EP3149714A1 - Appareil pourvu d'un élément de commande associé à une poignée - Google Patents

Appareil pourvu d'un élément de commande associé à une poignée

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EP3149714A1
EP3149714A1 EP15725277.6A EP15725277A EP3149714A1 EP 3149714 A1 EP3149714 A1 EP 3149714A1 EP 15725277 A EP15725277 A EP 15725277A EP 3149714 A1 EP3149714 A1 EP 3149714A1
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Prior art keywords
handle
operating element
thumb
operating
control element
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Alois Homer
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Novomatic AG
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Novomatic AG
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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
    • G07F17/3209—Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
    • 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
    • G07F17/3206—Player sensing means, e.g. presence detection, biometrics
    • 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
    • G07F17/3213—Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
    • 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
    • G07F17/3244—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to devices in which an operating element is associated with a handle, wherein the operating element is arranged such that when grasping the handle with the index and / or middle and / or ring and / or small finger of a hand of the thumb this Hand is placed on the control.
  • Gaming and / or betting machines such as those used in casinos or gaming halls, or money or monetary value actuated devices such as vending machines, where, for example, goods or game chips can be purchased, or access control systems such as turnstiles or
  • the control element serves different functions depending on the device type.
  • the control element may be a start button with which a game is started.
  • the control element can also serve as a gamble button other game functions, for example, act as a stop button to stop the rollers in a role play or trigger the bullet of the ball in a roulette game.
  • the operating element can in this case be designed in particular as a pushbutton which can be pressed down by the thumb or reacts to pressure of the applied thumb.
  • the control element can also be designed as a touchscreen button that already reacts to touch.
  • Other configurations of the control element may be slide switch, rocker buttons or the like.
  • a device of the type mentioned is known for example from the document DE 10 2007 042 632 A1, in which case a provided under the screens of the gaming machine control panel is provided with a handle on which the device operator can place his right hand.
  • an operating element in the form of a start button for starting a game is provided obliquely below the handle, of one of the
  • control button is not arranged equally suitable for all device operators.
  • the operating element comprises a mushroom-like arched actuating plate, which is mounted tiltable on a central axle shaft.
  • the depositable on the actuator plate fingers can tilt the plate and thus control a screen cursor.
  • additional control buttons are provided on the tiltable actuator plate, by means of which additional control functions can be triggered in the manner of a mouse clicks.
  • a money-operated device in the form of a gaming machine in which a start switch is provided as an operating element, with which a game can be started on the entertainment device, wherein in the start switch a fingerprint Sensor is integrated.
  • a door handle is also known, in which an operating element is integrated in order to unlock an electronic door lock as a function of the detected fingerprint.
  • the operating element is on a user-facing front of the handle in the region of the axis of rotation of the door handle
  • a slot machine which comprises a separate control panel which can be connected by cable to a game computer system.
  • the handle is positionally variable, such that the handle relative to the operating element in at least two different working positions can be brought, of which a working position with respect to the operating element is so in that the handgrip is graspable with the right hand and the right thumb can be placed on the operating element and the other working position lies in such a way that the handgrip is graspable with the left hand and the left thumb can be placed on the operating element.
  • the handle is ideally designed rod-shaped.
  • the working positions of the handle are advantageously positioned such that the operating element next to the handle in the respective working position in the thumb range is arranged so that a extending away from the handle thumb with the thumb tip comes to rest on the control.
  • Thumb in natural thumb posture in which the thumb extends away from the gripped handle, ergonomically favorable to lie on the control.
  • control element can not be rigidly arranged or aligned relative to the handle or relative to the finger support surface or aligned, but movably arranged or movably mounted to individually, that is for the respective user and his hand appropriate positions spent to be able to.
  • Operating element is arranged, extending, tiltable or rotatable.
  • Control be designed such that the approachable or adjustable working positions have a symmetry to the control.
  • the working positions provided for left-handed and right-handed operation can be arranged symmetrically with respect to a plane of symmetry or an axis of symmetry which is aligned centrally with respect to the operating element.
  • the two can be arranged symmetrically with respect to a plane of symmetry or an axis of symmetry which is aligned centrally with respect to the operating element.
  • the two can
  • Handle can be provided to a swivel axis arranged fixed to the housing, wherein said pivot axis may extend for example perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the handle in the region of a handle end portion, so that the handle
  • Such a pivot axis can also be arranged parallel to the longitudinal direction of the handle spaced therefrom, wherein the handle can be connected via a bearing web with said pivot axis.
  • Such a parallel hinge axis may be useful in particular in upright orientation of the handle to pivot the Handle from a left side of the control to a right side of the
  • the handle can also be mounted multi-axially pivotable or articulated on a device housing section, for example such that a handle forming the actual handle portion is pivotally connected to a support member, which in turn is pivotally mounted on a housing device section.
