Universal Entertainment Corporation

Aruze Corporation

Shingo Omomo

Takao Nireki

Hideaki Imura

Yuuichirou Suzuki

With liquid crystal provided in front of reels, a gaming machine includes reelshaving symbol placement faces shaped like curved surfaces on which a plurality of symbols are placed for variably displaying of a plurality of symbol rows each made up of the plurality of symbols, liquid crystalbeing provided in front of and opposed to the reelsfor displaying the symbols through a flat symbol transmission face and also displaying an image concerning game play, reel backlightsfor illuminating the symbols, and reel side reflectorsbeing provided on a side of the reelsfor covering an area sandwiched between the symbol placement face and the symbol transmission face on a face on the side of the reelsfor assisting image display of the liquid crystal

Gaming machine with image display assistance feature

A motor drive device is disclosed having an input-side gear through which rotation of a stepping motor is transferred to a reel with a predetermined speed reduction ratio, the reel driven by the stepping motor via the input-side gear and is formed in one-piece construction with the input-side gear, and a rotary shaft support section that rotatably supports the reel. The rotary shaft support section has one end formed with a wall portion in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the rotary shaft support section and the other end provided with a press section by which the rotatably supported reel is pressed toward the wall portion.

Motor drive device

In the motor stop control device utilizable for the reel-type gaming machine, there are provided the stepping motorhaving two pairs of excitation phases for rotating the reelon the outer periphery of which a plurality of symbols are formed, the speed reduction mechanismfor transmitting rotation of the stepping motorto the rotation shaft of the reelwith a predetermined speed reduction ratio and the main CPUfor conducting speed reduction treatment to reduce rotation speed of the stepping motorand excitation treatment by 2-phase excitation against the stepping motorwhen the motor stop command occurs.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shingo Omomo