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US4343474A
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Multiple game device
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1980-05-19
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Granted: 1982-08-10
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Expires: 2000-05-19
Abstract
Abstract An electronic multiple game device includes a body member having a main well and battery and circuit housing wells. A game board separably includes a bottom substrate having imprinted interdigitaling branched first and second contacts, an indexed paper program panel overlying the substrate and adapted to be conductively marked at selected areas to provide bridge conductors which, when pressed, complete a circuit between the contacts, a game representing paper panel overlying the program panel and an erasable pencil markable transparent flexible plastic panel overlying the game panel. A transistorized switch circuit which can be preassembled or assembled by the user includes the LED in its output and its input is connected between the contacts, the circuit including a punched PC board or peg board with the circuit component leads engaging proper peg board apertures and locked and interconnected by cup shaped brass plugs engaging the lead occupied apertures. Each of the paper sheets is replacable and the program sheet may be pencil marked as desired and reoriented.
Inventors
- 👤 Steven Caney
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-05 05:15
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63F; A63F9/00; A63F9/18; A63F9/183; G; G09; G09B; G09B7/00; G09B7/06; G09B7/063; A63F9/06; A63F9/0641; A63F2009/0643
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
203 words
A game device comprising a semi-conductor switch including a controlled output and a resistance responsive control input, a source of voltage, an electrically actuated signal member connected through said switch output across said source of voltage, a contact member including a first insulating panel having a pair of separate conductor members located along a first face thereof and defining a plurality of pairs of opposing, regularly spaced electrically separate contact sections, means connecting said conductor members to said switch input and a program member including a pliable second insulating panel superimposed on said first panel and having a first inside face thereof confronting said first panel, said first face of said second insulating panel having conducting sections bridging and engaging predetermined pairs of said contact sections and normally having relatively high electrical resistance interfaces with said predetermined pairs of contact sections and being responsive to pressure applied to the outside face of said second panel in the area of a conducting section to sufficiently reduce the resistances at said interfaces between said conducting section and said contact sections to actuate said switch and energize said signal member, said conducting sections comprising lead pencil marks occupying corresponding areas of said second panel first face.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
203 words
A game device comprising a semi-conductor switch including a controlled output and a resistance responsive control input, a source of voltage, an electrically actuated signal member connected through said switch output across said source of voltage, a contact member including a first insulating panel having a pair of separate conductor members located along a first face thereof and defining a plurality of pairs of opposing, regularly spaced electrically separate contact sections, means connecting said conductor members to said switch input and a program member including a pliable second insulating panel superimposed on said first panel and having a first inside face thereof confronting said first panel, said first face of said second insulating panel having conducting sections bridging and engaging predetermined pairs of said contact sections and normally having relatively high electrical resistance interfaces with said predetermined pairs of contact sections and being responsive to pressure applied to the outside face of said second panel in the area of a conducting section to sufficiently reduce the resistances at said interfaces between said conducting section and said contact sections to actuate said switch and energize said signal member, said conducting sections comprising lead pencil marks occupying corresponding areas of said second panel first face.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
48 words
The game device of claim 1 wherein said contact member conductor members comprises a first set of equally transversely spaced longitudinally extending electrically interconnected first arms and a second set of equally transversely spaced longitudinally extending electrically interconnected second arms parallel to and medially interdigitate said first arms.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
48 words
The game device of claim 2 wherein said second panel has a plurality of pairs of indicia formed on its inside face, the distance between the indicia of each pair corresponding to that between adjacent conductor arms and conducting sections extending between the indicia of preselected pairs thereof.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
14 words
The device of claim 3 wherein said indicia are longitudinally and transversely orthogonally arranged.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
39 words
The device of claim 15 wherein said panels are of similar rectangular configuration and further comprising a body member having a well corresponding in outline to said panels, said panels individually separably nesting in said well in superimposed arrangement.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
22 words
The device of claim 5 including applicable third panel separably superimposed on said second panel and having a game pattern imprinted thereon.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
27 words
The device of claim 6 including a flexible light transmissive fourth panel separably superimposed on said third panel and having an erasable lead pencil mark receiving face.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
26 words
The device of claim 7 wherein said second and third panels are formed of paper and said fourth panel is formed of a synthetic polymeric resin.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
106 words
The game device of claim 1 wherein said signal device includes a light emitting diode and said semiconductor switch includes an insulating peg board, a transistor having emitters base, and collector leads engaging first, second and third openings in said pegboard, said light emitting diode engaging fourth and fifth openings in said pegboard, a resistor having leads engaging said third and fourth openings, said contact member including a pair of leads respectively engaging said second and fifth openings, a battery coupling member having a pair of leads engaging said first and fifth openings, and conductive locking plugs engaging each of said first to said fifth openings.
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