Track Toy Component

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of toys, and in particular, to a track toy component.

BACKGROUND

In the prior art, a track component for a toy car includes a plurality of abutted track sections, and two connected track sections are generally spliced and fixed by way of buckle abutting or magnetic attraction. Chinese Patent Application No. CN208711015U discloses a toy track component, which includes a plurality of abutted track sections, and an abutting end of each track section is provided with a magnet which magnetically attracts two abutted track sections and a buckle which buckles the two abutted track sections. However, in the above structure, the buckle needs to be arranged at the abutting end of each track piece (i.e., the track section), such that a protruding block exists on the surface of the abutting end of the track piece, and the track piece is not smooth and beautiful enough. In the process of splicing the track, there is a potential safety hazard that hands are easily stabbed. The manufacturing difficulty of the track piece is also increased, the production costs are increased, and moreover, there are still problems of single track pattern and low practicality.

SUMMARY

An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a track toy component to solve the problems mentioned in the above background that in an existing structure, a potential safety hazard exists since there is a protruding block on the surface of an abutting end of a track piece, the production costs are easily increased, and the track pattern is single.

To achieve the above objective, the present disclosure provides a track toy component, which includes a plurality of track pieces. An abutting end of each of the track pieces is provided with a magnetic member magnetically attracted to another one of the track pieces. A first track and an opposite second track are arranged on each of the track pieces. The first track and the second track each includes at least one track groove. The track groove communicates two adjacent or spaced sides in an extension mode of a straight line or a curve. The plurality of track grooves in a same plane are arranged in a communicated or spaced manner. The track grooves of the first track and the second track may be the same or different in shape, number, and position. The track toy component further includes fixing buckles. A buckling groove is formed in a penetrating manner between two ends of the fixing buckle, and the buckling groove is configured to insert and fix two track pieces.

As a preferred solution, the track piece includes a base and a cover plate that are fixedly connected. A plurality of receiving grooves are formed between the base and the cover plate. The plurality of receiving grooves are distributed at each abutting end of the track piece to movably receive the magnetic member. The first track is arranged on an outer side surface of the base, and the second track is arranged on an outer side surface of the cover plate.

As a preferred solution, the base and the cover plate are both a quadrangular plate body or fan-shaped plate body matching in shape. Passing openings of the track grooves are formed at midpoint positions of at least two side edges of the base and at least two side edges of the cover plate. A fixing structure is arranged at each vertex angle position of the base and the cover plate.

As a preferred solution, a length of the buckling groove is less than an edge length or a radius length of the track piece and is greater than ½ of the edge length or the radius length of the track piece.

As a preferred solution, the track pieces include a first track piece. The first track piece is a quadrangular plate body. A first rack of the first track piece includes four track grooves and a second track of the first track piece includes two first track grooves. The first track grooves extend along a curve and communicate two adjacent sides. Any two first track grooves in the first track and the second track are formed in a communicated manner and each is provided with an allocation plate at an intersection.

As a preferred solution, an end of the allocation plate facing an intersection direction of the two first track grooves is arranged as a sharp corner end, and an allocation bevel is formed on a side wall of the sharp corner end facing the two first track grooves.

As a preferred solution, the track pieces include a second track piece. The second track piece is a quadrangular plate body. A first rack of the second track piece includes one first track groove and a second track of the second track piece includes two first track grooves. The first track grooves extend along a curve and communicate two adjacent sides. The two first track grooves of the second track are spaced apart from each other. The first track grooves of the first track and the second track are partially overlapped or not overlapped in an orthographic direction.

As a preferred solution, the track pieces include a third track piece. The third track piece is a quadrangular plate body. A first rack of the third track piece includes one second track groove and a second track of the third track piece includes two second track grooves. The second track grooves extend along a straight line and communicate two adjacent sides. The two second track grooves of the second track are arranged in a communicated manner.

As a preferred solution, the track pieces include a fourth track piece. The fourth track piece is a fan-shaped plate body. A first rack and a second track of the fourth track piece each includes one first track groove. The first track groove extends along a curve and communicates two adjacent sides. The first track grooves of the first track and the second track are correspondingly arranged.

As a preferred solution, the track toy component further includes a track car. The track car includes a shell and a driving component. The shell includes an outer shell, an inner shell detachably connected inside the outer shell, and a flippable shell with one side rotationally connected to the outer shell and the other side connected to the outer shell in a buckled manner. Driving wheels are rotationally connected to two sides of the outer shell. A guide wheel is rotationally connected to a bottom side of the outer shell, and the guide wheel slidably fits in the track groove. The driving component further includes a battery, a motor, and a switch electrically connected to form a closed circuit. The battery is located between the inner shell and the flippable shell and is detachably connected to the inner shell. The motor and the switch are located between the outer shell and the inner shell and are fixed in the outer shell. The motor is in driving connection to the driving wheels through a transmission group.

