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US 12,340,652 B2Granted
Wheel display with moveable segments
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorEric P. Winston
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Abstract
Gaming systems, methods, and machines provided herein may include wheel displays with movable wheel segments that may be caused to have at least portions thereof that at least translate along axes parallel to a center axis of the wheel display when the wheel is in a “spin” mode.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a wheel display assembly including:
- a support structure;
- multiple sets of wheel segments, the wheel segments in each set of wheel segments arranged in a corresponding ring around a common center axis;
- and
- an actuation mechanism configured to be transitioned between a plurality of actuated configurations, wherein:
- the wheel segments in each set of wheel segments are supported, at least in part, by the support structure,
- the actuation mechanism has one or more first portions that are fixed relative to the support structure and one or more second portions that are movable relative to the support structure to transition the actuation mechanism between the plurality of actuated configurations,
- the wheel segments are each movably connected with the support structure and are each interfaced with a second portion of the one or more second portions of the actuation mechanism such that each of the wheel segments is at least movable between at least two corresponding wheel segment configurations, including a corresponding first wheel segment configuration and a corresponding second wheel segment configuration, relative to the support structure in response to the actuation mechanism transitioning to a corresponding one of the actuated configurations, and
- transitioning of each wheel segment between the corresponding first wheel segment configuration and the corresponding second wheel segment configuration causes at least a first sub-portion of that wheel segment to at least translate along a direction parallel to the center axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.