US 12,333,892 B2
Illumination device and gaming machine equipped with same
Masaaki Sumi, Kyoto (JP); Eiji Yasuda, Kyoto (JP); Takahiro Ono, Kyoto (JP); and Takehiro Agata, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to OMRON CORPORATION, Kyoto (JP)
Filed by OMRON CORPORATION, Kyoto (JP)
Filed on Apr. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/305,448.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-080020 (JP), filed on May 16, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0368607 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3216 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3258 (2013.01); G07F 17/329 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An illumination device installed in a gaming machine, comprising:
a housing unit;
a disk-shaped member that is provided to the housing unit and has a first pattern formed on a front surface;
a first rotary drive unit configured to rotate the disk-shaped member as a center of rotation of a center of the disk-shaped member;
a first light source unit that is provided on a front side of the disk-shaped member in the housing unit and configured to emit light in a specific direction;
a light guide plate that is provided on a front side of the disk-shaped member in the housing unit and has an incident surface on which the light emitted from the first light source unit is incident, and an exit surface from which the light incident from the incident surface is emitted; and
a first display control unit configured to control the first light source unit so as to switch between a display produced by the light guide plate and a display of a first graphics on the disk-shaped member by lighting or not lighting the incident surface of the light guide plate, according to a state of play on the gaming machine.