JPS586976B2 - Amusement hall business management equipment - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a business management device for a game parlor, and more particularly to a business management device that aggregates various data of a pachinko game parlor and prints and displays necessary information.

Recently, for example, in pachinko game parlors, the number of balls rented and the number of balls exchanged as prizes are used as input data to calculate the sales amount, profit rate, etc. of the game parlor, and the results are printed and displayed. A device has been proposed and implemented.

The display and printout by this business management device can be used, for example, as materials for managers to understand the management status of the gaming hall.

Further, such a management device is configured to be able to display and print information at any time, for example, by key operation.

Further, the above-mentioned management data usually only need to be known by the management (or someone similar thereto).

However, managers and the like are often absent due to business trips, for example.

Therefore, in such cases, employees are required to create materials, that is, operate the management device.

Therefore, the employees will be informed of the management status of the gaming hall, which will cause various inconveniences.

In addition, since gaming parlors do not sell products and make profits from the number of circulations of pachinko balls and coins lent to customers, it is also possible to unfairly change the processing data input to the business management equipment or conduct unfair processing. Fraud can be easily committed by entering data.

Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to provide a business management device that automatically creates materials at a preset time in order to eliminate the above-mentioned inconvenience.

In summary, the present invention enables switching between a normal processing mode and a secret processing mode; in the normal processing mode, processing data can be displayed and printed by an external operation; and in the secret processing mode, processing data can be displayed and printed by an external operation. In addition to prohibiting printing, only printing of processing data is automatically performed when a predetermined processing time has arrived.

The above objects and other objects and features of the present invention will become more apparent from the detailed description given with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a business administration system for a game hall as an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view thereof.

As will be described later, this business management device BMM has a control circuit, a program timer TM, a printer PR, etc. housed in one housing HB.

At the rear upper part of the housing HB, a lid OL is rotatably supported at one side end so as to be openable and closable, and at the front upper part, an operation panel OP and a display panel DP, which will be described in detail later, are arranged.

A lock L1 is provided at the other end of the lid OL for locking the lid OL to the housing HB and keeping it in the closed state.

Inside the lid OL, there is a clock section CL driven by, for example, a commercial power source (frequency) and a time setting switch Ts that can freely set a timer on time and a timer off time.
A timer TM in which a timer 1 is disposed is housed, and a printer PR that prints each data to create materials is also housed.

The printer PR transfers the sequentially input data to a paper PAP.
to print.

Further, a collection box CB is provided below where the paper PAP of the printer PR extends, preferably removable from the housing HB.

This accumulation box CB is for sequentially accumulating the papers PAP on which data has been printed out as described above and storing them inside the housing HB.

At the position corresponding to this collection box CB of the housing HB,
In order to take out the accumulated paper PAP, the Q lid SL is rotatably supported at one end so as to be openable and closable.

A lock L2 is provided at the other end of the lid SL for locking the lid SL to the housing HB and keeping it in the closed state.

The key of this lock L2 is preferably the same as the key of the lock L1 described above.

In addition, this housing HB and therefore the internal circuit (not shown)
is connected to a data bus DB to each device (described later) by a connector CON.

FIG. 3 is an illustrative view showing the operation panel and display pulses.

The operation panel OP has a numeric key NK for entering numerical values from 0 to 9, a display key DK, and a print key PK.
, a display switching key DCK, a date setting switch DTS, a time setting switch TS2, and an operation key OK are provided.

The display key DK is a ball rental machine data display key DK1 for displaying ball rental data (number of balls or amount) of each ball rental machine specified by the numerical key NK, and a ball rental machine data display key DK1 for displaying ball rental data (number of balls or amount) for each ball rental machine specified by the numerical key NK. Ball rental total data display key DK2 for displaying the total ball rental data (total number of balls or total total amount)
, exchange ball (counter) data display key DK3 for displaying the exchange ball data (number of balls or amount) of each prize exchange ball counter specified by the numerical key NK; Exchange total data display key DK4 for displaying total exchange ball data (total number of balls or total total amount); profit data display key DK5 for displaying profit data for the entire gaming hall (total sales amount - exchange amount); It includes a pitching rate data display key DK6 for displaying pitching rate data (ratio of total sales amount to exchange amount) for the entire game hall.

