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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1998
Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Universal Sales Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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