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Armin Blaha, Wien AT
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| 20120123277 | METHOD FOR DETECTING AN EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION - A method for detecting an abnormal situation of a person, a contact measuring device which the person wears directly or indirectly on the body and which is a contact sensor and/or a pressure sensor and/or a photosensor and/or a distance measuring device being used to determine a contact state and/or the pressure exerted by a body part, such as a foot of a person, onto a reference surface, such as a floor, so that an abnormal situation can be detected among a plurality of situations. | 05-17-2012 |
Ernst Blaha, Tullnerbach AT
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| 20090189346 | Swivel mounted card handing device - Playing card handling devices, such as shufflers, dealing shoes, discard racks and verification systems are rotatably secured to a gaming table to allow for functional and ergonomic adjustment of the card handling device, without removal from the gaming table. One end of the device, preferably a front end of the device from which playing cards may be removed has a structure that extends through an aperture in the gaming table. The device is movable within the aperture. Movement in the X-Y direction, angular movement and rotational movement, parallel to the movement of the plane of the surface of the gaming table is enabled. The movement of the device about the aperture preferably maintains the base of the device relatively parallel to the plane of the surface of the gaming table. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20100314830 | CARD HANDLING DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME - A card handling device includes a sensing system for identifying cards handled thereby. A control system may be configured to selectively control an infeed system, a storage system, and/or an output system of the device in response to a signal received from the sensing system, and to enable a user to selectively perform one or more of a shuffling operation, a sorting operation, and a dealing operation using the device. A card handling device may be configured to dispense randomly arranged hands, prearranged hands, randomly arranged decks, or prearranged decks. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110005983 | Chip sorting device - The invention relates to a sorting device for sorting gaming chips and counters. Said device comprises a collection container ( | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110105002 | Chip Sorting Devices, Components Therefor and Methods of Ejecting Chips - Chip sorting devices and methods of ejecting chips from chip wells are disclosed. In some embodiments, chip sorting devices may include at least one chip ejection unit including at least one finger member selectively movable between a first position outside of at least one channel of a chip conveying unit and a second position within the at least one channel. In additional embodiments, a chip sorting device may include a separating wheel comprising a plurality of chip wells, each chip well configured to hold a plurality of chips. In yet additional embodiments, methods of ejecting a chip from a chip well may include urging a selected chip out of the chip well with the at least one finger member and at least one wall segment of a trailing segmented wall of the chip well. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110207390 | CHIP STACK CUTTER DEVICES FOR DISPLACING CHIPS IN A CHIP STACK AND CHIP-STACKING APPARATUSES INCLUDING SUCH CUTTER DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS - Apparatuses for stacking chips include a container for receiving unstacked chips, a carrier comprising a channel for carrying a chip stack, a transport system for transporting chips from the container towards the carrier, and at least one ejector system for ejecting or moving chips from the transport system into the channel of the carrier. Chip stack cutter devices may include an elongated displacement member, which may extend from an actuating lever member movably coupled to a base member configured to slide along a channel of a chip stack carrier. In additional embodiments, the cutter device may include an energy-responsive device configured to selectively move an elongated displacement member for displacing a number of chips in a chip stack carried in a channel of a chip stack carrier. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110254222 | CARD SHUFFLER WITH GRAVITY FEED SYSTEM FOR PLAYING CARDS - A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system is disclosed. The system includes a card input department with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls. The playing card support surface slopes towards the front wall at an angle between 12 and 22 degrees. A slot is provided in the front wall to allow single cards to pass into the card handling system. The card feed system also includes a card moving system to advance cards through the slot. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110306284 | CHIP-SORTING DEVICE WITH CHIP REMOVAL UNITS - A casino chip-sorting device may comprise a transport disc, a drive, an ejector, a cam, and a blade. The drive may be operably coupled to the transport disc, for rotating the transport disc, and the transport disc may have multiple recesses for collecting individual chips. The ejector may be extendable into a recess from beneath the transport disc to move a disc that is in the recess and the cam may be selectively rotatable by the drive to push the ejector into the recess. The blade may have an upper surface positioned to receive a casino chip moved by the ejector. Additionally, a processor associated with the casino chip-sorting device may be programmed to recognize a jam. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120091656 | CARD HANDLING SYSTEMS, DEVICES FOR USE IN CARD HANDLING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS - Card handling systems include shuffling devices, shoe devices, and a card transfer system for automatically transferring cards from the shuffling device into the shoe device. Shuffling devices may include a divider configured to contact at least one card positioned within a compartment of the shuffling device. Shoe devices may include a card loading system for loading cards into a card storage area through an opening in a base of the shoe device. Methods of providing cards during a casino table game play include identifying card information including a rank and a suit of each card in a shuffling device and a shoe device and transporting cards from the shuffling device to the shoe device. | 04-19-2012 |
