JPH0241988B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a pachinko machine control device, and more particularly to a method for detecting an abnormality in the counting of incoming balls, so-called out balls, in a pachinko machine.

[Technology background]

First, the general configuration of a pachinko machine control system will be explained. FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an example of a conventional pachinko machine control system based on the Nile system. In the figure, 1, 1' are pachinko machines, 2,
2' is the upper tray, 3 and 3' are the out ball discharge ports, 4 is the supply pool, 5 is the recovery pool, 6 and 6' are the ball output sensors,
7 and 7' represent ball entry sensors, and 8 represents a pachinko machine control device.

The upper trays 2, 2' of each pachinko machine 1, 1' hold a predetermined number of balls, for example 400, at the time of opening.
It is supplied from supply pool 4. The ball output sensors 6, 6' are connected to the upper tray 2, 6' for the customer to play the game.
When using 2' balls, the sensor is used to count the number of balls, and is usually composed of mechanical contacts, and its detection signal is sent to the pachinko machine control device 8.

On the other hand, the out balls are discharged from the out ball discharge ports 3 and 3' to the collection pool 5, but at this time, they are detected by the incoming ball sensors 7 and 7', respectively, and the detection signal is sent to the pachinko machine control device 8. It will be done.

The pachinko machine control device 8 controls the addition of balls to the upper tray and the stopping of balls based on signals from the ball output sensor and ball entry sensor of each pachinko machine. For example, balls are added in units of 400, and the game ends when the number of balls acquired by the customer reaches 1200.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a stopping control mechanism in the pachinko machine control device 8. In the figure, 1 and 1' are pachinko machines, 6 is a ball output sensor, 7 is an incoming ball sensor, 8 is a pachinko machine control device, 9 is an out ball counter, 10 is an incoming ball counter, 11 is a subtraction unit, and 12 is a comparison unit. Part, 13
14 is a stopping constant storage unit, 14 is a stopping control unit, and 15 is a stopping constant storage unit.
1 represents a display control unit, and 16 represents a CRT. Next, the operating functions will be briefly explained.

Pachinko machine ball output sensor 6 and ball entry sensor 7
The detection signals of the balls outputted from the ball counter 9 are input to the ball counter 9 and the ball counter 10, respectively, and the number of balls played and the number of balls entered are separately accumulated.

The subtracting unit 11 subtracts the number B of balls entered in the ball counter 10 from the number A of balls played in the ball counter 9, and calculates the difference between the two, that is, the number of balls acquired by the customer C=A−B. The comparing unit 12 compares the number of balls acquired by this customer with the number of balls D to stop hitting that is stored in advance in the stopping constant storage unit 13, for example, the above-mentioned 1200, and when the number C of balls acquired becomes CD. , sends a signal to the stopping control section 14. As a result, the stop-stopping control unit 14 performs a recording process to mark the pachinko machine as a stop-stopping machine on an internal pachinko machine management table (not shown), and also displays information on the CRT via the display control unit 15.
16 displays that the pachinko machine 1 has stopped playing. In addition, it is also possible to control so as to prohibit the subsequent addition of balls.

The pachinko machine control device 8 performs the same control as the pachinko machine 1 for all other pachinko machines (not shown).

However, with the above-mentioned conventional device, there is no way to detect if the ball entry sensor 7 stops working for some reason, so in such a case, the ball entry counter will not be activated regardless of the number of balls acquired by the customer. The contents of 10 are always zero, and when the number of balls put out by the ball counter 9 reaches the number of balls to be stopped (1200 in the above example), the comparison unit 12 and the stop control unit 14 are activated to perform the stop processing. There was a problem with this, which caused some inconvenience.

[Object and structure of the invention]

An object of the present invention is to detect an abnormal operation of a ball entering sensor in a pachinko machine control device and to prevent the occurrence of erroneous stoppages. Therefore, in the present invention, we focus on the fact that it is generally impossible for the number of balls to be added to zero when balls are being added to the upper tray, and we have developed a pachinko machine that controls a plurality of pachinko machines. In the machine control system, a means for counting balls put out and balls put in for each pachinko machine;
means for subtracting the number of balls in from the counted number of balls out;
a means for comparing the subtraction result with a predetermined number of balls to stop playing, a means for instructing the pachinko machine to stop playing when a match is detected, and a means for instructing the pachinko machine to stop playing when the match is detected; The present invention is characterized in that it includes a means for checking the number of balls and displaying a ball landing abnormality when the value is zero.

[Embodiments of the invention]

The details of the present invention will be explained below with reference to Examples.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus to which the method of the present invention is applied. In the figure, 1 and 1' are pachinko machines,
6 is a ball output sensor, 7 is an incoming ball sensor, 9 is an out ball counter, 10 is an incoming ball counter, 11 is a subtraction unit, 12
1 is a comparison unit, 13 is a stop constant storage unit, 14 is a stop control unit, 15 is a display control unit, 16 is a CRT, 1
7 represents a ball landing abnormality detection section based on the present invention.
The basic functions of the other components except the ball landing abnormality detection section 17 are the same as those of the conventional example explained in FIGS. 1 and 2.

The operational functions of the ball landing abnormality detection section 17 are as follows.

The comparison unit 12 compares the number of balls C acquired by the customer with the number of balls D stored in the stop-stop constant storage unit 13, and when a CD is detected, the comparison unit 12 controls the stop-stop control unit 14 and the ball-in abnormality detection unit. 17 and activate each one.

The stop control unit 14 via the display control unit 15
The number of the pachinko machine and the stoppage are displayed on the CRT, and the use of the pachinko machine is stopped. On the other hand, the ball landing abnormality detection unit 17 reads the content B of the ball landing counter 10 and detects whether or not B=0. If B≠0, it is determined that there is no abnormality in the incoming ball sensor 7, nothing is done, and B=
In the case of 0, the CRT
16 to display that there is an abnormality in the ball entering sensor 7 of the pachinko machine.

In addition, in the case of B=0, the stoppage control unit 14 may be notified, the stoppage display may be canceled, and additional supply of balls may be continued.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, a malfunction of the input sensor can be easily detected in the early stage of opening the store by checking the value of the ball entry counter when a stop occurs, and it is possible to take corrective action.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional pachinko machine control system based on the Nile system, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the pachinko machine control device, and FIG. 3 is a diagram of a device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a pachinko machine, 6 is a ball output sensor, 7 is an incoming ball sensor, 8 is a pachinko machine control device, 9 is an outgoing ball counter, 10 is an incoming ball counter, 11 is a subtraction unit,
12 is a comparison section, 13 is a stop constant storage section, 14 is a stop control section, 15 is a display control section, 16 is a CRT,
Reference numeral 17 represents a ball landing abnormality detection section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a pachinko machine control system that controls a plurality of pachinko machines, there is a means for counting the number of balls put out and balls put in for each pachinko machine, a means for subtracting the number of balls put in from the number of balls put out, and a means for calculating the result of the subtraction in advance. means for detecting a match by comparing with a predetermined number of balls to stop playing, means for instructing the pachinko machine to stop playing when a match is detected, and checking the number of balls entered when the above match is detected. , and means for displaying a ball landing abnormality when the value is zero.