JP2554512B2 - Game ball holding device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION <Industrial field of application> The present invention has a prize winning chamber that is open to a substrate and projects rearward of the substrate, and the prize winning chamber faces a pair of movable pieces. A variable prize that can be converted into a first state in which the movable piece is upright and the hit ball does not fly in, and a second state in which the movable piece is rotated to a substantially horizontal position by the drive of the drive source and the hit ball easily hits. The present invention relates to a game ball holding device arranged in parallel with the device.

<Prior Art> As is well known, a lot of game ball holding devices have been proposed in which a hit ball flowing down a game board is once held, and an operation switch is operated to drop the ball held at any time. ing.

<Problems to be solved by the invention> However, since this main game ball holding device of the related art has an opening of the holding ball on the substrate of the holding device, the game is poor and a general winning hole is a holding ball. Just replacing it at the entrance does not improve the interest of pachinko games. Also,
Since the adjustment of the winning rate at the entrance of the reserved ball is only the adjustment by the obstacle nail, it is difficult to set, and this is also inconvenient.

<Means for Solving the Problems> The present invention has been proposed in view of the above, and has a winning chamber that is open to the mounting substrate and projects toward the rear of the mounting substrate, and a pair of the winning chambers is provided. A first state in which the movable piece is faced up and the hitting ball does not fly in due to the standing up of the movable piece, and a second state in which the movable piece tilts to a substantially horizontal position by driving the driving source and the hitting ball easily enters. In the variable winning device that can be converted into, a holding ball dropping port and an overflow port are opened in the mounting board, and a holding ball can be dropped to one behind the holding ball dropping port by driving a driving source. A holding ball entrance is provided at a position where a rod is faced and a hit ball is guided in association with the conversion of the movable piece.

<Operation> A ball can be introduced into the holding device provided on the mounting board of the variable winning device from the holding ball entrance provided at the position where the ball is guided in relation to the conversion of the moving piece, and the moving piece is converted. The winning rate at the reserved ball entrance can be changed in relation to.

<Examples> Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to Examples of the drawings.

The game ball holding device according to the present invention is arranged in parallel with a variable winning device 1 as shown in FIGS. 1 to 6, for example.

The variable winning device 1 is a mounting board 3 attached to the game board 2.
The mounting board 3 is provided with a winning chamber 4 which is open toward the front and protrudes toward the rear. This prize room 4
Is formed by providing a box-frame-shaped rear plate 5 on the back surface of the mounting substrate 3, and a top slope 6 that gently slopes downward to the rear in the inner middle stage, and a slope gently slopes downward to the front toward the bottom plate portion. And an outslope 7. A special winning opening 8 and a general winning opening 9 are provided at the front edge of the outslope 7, and the continuation switch 10 is exposed to the special winning opening 8.

An armor portion 11 is provided on the surface of the mounting substrate 3 above the winning opening 4, and a ceiling winning opening 12 is provided on the armor portion 11. Further, to the left and right of the winning room 4, a first state in which a hit ball standing upright and flowing down the surface of the game board 2 is prevented from jumping into the winning opening 4, and the upper end portion is tilted outward. Then, the pair of movable pieces 13 that can be converted into the second state in which the hit ball can be taken into the winning room 4 are axially attached. The movable piece 13 operates with a solenoid 14 or the like as a drive source via a crank member 15 and an operation lever 16.

The prize winning chamber 4 is enlarged by laterally bulging a part of the side wall 17. According to the embodiment shown in the drawings, the side wall 17 is bulged in a semicircular shape with the length of the movable piece 13 as a radius to provide a semicircular bulged portion 18. The rotary shaft 19 of the movable piece 13 is located at the center of the bulging portion 18. Therefore, the bulging portion 18 is located immediately behind the turning locus of the movable piece 13.

In addition, from the rear plate 5 of the winning room 4, the distribution obstacle member
Raise 20 forward. The distribution obstruction member 20 is located above the top slope 6, and a drop portion 21 is provided on the left and right of the distribution obstruction member 20 to enter the winning room 4 and roll on the top slope 6. On the outslope 7. Since the outslope 7 is inclined forward and downward, the ball rolling on the outslope 7 enters either the special winning opening 8 or the general winning opening 9 provided at the front edge.

