Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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Building Base Plates Assembled to Build Blocks Set in Cube Dimensional
Configurations
Field of the Invention
This invention involves a design which makes the building block overturn.
Description of Prior Arts
Many designs of building blocks move only flat, but the applicant
invented a kind of turnover building blocks; the players can show their
smartness by moving this set of building block less, which motivate the
players
as well.
In order to overturn the building blocks, players have to think:
1. Overturn direction: Whether it is in right or slash way; if the overturn
is in right way, the building blocks have to move on vertical axis, the X
axis, or horizontal axis, the Y axis; if the overturn is in slash way, there
should be overturn in 45 angles;
2. Overturn angles: If the building block is cube, it should be overturn in
90 angles; if the building block is in flat, it should be overturn in 180
angles; this overturn angles are concerned with the ways to play;
3. The shape of Building Block: The cube is consisted of many units,
which are in cube, ball or other forms; its shape and number changes
with the units and the number of cubes.
4. Flat Shape: Flat provides a base for the overturn of cubes, and there are
many kind of flat shapes such as square, rectangle, triangle. Once the
shape of flat changes, the methods to play this building blocks is
different;
5. The bump place: The bump is set on the flat; it will be more difficult to
play the game if the number of bumps added; the position, and
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numbers on the flat have to be planned in advance;
There are different ways and levels of playing this set of building block
according to the 5 points mentioned above; in this way, the players are
motivated and the methods to play this game becomes the central topic.
Summary of the Invention
This invention is invented in the way that a set of overturn building block
cube,
including building block (10) which is consisted of two to eight cubes,
including at
least eight corners and twelve ridges; said ridges is designed with balls (11)
and every
balls (11) has the same diameter outside; said flat (20) has the same distance
with said
hole (21), which is a dimple, and the distance between two holes (b) equals to
the side
length of cube ball (a); thus balls (11) of the building block (10) can
function with
hole (21) and makes building block (10) stands on the flat (20) after the ball
(11) is
inserted into the hole (21); said building block (10) can connect with any two
balls (11)
as rotate axis to rotate 90 degrees on any two holes (21) with front, back,
right and left
side on the flat (20).
According to the description above, said flat (20) designs a said bump (22) to
impede the building block (10); said building block (10) has correspondence
bump
(22) for gap (22).
According to the description above, said flat (20) is designed to be hollow
(23);
there are many marks (31) on the card (30), placed under flat (20); people can
see card
(30) and its marks (31) through hollow (23), and this invention makes at least
two
marks (31) to be the imaginary bump (32) to impede the turnover of building
block
(10).
According to the description above, said flat (20), printed with lots of marks
(31), is transparent and card (30) is placed under flat (20); through
transparent flat
(20), people can see the surface of marks (31) on card (30); there are at
least two
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marks (31) to be the imaginary bump (32) of building block (10).
According to the description above, said flat (20) is designed with frame slot
(40)
with many cards (30) in it; the base of said card box (40) has frame slot (41)
to place
building block (10).
According to the description above, said flat (20) is designed with a cover
(50) to
close, and on the inside part of said cover (50) have a frame slot (51) to
place building
block (10); building block (10) is placed inside cover (50).
According to the description above, twelve corners are replaced with arc line
(13)
and said flat (20); hole (21) are connected with arc groove (25); said arc
line (13) and
arc groove (25) can correspond with each other.
According to the description above, the shapes of cube (10) are selected from
the
following:
First building block (101) is composed of two connected cubes;
Second building block (102) is composed of three connected cubes;
Third building block (103) is composed of four connected cubes;
Fourth building block (104) is composed of six connected cubes;
Fifth building block (105) is composed of eight connected cubes;
Sixth building block (106) is composed of five connected cubes and one
unit of open gap (12);
Seventh building block (107) is composed of six connected cubes and
two unit of open gap (12);
Eighth building block (108) is composed of seven connected cubes and
one unit of open gap (12);
According to the description above, it is characteristic in that:
Every building block (10) is composed two to eight cubes and each cube
contains
at least eight corners and twelve ridges, which are replaced the protruding
balls (11);
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the side length of a cube equals to the distance of two bump (21) on flat
(20), so each
ball (11) of cube (10) can work with hole (21) of flat (20).
