Partition wall element and partition wall

• US 10,358,818 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2015
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Novomatic AG
• Original Assignee: Novomatic AG
• Inventors: Eckes, Annika
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Jason T
• Application Number:
  US15/127,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20170114537A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,593 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2/7405 with free upper edge, e.g. for use as office space dividers
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2002/7483 Details of furniture, e.g. tables or shelves, associated with the partitions
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2002/7487 Partitions with slotted profiles
• CPC Class Codes: E04B 2002/7488 Details of wiring
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3216 Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/162 Electrical connections between or with rails or bus-bars rails having primarily a non electrical function H01R4/64

Abstract

A partition wall element having a plate-shaped stand base and a wall element extending at a right angle thereto. The wall element can be fastened non-positively and/or positively to the stand base so that the wall element stands with its end side on the stand base. Linear electric conductors for at least one electric circuit and/or data lines of a data bus extend over the length of the stand base, wherein the at least one electric circuit and the at least one data bus or the at least one data connection can be connected to at least one electric circuit and at least one data bus or a data connection of the wall element. A partition wall can be built up from such a partition wall element in a simple and flexible manner, on which partition wall electrical and/or data connections can be made available without interfering cables.

Claims

1. A partition wall element comprising;

a plate-shaped stand base; and

a wall element extending at right angles to the stand base;

wherein the wall element is fixable to the stand base in a force-locking and/or positively locking manner in such a way that the wall element stands with its end side on the stand base, wherein linear power conductors for at least one electrical circuit and/or data lines of a data bus extend as exposed contact tracks or individual electrical conductors/cores of a cable over the length of the stand base;

wherein the at least one electrical circuit and/or the at least one data bus are connectable via a contact or piercing contact at an arbitrary location to at least one electrical circuit and/or to at least one data bus of the wall element,

wherein the wall element has a groove which is assigned to the stand base and in which is arranged at least one electrical contact element which connects the electrical circuit and/or the data bus of the stand base to the electrical circuit and/or the data bus of the wall element, and wherein the wall element with assigned plug elements or screw elements is assembled in a predetermined position on the respectively assigned stand base, and

wherein the groove of the wall element extends across a web of the stand base.

2. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 1, wherein for the connection of the power conductors of the electrical circuit and/or of the data lines of the data bus of a stand base to the adjacent stand base there are arranged sockets, on the one hand, and jacks, on the other hand, for forming plug contacts and/or contact prongs, on the one hand, and contact springs, on the other hand, which are operatively connected upon the coupling of two adjacent stand bases.

3. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the stand base is assigned an interface for feeding in electrical energy and/or data, said interface being connected to the linear power conductors and/or the data lines.

4. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 3, wherein the interface of the partition wall element communicates with an interface of a gaming machine comprising a game sequence controller.

5. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wall element is equipped with a display device and/or a lighting device, wherein the display device and/or the lighting device are/is connected to a voltage supply device and/or a data device either directly or via the stand base.

6. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 3, wherein a gaming machine, by means of its game sequence controller, may communicate with a display device and/or the lighting device via the interface in order to change contents and/or representations.

7. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 3, wherein the data processing device installed on the stand base evaluates data from a gaming machine coupled to the interface of the partition wall element and communicates with a display device and/or the lighting device.

8. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 3, wherein a display device and/or the lighting device is drivable depending on a game event.

9. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wall element has a switching element which is coupled to an alarm device.

10. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 1, wherein the stand base has a tongue on one end side and a groove complementary to the tongue on the other end side.

11. The partition wall element as claimed in claim 10, wherein the groove and respectively the tongue are embodied in a dovetail-shaped or T-shaped fashion.

12. The partition wall comprising a plurality of partition wall elements as claimed in claim 1 which are connected to one another.