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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2002
Chris T. Baumgartner, Pasadena, CA (US);
Joseph T. Moll, Prospect Park, PA (US);
Truman J. Gilbert, Phildelphia, PA (US);
Stephen N. Weiss, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Nathan Bloch, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
David V. Helmlinger, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Gregory Nungester, Titusville, NJ (US);
Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A toy vehicle combination includes a master toy vehicle and a slave toy vehicle. The master toy vehicle includes a transmitter configured to broadcast an IR tracking signal. The slave toy vehicle includes at least first and second directional IR receivers configured to receive the tracking signal from different directions around the slave toy vehicle and is configured to follow or evade the master toy vehicle, which is conventionally remotely controlled.