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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2011
Shoki Kogure, Minato-ku, JP;
Taisuke Sazaki, Minato-ku, JP;
Shoki Kogure, Minato-ku, JP;
Taisuke Sazaki, Minato-ku, JP;
Konami Gaming, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A ball lottery apparatus includes a roulette section having a roulette wheel and a retention plate that are superposed and rotatable as a unit, a slide motor unit for changing the relative position of the retention plate with respect to the roulette wheel, and a host controller for selecting either of a ball-hold mode or a ball-through mode for the roulette section. In the ball-hold mode, the host controller controls the slide motor unit so that the roulette section retains the balls. In the ball-through mode, the host controller controls the slide motor unit so that the balls fall down from the roulette section.