JP2002210182A - Arrangement directing system for game hall management action subject - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the utilization efficiency of game hall management action subjects. SOLUTION: This arrangement directing system for the game hall management action subjects in a game hall housing a plurality of game machines and a plurality of management action subjects whose main task is the management action of the game machines is provided with a dynamic event detection means for detecting a management action subject feed event dynamically generated corresponding to the operation conditions of the respective game machines and a rearrangement directing means for performing a prescribed feed adjustment processing corresponding to the generation conditions of the management action subject feed event and then directing the rearrangement in the game hall of the respective management action subjects on the basis of rearrangement information obtained as the result of the feed adjustment processing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an arrangement and command system for a game room management actor, for example, an employee who manages a game machine such as a pachinko machine, a slot machine, a pachislo machine, a game machine in a game arcade, and the like. This is suitable for the case of dynamically re-arranging the data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a game room containing a large number of game machines such as a pachinko machine, a slot machine, a pachislot machine, and a game machine for a game arcade, if such a game machine breaks down, repairs and the like are immediately executed. There are also a number of gaming machine management employees whose main task is to manage gaming machines that support the continuation of comfortable gaming by players.

If as many gaming machine management employees as possible are allocated to the number of gaming machines accommodated in a gaming arcade, repairs of the malfunctioning gaming machines can be performed promptly. People's satisfaction also tends to increase.

[0004]

However, as the number of gaming machine management employees increases, the necessary personnel expenses and the like also increase, resulting in an increase in costs. It is difficult to increase staff.

[0005] Therefore, it is necessary to obtain the satisfaction of the player while suppressing an increase in cost. For this purpose, it is conceivable that a transceiver is carried by each gaming machine management employee so that a limited number of gaming machine management employees can be used efficiently.

[0006] In a game hall, noise is usually large due to the sound generated when a game machine wins a prize, music or announcements flowing through the hall, and the height of the game machines arranged in the game hall is limited to that of a normal game machine. It is higher than the height (eye height) of the machine management employee. In addition, each gaming machine management employee cannot always stay in one place for the purpose of performing its duties, and moves to the inside of the amusement hall for each individual.

[0007] Under these conditions, the transceiver is required to easily and promptly contact the gaming machine management employees or to communicate with the counter employee by the gaming machine management employee. Required.

The transceiver is used not only for communication between employees, but also for a hall computer which monitors the operation status of each of the gaming machines in the game arcade. Also used to indicate movement.

[0009] For example, when a failure occurs in the gaming machine A, which is one of a large number of gaming machines existing in the amusement arcade, the gaming machine A blinks a lamp installed on its own and transmits a signal to the hall computer. Notify that a failure has occurred.

[0010] The hall computer receiving the notification transmits a radio signal to the transceiver to notify the gaming machine management employee of the occurrence of the malfunction and the gaming machine in which the malfunction has occurred, thereby moving the gaming machine management employee. Instruct. In response to this, the gaming machine management employee searches for a gaming machine to be repaired based on the content of the instruction and the blinking of the lamp, and performs necessary repairs.

According to such a method, a limited number of gaming machine management employees can be efficiently utilized in the game arcade, but the efficiency is nevertheless sufficiently high. I can't say.

That is, no instruction reflecting the current position (or a predetermined position) of each gaming machine management employee is issued.
Not giving instructions according to the level of skill of each gaming machine management employee or the type of failure that occurred, and dynamic events that are difficult to predict when and how they will occur, such as failure occurrence Due to the lack of coordination between possible cleaning and other static events, and the lack of coordination according to the importance of events, etc. Have difficulty.

[0013] For example, when the hall computer instruction described above is transmitted to all employees' transceivers, all (or a plurality of) gaming machine management employees in the game arcade move to the gaming machine specified by the instruction. Because of this possibility, the useless movement of the gaming machine management employee may increase, and the utilization efficiency of the employee may rather decrease.

A gaming machine management employee who has experience in the amusement arcade determines whether or not the gaming machine designated by the instruction is far from his / her current position, and After determining whether there is another gaming machine management employee at a nearby position, it is possible to determine that it is more efficient to let that gaming machine management employee respond to the instruction. However, it is also difficult for a gaming machine management employee with little experience to make such a determination.

Further, factors (events) that cause the employee to reach the gaming machine and take some management action are predicted in advance when they occur, such as the above-described failure of the gaming machine or clogging of the pachinko machine. In addition to the dynamic factors that are difficult to do, there are also static factors such as cleaning that can predict in advance when they will occur.

Although it is relatively easy to deal with static factors in an environment where only static factors can occur, it is not possible to predict when and how dynamic factors will occur. It is difficult to respond. Moreover, in an actual playground, both dynamic factors and static factors can occur at the same time, so it is possible that both dynamic factors and static factors will be insufficiently dealt with There is.

That is, in the above-described method, it is not possible to give detailed instructions according to the skill level of the gaming machine management employee or the nature of the event requiring the management action, so that the utilization efficiency of the employee can be sufficiently improved. Is difficult.

[0018]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a gaming machine in which a plurality of gaming machines and a plurality of management actors whose main task is to manage the gaming machines are provided. A dynamic event detecting means for detecting a management action subject input event dynamically occurring in accordance with the operation status of each of the gaming machines, and a management action subject input event occurrence status, In accordance with the above, after performing a predetermined insertion adjustment process, based on the rearrangement information obtained as a result of the input adjustment process, a rearrangement commanding unit that directs the rearrangement of the management action subject in the game hall. It is characterized by having.

[0019]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION (A) Embodiment Hereinafter, an arrangement and command system for a game hall management action subject according to the present invention is applied to a pachinko machine management employee arrangement system for a large hall accommodating a large number of pachinko machines. The embodiment will be described using the case as an example.

In the case of a large-scale hall, the total number of pachinko machines accommodated is, for example, about 500.

(A-1) Configuration of Embodiment and Operation of Each Part FIG. 3 is an external view of a part of the pachinko machine management employee allocation system 10 of this embodiment as viewed from the ceiling side of the hall.

In FIG. 3, the pachinko machine management employee allocation system 10 is a pachinko machine management whose main task is to manage islands such as the islands IA to IL and, for example, a pachinko machine having an appearance as shown in FIG. The employees P1 to P6 and the counter 11 are accommodated.

The island IA is a pachinko machine 1A to 16A.
The island IB includes pachinko machines 1B to 16B, the island IC includes pachinko machines 1C to 16C, the island ID includes pachinko machines 1D to 16D, and the island IE includes pachinko machines 1E.島 16E, the island IF includes pachinko machines 1F１６16F, and the island IG includes pachinko machines 1G〜16G.

The structures of the islands IH, II, IJ, IK and IL are the same as those of the islands IA and the like.

Each island has its own electric and pachinko machines (for example, pachinko machines 1A to 16A for island IA) and other islands (for example, island IB for island IA).
It is mechanically connected and has its own mechanism (island mechanism) for supplying game balls (pachinko balls) to its own pachinko machine at the time of winning and collecting game balls at non-winning. Have.

Although the number of pachinko machines provided on each island is 16 here, this number may be more or less than 16.

All the pachinko machines shown in FIG. 3 may be of the same model, or different models may be mixed. For example, a pachinko machine and a pachislot machine may be mixed.

In the present embodiment, the pachinko machine management employees P1 to P6, whose main duties are to manage such a pachinko machine, are in principle in island units (here, two island units).
Assume that it is associated with a pachinko machine.