Each ball (11) of cube (10) is inserted into holes (21) on flat (20) to make
cube
(10) place on flat (20); when cube (10) use any of two balls (11) as axis, it
can
rotate 90 degrees on any two holes (21) of flat (20).
Said flat (20) designs a said bump (22) to impede the building block (10); it
will
be more difficult if building block (10) hinder by more and more bump (22) and
vise
versa; the difficulty level can change according to the number of bump (22)
for
building block (10) to motivate players.
Said flat (20) is designed to be hollow (23) between every hole (21) of every
four
square; there are many marks (31) on the card (30), placed under flat (20);
people can
see card (30) and its marks (31) through hollow (23), and this invention makes
at least
two marks (31) to be the imaginary bump (32) to impede the turnover of
building
block (10); the level of difficulty increases when overturn to reach the
effect of fun.
Said flat (20), printed with lots of marks (31), is transparent and card (30)
is
placed under flat (20); through transparent flat (20), people can see the
surface of
marks (31) on card (30), and every marks (31) corresponds to the square of
bump (21)
which makes at least two marks (31) to be the imaginary bump (32) of building
block
(10); the difficulty arises when overturn to reach the effect of fun.
There are many cards (30) and each card (30) has two bumps (32) on different
positions; there is a card box (40) under flat (20) to place cards (30); the
players can
change the cards (30) in card box (40) anytime; the card drawn out can be
placed on
top of card (30), close to flat (20), and easy to see; flat (20) can protect
from dust with
cover (50) on top.
In addition, there are frame slot (41) and frame slot (51) on card box (40) or
cover (50) for cube (10) to be embedded; thus cube (10) can be placed within
card
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box (40) or cover (50) to hide and can prevent from loss.
Detailed Description of the Preferred Embodiments
Fig. 1-1: shows a decomposition of this overturn building block invention; a
building block (10) is a representative which is characteristic in that:
building block is
consisted of at least two to eight cubes with at least eight corners and
twelve edge
lines, and said corner is replaced by protruding balls (11) with the same
diameter
outside; said holes (21) are arranged in the array method on said flat (21)
and balls of
the building block (10) can function with hole (21), which makes building
block (10)
stands on the flat (20).
Fig. 1-4: shows the view of a cube, which contains six same faces, and each
side
length of cube cell is the same; this invention eliminates different shape of
cube and
said cube overturn in only 90 degrees without 180 degrees.
Fig. 1-1, fig. 1-2 and fig. 1-3 shows that the building blocks (10) is
consisted of
two cubes and each length of cube unit (a) equals to the distance (b) of each
two holes
(21) on flat (20); the length relation is: (a)=(b); in this way, each ball
(11) on building
block can match with each hole (21) on flat (20).
There are different shapes of cubes above mentioned, as Fig. 21 shows, there
are
eight different building blocks (101 to 108), and each building block of width
(W)
equals to the distance (b) of two holes; by math forms: (W)=(a)=(b).
The length of blocks (L) and the height of blocks (H) are different; from
length
view:
The length (L) of blocks (101 and 103) equals the side length of cube ball
(a),
which also equals to the distance (b) of three holes (21); by math forms: (L)=
2 (a)=2 (b).
The length (L) of blocks (102, 104 and 106) equals to the length (L) of three
cube cells (a); which also equals to the distance among three holes (21); by
math
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forms: (L)=3 (a)=3 (b).
The length (L) of blocks (105, 107 and 108) equals to the length (L) of four
cube
cells (a); which also equals to the distance among four holes (21) ; by math
forms:
(L)=4 (a)=4 (b).
From height view:
The height (H) of blocks (101 and 102) equals to the height (H) of one cube
cell
(a), which also equals to the distance between two holes (21); by math forms:
(L)=
(a)= (b)=
The height (H) of blocks (103 to 108) equals to the height (H) of two cube
cells
(a); which also equals to the distance among three holes (21); by math forms:
(L)=
2(a)= 2(b).
According to the mentioned above, each hole (21) on flat (20) corresponds to
arc
groove (25); said arc groove (25) corresponds to are lines (13), so arc line
(13) will be
laid on arc groove (25) when overturn; without the design of arc line (13),
there is no
need for arc groove (25).
According to the mentioned above, building block (10) overturn with the
rotation
axis of two balls (11) on each corner lines; each two holes (21) can match
with flat
(20) to make only 90 degrees without any other angle; it can be seen from Fig.
