ITTO20000172U1 - RANDOM GENERATOR OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTER COMBINATIONS. - Google Patents

Description

Description of the industrial utility model entitled:

"RANDOM GENERATOR OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTER COMBINATIONS

DESCRIPTION

The present invention relates to a device for generating combinations of alphanumeric characters of class n (variable) of m characters (fixed).

On the market there are various devices suitable for generating combinations of alphanumeric characters. Some of these are computerized, others are made up of software programs to be used on computers, others still require the use of electrical or mechanical energy or, again, they have dimensions that can be defined as bulky and are, in a certain way, noisy, reading the values determined is not always easy.

The present innovation has the purpose of allowing the user to use the device in any condition and in any place, without disturbing other people and without requiring the use of other equipment.

In fact, the device is completely manual, does not require the use of electricity or other forms of artificial energy, is pocketable, the combination of selectable characters is variable and its reading is immediate.

The random selection of the alphanumeric characters is carried out by means of the random arrangement of n ball balls on a base with m boxes or compartments, produced at the end of the manual shaking of the device. The reading of the combination takes place through a reading grid above the ball balls.

The device consists of the base with m boxes or compartments, the n sphere balls and a box suitable for containing the base and the sphere balls. Said box is made up of a bottom and a transparent cover on whose surface there is a matrix composed of m alphanumeric characters, making up the reading grid.

The manual shaking of the device generates the random movement of the n ball balls. At the end of the shaking movement, the device is placed in a horizontal position. The n sphere balls stop randomly on n of the m squares of the base.

The reading of the generated combination takes place through the reading grid, printed on the transparent surface of the cover, by contrast between the characters, the underlying sphere balls and the base.

Further characteristics of the invention will become clearer from the detailed description that follows, referring to a purely exemplary and therefore non-limiting embodiment thereof illustrated in the attached drawings, in which;

Figure 1 is an exploded perspective view of the device;

figure 2 represents the cover of the box; figure 3 represents the base with the spherical balls;

figure 4 represents the section of the device; figure 5 represents the bottom of the box constituting the device;

figure 6 is a top view of the device being read;

figure 7 represents a variant embodiment of the box constituting the device.

With reference to Figure 1, the device consists of a bottom (1) suitable for containing the base (2) of m boxes or compartments (3) suitable for accommodating the n spherical balls (4), and a transparent cover (5) with reading grid (6).

Figure 2 shows the cover of the device (5). This is characterized by a transparent reading area on which the reading grid (6) of m alphanumeric characters is imprinted.

Figure 3 represents the base (2) of the device of m boxes (3) and n ball balls (4) arranged according to one of the

possible combinations.

The base is a parallelepiped characterized by a grid of m boxes or compartments (3) suitable for receiving and housing the n spherical balls (4), as better visible in the section of figure 4.

Figure 5 represents the bottom of the box (1), an integral part of the device, able to contain the base (2) and the n poles (4) and on which the lid (5) rests.

In figure 6, representing the top view of the device in the reading phase of one of the possible combinations, it is possible to observe the principle of contrast between the base (2), the spherical balls (4) and the reading grid (6).

According to a variant embodiment, the box, an integral part of the device, can be made up of a single body, see figure 7, with side opening and at least one transparent surface on which the reading grid (6) is shown.

The device thus constituted is simple and immediate to use, pocket-sized, easy to build, easy to read, does not require the use of motorized mechanisms, no maintenance and can be made with edible materials, can be used several times and the the number of possible combinations is variable.

Claims (1)

CLAIMS 1.device for generating combinations of alphanumeric characters of class n (variable up to m) of m characters (fixed) characterized by a base with m boxes or compartments, n spherical balls and a reading grid; 2. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 characterized in that the generation of the combination is carried out by random arrangement of n spherical balls on a base with m boxes or compartments; 3. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 and 2 consisting of base (2) with m boxes or compartments (3), n sphere balls (4), transparent cover (5) with reading grid (6) (see examples of figures 1 and 7); 4. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 3 characterized by the fact that its operation is completely manual; 5. Generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 4 characterized by the fact that the base (2) with m boxes or compartments (3) and the spherical balls (2) can also be made with edible materials; 6. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 5 characterized by the fact that on the reading grid (6) the characters can be arranged randomly without compromising reading and comprehension. 7. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 6 characterized by the fact that the number of boxes or compartments m is a generic number and the character X on the reading grid also represents a generic character. 8. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 7 characterized by the fact that the number of spherical balls n is variable. 9. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 8 characterized by the fact that the number of spherical balls n used to generate the random combination is less than or equal to the number of cells in the grid m. 10. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 9 characterized by the fact that the reading of the generated combinations takes place through the reading grid, printed on the transparent surface of the cover, by contrast between the characters, the underlying sphere balls and the base ( see figure 6). 11. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 10 characterized in that the n ball balls used to generate the random combination can be made phosphorescent in order to improve reading. 12.. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 11 characterized by the fact that the number of possible combinations is given by the formula: Where m is the number of boxes or compartments in the base and n the number of ball balls. 13. generator of combinations of alphanumeric characters according to 1 - 12 characterized in that it can also be used for prediction games as in the preceding claims and substantially as described and illustrated in the drawings.