US 8,011,509 B1Granted

Product package and prize for crane claw arcade game

AssigneeNAMCO Cybertainment Inc.

InventorsYoshitaka Sakamaki, Akio Fujii, Darin Pilcher, Jim Wulfers

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Abstract

A package for storing a prize associated with a crane claw arcade game includes a sidewall, a first and second end panels, a cavity, at least one first side aperture, and optionally at least one second side aperture. The sidewall includes a plurality of side panels, wherein each includes opposing first and second side edges and opposing first and second end edges. The cavity is adapted to store the prize associated with the crane claw arcade game. The first side aperture is defined by a first side panel of the plurality of side panels, and the optional second side aperture is defined by a second side panel of the plurality of side panels. The first and second side apertures are adapted to receive a finger of a claw of the crane claw arcade game to facilitate retrieval of the package from a housing of the arcade game.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A prize associated with a crane claw arcade game, the prize comprising:

a sidewall having a hexagonal cross-section, the sidewall comprising a first end, a second end, and a plurality of side panels disposed adjacent to one another;
a first end panel disposed adjacent to the first end of the sidewall and defining a first end aperture;
a second end panel disposed adjacent to the second end sidewall and defining a second end aperture;
a cavity defined by the sidewall and disposed between the first and second end panels;
a toy disposed within the cavity;
a first side panel of the plurality of side panels defining a pair of first side apertures;
a second side panel of the plurality of side panels defining a pair of second side apertures;
a third side panel of the plurality of panels defining a pair of third side apertures, each aperture of the first end aperture, the second end aperture, and the pairs of first, second, and third side apertures adapted to receive a finger of a claw of the crane claw arcade game to facilitate retrieval of the prize;
a fourth side panel of the plurality of side panels being solid and disposed between the first and second side panels;
a fifth side panel of the plurality of panels being solid and disposed between the second and third side panels;
a sixth side panel of the plurality of side panels being solid and disposed between the first and third side panels.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.