Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Aruze Corporation

Universal Sales Co., Ltd.

Kiyoshi Sugimoto

Susumu Isomura

Masaki Yoshizawa

Tomio Komori

Passenger car

A gaming machine that is provided with an outlet for paying out gaming media has a receiver for paying-out the gaming media, the receiver being disposed forward of the outlet. The receiver is illuminated so was to permit the player to view the gaming media that has been collected in the receiver, whereby the amount thereof readily can be confirmed. Illumination of the receiver is achieved from within the gaming machine, the illumination being emitted from the outlet for paying the gaming media. Thus, as the gaming media is paid out, a glistening effect that is entertaining and visually pleasing is created. Illumination of the receiver, which may be in the form of a receiver tray, is effected, in one form of the invention, by an internal source of illumination that also illuminates the front panel of the gaming machine. Light is propagated through a transmission element to the receiver. In a preferred form, a further light source is disposed behind the chute via which the gaming media is provided to the outlet. Depending upon the location of the further light source with respect to the chute, multiple reflections are employed within the chute to deliver the light to the outlet. The coloration of the light that is delivered to the outlet may be controlled by the further light source itself or a colored transmission element. This permits interesting decorative coloration schemes to be effected, thereby raising the player's interest in playing the game.

Gaming machine

To set a bet number according to an intention of a player, there is provided one bet switch,for a player to designate a desired bet number N. A game machine is provided in its body with a control unit,for setting the bet number N designated by the player by detecting whether or not the bet switch,has been operated. This control unit,sets the bet number N to a maximum allowable bet number &ldquo;Kmax&rdquo; when the bet switch,is operated one time prior to the start of each game. After this, each time the bet switch,is operated, the maximum allowable bet number &ldquo;Kmax&rdquo; is subtracted by 1, and this difference is set as the bet number N. Each time the operation number of the bet switch,reaches a predetermined value, the maximum allowable bet number is again set to &ldquo;Kmax&rdquo;. By repeating the subtraction of the bet number N by 1 each time the bet switch,is operated, moreover, the bet number N is set within a range of the maximum allowable bet number &ldquo;Kmax&rdquo;.

Game machine with bet number designating means

A game machine having a speaker whose sound transmitting holes are not exposed to the front side of the game machine so that the speaker is protected from a wire-shaped object, which would otherwise be inserted through the sound transmitting holes, destroying the speaker. A speaker,is installed on the wall of a cancel shoot,that is installed near a pay-out hole,through which medals are paid out to the player, so that the speaker,will not be exposed to the pay-out hole,. Specifically, the speaker,is installed at a position that is displaced from the immediate back of the pay-out hole,. In addition, the sound transmitting unit of the speaker,is attached on the wall of the box-shaped cancel shoot,toward the interior of the box-shaped cancel shoot,. As a result, effect sounds generated by the speaker,propagate through the interior space of the box-shaped cancel shoot,, and are transmitted outside of the game machine via the pay-out hole,. Thus, the speaker,is hidden inside the game machine,, and the effect sounds generated by the speaker,are transmitted from the pay-out hole without being confined inside the game machine

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Sugimoto