JPH0630680B2 - Electronic management device for amusement park - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a pachinko machine using small balls as a game medium, an arrangement ball machine using coins and medals, a medal game machine such as a sparrow ball pachinko machine, and the like. With this kind of gaming machine,
The present invention relates to an electronic management device for a game hall, which manages a ball lending machine for lending a game medium for that purpose.

[Prior Art] In a conventional electronic management device of this type, a ball detector is provided in each of the gaming machines, the number of balls is detected, a ball detection signal is output, and a ball monitoring unit is operated from the ball detector. , The number of balls of each gaming machine is stored and calculated, and the number of balls is recorded.

Also, in the case of a ball lending machine for lending a game medium, a coin detector is provided in each ball lending machine and outputs a signal of 1 pulse for every 100 yen of money, or 1 pulse for each type of currency. The amount of money of each ball lending machine is stored, calculated and recorded by inputting the signal from the money detector by the amount monitoring means of the electronic management device.

The number of balls and the amount of money are used as data for managing the gaming machine.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, when the ball detector fails, the ball detection signal may not be detected due to disconnection, fraud, etc., despite the presence of a ball. In such a case, in the game machine,
It becomes difficult to adjust the number of balls because the number of balls cannot be known.

Also, the coin lending machine may not detect the currency detection signal due to intentional fraud, and in this case,
It becomes difficult to manage the amount of money because the amount of money for the ball lending machine cannot be known.

Then, as a result of these, it becomes impossible to appropriately manage the game hall, which is detrimental to the management of the game hall.

For this reason, it is necessary to quickly find a ball detector or a coin detector that has failed, but it is not easy to find this failure, and if it can not be found for a long time, the above-mentioned disadvantages will occur. was there.

The present invention has been made to solve such problems.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic management device for a game hall that can quickly detect a failure of a ball detector or a coin detector and can efficiently manage the game hall.

[Means for Solving the Problem] The gist of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned object is to attach one terminal management device to each of a plurality of gaming machines and ball lending machines, and to provide a plurality of the terminals. In an electronic management device that centrally manages the management device by an integrated management device, each of the gaming machines detects at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls, and outputs a ball detection signal that is a bias signal to a ball detection signal line. Each of the ball lending machines comprises a coin detector that detects insertion of coins and outputs a coin detection signal that is a bias signal to the coin detection signal line, and the terminal. The management device inputs the ball detection signal of the plurality of gaming machines through the ball detection signal line, stores and calculates at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls of the missing gaming machine, and the number of balls Record terminal A terminal means for inputting the currency detection signals of the plurality of ball lending machines through the monitoring means and the currency detection signal line, recording and calculating the deposit amount to each ball lending machine, and recording the amount. Based on the ball detection signal of the monitoring means and the plurality of gaming machines, a disconnection abnormality signal is output for the corresponding gaming machine, and based on the currency detection signal of the plurality of ball lending machines, a response is made. And a terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means for outputting a disconnection abnormality signal for the ball lending machine, wherein the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means switches the disconnection detection mode and the signal detection mode in a time division manner, and the ball detection signal line Alternatively, it is a means for detecting disconnection of the currency detection signal line, is connected in series to the ball detection signal line or the currency detection signal line, and detects the ball for the ball detector and the terminal ball monitoring means. Signal line Connected in series, connected to a capacitor and a resistor via the ball detection signal line, the ball detector and the terminal ball monitoring means are connected in parallel to the ball detection signal line, the parallel connection One end of is connected in series to the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means via the ball detection signal line, and the other end of the parallel connection is connected to the capacitor and the resistor via the ball detection signal line. The resistor receives a discharge pulse and generates a disconnection detection signal, is connected in parallel to the ball detection signal line, and one end of the parallel connection is the ball detector and the ball detection signal line via the ball detection signal line. The terminal management device is connected to the terminal ball monitoring means, the other end of the parallel connection is grounded, and the integrated management device is disconnected based on the disconnection detection signals of all gaming machines and ball lending machines via the terminal management device. Manage normally resides in the electronic management system of the corresponding game machine and game hall, characterized in that it comprises an overall disconnection abnormality monitoring means for recording a disconnection abnormality for the ball lending machine.

