Omron Corporation

Hiroyuki Onitsuka

Takehiro Agata

Masaaki Sumi

Takahiro Ono

Junya Fujita

Masataka Kimura

Takuya Kudo

Taichi Onoyama

Tatsuya Adachi

Jun Kishimoto

Hiroaki Takeya

Takuma Ikeda

Rei Asai

Shunji Mori

Mitsunori Sugiura

Hideaki Kojima

Masashi Sato

Ryoji Shimizu

Kazuma Matsui

A control deckis provided to a gaming machine, and comprises a top plate, a non-contact power supply unit, an LED board, a decorative plate, and a control unit. The non-contact power supply unitis provided directly below a specific charging position Pon the upper surface of the top plate, and performs non-contact charging of a device placed in the charging position P. The LED boardis provided to the lower part of the charging position, and emits light toward the charging position P. The decorative platedisplays a pattern indicating the charging position Pin a state of being visible from the front side of the top plate, using light emitted from the LED board. The control unitperforms lighting control for turning on or off the light emitted from the LED board

Control deck and gaming machine equipped with same

An operation switchis a gaming machine operation button that receives operation inputs to a gaming machine, and comprises a base plate, an operation button unit, and a touch switch. The operation button unitis supported by the base plate, and is used by a player to input a first operation. The touch switchis provided around the outer periphery of the operation button unit, and is used by the player to input a second operation that is different from the first operation.

Gaming machine operation button, and control deck and gaming machine comprising same

A illumination deviceis attached to a housingof a gaming machine, and comprises LEDsthat emit light, light guide plates, a rotating body, a plate-shaped member, a motor, a lower case, and a control unit. A plurality of light guide platesare attached to the plate-shaped member. The light guide plateseach have an end surfaceon which the light emitted from the LEDsis incident, and a flat surfacefrom which the incident light is emitted. The plate-shaped memberholds the light guide plate. The motorrotates the rotating bodyin the desired direction. The lower caseis provided with the motor, the rotating bodyand the like are connected thereto in a state of being incapable of relative rotation, and the lower caseis installed in the housingof the gaming machine

Illumination device and gaming machine equipped with same

There is provided a push button device with which a support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without providing the support plate with a latching mechanism, and which can be easily attached and detached. The invention comprises a push button device that is inserted into the opening of a transparent plate from the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. A snap-fit structure that is fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate is provided to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and to the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate. The lock plate is configured to have a larger diameter than the opening in the transparent plate, and such that the surface on the support plate side hits the support plate in a state of being fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part.

Push button device

A support plate can be disposed close to a display screen without having to provide a latching mechanism to the support plate, a push button device can be easily attached and detached, and the fixing of the push button device can be carried out simultaneously with the locking of the flexible wiring. There are provided a push button device that is inserted into an opening in a transparent platefrom the front side, and an annular lock plate that is disposed on the back side of the transparent plate and is fitted to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device from the back side. The outer peripheral portion of the bottom part of the push button device and the inner peripheral portion of the lock plate have snap-fit structures that are fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the bottom part by rotating the lock plate. The lock plate is configured to have a diameter larger than that of the opening and so as to abut the transparent plate in a fixed state, and furthermore, a reinforcing portion of the flexible wiring is sandwiched and pressed by the end surfaces on the flange portion side of a connection opening.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a decorative lighting device and a game machine, with which the brightness of a light presentation can be increased and a light presentation with a more dramatic effect can be given even if the number of light sources is limited. A decorative lighting device (), which has an elongated shape in the vertical direction and is installed on both sides of a game machine, comprises a case () in which at least the front and side surfaces of the device are open; a transparent cover () that covers the open portion of the case (); a plurality of light guide plates (S,M,L) that are housed inside the case () and are disposed spaced apart in the front-rear direction of the device, with each light emitting surface () facing the front surface of the device; and a plurality of light sources provided corresponding to the plurality of light guide plates (S,M,L).

Decorative lighting device and game machine

A right side portion, which is a light emitting device, comprises a side light guide plate and a front light guide plate as a plurality of light guide plates in which light is reflected by a prism and emitted from a light emitting surface. The side light guide plate and the front light guide plate are disposed in a row in a state in which the angles of the light emitting surfaces differ between adjacent light guide plates and the ends of adjacent light guide plates are butted against each other. An LED board is disposed at the end of the side light guide plate, and the end surface of one of the ends of the side light guide plate and the front light guide plate that are abutted against each other is formed as an inclined surface with a reflection function that changes the angle at which the light is guided and causes the light to be incident on the adjacent light guide plate.