  • a multi-membered design of the handle or its articulation can be used to provide or attach the operating element on one of the handle parts, for example, the aforementioned support member.
  • control element in a further development of the invention can also be spaced from the handle and mounted separately from the handle on a housing section or a body part of the device, for example on a device housing section on which the handle is also mounted.
  • the aforesaid position changeability can advantageously be designed such that, advantageously in addition to the working positions in which the thumb can be placed on the operating element, a parking position or non-working position of the handle can also be provided, in which the handle is recessed, for example, into a device body or directly is stored in a non-disturbing place.
  • the control element can be arranged directly on a device housing, which adjoins the handle or extends in the vicinity of the handle, wherein the device housing, for example, can surround a surrounding the handle body part of the device and / or form a mounting base for the handle.
  • the control element can be placed on the device housing or embedded in the device housing or recessed in the housing, that is, to be reset or recessed relative to the surrounding housing surface.
  • the operating element may also be provided on a device part separate from the device housing, for example a projecting over the device housing Tastentragarm or an example podestförmigen key-out, which protrudes from the actual device housing.
  • the operating element and said handles or can be arranged directly on the device housing of a gaming machine or the main unit.
  • the device and the handle having device may also be formed as a separate input device having an interface for connecting to the main unit, for example in the form of a
  • Said interface may for example comprise a serial interface, for example in the form of a USB interface or a LAN or WLAN interface.
  • the said control element can be arranged on a device housing front side, which extends transversely to said upper side, on which the keyboard can be provided.
  • the handle can thereby extend spaced from the device housing, so that the fingers encompassing the handle do not collide with the device housing, where appropriate, the device housing behind the handle can have a recessed grip or a recess.
  • the operating element can in particular be arranged offset transversely to the handle longitudinal axis of the handle. Is the handle in
  • control element can advantageously be arranged below the handle, when the handle is in one of its working positions. Is the handle in working position alternatively upright
  • the right-handed grip control to the left of the handle and in a second operating position of the left-handed grip handle to the right of the handle can be arranged.
  • the working positions of the handle relative to the operating element can also be offset in the longitudinal direction of the handle, in particular such that the operating part of the handle or a gripping portion of the handle, the is provided for the palm or index and / or middle and / or ring and / or little finger, is arranged at a distance, in particular a piece far beyond the end of the handle or gripping portion, the intended uses the index finger, is moved out so that the thumb projecting from the heel of the hand over the end of the handle reaches the operating element with the thumb tip or the last thumb member when the hand grips the said handle with the fingers.
  • Gripping portion in its respective working positions is advantageously limited to the usual thumb reach of an average sized hand and may be some, a few inches across the handle longitudinal axis and / or in the direction of the handle longitudinal axis.
  • the operating element may have an actuating surface which lies in a plane or conforms to a plane, which plane is arranged at least approximately parallel to the longitudinal axis of the handle or inclined at an acute angle, for example, inclined at an angle of 10-30 degrees can.
  • the said plane and the handle can thereby define an approximately converging wedge in the area of the palm, that is, the support surface spreads with increasing distance from the handle further away from this.
  • the control element on a user of the device facing, at least approximately upright front of the device be arranged so that the control element is facing a user standing in front of the device and a remote from the body of the user thumb tip on the control element is laid.
  • the operating element can also be mounted translationally displaceable, in particular in a plane approximately parallel to the housing side, on which the operating element is provided.
  • the operating element can be displaceable upwards and downwards and / or to the right and left on an upright device housing front side, in order to be able to set an optimum position relative to the handle in its working positions or its previously described contact surface for the fingers.
  • the operating element is arranged on a device housing side lying in a lying position, the operating element can be displaced to the right and left and / or forward and backward.
  • a fingerprint sensor can be attached to the operating element, for example integrated in its actuating surface. Such a fingerprint sensor can serve the user identification of the respective device, wherein the by the
  • Control recorded biometric data for example, the thumb or a
  • Fingertip can be used in various ways.
  • a connectable to the control unlock device can unlock a device function depending on the detected fingerprint, for example, cancel a device lock or release an access barrier if the detected fingerprint corresponds to a stored fingerprint or sufficiently close or vice versa sufficiently different from a stored fingerprint, that is with Help of the
  • Fingerprint can be checked whether an authorized or a locked person tries to operate the device.
  • control element can also be connected to a device setting device, by means of which personal
  • Device settings such as. Screen position, character and / or
  • Letter size or other image display options or, for example, a game preselection based on the captured fingerprint can be preconfigured user-individually.
