Patent ID: 9004707
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A backlight assembly for a mechanical reel-type gaming machine, the backlight assembly including: a board substrate, the board substrate (i) including a rectangular light-supporting region defining four corners and (ii) being flexible along a longitudinal axis thereof to allow the board substrate to assume any one of a number of different radii about a point spaced from the longitudinal axis perpendicular to a plane of the board substrate in a relaxed state; a number of attachment openings, the number of attachment openings including a respective attachment opening at each respective corner of the rectangular light-supporting region; a number of rows of illumination elements mounted on the board substrate in the light-supporting region, the rows of illumination elements extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of the board substrate; and a mounting bracket having a number of mounting stand-offs, each respective mounting stand-off operable to align with a respective one of the attachment openings and form an attachment therewith so that the light-supporting region of the board substrate is bent out of the planar, relaxed state and is forced to assume a desired radius.