That is, the employee P1 is basically responsible for the islands IA and IB, the employee P2 is basically responsible for the island IC and ID, the employee P3 is basically responsible for the islands IE and IF, Employee P4 is basically in charge of Island IG and Island IH.
5 is basically responsible for the islands II and IJ, and the employee P6 is basically responsible for the islands IK and IL.

Here, it is assumed that one employee is in charge of two islands, but the number of islands per employee may be smaller or larger than two. In general, the smaller the number of islands per employee, the better the pachinko machines are managed and the easier it is to repair the broken pachinko machines, so that the pachinko machine players are more satisfied. Although there is a tendency, if the number of islands per employee is small, the number of employees that need to be allocated increases and costs such as labor costs increase, and thus the number of employees that can be allocated has an upper limit.

On the other hand, the degree of satisfaction of the player does not simply depend on the number of employees, but can vary according to the management ability of each employee for the pachinko machine.

Generally, it is considered that this kind of management ability tends to increase depending on the years of experience of each employee as a pachinko machine management employee, employee education, and the like. It is not always easy to develop and continue to employ qualified employees, so in many halls the number of employees with a high level of management will be relatively small.

Therefore, also in this embodiment, it is assumed that the management ability of each employee (for example, P1 to P6) for the pachinko machine is not uniform.

In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the management ability of the pachinko machine management employee is the highest level L.
1st, 2nd highest level L2, ..., lowest level LZ
In the employee system, the employee P1 has the level L1 management ability, and the employee P3 has the level L2.
It is assumed that the employees P2 and P4 to P6 have the management ability of the level LZ.

Here, the management capability level L1 can not only respond quickly and accurately to all failures (here, failure A, failure B, and failure C) that can occur in the pachinko machine, but also provide an island mechanism and a hall. The management capability indicates a management capability capable of coping with a fault occurring in the computer itself. The management capability level L2 is a management capability capable of coping with the faults B and C but not coping with the fault A among the faults occurring in the pachinko machine. ..,..., The management capability level LZ is a fault B which can cope with the fault C among the faults occurring in the pachinko machine.
And management ability that cannot cope with failure A.

Basically, the response to a failure is as follows.
This refers to completely resolving the failure and completely restoring the pachinko machine or the like in which the failure has occurred to the state before the failure occurred.

However, depending on the type and mode of the failure, it cannot be solved by the pachinko machine management employee, and maintenance of the pachinko machine manufacturer may be required. Means the management ability to take the necessary measures so that the effects of the failure do not spread to other pachinko machines, etc., and then appropriately request the maintenance etc.

For example, in the case of a failure caused by the destruction of the inside of an IC (semiconductor integrated circuit) package mounted on a pachinko machine or the like by hardware, a dedicated inspection is performed to identify the location of the failure. You need equipment,
It is considered that replacement of the IC package or replacement of the board on which the IC package is mounted (or replacement of the pachinko machine itself) is necessary for complete recovery. Alternatively, if inspection equipment or the like is not prepared at the game arcade, it is necessary to request the pachinko machine manufacturer or the like to perform a recovery operation.

When a specific management tool or management device is required to deal with a failure and each employee carries the management tool or management device, the management tool or management device is used. The management ability level of each employee may be defined by taking the ability of the employee into consideration.

Further, the management ability level is not necessarily
It is not defined solely by the technical or technical difficulty required to recover from a failure, but in the context of amusement arcade operations and business entities in a broader sense. For example, a task of handling banknotes and money accumulated in a money exchange machine or the like is not necessarily high in technical or technical difficulty, but is limited to a limited number of employees (for example, the employee P).
It may be preferable for security to perform only 1).

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the main part of the pachinko machine and the island mechanism constituting the pachinko machine management employee allocation system 10 as described above.

It should be noted that FIG. 2 shows only an important part in the present embodiment, and the pachinko machine is used as a pachinko machine for its original game function (for example, discriminating between big hits and small hits, and seen from the player). A game function portion required to exhibit a rotating function of a rotating reel 29 (see FIG. 10) displaying a picture and Arabic numerals (see FIG. 10), and an island mechanism as an island mechanism. For example, an island function portion necessary for exhibiting a function for supplying and collecting the game ball) is not shown.

(A-1-1) Internal Configuration of Pachinko Machine and Island Mechanism In FIG. 2, the pachinko machine 3A includes a license plate 20, a lamp switch 31, a CPU 32, a failure detection unit 33, an identifier storage unit. 34.

The CPU 32 is a central processing unit of the pachinko machine 3A as an information processing device, and receives signals LS3, ER3,
A message ME3 is generated and transmitted based on ID3.
The transmitted message ME3 (see FIG. 7B) is transmitted to the hall computer 13 via the network 12.

The wiring topology of the network 12 for connecting the pachinko machine and the hall computer 13 may be any of bus type, star type, ring type and the like.

However, in the case of the pachinko machine management employee allocation system 10, the bus type in which the same transmission line is shared by a large number of operating devices (pachinko machines and island mechanisms) in a time-sharing manner is used from the viewpoint of improving the utilization efficiency of the transmission line. It is considered advantageous.
When the star type is adopted, although reliability is high, it is necessary to route a large number of wiring cables (for example, as many as the number of pachinko machines) in the hall, which increases the burden in terms of space and cost. This is because the possibility is high.

As an example, the pachinko machines (for example, 1A to 16A) provided on one island (for example, IA) are connected in the form of a bus, and each bus-type network having the number of islands in the hall is connected. Star-shaped hall computer 1
It is also conceivable to adopt a hybrid topology that connects to the H.3. In the case of the hybrid topology, the number of wiring cables is the same as the number of islands, so it is not so large, and is more reliable and fault-tolerant than the complete bus type.

The fault tolerance means that even if a fault occurs in one component in the system, the effect of the fault does not spread to other components, and the system as a whole remains normal after the fault as before. It is a property that can perform various operations. Such fault tolerance is only required between the pachinko machine management employee allocation system 10 and each of its components (for example, each pachinko machine (for example, 3A), each island (for example, IA), and the hall computer 13). However, the property is also required inside each component (for example, between the pachinko machine 3A and the failure detection unit 33 as the component).

Here, the wired transmission path is used as the network 12 by focusing on the advantage that a high communication quality can be obtained. However, if necessary, a wireless transmission path may be used. And a wired transmission path may coexist.

A failure detection unit 33 that supplies a failure detection signal ER3 to the CPU 32 detects a failure that may occur in each unit (mainly the game function unit) in the pachinko machine 3A, and detects a failure according to the detected failure. This is the part that outputs the signal ER3. In the present embodiment, the failure detection unit 33
Has a function of identifying and detecting the fault B and the fault C.

The fault A is a fault that cannot be detected by the fault detector 33. An example of such a failure is, for example, a failure of the CPU 32 itself.

The identifier storage unit 34 for supplying the identifier signal ID3 to the CPU 32 is a memory for storing the identifier ID3. The identifier ID3 is an I that can uniquely designate the pachinko machine 3A in the system 10.
In D, the hall computer 13 can distinguish the pachinko machine 3A from other pachinko machines (for example, pachinko machines 4A and 7C) and an island mechanism (for example, IA) based on the identifier ID3.

Depending on the system configuration, a time slot may be regularly assigned to each pachinko machine without using an identifier (for example, ID3) (in this case, the time position itself of the time slot is implicitly used as an identifier). It is also possible to distinguish pachinko machines and the like by allocating different signal lines (in this case, the wiring topology of the network 12 must be the star type). it is conceivable that.

