Stop-control device of rotary gaming machine

• US 5,169,147 A
• Filed: 09/30/1991
• Issued: 12/08/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Takasago Electric Incorporated
• Original Assignee: TAKASAGO ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD. (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Hamano, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US07/769,097
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 273/138 A, 273/142 B, 273/143 R
• US Class Current: 463/21
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Abstract

The present invention relates to a stop-control device of a rotary gaming machine used for controlling the stop action of a rotor such as a reel in a rotary gaming machine such as a slot machine. In the rotary gaming machine, a table for allocating the symbol combination mode of the rotors against the combination of codes is stored in memory means. When starting the game, after generating a plurality of any codes from code generating means, stop-control means specifies the symbol combination mode corresponding to the combination of codes generated by the code generating means referring to the memory means, and allocates the symbols to respective rotors which are stopped at a predetermined position. According to such a configuration, in order to change the probability of appearance of the symbol combination mode, it is just necessary to change the content of the table stored in the memory means, or an allocation of the symbol combination mode of the rotors against the combination of codes, thus the probability of appearance can be changed with a very simple operation.

Claims

1. A stop-control device of a rotary gaming machine comprising a plurality of rotors onto which a plurality of symbols are indicated, the stop action of the rotors being controlled and any of the symbols being appeared at a predetermined position, said stop-control device further comprising, memory means, code generating means and stop-control means;

said memory means storing a table for allocating the symbol combination mode of the rotors against the combination of codes;

said code generating means storing plural kinds and predetermined number of codes, and generating a plurality of any codes in response to the starting of the game; and

said stop-control means specifying the symbol combination mode corresponding to the combination of the codes generated by the code generating means referring to the memory means, and allocating the symbols to respective rotors which are stopped at a predetermined position.

2. A stop-control device of a rotary gaming machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein the rotor corresponds to a reel of a slot machine, three reels being disposed in a machine body at a position of display window.