CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of priority to Taiwan Patent Application No. 108147509, filed on Dec. 25, 2019. The entire content of the above identified application is incorporated herein by reference.

Some references, which may include patents, patent applications and various publications, may be cited and discussed in the description of this disclosure. The citation and/or discussion of such references is provided merely to clarify the description of the present disclosure and is not an admission that any such reference is “prior art” to the disclosure described herein. All references cited and discussed in this specification are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties and to the same extent as if each reference was individually incorporated by reference.

FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE

The present disclosure relates to a ball, and more particularly to a luminous safety ball.

BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

Currently, most baseballs and softballs are made of relatively hard materials. Since people (children) can be injured easily when being hit by the hard baseballs and softballs, such baseballs and softballs are not suitable for children to play with. Therefore, baseballs and softballs made of foam materials are now commercially available and safe to play with for both adults and children. However, the foam material has a low light transmittance and is not suitable for including a light emitting module, which greatly reduces the fun of playing with the baseballs and the softballs made of foam materials at night or in environments with insufficient lighting.

Therefore, it has become an important issue in the industry to overcome the afore-mentioned inadequacies.

SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE

In response to the above-referenced technical inadequacies, the present disclosure provides a luminous safety ball.

In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a luminous safety ball including an inner glowing body and a foam sphere covering the inner glowing body. The inner glowing body is not a perfect sphere, the foam sphere has a non-uniform thickness, and light emitted by the inner glowing body passes through the foam sphere and permeates through a surface of the foam sphere to form lights with different brightness thereon.

In a preferable embodiment, the inner glowing body has a surrounding side wall, and a top wall and a bottom wall disposed opposite to each other in a vertical direction and connected to the surrounding side wall. The thickness of the foam sphere at a position corresponding to the surrounding wall of the inner glowing body is smaller than that at a position corresponding to the top wall of the inner glowing sphere, and the thickness of the foam sphere at the position corresponding to the surrounding wall is smaller than that at a position corresponding to the bottom wall of the inner glowing sphere.

In a preferable embodiment, the inner glowing body includes an LED light emitting module, such that the inner glowing body emits the light through the LED light emitting module.

In a preferable embodiment, the luminous safety ball further includes a cover layer. The cover layer covers the surface of the foam sphere, at least one seam gap and a plurality of stitch holes positioned on two sides of the at least one seam gap are formed on the cover layer, and the stitch holes are positioned corresponding to the surrounding side wall of the inner glowing body.

In a preferable embodiment, the surrounding side wall of the inner glowing body has a groove recessed inwardly, the groove surrounds the surrounding side wall, and the stitch holes are positioned on two sides of the groove.

In a preferable embodiment, a wall of the groove is configured to be an arc shape.

In a preferable embodiment, an airtight space is formed inside the inner glowing body.

In a preferable embodiment, the inner glowing body includes a support structure, and the support structure is in a shape of a honeycomb.

In a preferable embodiment, the foam sphere is made of a nano-foam material.

In a preferable embodiment, the luminous safety ball further includes a transparent waterproof protective layer, and the transparent waterproof protective layer covers the surface of the foam sphere.

In a preferable embodiment, the LED light emitting module includes a battery holding part and a counterweight member detachably disposed in the battery holding part.

In a preferable embodiment, a transparent coating layer is coated on an inner surface of the inner glowing body.

One of the beneficial effects of the luminous safety ball of the present disclosure is that the luminous safety ball includes an inner glowing body and a foam sphere covering the inner glowing body, the inner glowing body is not a perfect sphere, the foam sphere has a non-uniform thickness, and light emitted by the inner glowing body passes through the foam sphere and permeates through a surface of the foam sphere to form lights with different brightness thereon. Therefore, in the present disclosure, a thickness distribution of the foam sphere can be adjusted to adjust a light transmittance of the luminous safety ball, thereby enhancing the fun of playing with the luminous safety ball at night or in environments with insufficient lighting.

These and other aspects of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following description of the embodiment taken in conjunction with the following drawings and their captions, although variations and modifications therein may be affected without departing from the spirit and scope of the novel concepts of the disclosure.

