Abstract:
The present invention relates to a sound and light swinging device, more particularly to a swinging device that will swing and produce a predetermine light and sound effect on a decorative object driven electronically to improve the visual effect, aesthetic feeling, and interesting structure. The base of a support stand provides an accommodating space for receiving at least one electronic driver disposed on a pair of vertical stands of the base, and electrically coupled to a power supply as a medium of constructing and connecting to a power supply; at least one swinging member, being extended from a swinging axle rod and movably coupled to the vertical stand and electrically coupled to a power supply for electric connection, a weight member and at least one decorative member are disposed on a swinging stand, and the decorative member has at least one sound and light member inside and electrically coupled to the swinging stand. By means of the power supply of the medium through the vertical stand and the driving operation of the electronic driver, the decorative member will produce a predetermined flash of light or generate a predetermined sound when the decorative member is swinging.

Description:
FIELD OF INVENTION  
         [0001]    The present invention relates to a sound and light swinging device, more particularly to a swinging device that will swing and produce a predetermine light and sound effect on a decorative object driven electronically to improve the visual effect, aesthetic feeling, and interesting structure.  
         BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
         [0002]    In general, a conventional swinging decorative unit (toy) comprises a decorative member, a weight member, a swinging member on which the decorative member and the weight member disposed, and a pair of swinging axle rod of the swinging member for directly setting a pair of vertical stands on a base, such that the vertical stand acts as a support and an axle center for the swing. When an external force is exerted on the swinging member, the axle of the swinging axle rod on the vertical stand works together with the swinging member and the weighted member for the interaction to swing the decorative members back and forth and attain an interesting effect. However such design of the structure is simply limited to an axial swinging effect, and does not have any special sound and light effect. Such arrangement totally depends on the style of the decorative member to obtain the decorative effect.  
           [0003]    Another kind of swinging decorative unit (toy) was also disclosed in the R.O.C. Utility Patent No. 136496 (Publication No. 334838) regarding a structure of the back and forth circumrotating swinging toy, which basically provides an inner space by a base to install an mechanism of electromagnetic field, and the surface of the base has a pair of support stands for pivotally coupled a transversal rod of the swinging structure. The swinging structure has a plurality of link rods, each is installed onto the swinging member; some of the swinging members have an object of magnetic field inside. The swinging structure is directly disposed in the groove edge of the support stand excessively by the transversal rod. The magnetic action between the mechanism of electromagnetic field and the swinging member having an object of magnetic field drives the swinging structure to produce a circumrotating swing. Such structural design can only improve the control of the swing or gain the continuity of the swing, but is lack of special and unique sound or light effects.  
         SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
         [0004]    The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a sound and light swinging device, comprising:  
           [0005]    A support stand, having a pair of vertical stands disposed on a base, and one end of the vertical stand being extended into the base for an electrical coupling, and an open installing area being disposed at the end of the vertical stand;  
           [0006]    At least one set of swinging member, extending a pair of swinging axle rods for movably coupling to the vertical stand and connecting to the power supply, and the body of a swinging stand each having a weighted member and at least one decorative member, and said decorative member has at least one sound and light member inside for being electrically coupled to the swinging stand;  
           [0007]    At least one set of electronic driver, being electrically coupled to and driving the sound and light member;  
           [0008]    By means of having at least one set of sound and light member in the space provided the swinging member, and directly using the vertical stand as the medium of electric conduction, the power supply in the base is conducted to the swinging stand of the swinging member for supplying the power supply required by the operation of the illuminating member; the electronic driver in the base of the support stand driving the sound and light member to light up, flash, or produce sound according to the swinging of the swinging device according to the working mode under the control conditions to obtain a totally different swinging device having a sound and light swinging decoration and interesting effect.  
           [0009]    To provide a further understanding of the invention, the following detailed description illustrates embodiments and examples of the invention, this detailed description being provided only for illustration of the invention. 
