US Patent Issued to OMRON on July 15 for "Gaming machine operation button, and control deck and gaming machine comprising same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,781, issued on July 15, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gaming machine operation button, and control deck and gaming machine comprising same" was invented by Takuya Kudo (Kyoto, Japan), Masaaki Sumi (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroyuki Onitsuka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation switch 30 is a gaming machine operation button that receives operation inputs to a gaming machine 1, and comprises a base plate 50, an operation button unit 36, and a touch switch 31. The operation button unit 36 is supported by the base plate 50, and is used by a player to input a first operation. The touch switch 31 is provided ar...