JP4338967B2 - Pachinko machine ball dispenser - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a ball payout device that uses an actuator to perform a ball payout operation for paying a ball of a pachinko machine to a player side and a ball pulling operation for discharging the ball to a game store side.
[0002]
[Prior art]
A conventional ball payout device for a pachinko machine has a sprocket arranged at the intersection of the three forks in the payout mechanism provided on the back side of the pachinko machine. Using the passage and the other passage, a ball payout operation is performed to pay out the ball from the back side of the pachinko machine to a tray on the front side of the pachinko machine, while the sprocket is rotationally driven in the other direction by the actuator, Using one passage and the other passage other than the above, the ball is discharged from the back of the pachinko machine to a game machine installation facility called a pachinko shop island where the pachinko machine is installed. (See, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).
[0003]
[Patent Document 1]
JP 2000-262700 A (FIG. 3)
[Patent Document 2]
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-15187 (first page, abstract, FIG. 4)
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, the ball pulling operation is performed on the front side of the pachinko machine by the operator inserting a control rod such as a wire through the operation hole provided in the front of the pachinko machine, and operating the ball pulling switch via the ball pulling lever. Alternatively, the actuator is rotated in the ball removal operation direction by directly operating the ball removal switch. For this reason, during a ball payout operation in which the payout mechanism pays out a prize ball or a rental ball, for example, when a player inserts a wire or other rod into the operation hole in an interest-oriented manner, the ball removal switch is turned on, There is a problem in that the actuator is driven to rotate in the ball pulling operation direction, and the payout mechanism becomes a ball pulling operation.
[0005]
Accordingly, the present invention provides a ball payout device for a pachinko machine that can improve the quality reliability by prohibiting the ball pulling operation after starting the ball payout operation after the power is turned on.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In the present invention, the ball of the pachinko machine that performs the ball paying-out operation for paying out the ball to the player side with the winning of the game ball to the winning component and the ball discharging operation for discharging to the game store side by the actuator. In the dispensing device, the ball removal operation based on the operation of the ball removal switch is permitted when the power is turned on, and after the power is turned on, the ball removal operation based on the operation of the ball removal switch is prohibited and the ball removal operation is performed. Since the ball removal operation is not permitted while the power is turned on after the power is turned on, when a ball payout operation is performed after the power is turned on, even if a person operates the ball removal switch, it does not shift to the ball removal operation.
In the present invention, in a ball payout device of a pachinko machine that performs a ball payout operation for paying a ball to the player side and a ball pulling operation for discharging the ball to the game store side with an actuator, so that a person can operate it. Control that inputs the ball removal signal from the ball removal switch installed inside the pachinko machine and inputs the winning signal from the winning component placed in the game area of the game board of the pachinko machine to electrically control the actuator equipped with a device, the control apparatus inhibits the initial setting means for canceling the accompanying ball disconnect prohibition flag to a power supply, a flag setting means for setting a spherical disconnect inhibition flag, the ball抜動operation if the sphere disconnect prohibition flag set A ball removal operation prohibiting means and a ball removal operation permission means for permitting the ball removal operation if the ball removal prohibition flag is released , and the control device outputs a first winning signal from the winning ball detector after activation by power supply. Input If the ball removal prohibition flag is set by the flag setting means, and the ball removal signal is input thereafter, the ball removal operation by the actuator is performed by the ball removal operation inhibition means until the ball removal prohibition flag is canceled by the initial setting means. Since the control device is activated with power supply and the ball payout operation is started, if the person turns on the ball removal switch from the front side of the pachinko machine, the ball removal operation is executed. If the ball payout operation is started once even after the activation, the ball removal operation is prohibited even if a person turns on the ball removal switch from the front side of the pachinko machine, so that the quality reliability can be improved .
[0007]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
1 and 2 show an embodiment, FIG. 1 shows a ball payout device of a pachinko machine, and FIG. 2 shows a flowchart. With reference to FIG. 1, the ball payout device of the pachinko machine 1 will be described. In FIG. 1, as a payout mechanism 4 provided on the back side of the pachinko machine 1, an actuator 16 such as a step motor drives a sprocket 15 disposed at the intersection of three passages 12; 13; A description will be given of an example of a mechanism that is selectively used for the case of rotating in the direction of arrow X1) and the case of driving the sprocket 15 in a ball extraction (rotating drive in the direction of arrow X2). The sprocket 15 is a ball dispenser provided with a plurality of notches recessed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction so that one sphere can be accommodated in the rotation center direction from the circumferential surface of the rotation body.
[0008]
The ball payout operation of the payout mechanism 4 will be described. The control device 2 on the back side of the pachinko machine 1 is activated by power supply, and the balls are stored in the tank 3 on the back side of the pachinko machine 1, and the ball breakage detection of the payout mechanism 4 is detected. A ball launching operation mechanism called a handle grip on the front side of the pachinko machine 1 in a state where the ball 5 is output to the control device 2 and the ball is put in the tray 6 on the front side of the pachinko machine 1. When 7 is operated by the player, the ball launching mechanism 8 in the pachinko machine 1 according to the amount of operation, the balls supplied from the tray 6 one by one, the game board which is the main player in the pachinko machine 1 Fire towards 9 game zones.