Therefore, according to the technical means of the present disclosure, the functions which may be obtained by the present disclosure are described briefly below: according to the track toy component provided by the present disclosure, the first track and the second track are arranged on each of the track pieces; the track grooves constituting the first track and the second track may be the same or different in shape, number, and position; and the plurality of track grooves in the same plane are connected or separated. The above arrangement can enrich the track pattern of the same track piece. A player may perform a track splicing game by selecting different track patterns as needed, such that the selectivity, practicality, and gaming interestingness of the track pieces are higher. Compared with a structure of an existing track piece, according to the track toy component provided by the present disclosure, the arrangement of a buckling structure on the abutting end surface of each of the track pieces is cancelled, and a mode of additionally arranging fixing buckles is adopted, such that two track pieces can be inserted and fixed together through the buckling grooves of the fixing buckles. The fixing buckles are simple in structure, such that the overall production costs may be reduced. Moreover, the fixing buckles are high in use safety, convenient to use, small in influence on the appearance of the track pieces, and good in using effect.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a track toy component during gaming according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a schematic exploded diagram of a first track piece in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 is a schematic exploded diagram of a second track piece in FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a schematic exploded diagram of a third track piece in FIG. 1.

FIG. 5 is a schematic exploded diagram of a fourth track piece in FIG. 1.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram where two third track pieces are inserted and fixed together via fixing buckles in FIG. 1.

FIG. 7 is a schematic partially exploded diagram of FIG. 6.

FIG. 8 is a schematic exploded diagram of a track car in FIG. 1.

In the figures: 10-base; 20-cover plate; 30-receiving groove; 41-inserting groove; 42-inserting column; 50-first track; 60-second track; 71-first track groove; 72-allocation plate; 721-allocation bevel; 73-second track groove; 100-first track piece; 200-second track piece; 300-third track piece; 400-fourth track piece; 500-fixing buckle; 510-buckling groove; 600-track car; 610-shell; 611-outer shell; 612-inner shell; 613-flippable shell; 620-driving component; 621-battery; 622-motor; 623-switch; 624-transmission group; 630-driving wheel; and 640-guide wheel.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Preferred embodiments of the present disclosure will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Detailed descriptions of the embodiments of present disclosure will be made in the following, and examples thereof are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, throughout which identical or similar elements or elements of identical or similar functions are represented with identical or similar reference numerals. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are illustrative, which are merely intended to explain the present disclosure, rather than to limit the present disclosure.

In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that the orientations or positional relationships indicated by terms such as “center”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inside”, “clockwise”, and “counterclockwise” are based on the orientations or positional relationships as shown in the accompanying drawings. These terms are merely for ease and brevity of description of the embodiments of the present disclosure rather than indicating or implying that the apparatuses or elements mentioned must have specific orientations or must be constructed or manipulated according to specific orientations, and therefore shall not be construed as a limitation on the present disclosure.

In addition, terms “first”, “second” and the like are only intended for description, but cannot be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of the specified technical features. Therefore, a feature limited by “first” or “second” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features.

In the description of the present disclosure, unless otherwise clearly specified and limited, terms such as “installing”, “linking”, “connection” and “fixing” should be understood in a broad sense. For example, the connection may be a fixed connection, a detachable connection or an integrated connection, may be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection, and may be a direct connection, an indirect connection through an intermediate medium, or internal communication of two elements. Those of ordinary skill in the art could understand the specific meanings of the above terms in the present disclosure according to specific situations.

In the present disclosure, unless otherwise explicitly specified and defined, the first feature being “on” or “beneath” the second feature may include the first feature being in direct contact with the second feature or the first feature being in contact with the second feature through another feature rather than in direct contact with the second feature. In addition, the first feature being “on”, “above”, or “over” the second feature includes the first feature being right above or at the inclined top of the second feature, or merely indicates a level of the first feature being higher than that of the second feature. The first feature is “below”, “under”, and “beneath” the second feature includes the first feature directly below and diagonally below the second feature, or simply indicates that the horizontal height of the first feature is less than that of the second feature.

Referring to FIG. 1 to FIG. 8, an embodiment provides a track toy component, which includes track pieces, fixing buckles 500, and a track car 600. The plurality of track pieces can be spliced to form a track route, such that the track car 600 can move along the track route. The fixing buckles 500 are configured to fixedly connect any two track pieces as a whole, which, on the one hand, can ensure that the connected two track pieces are aligned without deviation, and on the other hand, can further match with other structural members (for example, magnetically connected building blocks or building block pillars of common sizes on the market), such that the track pieces may form the track route in special environments such as a suspended environment.

