JPH0642915B2 - Card-type pattern matching game machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY In the present invention, a player arbitrarily stops a plurality of rotating bodies on which several kinds of symbols and symbols are drawn, and a winning coin is provided depending on the matching state of the symbols at that time. The present invention relates to a game device of a type that does not use coins in a game device for matching symbols such as a slot machine of a type.

Conventional technology As a conventional game device for matching symbols (slot machine degree), insert a coin from the coin slot, pull the lever etc. to rotate the rotating body with the design, and the design when the rotating body stops There is known a type in which a large number of coins are awarded as winning coins in accordance with the matching state of.

With this type, when playing, you insert coins from the coin insertion slot to play the game, and at the time of payment, take coins including winning coins to the prize exchange and exchange them. There is.

However, in the case of the symbol matching game device such as the conventional slot machine, there are the following inconveniences for the player and the device provider.

Since the player uses the coin system, he / she must insert each coin in the coin tray from the coin slot, and must also carry a large amount of coins to the prize exchange when making payment. There is an inconvenience.

Further, for the device provider, since it is necessary to store coins in each game machine in advance, the coin discharge amount becomes too large depending on the game machine, and the coins run short. In this case, there is an inconvenience that it is necessary to stop playing and store coins.

Furthermore, it is necessary for the player to monitor not to use coins of other companies or fake coins, or to count the carried coins at the prize exchange place and then exchange them for goods. I need labor.

Since the used coins fall on the floor and come into contact with various people's hands, it is necessary to wash the coins every day in order to keep the coins clean.

Therefore, in view of the drawbacks of the conventional technique, the present invention aims to provide a device that eliminates the use of coins, which are indispensable for conventional games, and does not require operations such as transportation, cleaning, exchange, and counting. To do.

Means for Solving the Problems That is, the present invention, a plurality of display bodies having a pattern drawn on an endless belt is mounted in parallel in a row, and the traveling control of these display bodies is performed by a drive motor controlled by a control circuit. In the device configured to perform, the control circuit, a magnetic card reader, a card identification circuit that identifies the data read by the reader, a CPU to which the data of the card identification circuit is transmitted, and a connection to the CPU. An operation circuit that inputs and outputs information about operation inputs such as participation in the game, play and end, and operation output to the score display and printer to and from the CPU, and a player connected to the operation circuit. Connected with the CPU, the printer that gives the score display and the player's score at the end,
A random number circuit that receives multiple random number data from the CPU and sends start / stop signals to the motor drive circuit, and a running control of the motor that drives the endless belt by the pulse signal oscillated from the CPU and the random number pulse transmitted from the random number circuit From the motor drive circuit that performs the above, the position detection means that detects the reference position for each rotation of the endless belt, and the determination circuit that determines the matching state of the symbols when the display body is stopped and inputs the determination result to the CPU. A plurality of endless belts in which the display body has holes at equal intervals at both ends, a pair of belt pulleys for suspending each endless belt, and holes for each endless belt arranged in the center between the pulleys. This object is achieved by a card-type symbol matching game device configured with a plurality of gears that mesh with each other.

Operation In the device according to the present invention, the prepaid card purchased by paying money in advance is inserted into the card reading device.
Then, the reading device confirms the authenticity of the card and then displays the balance on the display.

The player looks at the displayed balance and credits the play cost for several times as the play price (presses the credit button).

Next, when the player presses the play button instead of inserting the conventional coin, the credit is subtracted only once at the same time, but the endless belt of the display body on which the design of the game device is drawn starts to rotate. And the player presses the stop button of each display arbitrarily, the endless belt of the display stops,
A pattern appears on the display.

The number of pulses is canceled based on the detection result of the position detection means that detects the reference position for each one rotation of the endless belt, and the determination circuit collates the matching state of symbols at the time of stop or the state of the winning combination based on the number of pulses after cancellation. However, when they match or when the winning combination is achieved, the victory points are added as credits. In this way, the game progresses when the player operates the play button and the stop button of the display body,
The number of credits will increase or decrease accordingly.

