CARD GAME MACHINE

• US 20120319351A1
• Filed: 06/15/2011
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tzu-Hsiang Tseng
• Original Assignee: Tzu-Hsiang Tseng
• Inventors: TSENG, TZU-HSIANG
• Granted Patent: US 8,505,915 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/149.R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/14 Card dealers

Abstract

A card game machine includes a machine base, a track unit arranged on the machine base, a displacement motor mounted on the machine base, two card-recovery slots, a video recognition device adapted for recognizing the types and spots of each individual playing card of a set of playing cards being arranged on the machine base, a slide coupled to and movable along the track unit, a transmission belt coupled between the slide and the displacement motor for enabling the slide to be moved by the displacement motor along the track unit, and a first pickup unit and a second pickup unit carried on the slide alternatively controllable to run a playing card pickup step, a playing card recognition step, a playing card exhibition step and a playing card discarding step.

Claims

1. A card game machine comprising:

a machine base, a track unit arranged on said machine base, a displacement motor mounted on said machine base, two card-recovery slots, a video recognition device adapted for recognizing the types and spots of each individual playing card of a set of playing cards being arranged on said machine base, a slide coupled to and movable along said track unit, a transmission belt coupled between said slide and said displacement motor for enabling said slide to be moved by said displacement motor along said track unit, and a first pickup unit and a second pickup unit carried on said slide alternatively controllable to run a playing card pickup step, a playing card recognition step, a playing card exhibition step and a playing card discarding step, said first pickup unit and said second pickup unit each comprising a reversible step motor, a swivel arm coupled to said reversible step motor and movable by said reversible step motor within a predetermined angle, an air cylinder coupled to said swivel arm, a vacuum mount mounted on a reciprocating rod of said air cylinder and controllable to pick up one playing card from said set of playing cards by vacuum suction.