Title: Game score reproduction device for indoor board games such as chess and go

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1. A game score reproduction device comprising a housing with a board member adapted to receive selective game pieces, the board member having recorded on its surface a predetermined game pattern;

a display section positioned adjacent the game pattern;

a recording medium divided into a plurality of unit sections each having an identical area, on which a continuous record of game score is recorded one unit section after another in a form that allows optical reading;

a plurality of optical fiber bundles all having their respective top ends located in the game board surface where these top ends can serve to indicate the types and motions of said game pieces by selective lighting, and also all having their respective lower ends located in confrontation with respective recording points on said medium, each of which points corresponding to one of said top end locations in the game board surface;

a light source located across the recording medium from the area in which all the lower ends of the optical fiber bundles are grouped, and

a feed mechanism for feeding the recording medium one section at a time past said area in which all the lower ends of the optical fiber bundles are grouped,

whereby those optical fiber bundles which are specified by the recording on the recording medium become bright at their top ends to indicate the types of game pieces and their motions, and

wherein said recording medium has recorded thereon the types and motions of game pieces such as chessmen in a game score by specifying the ranks and files in which intended squares belong, and indicators in the display section; and the top ends of said plurality of optical fiber bundles serve to indicate the ranks and files, and indicators in the display section.

2. A game score reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of optical fiber bundles are composed of a plurality of sub-bundles.

3. A game score reproduction device according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of optical fiber bundles have their upper end portions extended out of the reproduction device body, bifurcated into two sub-groups of which one contains only the optical fiber bundles for indicating the files on the game board and the other contains the optical fiber bundles for indicating the ranks on the game board and indicators in the display section, and each sub-group is led into a separate case; and furthermore said cases are not only provided with an attaching and removing means adapted to attach and remove said cases onto and from the game board but also carry all the top ends of all the optical fiber bundles arrayed in such a manner that these top ends can specify respective files and ranks of said game board as well as the indicators in the display section on one of said cases.

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Inventors: Aida, Seizaburo

Application Number: 533439
Filing Date: 1974-12-17
Publication_date: 1976-08-31
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 273/237
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3579856	May, 1971	Way	273/136.
3654392	Apr, 1972	Beinhocker et al.	273/136.

Other Refs: 7,770

�, 1896	UK

Primary Examiner: Lowe, Delbert B.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Philpitt; Fred