Patents by Inventor Raymond Heidel
Raymond Heidel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8261901Abstract: An acceptor-dispenser validator system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip and/or currency into, and for distributing currency or a currency equivalent from, an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device is disclosed. The system includes a note acceptor-dispenser assembly to be mounted in or on the machine, the note acceptor-dispenser having a note validator to sense the authenticity, denomination, amount and type of the note passing there through and issue a signal corresponding to the note type to the acceptor-dispenser's processor and the host machine's processor for accumulation of credits. A note box is provided to receive deposited notes as is a note hopper to receive and dispense notes intended for payouts.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2001Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: JCM American CorporationInventor: Raymond Heidel
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Publication number: 20050284728Abstract: A system which will allow a bill acceptor and dispenser to be incorporated into a vending machine operating on a standardized vending machine protocol to allow the vending machine to dispense change in the form of coins and/or currency according to the amount of change to be dispensed and the availability of specific denominations of coins and currency.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2005Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventors: Joshua Corrick, Raymond Heidel
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Patent number: 6968787Abstract: A bill acceptor assembly for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency at a gaming table. The bill acceptor assembly includes a validator assembly capable of accepting a stack of individual notes in a receiving slot mounted to the gaming table, processing the notes one at a time, and passing valid notes through a hole in the gaming table or along the back edge of the gaming table to a cash box located below the gaming table.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2004Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: JCM American CorporationInventors: Raymond Heidel, Gwen D. Mathis
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Patent number: 6957732Abstract: A system which will allow a bill acceptor and dispenser to be incorporated into a vending machine operating on a standardized vending machine protocol to allow the vending machine to dispense change in the form of coins and/or currency according to the amount of change to be dispensed and the availability of specific denominations of coins and currency.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2003Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: JCM American CorporationInventors: Joshua Corrick, Raymond Heidel
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Patent number: 6889849Abstract: A bill acceptor system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency into an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device. The system includes a validator assembly capable of identifying acceptable notes and discriminating between currency and non-currency notes. The system also includes a transport assembly for transporting notes from the validator to a dual section cash box. The dual section cash box is configured to receive and hold notes received from the bill acceptor in different compartments.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2001Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: JCM American CorporationInventors: Raymond Heidel, Akiyoshi Isoi
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Publication number: 20050040006Abstract: A casino table game transaction management system for a plurality of gaming tables each having a dealer station and at least one player station, the system including bill acceptor assemblies adapted for utilization at the gaming tables, the bill acceptor assemblies each including a note transportation system, a note validator configured to identify characteristics of each note being passed therethrough by the transportation system, and a cash box adapted to receive and to store notes. The system also includes a casino computer configured to monitor transactions within the casino via a network interconnecting each of the bill acceptor assemblies at the gaming tables to the casino computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Prashanth Kodela, Richard Iannello, James Bullock, Peter Hand, Gwen Mathis, Raymond Heidel
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Publication number: 20040249501Abstract: A system which will allow a bill acceptor and dispenser to be incorporated into a vending machine operating on a standardized vending machine protocol to allow the vending machine to dispense change in the form of coins and/or currency according to the amount of change to be dispensed and the availability of specific denominations of coins and currency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Peter E. Hand, Joshua Corrick, Raymond Heidel
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Publication number: 20040222061Abstract: A bill acceptor assembly for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency at a gaming table. The bill acceptor assembly includes a validator assembly capable of accepting a stack of individual notes in a receiving slot mounted to the gaming table, processing the notes one at a time, and passing valid notes through a hole in the gaming table or along the back edge of the gaming table to a cash box located below the gaming table.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2004Publication date: November 11, 2004Inventors: Raymond Heidel, Gwen D. Mathis
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Publication number: 20040206601Abstract: An acceptor-dispenser validator system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip and/or currency into, and for distributing currency or a currency equivalent from, an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device is disclosed. The system includes a note acceptor-dispenser assembly to be mounted in or on the machine, the note acceptor-dispenser having a note validator to sense the authenticity, denomination, amount and type of the note passing there through and issue a signal corresponding to the note type to the acceptor-dispenser's processor and the host machine's processor for accumulation of credits. A note box is provided to receive deposited notes as is a note hopper to receive and dispense notes intended for payouts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2004Publication date: October 21, 2004Inventor: Raymond Heidel
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Patent number: 6745887Abstract: A bill acceptor assembly for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency at a gaming table. The bill acceptor assembly includes a validator assembly capable of accepting a stack of individual notes in a receiving slot mounted to the gaming table, processing the notes one at a time, and passing valid notes through a hole in the gaming table or along the back edge of the gaming table to a cash box located below the gaming table.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: JCM American CorporationInventors: Raymond Heidel, Gwen D. Mathis
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Publication number: 20040069590Abstract: A system which will allow a bill acceptor and dispenser to be incorporated into a vending machine operating on a standardized vending machine protocol to allow the vending machine to dispense change in the form of coins and/or currency according to the amount of change to be dispensed and the availability of specific denominations of coins and currency.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventors: Joshua Corrick, Raymond Heidel
