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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1998
Aruze Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A game machine comprises a housing, a lever pivotally supported on the housing and a control unit. The lever comprises a rod portion having a handle portion integrally formed at the front section and a sensor actuating portion integrally formed at the rear section. The game machine comprises a resiliently urging member for resiliently urging the rod portion toward a neutral position from first and second positions. The game machine further comprises first and second optical sensors positioned to have the lights intercepted by the sensor actuating portion of the lever when the rod portion of the lever is moved to the first and second positions, respectively. The control unit is operable to selectively perform predetermined first and second operations in accordance with signals outputted from the first and second optical sensors, respectively.
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