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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hirofumi Fujimoto, Kobe, JP;
Yuji Tamura, Akashi, JP;
Assignee:
Konami Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 1/306 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 1/306 ;
Abstract
A rotary device for a game machine, comprises a rotatable member rotatable by a game player, a rotatable shaft having the rotatable member mounted thereon, a bias unit for biasing the rotatable shaft to its neutral position thereof, and a braking unit having a contacting member and a contacted member which are opposed to each other and adapted to give a rotational resistance to the rotatable shaft based on a contact resistance created by a variation of a distance between the contacting member and the contacted member.