And if the player wants to stop playing, he can press the settlement button, and the number of credits that has been credited so far will be output to the printer, so take this output sheet to the prize exchange. .

Since the display body of the present invention is composed of the endless belt, the belt pulley, and the gear, the display body is perpendicular to the line of sight and is easy to see. Furthermore, since the rotation of the belt is meshed with the hole drilled in the endless belt and the gear,
The endless belt will rotate according to the number of pulses transmitted from the CPU without slipping.

Example The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to an example shown in the drawings.

In the figure, 1 is a card type slot machine which is one of the card type game devices according to the present invention, and a display window for symbols drawn on a symbol display body in the center of the slot machine 1.
2a, 2b, 2c are provided.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a card insertion port of a card reading device 42 of the apparatus. The card inserted through the insertion port 4 is read by the apparatus 42, and the balance remaining on the card is displayed on the display 6.

Reference numeral 8 denotes an order button for operating the remaining balance in the card. When the order button 8 is pressed, credited points and the like are displayed on the credit display 10.

Reference numeral 12 is a play button for the player to shift to play, and when the play button 12 is pressed once, the display on the credit display 10 is decremented by 1 point, and the device is ready for play.

14 is a start button for rotating and starting the endless belt of the symbol display body described later, and 16a, 16b, 16c are stop buttons for the player to arbitrarily stop the rotating symbol display bodies of the respective rows. is there. 18 is a settlement button for the player to settle after the game ends.
The score settled by the push is printed out by the printer 62, and the credited score is output from the output port 20.

The symbol display body in the embodiment is of a type in which three rows of endless belts are set in tandem. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the mechanism of each display body is divided into three parts by each partition plate 23 which is assembled and set between the base 21 and the upper plate 22 at a required interval. In the central portion of the plate 23, a stepping motor 30 controlled by a motor drive circuit 54, a gear 32 connected to the drive shaft of the motor 30 and having feed teeth arranged on the outer periphery thereof,
A pair of belt pulleys 26, 28 arranged above and below 32,
A large number of feed holes 36 are drilled on both sides, and patterns for a large number of pieces are arranged, and an endless belt 34 suspended between the gear 32 and both pulleys 26 and 28, and an orbit of the endless belt 34. It is basically unitized from the position detecting means 25a, 25b, 25c installed at the required positions. By the rotation of the gear 30 by the stepping motor 30, the endless belt 34 is stably and continuously rotated while maintaining the meshing state of the feed dog and the hole 36, and in this process, the position detecting means 25a, 25b, 25c make one rotation of the belt 34. Hole provided at each reference position
It is configured to detect the passage of 38 and reset (cancel) the number of pulses of the pulse detection circuits 60a, 60b, 60c. The upper and lower belt pulleys 26 and 28 are of the same diameter with flanges for preventing lateral shake of the endless belt 34 provided at both ends thereof, and are pivotally supported by a shaft 24 passed between the partition plates 23. The gear 32 has a diameter larger than those of the pulleys 26 and 28, and the holes of the endless belt 34 are formed on both sides of the outer circumference thereof.
A number of teeth that can engage the 36 are evenly spaced.

FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram showing the entire device, 40 is an electronic control circuit for controlling the operation of the entire device, and the control circuit 40 identifies the data read by the card reading device 42. A card identification circuit 44, a CPU 46 to which the card data identified by the identification circuit 44 is transmitted, an operation circuit 48 connected to the CPU 46 for controlling the operation of each button of the order button 8, play button 12, and settlement button 18. , C.
The random number generated from the PU 46 is transmitted to the motor drive circuit 54 and the start button 14 and the stop button 16 of the rotating body are transmitted.
A random number circuit 52 for controlling a, 16b, 16c, and a motor drive circuit for supplying current to the stepping motor 30 of the belt drive mechanism of each row based on the pulse generated by the CPU 46.
54 and a discriminating circuit 56 for collating the matching state of the symbols when the belt drive mechanism is stopped.