[Operation] The ball detector detects at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls of the gaming machine and outputs a ball detection signal. When the disconnection abnormality monitoring means does not receive the ball detection signal, the disconnection abnormality signal is output. Is output.

The capacitor is precharged by the bias voltage input via the ball detection signal line. When the discharge pulse is applied to the capacitor in the disconnection detection mode, the capacitor is instantly discharged. here,
If disconnection occurs, the capacitor is not recharged and the discharge state is detected as the disconnection detection signal. On the contrary, when the disconnection does not occur, the capacitor is recharged, and the charge waveform based on the time constant determined by the resistor and the capacitor is detected as the disconnection detection signal.

In this way, the disconnection abnormality of the gaming machine can be easily found.

Even in the case of the disconnection abnormality of the ball lending machine, it is possible to easily detect the disconnection abnormality as in the case of the gaming machine.

When the ball detection signal or the coin detection signal is the bias signal, the disconnection abnormality monitoring unit outputs the disconnection abnormality signal when the bias signal is 0 or 1.

When centrally managing a plurality of gaming machines and ball lending machines, it is possible to detect disconnection abnormalities in all the gaming machines and ball lending machines.

[Example] An example in which the present invention is applied to a pachinko machine will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of the game arcade.

A plurality of islands 2 are arranged in the game arcade.

As shown in FIG. 5, each island 2 includes a plurality of gaming machines 1, a ball lending machine 3, and a prize ball counting machine 4.

As shown in FIG. 1, for each of the four gaming machines 1 and four ball lending machines 3, one terminal management device 5 is attached.
One ball lending machine has the function of two.

The terminal management device 5 of each island 2 is centrally managed by the integrated management device 6.

Each of the gaming machines 1 is provided with a ball detector 29 which detects at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls and outputs a ball detection signal which is a bias signal to the ball detection signal line 20.

Further, each of the ball lending machines 3 is provided with a currency detector 30 which detects insertion of money into the ball lending machine 3 and outputs a currency detection signal which is a bias signal to the currency detection signal line.

The terminal management device 5 is provided with a terminal ball monitoring means 71, a terminal price monitoring means 73, and a terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72.

The terminal ball monitoring means 71 inputs the ball detection signal of the four gaming machines via the ball detection signal line 20, stores and calculates at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls of each gaming machine 1, and the ball It is a means of recording numbers.

The terminal amount monitoring means 73 inputs the currency detection signals of the four ball lending machines 3 through the currency detection signal line, and the respective ball lending machines 3
It is a means for storing and calculating the amount of money deposited into and recording the amount. The deposit amount may be the number of balls corresponding to the amount.

The terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72 determines whether or not the ball detection signal of the four gaming machines is 0 (or 1), and when it is 0 (or 1), the ball detection signal line 20 of the corresponding gaming machine 1 is detected. It is a means for outputting a disconnection abnormality signal. Further, the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72 determines whether or not the currency detection signals of the four ball lending machines 3 are 0 (or 1), and when it is 0 (or 1), the corresponding ball lending machine 3 is detected. Is a means for outputting a disconnection abnormality signal.

Further, the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72 uses the ball detection signal line 20.
The coin detection signal line is switched between the disconnection detection mode and the signal detection mode in a time division manner to detect disconnection of the ball detection signal line 20 and disconnection of the currency detection signal line.

As shown in FIG. 7, the ball detector 29 and the terminal ball monitoring means 7
1 in parallel, in series with the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72,
It is connected. That is, the ball detector 29 is connected to the ball detector 29 and the terminal ball monitoring means 71 at points 21 and 22 via the driver 51 and the connector 52.

