EP0253584A2 - Spiel- und Unterhaltungsmaschine - Google Patents

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EP0253584A2
EP0253584A2 EP87306102A EP87306102A EP0253584A2 EP 0253584 A2 EP0253584 A2 EP 0253584A2 EP 87306102 A EP87306102 A EP 87306102A EP 87306102 A EP87306102 A EP 87306102A EP 0253584 A2 EP0253584 A2 EP 0253584A2
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Neville Dale Chadwick
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Bell Fruit Manufacturing Co Ltd
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
    • G07F17/3204—Player-machine interfaces
    • G07F17/3211—Display means

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  • This invention relates to gaming and amusement machines of the kind commonly known as fruit machines, in which, following the insertion of a coin or token or the release of a credit, a number of reels (usually three or four) carrying symbols on their peripheries are set spinning and allowed to come to a halt at random. If one of a number of preselected combinations of symbols on the different reels is obtained on a pre-determined line or lines (the 'win' line), a prize is awarded.
  • Such machines usually have the reels rotating on a common axis and the 'win' line is visible through a window in the front of the cabinet machine.
  • a display panel usually of glass, having screen-printed on it the details of what combinations of symbols will result in wins, and what the values of those wins are.
  • Behind the display panel are numerous lights, not only to stimulate interest by flashing on and off and to indicate options available, but also lighting up in sequence to simulate an object travelling, for example in a 'cat-and-mouse' feature. There may be thirty, forty or many more lamps behind the glass panel, all switching on and off in accordance with the various features. It is known to build machines which are of the same basic construction inside but of which the glass display panel is selected from one of a number of different panels with the artwork designed according to the game for which the machine is to be set up.
  • the display panel containing the information, instructions and features if not simply in painted form (in early machines), has been in the form of a glass panel, with the artwork colour-printed on the back and with lamps behind it.
  • Certain of the changing information, e.g. numbers has been imparted to the player by the use of a limited number of alphanumeric or purely numeric characters on a seven-segment LED display or a 14- or 16-segment vacuum fluorescent display.
  • Such a display involves certain restrictions, not least on the area which is illuminated, simply because of the thermal load of the numerous lamps. Mechanical constraints on the artwork limit what can be depicted, and the active features may only involve a small proportion of the total display area at any given time.
  • a fruit machine at least one separate display area (as opposed to the reels or a reel display area which simulates spinning reels) which is in the form of a two-dimensional electronic display screen.
  • a display area as opposed to the reels or a reel display area which simulates spinning reels
  • a further advantage is the elimination of the thermal load involved in numerous filament lamps.
  • the lights connected with the various features are now simply part of the matrix display.
  • the display technology could be in one of several forms, i.e. a cathode ray tube (although generally too bulky), electro-luminescent, vacuum fluorescent, gas-discharge, liquid crystal etc, and could be in monochrome or colour.
  • the fruit machine shown in Figure 1 comprises a housing 1 having three rotatable reels 2, first and second separate display areas 3 and 4 respectively alongside and above the reels 2, and a number of switch buttons 5, by means of which a player controls operation of the machine.
  • the display areas 3 and 4 are in the form of flat panel graphic displays i.e. two-dimensional electronic display screens.
  • the flat panel graphic display area 4 of Figure 2 displays an 'artwork scene' including three different features; a 'ladder' feature 10, a 'gamble' feature 11 and a 'nudges' feature 12.
  • a 'ladder' feature 10 a 'gamble' feature 11
  • a 'nudges' feature 12 a 'nudges' feature 12.
  • the artwork scene store 8 is programmed to change the artwork scene on the flat panel graphic display area 4 in order to display that feature in greater detail as shown in Figure 3 in which the display of the 'nudges' feature 12 is expanded to occupy virtually the whole of the flat panel graphic display area 4.

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  • Display Devices Of Pinball Game Machines (AREA)
EP19870306102 1986-07-12 1987-07-10 Spiel- und Unterhaltungsmaschine Revoked EP0253584B1 (de)

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GB8617044 1986-07-12
GB868617044A GB8617044D0 (en) 1986-07-12 1986-07-12 Gaming & amusement machines

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EP0253584A2 true EP0253584A2 (de) 1988-01-20
EP0253584A3 EP0253584A3 (en) 1988-05-11
EP0253584B1 EP0253584B1 (de) 1993-02-03

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EP19870306102 Revoked EP0253584B1 (de) 1986-07-12 1987-07-10 Spiel- und Unterhaltungsmaschine

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DE (1) DE3783962T2 (de)
ES (1) ES2037716T3 (de)
GB (2) GB8617044D0 (de)

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EP0886250A1 (de) * 1997-06-20 1998-12-23 Barcrest Limited Unterhaltungsgeräte
EP0896305A3 (de) * 1997-08-08 2000-01-19 Konami Co., Ltd. Spielautomat
DE4201534C2 (de) * 1992-01-18 2001-10-31 Bally Wulff Automaten Gmbh Verfahren zum Betreiben eines Geldspielgerätes
NL1007157C2 (nl) * 1996-09-30 2002-01-03 Innovative Gaming Corp Of Amer Premie-speelinrichting en werkwijze.
EP1008969A3 (de) * 1998-12-10 2002-07-24 Aruze Corporation Spielautomat
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DE4143642B4 (de) * 1991-11-12 2004-12-09 Nsm-Löwen Entertainment Gmbh Verfahren zum Betreiben eines geldbetätigten Spielgerätes
DE4201534C2 (de) * 1992-01-18 2001-10-31 Bally Wulff Automaten Gmbh Verfahren zum Betreiben eines Geldspielgerätes
DE4232762A1 (de) * 1992-09-25 1994-03-31 Bally Wulff Automaten Gmbh Geldspielgerät
NL1007157C2 (nl) * 1996-09-30 2002-01-03 Innovative Gaming Corp Of Amer Premie-speelinrichting en werkwijze.
EP0886250A1 (de) * 1997-06-20 1998-12-23 Barcrest Limited Unterhaltungsgeräte
EP0896305A3 (de) * 1997-08-08 2000-01-19 Konami Co., Ltd. Spielautomat
EP1008969A3 (de) * 1998-12-10 2002-07-24 Aruze Corporation Spielautomat
US7066813B1 (en) 1998-12-18 2006-06-27 Aruze Corporation Gaming machine with progressive story
US6960136B2 (en) * 2000-10-04 2005-11-01 Wms Gaming Inc. Gaming machine with visual and audio indicia changed over time
US8998705B2 (en) 2000-10-04 2015-04-07 Wms Gaming Inc. Gaming machine with visual and audio indicia changed over time
US9349242B2 (en) 2000-10-04 2016-05-24 Bally Gaming, Inc. Gaming machine with visual and audio indicia changed over time
US9613493B2 (en) 2000-10-04 2017-04-04 Bally Gaming, Inc. Gaming machine with visual and audio indicia changed over time
GB2381929A (en) * 2001-11-06 2003-05-14 Gunshot Experience Ltd Slot machine with wheel and touch sensitive LCD screen

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GB2192478B (en) 1989-12-20
EP0253584A3 (en) 1988-05-11
DE3783962T2 (de) 1993-06-03
EP0253584B1 (de) 1993-02-03
GB8617044D0 (en) 1986-08-20
DE3783962D1 (de) 1993-03-18
GB8716264D0 (en) 1987-08-19
ES2037716T3 (es) 1993-07-01
GB2192478A (en) 1988-01-13

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