However, depending on the type of fault, it is conceivable that a fault may occur in the form of time slots being shifted in time position. Therefore, in order to ensure a reliable communication and to construct a highly reliable system 10, An explicit identifier (I
D3).

In this embodiment, the bus type wiring topology is adopted, and time slots are regularly assigned to pachinko machines, and explicit identifiers are also assigned to improve reliability. I do.

The license plate 20 displays (prints) a pachinko machine number (here, "325") designating the pachinko machine 3A. While the identifier ID3 is an identifier that uniquely designates the pachinko machine 3A inside the system 10, the pachinko machine number indicates that the player or the employee has the pachinko machine 3A.
Is an identifier used to uniquely specify

The pachinko machine number (for example, 325)
And the identifier (for example, ID3) may be the same, but it is not always necessary if the correspondence is clearly defined.

The ramp switch 31, which supplies the switch signal LS3 to the CPU 32, notifies the pachinko machine management employee (for example, P1) that the player of the pachinko machine 3A has failed. Switch for the notification lamp 32 to be turned on. As shown in FIG. 10, the lamp switch 31 is usually installed at the top of the pachinko machine adjacent to the notification lamp 32. The player can turn on the lamp switch 31 at any time to turn on the notification switch. The lamp 32 can be turned on.

It should be noted that the notification lamp 32 is turned on manually when the lamp switch 31 is turned on, and when the failure detection unit 33 supplies a failure detection signal ER3 to the CPU 32 indicating that a failure has been detected. Has C
This is performed automatically by the PU 32.

The automatic lighting of the notification lamp 31 performed by the CPU 32 and the manual lighting by the player allow the pachinko machine management employee to easily search for a target pachinko machine from a large number of pachinko machines arranged.

If not necessary, the notification lamp 3
The automatic lighting by the second CPU 32 may not be performed.

Many of the faults that occur in the pachinko machine 3A can be automatically detected by the fault detection unit 33, but since the fault detection unit 33 has a limited capability, all faults are not necessarily detected. The detection unit 33 cannot detect it.

For example, in a pachinko machine, a game ball released by the player on the game board 22 by operating the hitting handle 25 has a large amount of kinetic energy at the time of release, and a large number of nails ( (Not shown), etc.
As a result of the combined effect of gravity and the like, the robot falls down in a complicated trajectory, and finally enters either a winning hole or a non-winning hole, thereby determining the winning or non-winning.

However, if the interval between the two nails driven just above the winning hole is too small, the winning ball stops while being sandwiched between the two nails, and the winning or non-winning is determined. May not be determined.

The occurrence of such an indeterminate state has no effect on the operation of the pachinko machine itself as the information processing apparatus, and the failure detector 33 detects the indeterminate state. It is difficult.

The non-determined state, which is difficult to detect automatically, may be ignored without classifying it as a failure. However, from the player's point of view, the non-determined state is determined based on the game rules of the pachinko machine. Since it is desired that the confirmed state is canceled,
Here, this is classified as a failure, and it is assumed that the failure is actively dealt with. For such a non-determined state, for example, the pachinko machine management employee opens the transparent glass door covering the game board 22 using a key and then stops the game ball stopped by a predetermined amount. The non-determined state is eliminated by poking with the tool and inserting the game ball into a winning hole immediately below the game ball.

Note that the non-determined state described above is merely an example. In short, for a failure that cannot be detected by the failure detection unit 33 and that the player can perceive, the respective player By turning on the lamp switch 31 and turning on the notification lamp 32, it is possible to notify the pachinko machine management employee of the occurrence of the failure.

When the player turns on the lamp switch 31, the switch signal LS3 causes the CPU
32 can recognize the ON operation, and writes the fact as failure X in the operation status field FD12 of the message ME3.

In the case of the fault X, it is difficult for the hall computer 13 to accurately determine which level of the employee is appropriate for inputting. Since it is considered that even an employee of the management ability level LZ can cope with the situation as described above, here, the failure X will be described as an obstacle that can be handled by the management ability level LZ.

The CPU 32 is connected to the network 12
The format configuration example of the message ME3 sent to
As shown in FIG.

In FIG. 7B, the pachinko machine identifier field FD11 contains information content corresponding to the identifier signal ID3, and the operation status field FD12 contains information content corresponding to the failure detection signal ER3. You.

It should be noted that the failure detection unit 33 is provided with the pachinko machine 3A.
If no failure is detected in the operation status field FD12, the operation status field FD12 contains information indicating a normal operation.

The message ME3 may be provided with an error correction field if necessary.
The entire E3 may be configured by an error correction code.

In a communication device requiring a high communication speed,
It is generally considered that a hardware encoder is used for such encoding, but at most 500 encoders are used.
In the pachinko machine management employee allocation system 10 accommodating about the same number of pachinko machines, in many cases, a sufficient communication speed can be obtained even by software coding executed by the CPU 32.

In the above description, the pachinko machine 3A has been described as an example, but the configuration of the pachinko machine other than the pachinko machine 3A is substantially the same as that of the pachinko machine 3A. For example, as shown, the pachinko machine 4A has a lamp switch 41 and a CP.
A U42, a failure detection unit 43, and an identifier storage unit 44 are provided. The lamp switch 41 corresponds to the lamp switch 31, the CPU 42 corresponds to the CPU 32,
The failure detection unit 43 corresponds to the failure detection unit 33, and the identifier storage unit 44 corresponds to the identifier storage unit 34.

The message ME4 sent by the CPU 42 to the network 12 includes signals LS4, ER4, ID
4, the pachinko machine identifier field FD11 contains the identifier ID4 assigned to itself.

Next, the island mechanism IA includes a CPU 52, a failure detection unit 53, and an island identifier storage unit 54.

Here, the CPU 52 corresponds to the CPU 32, the failure detection unit 53 corresponds to the failure detection unit 33,
The island identifier storage unit 54 corresponds to the identifier storage unit 34.

However, the fault detecting section 53 mainly has a function of detecting a fault related to the island function part.

The island mechanism (for example, ID) in the system 10 other than the island mechanism IA has substantially the same configuration as the island mechanism IA. If necessary, the island mechanism (for example, I
In A), the failure detection unit 53 may not be provided.

The counter 11 shown in FIG. 3 is usually provided only in one place in one hall, and is provided with a prize exchange machine or the like for a player to exchange game balls accumulated as a result of the game for desired prizes. It is a place that is. The counter 11 usually has the pachinko machine management employee (P1
Etc.), one to several counter employees are usually assigned.

The hall computer 13 shown in FIG. 2 may be installed in the counter 11, for example.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of the main part of the hall computer 13.

(A-1-2) Internal Configuration of Hall Computer In FIG. 1, the hall computer 13 includes a failure monitoring unit 60, a failure identification unit 61, a write processing unit 62, a management schedule storage unit 63, a memory 64 to 66, a read processing unit 67, a failure handling unit 68, a capability data table 69, an island table 70, and a transmission unit 71.

The failure monitoring unit 60 periodically sends a message (eg, ME3, MEA, etc.) transmitted by each pachinko machine (eg, 3A) and each island mechanism (eg, IA) in the system 10 via the network 12. In the part which receives the signal periodically and periodically, the monitor signal MO is output by executing a decoding process corresponding to the error correction code as needed.

The period of the message received by the fault monitoring unit 60 is, for example, about 1/10 second, such that the messages from all the operation devices (all the pachinko machines and all the island mechanisms) in the system 10 make one cycle. It is good to set.
This means that about 500 time slots are set so as to exist in a period of about 1/10.