The terminal ball monitoring means 71 includes a connector 55, a point 23,
Diode 57, points 24, 25, 26, resistor 6
1. Terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72 having a driver 62, etc.
It is connected to the. Therefore, the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72
Is connected to the terminal ball monitoring means 71 and the ball detector 29.

A diode 56 is connected to the point 23,
The output 33 is led to the point 24 via the point 27 and the diode 58. The resistor 63 and the power supply 64 are connected to the point 27, and the connection points 25 and 26 are connected.
A capacitor 59 and a resistor 60 are connected to each. Furthermore, at points 21 and 22, the ball detector 29
Is provided.

The terminal management device 5, specifically, as shown in FIG.
The signal input unit 151, the control unit 152, and the memory 153
The signal output unit 154 and the network control unit 155 constitute the above means.

The signal input unit 151 inputs a detection signal from the gaming machine 1 and the ball lending machine 3 and sends a signal to the control unit 152.

The control unit 152 responds to the signal by inputting the signal input unit 151.
Data is input to the memory 153. After that, the control unit 152 obtains the stored data from the memory 153, performs arithmetic processing, and stores the data in the memory 153.

Then, the signal output unit 154 outputs the data obtained from the memory 153 as an output signal in response to the signal from the control unit 152.

Further, the network control unit 155 obtains data from the memory 153 according to the signal from the control unit 152.

The network control unit 155 communicates with the island controller unit 163 of the integrated management device 6.

In this way, the terminal management device 5 performs various signal detection and data processing, state management and control of gaming machines and the like, signal output to various external interfaces, output of supply signals, data transmission through the island network, and the like.

On the other hand, the integrated management device 6 is provided with a total ball monitoring means 81, a total price monitoring means 83, and a total disconnection abnormality monitoring means 82.

The total ball monitoring means 81 is means for recording the number of balls of all the gaming machines 1 and outputting the number of balls signal of all the gaming machines 1 via the terminal management device 5.

The total amount monitoring means 83 records the amount of money of all the ball lending machines 3 via the terminal management device 5, and all the ball lending machines 3
Is a means for outputting the monetary amount signal.

The comprehensive disconnection abnormality monitoring means 82 manages the disconnection abnormality of all the gaming machines 1 and the ball lending machines 3 via the terminal management device 5, and records the disconnection abnormality of the corresponding gaming machines 1 and ball lending machines 3. , A means for outputting a disconnection abnormality signal for the corresponding gaming machine 1 and ball lending machine 3.

The integrated management device 6 is, as shown in FIG.
Control unit 161, memory 162, island controller unit 1
63, the control panel 164, and the communication port unit 165 constitute the above means.

Then, processing, storage of data sent from the terminal management device 5, creation of display data on the control panel, creation of print data, acceptance and issuance of various control commands to the gaming machine 1, management of various constants, communication It controls ports and so on.

The control board 164, as shown in FIG.
1, an input unit 172, a display unit 173, and a printing unit 174.
And a display setting unit 174.

The display setting unit 174 outputs a display signal according to the number-of-balls signal from the total ball monitoring means 81 and the amount signal from the total amount monitoring means 83, and disconnects in accordance with the disconnection abnormality signal from the total disconnection abnormality monitoring means 82. Output the error display signal.

The display unit 173 displays the number of balls of each gaming machine 1 and the amount of money of each ball lending machine 3 according to the display signal and the disconnection abnormality display signal, and displays the gaming machine 1 and the ball lending machine 3 in which the disconnection abnormality occurred.

In addition, the control panel 164 requests control of each gaming machine 1 and ball lending machine 3, each gaming machine, ball lending machine, game hall status display,
It prints total data, reports abnormalities, reports abnormalities in ball lending machine sales data, and the like.

