Toy Launcher

The present disclosure relates to the field of toy launchers, and in particular to a toy launcher.

The existing toy firearms products generally use a single launching structure design, mainly focusing on basic functions such as ballistic simulation and an acousto-optic effect. Although such products can be devoted to improving fidelity of products, there are still some shortcomings.

First, a shell of an existing launcher usually uses a closed streamline design, which ensures grip comfort, but does not have the ability of extending modules at all. Users cannot modify an appearance structure according to individual needs, and the products are poor in extensibility.

Second, a conventional launcher lacks creative interactive elements, and users can only repeat a linear filling and launching operation during use. An interaction degree between products and users is low.

The present disclosure provides a toy launcher, which can solve the problems that the products are poor in extensibility and the interaction degree is low.

The present disclosure provides a toy launcher, including:

Preferably, the gun body is provided with a grip, the building block connecting device further includes at least one grip plate, several of the building block connecting protrusions are arranged on the grip plate, and the grip plate is arranged on the grip.

Preferably, the grip is provided with a mounting ring groove on an outer side wall of a periphery;

Preferably, the building block connecting device includes two of the grip plates;

Preferably, the building block connecting device further includes at least one inserting plate, the plurality of building block connecting protrusions are arranged on the inserting plate, and the inserting plate is inserted into at least one of the gun body and the sliding sleeve.

Preferably, the gun body is provided with two mutually symmetrical fixing grooves, and a groove wall of each of the fixing grooves is provided with a plurality of fixing ring grooves;

Preferably, part of the building block connecting protrusions are integrally formed on the gun body; and/or

Preferably, the outer side wall of the sliding sleeve is provided with three mounting surfaces with different orientations;

Preferably, the launching device includes a trigger and a launching component, the trigger is movably arranged on the gun body, the launching component is arranged in the gun body, and the trigger is configured to trigger the launching component when being active, so that the launching component launches toy bullets.

Preferably, the gun body is provided with a magazine compartment, the toy launcher further includes a magazine, the magazine is detachably inserted into the magazine compartment, and the magazine is configured to store the toy bullets and supply the toy bullets to the launching component for launching.

The present disclosure has the following beneficial effects.

The present disclosure relates to a toy launcher. The toy launcher achieves splicing extension of building blocks at any position on a surface of the toy launcher by arranging distributed building block connecting protrusions on outer side walls of a gun body and a sliding sleeve (such as a protrusion spacing is adapted to a standard building block unit pitch) and matching with a building block connecting post of a detachable splicing device. Users can flexibly mount a functional module (such as an aiming scope, a magazine extension component, etc.) or a decorative building block unit on a top of the gun body, a side of a grip or a sliding sleeve according to individual requirements. The building block unit is a splicing device, which breaks through limitation of a closed shell of the existing toy launcher on extensibility. In addition, users can flexibly choose different numbers of splicing devices with different shapes for assembly. Besides a filling and launching operation, more interaction manners between toys and users are provided to users, which improves an interaction degree of products.

The embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail with reference to the attached drawings. Although the attached drawings show the embodiments of the present disclosure, it should be understood that the present disclosure can be achieved in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth here. On the contrary, these embodiments are provided to make the present disclosure more thorough and complete, and to fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art.

It should be understood that although the terms “first”, “second” and “third” may be used to describe various information in the present disclosure, these information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish the same type of information from each other. For example, the first information can also be referred to as the second information without departing from the scope of the present disclosure, and similarly, the second information can also be referred to as the first information. Therefore, the features defined as “first” and “second” may include one or more of these features explicitly or implicitly. In the description of the present disclosure, “a plurality of” means two or more, unless otherwise specified.

In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that the orientation or position relationships indicated by the terms such as “length”, “width”, “up”, “down”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inside”, and “outside” are based on the orientation or position relationships shown in the attached drawings only for the convenience of describing the present disclosure and simplifying the description, rather than indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure.

Unless otherwise specified and defined expressly, the terms such as “mount”, “link”, “connect” and “fix” should be understood broadly, for example, it can be fixed connection, detachable connection or integral connection; or mechanical connection or electrical connection; or direct connection or indirect connection through an intermediate medium, or the internal communication of two elements or the interaction between two elements. For those skilled in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in the present disclosure can be understood according to specific situations.

toshow a toy launcheraccording to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The toy launchercan launch toy bullets. The toy bullets belong to the prior art, which can be all kinds of toy bullets for launching in the prior art. It should be noted that because the types of toy bullets are different, the toy launchershould also be provided with a corresponding type of mechanisms to adapt to launch different types of toy bullets.

