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Electronic table tennis game

  • US 5,566,936 A
  • Filed: 02/08/1995
  • Issued: 10/22/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Table tennis apparatus for playing a game to be used by a human player on conventional table tennis table equipped with a centrally positioned table tennis net, comprising:

  • a table tennis ball serving device mounted to the table tennis table at one end thereof on one side of the table tennis net;

    a plurality of movable and variably sized low profile sensors, randomly arranged on a surface of the table tennis table on the same side of the table tennis net as the table tennis serving ball serving device so as to provide predetermined randomly arranged targets for such human player striking a table tennis ball at an opposite end of said table tennis table from the table tennis ball serving device;

    means within each sensor for converting the impact of a table tennis ball against each sensor into an electric impulse;

    each sensor being connected to a microprocessor for integrating the functions of the game;

    said microprocessor including means for preprogramming a score value for each sensor;

    said microprocessor also including means for preprogramming an increment of time in which the human player must strike a sensor with a table tennis ball;

    said microprocessor further including means for comparing the electrical impulse with the preprogrammed increment of time; and

    said microprocessor additionally including means for calculating and displaying a digital score based on the comparison between the electrical impulse and the preprogrammed increment of time;

    whereby an occurrence of an electrical impulse within the preprogrammed increment of time results in a digital score for the human player and no occurrence of the electrical impulse within the preprogrammed increment of time results in a digital score for the table tennis ball serving device.

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