  • the operating element can also be connected to a user detection device, which is dependent on the respectively acquired fingerprint Attributes usage data to an individual user account, for example. Usage times or profits earned in a user account stores or stakes of one
  • the fingerprint sensor integrated in the operating element can be tilted with a main axis relative to the longitudinal axis of the handle in particular embodiment of the invention be arranged at an acute angle inclined.
  • the named main axis of the operating element can be a longitudinal center axis of the bearing surface of the fingerprint sensor and / or a main axis of the image sensor of the operating element, in which the evaluation device of the operating element expects a main axis of the imprint image, in particular the thumb tip longitudinal axis.
  • FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of a device housing section with a
  • Figure 2 A front perspective view of the device housing portion of FIG.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view of the upper side of the device housing section from FIG. 6, with the handle being pivoted into the position for left-handed operation;
  • Figure 4 is a front view of the device housing portion of Figure 1, wherein according to another embodiment of the invention, a two-way pivotable handle is provided which is movable between two working positions for right hand and left hand use and a parking position and on its movable support strut the control carries, according to
  • FIG. 4 the handle in a working position for the right hand and in a dashed representation the working position for the left hand are shown
  • a device embodying the invention may, for example, be configured as a gaming and / or entertainment device such as is used in casinos or gaming halls, wherein The device, for example, can be configured as a stand-alone device.
  • the device 1 may comprise a device housing 2, which - roughly speaking - can be approximately cube-shaped, but also sculptural.
  • One or more screens 3 can be arranged on said device housing 2, but other display means such as, for example, rotating rollers can also be provided.
  • a device housing section 4 which advantageously can be oriented horizontally and example, panel-like shaped, can act as a control section, wherein said device housing section 4 input means, for example, may be provided in the form of control buttons or touchscreen elements.
  • a handle for supporting the hand of a device operator as well as an operating element associated with this handle can be provided directly on said device housing section 4 of the gaming machine.
  • an input device designed separately from the game device or main device 1 may also be provided, as shown, for example, by FIGS. 1 to 7.
  • Such an input device may have a suitable interface for connection to the main unit, which may also be a PC or a game console, as will be explained in more detail.
  • Such an input device also comprises a device housing 2, which has a device housing section 4 which is advantageously oriented horizontally and, viewed roughly speaking, has a cubic or panel-like shape.
  • said device housing section 4 may comprise a handle 6, which may be arranged lying on a front side of the device housing section 4.
  • said handle 6 - roughly speaking - may be rod-shaped and / or arranged on a housing edge 7, which connects a horizontal upper side 8 and an upright front side 9 of the device housing section 4.
  • the device housing section 4 can in this case comprise a recess 10 around the handle 6, so that a hand 20 can grip the handle 6 with the index, middle, ring, and small fingers.
  • the handle 6 may be associated with a control element 5 which is arranged transversely to the longitudinal axis 1 1 of the handle 6 and also in the direction of said longitudinal axis 1 1 spaced from one end of the handle 6.
  • said control element 5 can be arranged on the upright front side 9 of the device housing section 4, wherein the operating element 5 can be arranged a little way below the handle 6 to one side away from the handle 6 - according to FIG. 2 to the left - so that a hand 12 not encompassing, but spread away from the handle 6 away thumb 12 comes to lie in natural, intuitive thumb posture on said control element 5.
  • the distance of the control element 5 from the said handle 6 transversely to the handle longitudinal axis 1 1 and / or in the direction of the handle longitudinal axis 1 1 from the handle end (according to Figure 2 down and left with respect to the handle 6) is advantageously the spacing of the thumb tip from Root joint of the index finger, that is the usual thumb reach with spread thumb and can be a few centimeters.
  • the operating element 5 with its bearing surface can also be tilted about a lying tilting axis 16 with respect to the device housing front side 9 or the handle longitudinal axis 1 1.
  • the handle 6 is designed to be positionally variable, in particular such that the handle 6 can be brought into two different working positions relative to the operating element 5.
  • a working position can be a left-handed operation and the other working position of a right-handed operation of the
  • the positional changeability of the handle 6 can in particular a
  • the handle 6 may have a first working position, in which an at least larger part of the handle 6 lies on a right side of the operating element 5, while in a second working position an at least larger part of the handle 6 is located on a left side of the operating element.
  • the handle 6 may be pivotally mounted, as shown in FIG. 2, wherein the handle 6 may have a pivot axis 21 perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the handle 6, which may extend approximately centrally with respect to the operating element 5, for example, centrally above said operating element 5 can be arranged.
  • the handle 6, also be movable or positionally variable in another way, for example by repositioning between two or more working positions, and / or by a displaceability of the handle 6, for example in the form of a displaceable Storage of the handle 6 parallel to its longitudinal axis.
