Gaming Chair Mounting Frame for Immersive Lighting and Tactile Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming machines lack integration of ambient lighting and tactile features that enhance the gaming experience without distracting players, and fail to provide a comfortable and immersive environment for extended play sessions.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine with a gaming chair featuring a polymeric mounting frame with contoured faces, coupled to a backrest and speaker assembly, which provides simulated motions and emotive lighting to enhance the gaming ambiance and player engagement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If gaming machines include add-on ambient lighting elements (e.g., illuminated bezels), then visual ambiance is enhanced, but player distraction increases and aesthetic integration deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates ambient lighting elements directly into the gaming chair structure, merging the lighting function with the seating furniture. This consolidation eliminates separate add-on elements that distracted players, while the lighting remains contained within the chair's physical boundaries, providing ambiance without the visual clutter of external attachments.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming chair serves as an intermediary object between the gaming machine and the player, housing ambient lighting elements that indirectly enhance the gaming experience. The chair's structure acts as a mediator that diffuses and softens the lighting output, preventing direct visual distraction while maintaining atmospheric enhancement.
2Ease of operation
If gaming chairs provide enhanced comfort features, then player comfort improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming chair is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it provides seating support, houses ambient lighting elements, and incorporates tactile feedback mechanisms. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single integrated structure, the chair enhances player experience without proportionally increasing complexity, as each component serves multiple purposes.
Solution Approach 2:
The chair incorporates flexible tactile elements and thin-film lighting integrations that add functionality without substantial structural bulk. These thin-film technologies allow complex features to be embedded within the chair's upholstery and framework with minimal added weight and volume.
3Device complexity
If gaming machines house all accessories within the cabinet, then structural simplicity is maintained, but immersive experience is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends the gaming experience into a new spatial dimension by placing accessories and ambient elements on the chair rather than confining them to the cabinet. This dimensional shift from vertical cabinet integration to horizontal chair-based integration expands the immersive environment beyond the traditional machine boundaries.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming system is segmented into distinct functional zones: the cabinet houses core gaming mechanics while the chair provides enhanced sensory experiences. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, with the chair serving as a specialized platform for tactile and visual enhancements without complicating the main cabinet structure.
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AI summary
Gaming machine chairs and wagering game systems and machines with a gaming chair are presented herein. A gaming chair is disclosed that includes a base, a seat portion supported by the base, one or more speaker assemblies, and a backrest assembly. The backrest assembly includes a backrest and a mounting frame. The mounting frame has a polymeric honeycombed body comprising a plurality of ribs that define an array of compartments. Optionally, the mounting frame body has at least one contoured face. The mounting frame is attached to the backrest and speaker assembly, coupling both the backrest and speaker assembly to the base. The mounting frame may be fabricated with numerous fastening regions that are integrally formed with the polymeric body. In this optional configuration, at least some of the fastening regions lie in a respective plane divergent from the other fastening regions.