JP2709681B2 - Medal dropping machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in a medal-dropping game machine in which medals are inserted through a medal insertion slot, and a lot of medals are competed to be collected by the inserted medals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as this kind of medal dropping game machine, a medal falling board surface for sliding a medal inserted from a medal slot and falling, a medal stock board surface arranged below the medal falling board surface, It is known that a medal collecting section provided at the tip of the stock board, a sliding member that slides on the medal stock board in a direction approaching or moving away from the medal collecting section, and a medal tray communicating with the medal collecting section are known. (JP-A-4-240467)
No.).

[0003] Further, a prize port is provided for moving in the medal flow-down board surface, and when a medal inserted from the medal insertion port and falling along the medal falling board surface is awarded in the prize port, the medal tray in the normal state is placed in the medal tray. Apart from the medal collecting process, there is known a method of paying out a plurality of medals for a player (for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. Sho 63-305, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Sho 61-185286).

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional medal dropping machine, the number of medals which are pushed out to the medal collecting portion by the sliding member and paid out to the player at one time is limited. There was a problem that there was little change. In addition, separately from the medal payout process by pushing out the sliding member, on condition of winning the winning opening,
The medals to be paid out are also merely conditioned on the winning of medals into the winning opening, and the number of medals to be paid out is also predetermined and has little change and lacks interest.

Therefore, a medal dropping game machine according to claim 1 has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and its purpose is to change the manner of paying out medals. It is surprising,
It is intended to provide an interesting medal dropping machine.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is to achieve the above-mentioned object, and its contents will be described below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings. A medal dropping game machine according to claim 1, wherein the medal slot (61) and a medal shooting device for shooting medals inserted from the medal slot (61).
(60) and a medal falling board surface (20) that is provided in the direction in which the medal fired from the medal launching device (60) is fired and in which the shot medals flow, and is provided on the medal falling board surface (20). A plurality of medal cups arranged in a matrix that can accept fired medals and discharge the received medals to the medal downflow surface (20)
(21), a medal detecting means (100) for detecting medals that have passed through each medal cup (21), and a medal flowing board surface (20) provided below the medal flowing board surface (20) below the medal cup (21). A gate (23) for temporarily blocking some of the medals that are closed and flowing down the medal downflow surface (20), and at the time of opening, allow the blocked medals to flow down to the medal downflow surface (20),
A medal stock board surface (30) that is provided below the medal flowing board surface (20) at the position via the gate (23) and stores medals flowing down the medal flowing board surface (20), and the medal stock board surface ( 30) By sliding on the top of the medal stock board (30) toward the tip, the medal stock board (30)
A sliding member (40) for sequentially pushing the medals stored on the top in the direction of the tip of the medal stock board (30), and a medal stock board (30) provided at the tip of the medal stock board (30) and pushed out by the sliding member (40). A medal collection unit (50) where the dropped medals fall,
A plurality of patterns are displayed, a plurality of rotating reels (12 to 14) arranged side by side, a reel drive source (112) for rotating each of the rotating reels (12 to 14), and the medal detecting means (100 ) Based on the medal detection signal from the reel drive source (112) when it is determined that the medal has passed through a specific medal cup (21) set in advance among the medal cups (21) arranged in a matrix. ), And a drive control means (92) for stopping the drive of the reel drive source (112) after a lapse of a predetermined time, and the plurality of rotating reels (12 to 14).
Stop symbol determining means (93) to determine the stop position of each
If the combination of the stopped symbols matches a predetermined specific prize mode based on the stopped symbol information from the stopped symbol determining means (93), the specific prize for outputting the specific winning signal Mode determining means (94), a profit providing means (111) for providing a profit to a player based on a specific winning signal from the specific prize mode determining means (94), and the medal detecting means (100) Based on the medal detection information from, if the combination of the medal cup (21) containing a medal matches the preset bingo combination, while outputting the opening signal of the gate (23), A bingo combination determining means (95) for starting the driving of the reel drive source (112), and a gate opening for opening the gate (23) based on a gate (23) opening signal from the bingo combination determining means (95). Means (110).

