US 12,271,024 B2
Illumination device and gaming machine equipped with same
Masaaki Sumi, Kyoto (JP); Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Kyoto (JP); and Takahiro Ono, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to OMRON Corporation, Kyoto (JP)
Filed by OMRON CORPORATION, Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/047,292.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-192785 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0194772 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. F21V 8/00 (2006.01); F21V 14/02 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01); G02F 1/1333 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/0091 (2013.01) [F21V 14/02 (2013.01); G02B 6/0025 (2013.01); G02B 6/0083 (2013.01); G07F 17/3211 (2013.01); G02F 1/13338 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An illumination device attached to a housing of a gaming machine, the illumination device comprising:
light source units configured to emit light;
light guide plates that each have an incident surface on which light emitted from the light source units is incident and an exit surface from which a light incident from the incident surface is emitted;
a holding unit that holds the light source units and the light guide plates;
a rotational drive unit configured to rotate the holding unit in a desired direction; and
a base portion to which the rotational drive unit is provided, to which the holding unit is connected in a state of being relatively rotatable, and which is attached to the housing of the gaming machine.