Gaming device that intercepts light

• US 8,480,086 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2010
• Issued: 07/09/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: Hirato, Jun, Tanabe, Yasuaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Fernstrom, Kurt
• Assistant Examiner(s): COLLINS, DOLORES R
• Application Number:
  US12/748,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20100184511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• Field of Search: 463/18, 463/19, 463/20, 463/21
• US Class Current: 273/143.R
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means

Abstract

A gaming machine including: a cabinet having a display portion which displays information relating to a game, and an operation portion for a player to carry out an operation of the game on a front surface thereof, a light emitting portion which is provided at a position further above the display portion provided on an upper portion of the cabinet, and a lens barrel which intercepts at least some of light heading toward a player who operates the operation portion from among light emerging from a light source provided on the light emitting portion.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

a cabinet having a display portion which displays information relating to a game, and an operation portion for a player to carry out an operation of the game on a front surface thereof;

a light emitting portion which is provided at a position further above the display portion provided on an upper portion of the cabinet, the light emitting portion including a spherical lens; and

a lens barrel which intercepts at least some of light heading toward a player who operates the operation portion from among light emerging from a light source provided on the light emitting portion.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the spherical lens converges the light emerging from the light source.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 2, wherein the lens barrel further surrounds a periphery of the spherical lens.

4. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the lens barrel is formed in a cylindrical shape which surrounds the light source, and the light from the light source emerges approximately horizontally from a front opening.

5. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the display portion has an upper variable display portion, a middle variable display portion and a lower variable display portion, and the light emitting portion is a top lamp provided above the upper variable display portion.