Jon C Marine

US Patent:

6547632, Apr 15, 2003

Filed:

Aug 10, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/927910

Inventors:

Jon C. Marine - Fullerton CA
Simon Chow - Tsuen Wan, HK

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63H 1300

US Classification:

446354, 446300, 446330, 446353, 446384, 446391

Abstract:

An interactive, animated, and robotic doll having movable appendages, such as a head, arms, and legs. The doll includes motors, gears and other linkages to actuate the movement of these appendages. A lockout mechanism is operatively incorporated into the doll for preventing conflicting forces from occurring. The lockout mechanism may include a shuttlecock interposed two independent linkages that drive motion in a single appendage. The shuttlecock slides between two positions, each of which limits the movement of a corresponding one of the two linkages when the other of the two linkages is actuating motion in the appendage.

US Patent:

6620020, Sep 16, 2003

Filed:

May 1, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/846881

Inventors:

Jon C. Marine - Fullerton CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63H 328

US Classification:

446298, 446354, 434393

Abstract:

An interactive, animated, robotic doll including a body, a processor, terminals linked to the processor, and a removable attachment. The terminals are connected to metal snaps on the body and the removable attachment includes complimentary snaps that secure the garment to the doll body. An electric circuit is completed when the attachment is secured by the snaps to the doll.

US Patent:

6623327, Sep 23, 2003

Filed:

Jul 18, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/908971

Inventors:

Jon C. Marine - Fullerton CA
Ivan Chan - Hong Kong, HK
Sam Tsui - Hong Kong, HK

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63H 1100

US Classification:

446330, 446354, 446376, 446384

Abstract:

An animated childrens toy including a gear system for providing intermittent and reciprocal motion. The gear system includes a drive gear and a driven gear. The gear system is adapted to have a non-rotating configuration and an engaged configuration. In the non-rotating configuration the driven gear is prevented from rotating, and a corresponding portion of the animated childrens toy is not moving. In the engaged configuration the driven gear rotates and a corresponding portion of the animated childrens toy moves.

US Patent:

6626731, Sep 30, 2003

Filed:

May 14, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/855397

Inventors:

Jon C. Marine - Fullerton CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63H 320

US Classification:

446330, 446376, 446390

Abstract:

A toy doll with articulated moveable wrist/hand structure. A motor in the doll operates to pull on a cable which is drivingly linked to the wrist/hand structure through rotors and links that cooperate, along with regions in the wrist/hand structure to effect complex/compound rotational, translational, and revolutional motions in the wrist/hand structure. The rotors, links and regions mentioned form a pair of interactive pantograph-like arrangements that enhance the produced motions by introducing mechanical advantage.

US Patent:

6747220, Jun 8, 2004

Filed:

Aug 20, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/934078

Inventors:

Jon C. Marine - Fullerton CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

H01H 316

US Classification:

200 6145R, 200 6152, 200277, 73514

Abstract:

According to an embodiment of the invention, a sensor includes a housing with an annular track; a cylindrical contact within the annular track, the cylindrical contact being appropriately sized to allow movement within the annular track; and a plate coupled with the housing, the plate including one or more pairs of electrical contacts situated substantially adjacent to the annular track.

US Patent:

6955363, Oct 18, 2005

Filed:

Dec 3, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/727278

Inventors:

Elizabeth A. Libretti - Santa Monica CA, US
Frederick Loh Man Wai - Hong Kong, CN
Jon Marine - Fullerton CA, US

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63H017/00

US Classification:

280 33993, 280 33991, 280 4735, 280 4738, 446471

Abstract:

A toy shopping cart has a basket and seat that may be used for different functions and which are easily removed from and reattached to a frame of the shopping cart. The frame of the toy shopping cart has a pair of leg assemblies with four wheels and a number of cross-members with a holding channel formed on one of the cross-members to removably support the basket by a rim and the seat by a holding member in position at the front and the rear of the frame. The basket includes a housing with a base that is supported by a second of the cross-members when held in the frame.

US Patent:

7037455, May 2, 2006

Filed:

Dec 20, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/326563

Inventors:

Jon C. Marine - Fullerton CA, US

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

B29C 45/14
B29C 70/70

US Classification:

264130, 264240, 26427213, 26427215, 264275, 264309, 264310

Abstract:

A method of insert molding a preformed item into a molded product, the molded product being formed by injecting a moldable material into a mold, is disclosed. The method includes adhering the preformed item to a surface of the mold with an adhesive, wherein the surface to which the preformed item is adhered is free of any features provided for holding the preformed item in place on the mold surface. The method next includes injecting the moldable material into the mold such that the moldable material at least partially surrounds the preformed item, and curing the moldable material. Articles molded via the disclosed method are also described.

US Patent:

7115014, Oct 3, 2006

Filed:

Sep 3, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/933926

Inventors:

Tara McGrath - Playa Vista CA, US
Kevin W. Gray - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Ok-Soo Choi - Los Angeles CA, US
Sam Tsui - Shau Kei Wang, CN
Jon Marine - Fullerton CA, US

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - El Segundo CA

International Classification:

A63H 7/00

US Classification:

446356, 446304, 446483

Abstract:

A toy animal having a rigid body with movable legs, head and tail, is operated by internal gear mechanisms powered by a single, reversible, battery-powered motor operated in different directions. A hand controller is attached to the body to actuate the single motor in a selected direction to either move a plurality of legs to cause movement of the body while wagging the animal's tail, and to then cause the toy animal to urinate, or to move the head and actuate a tongue held in the head to lick a person holding the toy animal, or ingest fluid. The toy animal may also include a speaker and related circuitry that is actuated to cause the toy animal to make sounds, such as a bark, panting, a whimper and/or a tinkling sound at appropriate times.