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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
May. 09, 2002
Junichi Yamagishi, Taito-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Junichi Yamagishi, Taito-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Unirec Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a prize management system of a game machine in which a plurality of kinds of prizes (, . . . ) are accommodated in a case (), a player operates from the outside of the case to select and catch his/her favorite prize, and the selected prize is discharged to a taking-out port, comprising a non-contact detection section () provided with each one of the prizes for specifying a kind of each prize, chute sections () and () for passing the prize in a path leading to the taking-out port of the prizes, reading sections () for reading with non-contact the detection section of the prizes passing through the chute section. The prizes are managed on the basis of a result read by the reading section.