Failure identifying unit 6 receiving monitor signal MO
1 mainly detects the presence / absence of a failure by referring to the operation status field FD12 in the message (for example, the ME3), and if there is a failure, the type of the failure and the operating device in which the failure has occurred (any one of the operation devices) The pachinko machine or any of the island mechanisms) is output to output the fault identification signal FA.

When identifying the faults B and C, the fault identifying unit 61 identifies the faults B and C using the information contained in the operation status field FD12. Does not use the operation status field FD12.

That is, when the failure A has occurred, the operation status field FD in the message (for example, ME3)
12 stores information indicating that a failure has not occurred and the CPU 32 is operating normally. However, when a failure has occurred in the CPU 32 itself, the message ME3 is stored in advance in each pachinko machine (here, the pachinko machine). 3A) may be inserted at a different time position from the original time slot, or a message (here, ME3) may not be delivered at all in a time slot that should be delivered. The failure identification unit 61 detects the presence or absence of the failure A based on whether a message corresponding to a normal time position is inserted.

The fault A includes not only the fault of the CPU (for example, 32) itself but also the pachinko machine (for example, 3
A) and the disconnection of the signal line connecting the network 12 and the like may be included.

When the fault identifying unit 61 detects that the operating device that has detected the fault has been normalized based on the monitoring signal MO, the fault identifying unit 61 sends the normalization signal AN to the fault handling unit 68. Output. The normalization signal AN indicates that the management action of the corresponding pachinko machine management employee has been successfully completed.

The management schedule storage section 63
Is a memory that stores a predictable static management action of the pachinko machine management employee in advance and outputs a schedule signal SC necessary for instructing the pachinko machine management employee to the management action.

For example, cleaning of the ashtray 27 shown in FIG. 10 (which may include cleaning of a toilet, cleaning of a store, or patrol of a parking lot) may be performed according to a predetermined time schedule such as every one hour. When it is determined that the cleaning operation is to be performed on the pachinko machine or the like, a schedule signal SC for instructing the pachinko machine management employee to perform the cleaning action is output according to the time schedule.

It is not necessary to simultaneously clean an ashtray on all islands, and if all pachinko machine management employees are put into cleaning at the same time, if a trouble occurs during cleaning, it is necessary to respond to the trouble. Since there are no more employees,
The schedule signal SC for instructing each employee to perform a cleaning action may be output with a slight shift in time.

In addition, cleaning and the like can be performed even by the employee of the lowest management ability level LZ, and the precious labor of the employees of the high management ability level L1 or L2 is not consumed for cleaning or the like. However, it is preferable to secure it in order to cope with a failure that requires higher management ability, in order to increase the overall efficiency. Therefore, regarding the cleaning and the like, the employees (for example, P2 and P4) having a low management ability level may share all the pachinko machines regardless of the island in charge.

The schedule signal SC as in the case of cleaning
It is considered that many management actions statically instructed in accordance with are generally not required to be urgent, so if a highly urgent failure occurs during the execution of such static management actions, Alternatively, the static management action may be immediately interrupted to cause a highly urgent obstacle.

However, a management action statically instructed cannot always be handled with a low management ability. For example,
In the case of periodically collecting the banknotes stored in the money changer (when the money is accumulated more than the capacity of the money changer, the money changer stops, which hinders the game action of the player), and the like. It is also conceivable that an employee with a high management ability level (for example, P1) performs the management action.

[0098] The fault identification signal FA
The write processing unit 62 that receives the schedule signal SC from the management schedule storage unit 63 and writes the unit data corresponding to the failure identification signal FA and the schedule signal SC to the memories 64 to 66. The unit data describes attribute information on events such as a dynamically generated failure identification signal FA and a statically generated schedule signal SC.

As shown in FIG. 7C, the attribute information includes, for example, a management action type information field FD32 containing management action type information indicating the type of each of the faults A to C and cleaning. And a target specification information field FD31 containing target specification information for specifying an operation device to be subjected to the management action.

Since the correspondence between the management action type information in the attribute information and the three memories 64 to 66 is set in advance, the write processing unit 62 writes each unit data in accordance with the correspondence. Will be written to the memory.

Here, in the correspondence, the management action type information for specifying the management action related to the failure A corresponds to the memory 64, the management action type information for specifying the management action related to the failure B corresponds to the memory 65, The management action type information that specifies the management actions related to the failures C and X and the cleaning corresponds to the memory 66.

Each of the memories 64-66 has a FIFO
(First-in first-out type memory). The memories 64 to 66 may have any hardware structure as long as they can function as independent FIFOs. For example, each of the memories 64 to 66 may be a separate memory module or a different memory area secured in the same memory module.

The unit data temporarily stored in each of the memories 64-66 constitutes a queue. Generally, a queue is logically realized using a list structure.

The read processing unit 67 for reading and processing the unit data from each of the memories 64 to 66 outputs the read (or preliminary read) unit data to the read signal RP.
This is a part to be supplied to the failure handling unit 68. Generally, it is considered that the higher the management ability level is, the higher the urgency required for management actions is, and the priority is given to the management ability of an employee (eg, P1) having a higher management ability level. Since it is necessary to efficiently utilize the data by responding to a failure requiring a high management capability level, the read processing of the unit data and the preliminary read by the read processing unit 67 are performed in the memories 64 to 66 in FIG. The priority is given to the memory arranged on the left side.

The same memory (for example, memory 66)
Among them, preliminary reading of unit data written earlier (unit data positioned lower in the queue is unit data written earlier) is performed earlier.

Therefore, as shown in FIG.
4, unit data U11 and U12 are stored in the memory 65
In the state where the unit data U21 and U22 are stored in the memory 66 and the unit data U31 to U33 are stored in the memory 66,
In principle, the unit data U11, U12, U21, U2
Each unit data is read out in the order of 2, U31, U32, and U33.

However, in order to avoid duplication of processing, unit data which has been subjected to at least one preliminary read and has not been transferred to read processing is not read until the action state described later is rewritten. Note that the memories 64 to 6
In the case where the effect of the processing duplication is small, such as when the capacity of No. 6 is small, the unit data which has been subjected to the preliminary reading once and not shifted to the reading processing may be configured to be again subjected to the preliminary reading.

Here, the read processing of the unit data is as follows.
It means an operation of reading and deleting the corresponding unit data. The read processing is performed based on a read control signal RC supplied from the failure handling section 68.
Runs. When the reading process is performed, the transmitting unit 71 always transmits an action instruction signal CM described later corresponding to the unit data subjected to the reading process.

The preliminary reading means simply reading unit data as a pre-process of the reading process. Therefore, the queue is not processed only by performing the preliminary reading, but is processed by performing the deletion after the preliminary reading (the reading processing of the corresponding unit data is completed by this deletion).

As shown in FIG. 4, the only employee having the level 1 management ability is P1, and the employee P1
During the period in which 1 performs the management action related to the unit data U11, no employee other than P1 can take the management action corresponding to the unit data U12 even if the unit data U12 is preliminarily read. Therefore, the read processing unit 67 is not unit data U12 but unit data U
21 and U31 are read out.

In the present embodiment, the failure identification unit 61 of the hall computer 13 sends the message (for example, M
Since the failure identification unit 61 detects that the E3) has been normalized, the completion of the management action of each employee can be indirectly recognized. Therefore, the hall computer 13 can almost always recognize all employees. It is possible to grasp the state.

However, if necessary, directly from the employee,
The hall computer 13 may be notified of the completion or stoppage of the management action using the portable communication device 80 (see FIG. 5) carried by the user.

