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Gaming machine with sterilizing light beam
AssigneeAruze Corp.
InventorAkira Koga
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AssigneeAruze Corp.
InventorAkira Koga
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Light-emitting means for emitting a light beam for sterilizing a gaming medium is disposed in a gaming machine itself at a position where the light beam irradiates a stored gaming medium or a passing gaming medium, the light-emitting means being shielded from eyes of a player. In particular, the gaming machine is a ball-shooting gaming machine or a coin or medal gaming machine. Specifically, the light-emitting means is disposed at a position where the light beam irradiates a gaming medium flowing into storage means within the gaming machine or a gaming medium stored in the storage means. Specifically, the light-emitting means is disposed at a position where the light beam irradiates a gaming medium stored in a tray located outside the gaming machine. Preferably, the light beam is an ultraviolet ray. As a consequence, the antibacterial specification of the gaming machine becomes more effective, and an antibacterial specification is newly realized in the case of the coin or medal gaming machine.
A gaming machine comprising light-emitting means for emitting a light beam for sterilizing a gaming medium, said light-emitting means being disposed in said gaming machine at a position where said light beam irradiates a stored gaming medium when stored in a tray through which medals are supplied to a player's hand, wherein said light-emitting means is shielded from eyes of a player.
A gaming machine comprising light-emitting means for emitting a light beam for sterilizing a gaming medium, said light-emitting means being disposed in said gaming machine at a position where said light beam irradiates a gaming medium after the medium flows into an insertion slot and before flowing of the medium into a hopper or after flowing of the medium from the hopper and before flowing of the medium through a payout slot, said light-emitting means being shielded from eyes of a player, and being turned off in synchronization with an opening action of an open/close panel of said housing of said gaming machine when said open/close panel is caused to open.
A gaming machine comprising light-emitting means for emitting a light beam for sterilizing a gaming medium, said light-emitting means being disposed in said gaming machine at a position where said light beam irradiates a gaming medium when stored in an internal storage hopper, wherein said light-emitting means is shielded from eyes of a player, and is turned off in synchronization with an opening action of an open/close panel of said housing of said gaming machine when said open/close panel is caused to open.
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