Cable and rotor/linkage actuation system for animated toy mechanized movable limb
CA 2550200 A1 · Owner: Chan, Ivan · Inventors: Chan, Ivan; Tsui, Sam; Marine, Jon C.
Overview
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A toy doll with articulate moveable wrist/hand structure. A motor in the doll operates to pull on a cable which is drivingly linked to the wrist/hand structure to, effect complex/compound rotational translational, and revolutional pair of interactive, pantograph-like arrangement that enhance the produced motions by introducing mechanical advantage.
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- Filed May 13, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 13, 2022.
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