Card shooter apparatus

• US 20080143048A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yasushi Shigeta
• Original Assignee: Yasushi Shigeta
• Inventors: Shigeta, Yasushi
• Application Number:
  US11/980,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20080143048A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/149R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/14 Card dealers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/18 Score computers; Miscellaneous indicators time-testing devices G07C
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2419 Optical
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2425 Scanners, e.g. for scanning regular characters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/58 Antifraud or preventing misuse

Abstract

A card shooter apparatus 200 is set on a game table 20, and a card shooter unit 204 and card guide unit 204 are provided with a housing 202. The card guide unit 214 guides cards, which are pulled out one by one from the card shooter unit 204 by hand, onto the game table 20. The card guide unit 214 is provided with sensor unit 216 which reads the card pulled out. A control unit 208 determine win or lose of a card game based on reading result of the sensor unit 216, and display units 210 and 212 displays win or lose. Thus, an illegal act can be prevented while the progress of a game be supported.

Claims

1. A card shooter apparatus comprising:

a card shooter unit including a card housing which contains a plurality of cards and an opening out of which the slid cards are able to be taken;

a card reading unit which is provided with a card guide unit which guides cards pulled out one by one from the opening onto the game table and reads the number of the card pulled out from the card shooter;

a control unit having a processing function to determine win or lose of the card game based on information about the number of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit; and

a display unit which indicates a result determined by

the control unit;

wherein the card shooter unit, the card reading unit and the control unit are integrated and are able to be set on the game table.

2. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the card is pulled out one by one from the card shooter unit by hand.

3. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a measurement validity determining sensor which makes a reading result by the card reading unit invalid when the card slips back by hand, the card being slid and taken from the card shooter unit.

4. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, further having a function to disregard a cut card when the card slid and taken from the card shooter unit is the cut card, the cut card being not used for a game.

5. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an invalid mode setting means which sets an invalid mode in which the card that is first pulled out in each game is invalid.

6. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a sensor which can determine whether or not the card has normally passed on the card guide surface of the card guide unit.

7. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a means of determining whether or not the code of the card is normal, the card being taken from the card shooter unit.

8. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a means of emitting an alarm sound when the card is not normal as a result of the determining whether or not the code of the card is normal, the card being taken from the card shooter unit.

9. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the card shooter unit, the card reading unit, the control unit and the display unit are integrated and are able to be set on the game table.

10. The card shooter apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display unit includes a first display unit which is provided on an upper part of the housing and a second display unit which is provided on a side part of the housing.

11. A card shooter apparatus comprising:

a card shooter unit including a card housing which contains a plurality of cards and an opening out of which the cards are able to be slid and taken;

a card reading unit which is provided with a card guide unit which guides cards pulled out one by one from the opening by hand onto the game table and reads the number of the card pulled out from the card shooter;

wherein

the card shooter unit and the card reading unit are integrated and are able to be set on the game table; and

the card shooter apparatus further comprising a measurement validity determining sensor which makes a reading result by the card reading unit invalid when the card slips back by hand, the card being slid and taken from the card shooter unit.