[0007]

[Operation] Therefore, according to the medal dropping machine described in claim 1, medals inserted from the medal insertion slot (61) and fired in the direction of the medal falling board surface (20) are transferred to the medal falling board surface (20). After being received by any one of the medal cups (21) arranged in a matrix provided on the medal flowing surface (20) or flowing down the medal flowing surface (20). .

[0008] The medals that have flowed down the medal downflow surface (20)
It flows down to the medal stock surface (30) or is blocked on the medal flow surface (20) by the gate (23) in a closed state. The medals that have flowed down to the medal stock surface (30) are either stocked directly on the medal stock surface (30) or overlapped with medals already stored on the medal stock surface (30). Is done.
The medals stored on the medal stock surface (30) are moved by the sliding member (40) to the medal stock surface (30).
, Ie, toward the medal collecting section (50).

On the other hand, when it is determined based on the medal detection information from the medal detecting means (100) that the medal has passed a predetermined specific medal cup (21), the reel drive source (112) As a result, the driving of the rotating reels (12 to 14) is started and stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed. Stop symbol judgment means
Based on the stopped symbol information from (93), the specific prize mode determining means (94) determines whether or not the combination of stopped symbols matches a predetermined specific prize mode.

As a result, if the combination of the stopped and displayed patterns matches a predetermined specific prize mode, a specific prize mode signal is output from the specific prize mode determination means (94). The profit giving means (111) gives a profit to the player based on the specific winning signal. In addition, medal cup (2
When the medal passes 1), based on the medal detection information from the medal detection means (100), the combination of the medal cups (21) that the medal has passed matches the bingo combination set in advance. If it is determined, bingo combination determination means
An opening signal of the gate (23) is output from (95).

The gate opening means (110) opens the gate (23) based on the opening signal of the gate (23). Gate
When (23) is opened, the medals that have been blocked by the gate (23) on the medal flowing surface (20) flow downward and are stocked on the medal stock surface (30). Since the medals blocked by the gate (23) flow down to the medal stock surface (30) at once, when the number of medals stored is large, many medals flow down to the medal stock surface (30) and Therefore, by the sliding member (40),
A large amount of medals are pushed out toward the medal collecting unit (50).

As described above, the medal detecting means (10
Based on the medal detection information from (0), if it is determined that the combination of the medal cups (21) through which the medals have passed matches the preset bingo combination, the gate (2)
With the opening operation of 3), the rotation of the rotating reels (12 to 14) is started and stopped after a predetermined time elapses, and it is determined whether or not the combination of stopped symbols matches a specific prize mode as described above. The determination is made by the prize mode determination means (94).

[0013]

1 to 4 show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a medal dropping game machine, FIG. 2 is a schematic front view of the medal dropping game machine, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a perspective view, and FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a bingo mode.
In the figure, reference numeral 10 denotes a medal-dropping gaming machine. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the medal-dropping gaming machine 10 has square display windows 11... A plurality, three in this embodiment, are provided. In the display windows 11, one rotating reel is arranged corresponding to each, and a total of three rotating reels 12 to 14 are arranged. Although not shown, the three rotating reels 12 to 14 have a plurality of patterns on the outer periphery, for example, "7", "fruit", "cherry".
Are displayed, and as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, one picture is displayed for each of the display windows 11.
Are formed so that a total of three pictures can be displayed.

Below the three rotating reels 12 to 14, there is provided a medal falling board surface 20 which is inclined forward and can flow medals. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the medal falling board surface 20 is provided with a total of 16 medal cups 21... Each medal cup 21…
Are formed in a cylindrical shape having upper and lower openings so that medals can pass therethrough, and sensors (FIG. 1) serving as medal detection means 22...

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, at the lowermost end of the medal falling board surface 20, a plate-like gate 23 for blocking the dropped medal is provided in the width direction. This gate
23 is located at the center in the width direction of the medal flowing surface 20 and receives most of the medals flowing down the medal flowing surface 20;
It is formed to be slightly shorter than the width of the medal falling board surface 20 so that a part of the medal falling board surface 20 is formed.
The medals that flow down 20 are blocked, and when opened, the medals fall down to allow the blocked medals to flow down.

At a position below the gate 23, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a medal stock board surface 30 for stocking medals flowing down the medal falling board surface 20 is provided. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the medal stock surface 30 is connected to two horizontal portions 31 and 33 at different heights where medals are stocked, and substantially vertically to the two horizontal portions 31 and 33. It is formed in a substantially step-like shape constituted by the provided vertical portion 32.

