JP3256855B2 - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko machine provided with a ball rental device for renting a game ball of a pachinko machine using a card.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a game ball of a pachinko machine used in a pachinko parlor is obtained by an automatic ball rental machine interposed between corners of the pachinko parlor or pachinko parlors arranged in the store. For these, it was necessary to prepare a small amount of banknotes and coins in advance, and the game had to be temporarily suspended in order to exchange the cash.

In recent years, card-type ball lending machines using a prepaid card or the like have been proposed for the above reasons. The card-type ball lending machine is provided with a card reader and an amount display / selection switch, etc., and inserts a card from a card insertion slot of the ball lending machine and operates the selection switch to set a predetermined game ball. Some are to be paid out. There is a proposal that this card-type ball rental machine is installed between adjacent pachinko machines or above a pachinko machine (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63-122482).

According to this configuration, by inserting a card into the card insertion slot arranged at the same position of the ball lending machine and pressing a lending switch, the lending ball is discharged to the tray of the pachinko machine through the gutter. It has been like that. However, since the card insertion slot and the operation unit of this card-type ball lending machine are separated from the pachinko machine, when operating the card, the body must be moved and the game is interrupted. Therefore,
There is a proposal that a card-type ball rental machine is provided on a front frame of the pachinko machine exclusively for one pachinko machine (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 64-34390). This makes it possible to keep the card inserted during the game by dedicating the information reading of the card, and to concentrate on the game without a complicated ball lending operation.

[0005]

However, when the card-type ball lending machine is provided integrally with the pachinko machine as described above, the card lending device which is not related to the playability when a new stand is replaced is used. Replacement of the lead lighter and its control unit will increase the cost of refurbishment. Further, if the ball lending device is simply left at the time of replacement of a new platform, wiring with the discharging device for paying out game balls becomes complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a pachinko machine having a structure that facilitates the separation and connection of each member when the pachinko machine is assembled or a new machine is replaced.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pachinko machine in which a detachable front frame is hingedly connected to a front surface of an outer frame via a hinge. A card-type ball lending device comprising a reader / writer controller and a card reader / writer is attached to the frame, a ball lending switch and a card removal switch are provided at the lower front of the pachinko machine, and the reader / writer controller is: The card reader / writer, the ball lending switch and the card ejection switch are electrically connected to each other, and a ball ejection device is provided on the back side of the front frame, a main body control device for controlling the ball ejection device and an accessory are controlled. Attach the accessory control device that transmits the situation to the main controller, and electrically connect the ball ejection device, the main controller and the accessory controller, and connect the main controller and the main controller. Doraita controller are each C
It is equipped with PU and operates by the signal exchange of each other CPU, the main body control device receives a ball lending request signal based on the operation of the ball lending switch, whereby the main body control device controls the ball discharging device. It is characterized by discharging lending balls.

[0008] According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the main controller discharges the borrowed sphere.
The method is characterized in that a busy signal indicating that discharging is being performed is transmitted to the reader / writer controller.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a saucer (upper plate 2 and lower plate 3) on which a game ball is placed is provided on the front of the pachinko machine 1, and an electric handle 4 for firing the game ball flowing down from the upper plate 2. Is mounted on the right side in the drawing, and a card reader / writer 5a (card insertion portion) of the card-type ball lending apparatus 5 described later is mounted on the left side in the drawing. The electric handle 4 is activated by pressing a touch switch 4a provided on the upper surface, and adjusts a firing force by turning a knob 4b protruding from a side surface. A single-shot switch 6 is mounted near the electric handle 4.

As shown in FIG. 3, a winning port (including a role starting port) 8 is provided on the game board 7, and the role starting port 8 has a mechanism for rotating a slot 9 here. A switch 10 (see FIG. 1) for stopping the rotation and stopping the design is arranged on the side of the electric handle 4. Lent balls and prize balls are discharged from the discharge port 2a of the upper plate 2, and when the ball release button 11 arranged on the frame of the upper plate 2 is pressed, the upper plate 2 is released.
Game ball comes out of the outlet 3a of the lower plate 3. In the figure, a drawer type ashtray box 12 is provided adjacent to the card reader / writer 5a.