       
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
       [0010]    [0010]FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional diagram of the assembled structure according to the first embodiment of the present invention.  
         [0011]    [0011]FIG. 2 is a side-view diagram of the assembled structure according to the first embodiment of the present invention  
         [0012]    [0012]FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram of a manual electronic driver according to the first embodiment of the present invention.  
         [0013]    [0013]FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram of the light controlling electronic driver according to the first embodiment of the present invention.  
         [0014]    [0014]FIG. 5 is a circuit diagram of the sound controlling electronic driver according to the first embodiment of the present invention.  
         [0015]    [0015]FIG. 6 is an illustrative diagram of the flash movement according to the first embodiment of the present invention.  
         [0016]    [0016]FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional diagram of the assembled structure according to the second embodiment of the present invention.  
         [0017]    [0017]FIG. 8 is an illustrative diagram of the inclined state according to the second embodiment of the present invention. 
     
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS  
       [0018]    Refer to FIGS.  1  to  3  for the structure of a first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the structure according to the embodiment of the present invention comprises a support stand  1 , being in the form of various styles and shapes, and a swinging member  2  for being mounted and exerted with force for swinging, and working together with an electronic driver  4  of the power supply; wherein:  
         [0019]    Said support stand  1  comprises a base  11 , providing a accommodating space  18  for disposing at least one set of electronic driver  4  and an electric chamber  19  for accommodating and hiding a power supply member  6  (as shown in FIG. 1); of course, said electric chamber  19  and electronic driver  4  could be directly disposed in the indented space  220  provided by the decorative member  22 ; said base  11  comprises a pair of vertical stands  12  being symmetrically extended upward from an appropriated position on the surface of the base  11 , and said vertical stand is recommend to adopt good electrically conductive materials; a pair of vertical stands  12  are extended from one end of the base  11  and respectively electrically coupled to the electronic driver  4  and the power supply such that the pair of vertical stands  12  forms a medium for connecting and controlling a power supply for the swinging member  2 ; the two vertical stands  12  define a space as the swinging space, wherein the upper end positions of the pair of vertical stands appropriately provide an installing area  3 , which provides an axially installing space  30  for installing and coupling the swinging member  2  as a swinging axle center and operating and controlling the power supply;  
         [0020]    Said installing area  3  comprises an axial installing space  30 , being an open axial installing space which adopts a V-shaped axle stand as shown in FIG. 1) to provide the axial installation of the swinging rod  23  of the swinging member  2  and the operating position of the rotation of the axle;  
         [0021]    At least one set of swinging member  2 , comprising a swinging stand  20  of various styles and shapes according to its design, which is composed by two parallel stand rods  201  separately connected to the electric power (as shown in FIG. 2) to prevent the short-circuit of the power supply; both ends of the swinging stand  20  and the stand at a chosen position respectively has a weighted member  21  and a magnetic member  211  such as a magnet is disposed at its bottom if needed (as shown in FIG. 2); and at least one decorative member  22 ; a swinging axle rod  23 , also could be of any stylish design, but at least having two horizontal axle ends  24 , and said two ends  24  having two stand rods  201  laterally extended from the equilibrium position of the swing stand  20  with two stand rods  201  between the weighted member  21  and the decorative member  22  for pivotally coupling the member  3  for normal contact of electric connection. In the meantime, at least one electrically insulating reinforced member  7  (as shown in FIG. 1) is disposed at an appropriate position between the styling shape and length of the swinging stand  20 ; said reinforced member  7  is bridged between two separate electrically connected stand rods  201  to obtain a reinforcement of two parallel conductive stand rods  201  and prevent them from being deformed.  