The discrimination circuit 56 uses a stepping motor 30 which is a drive motor.
AND gates 58a, 58b, 58c for performing a logical product of the pulse supplied to the CPU and the pulse oscillated from the CPU 46,
Each endless belt 3 connected to the AND gates 58a, 58b, 58c
It is connected to pulse number measuring circuits 60a, 60b, 60c for counting the number of pulses after the clear signal transmitted from the position detecting means 25a, 25b, 25c provided at the end of 4, and the discrimination circuit 56 is preliminarily set. It is configured to judge the coincidence state of the symbols stopped in the display windows 2a, 2b, 2c from the relationship between the positional relationship of the symbols drawn on the input endless belt and the pulse number. In addition, 62 is a printer.

In the slot machine of the embodiment according to the present invention having the above-described structure, the game is played in the flow shown in the flowchart of FIG. First, a prepaid card is inserted from the card insertion slot 4 of the card reading device 42.

Then, the card identification circuit 44 determines the authenticity of the card, reads the balance of the card, and displays the amount on the balance display 6.

The player looks at the display 6 and confirms that there is a balance, and then presses the order button 8 instead of inserting the money.
Then, a predetermined amount is subtracted from the record of the balance of the card, and a predetermined score is credited to the credit display 10 of the slot machine.

When the player feels that the credits are low by looking at the display on the credit display 10, the order button 8 is pressed again and the credits are added accordingly.

Next, the player can enter the game by pressing the play button 12.

Then, when the player presses the start button 14, each of the endless belts 34 of the three rows of pattern display bodies starts to rotate individually,
The player can stop the endless belt 34 by pressing the stop buttons 16a, 16b, 16c.

The stop of the endless belt 34 is not performed immediately but at the time when the stop buttons 16a, 16b, 16c are pressed.
Stepping motor corresponding to the random number oscillated from CPU46
Let's assume that 30 is set to stop after rotating.

And the state of the design of each endless belt 34, each endless belt 34
A hole 38 is provided at the end of the position detecting means 25a, 25b,
25c, the number of pulses supplied from the motor drive circuit 54 to the stepping motor 30 between the passage of the hole 38 and the stop of the endless belt 34 is measured by the pulse number measuring circuits 60a, 6a.
It is configured such that the measurement is performed at 0b and 60c, and the determination circuit 56 determines from the measured value.

Therefore, when the endless belt 34 is stopped, the state in which the symbols are aligned is determined, and if they match, a predetermined score is added to the credit as a win, and if they do not match, only the play amount is subtracted from the credit, and the game is played again. It will be ready.

Then, the player can play the game and add credits by pressing the play button 12 again.

When the player desires to end the game, the game is ended by pressing the settlement button 18, and the credit points that have been credited so far are totaled and output by the printer 62 in a predetermined format and the card is returned. To be done.

If the player brings the output score ticket to the prize exchange place, the player can exchange it with a prize corresponding to the score.

In this embodiment, the position detecting means is configured to make the hole 38 at one end of the endless belt and detect the hole 38, but the present invention is not limited to this.
As shown in the figure, it is composed of a gear 64 having a number of teeth n mounted on the drive shaft of a stepping motor 30 and a gear 66 having a number of teeth of 2n, for example, which meshes with the gear 64. One end of the gear 66 is projected in the outer peripheral direction. The unit 68 may be configured to oscillate a clear signal to the pulse number measuring circuits 60a, 60b, 60c when the position detecting unit 70 including a photo sensor is passed.

That is, in the position detecting mechanism shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the motor 30
On the premise that the gear 32 for the endless belt 34 is connected to the drive shaft of, the gear ratio of both gears 64, 66 (1: 2)
2 rotations of the motor 30 and the gear 64 due to the relationship of
66 is rotated once, and the projecting portion 68 (corresponding to the index) is detected by the position detecting means 70 once.

With such a configuration, the vibration of the position detecting unit due to the rotation can be suppressed to be smaller than that in the case where the endless belt is perforated, so that the detection can be performed more accurately.

