TOY VEHICULAR ELECTROMAGNETIC GUIDANCE APPARATUS

摘要

The present invention is a guidance apparatus for movable toy vehicles (12) that includes a track, or roadway (10), on which the toy vehicles move. The track has an intersection (82). The intersection has a magnetic guidance mechanism for steering the toy vehicles in alternate directions through the intersection. An intersection magnetic sensing mechanism, i.e., electromagnets (150) at the intersection and magnets in the vehicles, stops the vehicles prior to entering the intersection. Additionally, the vehicles stopped at the intersection can be actuated by a timing mechanism after passage of a predetermined time period. Furthermore, the vehicles stopped at the intersection can be actuated only after a mechanism for sensing vehicle presence in the intersection senses no vehicles in the intersection.