The horizontal portions 31, 33 of the medal stock board 30
As shown in FIG. 3, a sliding member 40 for pushing the stored medals forward is provided. As shown in FIG. 3, the sliding member 40 pushes the stored medals to the front, and has a substantially semicircular pressing plate 41, and a driving device (not shown) for driving the pressing plate 41. The driving device is driven, and the pressing body 41 is driven through the connecting rods 42 so that the pressing members 41 are connected to the horizontal portions 31 and 33 of the medal stock board 30. Is formed so as to slide in the direction of the tip of the medal stock board surface 30.

As shown in FIG. 3, a medal collecting unit 50 is provided at the tip of the medal stock board surface 30 for collecting medals pressed and moved by the sliding member 40 in the tip direction. As shown in FIG. 2, a discharge unit 70 for paying out medals collected from the medal collection unit 50 to the player is formed at the lowermost position of the medal dropping machine 10.
The discharge unit 70 includes a rectangular discharge port 71 for communicating a medal to the player in communication with the medal collection unit 50, and a discharge port 71.
And a medal tray 72 formed in front of.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a medal shooting device 60 is provided in front of the medal stock surface 30 via a medal collecting unit 50. The medal launcher 60
It comprises a firing unit (not shown) for firing medals, a medal insertion slot 61 for inserting medals into the firing unit, and an operating rod 62 for adjusting the shooting direction of medals.

The firing portion includes a drum-shaped rotating body (not shown) which rotates in the direction of the medal falling board surface 20 and a projection formed so as to protrude from the outer periphery of the drum-shaped rotating body. . Then, by rotating the rotating body, the medals are flipped at the protrusions and can be fired in the direction of the medal falling board surface 20. The medal slot 61 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, the operation rod is formed so as to be movable left and right within a slit portion 63 formed in the width direction of the upper part of the launching device 60.
By changing the shooting position of the medals in the left-right direction in FIG.
20 positions can be changed.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a medal passing display section 24 is disposed between the rotating reels 12 to 14 and the medal falling board surface 20. This medal passing display part 24
Corresponds to the above-described medal cups 21..., The 16 light-emitting portions 25 are arranged in a matrix, and the light-emitting portions 25 at the positions corresponding to the medal cups 21 through which the medals have passed emit light, thereby giving the player On the other hand, a medal cup 21 through which a medal has passed is displayed.

Next, referring to FIG.
Will be described. As shown in FIG. 1, the control circuit of the medal dropping game machine 10 includes, for example, a CPU, a RO,
It comprises a central control unit 90 mainly composed of M, RAM and I / O ports. On the input side of the central control unit 90, as shown in FIG. 1, a medal detecting means 100 such as a microswitch for detecting a medal passing through the medal cups 21 one by one and outputting a detection signal is provided by an I / O. Connected through.

On the output side of the central control device 90, a gate opening means 110 for opening a gate 23 for blocking medals on the medal falling board surface 20, and a gate opening means 110 for giving a profit to a player. Profit giving means 111 and three rotating reels 1
A reel drive source 112 composed of, for example, three stepping motors for individually rotating 2 to 14 is connected via a driver.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 1, the central control unit 90 outputs the accessory cup determining means 91 for outputting an accessory cup determining signal, and the medal detection signal from the medal detecting means 100. When it is determined that the medal has passed through the accessory cup specified by the accessory cup determination signal from the cup determining means 91, the drive control means 92 for starting the driving of the reel drive source 112 and the drive control means 92 Stop symbol determining means 93 for specifying a stop symbol of the three rotating reels 12 to 14 based on the drive control signal and outputting a stop symbol signal.
Based on the stop symbol signal from the stop symbol determination means 93, if the stop symbol displayed in the display window 11 matches a specific prize mode set in advance, the profit giving signal is output. Based on the specific prize mode determining means 94 to be output and the medal detection signal from the medal detecting means 100, the pocket in which the medal has passed is specified, and the combination of the medal cups 21 in which the medal has passed becomes a predetermined bingo combination. If they match, a bingo combination that outputs an open signal for the gate 23, outputs a start signal to the drive control means 92, and outputs a character cup determination start signal to the character cup determination means 91 And determination means 95.