Further, although the credit is subtracted after the game is finished in the present embodiment, the credit may be subtracted before the game is started.

Although the present embodiment has described the slot machine, it goes without saying that not only the slot machine but also the pachinko machine can be applied to the pachinko machine by circulating the pachinko ball inside the game machine. It can also be used for the games used.

Furthermore, if you connect the CPU of each card type slot machine to the central computer of the store, sales of each unit,
It goes without saying that the usage status of cards can be easily aggregated.

Effects As described above, the card-type symbol matching game device according to the present invention does not use coins as compared with the conventional coin-insertion type game device, so management of coins is unnecessary and personnel can be reduced. It saves the player the trouble of inserting coins one by one and can concentrate on the game.

Furthermore, if the CPU of the game console and the central computer are connected, the usage status and sales of all the stores can be easily aggregated, so that the management of the store can be made more efficient.

Further, the display body of the device according to the present invention is composed of an endless belt, a belt pulley, and a gear, and can rotate the display body in a stable and accurate manner, and is a device compared to the rotary drum type. The depth size in the front-back direction can be reduced. Further, the pattern appearing in the display window becomes easier to see as compared with that of the drum system, and more patterns can be drawn as compared with the drum system.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a front view showing the entire apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view in which a part of a belt drive mechanism is cut away, and FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line III-III in FIG. , FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram, FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a usage state of the apparatus, FIG. 6 is a side view showing another embodiment of the position detecting means according to the present invention,
FIG. 7 is a front view showing the meshed state of the gears. 1 …… Card type slot machine 2a, 2b, 2c …… Design display window, 4 …… Card insertion slot 6 …… Display, 8 …… Order button 10 …… Credit display 12 …… Play button, 14 …… Start button 16a, 16b, 16c ...... Stop button 18 ...... Adjustment button, 20 ...... Output port 21 ...... Base, 22 ...... Upper plate 23 ...... Partition plate, 24 ...... Axis 25a, 25b, 25c ...... Position detection means 26, 28 …… Belt pulley, 32 …… Gear 30 …… Stepping motor, 34 …… Endless belt 38 …… Hole, 40 …… Control circuit 42 …… Card reader, 44 …… Identification circuit 46 …… CPU, 48 …… Operation circuit 52 …… Random number circuit, 54 …… Motor drive circuit 56 …… Discrimination circuit, 58a, 58b, 58c …… AND gate 60a, 60b, 60c …… Pulse number measurement circuit 62 …… Printer, 64, 66 …… Gear 68 …… Projection, 70 …… Position detection means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An apparatus configured so that a plurality of rows of display bodies each having a design drawn on an endless belt are mounted in parallel, and the display bodies are travel-controlled by a drive motor controlled by a control circuit. In the above, the control circuit includes a magnetic card reader, a card identification circuit for identifying data read by the reader, a CPU to which the data of the card identification circuit is transmitted, and a game connected to the CPU to participate in a game.
An operation circuit that inputs and outputs information about operation inputs such as play and end and operation output to the score display and printer to and from the CPU, and a score display that displays the score of the player connected to the operation circuit And a printer that gives the player's score at the end, and a CPU that is connected to the CPU
Random circuit that receives a plurality of random number data from the device and sends start / stop signals to the motor drive circuit, and the running control of the motor that drives the endless belt by the pulse signal oscillated from the CPU and the random number pulse transmitted from the random number circuit. It consists of a motor drive circuit to perform, position detection means to detect the reference position for each rotation of the endless belt, and a discrimination circuit to discriminate the coincidence state of the symbols when the display body is stopped and input the discrimination result to the CPU. A plurality of endless belts having holes at equal intervals at both ends of the display member, a pair of belt pulleys for suspending the endless belts, and holes of the endless belts arranged in the center between the pulleys mesh with each other. A card-type symbol matching game device characterized by being configured with a plurality of gears. 2. The card type symbol matching game apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the drive motor is a stepping motor.