Game medium accommodation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016307397-A1
Application number	US-201615095030-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 9, 2016
Priority date	Apr 15, 2015
Publication date	Oct 20, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Equivalent exchange operation of exchanging a game medium for another type of game medium is performed in a shorter time. A game medium accommodation device includes: a tray mechanism configured to hold a plurality of accommodation cases stacked in an up-down direction along a reading surface continuing in the up-down direction, each of the accommodation cases accommodating a bundle of game media aligned in a horizontal direction; and an antenna board disposed on the reading surface. The game medium accommodation device reads electronic information relating to the game media and stored in the game media, by radio communication between the antenna board and the game media.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A game medium accommodation device, comprising:
a tray mechanism including a reading surface, the tray mechanism being configured to hold a plurality of accommodation cases stacked in an up-down direction along the reading surface continuing in the up-down direction, each of the accommodation cases accommodating a bundle of game media aligned in a horizontal direction; and a reading mechanism including an antenna disposed on the reading surface, the reading mechanism being configured to read electronic information relating to the game media and stored in the game media by radio communication between the antenna and the game media.

2 . The game medium accommodation device according to claim 1 , wherein,
the tray mechanism is configured to allow the accommodation cases to be stacked in M rows and N columns, and a reading region of the antenna is set along each row of the M rows, in each of which rows, N accommodation cases are lined up in the horizontal direction.

3 . The game medium accommodation device according to claim 1 , wherein:
each of the game media accommodated in the accommodation cases has a semiconductor device storing the electronic information and embedded at a center portion of each of the game media, and the game media include, with respect to their outer shapes, different types of game media which are different in a size in a height direction of the game media aligned in the horizontal direction; each accommodation case includes a plurality of accommodation portions each configured to accommodate the game media, and a spacer member attachable/detachable with respect to at least one of these accommodation portions; and the spacer member regulates positions of the center portions of the game media relative to the reading region so as to satisfy a predetermined positional relationship even when the game media are of different types which are different in the size.

4 . The game medium accommodation device according to claim 1 , wherein,
the tray mechanism forms a placing surface of the accommodation cases which surface extends in the horizontal direction from the reading surface, and the placing surface is formed to be inclined so that the accommodation cases are able to be stacked in the up-down direction along the reading surface.

5 . The game medium accommodation device according to claim 4 , wherein,
a space of the tray mechanism facing the reading surface is open to expose a group of the stacked accommodation cases accommodated in the tray mechanism to outside.

6 . The game medium accommodation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a display device; and a control device configured to obtain a total value of game value for each type of the game media based on the electronic information read by the reading mechanism, and to display the one or more total values on the display device in association with the type of the game media.

Assignees

• Universal Entertainment Corp

Inventors

• Yamaguchi Shinsuke

Classifications

• G07F17/3251

  involving media of variable value, e.g. programmable cards, programmable tokens · CPC title

• G07F17/3227 Primary

  Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters · CPC title