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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2013
Universal Entertainment Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Jun Hirato, Tokyo, JP;
Kou Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Motomichi Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Takuto Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitomo Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Joko, Tokyo, JP;
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a reel for a slot machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: forming an opening in a reel strip on which a plurality of first symbols are printed; forming a second symbol on an optical sheet by vacuum forming the optical sheet to form a symbol piece, the second symbol including a protrusion and a depression; attaching the symbol piece to the reel strip such that the second symbol is exposed through the opening of the reel strip; and attaching the reel strip to a reel frame for the slot machine.