Game apparatus for discharging free gifts

• US 9,330,534 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2014
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nexcade Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nexcade Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Yong Hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): HARPER, TRAMAR YONG
• Application Number:
  US14/244,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20150099573A1
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 463/22
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3253 involving articles, e.g. paying in bottles, paying out toys

Abstract

Provided is a game apparatus for discharging free gifts. The game apparatus for discharging the free gifts, including: a betting button unit that sets betting sums of money; a gift showcase that includes two or more betting zones according to the betting sums of money, the betting zones in which the free gifts are displayed; lamps that enable the two or more betting zones to be distinguished from each other; an extruder that is driven to be moved forward or backward, in a direction (Z) in which the free gifts are displayed, within a plane located at an outer side of the gift showcase; and a control unit that controls the extruder to be moved to a betting zone corresponding to a betting sum of money set through the betting button unit.

Claims

1. A game apparatus for discharging gifts, the game apparatus comprising:

a betting button unit that sets a sum of money among the sums of money;

a gift showcase comprised of two or more zones wherein each sum of money is matched to each zone where the gifts are displayed;

one or more lamps that distinguish the two or more zones;

an extruder operable within a plane located at an outside of the gift showcase;

a key operating unit to be controlled by a gamer to move the extruder within a corresponding zone matched to the set sums of money to push one of the gifts in the corresponding zone;

a control unit that activates the lamps of the zones matched with the sums of money, and controls the extruder to be moved to the corresponding zone automatically when the sum of money is set, the control unit controls the extruder according to the gamer'"'"'s control of the key operating unit when the movement of the extruder to the corresponding zone is completed; and

a discharge unit that discharges a gift dropped from the gift showcase, wherein the gift is dropped or not by the extruder'"'"'s position to push the gift.

2. The game apparatus of claim 1, wherein the zones are arranged in layers or rows and have lamps distinguished by each layer or each row, and the control unit controls the lamps of a zone to blink by calculating a sum of money set by the betting button unit.

3. The game apparatus of claim 1, wherein the zones are comprised of two or more layers or two or more rows, and the lamps are positioned at an edge of each of the zones or at a center of each of the zones, and the control unit controls the lamps of a zone to be turned off by calculating the sum of money set through the betting button unit.

4. The game apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a storage unit that keeps the gift dropped from the gift showcase;

a gift receiving unit that is rotated so that the received gift turns to the discharge unit or the storage unit;

a vibration detecting sensor that detects whether or not vibration of the game apparatus occurs; and

a control unit that controls a rotation direction of the gift receiving unit during a game according to whether or not the vibration is detected.

5. The game apparatus of claim 4, wherein the control unit enables the gift receiving unit to be rotated during the game so as to be in a state of receiving the gifts, controls the gift receiving unit so that a discharge direction of the gifts received in the gift receiving unit turns to the discharge unit when vibration is not detected by the vibration detecting sensor, and controls the gift receiving unit so that the discharge direction of the gifts turns to the storage unit when vibration is detected.

6. The game apparatus of claim 5, wherein a state of the gift receiving unit comprises a standby state in which the gift is controlled to turn to the storage unit;

a receiving state in which the gift is controlled to be received during the game; and

an ending state in which the received gift is controlled to turn to the discharge unit or the storage unit, wherein the control unit controls the gift receiving unit to be in the standby state before starting of the game, controls the gift receiving unit to be in the receiving state during the game, and controls the gift receiving unit to be in the ending state when finishing the game.

7. The game apparatus of claim 6, further comprising a gift input detecting sensor that detects whether or not the gift is input in the gift receiving unit, wherein the control unit controls a rotation direction of the gift receiving unit according to whether or not vibration is detected by the vibration detecting sensor when the gift is judged to be input in the gift receiving unit through the gift input detecting sensor.

8. The game apparatus of claim 7, wherein the control unit enables the gift receiving unit to be rotated so as to be in a state of receiving gifts during the game, and controls a discharge direction of the gifts received in the gift receiving unit to turn to the discharge unit when the gift is judged to be input in the gift receiving unit through the gift input detecting sensor, and vibration is not detected by the vibration detecting sensor.