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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2023
Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Jung Jun Hwang, Inglewood, CA (US);
Alex Au, Kowloon, HK;
Tsz Kin Lim, Yuen Long, HK;
Paul Schmid, Ojai, CA (US);
Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A toy vehicle launcher is movable to a plurality of launching locations disposed along one or more pathways of a toy vehicle track set. The toy vehicle launcher is configured to impart a launching force to a toy vehicle when the toy vehicle launcher is disposed in one of the plurality of launching locations, and the toy vehicle launcher is configured to prevent the launching force from being imparted to the toy vehicle while the toy vehicle launcher is moving between the plurality of launching locations. Additionally or alternatively, the toy vehicle launcher may be configured to impart different launching forces of different magnitudes to the toy vehicle at different locations of the plurality of launching locations.