Centralized Lock Arrangement for Gaming Machine Housing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machine housings have locks that are difficult to access and laborious to check due to their arrangement, often located in lower parts and scattered across different locations, making it cumbersome for authorized personnel to manage access.
Innovation Solution
A device for centrally arranging locks with remote locking units that include a power transmission unit, a displaceable unit, and a locking member, allowing for simultaneous status change of multiple locks through a single interface, facilitating easier access and status verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If locks are distributed at different locations on the housing, then each door can be secured independently, but the locks become difficult to access and laborious to check
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple locks and their control interfaces into a single centralized unit. The locking members for multiple doors are integrated into one housing, allowing all locks to be accessed and operated from a single location rather than distributing them across different parts of the gaming machine housing.
2Reliability
If locks are placed at different locations, then each door has its own lock, but checking the state of every lock becomes laborious
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple locks and their control interfaces into a single centralized unit. The locking members for multiple doors are integrated into one housing, allowing all locks to be accessed and operated from a single location rather than distributing them across different parts of the gaming machine housing.
3Device complexity
If locks are arranged in a lower part of the housing, then the housing structure is compact, but the locks become difficult to access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent relocates the locks from a horizontally distributed arrangement to a vertically stacked centralized arrangement on the rear side of the housing. This dimensional reorganization allows all locks to be accessed from one location without increasing the overall housing footprint.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a device for centrally arranging locks for doors of a gaming machine's housing. The device including remote locking units of which each remote locking unit is assigned one or more locks and includes a remote power transmission unit, a displaceable unit operatively coupled to a first end of the remote power transmission unit, and a locking member operatively coupled to a second end of the remote power transmission unit. Each lock includes a blocking member. The remote power transmission unit transmits a displacement of the displaceable unit from the first to the second position such that the locking member releases a latching mechanism of a door whereas the locking member locks the latching mechanism when the displaceable unit is in the first position.