As shown into, the toy launcherincludes a gun body, a sliding sleeve, a launching device, a building block connecting deviceand at least one splicing device.

It can be understood that the gun bodyis configured to provide a mounting space for other parts and devices, and also to provide a position for users to hold and use. The sliding sleeveis arranged, which can improve fidelity of products. The sliding sleeveis a sliding sleeve simulating the actual firearms. The launching devicebelongs to the prior art, which can impart torque to the toy bullets, so that the toy bullets can be launched after obtaining a certain initial velocity. The building block connecting deviceis arranged on the gun bodyand/or the sliding sleeve, thereby providing a position on the gun bodyand/or the sliding sleevewhere the splicing devicecan be mounted. The splicing deviceincludes at least one building block splicing unit. The building block splicing unit can be assembled on the building block connecting devicealone or assembled on the building block connecting deviceafter a plurality of building block units are assembled with each other.

As shown into, the sliding sleeveis arranged on the gun body. The launching deviceis configured to launch toy bullets. The building block connecting deviceincludes a plurality of building block connecting protrusions. Each of the building block connecting protrusionsis arranged on an outer side wall of the gun bodyand/or an outer side wall of the sliding sleeve, respectively. At least one building block connecting postis arranged on the splicing device, and the building block connecting postis detachably inserted between any parts of the building block connecting protrusions.

It can be understood that the gun bodyis configured to carry the integrated mounting of the sliding sleeve, the launching device and the building block connecting device, so as to ensure the movement coordination of all parts.

The building block connecting protrusionmay be arranged on the outer side wall of the sliding sleeve, thereby allowing the splicing module to be extended on a movable part of the products. The sliding sleeveand the gun bodycan be slidably connected through a chute structure or a guide rail structure.

The launching deviceprovides power transmission and bullet launching functions, and converts mechanical energy into bullet kinetic energy through a spring energy storage mechanism.

The building block connecting protrusionscan be configured to be distributed only on the outer side wall of the gun body. The building block connecting protrusionscan also be configured to be distributed only on the outer side wall of the sliding sleeve. The building block connecting protrusionscan also be distributed on the outer side wall of the gun bodyand the outer side wall of the sliding sleeve simultaneously. Each of the building block connecting protrusionsis arranged, which can form a standardized splicing node, provide a fixed anchor point for the splicing device, and achieve multi-position free extension.

The splicing deviceis inserted into and mounted on the building block connecting protrusionthrough the building block connecting post. Of course, the splicing devicecan be connected with the splicing devicethrough the building block connecting post, and each of the building block units in a single splicing devicecan also be flexibly assembled through the building block connecting post.

It should be noted that the present disclosure breaks through limitation of the closed shell of the conventional toy launcher in such a manner that the building block connecting protrusions are arranged on the gun bodyand/or the sliding sleeve, and supports extension of a functional module or a decorative module in different positions of the products. Secondly, the building block connecting protrusionarranged on the outer side wall of the sliding sleeve can avoid the mechanical interference between the splicing device and the movable part and ensure the consistency of the launching action. Furthermore, the interference fit design between the building block connecting postand the building block connecting protrusioneffectively resists the detachment of the component resulted from emitted vibration while ensuring easy disassembly and assembly. In addition, the creative play of building block splicing is combined with the dynamic operation of the launcher, which effectively improves the multi-dimensional interactive experience of users.

It should also be noted that the extension of the functional module can be achieved by arranging light, sound, vibration or other functional units in the prior art on the splicing device, so that the splicing devicehas different functions.

As shown into, in some embodiments of the toy launcher, the gun bodyis provided with a grip. The building block connecting devicefurther includes at least one grip plate. Several of the building block connecting protrusionsare arranged on the grip plate, and the grip plateis arranged on the grip.

It can be understood that the gripis for the user to hold and use. The grip plateis configured to be mounted on the grip, thereby providing a position on the gripwhere the splicing devicecan be mounted. In this way, the grip platecan be manufactured independently. A plurality of building block connecting protrusionsarranged on the grip platemay be stuck and difficult to remove in the injection molding and demoulding process. However, the content of this embodiment can ensure the injection manufacturing efficiency of the grip plate. Furthermore, the gun bodyand the grip platehave different application requirements. The gun bodyneeds higher strength to support the mounting of other devices, and the grip plateneeds higher wear resistance. Through the technical solution of this embodiment, different rubber materials can be respectively used for injection molding according to actual application requirements, so as to improve the durability of the products.

