Display unit and gaming machine

• US 20050110918A1
• Filed: 11/19/2004
• Published: 05/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Izawa, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US10/992,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20050110918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 349/58
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means

Abstract

A gaming machine in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a cabinet 10 in which an apparatus needed for a game is contained; a liquid crystal panel unit 30 having a liquid crystal panel which an image associated with the game is displayed on, and whose viewing angle is different between one side U and the other side D on a display screen; and a attaching member 40 which has a driver for driving the liquid crystal panel, and which the liquid crystal panel unit is fitted to the cabinet 10 through, wherein engaging portions 46A and 46B to detachably engage with the cabinet 10 and fixable portions 43A and 43B (45A and 45B) to be fixed to the cabinet are provided on both of the side U and the other side D of the attaching member 40.

Claims

1. A display unit comprising:

a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal panel unit including a liquid crystal panel and a supporting member for supporting the liquid crystal panel unit; and

a housing for providing a setting area to which the liquid crystal display device is set,

wherein a center axis of a viewing angle in the liquid crystal panel unit is not parallel to a normal line of a surface of the liquid crystal panel,

the housing has a suspending portion from which the liquid crystal display device is suspended and a fixing portion which is provided below the suspending portion, and which fixes the liquid crystal display device to the housing, and

the supporting member has a suspendable portion which is hooked up on the suspending portion and a fixable portion which is fixed to the fixing portion on one side and the other side with respect to a center of the supporting member in the direction respectively.

2. The display unit according to claim 1,

wherein the supporting member is a rectangle-shaped frame,

the suspending portion is a hook,

the fixing portion includes a fastening screw, and a screw hole to which the fastening screw is screwed up,

the suspendable portion includes shaft holes which are formed respectively on the one side and the other side in a side surface of the frame and shafts which are detachably fitted into the shaft holes respectively, and

the fixable portion is a bracket including a hole through which a body of the fastening screw is passed.

3. The display unit according to claim 1, wherein the suspendable portion and the fixable portion are provided on each of the one side and the other side in a manner symmetrical around the center.

4. A gaming machine comprising the display unit according to claim 1.

5. A gaming machine comprising:

a cabinet in which an apparatus needed for a game is contained;

a liquid crystal panel unit having a liquid crystal panel for displaying an image associated with the game, the liquid crystal panel having different viewing angles on one side and on the other side on a display screen thereof; and

an attaching member which has a driver for driving the liquid crystal panel, and through which the liquid crystal panel unit is attached to the cabinet,

wherein the attaching member has engaging means which detachably engages with the cabinet and fixable means which is fixed to the cabinet on both of the one side and the other side thereof.

6. The gaming machine according to claim 5,

wherein the attaching member is a rectangle-shaped frame,

the engaging means is formed on a side surface of the frame, and has a shaft hole into which a shaft to be hooked up on the cabinet is detachably fitted,

the fixable means has a bracket which is formed in the frame and a screw insertion hole which is formed in the bracket, and which a screw for fixing the frame to the cabinet passes through, and

a pair of the shaft hole and the bracket is provided on the one side and the other side respectively.

7. The gaming machine according to claim 5, wherein the attaching member has a shape substantially symmetrical around a central line passing the center thereof.