Light emitting device and game machine

An illumination device () is attached to a gaming machine island including a plurality of gaming machines (), and comprises LEDs () that emit light, light guide plates (), a rotating body (), a plate-shaped member (), a motor (), a lower case (), and a control unit. A plurality of light guide platesare attached to the plate-shaped member. The light guide plateseach have an end surfaceon which the light emitted from the LEDsis incident, and a flat surfacefrom which the incident light is emitted. The rotating bodyand the plate-shaped memberhold an LED boardand the light guide plates. The motorrotates the rotating bodyin the desired direction. The lower caseis provided with the motor, is connected to the rotating bodyand the plate-shaped memberin a relatively rotatable state, and is installed on a gaming machine island that includes gaming machines. The control unitcontrols the rotation of the rotating bodyand the plate-shaped memberby the motor

Illumination device

A set of headphones () comprises a pair of speaker units (); a pair of ear pad portions (); a plurality of temperature change modules () that are provided inside the pair of ear pad portions (), and that heat and/or cool electrically so as to convey a temperature other than normal temperature to the user; and a temperature control unit () that drives the plurality of temperature change modules () on a rotating basis while shifting the phase of operation individually or in groups.

Headphones

An illumination device according to one or more embodiments may include: a light guide plate unit having a front light guide plate and a rear light guide plate; a light projecting unit having an LED configured to supply light to the front light guide plate and the rear light guide plate; a moving mechanism configured to cause the light guide plate unit to reciprocate in a depth direction; and a detector having a detection region in front of the light guide plate unit in the depth direction and configured to detect the presence or absence of an object without contacting. The moving mechanism may move the light guide plate unit in accordance with a detection result of the detector.

Illumination device and game machine

A long decorative illumination device which is long in the vertical direction and for being installed in the sides of a game machine may be provided with a plurality of light guide plates that can be individually illuminated. The plurality of light guide plates may be arranged in the vertical direction with gaps therebetween and in a slanted state so that the light emitting surfaces thereof are oriented toward a window part which is open from at least two directions of the front surface and the side surfaces of the decorative illumination device. A controller may control the light emission of the plurality of light guide plates to perform visual effect lighting having an impactful visual effect, while controlling the light emission from the plurality of light guide plates to convey predetermined information.

Decorative illumination device, control device for decorative illumination device, and game machine

An illumination device according to one or more embodiments may include: a light guide plate unit comprising a front light guide plate and a rear light guide plate arranged in a depth direction at a predetermined interval, and a light projecting unit arranged at a side of the light guide plate unit. The light projecting unit may comprise an LED in an amount of one piece among the front light guide plate and the rear light guide plate; and a moving mechanism configured to cause the light guide plate unit to reciprocate in the depth direction to cause a light incident surface of either one of the front light guide plate and the rear light guide plate to be opposed to the light projecting unit.

Illumination device comprising a moving mechanism and a gaming machine comprising the same

A game machine that can discriminate between two states of an occupied state and an unoccupied state includes a credit function. The game machine includes the credit function configured to determine presence or absence of a credit and a timer part configured to measure a lapse of time, and transitions to the occupied state in which a game is determined to be interrupted or the unoccupied state in which the game machine is determined to be idle according to a determination of the presence or absence of the credit in the credit function when the timer part measures a lapse of a first time.

Game machine

An illumination device is disclosed that may constitute a partition wall or the like having an impact in a bright and brilliant space. An illumination device according to an embodiment may include: a plurality of light guide plate units each including a light guide plate and an LED substrate; and a base to which the plurality of light guide plate units are attached so as to be laid over the base. The attachment surface of the base is divided into sections for attaching the light guide plate units so as to lay the light guide plate units over the base and each section is provided with an IC board for driving the corresponding LED substrate and snap-fit engagement portions for fixing the light guide plate unit to the base.

A long decorative illumination device according to one or more embodiments may include a plurality of light guide plates configured to reflect light entering therein from an end surface thereof with reflection surfaces formed in recesses thereon, and causing the light to be emitted from a light emitting surface thereof; a plurality of light sources provided corresponding to the plurality of light guide plates; and a long window part open from at least two directions of the front surface and side surfaces of the decorative illumination device; and the plurality of light guide plates is slanted with gaps therebetween, so that in the slanted state the light emitting surfaces thereof are oriented toward the window part.

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Kani, Japan

Hiroyuki Onitsuka