Further, the print key PK is a ball rental machine data print key PK for printing out the ball rental machine data.
1. Ball loan total data print key PK2 for printing out the total ball rental data; Exchange ball (counter) data print key PK3 for printing out the exchange ball data; Print out the total exchange ball data. It includes an exchange total data print key PK4 for printing, and a feed key PK5 for feeding paper in the printer PR.

Furthermore, the operation key OK has, for example, a key shape unique to this device, and when turned to the ON position, normal operation is enabled, when turned to the LOCK position, the device is forced into a locked state, and when turned to the LOCK position, the device is forced into a locked state, and when turned to the OFF position, the operation key OK is turned to the ON position to enable normal operation. Turn off all power (except for the clock part) by returning to .

The display switching key DCK is used to switch whether the data (numeric value) displayed on the display device DIS, which will be described later, is the number of pitches or the amount of money.

Further, the date setting switch DTS and the time setting switch TS2 both include digital switches whose numerical values can be manually changed, and perform continuous timekeeping operation like a normal digital clock, for example.

By operating the entry key EK, the current date and time are given to the printer PR and the display device DIS, which will be described later.

On the other hand, the display panel DP includes a display device DIS and a rung LP.

The display DIS shows the time (TIME) and the number of each device (NU
It consists of various parts for displaying data (MBER; entered using numerical keys NK) and ball count or monetary value (VALUE), and is digitally displayed using, for example, a discharge display tube, a light emitting diode, a liquid crystal, or the like.

Further, the lamp LP indicates each of the display keys DK1 to DK1 to
provided corresponding to each DK6, and each key DK
A ball rental machine display lamp LP1, a ball rental total display lamp LP2, a replacement ball display lamp LP3, and a replacement total display lamp LP4, which display the numerical items displayed on the display device DIS in response to each operation of DK1 to DK6. , profit display lamp L
P5, and a pitching rate display lamp LP6.

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

The business management device BMM includes a calculation control unit CPU that includes a well-known calculation device, etc., and a memory ME that is related to the calculation control unit CPU and includes, for example, a memory for calculation programs (ROM) and a memory for calculation data (RAM). and an input/output device control unit IOC that controls each input/output device.

Further, the input/output device control unit IOC is given a signal from a timer TM housed in the housing HB, and is also given an ON signal or a LOCK signal of the operation key OK.

This input/output device control unit IOC and data bus DB are connected by a connector CON.

Key input signals from the operation panel OP including each of the above-mentioned keys are given to the data path DB via the interface circuit IF.

Further, each data from the arithmetic control unit CPU is given to the display device DIS and the printer PR via the interface circuits IF, IF.

Here, the input/output device control unit IOC enables all the key input from the operation panel OP, the display DIS, and the printer PR by receiving the ON signal of the operation key OK, and activates the printer PR by receiving the LOCK signal. P
Only R is kept active and the others are disabled.

In addition, the clock section CL of the timer TM is connected to the time setting switch TS.
1, when the preset time is reached, a timer-on signal is obtained from the timer TM, and the input/output device control unit IOC operates the printer PR based on the lock signal and the timer-on signal.

On the other hand, ball lending machines BL1 and BL2 installed at various locations in the gaming hall
, . . . The rental ball number data from BLn is individually and sequentially derived by the scanner LSC, and is applied to the data bus DB via the interface circuit IF.

Furthermore, the exchange ball data from the exchange ball counters BC1, BC2, etc., installed at the prize exchange counters of the game hall, etc., is individually and sequentially derived by the scanner CSC, and the data is sent to the interface. Through the circuit IF,
The signal is applied to the data bus DB.

The operation of the above configuration will be explained below.

First, for normal operation, press the operation key O on the operation panel OP.
Let's assume that K is turned to the ON position.

At this time, the input/output device control unit IOC controls the operation panel OP.
In addition to enabling key operations, display on the display device DIS, and printout using the printer PR, the scanner LS
C, Activate CSC.

Therefore, each ball rental machine BL1 to BLn and each ball counter BC
Data 1 to BCm are now given to the data path DB, that is, the arithmetic control unit CPU.

Therefore, the display key DK (DK1
~DK5), print keys PK (PKI~PK5), numerical keys NK, etc., each desired data is displayed and printed on the display device DIS and printer PR.

Next, let us assume that the operation key OK on the operation panel OP is turned to the LOCK position for locking operation.

