Light Guide Frame Segmentation for Gaming Machine Visuals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines lack innovative and efficient lighting displays that enhance player engagement and entertainment, necessitating the development of new designs that are both simple and cost-effective to produce.
Innovation Solution
A lighting display assembly featuring a light guide frame and light source, where the light guide frame is composed of transparent materials, such as L-shaped or U-shaped parts forming a rectangular opening, with a surface structure to scatter and refract light, and a controller to activate the light source, providing an engaging visual effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If traditional lighting displays are used in gaming machines, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the visual appeal and player engagement are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The light guide frame is divided into multiple transparent frame parts (e.g., four L-shaped parts or two U-shaped parts) that can be assembled together to form the complete rectangular frame. This segmentation allows for easier manufacturing and assembly while maintaining the overall visual appeal of the lighting display.
Solution Approach 2:
A light guide element is introduced as an intermediary between the light source and the front surface. This light guide element redirects light from the rearward-positioned light source to illuminate the surface structure on the front, creating enhanced visual appeal without requiring the light source to be visible from the front.
2Adaptability or versatility
If complex lighting displays are developed to enhance player engagement, then visual appeal improves, but manufacturing cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The lighting display assembly is segmented into modular components including the light guide frame, light guide element, light source, and surface structure. These modular segments can be manufactured separately using standard processes and then assembled, improving manufacturing efficiency while allowing for versatile design configurations to enhance player engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
The light guide frame structure serves multiple functions: it provides the structural framework for the display, guides and redirects light from the rear source to the front surface, and supports the surface structure that creates the visual pattern. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, simplifying manufacturing.
3Illumination intensity
If light source is positioned at the front for direct illumination, then the lighting effect is simple to achieve, but the design flexibility and visual appeal are limited
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of positioning the light source at the front for direct illumination, the light source is inverted to a rearward position. The light guide element then redirects this rearward light source's illumination to the front surface structure, achieving effective lighting while providing enhanced design flexibility for the front display appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The light guide element acts as an intermediary that transfers light from the rearward source to the front surface. This intermediary allows the light source to be hidden from the front view while still providing effective illumination of the surface structure, enhancing design flexibility and visual appeal.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution creates an attractive and engaging lighting effect around gaming machines, enhancing player experience while being efficiently producible and maintainable, thereby addressing the need for innovative and cost-effective designs.
Implementation Method 1
A surface structure is formed in and/or on the light guide frame parts and positioned to be illuminated by the light emitted from the light source, which light is then scattered and/or refracted light visible from in front of the device
Implementation Method 2
A surface structure is formed in and/or on the light guide frame parts and positioned to be illuminated by the light emitted from the light source, which light is then scattered and/or refracted light visible from in front of the device
Implementation Method 3
the light guide frame is composed of at least two light guide frame parts made of material that is transparent to light... light emitted therefrom passes through the inner sidewall and into the light guide frame
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AI summary
A lighting display assembly includes a light guide frame composed of at least two or more light guide frame parts and a light source. The frame parts are made of material that is transparent to light. The light guide frame includes a front and rear surface, and a center opening extending between the surfaces and defining an inner sidewall. The light source is configured to emit light and is positioned facing the inner sidewall so that light emitted therefrom passes through the inner sidewall and into the frame. A surface structure formed in or on the frame and is positioned to be illuminated by the light emitted from the light source and entering the inner sidewall of the frame so that the light is scattered and/or refracted and is emitted from the front surface of the frame. A controller is configured to controllably activate and deactivate the light source.