JP3587478B2 - Pachinko ball receiver display device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
[Industrial applications]
The present invention relates to a display device of a pachinko ball receiver having an improved wiring processing structure.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Pachinko machines in recent years have various display functions on the game board surface, and the display functions are becoming increasingly diversified. For example, there is a device in which game information relating to the operation of an electric tulip (motorized pachinko ball receiver) whose tulip (movable wing piece) is opened and closed by an electromagnet is displayed on a digital display provided on a game board surface. .
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
In order to provide the pachinko ball receiver with a novel display function which has not existed in the past, as shown in the specification of Japanese Patent Application No. 6-261766, the present applicant has disclosed a pachinko ball receiver with a front cover. We are developing a configuration with a container. In this configuration, a bundle of lead wires soldered to the back side of the display is inserted into the wiring space below the pachinko ball receptacle and pulled out and wired backward, so wiring work is extremely troublesome. Not only that, a relatively large wiring space for inserting a bundle of lead wires is required under the pachinko ball receptacle, and there is a disadvantage that the pachinko ball receptacle becomes large. Because the size of the game board surface of the pachinko machine is limited, the enlargement of the pachinko ball catcher reduces the space for arranging other parts on the board, and reduces the degree of design freedom of the board configuration. Also.
[0004]
The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a display device for a pachinko ball receiver that can realize both simplification of wiring work and downsizing of the entire device. To provide.
[0005]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, the display device of claim 1 of the present invention is a display device of a pachinko ball receiver attached to a game board of a pachinko machine via an attachment base plate,
The pachinko ball receiver has a ball receiving portion protruding to the front side of the mounting base plate, and a ball passage protruding to the back side of the mounting base plate, and falls along the front surface of the game board. It is configured to receive a pachinko ball to be received in the ball receiving portion and flow into the ball passage portion,
A thin display attached to the front cover of the pachinko ball receiver,
A long lead row provided in a row on the back surface of the display , extending rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion, penetrating the mounting base plate, and protruding rearward below the ball passage portion ;
A lead fitting portion that is provided at a position behind the mounting base plate in the pachinko ball receptacle and that fits and supports each lead of the lead row at a constant pitch;
A configuration is such that a wiring connector can be inserted and connected to the end of the lead row.
[0006]
In this case, it is preferable to mount a lower cover that covers a lead row extending rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion from below.
[0007]
[Action]
According to the pachinko ball receiver display device of the above-mentioned claim 1, a long lead row is provided on the back surface of the thin display device, and this display device is mounted on the front cover of the pachinko ball receiver, A long row of leads on the back side of the ball is extended rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion of the pachinko ball catcher, and each lead is formed by penetrating the mounting base plate and projecting rearward below the ball passage portion. The lead fitting portion is fitted and supported at a constant pitch. As a result, bending of the lead is prevented, the pitch of the tip of the lead is kept constant, and a wiring connector can be inserted and connected to the tip of the lead on the back side of the mounting base plate of the pachinko ball receiver. It becomes possible. That is, since the lead is long, unless the lead is fitted and supported by the lead fitting portion, the lead is likely to bend at the time of assembling, and the pitch of the tip of the lead is not uniform, so that it is impossible to insert and connect the connector.
Moreover, the long lead row on the back side of the display extends rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion of the pachinko ball receiver, and penetrates through the mounting base plate to project rearward below the ball passage portion. Therefore, the insertion space for the lead row can be made much thinner than the insertion space for the bundle of lead wires, and the lower structure of the pachinko ball receptacle can be downsized.
[0008]
Furthermore, in the second aspect, the lower cover that covers the lead row extending rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion from below is attached, so that the lead row can be protected by the lower cover.
