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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2013
Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Jeffrey A Saunders, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
James P Zielinski, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
Animated toy figures including a torso having a neck and an interior body cavity, a head that is pivotally coupled to the neck, a vertically oriented lifting structure, where an upward movement of the lifting structure results in a backward pivoting of the head, first and second arm members disposed on opposing sides of the torso, a cross-connector rotatably disposed within the interior body cavity connected to and extending between the first and second arm members and configured to drive the lifting structure upward upon rotation of the cross-connector, and an activating member disposed on the torso that is operatively coupled to the cross-connector. Activation of the activating member rotates the cross-connector, thereby rotating the first and second arm members and vertically displacing the lifting structure, so that the upward movement of the arm members is coupled to a backward pivoting of the head.