US Patent Issued to OMRON on Nov. 11 for "Illumination device and gaming machine equipped with same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,357, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Illumination device and gaming machine equipped with same" was invented by Masaaki Sumi (Kyoto, Japan), Eiji Yasuda (Kyoto, Japan), Takahiro Ono (Kyoto, Japan) and Takehiro Agata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device 10 includes a reel 13a, a motor 13e, a roulette wheel 14c, a motor 14i, and LED tapes 14ba and 14bb. The reel 13a has a substantially cylindrical shape, rotates around a rotary shaft, and has a substantially circular first side surface, a second side surface that is disposed opposite the first side surface, and an outer per...