In the present invention, the "gaming machine" is, for example, a pachinko machine, an arrangement ball machine, a medal game machine such as a sparrow ball pachinko machine, or a pachinko machine of this type, and the "ball" is
For example, it refers to small balls used in a pachinko machine, coins and medals used in an arrangement ball machine, a sparrow ball pachinko machine, and the like, and other game media used in this type of pachinko machine. Further, the ball lending machine refers to a general large-sized ball lending machine or an inter-panel thin ball lending machine.

Next, the operation will be described.

As shown in FIG. 7, when a bias voltage is applied to (a), the ball detector 29 inputs the ball detection pulse signal of 1 by the terminal ball monitoring means 71 via the ball detection signal line 20. The ball detection pulse signal is a rectangular wave of 5 ms unit, which is in the disconnection detection mode when 0 V and 5 ms when the counting mode is +5 V.
Each mode is switched in units. The bias signal 101 in FIG. 10A, the signal 102 from the ball detector 29, and the count output 103 have the relationship shown in FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 8 to 10, when the bias voltage of +5 V is applied to (a), the signal level 1 counting mode is set. At this time, when the ball counter 29 detects at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls of the gaming machine 1 and is turned on and outputs a ball detection signal, the potential of (a) changes, and the change of this potential is caused by the terminal. It is input to the ball monitoring means 71 and the change is recorded in the terminal ball monitoring means 71 (step 41).

When (a) becomes 0 V (step 42), the signal level becomes 0
When the negative pulse of 100 μs is input to (b), the capacitor 59 is discharged through the diode 58 (step 43). As a result, the potentials at points 24, 25, 26 drop,
In (c), low level output is performed (step 44).

At this time, if the ball detection signal line 20 is not disconnected, the capacitor 59 is charged to the original potential within about 500 μs and returns, and since the signal level of the ball detection signal is 1, a disconnection abnormality signal is output. do not do. If it is broken,
Since the potential of the capacitor 59 remains discharged and the signal level of the ball detection signal is 0, the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 72 detects the disconnection and outputs the disconnection abnormality signal for the corresponding gaming machine 1 ( Step 4
5).

In this way, the disconnection abnormality of the gaming machine 1 can be easily found.

The currency detector 30, the currency detection signal line 30, and the terminal amount monitoring means 73 are the ball detector 29 and the ball detection signal line 2.
0, the disconnection is detected by the same circuit as the terminal ball monitoring means 71, so the description is omitted, but even in the case of the disconnection abnormality of the ball lending machine, the disconnection abnormality is easily found in the same manner as in the gaming machine. can do. However, in this case, the money detector 30 is turned on upon detecting the insertion of money into the ball lending machine 3 and outputs a money detection signal.

Further, the total disconnection abnormality monitoring means 82 manages the disconnection abnormality of all the gaming machines 1 and the ball lending machines 3 through the terminal management device 5, and detects the disconnection abnormality of the corresponding gaming machine 1 and the ball lending machine 3. It records and outputs a disconnection abnormality signal for the corresponding gaming machine 1 and ball lending machine 3.

In accordance with this, the display unit 173 displays the number of entered balls and the number of released balls of each gaming machine 1 and the amount of money of each ball lending machine 3 via the display setting unit 174, and the gaming machine 1 having the disconnection abnormality and The ball lending machine 3 is displayed.

In this way, centralized management makes it possible to easily detect disconnection abnormalities between all the gaming machines 1 and the ball lending machines 3, and the ball detector 29 and the coin detector 30.

The ball detector 29 may be composed of one or both of an incoming ball detector and an outgoing ball detector. Further, the terminal ball monitoring means 71 stores and calculates the number of entered balls,
It may be composed of one or both of an incoming-ball monitoring means for recording the number of balls and an outgoing-ball monitoring means for storing and calculating the number of outgoing balls to record the number of balls.

Although the method of detecting the bias signal is used as the method of detecting the disconnection, it is not limited to that method, and other methods, for example, detecting whether or not the ball detection signal is received,
A wire break may be detected when the wire is not detected.