         [0022]    Said decorative member  22  (as shown in FIG. 1) provides at least one inwardly concave space  220  as the installing position of the sound and light member  5 , and the power supply ends of said light and sound member  5  are electrically coupled to the two stand rods  201  of the swinging stand  20  respectively for supplying the power required for the operation; said sound and light member  5  basically use an electronic illuminating device such as an LED or a small bulb, etc for the light, and an electronic audio member such as an audio chip for the sound; said sound and light member  5  can be installed separately, jointly, or synchronously depending on the design and individual requirement, and the electronic audio device can be jointly installed on the same circuit board with the electronic driver  4  for the electrical drive and control.  
         [0023]    Furthermore, the weighted member  21 , decorative member  22 , and the reinforced member  7  may use different styling and it is recommended to adopt various insulating materials to prevent the short circuit of the power supply.  
         [0024]    At least one set of electronic driver  4  is fixed in the accommodating space  18  provided by the base  11  and electrically coupled with the vertical stand  12 . Of course, said electronic driver  4  can also be installed directly in the space  220  provided by the decorative member  22  and jointly installed with the sound and light member  5 ; the setting of the operation of the electronic driver  4  works together with the swinging of the decorative member  22  to supply power and drive the lighting and sounding of the decorative member  22 . The driving method of said electronic driver  4  can adopt the manual control, light control, or sound control separately or jointly.  
         [0025]    Please refer to FIG. 3 for the circuit design of the foregoing manual driving driver  4 ; in such circuit, the sound and light member  5  adopts an electronic illuminating LED device for the description. A manual switch  41  works with a resistor R 1  and capacitor C 1  and an electronic illumining LED device  42  electrically coupled with each other such that the electronic illuminating LED device  42  can be connected to power and turned on.  
         [0026]    In addition to providing the connection of continuous electrical power for the illumination, such illuminating method of the electronic illuminating device LED  42  can also work with an electronic flash member (IC) (not shown in the figure) and a vibration switch  41  such that a manual electronic illuminating LED device  42  match up with the swinging movement and the set swinging position under the condition of being supplied with power. The vibration switch  41  is turned on, so that the electronic illuminating LED device  42  and the electronic flash member (IC) to produce the blinking light.  
         [0027]    Please refer to FIG. 4 for the circuit design; the sound and light member  5  in the circuit adopts an electronic illuminating LED device, and the light-sensing control driver  4  is taken as example for the description. A light-sensor  43  (a CDS light-sensing electronic device is used for description) as the sensor to the variation of the light in the environment to generate driving signals to drive a transistor Q 1 , Q 2  in order to control the electronic illuminating LED device  42  to light up and blink.  
         [0028]    Please refer to FIG. 5 for the circuit design of the foregoing sound control electronic driver  4  for the description. An audio receiving device  44  is used for the receiving of external control sound to generate driving signals to drive a transistor Q 3 , Q 4 , Q 5  and a sound control electronic flash IC  45  in order to control the electronic illuminating LED device  42  to work and light up or blink. Such sound driven electronic driver  4  may use the delay circuit as the design of the sound control.  
         [0029]    Such assembly according to the above embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 takes an open vertical stand assembly for description. The space  220  provided by the inwardly concave decorative member  22  comprises at least a set of sound and light member  5  acting as a conductive medium directly through the vertical stand  12  to conduct the power in the base  11  to the swinging stand  20  of the swinging member  2  and supply the power required for the operation of the sound and light member  5  and the electronic driver  4  disposed on the support stand  1  in the base  11 . Under the set control conditions and driving module, it drives the sound and light member  5  to light up, flash, or produce sound to cope with the swing of the swinging stand as shown in FIG. 6 and obtain a swinging device with decoration and interesting effects totally different from the traditional ones.  
