 is smaller than the size
of the latch bump 300 (or the distance between the pushing portion
320 and the latching portion 330), so that the latch bump 300 is in
a compressed status, and thus causing the latch bump 300 to produce
an internal stress for the recovery of the shape, wherein the
internal stress will be exerted onto a side of the abutting surface
100 of the piston shell 2, and the movement of the other end of the
piston shell 2 will be limited. This arrangement can fix the piston
shell 2 to the gun body 1 securely.
[0029] More specifically, a surface of the latching portion 330 and
the abutting surface 100 are substantially in an arc shape.
Particularly, the surface of the latching portion 330 is in an
inwardly concave arc shape, and the surface of the abutting surface
100 is in an outwardly convex arc shape, but the invention is not
limited to such arrangement only. However, this arrangement can fix
the piston shell 2 more securely and prevent the piston shell 2
from being detached from the fixing assembly 5 by a strong
recoiling force that is produced when the toy gun is fired.
[0030] In addition, a lug 340 is formed on the latch bump 300 and
provided for users to pivotally move the latch bump 300
conveniently. Particularly, when the receiving portion 10 and the
latching element 20 are latched with each other, a very tight
attachment can be achieved. Now, the latch bump 300 can be turned
easily by the lug 340.
[0031] While the invention has been described by means of specific
embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made
thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the
scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims.
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