As shown into, in some embodiments of the toy launcher, the gripis provided with a mounting ring grooveon an outer side wall of a periphery. The building block connecting deviceincludes two or more of the grip plates. Each of the grip platesis provided with the plurality of building block connecting protrusions. Each of the grip platesis arranged in the mounting ring groove, respectively, and the grip platesare jointly wound and fixed on the grip.

It can be understood that the building block connecting deviceis divided into a plurality of independent grip plates, which supports partial disassembly or replacement and avoids the cost increase resulted from the damage of the whole structure. The grip platecan be configured to be embedded into the mounting ring groovethrough elastic clamping or sliding fit.

Further, different grip platescan be designed with planar, curved, or special-shaped contours to adapt to the splicing angles and stress requirements of different building block components.

As shown into, in some embodiments of the toy launcher, the building block connecting deviceincludes two of the grip plates, and the two grip platescan be connected by at least the following methods.

First, at least one of the grip platesis provided with a mounting post, and the grip plateis inserted into the other grip platethrough the mounting post. It can be understood that the grip plateis inserted into a corresponding jack of the other grip platethrough the mounting postto form a mechanical interlock, which can achieve the positioning without accessories, simplify the assembly and reduce the manufacturing cost. Correspondingly, the other grip plateis provided with a mounting hole, and the mounting postis inserted into the mounting hole.

Second, the two grip platesare connected by a buckle. It can be understood that elastic hooks and slots are arranged at the edges of adjacent grip plates. Plastic deformation is used to achieve quick engagement, thus simplifying the assembly operation steps.

Third, the two grip platesare connected by magnetic attraction. It can be understood that a magnetic element (such as a magnet or a magnetic conductive sheet) is embedded in the grip plate, and non-contact adsorption positioning is achieved through magnetic attraction, thus reducing the operational difficulty for children.

It should be noted that the connection mode between the grip platescan be flexibly selected according to the actual use requirements or design requirements. Of course, two or more connection structures can also be used to connect the grip plates.

As shown in,,and, in some embodiments of the toy launcher, the building block connecting devicefurther includes at least one inserting plate. The plurality of building block connecting protrusionsare arranged on the inserting plate, and the inserting plateis inserted into at least one of the gun bodyand the sliding sleeve.

It can be understood that the inserting plateis arranged, which can provide the mounting position of the splicing deviceat more positions outside the products, thus further improving the interactivity and extensibility of the products.

It should be noted that the inserting platemay be configured to be only inserted into and mounted on the gun body. The inserting platemay also be configured to be only inserted into and mounted on the sliding sleeve. A plurality of inserting platescan also be arranged, in which part of the inserting platesare inserted into and mounted on the sliding sleeve, and other parts of inserting platesare inserted into and mounted on the gun body.

As shown in,,and, in some embodiments of the toy launcher, the gun bodyis provided with two mutually symmetrical fixing grooves, and a groove wall of each of the fixing groovesis provided with a plurality of fixing ring grooves.

The building block connecting deviceincludes two of the inserting plates. One surface of each of the inserting platesis provided with a fixing post. The opposite other surface of each of the inserting platesis provided with the plurality of building block connecting protrusions. A side wall of a periphery of each of the inserting platesis provided with a plurality of fixing steps.

Each of the inserting platesis arranged in each of the fixing groovesin a one-to-one correspondence, each of the fixing postsis inserted into a groove bottom of the fixing groove, and each of the fixing stepsis inserted into each of the fixing ring groovesin a one-to-one correspondence.

It can be understood that the fixing groovesare symmetrically provided on two sides of the gun body. A balanced mounting position can be formed. A problem of unilateral weight bias during unilateral building block splicing is offset by the symmetrical layout of the two inserting plates, and the overall structural stability of the gun bodyis improved.

The fixing ring grooveon the side wall of the fixing grooveand the fixing stepon the side wall of the periphery of the inserting plateform a multi-level nested fit, which limits the radial displacement and rotation of the inserting platein the fixing grooveand prevents the inserting platefrom loosening or even detaching when the building block is stressed. The contour of the groove wall of the fixing ring grooveadapts to the contour of the fixing step.