Electronic dice
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1. A cubic enclosure comprising:
- a battery,an electronic circuit comprising a pair of counter means each having an input,a pair of single pole, single throw inertia switches, one of each interposed between the input of each of said counter means and said battery,said counter means being actuated by pulses generated in a random manner by a series of intermittent contacts occurring between the poles in said inertia switches when erratic movement is manually imparted to said enclosure, andtwo display surfaces on the top of said enclosure,said display surfaces each comprising exposable displays of dots positioned to represent the dots on a die,said counter means each causing a random number on each display of form one through six to be illuminated when the erratic movement ceases.
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Abstract
An electronic device actuated by a manually generated movement to generate two independent and random set of electronic pulses resulting in a display of two independent sets of dots or digits from one to six inclusive representative of a dice display.
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1. A cubic enclosure comprising:
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a battery, an electronic circuit comprising a pair of counter means each having an input, a pair of single pole, single throw inertia switches, one of each interposed between the input of each of said counter means and said battery, said counter means being actuated by pulses generated in a random manner by a series of intermittent contacts occurring between the poles in said inertia switches when erratic movement is manually imparted to said enclosure, and two display surfaces on the top of said enclosure, said display surfaces each comprising exposable displays of dots positioned to represent the dots on a die, said counter means each causing a random number on each display of form one through six to be illuminated when the erratic movement ceases.
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Current AssigneeIan C. Mckechnie
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Original AssigneeIan C. Mckechnie
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InventorsMcKechnie, Ian C.
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Primary Examiner(s)Coven, Edward M.
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Application NumberUS06/676,201Time in Patent Office1,729 DaysField of Search273/121 A, 273/138 A, 273/58 G, 273/58 F, 46/232, 200/153 CUS Class Current463/22CPC Class CodesA63F 9/0468 Electronic dice; electronic...
