JPH0677626B2 - Electronic management device for amusement park - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a pachinko machine that uses small balls as a game medium, an arrangement ball machine that uses coins and medals, a medal game machine such as a sparrow ball pachinko machine, and a slot. The present invention relates to an electronic management device for a game hall that can be applied to machines and other main pachinko machines, and more particularly to an electronic management device that manages these pachinko machines in a distributed manner.

[Prior Art] As a conventional electronic management device of this type, an empty contact is provided in a replenishing tray for supplying balls to a gaming machine, and when the empty contact is turned on, balls are automatically replenished. There is something.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, if balls are replenished after the replenishing tray becomes empty, the balls may not be replenished in time depending on the ball output rate, and the game machine may run out of balls. There was a problem that it could not be done.

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 arcade, which prevents a shortage of balls in a game machine even if the payout rate increases.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned object, the gist of the present invention is: 1 In each of a plurality of gaming machines, the incoming / outgoing balls for detecting the incoming and outgoing balls A ball detector and a replenishment device for replenishing balls to each gaming machine in response to a replenishment signal are provided, which is an electronic management device that manages the gaming machine, wherein Receiving the detection signal from the detector, it calculates the number of incoming and outgoing balls of each gaming machine at every predetermined time, and also calculates the ratio of the number of outgoing balls to the number of incoming balls, and outputs the output rate signal. It has a ball input / ball output monitoring means for outputting and a ball supply monitoring means for receiving the ball output rate signal and outputting a supply signal to the supply device at a predetermined number of times increased or decreased according to the ball output rate. This is an electronic management device for amusement halls.

2 Each of the plurality of gaming machines arranged is provided with an incoming / outgoing ball detector for detecting the incoming and outgoing balls, and a replenishing device for replenishing the balls to each gaming machine in response to a replenishment signal. Attaching one terminal management device for each of the plurality of gaming machines,
An electronic management device for centrally managing a plurality of the terminal management devices by an integrated management device, wherein the terminal management device receives a detection signal from the incoming / outgoing ball detectors of the plurality of gaming machines, and predetermined In addition to the incoming / outgoing terminal monitoring means for calculating the number of incoming and outgoing balls of each gaming machine and calculating the ratio of the number of outgoing balls to the number of incoming balls for each time, and outputting a winning rate signal. , A ball replenishment terminal monitoring means for outputting a replenishment signal to the replenishment device at a predetermined number of times that has been increased or decreased in response to the bet-out rate signal, and the integrated management device, Through a terminal management device, a ball input / ball output comprehensive monitoring means for storing the ball output rate of all gaming machines, and a ball capable of outputting a supply signal to the supply device via the terminal management device. Electronic management of a game hall characterized by having a comprehensive supply monitoring means It exists in the device.

[Operation] The pay-in / pay-out monitoring means calculates a pay-out rate which is a ratio of the number of pay-outs to the number of pay-in.

The ball replenishment monitoring means causes the replenishment device to replenish balls to the gaming machine at a predetermined number of times increased or decreased in accordance with the payout rate.

For this reason, when the payout rate becomes large, it is possible to prevent the gaming machine from running out of balls by replenishing the supply number of times according to the increase.

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

FIG. 6 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 is provided with a plurality of gaming machines 1, a ball lending machine 3 and a prize ball counting machine 4.

As shown in FIG. 1, for example, one terminal management device 5 is attached to each of the four gaming machines 1 and the four ball lending machines 3.

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

Each of the gaming machines 1 has a replenishing plate, and the incoming / outgoing ball detector 13
And a replenishing device 12 are provided.

The incoming and outgoing ball detector 13 detects the incoming and outgoing balls of the gaming machine,
It outputs a detection signal.

The replenishing tray stores the balls replenished by the replenishing device 12 and supplies the balls to the gaming machine 1.

An empty contact is provided in the supply tray.

The empty contact is turned on when the number of balls in the replenishing tray is small, and outputs a replenishing signal of the replenishing device 12.