Ernst Blaha, Irenentalstrasse AT
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| 20110001290 | COUNTER SORTING DEVICE - A sorting device for the sorting of gaming chips comprises a base frame (36), a collection container (1), an oblique transport disc (3) adjoining the collection container (1), the oblique transport disk (3) separating and receiving gaming chips (27), a gaming chip characteristic identification system positioned adjacent the transport disc (3), a transfer device (11) distributing the gaming chips (27) in removal units (12) according to characteristics identified in the gaming chip characteristic identification system. The sorting device has a transport for transferring the gaming chips directly from the transport disc (3) to the removal units (12), and a radially external region of the transport disc (3) contains recesses (8) into which the gaming chips are separated. The sorting device is provided with at least one ejector (14) that can be inserted at least partially from one side of the transport disc (3) into the recesses (8) to lift an edge (15) of the gaming chips (27) above a front face of the transport disc (3) lying opposite the at least one ejector (14), whereby a blade (16) located on a removal unit (12) slides under the gaming chip (27) with a lifted edge, and the gaming chip (27) with a lifted edge is placed on the blade. | 01-06-2011 |
Ernst Blaha, Austria AT
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| 20090267297 | CARD SHUFFLER WITH GRAVITY FEED SYSTEM FOR PLAYING CARDS - A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system is disclosed. The system includes a card input department with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls. The playing card support surface slopes towards the front wall at an angle between 12 and 22 degrees. A slot is provided in the front wall to allow single cards to pass into the card handling system. The card feed system also includes a card moving system to advance cards through the slot. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20110285082 | SWIVEL MOUNTED CARD HANDLING DEVICE - Playing card handling devices, such as shufflers, dealing shoes, discard racks and verification systems are rotatably secured to a gaming table to allow for functional and ergonomic adjustment of the card handling device, without removal from the gaming table. One end of the device, preferably a front end of the device from which playing cards may be removed has a structure that extends through an aperture in the gaming table. The device is movable within the aperture. Movement in the X-Y direction, angular movement and rotational movement, parallel to the movement of the plane of the surface of the gaming table is enabled. The movement of the device about the aperture preferably maintains the base of the device relatively parallel to the plane of the surface of the gaming table. | 11-24-2011 |
Karel Blaha, Pilsen CZ
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| 20110006691 | VOLTAGE CONVERTER FOR SUPPLYING A SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT SOURCE, IN PARTICULAR A LED LAMP - An embodiment of the invention relates to a voltage converter for supplying a semiconductor light source and having at least an input terminal connected to a power supply reference, namely an AC mains voltage reference, and an output terminal providing a current signal to said semiconductor light source, the converter being also connected to a voltage reference and comprising at least a step-down block inserted between a switching node and to the output terminal and connected to the voltage reference and an input block connected to the input terminal, as well as to a first input node and to a first output node of a control circuit, in turn connected to the switching node and to the voltage reference. The input block is a pre-regulator input block and comprises at least a switching component connected to the input terminal and to a capacitive block, in turn inserted between a second input node of the control circuit and the voltage reference, such a switching component having a control terminal connected to the first output node. | 01-13-2011 |
Werner Blaha, Altotting DE
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| 20090203297 | Semiconductor Wafer, Apparatus and Process For Producing The Semiconductor Wafer - The invention relates to a process for producing a semiconductor wafer by double-side grinding of the semiconductor wafer, in which the semiconductor wafer is simultaneously ground on both sides, first by rough-grinding and then by finish-grinding, using a grinding tool. The semiconductor wafer, between the rough-grinding and the finish-grinding, remains positioned in the grinding machine, and the grinding tool continues to apply a substantially constant load during the transition from rough-grinding to finish-grinding. The invention also relates to an apparatus for carrying out the process and to a semiconductor wafer having a local flatness value on a front surface of less than 16 nm in a measurement window of 2 mm×2 mm area and of less than 40 nm in a measurement window of 10 mm×10 mm area. | 08-13-2009 |