US 2015/0317867 A1 · GAMING MACHINE AND REEL DEVICE THEREOF

Abstract

A gaming machine includes: a reel having an outer circumferential surface on which symbols are lined up; a reel driving mechanism which rotates the reel to rearrange the symbols; a magnet which is provided in the reel driving mechanism to change an external magnetic field in accordance with the rotation of the reel; a magnetic force detecting mechanism which detects a magnetic force of the external magnetic field so as to output a magnetic force detection signal; a reel setting unit by which the magnetic force detection signal and arrangement positions of the symbols are associated with one another; and a reel drive control unit which controls the reel driving mechanism so that the symbols are rearranged in a predetermined arrangement based on the magnetic force detection signal and the arrangement positions of the symbols.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A gaming machine comprising:

a reel having a reel band which is arranged to be able to transmit illumination light and on which symbols are lined up;
a reel driving mechanism which rearranges the symbols by rotating the reel;
a backlight apparatus which emits illumination light from the inner circumference side of the reel toward the reel band to allow the illumination light having passed through the reel band to be visible from the outside;
and
a backlight control unit which controls emission states of the illumination light emitted from the backlight apparatus,
the backlight apparatus being provided with a plurality of illumination light sources which are in parallel to a width direction and a longitudinal direction of the reel band and is able to change an amount of the illumination light stepwise, and
the backlight control unit being individually controllable the illumination light sources.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Gaming machine and reel device thereof

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Gaming machine and reel device thereof

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Abstract

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