The lower half portion of the front surface of the bulging portion 18 is closed by, for example, a transparent closing plate 22. Also, the upper half portion can be shielded by a shield plate 23 extending to the rear edge of the movable variable member 13. The shield plate 23 has an approximately 1/4 circular arc shape, and in the first state in which the movable piece 13 stands up, the shield plate 23 covers the upper half portion of the front surface of the bulging portion 18. Therefore, in the first state in which the movable piece 13 stands up, the hit ball is the bulging portion 1
8, that is, you cannot jump into the winning room 4. On the other hand, when the movable piece 13 tilts and rotates to a substantially horizontal position, the shield plate 23 closes.
The upper half portion of the bulging portion 18 is opened by forming a polymer with 22. Therefore, the horizontal width of the winning room 4 is greatly expanded, and the movable piece is
Since there is a bulge 18 just behind 13, the movable piece 13
Even if the opening / closing speed is fast, the hit ball received by the movable piece 13 can be reliably taken into the winning room 4. The bulge 18
The sphere guided to the side flows directly to the outslope 7 from the side, but the sphere guided to the top slope 6 is distributed to the left and right by the distribution obstruction member 20 and left and right falling parts.
It falls from 21 onto the top slope 6. Therefore, it is difficult to predict what route the ball will take, the expectation of winning the special winning prize 8 is increased, and the interest in pachinko gaming is significantly improved.

A holding device 24 is provided below the prize winning room 4. The holding device 24 is a holding ball drop opening opened on the mounting substrate 3.
25 and an overflow port 26, and according to the embodiment shown in the drawings, the drop port 25 and the overflow port 26 are symmetrically located in two upper and lower rows. In front of the holding device 24, a transparent front decoration plate 27 is attached so as to cover the front surfaces of the drop opening 25 and the overflow opening 26 so that the balls can fall. Further, a retaining gutter 28 is communicated with the drop port 25, a lower rearward inclination is provided at a lower end portion of the retaining gutter 28, and a locking claw 29 is provided at a peripheral edge of the drop port 25. Then, the projecting pestle 30 is exposed to the rear of the drop opening 25. This projecting punch 30 projects through an operating crank 34 that swings with an operating shaft 33 as a fulcrum when a player externally operates an operation switch 31 provided on a pachinko machine and a drive source such as a solenoid 32 operates. To do. Therefore, the ball introduced into the holding gutter 28 is locked by the locking claw 29 and the lower end portion is inclined downward to drop the ball.
Although it stops without dropping from 25, when the projecting punch 30 is projected, the first ball is dropped from the dropping port 25. Further, when the holding gutter 28 is full, that is, when four balls are accumulated in the holding gutter 28 in the illustrated embodiment, the fifth ball is blocked by the fourth ball and cannot enter the holding gutter 28. It overflows from the overflow port 26 and falls. The holding trough 28 is substantially U-shaped and the holding state of the balls can be confirmed through the front decoration plate 27. Further, in the illustrated embodiment, the left and right projecting punches 30 project at the same time to drop the ball from the left and right drop openings 25, but naturally, if there is no holding ball in one holding gutter 28, only one side is provided. To fall from.

The ball to be held in the holding device 24 is taken in from a holding ball entrance 35 provided in the game board 2 and introduced through an introduction gutter 36 provided on the back surface of the game board 2. According to the illustrated embodiment, the reserved ball entrances 35 are located on the left and right sides of the variable winning device 1, and are set so that the winning establishment changes in relation to the conversion state of the movable piece 13 of the variable winning device 1. .

That is, in the first state in which the movable piece 13 stands up, there is no change in the flow of hit balls flowing down the game board 2 and the winning rate of the reserved ball entrance 35 does not change, but in the second state in which the movable piece 13 tilts, The hit ball flowing down the game board 2 is reflected on the slope 37 'of the guide portion 37 provided at the tip of the movable piece 13, and this hit ball is the reserved ball entrance.
Induced to 35. Therefore, in the second state, the winning rate of the reserved ball entrance 35 is high.

Next, the operation of the variable winning device 1 having the holding device 24 will be described in accordance with a pachinko game.

As shown in FIG. 5, a game section 39 surrounded by guide rails 38 is formed on the surface of the game board 2, and a myriad of obstacle nails (not shown) and a wind turbine 40 are arranged in the game section 39. However, the variable winning device 1 is provided substantially in the center, the reserve ball entrances 35 are provided on the left and right sides of the variable winning device 1, and the so-called tulip-shaped winning device 41 is provided obliquely downward.
Further, the first starting port 42a and the second starting port 42b are arranged in a row in a row at the lower side. The variable winning device 1 maintains the first state in which the movable piece 13 is erected in a normal state.