         [0030]    Various other modifications and changes may be made to the structure and contents without departing from the true spirit and scope of the present invention, so that the present invention can have the foregoing sound and light effect and also fit various environments to install the swinging device and prevent the swinging member  2  from falling off. Such structure comprises a sound and light member  5  of a swinging member  2 , and a support stand  1  having an electronic driver  4  and a power supply in the base  11  as shown in FIG. 7, wherein:  
         [0031]    The end surface of said base  11  same as the previous embodiment has a pair of vertical stands  12  electrically coupled to an electronic driver  4  and a power supply. An installing area  3  at the ends of the vertical stand  12  provides an incompletely open restrictive space  30  (as shown in FIG. 7) for pivotally coupling to the swinging axle for installing a swinging axle rod  23  of the swinging member  2  without the risk of letting it detach from the axle stand and the operating position of the axle.  
         [0032]    Said incompletely open restrictive space  30  for pivotally coupling to the swinging axle is an axle component  31 , which is in an arc shape, and the V-shape one is most preferred. Such axle component  31  provides the necessary axle stand and the position for operating the axle movement, and a surrounded by a positioning component  32 . Such positioning component  32  could be a linear rod, or an axle component having a shape similar or identical to the axle, or any other shape. One end of the positioning component  32  is exactly coupled to the end of the axle component  31  as an integral close assembly, and the opening end  33  of the positing component  32  forms a non-sealed opening  34  at an end of the axle component  31 . The diameter of said opening  34  is preferred to be slightly smaller than the diameter of the swinging axle rod  23  of the swinging member  2 , such that the swinging axle rod  23  of the swinging member  2  can be installed into the installing space  30  through said opening  34  with a gently pressing on the diameter of the opening, and thereafter the opening will resume its original diameter slightly smaller than the diameter of the axle end  24  of the swinging axle rod  23 , but is not limited to such arrangement. Of course the opening  34  may have a diameter equal or slightly larger than the diameter of the axle end  24  of swinging axle rod  23 .  
         [0033]    Said space  30  provided by the swinging axle rod  23  of the swinging member  2  has a size sufficient to allow a smooth swinging of the axle set fro the swinging axle rod  23  and the axle end  24 , and preferred to have a diameter of 1.5˜2 times of the axle end  24 . Of course, said space  30  can use an incompletely sealed opening  34 , as well as a fully sealed one; the set of axle component member  31  and the positioning component  32  are comprised of a fully sealed space with both ends connected to accomplish the same effect of coupling the swinging rod  23  and preventing it from falling off.  
         [0034]    Please refer to FIG. 7 for the preferred embodiment of the present invention. In addition to the sound and light swinging effect of the first preferred embodiment, such assembly also has a swinging member  2  and an installing area  3  to form an integral restrictive assembly such that the swinging member  2  is restricted into the space  30  for the swinging. Under the restriction of the incompletely sealed opening  34  or fully sealed space  30  of the axle swinging set, the swinging member  2  will not be separated from the support stand  1  even in the inclined condition (as shown in FIG. 8) to break through the traditional way that can be placed on a position of a static plane. Even in the dynamic environment (such as in a car) or in general static environment or uneven surface, the swinging decorative unit of the present invention can be installed to obtain the swing and sound and light interesting effects as well as the decorative effect. Such arrangement also can prevent the components from falling off. In the meantime, the swinging member  2  swings in the support stand  1  with sound and light effects even the force exerted and the swinging amplitude is too large.  
         [0035]    Said support stand  1  can work with various assembly accessories, so that it can go with different assembling environments, such as directly placing or fixing it (such as by gluing and the like) on a static or dynamic (such as in the car) position corresponding to the bottom of the base  11 ; or the base  11  works with a fixture to directly dispose it in various static or dynamic positions (such as in the air-conditioner outlet in the car) by clipping, or works with a suspending component (such as a hanging string or hook, etc) of the base  11  to directly dispose it in various static or dynamic positions (such as in the air-conditioner outlet in the car or other position) by hanging. Of course, the base  11  can also work with other different assemblies to accomplish different installations for different environmental spaces.  
         [0036]    Those skilled in the art will readily recognize that these and various other modifications and changes may be made to the present invention without strictly following the exemplary application illustrated and described herein and without departing from the true spirit and scope of the present invention, which is set forth in the following claims.