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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2000
Akihisa Yamashita, Kobe, JP;
Kojiro Minami, Kobe, JP;
Eita Kada, Kobe, JP;
Hideki Kotani, Kobe, JP;
Yusuke Fujimoto, Kobe, JP;
Hajime Dohki, Kobe, JP;
Konami Co., Ltd., Hyogo-ken, JP;
Abstract
An air hockey game apparatus provides appropriate dynamic characteristics to the game, thereby effectively improving amusement characteristics of the game. The air hockey game apparatus has a puck sliding surface having blowholes for blowing air to float a puck, an air-blower for blowing and sending air toward blowholes, a puck-reflecting frame around the puck sliding surface, goals on the puck sliding surface, blocking members in the individual goals, opening/closing driving units for changing the open sizes of the individual goals by using the blocking members, and a controller for controlling the opening/closing driving units, thereby allowing competition for entering the puck into the goals.