JP2767685B2 - Amusement machine data transmission system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game machine data transmission system in which, for example, a control device for a plurality of gaming machines is used as a target device, and one or more of these are specified and data is transmitted to and from a host device. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, a plurality of gaming machine control devices and one host device have been connected by wires corresponding to the number of the gaming devices, and data has been exchanged between the devices through these wires. And a data transmission system for operating and managing the entire system has been proposed.

In such a data transmission system, for example, control data such as a ball-out state of a game device as a pachinko machine calculated on the basis of various data by a host device is transmitted to the control device for each game device through the wiring. Then, the host device receives the control result data from each control device through the wiring, and the host device collectively manages various data relating to the state and operation of each game device.

[0004]

However, in such a conventional data transmission system, relatively frequently,
In addition, when adding or replacing a gaming device performed in a short time, wiring for the host device is increased, or the number of wirings when replacing the wiring is increased, and the connection work of the wiring is complicated. In some cases, the address specified by the host device does not correspond to the port address of the gaming device initially set, and there is a problem that this operation cannot be performed in a short time.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems. In spite of the addition of a target device such as a game device, the number of lines for a host device is not increased, and It is an object of the present invention to provide a game machine data transmission system capable of arbitrarily and surely performing data transmission by designating an address for the added or replaced target device.

[0006]

A game machine data transmission system according to the present invention is a data transmission system in which a plurality of target devices specified by an address are centrally managed by a host device.
An intermediate device provided between the first and second devices,
A controller to which the host device or the intermediate device is connected
Roll box and control box
Communication port to which the intermediate device or target device is connected.
And the control box is
Address group included in the received data received by the box
Of the communication port number using the start address
Exclude the address used for the communication boat.
To receive data while receiving from the communication port.
Data and the beginning of the port number of the communication port
To the box with the address used by the user.
Data transmission to connected devices
It is.

Further, a game machine data transmission according to the present invention is provided.
The transport system uses a control box to control multiple intermediate machines.
And cascade connection using each communication port
It is.

[0008]

A game machine data transmission system according to the present invention.
First, control multiple target devices, grasp the status,
Information can be collected, stored, and analyzed on the host device side
I do.

Further , a game machine data transmission according to the present invention.
The system is a target that can be arbitrarily added or replaced
Without adding a line to the host device,
Add an intermediate machine, address the intermediate machine and target
Only by adding the address given to the
Enables centralized management by host device together with get device
I do.

In addition, the above-mentioned intermediate device is capable of connecting the same intermediate device to a plurality of communication ports of the intermediate device by the number of the ports, thereby increasing the number of target devices without increasing the number of lines on the host device side. A device can be connected to the host device.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes control, status, information, accumulation,
A host device for performing analysis, 2 is an intermediate device as an information collecting device, 3 and 4 are other intermediate devices cascaded to the intermediate device 2 to add target devices, and 8 is directly cascaded to the intermediate device 2. This is the fourth target device.

Reference numerals 5, 6, and 7 denote a first target device, a second target device, and a third target device, respectively, which are connected to an intermediate device 4 for adding target devices. Fourth target devices 5 to 8
Are, for example, first to fourth pachinko machines (1
Series to 4 series). Therefore, the intermediate devices 3 and 4 and the target device 8 are connected to the lower level of the intermediate device 2, and the target devices 5, 6 and 7 are connected to the lower level of the intermediate device 4.

The host device 1 has a management computer 11 and a communication device 12, as shown in FIG.
3 and a plurality of communication ports 14 (for example, 32 ports) provided in the control box.

Therefore, by connecting the same number of intermediate machines to these ports in a cascading manner over N stages, theoretically,
For example, it is possible to collect information from 32N ports.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, each of the target devices 5 to 8 has a control box 15 and a driving unit 16, and these targets 5 to 8 (target 5 in FIG. Each is connected to a communication port 14. At this time, the address assigned to each target device by the post device 1 is, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, the address of each of the intermediate devices 2 and 4 and the address of the target device 5 to 8 itself. It will be.

In the game machine data transmission system having such a configuration, first, the host device 1 transmits data to any of the target devices 5 to 7 based on the address corresponding to the port number, and determines which of the target devices 5 to 7 should control and grasp the state. decide.

In this case, the host device 1 sends an inquiry control code to the lines of all target devices via the intermediate device 2 and the intermediate device 4 to make an inquiry, and makes an inquiry within a certain period of time. When the acknowledgment control code is returned, it is determined that the line to which a reply has been received is operating, and thereafter, monitoring is performed only on the operating line.

The connection confirmation timing is either immediately after power-on, when a reset occurs, or when a connection confirmation control code is received from the host line.

On the other hand, when receiving data from the host device 1, the intermediate devices 2 and 4 determine the corresponding port number based on the address corresponding to the port included in the data, and send it to any of the corresponding target devices 5 to 8. Transfer data.