2-1 to
Fig. 2-6; (A) in Fig. 2-1 to Fig. 2-6 shows the start position (A), and the
(B) is the
complete position of building blocks (10); said start position and complete
position
are decided by players and building block (10) has to start from start
position (A) to
complete position (B) with times of 90 degrees overturn; eg. there are many
ways to
play this game from Fig. 2-1 to Fig. 2-6, from start position (A) to complete
position
(B); the winners can take the least overturn to finish; the fig. shows only
one of the
methods to play and once the start position (A) and complete position (B)
changes, the
difficulty of this game changes.
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Said building blocks (10) are characteristic in that:
1. Building block is in the shape of cuboid, and there are composed of at
least
two cubes;
2. Building block overturn in the position of 90 degrees;
3. Building block can only move in straight; eg. front, back, right and left
overturn without 45 degrees of slash overturn;
4. Building block can overturn with the axis of each two balls (11) on each
ridges of each two holes (21) on flat (20).
In addition, the corners of building block (10) are replaced by protruding
balls
(11), and the building block is characteristic in that:
1. Balls (11) are easy to be placed on holes (21) of flat (20); in this way,
the
surface of building block (10) can be placed on flat (20);
2. holes (21) are shallow arcs and balls (11) are easy to overturn with little
obstruction on shallow arc;
3. Balls (11) are placed on holes (21) so it is not easy to rotate; even
though the
shake of flat (20), the balls (11) are placed steady on holes (21);
4. Protruding balls (11) can reach the function of safety and makes building
block (10) safe without scratch.
Moreover, the ridges of building block (10) are replaced by the protruding arc
lines, and the building block (10) is characteristic in that:
1. Arc lines (13) are easy to be placed on the arc grooves of flat (20) to
make the
surface of building block (10) placed on the flat (20);
2. Arc lines (13) are not easy to rotate in arc grooves (25); even though the
shape
of flat (20), arc line (13) are placed steady on arc grooves (25);
3. Protruding arc lines (13) can reach the function of safety without scratch
and
makes building blocks (10) without any edges shown outside.
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Fig. 3 and Fig. 4: shows view of the movement of this building block; Fig. 3
shows the building block (10) on flat (20) of its start position (A) and
complete
position (B) on the diagonal, and Fig. 4 shows building block (10) on flat
(20) of its
start position (A) and complete position (B) not on the diagonal; it can be
inferred
from two embodiment examples that start position (A) and complete position (B)
can
be in any position of flat (20) without being limited on Fig. 3 and Fig. 4;
thus start
position (A) and complete position (B) can be decided by players. After
players move
the building block (10) from start position (A) to complete position (B), they
finish
the game; the winners are those who move with fewest overturn times. In this
way,
this game is fun, creativity, competitive to players, and can motivate
players.
Fig. 5: shows the two bumps (22) to impede building block (10) on flat (20)
and
the bumps (22) are placed inter every four holes (21); said area of said bump
(22)
equals top one unit of cube.
And the shapes of bump (22) are not limited but the height is no more than the
side length of cube cell (a), and the number of bump (22) should contains at
least on
unit; the numbers of bumps (22) can be added, and this game will be more
difficult if
the number of bumps (22) added with the overturn building block (10) on flat
(20);
the position of bump (22) can be fixed or not, if not, the position of bump
(22) can be
placed anywhere on flat (20).
As reference to fig. 6, said bump (22) is the obstacle point of this game, and
to
make this game fun and have creativity, the inventor makes a gap (12) to the
building
block (10); take Fig. 6 for example, building block (10) is consisted of five
cubes, and
contains a gap (12) outside; the are of the gap (12) equals to the are of the
bump (22);
the overturn of building block (10) can hide away from bump (22) by gap (12)
or
bypass on two sides of the bump (22) to the complete position (B); building
block
(10') in the Fig. 6 shows the complete position of this game.
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As reference to fig. 7, there are two bump (22) on the flat (20) according to
Fig.
6, and the sum of bumps (22) are four; when building block (10) goes start
from start
position (A) to complete position (B), it has to hide away from these four
building
blocks (22); building block (10) can bypass through two sides of the bump (22)
or
hide away from bump (22) by the gap (12); the difficult of Fig. 7 is higher
than Fig.
