Gaming machine with enhanced RF-shielding enclosure
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G07F-017/32
A63F-013/70
A63F-013/00
출원번호
US-0197410
(2011-08-03)
등록번호
US-8840480
(2014-09-23)
발명자
/ 주소
Cornell, Bradley D.
Gill, Jeremy K.
Mercado, Victor
Ryan, Zofia
Smolucha, Walter E.
출원인 / 주소
WMS Gaming Inc.
대리인 / 주소
Nixon Peabody LLP
인용정보
피인용 횟수 :
2인용 특허 :
5
초록▼
A gaming terminal includes a housing defining an exterior of the gaming terminal. The gaming terminal includes one or more displays disposed along the housing. The one or more displays are adapted to display, in response to a wager, a wagering game. The gaming terminal also includes a substantially
A gaming terminal includes a housing defining an exterior of the gaming terminal. The gaming terminal includes one or more displays disposed along the housing. The one or more displays are adapted to display, in response to a wager, a wagering game. The gaming terminal also includes a substantially closed interior enclosure disposed within the housing. The interior enclosure includes walls formed from electrically conductive material. The interior enclosure can be substantially closed. The gaming terminal further includes one or more signal-emitting components disposed within the interior enclosure and emitting a level of electromagnetic signals. A transmission of electromagnetic signals from the substantially closed interior enclosure is less than the level of electromagnetic signals emitted from the one or more signal-emitting components.
대표청구항▼
1. A gaming terminal configured to reduce electromagnetic emissions from the gaming terminal, the gaming terminal comprising: one or more display devices;one or more processors;one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause th
1. A gaming terminal configured to reduce electromagnetic emissions from the gaming terminal, the gaming terminal comprising: one or more display devices;one or more processors;one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming terminal to conduct a wagering game that includes rendering and displaying high-definition video game images;an exterior housing; andan electronics enclosure disposed within the exterior housing, the electronics enclosure having one or more video-rendering processors and one or more line cords carrying video signals to the one or more display devices installed within the electronics enclosure, the electronics enclosure comprising: one or more electrically coupled, electrically conductive, fixed walls;an electrically conductive opening wall, the opening wall electrically coupled to at least one of the one or more fixed walls, the opening wall having a hinged connection with a hinge axis along a first hinge edge and being pivotally connected to a second hinge edge of at least one of the one or more fixed walls, wherein the opening wall has a first opening therethrough to an interior of the electronics enclosure that enables the one or more line cords to exit the electronics enclosure, the electronics enclosure being further defined by a bottom surface of an electronic device mounted over the first opening, the bottom surface of the electronic device being electrically conductive and directly contacting the opening wall, the opening wall having an open position that augments access to the interior of the electronics enclosure and a closed position that reduces access to the interior;a blade non-rotationally fixed to one of the opening wall and an adjacent fixed wall of the one or more fixed walls;a mating channel non-rotationally fixed to the other of the opening wall and the adjacent fixed wall, the mating channel being open in a direction facing the blade such that the blade enters the mating channel as the opening wall pivots around the hinge axis to the closed position;wherein, with the opening wall in the closed position, electronic signals emitted, during play of the wagering game by the video-rendering processors and the associated line cords, into a gap between an opening wall edge and an edge of the adjacent fixed wall are attenuated by the blade extending into the mating channel opening; andwherein, with the opening wall in the open position, the emitted electronic signals are unattenuated due to the gap being unblocked by the blade being wholly withdrawn from inside the mating channel. 2. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein the blade and the mating channel are formed from electrically conductive material and wherein, when the blade is inserted into the mating channel, another gap remains between the blade and the mating channel. 3. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein the blade is fixed to the opening wall and the mating channel is fixed to one or more of the one or more fixed walls. 4. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein the mating channel opening length extends away from the hinge axis of the hinged connection at a right angle. 5. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein there is a difference between a cross-sectional mating channel opening width and a cross-sectional thickness of the blade ranges from ⅛″ to ⅜″. 6. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein there is a difference between a cross-sectional mating channel opening width and a cross-sectional thickness of the blade ranges from 5/16″ to 3/16″. 7. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein the blade extends into the mating channel to a depth ranging from ½″ to 1″. 8. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein the blade extends into the mating channel to a depth ranging from ⅝″ to ⅞″. 9. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein, in the closed position and along a length of the blade that extends into the mating channel, the mating channel contacts the blade on either an inward or an outward side of the blade at discrete locations along the blade and not at all on a corresponding outward or a corresponding inward side at each of the discrete locations. 10. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein, in the closed position, the mating channel does not contact the blade. 11. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein, while pivoting around the hinge axis from the open position to the closed position, the blade first enters the mating channel proximal the first hinge edge and progressively enters the mating channel at increasing distance from the first hinge edge. 12. The gaming terminal of claim 1, wherein the one or more video-rendering processors and the one or more line cords emit signals having frequencies ranging from 25 Mhz and 1250 Mhz. 13. A method of reducing electromagnetic emissions from an electronics enclosure of a wagering game system, the electronic enclosure defined by one or more electrically coupled, electrically conductive, fixed walls and an electrically conductive opening wall, the opening wall including a hinged connection with a hinge axis along a first hinge edge, and having an open position that augments access to an interior of the electronics enclosure and a closed position that reduces access to the interior, the opening wall further having a first opening therethrough to the interior of the electronics enclosure, the electronics enclosure being further defined by a bottom surface of an electronic device mounted over the first opening, the bottom surface of the electronic device being electrically conducting and directly contacting the opening wall, the method comprising: installing, in the interior of the electronic enclosure, one or more video-rendering processors and one or more line cords carrying high-definition video signals from the one or more video-rendering processors to one or more display devices, the one or more line cords exiting the electronics enclosure via the first opening;electrically coupling the opening wall to at least one of the one or more fixed walls;constructing a blade that is non-rotationally fixed to one of the opening wall and an adjacent fixed wall of the one or more fixed walls;constructing a mating channel that is non-rotationally fixed to the other one of the opening wall and the adjacent fixed wall, the mating channel being open in a direction facing the blade such that the blade enters the mating channel as the opening wall pivots around the hinge axis to the closed position at which the blade does not contact the mating channel;pivotally connecting the hinged connection of the opening wall to a second hinge edge of at least one of the one or more fixed walls such that the opening wall pivots between the open position and the closed position, wherein, with the opening wall in the closed position, a gap between an opening wall edge and an adjacent fixed wall edge is blocked by the blade extending into a cross-sectional mating channel opening and, with the opening wall in the open position, the gap is unblocked by the blade being wholly withdrawn from inside the mating channel; and maintaining the opening wall in the closed position while conducting a wagering game that includes displaying high-definition video game images rendered by the one or more video-rendering processors installed in the electronic enclosure. 14. The method of claim 13, wherein the blade and the mating channel are formed from electrically conductive material. 15. The method of claim 13, wherein, while pivoting around the hinge axis from the open position to the closed position, the blade first enters the mating channel proximal the first hinge edge and progressively enters the mating channel at increasing distance from the first hinge edge.
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