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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2012
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Koto-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Hiroki Munakata, Tokyo, JP;
Gou Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Daisyun Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kensaku Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Okada, Tokyo, JP;
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A control lever which is included in a gaming machine and rotatable forward and backward includes a grip which is held by a hand of a player and allows the player to fix or rotate the control lever in forward and backward directions and a reel unit including a rotation axis, a reel handle configured to rotate the rotation axis, a rotation sensor configured to detect the number of rotation of the rotation axis, and a rotation resistance imparting unit configured to impart resistance to the rotation axis such that torque increases in accordance with the rotational speed of the rotation of the rotation axis in one direction. The reel unit is formed on a side of the grip such that, while the control lever is fixed as the player holds the grip by one hand, the reel handle can be rotated by the other hand of the player.