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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2012
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Masumi Fujisawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takehisa Itagaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kensaku Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Daisyun OKamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Munakata, Tokyo, JP;
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
To provide a gaming terminal capable of effectively preventing breakage of a support mechanism of a lever-type operation device or the like and a method of providing notification, when a leveris rotated by a player during the running of a game, the angle of inclination is detected by an inclination detection mechanism, and history information is updated based on the detected angle of inclination. Then whether the updated history information satisfies a predetermined warning condition is determined. A warning is issued to the player and the number of warnings is updated if the predetermined warning condition is satisfied, and the game being run is invalidated when the number of warnings reaches a predetermined value.