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US 9,919,202 B2Granted
Pinball game truss system
OwnerJohn A. Popadiuk, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A modular pinball game truss system provides for lighting and other pinball game features, such as targets, ramps, ball pathways, bumpers, and ball-reactive game or decorative elements, features that move, make sounds, flash, display score, register points, illuminate, or otherwise react to a given pinball movement, to be easily added to existing games and changed at any time by individual game owners.
Claims19
A truss system for a pinball game having a playfield, a cabinet, and a game control system, the truss system comprising:
- at least one truss having at least one structural element with a first end and a second end;
- at least one post having a first end and a second end, the second end of the at least one post for attachment to the pinball game;
- at least one truss connector connecting the at least one post to the at least one structural element of the truss proximal to the first end of the at least one post;
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- at least one attachment module removably attached to the at least one truss, the at least one attachment module also being attached to at least one pinball game feature,
- the at least one pinball game feature being supported by the attachment module attached to the truss,
- the at least one truss including a plurality of electrically conductive structural members, the attachment module including contacts that mate to the plurality of conductive structural members, the contacts also being electrically connected to the at least one pinball game feature attached to the attachment module.
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A truss system for a pinball game having a playfield, a cabinet, and a game control system, the truss system comprising:
- at least one truss having at least one structural element with a first end and a second end;
- at least one post having a first end and a second end, the second end of the at least one post for attachment to the pinball game;
- at least one truss connector connecting the at least one post to the at least one structural element of the truss proximal to the first end of the at least one post;
- at least one attachment module removably attached to the at least one truss, the at least one attachment module also being attached to at least one pinball game feature;
- a mounting bus having at least one mounting channel, the pinball game including a side rail with a length adjacent to the playfield, the at least one mounting channel forming at least a portion of the length of the side rail;
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- at least one bus connector removably attached to the at least one mounting channel of the mounting bus and at least one of the at least one post,
- the at least one pinball game feature being supported by the attachment module attached to the truss.
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A truss system for a pinball game having a playfield, a cabinet, and a game control system, the truss system comprising:
- at least one truss having at least one structural element with a first end and a second end;
- at least one post having a first end and a second end, the second end of the at least one post for attachment to the pinball game;
- at least one truss connector connecting the at least one post to the at least one structural element of the truss proximal to the first end of the at least one post;
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- at least one attachment module removably attached to the at least one truss, the at least one attachment module also being attached to at least one pinball game feature,
- the at least one pinball game feature being supported by the attachment module attached to the truss,
- the at least one attachment module being held on the at least one structural element of the truss by a spring bias clamping the at least one structural element of the truss between a first half of the attachment module and a second half of the attachment module.
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A truss system for a pinball game having a playfield, a cabinet, and a game control system, the truss system comprising:
- at least one truss having at least one structural element with a first end and a second end;
- at least one post having a first end and a second end, the second end of the at least one post for attachment to the pinball game;
- at least one truss connector connecting the at least one post to the at least one structural element of the truss proximal to the first end of the at least one post;
- and
- at least one attachment module removably attached to the at least one truss, the at least one attachment module also being attached to at least one pinball game feature,
- the at least one pinball game feature being supported by the attachment module attached to the truss,
- the at least one attachment module being held on the at least one structural element of the truss by tightening a screw and clamping the at least one structural element of the truss between a first half of the attachment module and a second half of the attachment module.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.