  • the handle 6 could also be spent by moving in the longitudinal direction from the right-handed working position shown by a solid line in the left-handed working position shown in dashed lines.
  • the handle 6 is in each case positioned in its working positions relative to the operating element 5 such that the thumb of the right or left hand can be positioned on the operating element 5 in the manner mentioned.
  • the operating element 5 can be mounted in a suitably rotatable or tiltable manner.
  • the operating element 5 can in principle, however, also be rigidly mounted on the device housing section 4 and / or be arranged fixedly in a preferably parallel orientation to the longitudinal direction of the handle 6.
  • the handle 6 not only directly on
  • Device housing 2 of the main unit 1 and the slot machines are arranged, but on a device housing section 4 separate from the main unit
  • This interface 22 may be a wired parallel or serial interface, for example in the form of a USB interface or RS 232 interface or a wireless interface, for example in the form of a WLAN interface or Bluetooth or based on infrared IrDA interface or a Combination of this.
  • the handle 6 can also be of multi-limbed design, for example in order to be able to occupy a parking position or non-operating position in addition to the two working positions mentioned, which is shown in FIG.
  • the handle 6 may comprise a handle element 6a, which is the actual
  • said handle member 6a may be formed, for example, elongated or rod-shaped.
  • Said grip element 6a can be supported on a support member 6b, which support member 6b can be movably mounted on the device housing portion 4.
  • Handle 6 about a pivot axis 23 which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the Support member 6b extends, be pivotally mounted.
  • the grip element 6a of the handle 6 can in turn be pivoted to said support member 6b, wherein the pivot axis 21 of the grip element 6a can again extend perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the said grip element.
  • Said support member 6b forms, as it were, a handlebar for the articulated articulation of the grip element 6a on the device housing section 4, which may be part of the device housing of the main device or a separate operating device.
  • the mobility of the handle 6 may be formed such that the handle 6 can be brought into a parking position in which the handle 6, preferably including its grip element 6a and its support member 6b on the device housing section 4 conforms or adjacent to this housing section this extends along and is tidied up, so to speak, to save space.
  • the support member 6b is erected or positioned by the device housing section 4, for example, vertically projecting and advantageously fixed, for example by a releasable plug-form-locking connection or a screw-clamp connection or a self-locking latching connection.
  • the grip element 6a can be angled to the support member 6b.
  • the two aforementioned working positions can also be adjusted, that is to say in particular a first working position, in which an at least larger part of the grip element 6a lies on a right side of the operating element 5, while in a second working position an at least larger part of the grip element 6a lies on a left side of the operating element 5.
  • the operating element 5 may be arranged on the said support member 6b and thus on the handle 6, wherein the arrangement may in turn be made such that upon gripping the grip element 6a with index, middle, ring and / or small finger of a hand of the thumb this hand next to the handle member 6a on the control element 5 can be laid.
  • FIGS. 4 and 6 show, in the two working positions shown, the grip element 6a of the handle 6 can be gripped optionally with the left hand or the right hand in order to be able to operate the operating element 5.
  • a positional variability can be provided in other ways, for example, by repositioning or moving even with a multi-membered design of the handle 6.
  • the grip element 6a may be pluggable in different positions on the support member 6b and the support member 6b in different positions on the device housing section 4 be stuck.
  • the device housing section 4 may be part of a computer keyboard, i. the particular multi-membered handle 6 form part of such a PC keyboard.
  • the aforementioned operating element 5 can be a pushbutton or a touch key for triggering a corresponding game function or another device function, in particular a Gamble key, as described in the introduction.
  • the operating element 5 can also have a fingerprint sensor 5s or such a fingerprint sensor 5s can be integrated in particular into the actuating surface of the operating element 5. If the thumb or the thumb tip rest on the operating element 5, said fingerprint sensor 5s can detect the fingerprint of the device operator.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne des appareils dans lesquels un élément de commande est associé à une poignée, l'élément de commande étant disposé de telle sorte que, lorsque l'on prend la poignée avec l'index et/ou le majeur et/ou l'annulaire et/ou l'auriculaire d'une main, le pouce de la main peut être placé sur l'élément de commande. Pour pouvoir utiliser l'élément de commande aussi bien avec la main gauche qu'avec la main droite, la poignée est conçue à position variable pour pouvoir être amenée dans au moins deux positions de travail différentes par rapport à l'élément de commande. Selon l'invention, l'une des positions de travail est placée par rapport à l'élément de commande de telle manière que la poignée peut être prise avec la main droite et le pouce droit peut être placé sur l'élément de commande et l'autre position de travail est placée de telle sorte que la poignée peut être prise avec la main gauche et le pouce gauche peut être placé sur l'élément de commande. La poignée est ainsi configurée en forme de barre pour faciliter la manipulation.
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