As shown in FIG. 2, the game board 7, the upper plate 2, the lower plate 3, and the electric handle 4 are mounted on a front frame 13. A rectangular outer frame 14 has a lower front surface 14a. A card reader / writer 5a and an ashtray box 12 are mounted. The hinge 15 is a support 15a fixed to the upper edge of the outer frame 14.
And a claw-side hinge 15b fixed to the upper end of the front frame 13; similarly, a claw-side hinge 15b fixed to the lower front surface 14a of the outer frame 14 and a support 15a fixed to the lower edge of the front frame 13. The front frame 13 is provided so as to be rotatable in the lateral direction by being connected to each other. Therefore, the connection is such that the front frame 13 can be easily removed by rotating the front frame 13 forward and lifting it up.

A cylinder lock 16 is provided on the side of the front frame 13 opposite to the hinge 15, and key receiving members 17 are attached to the outer frame 14 at two locations in the vertical direction. The frame 13 and the glass frame 18 are fixed or opened. A speaker 19 and an indicator light 20 are mounted around the front frame 13, a mechanism frame 21 is integrally formed at a rear portion, a ball shift cover 22 is mounted, and an upper tank 23 is disposed at an upper portion. .

As shown in FIG. 4, a lock device 24 is engaged with the key receiving member 17, and a frame opening detection switch is
When the front frame 13 or the glass frame 18 is opened by the duplicate key, the opened state is detected. A discharge device (ball discharge device) 27 for prize balls and loaned balls is connected from the upper tank 23 via a connection gutter 26, and a prize ball gutter 28 and a ball drain gutter 29 are connected to a lower portion of the discharge device 27. The prize ball gutter 28 has a connection gutter 30 to the upper plate 2 and a lower plate flow box.
31 and connected to. A hitting ball launching device 32 operated by the electric handle 4 is provided below the front frame 13. A winning ball control device 34 and a winning detection switch 35 are provided in a winning ball passage 33 connected to the winning opening 8. Are arranged.

By the way, behind the front frame 13 is an accessory control device.
36 and a main body control device 37 are attached. On the back side of the outer frame 14, a reader / writer controller 5b constituting the card-type ball lending device 5 and a card reader / writer 5a as this terminal device are provided.
Is installed. The card reader / writer 5a protrudes to the front and is screwed into a screw 38. The card insertion slot 5c is located at the front of the card reader / writer 5a, and a card transporter 39 is incorporated inside the card reader / writer 5a. 41
And a card removal switch 42 are attached.

Next, the operation of the main body controller 37 and the card-type ball lending apparatus 5 will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 5, the electric circuit of the main body control device 37 is connected to the electric circuits of the accessory control device 36 and the lead lighter control device 5b, and the main body control device 37 and the lead lighter control device are connected.
5b is a circuit which operates by exchanging signals with each other cpu. The main controller 37 and the lead writer controller 5b are controlled by repeatedly executing the routine shown in FIGS. 6 to 9 at high speed.

The lead writer controller 5b operates according to a program in which the main cpu is written in the ROM,
The card reader / writer receives input of ON / OFF signals of the ball lending switch 41, the card removal switch 42, and the frame opening detection switch 25 and receives information from the card reader / writer 5a.
5a, the card transport device 39 and the money amount display device 40 are operated. On the other hand, by transmitting the ball lending request signal (BB call) to the main controller 37, the main controller 37 returns a busy signal, a balance subtraction request signal (balance signal), and a ball lending storage subtraction request signal (storage signal). Then, based on these total input signals, the card reader / writer 5a, the card transporter 39 and the display device 40 for money amount are operated.

The main control unit 37 has a main cpu of RO
It operates according to the program written in M, inputs the ON / OFF signal of the winning detection switch 35, the touch switch 4a, and the switch 6 for single shot, the signal indicating the operation status of the ejection device 27, and the BB of the lead writer control device 5b. In response to the call, the hit ball launching device 32, the speaker 19, the indicator light 20, and the discharging device 27 are operated. Further, when receiving the BB call, it transmits a busy signal, a balance subtraction request signal, and a ball lending storage subtraction request signal to the reader / writer controller 5b.

