Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Patent
1998-12-08
2000-12-12
O'Neill, Michael
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
463 36, 463 6, 273148B, 434 62, A63F 922
Patent
active
061590991
ABSTRACT:
A photoelectric control unit installed in a video game machine and operated to control the motion of a controlled object in the screen of a display unit of the video game machine, the photoelectric control unit including a housing, a steering column installed in the housing and rotated with a steering wheel, a torsional spring mounted on the steering column, the torsional spring having one end fixedly fastened to the steering column and an opposite end fixedly connected to a fixed spring holder inside the housing, and a photoelectric controller formed of an optical transmitter and detector assembly and a signal processing circuit board for detecting rotary motion of the steering column and outputting to the display unit of the video game machine a signal indicative of rotary motion of the steering column.
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Can Technology Co., Ltd.
Cherubin Yveste G
O'Neill Michael
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