Lottery Device Parallel Segmentation Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game machines with shared lottery devices cannot perform multiple lotteries simultaneously, leading to inconvenience as players must wait for others to complete their lotteries.
Innovation Solution
A lottery device with multiple medium entrance units, a driving mechanism, a dividing device to create separate lottery segments, and a medium introduction mechanism that allows individual game medium introduction into each segment, along with detection and distinguishing devices to manage simultaneous lotteries across multiple segments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single physical lottery device is shared between multiple satellite units, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity decreases because multiple lotteries cannot be performed simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The periphery of the drawing body is divided into multiple lottery segments by dividing devices, allowing the single lottery device to simultaneously conduct multiple independent lotteries in different segments, thereby increasing productivity while maintaining a unified device structure
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a circumferential dimension to the lottery process by arranging multiple medium entrance units around the drawing body's periphery, enabling parallel lotteries to occur simultaneously at different angular positions, thus transforming a sequential process into a parallel one
2Device complexity
If a single lottery device is used for multiple players, then device complexity is reduced, but loss of time increases as players must wait for others to complete their lotteries
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the drawing body's periphery into distinct lottery segments with separate entrance units, the system allows multiple players to initiate lotteries simultaneously without interfering with each other, eliminating waiting time while keeping the device structure unified
Solution Approach 2:
The dividing devices act as intermediaries that separate the paths of game media for different lottery segments, preventing interference between simultaneous lotteries and allowing players to proceed without waiting for others
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AI summary
A lottery device includes: a drawing body having medium entrance units which are provided along a circumferential direction thereof, and into each of which a game medium can enter; a driving mechanism driving the drawing body in the circumferential direction; a dividing device dividing a periphery of a path of the medium entrance units, in which path the medium entrance units travel, into lottery segments in the circumferential direction; a medium introduction mechanism introducing the game medium individually into each lottery segment; an entrance unit detection device detecting a medium entrance unit into which the game medium has entered; a displacement amount detection device detecting an amount of displacement in the circumferential direction; and a lottery segment distinguishing device distinguishing from which of the lottery segments the game medium has entered into the medium entrance unit based on a result of detection by the displacement amount detection device.