Lifting device for hammer game machine

• US 8,657,294 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2012
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Feiloli Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Feiloli Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tsai, Chi-Ming, Yang, I-Chiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiu, Raleigh W
• Application Number:
  US13/449,260
• Publication Number:
  US 20130270774A1
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 273/440, 273/445, 273/446, 273/447, 273/448, 273/451, 273/454, 273/459, 273/460
• US Class Current: 273/440
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2402 Input by manual operation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0096 Reaction time games testing reaction time A61B5/162; reaction time training A63B69/0053; time registering, indicating or recording in connection with sports or games G07C1/22
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/24 Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for video games A63F13/00; computerized gaming systems G07F17/32

Abstract

A lifting device for hammer game machine includes frame, a motor laterally mounted to a lower portion of the frame, a seat longitudinally mounted to an upper portion of the frame, a lifting unit partially received in and extending through the seat, a first bracket is secured on a lower end of the lifting device, a linkage assembly connected to the motor and a second bracket laterally mounted onto the linkage assembly through the frame. The first bracket and the second bracket are slidably relative to the frame and selectively connected to each other before being operated.

Claims

1. A lifting device for hammer game machine, comprising:

a frame adapted to be electrically connected to a control unit of the hammer game machine and having a slot longitudinally defined therein;

a motor laterally mounted to a lower portion of the frame and having a shaft extending therefrom;

a seat longitudinally secured on an upper portion of the frame, the seat including a cavity longitudinally defined therein and forming an opening in a top of the seat, a through hole defined in a bottom of the cavity;

a lifting unit partially received in the cavity, the lifting unit including a target received in the cavity and a main shaft having an upper end connected to a bottom of the target and a lower end extending through the through hole, wherein the target is secured on a top portion of the main shaft;

a first bracket secured on a lower portion of the main shaft and having multiple magnetic elements secured thereon toward the target;

a linkage assembly connector to the shaft of the motor;

a second bracket laterally mounted onto the linkage assembly through the frame and selectively connected to the first bracket due to the magnetic elements because the second bracket is made of magnetic induction material;

the first bracket and the lifting unit being lifted with the second bracket via the linkage assembly when the motor is operated, the lifting unit and the first bracket being fallen when the target is stricken and the striking force is greater than the active force that the magnetic elements forced on the second bracket;

a first sensor adapted to be electrically connected to the control unit and secured on the upper portion of the frame, the first sensor provided for sensing the lifted first bracket;

a second sensor adapted to be electrically connected to the control unit and mounted on a first side of the frame, the second sensor provided for sensing the falling first bracket; and

a third sensor adapted to be electrically connected to the control unit and mounted on a second side of the frame, the third sensor provided for the second bracket after being downward moved.

2. The lifting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the frame has a slot longitudinally defined therein for allowing the second bracket extending through the frame.

3. The lifting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main shaft includes a tray slidably received in the cavity and a rod centrally extending from the tray, wherein the rod extends through the through hole and the first bracket is secured on a free end of the rod.

4. The lifting device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the main shaft includes a buffer is secured on the tray and the target is secured on the buffer.

5. The lifting device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the linkage assembly includes a first linkage having a first end secured on the shaft of the motor, a second linkage having a first end pivotally connected to a second end of the first linkage and a bridge having a first end pivotally connected to a second end of the second linkage, the second bracket laterally mounted to the bridge.