Emotional expression character

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5700178
SERIAL NO

08696639

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A child's toy is disclosed that provides for a character that is capable of both visually and audibly displaying a variety of emotional expressions and which is capable of providing these displays in combination with playing a 'peek-a-boo' game with the toy character. The toy has a housing that is shaped like a teddy bear, with openings for the bear's eyes and mouth and a pair of paws that rotate to a position where both paws cover the eyes of the bear when mechanically activated by the child. The paws are mechanically interconnected to a disk mounted within the housing which contains different representations for the eyes and the mouth of the bear, each of which is configured to represent a different emotional expression, on its front surface. The representations for the eyes and the mouth of the bear appear through the eye and mouth openings in the bear's face. The face disk is rotated such that when the paws rotate to their position in front of the face of the bear, a different emotional expression representation for the eyes and the mouth is presented through the housing openings for the eyes and the mouth. When the paws move back to a position away from the face of the bear, the changed emotional expression representation for the eyes and the mouth are now visible to a child. The toy also produces an audible emotional expression representation in conjunction with the visual emotional expression. The visual and audible expression displays are coordinated such that, in combination, they provide an appropriate representation for a specific emotional state (e.g. sad, happy, sleepy, etc.).

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FISHER-PRICE INC636 GIRARD AVENUE EAST AURORA NY 14052

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cimerman, Christopher D Depew, NY 12 155
Long, Jennifer M East Aurora, NY 3 32

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