The replenishing device 12 replenishes the replenishing tray with balls in response to the replenishing signal.

The terminal management device 5 is provided with a ball input / ball output terminal monitoring means 71 and a ball supply terminal monitoring means 72.

The incoming / outgoing terminal monitoring means 71 receives detection signals from the incoming / outgoing ball detectors of the four gaming machines 1, and at predetermined time intervals,
While calculating the number of incoming and outgoing balls of each gaming machine 1,
The ratio of the number of paid-out balls to the number of entered balls (ball-out rate) is calculated, and a ball-out rate signal is output.

Further, the incoming / outgoing terminal monitoring means 71 is composed of four game machines 1.
In response to the detection signal from the incoming / outgoing ball detector, the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls of each gaming machine 1 are calculated at predetermined time intervals, and the difference between the number of incoming balls and the number of outgoing balls is calculated. It is also possible to calculate the number and output the difference ball number signal.

The ball replenishment terminal monitoring means 72 receives the ball output rate signal from the ball input / ball output terminal monitoring means 71, and outputs the replenishment signal to the supply device 12 at a predetermined number of times increased or decreased according to the ball output rate.

Further, the ball supply terminal monitoring means 72 receives the difference ball number signal,
It is also possible to output the replenishment signal to the replenishment device at a predetermined number of times that has increased or decreased according to the number of balls left.

The terminal management device 5, specifically, as shown in FIG.
The signal input unit 151, the control unit 152, 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 causes the signal input unit 151 to input data to the memory 153 according to the signal. After that, the control unit 152
Obtain the stored data from the memory 153, perform arithmetic processing,
It is stored 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 incoming and outgoing coin monitoring means 81.
And a ball supply comprehensive monitoring means 82 are provided.

The incoming / outgoing total monitoring means 81 is means for storing the outgoing rate of all the gaming machines 1 via the terminal management device 5.

Further, the incoming / outgoing coin total monitoring means 81 can also store the number of difference balls of all the gaming machines 1 via the terminal management device 5.

The ball replenishment comprehensive monitoring means 82 is a means capable of outputting a replenishment signal to the replenishment device 12 via the terminal management device 5.

The integrated management device 6 is, as shown in FIG.
A control unit 161, a memory 162, an island controller unit 163,
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.
Input unit 172, display unit 173, printing unit 174, display setting unit 1
74 and.

Then, a control request to each gaming machine, a status display of each gaming machine, a game hall, printing of aggregated data, notification of abnormality, and the like are performed.

In the present invention, the "gaming machine" is, for example, a pachinko machine, an arrangement ball machine, a sparrow ball pachinko machine, a medal game machine such as a slot machine, or a pachinko machine of this type,
The "ball" means, for example, a small ball used in a pachinko machine, coins or medals used in an arrangement ball machine, a sparrow ball pachinko machine, or the like, and a game medium used in this kind of pachinko machine.

Next, the operation will be described.

As a method of replenishment by the replenishment device 12, there are a case where a replenishment signal is manually issued and a case where it is automatically issued.

In the case of automatic, there are a fixed addition ball system, a variable addition system depending on the ball output rate, a variable addition system depending on the number of difference balls, and a safe ball addition system.

In the fixed-quantity addition ball method, when an empty contact signal is received from the empty contact, a fixed number of balls are supplied to the supply tray. The number of replenishment for one supply is in the range of 100 to 800, and this number is 100.
It can be set individually.

In the variable addition method based on the payout rate, in response to the detection signal from the incoming / outgoing ball detector 13, the incoming / outgoing terminal monitoring means 71,
A payout rate, which is the ratio of the number of paid out balls to the number of entered balls, is calculated.

Then, the ball replenishment terminal monitoring means 72 causes the replenishment device 12 to increase or decrease at a predetermined number of times in accordance with the ball output rate in accordance with the constant setting range.
Let the game machine 1 supply balls.

For example, when the payout rate is less than _1% X, supplemented _once N, when the payout rate is X less than _2% or more X _3%, supplemented _twice N, payout rate is X _4%
In the above case, replenish N ₃ times.