It should be noted that an abutting end of each of the track pieces is provided with a magnetic member magnetically attracted to another one of the track pieces. Through the magnetic member, the plurality of track pieces can be attracted together, such that the track splicing mode is simple and convenient, and two track pieces can also be prevented from being separated. Moreover, the magnetic member can further match with the fixing buckles 500 to construct a track route in a slope shape. When it is needed to connect two track pieces with different heights to form the track route in a slope shape, the plurality of track pieces which form the slope route may be fixed as a whole through the fixing buckles 500, and then two ends thereof are magnetically connected between the track pieces with different heights through the magnetic member.

Specifically, each of the track pieces includes a base 10 and a cover plate 20 that are fixedly connected. In the present embodiment, a fixing structure is arranged at each vertex angle position of the base 10 and the cover plate 20. The fixing structure includes an inserting groove 41 and an inserting column 42 respectively arranged on the base 10 and the cover plate 20. The inserting column 42 may be inserted and fixed in the inserting groove 41 to achieve detachable insertion and fixation. A plurality of receiving grooves 30 are formed between the base 10 and the cover plate 20, and the plurality of receiving grooves 30 are distributed at each abutting end of the track piece to movably receive the magnetic member. A first track 50 and an opposite second track 60 are arranged on each of the track pieces. The first track 50 and the second track 60 each includes at least one track groove. The track groove communicates two adjacent or spaced sides in an extension mode of a straight line or a curve. The plurality of track grooves in a same plane are arranged in a communicated or spaced manner. The track grooves of the first track 50 and the second track 60 may be the same or different in shape, number, and position. The “two spaced sides” means that two passing openings of the track groove are at least spaced by one side edge, i.e., a condition that two ends of the track groove are located on two opposite sides of the track piece is included.

That is to say, the first track 50 is arranged on an outer side surface of the base 10, and the second track 60 is arranged on an outer side surface of the cover plate 20. In the present embodiment, the base 10 and the cover plate 20 are both a quadrangular plate body or fan-shaped plate body matching in shape, the quadrangular plate body is a regular quadrangular plate body, the fan-shaped plate body is a quadrant plate body, and an edge length of the regular quadrangle is equal to a radius of the circle. The passing openings of the track grooves are formed at midpoint positions of at least two side edges of the base 10 and at least two side edges of the cover plate 20, i.e., each of the track grooves passes through the midpoints of any two side edges of the base 10 and the cover plate 20. Through the above arrangement, the plurality of track pieces are in a connected state of being aligned without deviation, and the first tracks 50 or the second tracks 60 on different track pieces may be automatically connected to form the track route.

In other embodiments of the present disclosure, the base 10 and the cover plate 20 may be arranged as other plate bodies matching in shape, for example, rectangular plate bodies, triangular plate bodies, and the like. The fixing structure may be arranged as another connecting structure capable of achieving fixation, for example, a bolt fixing structure, a buckle fixing structure, a magnetic fixing structure, an ultrasonic welding structure, and the like. The passing openings of each of the track grooves is not limited to be formed at the midpoints of the side edges of the base 10 and the cover plate 20, and may also be formed at vertex angles of side edges of the base 10 and the cover plate 20 or another N equal diversion point (where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3).

According to the above structural arrangement of the track pieces, the present embodiment provides four types of track pieces, including a first track piece 100, a second track piece 200, a third track piece 300, and a fourth track piece 400. In other embodiments of the present disclosure, the track pieces may further include other types of track pieces or the track pieces may cancel the arrangement of any type of track pieces in the first track piece 100, the second track piece 200, the third track piece 300, and the fourth track piece 400.

The first track piece 100 is a quadrangular plate body. The first track 50 of the first track piece 100 includes four first track grooves 71, and the second track 60 of the first track piece 100 includes two first track grooves 71. It may be understood that the first track grooves 71 extend along a curve and communicate two adjacent sides of the quadrangular plate body. In the first track 50 and the second track 60 of the first track piece 100, any two first track grooves 71 are arranged in a communicated manner and each is provided with an allocation plate 72 at an intersection. An end of the allocation plate 72 facing an intersection direction of the two first track grooves 71 is arranged as a sharp corner end, and an allocation bevel 721 is formed on a side wall of the sharp corner end facing the two first track grooves 71. That is to say, the first track 50 of the first track piece 100 is a special-shaped rhombic track formed by communicating and combining the four first track grooves 71, and the second track 60 thereof is a herringbone track formed by communicating and combining the two first track grooves 71.