Therefore, the target devices 5 to 8 that have received the transfer data transmit only the transmission data to the host device 1 to the intermediate devices 2 and 4. Therefore, the intermediate devices 2 and 4 add the port number as an address to the transmission data from the target devices 5 to 8 and transmit the data to the host device 1.

The intermediate devices 2 and 4 monitor the port connection status of the target devices 5 to 8 and report the details to the host device 1 when a failure occurs.

As described above, since each of the intermediate machines 2, 3, and 4 can connect and manage only up to 32 target devices, for example, another intermediate machine can be connected to these intermediate devices in a cascading manner. , The number of connections and management can be increased exponentially.

For this reason, when transmitting data, the host device 1 grasps the number and connection status of the intermediate devices 2 to 4 existing between the target devices 5 to 8 and outputs the data for each intermediate device. Set the address indicating the port number to be set. More specifically, the address for each port for the intermediate device connected to a position close to the self is set at the top, and the addresses are sequentially set thereafter.

Then, in the intermediate devices 2 and 4, the transmission port is determined using the head address from the group of addresses included in the data received from the host device 1, and the target device 5
From the data to be transmitted to .about.8, the address used by itself is excluded.

On the other hand, each of the target devices 5 to 8 confirms that no address exists in the data received from the intermediate devices 2 and 4 (the number of addresses = 0). At the time of data transmission from each of the target devices 5 to 8, the address is not set (the number of addresses = 0) and the data is transmitted to the intermediate devices 2, 4
Send to When the transmission data is received by the intermediate devices 2 and 4, the intermediate devices 2 and 4 add the number of the port that has received the data as an address to the head of an address group in the data, and send it to the host device 1. Send.

For this reason, the host device 1 grasps the intermediate devices 2 and 4 existing between the target devices 5 and 8 and the connection status, and stores a plurality of addresses included in data from each of the intermediate devices 2 and 4. Based on this, it is possible to specify the target device of the data transmission source and execute the desired data processing.

FIG. 3 shows a state in which the host device 1 is connected to the target device 5.
9 is a flowchart showing in detail a data transfer procedure by the intermediate devices 2 and 4 to. According to this, the intermediate devices 2 and 4 first receive data from the host device 1 through the host line (step S1), determine whether there is an error (step S2), and when there is an error, A retransmission request is sent to the host line (step S3), and the processing of step 1 and subsequent steps is executed again.

On the other hand, if there is no error, the receiving address in the received data is analyzed to determine the destination circuit (apparatus) to be transmitted (step S4), and the receiving address is edited, that is, the used address is deleted. Deleting ( Step
Step S5 ). Subsequently, data is transmitted to the edited target line corresponding to the address (step S6), and it is determined whether or not there is a retransmission request from the target device (step S7). Is repeated (step S7; NO), the process ends.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for transferring data from the target devices 5 to 8 to the host device 1 by the intermediate device 2. According to this, the intermediate device 2 receives data from the target circuit (device) (step S1).
1) Determine whether an error has occurred ( step
S12 ) If it has occurred, a retransmission request is transmitted to the target circuit (step S13).

On the other hand, if no error has occurred,
The reception address is edited, that is, the port number of the reception target is added (step S14), and the data is transmitted to the host line (step S15). And
It is determined whether or not there is a retransmission request from the host device 1 (step S16). If there is, the process from step S15 is repeated, and if not, the process ends.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, the host
Intermediate machine created between the target device and the target device
The control box of the box
Of the group of addresses included in the received data
To determine the communication port number using
On the other hand, send the received data excluding the address
While the data received from the communication port
The self is used at the beginning of the port number of the communication port.
Add the address to the device connected to the box.
Data transmission, so despite the addition of a target device such as a game device, the line is not added to the host device, and the data is specified by specifying an address for the added or replaced target device. The effect that transmission can be performed arbitrarily and reliably is obtained.

Further, the same other intermediate device can be connected in cascade to any one of the plurality of communication ports of the control box of the intermediate device. In addition, there is an effect that a large number of target devices can be connected to the host device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a data transmission system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing details of each block in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure of a data transfer process on the host device side by the intermediate device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a data transfer process on the target device side by the intermediate device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is an address map diagram showing addresses of an intermediate device and a target device specified by the host device in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Host device 2, 3, 4 Intermediate device 5, 6, 7, 8 Target device

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] In a data transmission system in which a plurality of target devices specified by an address are centrally managed by a host device, a data transmission system provided between the target device and the host device.
The intermediate device is connected to the host device or the intermediate device.
Control box to be connected
Connected to an intermediate machine or target device
Communication box , and the control box is
Of the addresses included in the received data
The communication port number is determined using the
Data received by excluding the address used by
Sends, whereas, the data and the communication received from the communication port
Of the port number of the
To the equipment connected to the box.
Game machine data characterized by data transmission
Transmission system. 2. The game machine data transmission system according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of intermediate machines can be connected in cascade using a control box and each communication port.