[0010]
【Example】
Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a display device of a pachinko ball receiver will be described with reference to the drawings. First, the configuration of the pachinko ball receiver 11 will be described with reference to FIG. The mounting base plate 12 of the pachinko ball receptacle 11 is formed of, for example, plastic, and is attached to the game board 10 by screws or the like. On the front surface of the mounting base plate 12 , a plastic chuck 13 which is a ball receiving portion for receiving a pachinko ball falling along the front surface of the game board 10 is engaged and fixed by elastic engaging claws (not shown). A movable blade 16 made of plastic is rotatably inserted into and supported by two rotating shafts 15 integrally formed on the inner surface of the front cover 14 of the chucker 13. The ball struck between the pair of movable wing pieces 16 is received by the chucker 13 and is guided to a ball passage 17 formed to protrude rearward at a lower portion of the mounting base plate 12.
[0011]
On the other hand, an electromagnet 18 is arranged on the back side of the mounting base plate 12. The electromagnet 18 has a structure in which a coil 20 wound around a cylindrical iron core 19 is housed in a metal frame 21, and the upper end of the cylindrical iron core 19 is fixed to the upper surface of the metal frame 21 by caulking. A pair of left and right L-shaped engaging pieces 22 are integrally formed at the lower end of the rear surface of the metal frame 21.
[0012]
The movable magnetic piece 23 disposed below the electromagnet 18 is formed of a magnetic material such as an iron plate, a steel plate, or the like, and an engagement hole 24 formed at the rear end thereof is engaged with an engagement piece at the lower end of the metal frame 21 of the electromagnet 18. By engaging the movable magnetic piece 23 with the movable magnetic piece 22, the movable magnetic piece 23 is supported rotatably in the vertical direction with the engaging piece 22 as a fulcrum. The front end of the movable magnetic piece 23 is engaged with each movable wing piece 16, and each movable wing piece 16 is opened and closed by the vertical movement of the movable magnetic piece 23. That is, when the electromagnet 18 is energized, the movable magnetic piece 23 is attracted upward as shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 1B, whereby the movable wing piece 16 is rotated in the opening direction by its own weight and held in a tilted state. I do. In order to urge the movable magnetic piece 23 downward when the electromagnet 18 is turned off, a non-magnetic pressing member 25 is housed together with a spring 26 in the cylindrical iron core 19 of the electromagnet 18. When the pressing element 25 urged downward by the spring 26 pushes down the movable magnetic piece 23, each movable wing piece 16 is turned in the closing direction and held in an upright state.
[0013]
On the other hand, a thin 7-segment light-emitting diode display (hereinafter simply referred to as “display”) 27 is mounted on the front cover 14 of the chucker 13. A plurality of long leads 28 are soldered in a horizontal line at a constant pitch on the lower side of the back surface of the display 27. The row of the leads 28 extends rearward along the lower surface of the chuck 13, penetrates through the mounting base plate 12, and projects rearward below the ball passage portion 17. The row of the leads 28 is adhered to the lower surface of the chuck 13 with a double-sided adhesive tape 29, and the lower cover 32 is attached to the row of the leads 28 from below. 32 are adhered. A lead fitting portion 30 is formed at the rear end of the lower surface of the chucker 13, and each lead 28 is fitted at a constant pitch into a fitting groove 31 (see FIG. 3) formed in the lead fitting portion 30. Supported. The tip of each lead 28 protrudes rearward from the lead fitting portion 30, and a connector 34 for wiring is inserted and connected. Thus, the display 27 is electrically connected to the display control circuit (not shown) via the lead 28 and the connector 34.
[0014]
According to the embodiment configured as described above, a row of long leads 28 is provided on the back surface of the thin display device 27, and the display device 27 is mounted on the front cover 14, and the long leads 28 on the back surface side of the display device 27 are provided. The 28 rows are made to penetrate the mounting base plate 12 and protrude rearward below the ball passage portion 17 so that each lead 28 is fitted to and supported by the lead fitting portion 30 at a constant pitch. Therefore, even if the lead 28 is long and easy to bend, the lead fitting portion 30 prevents the lead 28 from being bent, and the pitch of the tip of the lead 28 can be made uniform. The wiring connector 34 can be inserted and connected to the tip of the lead 28 on the side. For this reason, the wiring work becomes extremely simple, and the assembling workability can be greatly improved as compared with the related art. In addition, the space for passing the rows of the leads 28 is much smaller than the space for inserting the bundle of lead wires, so that the lower structure of the pachinko ball receptacle 11 can be made compact, It is possible to increase the degree of design freedom of the board surface configuration without reducing the arrangement space of the other components above.
