Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-09
2001-02-20
Passaniti, Sebastiano (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
C273S108510, C273S108530, C273S108560, C273S11800R, C273S12600A
Reexamination Certificate
active
06189885
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a game of the table soccer type.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Various games of this type exist but do not allow the pieces simulating the players to be moved over the entire playing surface.
One of the purposes of the present invention is to produce a game in which the pieces can move over the entire playing surface in order to imitate the game as it is played on a pitch.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The game according to the invention comprises a playing surface, pieces imitating players, a ball simulating a football and, along the table, on each of two opposite sides, a series of control levers, wherein each lever corresponds to the movement of a player, each player is connected to a carriage comprising two motors, each of which drives a wheel, and an electronic receiving unit, and each control lever is attached to a transmitter unit in order to control selectively the power supply to one or other of the motors in one direction or the other.
The table can comprise two parallel tabletops, namely an upper tabletop and a lower tabletop, between which the carriages are suitably guided and comprising, on each of their upper parts, a permanent magnet, and each player has a base in which a corresponding permanent magnet is inserted. The game therefore has no visible mechanical parts.
In order than no braking effect is produced on the playing surface for the player or for the carriage, the magnets in the carriage and the player's base are fixed so that a slight gap is formed between the two faces of the corresponding upper tabletop.
The upper tabletop can have an upper surface consisting of a mat, a framework, an insulator and a conductive surface.
The lower tabletop can have a conductive upper surface, an insulator and a framework.
Each carriage preferably comprises insulating balls co-operating with the lower face of the upper tabletop and insulating balls co-operating with the upper face of the lower tabletop. In the way the carriages can move in all directions between the tabletops.
Each carriage preferably comprises sliding contacts co-operating with the conductive surface of the upper tabletop and sliding contacts cooperating with the conductive surface of the lower tabletop. This simplifies the power supply to the various circuits carried by the carriages.
Each lever can be connected to a transmitting micro-controller enabling a network controller micro-controllers messages relating to the position of the handles in order to transmit these commands to a modem which, using the carrier current technique, associates the messages with the power supply of the receiving modules of the carriages, comprising a demodulating modem upstream of a message-receiving micro-controller and in which are installed motors associated with Darlington bridges.
The levers can control two potentiometers whose voltages at the analog port define, for one of them, three zones, namely an intermediate rest zone between a forward movement zone and reverse movement zone, whilst the other one defines three zones, namely an intermediate rest zone between a zone of pivoting toward the right and a zone on pivoting toward the left, the generation of these voltages being simulated by two computers which compare the analog voltage with a high reference voltage and with a low reference voltage, the output value of these comparators being bits which determine the direction of rotation of the motors.
The invention will now be described in greater detail and by way of example only with reference to a particular embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings.
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Greenblum & Bernstein P.L.C.
Passaniti Sebastiano
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