Next, the operation of the reader / writer controller 5b will be described with reference to FIGS. The terminals A, B, C, D, and E in FIGS. 6 to 8 are the same and are connected. Functionally, it can be divided into blocks for ball lending preparation, BB call output generation, and card ejection. As shown in FIG. 6, first, it is determined whether or not a card is inserted into the card insertion slot 5c of the card reader / writer 5a (step 1). If there is no card, the apparatus is kept in a standby state and if inserted, step 2 (conveys the card to a predetermined reading position), step 3
(Read the data.) And proceed to Step 4. In step 4, the security in step 3 is determined. If yes, proceed to the next step 5, and if no, the card is ejected (step 9).

In step 5, the operation of the take-out switch 42 is determined. If yes (if it is operating), the process proceeds to step B1 (FIG. 8), which will be described later. Proceeding to step 6, it is determined whether the ball lending switch 41 is operating. If the determination in step 6 is yes, the process proceeds to step 7 and the frame opening detection switch 25
It is determined whether is operating. If the glass frame 18 etc. are closed (now), the conditions for lending the ball are set,
The process proceeds to Step A1 (FIG. 7) through Step 8 in which the number of stored ball rentals (initially 0) is added. Step 6
In step 7, when the ball lending switch 41 is not operated and when the glass frame 18 and the like are in the open state in step 7, the numerical value of the ball lending storage is not increased.

Next, a procedure for checking the presence or absence of a signal from the main controller 37 and the presence or absence of the balance and transmitting a BB call will be described. In step A1 shown in FIG. 7, it is determined whether a busy signal has been received. If it has not been received (know), it is determined in step A2 whether or not a ball lending storage subtraction request signal has been received, and in step A3, it is determined whether or not a balance subtraction request signal has been received. If both signals have not been received, it is determined in step A4 whether there is a balance in the amount data of the card. Then, if there is a balance, it is checked in step A5 whether or not there is a ball lending memory. If there is a ball lending memory, it is confirmed whether or not the busy signal is received again in step A6, and if it is not received (no), a BB call is generated in step A7. If the ball lending storage subtraction request signal has been received in step A2, the process proceeds to step A8, in which the value of the ball lending storage is decremented by 1 and merges with step A3.

If the balance-reduction request signal has been received in step A3, the flow advances to step A9 to subtract the balance data, and then joins step A4 (confirmation that it is not zero). On the other hand, when the busy signal is received, that is, in step A1, the process proceeds to step A10, and in step A6, the process proceeds to step A11 to stop the BB call. Thereafter, the above process is repeated while the card is inserted. If the determination in step 5 is yes (the card removal switch is operating), the flow proceeds to step B1 shown in FIG. 8 to perform a card ejection procedure.

As shown in FIG. 8, first, it is determined here whether a BB call has occurred. If not, the process proceeds as it is, but if so, the BB call is stopped in step B2 and the process proceeds to the next. In step B3, it is checked whether a busy signal has been received. If it has been received, a standby state is entered. Otherwise, if it is not determined in step B4 whether there is a ball lending storage subtraction request signal, the process proceeds to the next step. In step B5, the numerical value of the ball lending storage is subtracted by 1, and in step B6, it is confirmed that the numerical value of the ball lending storage is 0. If there is a storage number, the numerical value of the ball lending storage is cleared in step B7. Next, if the balance subtraction request signal has been received (step B8), a subtraction process is performed (step B9), the result is written on the card (step B10), and the card is ejected in step 9 shown in FIG.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step A4 shown in FIG. 7 that the balance data has become 0, the data of the balance 0 is written to the card (step B10 in FIG. 8), and if the number of stored ball rentals is other than 0 For example, the value is cleared (not shown), and the card is ejected in step 9 shown in FIG.

The main controller 37 determines whether a BB call has been received at step C1 as shown in FIG. If not received, it is determined whether there is a winning ball (step C2). If there is no winning ball, the process enters a standby state (return to step C1). If there is a winning ball, it is determined again whether there is a BB call (step C).
3). If there is no BB call, prize ball discharge processing is performed (step C4), and prize ball discharge is performed until the end of the processing is detected in step C5. If the processing end is detected, the process returns to step C1.