Then, when the hit ball shot by the player flows down through the game section 39 and wins the first starting opening 42a at the center, the first detector 43a
Detects a winning and sends a winning signal to a control device (not shown), and the control device excites the solenoid 14 of the variable winning device 1 to move the movable piece 13 outward for about 0.4 seconds once and for about 0.7 seconds. Tilt twice once, and if you win the second start port 42
The detector 43b detects and tilts once for about 0.4 seconds. When a ball is placed on the tilted movable piece 13, the ball is taken into the winning room 4. At this time, since the winning room 4 is enlarged by the bulging portion 18, the movable piece 13 can be surely taken in even if the conversion speed is high. The hit ball taken in rolls on the top slope 6 and falls from the falling part 21 or directly from the bulging part 18 to the out slope 7, flows down the out slope 7 and faces the front edge of the special special ball. Enter the winning opening 8 or the right and left general winning openings 9. The balls that have entered the respective winning openings 8 and 9 are collected in the lower collecting portion 44 and discharged to the rear of the game board 2. All of these balls become winning balls and a predetermined number (for example, 13) of winning balls are discharged. The collected balls are counted by the 10-count switch 45, and the counting result is visually displayed on the 10-count display device 46 such as a light emitting diode provided on the rear plate 5.

The ball rolling on the outslope 7 is lucky and the special winning opening 8
When entering, the continuation switch 10 detects this winning and sends a continuation signal to the control device to shift to the special game.

When the special game is started, the movable piece 13 is converted into a second state in which the movable piece 13 tilts to a substantially horizontal position. Movable piece 13 is about 0.8 during conversion
Opens and closes 18 times at second intervals. Further, at this time, the guide portion 37 provided at the tip end of the movable piece 13 can guide the hit ball flowing down the game board 2 to the reserve ball entrance 35, and retain the ball in the reserve device 24 during the special game. Easy to keep.

When the player wins the special winning opening 8 again during the 18 times of opening / closing operation, the movable piece 13 stands up to once prevent the hitting ball from entering the winning room 4, and then the movable piece 13 is moved to 18 Open and close twice. A cycle indicator such as a light emitting diode provided on the rear plate 5 of the winning room 4 can be updated up to a maximum of 8 cycles with such operation as one cycle.
Visually display at 47. If the 10-count switch 45 detects 10 balls, the movable piece will move even during the 18 open / close operations.
Raise 13 to stop operation.

Then, if the player holds the ball held in the holding device 24 in the special game, the player operates the operation switch 31 at an appropriate time to excite the solenoid 32 and cause the projecting pestle 30 to project, so that the ball is dropped. It becomes easy to make a prize in the first starting opening 42a or the second starting opening 42b provided below the holding device 24. Therefore, the expectation of shifting to the special game again increases, and the special game can be continuously played, so that the pachinko game can be made more interesting.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments of the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments and can be appropriately implemented without changing the configuration described in the claims. For example, the variable winning device may have a movable piece or a winning room having another configuration, and in short, it may have a configuration in which the ball can be guided to the reserved ball entrance by converting the movable piece.

<Effects of the Invention> In summary, according to the present invention, the holding device is provided on the substrate of the variable winning device, and the entrance of the holding ball is provided at the position where the hit ball is guided in relation to the conversion of the movable piece of the variable winning device. The movable piece can guide the hit ball to the reserved ball entrance, and the conversion rate of the movable piece can change the winning rate at the reserved ball entrance. Further, since the holding device and the holding ball entrance can be separately arranged, the degree of freedom in arranging the obstacle nail is increased, and the game property is increased. Furthermore, since the held ball can be dropped at any time, the expectation that a special game can be continuously played is increased, and the interest in pachinko games is significantly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a front view in which one half of the variable winning device is cut away, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line III-III of FIG. , FIG. 4 is a rear view of the holding device, FIG. 5 is a schematic front view of the game board, and FIG. 6 is a rear view of the same. 1 ... Variable winning device, 2 ... Game board, 3 ... Mounting board,
4 …… Winning room, 13 …… Movable piece, 25 …… Holding ball drop slot, 26
…… Overflow port, 30 …… Projecting pestle, 35 …… Reserved ball entrance.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A win chamber that has an opening in a mounting board and projects toward the rear of the mounting board. A pair of movable pieces faces the winning room, and the movable pieces stand up to hit a ball. In the variable winning device in which the movable piece is tilted to a substantially horizontal position by driving the driving source and the hitting ball is easy to jump into the second state, the holding ball drop port is attached to the mounting board. Also, an overflow port is opened, and a projecting rod that can drop the holding ball to one by the drive of the drive source is faced behind the holding ball dropping port, and the hitting ball is guided in connection with the conversion of the movable piece. A game ball holding device characterized in that a holding ball entrance is provided at a position to be held.