6.
It can be inferred from the idea that the design of bumps (22) are harder than
the
design without bumps (22); once the number of bumps (22) increased, the
difficulty
of this game increases; moreover, building block (10) are consisted of two to
eight
unit of cubes; once the number of cubes increased, the bulk of building blocks
(10)
increased, which will make this game harder; whenever the gap (12) is designed
on
building block (10), the fun of this game increases.
In order to make bump (22) move freely on flat (20), bumps (22) are made to be
the moving parts; ie. bumps (22) can change its position on flat (20); as Fig.
7 shows,
said flat (20) is designed to be hollow (23) between every hole (21) of every
four
square; the bottom of bump (22) can be inserted with hollow (23), and there
are many
ways of insertion, which are not stated here; the bump (22) can also be taken
out from
hollow (23) to change position for the purpose of motivating players.
According to the mentioned above, the bump (22) is the obstacle on flat (20)
and
can also be practiced on Fig. 8; as Fig. 8 shows, there are many marks (31),
which are
Arab numbers or symbols on front and back side on a card (30); for example,
marks
(31) is Arab numbers and choose two or more numbers from marks (31) as the
imaginary bump (32); the imaginary bump (32) are shown on Arab numbers of
round
brackets. Said card (30) can work with flat (20) and explained on fig. 9 and
fig. 10.
Fig. 9 and fig. 10 shows the exploded and schematic view of card and flat; in
fig. 9, cards (30) are placed under flat (20), and the marks (31) on card (30)
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corresponds to each hollow (23); thus players can see the marks (31) and each
hollow
(23) through each hollow (23) of card (30) as fig.ll shows; the overturn of
building
block (10) on flat (20) can hide away from imaginary bump (32) with gap (12)
or
bypass the two sides of imaginary bump (32) with gap (12). Thus, it can be
inferred
that bump (22) can be replaced by imaginary bump (32) of card (30).
Fig. 12 shows the view of flat and card from naked eyes; fig. 12 is different
from
fig. 11 that there is no hollow (23) on flat (20); card (30) is placed under
flat (20) and
each marks (31) on the card are placed among every four holes (21) arranged in
matrix; thus players can see marks (31) and imagery bump (32) through flat
(20) on
card (30) with naked eyes; the structure can be explained in fig. 13.
Cards (30) are placed under flat (20) in fig. 13, and many marks (31) on cards
(30) are placed among every four holes (21), arranged in matrix forms; in fig.
14,
when flat (20) and cards (30) are combined, players can see marks (31) and
imaginary
bump (32) on cards (30) through holes (21); the imaginary bump (32) can
replaced
with substantial bump (22).
According to the description above, bump (22) and imaginary bump (32) are the
obstacle of building block (10), and can also be the start position and
complete
position as fig. 6 shows; two bump (22) can be the start and complete position
of
building block (10) on flat (20), so imaginary bump (32) can be the start and
complete
position of building block (10) on flat (20).
Fig. 15 shows the 3-Dimensional view of connection of flat, cover, and card
box, fig. 16 shows 3-Dimensional assemble view of fig. 15 and fig. 17 shows
the X-X
cutaway view of fig. 16; there are many said cards (30) and can be placed in
card box
(40) and card box (40) is under flat (20). Said flat (20) can have a cover
(50) to protect
from dust and designed from loss for front slot (51) of each building block
(10). Said
flat (20), card box (40) and cover (50) are connected with each other on one
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bolt, which is traditional art and not stated here; said cover (50) has the
function of
open and close, and flat (20) has the same function of open and close; when
the close
of said flat (20), card box (40) and cover (50), it is shown in fig. 16 as a
box. In
addition, fig. 17 shows, building block (10), bump (22) and many cards (30)
hidden
inside this portable box, which is easy to save and prevent from loss.
Fig. 18 shows the 3-Dimensional assemble of flat with another card box, fig.
19
shows the 3-Dimensional view of fig. 18 after assemble, and fig. 20 shows the
Y-Y
cutaway view of fig. 19; this example is different from fig. 15 to 17 in that:
this
example without a cover (50) but said card box (40) are equipped with front
slot (41)
of building block (10) to make building block (10) hid inside card box (40);
said many
cards (30) are piled above front slot (41) and building block (10), so the
depth of this
card box (40) example is more than the example above. Said front slot (41) is
designed according to the number of building block (10); for example, if there
are
different shapes of building block (10), there should be two front slots (41).