X _{1 to} X ₄ can be freely set within a range of ₁ to 500, and N _{1 to} N ₃ can be freely set within a range of 1 to 8.

For this reason, when the payout rate becomes large, it is possible to prevent the gaming machine from running out of balls by replenishing the supply number of times according to the increase.

In the variable addition method based on the number of difference balls, in response to the detection signal from the ball input / ball output detector 11, the ball input / ball output terminal monitoring means 71,
Calculates the difference between the number of entered balls and the number of delivered balls.

Then, the ball replenishment terminal monitoring means 72 causes the replenishment device 12 to replenish balls to the gaming machine 1 at a predetermined number of times that has increased or decreased in accordance with the number of difference balls that have been thrown out, in accordance with the constant setting range.

For example, when the difference number ball is less than Y _1, supplemented _once M, difference number ball is
When Y ₂ or more and less than Y ₃ , replenish M ₂ times, and when the difference is Y ₄ or more, replenish M ₃ times.

Y _{1 to} Y ₄ can be freely set in the range of +9900 to −99900, and M _{1 to} M ₃ can be freely set in the range of 1 to 8.

In the safe ball addition method, the detection of the ball output is detected by the safe ball (winning ball) of the gaming machine 1, and the set number of balls and 10
This is to keep the number of balls in the supply plate constant with the number of balls less by 0.

[Effects of the Invention] The ball input / ball output monitoring means calculates the ball output rate, and the ball supply monitoring means supplies the ball to the game machine at the predetermined number of times increased or decreased according to the ball output rate. Therefore, when the payout rate becomes large, it is possible to prevent the game machine from running out of balls because the supply can be performed a number of times according to the increase.

[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 is a perspective view of a game arcade. 1 …… gaming machine, 2 …… island 3 …… ball lending machine, 4 …… prize ball counting machine 5 …… terminal management device 6 …… integrated management device 12 …… replenishing device 71 …… incident / exit terminal Monitoring means 72 …… Ball supply terminal monitoring means 81 …… Incoming / outgoing ball comprehensive monitoring means 82 …… Ball supply comprehensive monitoring means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A ball-in / ball-out detector for detecting a ball in and out of each of a plurality of gaming machines, and a replenishing device for replenishing a ball to each gaming machine according to a replenishment signal. An electronic management device for managing the gaming machine, wherein the gaming machine receives a detection signal from the ball-in / ball-out detector of the game machine, and receives a ball in each game machine every predetermined time. In addition to calculating the number of coins and the number of coins output, the ratio of the number of coins output to the number of coins inserted is calculated, and a coin-in / out-ball monitoring means for outputting a coin output rate signal, and receiving the coin output rate signal, An electronic management device for a game hall, comprising: a ball replenishment monitoring means for outputting a replenishment signal to the replenishment device at a predetermined number of times increased or decreased according to a payout rate. 2. A gaming machine in which a plurality of gaming machines are arranged, a ball-on / ball-out detector for detecting the ball-in and ball-out, and a replenishing device for replenishing the ball to each game machine according to a replenishment signal. Is provided, and one terminal management device is attached to each of the plurality of gaming machines,
An electronic management device for centrally managing a plurality of the terminal management devices by an integrated management device, wherein the terminal management device receives a detection signal from the incoming / outgoing ball detectors of the plurality of gaming machines, and predetermined In addition to the input / output terminal monitoring means for calculating the number of input and output numbers of each game machine and calculating the ratio of the number of output to the number of input each time, and outputting the output rate signal. , A ball replenishment terminal monitoring means for outputting a replenishment signal to the replenishment device at a predetermined number of times that has been increased or decreased in response to the bet-out rate signal, and the integrated management device, Through a terminal management device, a ball input / ball output comprehensive monitoring means for storing the ball output rate of all gaming machines, and a ball capable of outputting a supply signal to the supply device via the terminal management device. Electronic management of a game hall characterized by having a comprehensive supply monitoring means apparatus.