At the time of actual operation of the system 10, a failure that cannot be corrected even by an employee of the management ability level L1 described above may occur. In such a case, the normal monitoring signal MO Only by the indirect recognition performed using the above, the hall computer 13 can grasp whether the input employee is performing the management action or stopped the management action without completely normalizing the operation device. This is because it may disappear.

The failure handling unit 68 which receives the unit data (for example, U21) as the read signal RP refers to the ability action signal CA obtained from the ability data table 69 and the island position signal DS obtained from the island table 60 to generate a new one. From among the employees who can take the management action, determine the employee who will execute the management action corresponding to the unit data,
This is a part that outputs an instruction signal DR according to the determination to the transmission unit 71.

The transmitting section 71 performs necessary modulation processing and encoding processing on the instruction signal DR to wirelessly transmit the action instruction signal CM having the format configuration shown in FIG. 7A. In the encoding process in the transmission unit 71, encoding using an error correction code may be performed. When the BER (bit error rate) on the receiving side (that is, the portable communication device 80) is high, the retransmission process is performed. It is good to do.

In FIG. 7A, an employee identifier field FD20 is a field for containing an employee identifier for uniquely specifying an employee who is to take a management action.
The pachinko machine identifier field FD21 is a field corresponding to the pachinko machine identifier field FD11 in FIG. 7B, and is used to designate a pachinko machine (or an island mechanism) to be subjected to the management action to an employee who takes the management action. Contains the identifier.

The input reason field FD22 is a field that indicates the type of the faults A to C or X and contains information for notifying the employee of the necessary management action. If unnecessary, the input reason field FD22 may be omitted.

The capability data table 69 connected to the failure handling unit 68 has, for example, a configuration as shown in FIG. 8, and has the management capability levels (L1 to LZ) of each employee shown in FIG. Stores the correspondence between employees and the status of each employee and its behavior (whether or not it is in a management activity). In the behavior state, A indicates that the employee is not performing a management action, and N indicates that the employee is performing a management action.

An employee who can take a new management action is usually limited to an employee whose behavior state is A. Therefore, the failure handling unit 68 determines from the employees whose behavior state is A an action instruction signal CM. That is, the employee to whom the information content of the instruction signal DR is transmitted is selected.

However, when the number of employees is smaller than the number of pachinko machines or when the capacity of the memories 64 to 66 is small, the action instruction signal CM is transmitted to the employees whose action state is N. You may make it.

The behavior state of each employee in the ability data table 69 is rewritten momentarily by the behavior state change signal VA output from the failure handling unit 68. For example, when the failure handling unit 68 transmits an action instruction signal CM for instructing the employee P2 to perform some management action (that is, the information content of the instruction signal DR), the behavior of the employee P2 which has been A until then is transmitted. The state is rewritten to N.

If the normalization signal AN indicates that the operating device that has detected the fault has been normalized, the fault handling unit 68 sets the normalization signal A.
It is determined that the management action of the employee who has performed the management action for normalizing the operation device according to N is completed, and the behavior state of the employee in the ability data table 69 is rewritten from N to A. .

In the ability data table 69, each employee is designated by the portable identifiers PT1 to PT6 assigned to the portable communication device 80 carried by the employee.

On the other hand, in the island table 70 shown in FIG. 9, the physical positions (for example, the physical positions of the islands IA and IB are P
(IA, IB)) and the correspondence between each employee are stored. However, the island position of this island table 70 (for example, P
In (IA, IB)), since only the position of the island that each employee is in charge of is known, it merely indicates the approximate position of the employee. It is not possible to specify in more detail where they are.

When specifying such a detailed position,
Since the load on the processing capacity of the hall computer 13 and the like also increases, in the present embodiment, the position of each employee to be handled is limited to the approximate position corresponding to the island position, and a detailed position is not required.

However, when the size of the island is very large, such as when one island is equipped with as many as 64 pachinko machines, it is considered that the necessity of specifying a detailed position increases. In this case, if the behavioral state is limited to N employees, using the information content of the behavior instruction signal CM (instruction signal DR) which triggered the rewriting of the behavior state from A to N, the level of each pachinko machine can be obtained. You can narrow down the position of the employees to.

For example, after the action instruction signal CM for designating the management action for the pachinko machine 11F is transmitted to the employee P3, the action state is rewritten to N, and then the action state is rewritten to A by the normalization signal AN. This is because during the period, the employee P3 can be predicted to be located near the pachinko machine P3.

Therefore, the utilization efficiency of the employees can be further improved by using such a predicted position.

In the island data table 70, each employee is designated by the portable identifiers PT1 to PT6 assigned to the portable communication device 80 carried.

Since the fault handling unit 68 of this embodiment can detect at least the approximate position of each employee as the island position signal DS, it is possible to efficiently insert employees. .

For example, as shown in FIG. 8, the employee P2 of the management ability level LZ (for example, the island IC
If another fault occurs in the island IC or ID in which the employee P2 is in charge while performing some management action (or within the ID), then the employees P1, P3 , If the action state of P4 to P6 is A,
The failure handling unit 68 selects an employee who performs a management action for this other failure from these employees.

In this selection, the failure handling unit 68 operates so as to select an employee who is located as close to the island IC and ID as possible and has the lowest management ability level.

Therefore, if the other fault is the fault C or the fault X, in this case, the employee P5 is selected.

Next, FIG. 5 shows a configuration example of the portable communication device 80 carried by each employee (P1 to P6, etc.). Since the internal configuration of the portable communication device carried by each employee may be substantially the same, the description will proceed with FIG. 5 mainly showing the portable communication device carried by the employee P2. . As an aspect of the mobile communication device 80,
Although a headphone type worn on the head of an employee is also conceivable, here, a communication device, such as a mobile phone, which is stored in an employee's outer pocket and carried, is assumed.

(A-1-3) Internal Configuration of Portable Communication Device In FIG.
, A reception processing unit 82, a queuing unit 83, a reception detection unit 84, a display unit 85, and an identifier storage unit 86.

The reception processing unit 81 receives the action instruction signal CM wirelessly transmitted by the transmission unit 71 of the hall computer 13 and executes necessary demodulation processing and decoding processing (if necessary, a retransmission request is also issued). Execute) and output the reception processing signal RS as a processing result.

The reception processing unit 82 that receives the reception processing signal RS filters the reception processing signal RS based on the portable identifier PID received from the identifier storage unit 86 (here, the PID is the PT2). After determining whether or not the received signal is the reception processing signal RS corresponding to the action instruction signal CM addressed to the own portable communication device, it is determined that the received signal is the reception processing signal RS corresponding to the action instruction signal CM addressed to the own portable communication device. When a negative determination result is obtained, a predetermined operation is performed, and when a negative determination result is obtained, the predetermined operation is ignored.

That is, the reception processing section 82 performs the action instruction signal CM (which is substantially equal to the reception processing signal RS).
Is checked in the employee identifier field FD20, and if the identifier is PT2, a positive determination result is obtained; otherwise, a negative determination result is obtained.

When a positive determination result is obtained, the reception processing section 82 outputs a reception detection signal DE to the reception detection section 84, and outputs the action attribute signal DC to the queuing section 83.
Is output.

[0140] The reception detecting section 84 is connected to the portable communication device 80.
This is a part for generating a reception notification output DD for notifying the employee P2 carrying the action instruction signal CM of reception. As the reception notification output DD, sound such as a buzzer sound may be used. However, in consideration of the environment in the hall where noise is often large as described above, a method that is not affected by noise, for example, It is considered that vibration or the like is more desirable.