At this time, the lids OL and SL of the housing HB are both locked with the locks L1 and L2.

Further, a desired time (for example, the time after closing) is set by the time setting switch TS1 of the timer TM.

Further, at this time, key operations on the operation panel OP and data input from the arithmetic control unit CPU to the display DIS are prohibited by the input/output device control unit IOC in response to the LOCK signal.

Therefore, when this operation key OK is set to LOCK, external operations or data confirmation from the outside cannot be performed.

Here, when the clock section CL of the timer TM reaches the set time, a timer-on signal is derived from the timer TM.

Therefore, the input/output device control unit IOC activates only the printer PR, and the printer PR prints out data.

This data printout is, for example, for n ball rental equipment BL.
1 to BLn each number of rental balls (or sales amount), total number of rental balls (or total sales amount), m exchange ball counters BC1 ~
BCm's number of exchanged balls (or exchange amount), total number of exchanged balls (or total exchange amount), profit (total sales amount - total exchange amount), pitching rate (total number of exchanged balls / total number of rental balls) ) are performed automatically in sequence.

Therefore, input/output device control unit IOC or arithmetic control unit C
In the PU, a program (ROM in the memory ME) for achieving the above-described automatic control is specified based on the LOCK signal and the timer-on signal.

As described above, the paper PAP on which each data is printed out by the printer PR sequentially enters the collection box CB disposed inside the housing HB and is collected.

Furthermore, when this series of printouts (material creation) is completed, the timer TM is automatically turned off.

As described above, according to this embodiment, specific effects as described below can be achieved.

(1) Since a program timer is built-in and only the printer is automatically activated by the timer-on signal, tabulated data for the game hall can be reliably created even when the administrator of the device is absent.

(2) Since the keyboard or display is disabled by locking the operation keys, external operations can be prohibited;
Data will not be leaked to outsiders during aggregation work.

(3) Printed out papers are stored in a collection box (inside the casing), and the lid (casing) is locked (with a special key held by the administrator), further preventing data leakage.

The following may be considered as an embodiment of the present invention.

That is, a program timer having two independent programs is used, one program controls the power supply of the apparatus on and off, and the other program controls the data printing time.

Furthermore, two program timers are used, one of which controls the power supply, and the other program timer which controls data printing.

In this way, for example, at the first set time t1, the power is turned on and this device is put into operation, and at the subsequent set times t2, t3...tn, each data is sent to the printer PR. Print it out, turn off the power at the last set time tE, and clear all data.

Of course, this data can be cleared after the data has been printed after the closing time.

As described above, according to the present invention, in the normal processing mode, displaying and printing of processed data by external operations is possible, while in secret processing mode, displaying and printing of processed data by external operations is prohibited, and a predetermined When the processing time comes, only the processing data is printed automatically, so when the administrator is at the gaming hall, the processing data can be displayed and printed at any time by external operation.
When the administrator is absent, leakage of processed data to outsiders can be prevented.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a business administration system for a game hall as an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic sectional view thereof. FIG. 3 is an illustrative view showing the operation panel and display panel. FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, HB is the housing, TM is the timer, PR is the printer, CB is the collection box, OL, SL are the lids, L1, L2
is a lock, OK is an operation key, OK and DK1 to DK6 are display keys, PK and PK1 to PK5 are print keys, and DIS is a display.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A game hall business management device for managing data representing the operating status of each terminal device in a game hall where terminal devices including a plurality of game machines are installed, comprising: data processing means for performing predetermined processing based on data representing the operating state of the terminal device input from the terminal device; at least key input means for specifying an output mode of the processed data processed by the data processing means; Display means for displaying the processed data in response to a command to display the processed data by the key input means; and display means for displaying the processed data on paper in response to a command to print the processed data by the key input means. a printing means for printing; a mode switching means for selectively switching the operation mode to either a normal processing mode or a secret processing mode; a timekeeping means for counting the current time; a processing time for presetting a processing time in the secret processing mode. setting means, first control means for activating the display means and the printing means in response to the mode switching means being switched to the normal processing mode, and the mode switching means switching to the secret processing mode. in response to the fact that the current time is other than the processing time, disabling the display means and the printing means;
A business management device for a gaming hall, comprising a second control means that activates only a printing means when the current time reaches a processing time, and causes the printing means to print the processing data.