From this
example, even without the cover (50), it can be a portable box.
This set of building blocks contains many types of embodiments, as fig. 21
shows that there are eight different shape of building block (10), which
contains two
layers on up and down side, and the width (W) of it equals to the distance (b)
of two
holes; the shapes chosen are as follows:
First building block (101) is composed of two connected cubes, a cuboid,
and there are eight corners, which are replaced with protruding balls (11),
on up and down side;
Second building block (102) is composed of three connected cubes, a cuboid,
and there are eight corners, which are replaced with protruding balls (11), on
up
and down side;
Third building block (103) is composed of four connected cubes, a cuboid;
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there are two units on down row and two units on up row; there are eight
corners
on up and down corners, which are replaced with protruding balls (11):
Fourth building block (104) is composed of six connected cubes, a cuboid;
there
are three units on up and down row; there are eight corners on up and down
corners, which are replaced with protruding balls (11):
Fifth building block (105) is composed of eight connected cubes, a cuboid;
there are four units on up and down row; there are eight corners on up and
down
corners, which are replaced with protruding balls (11):
Sixth building block (106) is composed of five connected cubes and one
unit of open gap (12); there are three units on up and down row, but there is
one unit loss; there are twelve corners on up and down row, which are replaced
with protruding balls (11);
Seventh building block (107) is composed of six connected cubes and two
unit of open gap (12); there are four units on up and down row, but there are
two
unit loss; there are twelve corners on up and down row, which are replaced
with
protruding balls (11);
Eight building block (108) is composed of seven connected cubes and one
unit of open gap (12); there are four units on up and down row, but there is
one
unit loss; there are twelve corners on up and down row, which are replaced
with
protruding balls (11).
According to the above description, every twelve edge lines are replaced by
protruding balls (13), and the design of protruding balls (13) are better than
without.
Moreover, there are round convex tables (14) on top and down layers of each
building
block (10) to make it special, beautiful, good touch quality, and prevent from
slippery;
thus it is good to have the design of protruding balls (13) than without.
In the description above, three building block (106, 107, and 108) with gap
(12)
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can be compared with their difficulty from hard to easy as the eighth building
block
(108) to the sixth building block (106); the difficulty of fifth building
block (105) are
harder than the seventh and eight building block (107 and 108); thus, this
invention
have the level of difficulty, to entertain, challenge, and motivate players on
intellectual activities.
The figures above are better ones chosen out and not for the purpose of
limitations the claims; any changes and revised ones with the same effect
belongs to
this invention.
Brief Description of the Drawings
Fig. 1-1: shows a decomposition of this overturn building block invention;
Fig. 1-2 and 1-3: shows the correspondence picture of the cube and flat;
Fig. 1-4: shows the view of a cube;
Fig. 2-1 to 2-6: shows the overturn of cube on the flat;
Fig. 3: shows first view of the movement of this building block;
Fig. 4: shows second view of the movement of this building block;
Fig. 5: shows the view of bump of this building block;
Fig. 6: shows the movement of this building block on Fig. 5;
Fig. 7: shows view of the added bump on plate;
Fig. 8: shows the 3-Dimensional view of this building block;
Fig. 9: shows the assemble of card, flat, and block on Fig. 8;
Fig. 10: shows the plane view of cube on flat of Fig. 9;
Fig. 11: shows the card view of Fig. 9 from naked eyes;
Fig. 12: shows the view under flat from naked eyes;
Fig. 13: shows the assemble of card, flat and cube of Fig. 12;
Fig. 14: shows the plane view of cube and flat of Fig. 13;
Fig. 15: shows the 3-Dimensional view of connection of flat, cover, and card
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box;
Fig. 16: shows 3-Dimensional assemble view of Fig. 15;
Fig. 17: shows the X-X cutaway view of fig 16;
Fig. 18: shows the 3-Dimensional assemble of flat with another card box;
Fig. 19: shows the 3-Dimensional view of fig. 18 after assemble;
Fig. 20: shows the Y-Y cutaway VIEW OF Fig.19;
Fig. 21: shows the 3-Dimensional view of 8 cubes.
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