Ticket Game Machine Ball Positioning and Hitting Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional game vending machines are challenging for players with varying physical strength, as game results depend on physique, leading to unequal playing conditions, and can cause hand damage due to excessive ball manipulation, and the ball often collides with the display panel, reducing product reliability.
Innovation Solution
A ticket outputting game machine with guide rails on the top surface, a hitting portion at the front end, and a handle to control the hitting force, featuring a zigzag ticket display structure and a ball position determination system that allows the ball to be held at specific positions corresponding to ticket displays, ensuring fair gameplay and accommodating different user strengths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a ball is manually gripped and pushed along guide rails, then the ball can be moved to determine game results, but players with different physical strength cannot play under equal conditions and hand damage may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical gripping and pushing system with an automated mechanical hitting system. A hitting portion automatically strikes the ball along the guide rails, eliminating the need for players to manually grip and push the ball. This substitution ensures that all players operate the machine in the same way (by pulling the handle), creating fair playing conditions regardless of physical strength differences.
Solution Approach 2:
The hitting portion is designed to automatically return and hit the ball after being pulled by the handle. The system serves itself by using the player's pulling action to reset the hitting mechanism, which then automatically strikes the ball. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for continuous manual intervention and ensures consistent operation.
2Ease of operation
If the ball is pushed through a long hole to move along guide rails, then the ball can be positioned, but hand damage occurs due to excessive pushing force
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual pushing mechanism through long holes with an automated hitting system. The hitting portion strikes the ball to move it along the guide rails, eliminating the need for players to manually push the ball through holes. This substitution removes the source of hand damage while maintaining the ball positioning function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent removes the long holes that required manual pushing from the machine structure. By extracting this harmful element, the design eliminates the mechanism that caused hand damage while preserving the essential function of moving the ball along the guide rails through the hitting portion.
3Manufacturing precision
If the ball moves along bent guide rails, then the ball can reach determined positions, but the ball collides with the display panel reducing product reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a stopper as an intermediary element between the ball's path and the display panel. The stopper prevents the ball from colliding with the display panel by providing a stopping point, thereby protecting the display panel from damage while allowing the ball to reach its determined position on the guide rails.
Solution Approach 2:
The stopper is positioned in advance to prevent potential collisions between the ball and the display panel. This beforehand protective measure ensures that even if the ball's path brings it near the display panel, the collision is prevented, thus protecting product reliability.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables players of all strengths to play under equal conditions, reduces hand damage, and increases game accessibility for children, the elderly, and women by allowing simple and controlled ball manipulation, promoting fairness and prolonged gameplay.
Implementation Method 1
The hitting portion may be pulled by the handle to move backward but return to an original position due to an elastic force and hit the ball.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a ticket outputting game machine. The ticket outputting game machine includes a body having guide rails formed on a top surface thereof, a hitting portion formed on a front end of the guide rails, and a handle controlling a hitting force of the hitting portion on a front surface thereof, ticket display devices installed in a zigzag structure on both sides of the guide rails, and a ball position determination portion determining a held position of a ball between the guide rails to hit the ball by the hitting portion such that the ball moves along the guide rails and is held at a position determined by the ball position determination portion and the number of tickets displayed on the ticket display device corresponding to the position of holding the ball are output.