Juan C Hernandez

John Leagh Beadell

Scott H Jones

Stewart Thoeni

Michael Thomas Garamendi

Anthony J Frabbiele

Anthony J Baerlocher

Jean-Pierre Legras

Christopher D Carlisle

Tai Rosander

Scott Timothy Gowin

Franco E Crivelli

Matthew A Franich

Thang Doan

Julia Janeen Angst

Essam Mikhail

Mark P Mahaffey

Margaret A Jones

Kyle Kaifesh

Megan E Oehlert

Stephen Gus Gill

A gaming system including a housing, a reel assembly supported by the housing, the reel assembly including a rotatable reel having a reel strip having a section that is of a static color category and having a plurality of static color characteristics, and a backlight for the reel strip configured to provide a range of different backlighting for the reel strip, a transmissive display device supported by the housing in a position in front of the reel assembly, the transmissive display device defining a see-through window aligned with the rotatable reel, and a processor that causes the rotatable reel to rotate, the rotatable reel to stop at a position in which the section of the reel strip is viewable through the window, the backlight to provide backlighting to the reel strip based on the static color category and one of the plurality of static color characteristics of the section of the reel strip, and that communicates data to the transmissive display device to cause the transmissive display device to display an image in an area adjacent to the window, wherein a color category and a plurality of color characteristics of the image are based on the static color category and one of the plurality of static color characteristics of the section of the reel strip.

Electronic gaming machine having reel assembly and transmissive display device with color characteristic adjustments

Gaming machine

A reel assembly for a gaming machine includes an inner drive ring defining an annular inner rim, an outer ring, and a support substrate. The outer ring is spaced from and coaxially positioned relative to the inner drive ring, and the outer ring defines an annular outer rim. The support substrate has opposing side edges each coupled to a different one of the annular inner rim and the annular outer rim. The support substrate extends substantially unsupported between the annular inner rim and the annular outer rim in a substantially continuous manner maintaining the annular inner rim spaced from the annular out rim.

Reel basket assembly

A reel assembly for a gaming machine includes a central hub and a clip. The central hub defines an opening through an axial center of the central hub and includes two enclosed channels each positioned on an opposite side of the opening. Each of the two enclosed channels has an open end facing the opening. The clip includes a U-shaped main body and two opposing flanges. The U-shaped main body has opposing ends. The two opposing flanges each extend away from a different one of the opposing ends of the U-shaped main body. Each of the two opposing flanges of the clip fits through the open end of a different one of the two enclosed channels such that the clip is linearly slidable between the two enclosed channels while each of the two opposing flanges remains at least partially maintained with the corresponding different one of the two enclosed channels.

Attachment mechanism for reel basket assembly

A lighting assembly for a reel slot machine includes an interface board and a flexible printed circuit board (PCB). The interface board is substantially planar, electrically couplable to the reel slot machine, and includes a first electrical connection plug and a second electrical connection plug spaced from the first electrical connection plug. The flexible PCB defines a first end and a second end, the first end and second ends of the flexible PCB are electrically coupled to the first electrical connection plug and the second electrical connection plug, respectively. The flexible PCB bows away from each of the first and second ends to define a bowed primary face facing away from the interface board. The flexible PCB further comprises a plurality of light sources coupled to the bowed primary face. During use, the plurality of light sources selectively illuminate to provide lighting to a reel of the reel slot machine.

Lighting assembly for reel slot machine

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Sparks, NV, United States of America

Juan C Hernandez