Patent ID: 9220991
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: A63H,B61B,B62K

Abstract:
1. A play system, comprising: a track including a rail with a track guide surface and a track support surface adjacent the track guide surface; and a children's ride-on vehicle, including: a steering assembly coupled to the one or more steerable wheels, wherein the steering assembly is configured to translate steering inputs from a child sitting on the seat of the children's ride-on vehicle into directional changes of the rolling axis of each of the one or more steerable wheels, relative to the vehicle body to which the one or more steerable wheels is coupled, by pivoting the one or more steerable wheels relative to the vehicle body; wherein the track support surface is configured to support the children's ride-on vehicle with a child seated upon the children's ride-on vehicle; wherein the track support surface defines an undulating path of travel that includes sequential maximum and minimum elevations of the track support surface; wherein the track guide surface and the wheel guide surface are complementary to each other, configured to guide the children's ride-on vehicle along a path of travel defined by the track, and configured to inhibit separation of the children's ride-on vehicle from the track while the children's ride-on vehicle is operated by a child sitting on the seat; and wherein the children's ride-on vehicle is configured to frictionally engage the track guide surface with the wheel guide surface if the children's ride-on vehicle is steered away from the path of travel, and wherein the children's ride-on vehicle is configured to progress along the path of travel without significant frictional engagement of the wheel guide surface with the track guide surface if the children's ride-on vehicle is steered along the path of travel.