[Effect of the Invention] According to the electronic management device for a game arcade of the present invention, the disconnection abnormality monitoring means detects the disconnection of the ball detection signal and outputs the disconnection abnormality signal, so that the disconnection abnormality of the gaming machine can be easily performed. Discover,
The abnormal gaming machine can be stopped and repaired.
The same applies to a ball lending machine. As a result, it is possible to prevent damage to the management of the game hall due to the disconnection abnormality, and to quickly manage the game hall efficiently.

Further, when centrally managing a plurality of gaming machines and ball lending machines, it is possible to detect a disconnection abnormality of each gaming machine and ball lending machine.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing an electronic management device of the present invention,
2 is a block diagram showing the functions of the terminal management device, FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the functions of the integrated management device, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the functions of the control panel of the integrated management device, and FIG. 5 is an island. FIG. 6, FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a game arcade, FIG. 7 is a circuit diagram for detecting disconnection, FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a procedure for detecting disconnection, FIG. 9 is a signal time chart, and FIG. 3 is a time chart showing the relationship between the bias signal, the detector signal, and the count output. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Gaming machine 2 ... Island 3 ... Ball lending machine 4 ... Premium ball counting machine 5 ... Terminal management device 6 ... Integrated management device 20 ... Ball detection signal line 29 ... Ball detector 30 ... Currency detector 71 ... Terminal ball monitoring means 72 ... Terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means 73 ... Terminal amount monitoring means 81 ... Comprehensive ball monitoring means 82 ... Comprehensive disconnection abnormality monitoring means 83 ... Comprehensive amount monitoring means

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An electronic management device in which one terminal management device is attached to each of a plurality of gaming machines and ball lending machines, and the plurality of terminal management devices are centrally managed by an integrated management device, each of the gaming machines. Is equipped with a ball detector that detects at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls, and outputs a ball detection signal, which is a bias signal, to the ball detection signal line. It comprises a coin detector that detects insertion and outputs a coin detection signal that is a bias signal to the coin detection signal line, wherein the terminal management device detects the balls of the plurality of gaming machines by the ball detection signal line. Inputting a signal, storing and calculating at least one of the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls of the missing gaming machine, and a terminal ball monitoring means for recording the number of balls, and a plurality of the plurality of units by the currency detection signal line. The currency of the ball lending machine Input the detection signal, record and calculate the amount of money paid to each ball lending machine, and the terminal amount monitor means for recording the amount, and based on the ball detection signal of the plurality of gaming machines A terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means for outputting a disconnection abnormality signal for the gaming machine, and for outputting a disconnection abnormality signal for the corresponding ball lending machine based on the currency detection signals of the plurality of ball lending machines. The terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means is a means for detecting disconnection of the ball detection signal line or the coin detection signal line by switching the disconnection detection mode and the signal detection mode in a time division manner, and the ball detection signal line or It is connected in series to the currency detection signal line, is connected in series to the ball detector and the terminal ball monitoring means via the ball detection signal line, and is a capacitor and a resistor via the ball detection signal line. Connected to The ball detector and the terminal ball monitoring means are connected in parallel to the ball detection signal line, and one end of the parallel connection is connected in series to the terminal disconnection abnormality monitoring means via the ball detection signal line. The other end of the parallel connection is connected to the capacitor and the resistor via the ball detection signal line, and the capacitor and the resistor generate a disconnection detection signal by receiving a discharge pulse. Connected in parallel to the signal line, one end of the parallel connection is connected to the ball detector and the terminal ball monitoring means via the ball detection signal line, the other end of the parallel connection is grounded, the integrated The management device manages the disconnection abnormality based on the disconnection detection signals of all the gaming machines and the ball lending machine via the terminal management device, and records the disconnection abnormality for the corresponding gaming machine and the ball lending machine. Game arcade electronic management apparatus, characterized in that it comprises an disconnection abnormality monitoring means.