[0009]
The fired ball wins one of a plurality of winning components 10 arranged in the game area of the game board 9, and the winning ball detector 11 that detects the winning ball outputs a winning signal to the control device 2. . The control device 2 identifies which winning component 10 corresponds to the winning ball detector 11 based on the position of the input port to which the input signal is input, and then controls the actuator 16 to pay out the ball. As a result, as the sprocket 15 is driven to pay out the ball, the payout mechanism 4 pays out a ball having a cash value to the tray 6 as an award for the game result of winning. As the ball dispensing operation of the dispensing mechanism 4 starts, the counting detector 17 of the dispensing mechanism 4 moves through the passage 13 in the process of moving the ball from the tank 3 from one passage 12 to another passage 13 in the three-way. A passing sphere is detected and a count signal is output to the control device 2. The control device 2 counts up the counting signal, and when the counted number of detected payouts coincides with the set number of payouts to be paid out with respect to the winning, or the number of detected payouts with the set number of payouts to be paid out with respect to the win When the subtraction value is “0”, the actuator 16 is controlled to stop.
[0010]
The ball removal operation of the payout mechanism 4 will be described. A person removes the operation rod 19 from the front side of the pachinko machine 1 through the ball removal operation hole 18 provided in the front surface of the pachinko machine 1 and installed in the pachinko machine 1. When the 20 buttons 21 are pressed, the ball removal switch 20 outputs a ball removal signal to the control device 2. The control device 2 controls the ball removal of the actuator 16 based on the ball removal signal from the ball removal switch 20. As a result, as the sprocket 15 is driven to remove the ball, the ball from the tank 3 is discharged from one passage 12 in the three-way through another passage 14 to the gaming machine installation equipment not shown. The
[0011]
In particular, in the case of the present embodiment, the ball removal operation from the power-on to the start of the ball payout operation is enabled, and the ball discharge operation is prohibited after the ball payout operation is started. The initial setting means 31, the operation determination means 32, the flag setting means 33, the ball removal operation prohibiting means 34, and the ball removal operation which execute the flowchart represented by steps 101-107 shown in FIG. Operation permission means 35 is provided.
[0012]
In step 101, the initial setting means 31 cancels the ball removal prohibition flag with power supply. In step 102, the motion determination means 32 determines whether or not a ball payout operation is in progress. Specifically, when the winning signal is identified, when the actuator 16 is rotationally driven in the direction of the arrow X1, the set payout amount to be paid out for the winning is stored in a memory such as a RAM and remains. In such a case, in any case such as a case where the number of set loans to be paid out in response to unpaid ball rental from the inter-sphere ball lending machine 23 is stored in a memory such as a RAM, the operation determination means 32 is It is determined that a ball payout operation is in progress (if step 102 is YES), and the determination result is transferred to the flag setting means 33. On the other hand, when the winning signal is not identified, when the actuator 16 is not driven to rotate in the direction of the arrow X1, when the set payout amount to be paid out for the winning is stored in the memory such as the RAM and does not remain, the RAM In any case such as the case where the set number of loans to be paid out for the unpaid ball rental from the inter-sphere ball lending machine 23 is stored in the memory, and the like does not remain, the operation determination means 32 performs the ball payout operation. It is determined that it is not in progress (when step 102 is NO), the determination result is transferred to the ball removal operation permission means 35. When the flag setting means 33 receives the determination result during the ball payout operation from the operation determination means 32, the flag setting means 33 sets a ball removal prohibition flag in step 103.
[0013]
That is, in the control device 2, the ball removal prohibition flag is canceled from the start of power supply to the start of the ball payout operation, and the ball removal operation is permitted by the ball removal operation permission means 35 (NO processing in step 105). Has been. Therefore, from the time the power is supplied to the control device 2 to the start of the first ball payout operation, the person operates the ball pull switch 20, so that step 106 becomes YES, the payout mechanism 4 is driven to pull the ball, and the process proceeds to the end. Then, the process ends. Even if the ball removal operation by the ball removal operation permission means 35 is permitted, if the person does not operate the ball removal switch 20, step 106 becomes NO, and the process proceeds to step 102 to repeat the process.
[0014]
In addition, when the winning signal is identified after activation by power supply in the control device 2, step 102 becomes YES, and after the ball removal prohibition flag is set in step 103, the ball removal operation prohibiting means 34 performs the ball payout in step 104. The process is executed to drive the payout mechanism 4 to pay out the ball. If the ball removal prohibition flag in step 105 is set, the process proceeds to step 102 and the process is repeated, and the process does not proceed to the ball removal process in step 107. When the ball dispensing operation is performed after the insertion, even if a person operates the ball removal switch 20, the ball removal operation is not performed.