[0015]
Further, in the above embodiment, the rows of the leads 28 are bonded to the lower surface of the chuck 13 and the lower cover 32 with the double-sided adhesive tapes 29 and 33, so that the above-mentioned fitting support by the lead fitting portion 30 is combined. Accordingly, the lead 28 can be more firmly fixed, the bend of the lead 28 can be more reliably prevented, and the connection of the connector 34 to the tip of the lead 28 can be performed more reliably.
[0016]
In the above-described embodiment, the rows of the leads 28 are bonded in a sandwich manner between the lower surface of the chuck 13 and the lower cover 32 from both the upper and lower sides with the double-sided adhesive tapes 29 and 33. Alternatively, only one of the lower sides may be bonded with a double-sided adhesive tape.
[0017]
In the above embodiment, but it may also be constituted by a digital display configured with but of more than two orders of magnitude the display 27 as one digit digital indicator.
[0018]
【The invention's effect】
As is apparent from the above description, according to the configuration of claim 1 of the present invention, the long lead row on the back side of the display is extended rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion of the pachinko ball receiver, Each lead is fitted to and supported by the lead fitting portion at a constant pitch by penetrating the mounting base plate and projecting below the ball passage portion rearward, so that the lead is long and easy to bend. Even with the lead fitting part, the pitch of the tip of the lead can be made uniform, and a wiring connector can be inserted and connected to the tip of the lead on the back side of the mounting base plate of the pachinko ball catcher. The work can be made extremely simple .
In addition, the long lead row on the back side of the display extends rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion of the pachinko ball receiver, and penetrates through the mounting base plate to project rearward below the ball passage portion. Therefore, the insertion space of the lead row can be made much thinner than the insertion space of the bundle of lead wires, and the lower structure of the pachinko ball receptacle can be downsized. Requests can also be met.
[0019]
Furthermore, according to the second aspect, the lower cover that covers the lead row extending rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion from below is attached, so that the lead row can be protected by the lower cover.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 (a) is a front view of a pachinko ball receiver showing one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 (b) is a longitudinal side view of the pachinko ball receiver. FIG. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a lead row portion taken along line A. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a lead fitting portion.
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Game board, 11 ... Pachinko ball receiver, 12 ... Mounting base plate, 13 ... Chucker (ball receiving part) , 14 ... Front cover, 16 ... Movable wing piece, 17 ... Ball passage part, 18 ... Electromagnet, 23 ... Movable magnetic piece, 27 ... Display, 28 ... Lead, 29 ... Double-sided adhesive tape, 30 ... Lead fitting part, 32 ... Lower cover, 33 ... Double-sided adhesive tape, 34 ... Connector for wiring.

Claims (2)

In the display device of the pachinko ball receiver attached to the game board of the pachinko machine via the mounting base plate,
The pachinko ball receiver has a ball receiving portion protruding to the front side of the mounting base plate, and a ball passage protruding to the back side of the mounting base plate, and falls along the front surface of the game board. It is configured to receive a pachinko ball to be received in the ball receiving portion and flow into the ball passage portion,
A thin display attached to the front cover of the pachinko ball receiver,
A long lead row provided in a row on the back surface of the display , extending rearward along the lower surface of the ball receiving portion, penetrating the mounting base plate, and protruding rearward below the ball passage portion ;
A lead fitting portion that is provided at a position behind the mounting base plate in the pachinko ball receptacle and that fits and supports each lead of the lead row at a constant pitch;
A display device for a pachinko ball receptacle, wherein a connector for wiring is inserted and connected to a tip portion of the lead row. The display device of a pachinko ball receiver according to claim 1, wherein a lower cover that covers the lead row extending rearward along a lower surface of the ball receiver from below is mounted .

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