The queuing unit 83, which has received the pachinko machine identifier field FD21 of the action instruction signal CM and the action attribute signal DC having the same information content as the input reason FD22, temporarily stores the action attribute signal DC. It is.

In the case of the present embodiment, normally, one action attribute signal DC is stored in the queuing unit 83, but as described above, the action instruction signal is also sent to the employee whose action state is N. When a CM is transmitted, the number of action attribute signals DC stored in the queuing unit 83 may be two or more.

The queuing unit 83 outputs a display signal DS corresponding to the stored action instruction signal CM to the display unit 85.

The display unit 85 is constituted by a display device such as a liquid crystal display device or a 7-segment LED, and executes a display according to the display signal DS to provide the employee (here, P2) with information from the hall computer 13 from the hall computer 13. Give instructions.

A display example in the case where the display section 85 is a liquid crystal display device may be, for example, as shown in FIG.

“325C” shown in FIG. 6 is a display indicating that the fault C has occurred in the 325s (ie, the pachinko machine 3A).

When the number of the action attribute signals DC stored in the queuing unit 83 is two, the display corresponding to the first one (ie, the action attribute signal DC previously received) is “325C”. Then, the display corresponding to the second (for example, “327X”) is displayed below the “325C” (here, “325C” and “327”).
X "is displayed at the same time).

When the management action specified by the action instruction signal CM is completed (or stopped), the employee P2 deletes the corresponding action attribute signal DC stored in the queuing unit 83 by operating a predetermined button. And display unit 8
5 may be deleted.

Alternatively, the employee P2 does not manually delete the action attribute signal DC and delete the display, but the normalization signal AN output from the fault identification unit 61.
May be automatically performed by causing the failure handling unit 68 to transmit an action instruction signal CM (instruction signal DR) corresponding to.

If the employee P2 manually deletes the behavior attribute signal DC and deletes the display, the portable computer 80 transmits a radio signal corresponding to the manual operation to the hall computer 13 at the time of the manual operation. If you send to
The wireless signal can be a direct means of notifying the hall computer 13 of the completion or stoppage of the management action described above.

Hereinafter, the overall operation of the present embodiment having the above configuration will be described.

(A-2) Overall Operation of the Embodiment In FIG. 3, when a failure that requires a high level of management ability at level L1 or L2 occurs, the employees who can deal with the failure are: , Only employees P1 and P3 with a high management ability level.

On the other hand, if a failure occurs that can be handled with a relatively low level of management capability such as level LZ,
Employees P1 and P3 can of course respond, but employees P2 and P4 to P6 with low management ability levels can also respond.

Therefore, the high management ability of the employees P1 and P3 is preserved as much as possible in case of a failure requiring a high management ability level, and the employees P2 and P4
By causing these employees to carry out management actions that can be handled even in P6, it is possible to increase the efficiency of management actions as an entire employee system.

If such a viewpoint is thoroughly implemented, the employee P1
It is conceivable that the system 10 can be managed without giving a specific charge island to P3 or P3.
Disability A and Disability B that require two advanced management levels
Is usually not so frequent, but rather, failures such as the failures C and X that can be handled with a relatively low level of management capability have a higher frequency of occurrence.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the employees P1 and P
The assigned island is also given to the third person, and the employees P1 and P3 are also to cope with the level LZ obstacle in the assigned island.

In the above-described example, as shown in FIG. 8, the employee P2 of the management ability level LZ is performing some management action (for example, in the island IC or ID in which he or she is in charge). In the case where another failure occurs in the island IC or the ID assigned to the employee P2, the employee P5 is selected from the employees P1, P3, and P4 to P6 whose behavior state is A. Took administrative action against the disability.

In this case, the employee P5 executes the management action because it is assumed that the fault is the fault C or the fault X which can be handled at the level LZ. However, if the fault is the fault B requiring the management capability level L2, the employee P5 executes the management action. If so, it is impossible to instruct the incapable employee P5 to perform the management action.

As is clear from FIGS. 4 and 8, the employees who can cope with the fault B are limited to the employees P1 and P3 whose management ability level is L2 or more.

As is apparent from FIG. 3, the island position P (I
C, ID) is the physical distance to the island position P (IA,
IB) also has the employee P1 at the island position P (IE, I
Since the employee P3 existing in F) is almost the same, the employee P3
Assuming that the behavior state of both 1 and P3 is A, it is efficient to transmit an action instruction signal CM that causes the employee P3 having a lower management ability level to perform the management action of the obstacle B.

However, in this case, if the employee P1 has the action state A and the employee P3 has the action state N
Then, the corresponding action instruction signal CM is wirelessly transmitted to cause the employee P1 to perform the management action of the fault B.

On the other hand, assuming that the behavior state of both the employees P1 and P3 is N, in the present embodiment, there is no employee who can currently take the management action for this obstacle B in the employee system. Therefore, the corresponding action instruction signal C
M cannot be sent.

That is, assuming that the unit data corresponding to the fault B is the unit data U21 in FIG. 1, if both the employees P1 and P3 are in the N-state, the unit data U21 is read out. Can not do it.

For this reason, the queue in the memory 65 is not processed, and when a new fault B occurs on any of the islands next, the unit data U22 corresponding to the new fault B is placed after the unit data U21. Is written, and the queue in the memory 65 expands.

Thereafter, the normalization signal AN is sent to the failure handling unit 68.
When there is a change in the action state in the ability data table 69, one of the unit data is read from the memories 64-66.

In the state shown in FIG. 1, unit data U11 and U12 are stored in the memory 64, unit data U21 and U22 are stored in the memory 65, and unit data U31 to U33 are stored in the memory 66. , All memory 64 ~
Since the unit data is accumulated in 66, the unit data is read from any memory and processed regardless of the change (rewrite) of the behavioral state for any employee in FIG. .

The fact that the unit data is stored in all of the memories 64 to 66 during the actual operation of the system 10 means that a failure occurs in the system 10 in a burst manner (a plurality of failures occur instantaneously). Or, only in cases where too many failures have occurred compared to the number of pachinko machine management employees.

In the case of a burst failure, not all of the employees P1 to P6 are in a management operation, so that even if there is no change in the behavioral state, appropriate employees can Is transmitted, but if too many failures occur compared to the number of all pachinko machine management employees, the employees P1 to P
6 are in the management action, and the action state in FIG. 8 is N for all employees.

When the behavior state of all the employees is N, the normalization signal AN supplied to the failure handling unit 68
Is the unit data U31 from the memory 66 if it corresponds to the employees P2, P4 to P6 of the management ability level LZ.
Is read out, and the action instruction signal CM corresponding to the unit data U31 is transmitted.

For example, when the action state of the employee P4 becomes A, the action instruction signal CM is transmitted to the employee P4 (portable communication device 80 carried by P4).

Similarly, when the behavioral state of all employees is N, the normalization signal A supplied to the failure handling unit 68
If N corresponds to the employee P3 of the management ability level L2, the unit data U21 is read from the memory 65 and processed, and an action instruction signal CM corresponding to the unit data U21 is transmitted to the unit data U21. Is performed by the employee P3.

When the behavior state of all employees is N, the normalization signal A supplied to the failure handling unit 68
If N corresponds to the employee P1 at the management ability level L1, the unit data U11 is read from the memory 64 and processed, and the action instruction signal CM corresponding to the unit data U11 is transmitted, and the unit data U11 Is performed by the employee P1.

