Appeal No. 1997-1436 Page 10
Application No. 08/419,174
same time a head 3 is slowly rotated, twisting the head
sideways. When a voice is uttered against the toy, it is
received through a microphone 135 by a voice recording and
reproducing device 134 contained on printed circuit board 133
and after a specified recording time elapses, the voice is
reproduced by a speaker 138.
Koguchi teaches (column 7, lines 40-68) that when a
switch knob 19 is turned from the off position to the on
position, a switch mechanism is turned on, however, with no
voice entered to the microphone 135, the voice recording and
reproducing device 134 prevents the motor 22 from being
energized and the motor is in a standby condition. When a
voice higher than a specified level is uttered toward the toy
1, it enters the microphone 135 and is recorded in the voice
recording circuit for a preset recording time of, say, several
seconds. As the preset recording time is up, the voice
recording circuit is stopped and the voice reproducing circuit
is energized. At the same time the motor 22 is also started
by the motor control circuit. The voice reproduced by the
voice reproducing circuit is generated through the speaker 138
at the abdominal portion of the toy 1. The voice or sound is
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