[0015]
In short, according to the configuration of the present embodiment, the initial setting unit 31, the operation determination unit 32, the flag setting unit 33, the ball removal operation prohibiting unit 34, and the ball removal operation permission unit 35 are paid out as power is supplied to the control device 2. Since the ball dispensing operation and the ball removal operation in the mechanism 4 are monitored and the ball removal operation is permitted by releasing the ball removal prohibition flag when the power is turned on, the ball removal operation is started until the first ball dispensing operation is started after the power is turned on. When the signal is input, the payout mechanism 4 performs the ball removal operation (see Step 101, NO in Step 105, YES in Step 106, and Step 107). On the other hand, the ball removal operation is performed by setting the ball removal prohibition flag associated with the first winning signal. Therefore, after the ball payout operation is started even once after the power is turned on, the payout mechanism 4 does not shift to the ball discharge operation even if the ball discharge signal is input (YES in step 102, step 1). 3, refer to YES in step 104, step 105). Therefore, it is possible to perform the ball pulling operation from the power-on to the start of the first ball paying operation, and after the ball paying operation starts even once, the ball pulling operation can be prohibited to improve the quality reliability. . Further, since the actuator 16 is constituted by one step motor that rotationally drives the sprocket 15 disposed at the intersection of the three-way road, the step motor is rotated forward (rotation in the direction of arrow X1) and reverse (rotation in the direction of arrow X2). ), The ball paying-out operation and the ball pulling-out operation can be performed by switching the rotation direction of one step motor as compared with the case where the ball paying-out operation and the ball pulling-out operation are individually performed by a plurality of actuators. Can be switched, and the switching between the ball paying-out operation and the ball pulling-out operation can be easily performed.
[0016]
Although not shown, the sprocket 15 is provided so as to rotate together with the sprocket 15, and when the claw operated by the electromagnetic solenoid 16 is engaged with the claw wheel, ball dispensing is stopped. Is released from the claw wheel to start paying out the ball, while the passage 12 includes a switching passage on the upstream side (the tank 3 side) of the portion where the ball is entangled with the sprocket 15, and the switching passage is If the actuator is operated by an actuator using another electromagnetic solenoid, and this actuator is controlled by the control device 2 triggered by the ON operation of the ball removal switch 20, the same can be applied. In this case, the upper end of the switching passage is rotatably connected to the passage 12 by a shaft, and when the switching passage is moved to the ball removal side by the actuator, the lower end of the switching passage is directed to the gaming machine installation facility, As a result, the ball on the tank 3 side is discharged from the passage 12 to the gaming machine installation facility via the switching passage. Further, when the switching passage is moved to the ball dispensing side by the actuator, the lower end portion of the switching passage is directed to the passage 13, and as a result, the ball on the tank 3 side is paid out from the passage 12 to the tray 6 through the passage 13. . In this case, the passage 14 is in a closed form so that a sphere does not go.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a ball payout device of a pachinko machine according to an embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the embodiment.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Pachinko machine, 2 control device, 4 payout mechanism, 12; 13; 14 passage,
15 sprocket, 16 actuator, 17 counting detector,
18 ball removal hole, 19 operation rod, 20 ball removal switch,
31 initial setting means, 32 operation determination means, 33 flag setting means,
34 Ball removal operation prohibiting means, 35 Ball removal operation permission means.

Claims (2)

In the ball payout device of the pachinko machine that uses the actuator for the ball payout operation to pay out the ball to the player side and the ball pulling operation to discharge to the game store side when winning the game ball to the winning part , The ball removal operation based on the operation of the ball removal switch is permitted, and after turning on the power, the ball removal operation based on the operation of the ball removal switch is prohibited and the ball removal operation is prohibited after the first prize is received. A ball payout device for a pachinko machine, which does not allow a ball pulling operation while being inserted . In a ball payout device of a pachinko machine that uses an actuator to perform a ball payout operation for paying the ball to the player side and a ball pulling operation for discharging it to the game store side, it is installed inside the pachinko machine so that it can be operated by a person. A control device that inputs a ball removal signal from the ball removal switch and inputs a winning signal from a winning component arranged in the game area of the game board of the pachinko machine to electrically control the actuator. Initial setting means for releasing the ball removal prohibition flag upon power supply, flag setting means for setting the ball removal prohibition flag, ball removal operation prohibiting means for prohibiting the ball removal operation if the ball removal prohibition flag is set, A ball removal operation permission means for permitting a ball removal operation if the ball removal prohibition flag is canceled, and the control device sets a flag when a first winning signal is input from the winning ball detector after activation by power supply. It stage by setting the spherical disconnect prohibition flag, thereafter, entering a No. sphere抜信, the initial setting means to the sphere disconnect prohibition flag is released which prohibits the sphere抜動operation by the actuator by a sphere抜動operation prohibiting means ball dispensing device characteristics and to Rupa dick machine.

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