Step C3 is designed to give priority to loaned ball discharge over prize ball discharge. If a BB call has been received, step C1 or step C3 to step C3
Proceed to 6 to generate a busy signal. Then, a loaned ball discharging process is performed in step C7. In step C8, it is determined whether or not the loaned ball discharging process has been completed. If the process is ongoing, the process is repeated to step C7. After the end of the discharging process, the busy signal is stopped in step C9, and step C1
At 0, a ball lending storage subtraction request signal is generated. Further, in step C11, a balance subtraction request signal is generated to wait for a BB call and a winning ball (step C11).
1, C2).

That is, when the card-type pachinko machine inserts a card, the card reader / writer 5a judges the quality or balance of the card (step 4), and the ball lending switch 41 of the player.
(Step 6), the prize ball and loaned ball discharging device 27 is operated to perform a loaned ball discharging process. In this case, the game balls stored in the upper tank 23 become rental balls, flow down the connection gutter 26, and are supplied to the upper plate 2 through the prize ball gutter 28 below the discharging device 27.

In this embodiment, after inserting the card,
The card is held in the card reader / writer 5a until the balance becomes 0 (see step A4) or the take-out switch 42 is operated (see step 5). You may do it.

[0028]

As described above, the present invention is constructed as described above. Therefore, when replacing a pachinko machine from an old stand to a new stand,
Since the front frame is easily detached from the outer frame, the operation is simplified, the card reader / writer provided on the outer frame and its control device are reused, and the cost for replacing the ball rental device is reduced. In addition, each unit is provided with a card reader / writer controller and the ball rental switch and the card removal switch are arranged at the lower part of the front of the pachinko machine, so that the operation of obtaining a rental ball is easy. Further, the lead writer control device and the main body control device are communicated by each other's CPU, the main body control device also grasps the status of the accessory by the signal from the accessory control device, and receives the ball lending request signal. Since the ball discharge device is operated, there is an effect that the loaned ball is reliably discharged and the reliability is improved. According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the busy signal is transmitted from the main body control device to the lead lighter control device, the start and the end of the ball discharge process are surely performed, and the reliability of the lending operation is improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pachinko machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a divided state of the pachinko machine shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a front view of the pachinko machine shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the pachinko machine shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a connection between the card-type ball lending apparatus of the pachinko machine shown in FIG. 1 and a main body controller.

6 is a partial flowchart of the card-type ball lending apparatus shown in FIG.

7 is a partial flowchart of the card-type ball lending apparatus shown in FIG.

8 is a partial flowchart of the card-type ball lending apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the main body control device shown in FIG. 5;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Pachinko machine 5 Card-type ball rental device 5a Card reader / writer 5b Reader / writer controller 37 Main unit controller 41 Ball rental switch 42 Card removal switch

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-1-135383 (JP, A) JP-A-4-17877 (JP, A) JP-A-1-280489 (JP, A) JP-A-63-1988 294878 (JP, A) JP-A-63-311982 (JP, A) JP-A-63-122485 (JP, A) JP-A-63-102783 (JP, A) JP-A-64-34390 (JP, A) JP-A-1-221187 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A63F 7/02 A63F 5/04

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A pachinko machine in which a detachable front frame is openably and closably connected to a front surface of an outer frame via a hinge, wherein the outer frame is provided with a card-type ball rental device including a reader / writer controller and a card reader / writer. Mounting, a ball rental switch and a card removal switch are arranged at the lower front of the pachinko machine, and the lead writer control device is:
The card reader / writer, the ball lending switch and the card ejection switch are electrically connected to each other, and a ball ejection device, a main body control device for controlling the ball ejection device and an accessory on the back side of the front frame are controlled. Attach the accessory control device that transmits the situation to the main control device, and electrically connect the ball ejection device, the main control device and the accessory control device, the main control device and the lead writer control device are:
The main body control device receives a ball lending request signal based on the operation of the ball lending switch, and the main body control device controls the ball discharging device. A pachinko machine characterized by discharging lending balls. 2. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein the main body control device transmits a busy signal indicating that the rental ball is being discharged to the lead lighter control device by discharging the rental ball.