Game device

• US 6,962,528 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2002
• Issued: 11/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Yokota, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): SAGER, MARK ALAN
• Application Number:
  US10/157,047
• Publication Number:
  US 20020198035A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,258 Days
• Field of Search: 463/25, 463/46
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3216 Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects

Abstract

A game device for playing a game by inserting a game-playing medium into an insertion section includes a casing; a main door having a display section on which game elements are displayed and that can be freely opened and closed with respect to the casing; a front door releasably located below the main door and on a front face of the casing, attachment of the front door to the casing and release of the front door from the casing being locked by closing the main door and released by opening the main door.

Claims

1. A game device for playing a game by inserting a game-playing medium into an insertion section, comprising:

a casing;

a main door having a display section on which game elements are displayed and that can be freely opened and closed with respect to said casing; and

a front door releasably located below said main door and on a front face of said casing, wherein attachment of said front door to and release of said front door from said casing is locked by closing said main door, and unlocked by opening said main door.

2. The game device according to claim 1, wherein said front door can be fixed in place by engagement with said casing, including a pressing section on said front door and that presses said front door when said main door is closed, and wherein attachment of said front door to and release of said front door from said casing is locked by said pressing section.

3. The game device according to claim 1, wherein said main door is freely rotatable about an axis with respect to said casing.

4. The game device according to claim 1, wherein

said casing comprises a lower first pin and a second pin positioned above said first pin;

and

said front door comprises a first notch engaged by said first pin and a second notch engaged by said second pin,

said front door being rotatable about said first pin when said first notch is engaged with said first pin, and

said second pin being located on a locus of rotation of said second notch when said front door is rotated.

5. The game device according to claim 1, wherein said casing comprises receiving sections, and said front door comprises a plurality of hooks engaging said receiving sections, and further including a single manual operating section for releasing said hooks from engagement with said receiving sections, said front door being fixed in position with respect to said casing when said hooks are engaged with said receiving sections.