By the filtering of the reception processing unit 82 incorporated in the portable communication device 80, only one employee who is instructed to perform the management action is always the optimal one. The movement is suppressed, and efficient management of the pachinko machine can be realized.

(A-3) Effects of the Embodiment As described above, according to the present embodiment, the hall computer manages all pachinko machine management employees by the management ability level, position,
In addition, by centrally managing the behavioral state and sending detailed and appropriate behavior instruction signals (CMs) to make each employee perform administrative actions, the utilization efficiency of the employee's workforce can be made more efficient than before. It is possible to increase.

(B) Other Embodiments In the above embodiment, an employee is used as a management action subject, but the management action subject of the present invention does not necessarily need to be a human. For example, a robot having the ability to perform a management action can be used as the management action subject.

[0176] Further, the management action subject exists as a symbol designating each management action subject in the information processing apparatus and is processed.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the position of each employee is mainly fixedly indicated by the position of the island in charge of each employee. However, such a method is not necessarily employed in the present invention. Is also good.

In many cases, it is considered that each employee exists at the position of the island in which he / she is in charge and in the vicinity thereof, and thus the method as in the above embodiment can be said to be simple and efficient.

However, strictly speaking, each employee may leave his / her own island in accordance with the instruction of the action instruction signal CM. It is preferable that the corresponding island position can be rewritten according to the content of the action instruction signal CM transmitted to each employee. According to this, the real-time action instruction signal CM reflecting the current position of each employee can be transmitted, and the utilization efficiency of the employee is further improved.

In addition to such a method for measuring the position of an employee, a plurality of wireless base stations are installed in a hall so that the coverage areas of the wireless base stations slightly overlap. The mobile communication device 80 may be located in a coverage area of any wireless base station by automatic wireless communication between the wireless base station and the mobile communication device 80. According to this method, as in the case where the predicted position is obtained, not only the employee whose behavior state is N but also the employee whose behavior state is A, the hall computer 1
3 is capable of always recognizing the position of the employee with higher accuracy and real time, so that the utilization efficiency of the employee can be further enhanced.

Further, in the above embodiment, the pachinko machine is mainly described as an example, but the game machine to which the present invention can be applied is not limited to the pachinko machine. For example, the present invention is also applicable to pachislot machines and slot machines. If the pachinko machine (1A to 16A or the like) is a pachislot machine or a slot machine, the other points are basically the same except that the gaming balls become medals.

The game machines to which the present invention can be applied include not only game machines in a narrow sense, such as pachinko machines, pachislot machines, and slot machines, but also game auxiliary devices often arranged around the game machines. Is also included.

Examples of the game assisting device include a ticketing machine for a prepaid card and the above-mentioned money changing machine.

In the above embodiment, the failure A that can be dealt with only by an employee having the management ability L1 is a failure that cannot be detected by the failure detection unit (for example, 33) such as a pachinko machine. Need not always be detected by the failure detection unit (for example, 33).

Further, in the case of a pachinko machine, means for directly visually notifying a player or a pachinko machine management employee of the occurrence of a failure automatically detected by the failure detection unit (for example, 33) is provided by the above-mentioned means. It is often limited to notification lamps, but in the case of pachislot machines, for example, around the spinning reel displaying the pattern and Arabic numerals seen by the player, for example, the number of credits display section, the number of games display section, Many display functions such as a bonus number display section, a JAC game number display section, and a payout number display section are often provided.

Therefore, in the case of a pachislot machine, it is possible to display a failure error code by using, for example, the payout number display section.

In this case, the number-of-payouts display unit displays the number of payouts in a normal state, but when the failure detection unit detects the occurrence of a failure, the type and mode of the failure are visually identified using a predetermined error code. Can be notified to the employees.

Further, even in a pachinko machine having such a small number of display means, the hitting handle 25 shown in FIG.
The front door on which the game console 22 and the like are mounted can be opened by performing a predetermined unlocking operation, and when performing many management actions, the front door is opened. Therefore, the internal structure disposed on the back surface of the front door body (an internal structure that cannot be normally seen by a player)
If a trouble display unit such as an abnormal point indicator is provided, an employee who takes a management action can use the portable communication device 8.
It is possible to specify or infer the location (or the type or mode of the failure) of the failure by not only looking at the 0 display unit 85 but also visually observing the failure display unit.

Further, a trouble release button (this button is a kind of reset switch) for resetting each functional block by simply pressing it is often provided on the back surface of the front door. Many troubles are automatically performed by pressing the trouble release button or pressing the trouble release button after performing a simple management action (for example, removing a clogged ball in the case of a ball jam). Recover.

In the case of the pachislot machine or the pachinko machine, for example, a dynamic failure (for example, failure A) which can be dealt with only by the employee having the management ability L1 and an example of the response are as follows. A1) to (A5).

(A1) Obstacle: A banknote in a money changer or a prepaid card issuing machine.

Action: The door is opened to remove the jammed bill.

(A2) Fault: detection of occurrence of a ROM error or a RAM error (indicating that there is an abnormality in the CPU of the main board).

Action: Once the power is turned off and the power
Perform N reset. If normalization still does not occur, the main board needs to be replaced.

(A3) Obstacle: Abnormality of the firing solenoid for firing a game ball in a pachinko machine is detected.

Correspondence: Replacement (repair) of the launch solenoid or replacement (repair) of the launch ball detection switch which is a sensor for detecting the abnormality.

(A4) Obstacle: A ball jam is detected in the electric tube, the return ball detection switch, the passage gate, the inside of the attacker, and the like.

Response: The clogged sphere is removed (the removal itself can be handled by the management ability LZ). If the detection is output even if there is no clogged ball, there is a possibility that the detection switch itself is abnormal or the connector is disconnected, so take necessary measures after confirming that. The management capability L1 is required to deal with this part in the case where the above-mentioned removal of the sphere that has been performed is not enough.

(A5) Obstacle: Short-circuit detection of any of the electric chew portion, the return ball detection switch, the passage gate, and the detection switch for detecting any ball jam inside the attacker.

Action: Identify the relevant detection switch and replace it.

Similarly, in the case of the pachislot machine and the pachinko machine, an example of a dynamic failure (the failure B) which can be dealt with only by the employees having the management ability L1 or the management ability L2, and an example of the handling thereof For example, the following (B1)-
(B4).

(B1) Obstacle: The backward movement of the medal is detected by the pachislot machine (the backward movement of the medal is detected, for example, when the player intentionally performs an illegal act of putting the medal in and out).

Action: Remove the medals causing the problem,
Press the reset switch.

(B2) Obstacle: Even though the pachi-slot machine is in a hit state internally, Arabic numerals and the like on the reel cannot be aligned because the player is a beginner.

Action: An employee prepares Arabic numerals and the like on behalf of the player. However, in this case, the employee
It must be something that can be so-called.

(B3) Failure: hopper jam (that is, a medal jam at the payout port of the hopper) is detected.

Action: The medals stuck in the hopper are removed and the reset switch is pressed.

(B4) Obstacle: It is detected that the ball has passed through the passage gate even though the ball has not been shot for a predetermined time (for example, 6 seconds) with the pachinko machine. , The player may have committed some misconduct).

Action: After confirming that the payout of credits has been completed, the player automatically presses the credit clear button to automatically recover, and observes the subsequent game situation. Immediately after recovery,
If the same detection is performed without any misconduct, it is considered that the cause is an abnormality of the launch ball detection switch itself, and the launch ball detection switch is replaced.

