Patent ID: 7112132
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A prize management system comprising: a game machine, said game machine internally storing a plurality of prizes and being externally engagable by a player for providing the player with one stored prize selected by the player; said system further comprising: a case, said case having a first section for storing said plurality of prizes; said case having a second section distanced from said first area and not storing said plurality of prizes; a drop port connected to a bottom of said case in said second section for receiving said one prize selected by said player; a chute section for extending below said drop port, said chute descending and passing said one prize in a downwardly extending path; a taking-out port provided with the case, said taking-out port connected below said chute path, said taking out port discharging said one prize to the player; a detection section connected with a string to each one of the prizes, the detection section specifying a kind of the prize and being detectable in a non-contacting manner; a reading section arranged at the chute section, for reading the detection section of the prize only as the prize passes through the chute section to be taken out in the non-contacting manner, said reading section being incapable of reading the detection section of prizes disposed in said first section of said case; and management means for managing prizes in the case on the basis of a result read by the reading section.