Abstract: A basketball machine includes a body having an inclined lane, a display configured to display a game having a plurality of challenges, a hoop including an engagement portion and an opening, a sensor configured to detect whether a ball has passed through the opening of the hoop, and a processor. The game has a first image layer showing a plurality of display areas, a reference object and a plurality of moving objects. The moving object moves towards and past the reference object. Each moving object has a bonus prize. The sensor generates a scoring signal when the detected result is positive. The processor calculates an accumulated number of times the scoring signal has been received and converts the accumulated number into an instant score. The processor determines whether the player qualifies as completing the current challenge, and controls the game to enter the next challenge when the determination is positive.

Abstract: A claw machine and a control method thereof are provided. The claw machine includes a main body, a grabbing assembly configured to drive a claw to make a grabbing movement, a ball-passage assembly including a cover mounted to a ball-passage zone of the main body and a plurality of stopper units spaced from each other in the ball-passage zone, a plurality of sensor units distributed through the ball-passage zone and configured to generate a sensing signal, and a processor configured to set a game score for each of the plurality of sensor units. The processor controls the claw to operate according to an operating instruction set, receives the sensing signal, and obtains the game score of the corresponding sensor unit to calculate a total score. The processor controls the main body to send out a prize according to the total score.

Abstract: A fixing structure for a lighting strip is provided to improve upon the inconvenience in repair of the conventional fixing structure for a light strip. The fixing structure for the lighting strip includes a case provided with a groove, a lighting assembly located in the groove, and a light guiding member received in the groove and covering the lighting assembly.

Abstract: A game machine includes lifting devices and a base having a panel with through-holes. Each lifting device includes a target object aligned with one of the through-holes, a driving device, a link connected between the target object and the driving device, and a sensor unit. Each driving device drives a corresponding link upward or downward to move the corresponding target object through one of the through-holes to an extended position or a retracted position. A loudspeaker is mounted to the base. A control device is mounted to the base, is coupled to the driving device and the sensor unit of each lifting device, and is coupled to the loudspeaker. When the sensor unit detects the corresponding target object is hit, the sensor unit generates a hit signal and sends the hit signal to the control device, and the control device controls the loudspeaker to generate a musical scale.

Abstract: A striking device for a prize-winning game machine is disclosed, primarily comprising a striking head, an X-Z axis moving mechanism, and a Y-axis striking mechanism. The moving mechanism comprises two symmetrically disposed X-axis guiding rails and a Z-axis guiding rail where both ends of the Z-axis guiding rail are movably connected at X-axis guiding rails. The Y-axis striking mechanism can movably connected at the Z-axis guiding rail and comprises a Y-axis guiding rail and a striking rod moving along and disposed on the Y-axis guiding rail. The striking rod is off-axis aligned and connected to a back surface of the striking head for striking the targets in the prize-winning game machine. Therefore, the Y-axis striking mechanism will not be tilted or shifted during numerous striking operations to greatly increase the durations of the striking head and the striking mechanism.

Abstract: A carrying disk device of coin dispenser mainly includes a machine frame, a carrying disk and a guide arm. The carrying disk and the guide arm are connected to the machine frame. The carrying disk has a plurality of posts arranged in a plurality of radial rows on the coin-carrying surface thereof. The posts are fixed on and protrude from the coin-carrying surface. A plurality of coin-holding spaces are formed between the plurality rows of the posts. The guide arm covers a portion of the coin-carrying surface of the carrying disk, and has a guide lateral and a plurality of curvilinear grooves on the bottom thereof. The curvilinear grooves extend to the guide lateral of the guide arm to allow the posts to pass under the guide arm when the carrying disk rotates.

Abstract: A frame structure of a playing machine includes upright posts located at corner positions of the entire frame and each having an outer face provided with two outer grooves facing outward. A transverse rod has two ends each defining a positioning hole for securing the transverse rod to the upright post by a positioning member. The transverse rod itself defines an insertion groove. The insertion grooves of two adjacent transverse rods align with each other for allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. Alternatively, a frame rod has a protruding plate inserted into the outer groove or the insertion groove, and has an insertion groove allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. The transverse rod is provided with a locking groove for allowing insertion of a press plate which co-operates with the lip of the transverse rod to clip a partition plate.

Abstract: An article-retrieving machine comprises a machine body having a slide guide mounted therein at a level higher than the articles in the machine body to be retrieved. When article is caught and falls onto the slide guide, the article slides downward to a rest portion. An ejector plate is mounted to an end of the slide guide and has an underside in rolling contact with a roller. The ejector plate is movable to push the articles on the rest portion toward a hole in the control box that communicates with an article-retrieving outlet in the machine body. A doorplate is provided to control opening/closing of a passage to the article-retrieving outlet under cooperation with a stop plate of the control box.

Abstract: A frame structure of a playing machine includes upright posts located at corner positions of the entire frame and each having an outer face provided with two outer grooves facing outward. A transverse rod has two ends each defining a positioning hole for securing the transverse rod to the upright post by a positioning member. The transverse rod itself defines an insertion groove. The insertion grooves of two adjacent transverse rods align with each other for allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. Alternatively, a frame rod has a protruding plate inserted into the outer groove or the insertion groove, and has an insertion groove allowing insertion of a glass piece or a plate. The transverse rod is provided with a locking groove for allowing insertion of a press plate which co-operates with the lip of the transverse rod to clip a partition plate.

Abstract: A coin box assembly includes a coin box, a housing for removably receiving the coin box, and an affixing member to which the housing is connected. Mounted on the housing is an electromagnetic valve that engages with an engaging member on the coin box when the coin box is completely received in the housing. The engaging member activates a switch on the housing to send a signal of ready for receiving coins when the coin box is completely received in the housing. A block on a cover plate slidably mounted to the coin box is stopped by an actuating device on the housing such that move the cover plate is moved to a position covering a coin access in the coin box when removing the coin box from the housing. A latch on the cover plate engages with a latch catch in the coin box to close the coin box unless a lock mounted to the coin box is unlocked.

Abstract: A coin box assembly includes a main housing and a coin box removably received in the main housing. The main housing includes a pair of rails to guide the coin box to a position completely received in the main housing. The coin box includes an upper lid assembly which has a fixed plate and a movable door plate biased toward the fixed plate such that an upper opening of the coin box is in a normally open position for receiving coins. The main housing further includes a coin access defined in an upper plate thereof and in alignment with the upper opening of the coin box when the coin box is completely received in the main housing. When removing the coin box from the main housing, the stop of the movable door plate is moved across an electromagnetic valve mounted on the coin box such that the door plate is moved away from the fixed plate and thus blocks the upper opening of the coin box.