It should be noted that the two allocation bevels 721 at the sharp corners can collide with the guide wheel of the track car 600 after the track car 600 moves into the intersection of the two first track grooves 71, so as to randomly change the steering of the guide wheel, such that the track car 600 can randomly enter any one of the two intersected first track grooves 71, and therefore, the moving randomness may be improved, and the gaming interestingness may be increased.

The second track piece 200 is a quadrangular plate body. The first track 50 of the second track piece 200 includes one first track groove 71, and the second track 60 of the second track piece 200 includes two first track grooves 71. It may be understood that in the second track piece 200 provided by the present embodiment, the two first track grooves 71 of the second track 60 are separately formed, and the first track grooves 71 of the first track 50 and the second track 60 are not overlapped in an orthographic direction. That is to say, the first track 50 of the second track piece 200 is an arc-shaped track formed by one first track groove 71, the second track 60 of the second track piece 200 is a track with the shape of the Chinese character “” formed by combining the two first track grooves 71 in a spaced manner, and the first track 50 is located between the second track 60. In other embodiments of the present disclosure, in the second track piece 200, the first track grooves 71 of the first track 50 and the second track 60 may be partially overlapped in the orthographic direction, that is to say, the first track 50 overlaps with one of the first track grooves 71 of the second track 60.

The third track piece 300 is a quadrangular plate body. The first track 50 of the third track piece 300 includes one second track groove 73, and the second track 60 of the third track piece 300 includes two second track grooves 73. It may be understood that the second track grooves 73 extend along a straight line and communicate two opposite sides of the quadrangular plate body. In the third track piece 300, the two second track grooves 73 of the second track 60 are arranged in a communicated manner. That is to say, the first track 50 of the third track piece 300 is a “-”-shaped track formed by the second track grooves 73, and the second track 60 of the third track piece 300 is a cross-shaped track formed by communicating and combining the two second track grooves 73.

The fourth track piece 400 is a fan-shaped plate body. The first track 50 and the second track 60 of the fourth track piece 400 each includes one first track groove 71. In the fourth track piece 400, two ends of the first track grooves 71 of the first track 50 and the second track 60 are located at right-angle sides of the fan-shaped plate body, and the first track and the second track are correspondingly arranged.

Each of the fixing buckles 500 is of a strip-shaped buckle structure. A buckling groove 510

is formed in a penetrating manner between two ends of the fixing buckle 500, and the buckling groove 510 is configured to insert and fix two track pieces. In the present embodiment, a length of the buckling groove 510 is less than a side length of the regular quadrangular plate body (or a radius length of the fan-shaped plate body) and is greater than the side length of the regular quadrangular plate body (or the radius length of the fan-shaped plate body), such that any two track pieces can be tightly inserted into the buckling grooves 51 and normal work of the track grooves may not be interfered. Moreover, the fixing buckle 500 has the advantages of simple structure, reduced overall production costs, high use safety, convenient use, small influence on the appearance of the track pieces, good using effect, and the like.

In the present embodiment, the track car 600 includes a shell 610 and a driving component 620. The shell 610 includes an outer shell 611, an inner shell 612 detachably connected inside the outer shell 611, and a flippable shell 613 with one side rotationally connected to the outer shell 611 and the other side connected to the outer shell 611 in a buckled manner. It may be understood that driving wheels 630 are rotationally connected to two sides of the outer shell 611, a guide wheel 640 is rotationally connected to a bottom side of the outer shell 611, and the guide wheel 640 slidably fits in the track grooves of the first track 50 and the second track 60. The driving component 620 includes a battery 621, a motor 622, and a switch 623 electrically connected to form a closed circuit. The battery 621 is located between the inner shell 612 and the flippable shell 613 and is detachably connected to the inner shell 612. The motor 622 and the switch 623 are located between the outer shell 611 and the inner shell 612 and are fixed in the outer shell 611. The motor 622 is in driving connection to the driving wheels 630 through a transmission group 624. In other embodiments of the present disclosure, the track car 600 may be arranged as another existing track car structure.

It should be noted that in the structure of the track car 600 provided by the present embodiment, the battery 621 may be replaced conveniently. When the battery 621 needs to be mounted or replaced, it is only needed to open and rotate the flippable shell 613 to perform an operation rapidly, which is beneficial to improving the game experience.

For the sake of clarity, some features described in independent embodiments of the present disclosure may be combined for use in a single embodiment. Moreover, various features of the present disclosure described in the single embodiment may also be independently used or used in any appropriate form in subcombinations.