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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2018
Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Shogo Azuma, Tokyo, JP;
Kensaku Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Kusano, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Tsubota, Tokyo, JP;
KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lottery device includes: a drawing body having medium entrance units which are provided along a circumferential direction thereof, and into each of which a game medium can enter; a driving mechanism driving the drawing body in the circumferential direction; a dividing device dividing a periphery of a path of the medium entrance units, in which path the medium entrance units travel, into lottery segments in the circumferential direction; a medium introduction mechanism introducing the game medium individually into each lottery segment; an entrance unit detection device detecting a medium entrance unit into which the game medium has entered; a displacement amount detection device detecting an amount of displacement in the circumferential direction; and a lottery segment distinguishing device distinguishing from which of the lottery segments the game medium has entered into the medium entrance unit based on a result of detection by the displacement amount detection device.