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Publication number: 20040050651Abstract: An acceptor-dispenser validator system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip and/or currency into, and for distributing currency or a currency equivalent from, an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device is disclosed. The system includes a note acceptor-dispenser assembly to be mounted in or on the machine, the note acceptor-dispenser having a note validator to sense the authenticity, denomination, amount and type of the note passing there through and issue a signal corresponding to the note type to the acceptor-dispenser's processor and the host machine's processor for accumulation of credits. A note box is provided to receive deposited notes as is a note hopper to receive and dispense notes intended for payouts.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventor: Raymond Heidel
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Publication number: 20030155210Abstract: A bill acceptor assembly for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency at a gaming table. The bill acceptor assembly includes a validator assembly capable of accepting a stack of individual notes in a receiving slot mounted to the gaming table, processing the notes one at a time, and passing valid notes through a hole in the gaming table or along the back edge of the gaming table to a cash box located below the gaming table.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2002Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventors: Raymond Heidel, Gwen D. Mathis
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Publication number: 20030080032Abstract: A bill acceptor system for accepting bills, vouchers, scrip, tickets and/or currency into an electronic gaming machine or alternative type of customer service device. The system includes a validator assembly capable of identifying acceptable notes and discriminating between currency and non-currency notes. The system also includes a transport assembly for transporting notes from the validator to a dual section cash box. The dual section cash box is configured to receive and hold notes received from the bill acceptor in different compartments.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2001Publication date: May 1, 2003Applicant: JCM American CorporationInventors: Raymond Heidel, Akiyoshi Isoi
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Patent number: 5524888Abstract: A gaming machine uses a time-based method for generating game results having nonuniform probability. The gaming machine employs an addressable memory in cooperation with a counter and a clock. The clock generates a very fast series of pulses, and includes a digital-to-analog converter. The counter holds a number representing one of the possible reel stop positions and counts the clock's pulses, so that with each pulse, the value of the counter advances by one. To vary the odds that a particular reel stop position will be selected, the clock's pulses do not come at even intervals. Rather, the clock is responsive to a digital input signal to control how long it will allow a particular number to remain in the counter before the next clock pulse. The binary numbers which are used to control the clock are stored in memory. The memory accepts as input the current value of the counter. Thus, when the counter is incremented, the memory provides the binary number associated with the new counter value.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1994Date of Patent: June 11, 1996Assignee: Bally Gaming International, Inc.Inventor: Raymond Heidel
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Patent number: 5516293Abstract: A coin hopper having an optical-electrical coin sensor with a light source and a light detector is provided. The coin hopper includes a coin transport disc, a coin trough, and a coin payout chute. The coin sensor is secured to the hopper and is proximally located to the coin payout chute. The sensor is configured such that the light detector is substantially adjacent the coin transport disc and the light source is spaced apart from the coin transport disc. The sensor is operatively connected to the coin hopper control circuitry which shuts down the hopper after the appropriate number of coins is dispensed. The hopper may also include circuitry which, in conjunction with the light source, provides a pulsed or intermittent beam of light.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 1994Date of Patent: May 14, 1996Assignee: Bally Gaming International, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Heidel, Albert J. Hanis, Thomas N. Taxon
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Patent number: 5342047Abstract: In video lottery terminals that employ touch screens to permit a number of different games to be played on the same machine, the play of certain games can be improved by using electromechanical game buttons in conjunction with touch screen controls.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1992Date of Patent: August 30, 1994Assignee: Bally Gaming International, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Heidel, Richard E. Snider
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Patent number: 5251898Abstract: A gaming apparatus with bi-directional, rotatable symbol bearing reels is disclosed. The gaming apparatus includes a microprocessor which generates a direction signal to control the rotation of each of the reels via a reel control mechanism. The reel control mechanism employs stepper motors or the like to rotate each of the reels in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction about an axis, depending on value of the direction signal. In some cases, the microprocessor generates the direction signal in accordance with a random event so that the reels rotate randomly in different directions.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1991Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignee: Bally Gaming International, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Dickenson, Raymond Heidel
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Patent number: 5209477Abstract: A reel mounting assembly for a slot machine is disclosed. The reel mounting assembly includes a frame for supporting a reel. An actuator is provided to adjust the position of the reel when the reel is inserted into the slot machine. The reel mounting assembly includes a base plate having two rows of slots for engagement with at least one finger on the frame. Furthermore, a control means is provided to control the rotation of said reel. Means connecting the control means to said reel mounting assembly provide additional means to secure the reel mounting assembly to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1991Date of Patent: May 11, 1993Assignee: Bally Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Raymond Heidel, Walerian Kojro, Herbert Hausmann, Kenneth B. Turnbaugh
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Patent number: 5102136Abstract: A reel mounting assembly for a slot machine is disclosed. The reel mounting assembly includes a frame for supporting a reel. An actuator is provided to adjust the position of the reel when the reel is inserted into the slot machine. The reel mounting assembly includes a base plate having two rows of slots for engagement with at least one finger on the frame. Furthermore, a stepper motor, a computer, and a reel controller board are provided to control the rotation of said reel. The stepper motor and reel controller board are secured to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1991Date of Patent: April 7, 1992Assignee: Bally Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Raymond Heidel, Walerian Kojro, Herbert Hausmann, Kenneth B. Turnbaugh