Further, in the case of the pachislot machine or the pachinko machine, a dynamic failure (for example, the failure C) which can be dealt with by all the employees of the management ability L1, the management ability L2 and the management ability LZ described above Examples of the correspondence include, for example, the following (C1) to (C5).

(C1) Obstacle: The occurrence of a broken ball (caused by a ball jam generated in a payout ball tank provided on the back surface of the front door) is detected.

Action: A ball jam is eliminated so that the ball can flow without delay in the payout tank.

(C2) Obstacle: The medal lending machine detects a medal expiration.

Response: The medals are supplied by a predetermined manual operation or the like.

(C3) Obstacle: End of game.

Response: The dollar box (containing balls accumulated by the game) of the customer who has finished the game is transported to the counter 11 in FIG.

(C4) Failure: A medal overflow is detected by the pachislot machine (medals overflowing from the hopper bucket are accumulated in the overflow bucket, and when the overflow bucket is filled with the medal, the overflow bucket switch is turned on. Overflow is detected).

Response: The medals stored in the overflow bucket are removed, and the reset switch is pressed.

(C5) Failure: A medal insertion error is detected by the pachislo machine (when a medal is jammed in the selector or a foreign substance is mixed in, the medal insertion error is detected).

Action: Remove the jammed medals or foreign matter and press the reset button.

On the other hand, in the above embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the employee system has a pyramid-type structure in which the number of employees having a higher management ability level is reduced. The distribution of the number of employees in each hall may vary from hall to hall.

The present invention is not applied only when the structure has the pyramid type. For example, an employee structure with a higher number of employees with higher management skills,
The present invention is also effective for an employee system in which all employees have the highest management ability level.

In the above embodiment, the management ability of the employees is classified according to the level difference between the high and low levels. However, the management ability may be classified according to the type of the management ability.

For example, the pachinko machine and the pachislot machine are mixed in the system 10, and the management ability type of a certain employee PA can cope with the failure of the pachinko machine but cannot cope with the failure of the pachislot machine. The management capability type of another employee PB cannot cope with the failure of the pachinko machine, but it can cope with the failure of the pachislot machine, and the management capability type of another employee PC can also cope with the failure of the pachinko machine. This is effective when it is possible to deal with

Further, among the same pachinko machines, for example, according to the model, it is possible to classify, for example, a management capability type that can support a model A pachinko machine and a management capability type that can support a model B pachinko machine. is there.

Furthermore, the management ability of each employee may be classified according to a combination of the level difference between the high and low levels and the type difference.

In the above embodiment, a large-scale hall has been described as an example. However, the application of the present invention is not limited to a large-scale hall. The present invention is effective in a medium-sized hall, a small-sized hall, and the like.

It is also possible to omit the memories 64 to 66. In this case, however, it is unavoidable that the adjustment capability of the hole computer in the adjustment process is reduced. 66 (however, the number of memories and the correspondence relationship between each memory and a failure (A to C) do not have to be as described in the above embodiment).

[0229]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to more efficiently rearrange each of the management actors in the game arcade than in the past.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a main part of a hall computer according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of a main part of the pachinko machine and the island mechanism according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating an external appearance of a pachinko machine management employee allocation system according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an employee system according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a main part of the mobile communication device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the mobile communication device according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a format configuration of a message and unit data used in the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration example of a capability data table used in the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration example of an island table used in the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view showing an example of the appearance of a pachinko machine used in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1A to 16A, 1B to 16B, 1C to 16C, 1D to 1
6D, 1E to 16E, 1F to 16F, 1G to 16G: Pachinko machine, 10: Pachinko machine management employee allocation system,
11 counter, 12 network, 13 hall computer, 31 lamp switch, 33, 43, 53
... Fault detection unit, 60 ... Fault monitoring unit, 61: Fault identification unit,
62: write processing unit, 63: management schedule storage unit, 64-66: memory, 67: read processing unit, 68
... failure handling unit, 69 ... capacity data table, 70 ... island table, 71 ... transmitting unit, 80 ... portable communication device, 81 ... receiving unit, 82 ... reception processing unit, 83 ... queuing unit, 84
... Reception detection unit, 85 ... Display unit, 86 ... Identifier storage unit, M
E3, ME4, MEA... Messages, P1 to P6... Pachinko machine management employees, CM... Action instruction signals.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Noriyuki Nonaka 3-1-1 Ariake Frontier Building, Koto-ku, Tokyo Ariake Frontier Building (72) Inventor Masahiko Harita 3-1-1 25 Ariake Frontier Building, Koto-ku, Tokyo Ariake Frontier Building F Term (reference) 2C088 CA04 CA35

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. An arrangement and command system for a plurality of gaming machines and a plurality of management actors whose main duty is to manage the gaming machines, wherein the arrangement and command system of the game arcade management actors comprises: A dynamic event detection means for detecting a management action subject input event that dynamically occurs according to the operation status; and performing a predetermined input adjustment process according to the occurrence status of the management action subject input event. And a rearrangement commanding means for directing the rearrangement of each of the management action bodies in the game hall based on the rearrangement information obtained as a result of the adjustment processing. 2. The arrangement and command system according to claim 1, wherein the relocation command means includes: a management action subject input event detected by the dynamic event detection means; An arrangement and command system for a game hall management action subject, comprising a queue formation unit for forming a queue processed by the input of the management action subject. 3. The arrangement and command system of a game hall management action subject according to claim 2, wherein the relocation command means assigns a priority to each management action subject input event that has occurred,
A game center management action main body arrangement and command system, comprising: a priority control unit that controls formation of the queue so that a management action main body input event having a higher priority is processed earlier. 4. The arrangement and command system according to claim 1, wherein the relocation command means associates each of the management actors with ability information indicating the management action ability. An arrangement and command system for game hall management actors, comprising a management ability management unit for managing the game hall. 5. The arrangement and command system according to claim 1, wherein the rearrangement command means is an aggregate of a plurality of game machines when the number of the game machines is large. A game center management action-oriented arrangement command system, comprising: a game machine cluster management unit that forms a plurality of machine clusters and executes the rearrangement in units of the game machine cluster. 6. The arrangement and command system according to claim 5, wherein each of the management actors has been assigned in advance a gaming machine cluster in which the management actor itself performs a management action. Arrangement and command system for game hall management actors. 7. The arrangement and command system according to claim 1, wherein each of the gaming machines is provided with management action request means for requesting the management action subject to perform a management action. A game center management and action arrangement and command system. 8. The arrangement and command system according to claim 7, wherein the management action subject is equipped with a portable communication device, wherein the relocation command means communicates with the portable communication device. By providing a command communication unit for commanding the rearrangement, each of the gaming machines is provided with an optical communication means as the management action request means, a game hall management action subject arrangement command system. 9. The arrangement and command system of a game hall management action subject according to claim 1, wherein the rearrangement command means specifies the management action subject to be input and the game machine to which the management action subject is input. And a command generation unit that configures the command of the rearrangement. 10. The arrangement and command system according to claim 6, wherein the rearrangement and commanding means includes: an assignment information management unit that manages assignment information indicating a status of the assignment; When a plurality of management action subject input events occur simultaneously in the machine cluster, an assignment information change unit that assigns the plurality of management action subjects to the gaming machine cluster contrary to the assignment information is provided. Arrangement and command system for playground management activities. 11. The arrangement and command system according to claim 1, wherein a static event detecting means for detecting a management action subject input event generated statically according to an operation state of each of the gaming machines. An arrangement and command system for game hall management actors, comprising: