Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Patent
1997-10-28
2000-12-19
Sager, Mark A.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
273148B, A63F 922
Patent
active
061621242
ABSTRACT:
A control lever device suited for use as a hand brake or the like in a driving game machine and capable of achieving a realistic game machine. In the control lever device, a lever is mounted at one end of a shaft so that it turns together with the shaft, and a gear support plate is mounted at the center of the shaft. The gear support plate is provided with a transmitting gear which meshes with a transmitted gear mounted on a rotary shaft of a variable resistor. The turning motion of the lever is transmitted to the rotary shaft of the variable resistor, and the resistance of the variable resistor is changed in accordance with the amount of turn of the lever. Mounted at the other end of the shaft is an urging force applying member having an urging force generating characteristic wherein the generation rate of the urging force relative to the amount of turn of the lever increases with increase in amount of turn of the lever. The gear support plate is provided with another urging force applying member formed of a tension coil spring.
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Hiraoka Takahiro
Suzuki Toshifumi
Konami Co. Ltd.
Sager Mark A.
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