The accessory cup determining means 91 rotates the spinning reels 12 to 14 when the medals of the medal cups 21 have passed, based on the accessory cup determination start signal from the bingo winning combination determining means 95. Starts medal cup 21…
Is determined, and an accessory cup determination signal is output. The stop symbol determining means 93, as shown in FIG.
The drive control signal from the drive control means 92, that is, the drive pulses supplied to the three stepping motors as the reel drive source 112 are counted, and the three rotary reels 12 are counted based on the preset symbol information. The stop symbols of ~ 14 are determined.

As shown in FIG. 1, based on the stop symbol signal from the stop symbol determination means 93, the specific prize mode determining means 94 determines the combination of the three stop symbols displayed in the display windows 11. When the predetermined prize mode is matched, for example, when three symbols “7” are completed, a specific prize signal is output to the profit giving means 111. Profit granting means 111
Pays out a specific number of medals to a player upon input of a specific winning signal. Specifically, medals are discharged to the medal tray 72 through the discharge port 71.

If the combination of the medal cups 21 through which the medals form a bingo combination is based on the medal detection information from the medal detection means 100, 4A, a case where four combinations of the medal cups through which the medals pass are arranged in one horizontal row, a case where the combinations are arranged in one vertical column as shown in FIG. 4B, and FIG. 4C. As such, when they are arranged diagonally in one row,
A gate opening signal is output to the gate opening means 110. The bingo hand determination unit 95 outputs an opening signal for the gate 23 and outputs a bonus cup determination signal to the bonus cup determination unit 91.

According to the coin dropping game machine 10, a game can be started by inserting a medal through the medal insertion slot 61. The medals inserted from the medal insertion slot 61 are fired from the medal shooting device 60 in the direction of the medal falling board surface 20. The shooting direction of the medals can be changed in the left-right direction by operating the operating rod 62 and moving the position of the medal insertion slot 61 in the slit 53.

The medals fired in the direction of the medal falling board surface 20 hit the medal falling board surface 20 and flow downward, or after being received by the medal cups 21. It flows down. Also,
The medals that have flowed down the medal flowing surface 20 are blocked by the gate 23 in the closed state, or flow down onto the medal stock surface 30 and are stocked as they are.

Next, the medals stocked on the medal stock board 30 are pushed out toward the medal collecting section 50 by the pressing body 41 of the sliding member 40 sliding back and forth on the medal stock board 30 while the medals collide with each other. It is. The pushed medals fall into the medal collecting unit 50 in order from the one located at the tip in the direction of the medal collecting unit 50. On the other hand, when the combination of the medal cups 21 through which the medals have passed matches the predetermined bingo combination as shown in FIG. 4, the gate 23 is opened, and the medals blocked by the gate 23 are removed. It flows down the medal flow-down surface 20 and is stocked on the medal stock surface 30. Therefore, if a large number of medals are blocked at the gate 23, a large amount of medals will be stocked on the medal stock board 30.
Due to the sliding of the pressing member 41 of the sliding member 40, the number of medals collected by the medal collecting unit 50 also increases, so that many benefits are provided to the player.

In addition, the medal cup 21 through which the medal has passed ...
4, the rotation of the spinning reels 12 to 14 is started together with the opening operation of the gate 23, and the spinning reels are rotated after a predetermined time elapses, as shown in FIG. Is stopped. Then, when it is determined that the three symbols of the spinning reel stopped and displayed match the specific prize mode, a predetermined number of medals are paid out to the player as described above.

Further, when a medal passes through a special-purpose cup determined by the special-purpose cup determining means 91 among the medal cups, the rotation reel is driven via the drive control means 92.
The rotation of 12 to 14 is started. Processing is performed in the same manner as described above.
In the above-described embodiment, the profit provided by the profit providing means 111 has been described as paying out a specific number of medals. In this case, however, the payout number may be fixed or, for example, "7" ”, The number of“ 1 ”
The number of medals to be paid out may be changed according to the type of the arranged pattern, so as to pay out "10" in the case of another design such as "5", "fruit" or "cherry".

If the combination of the medal cups 21 through which the medals form a bingo combination is based on the medal detection information from the medal detection means 100, Although it has been described that the gate opening signal is output to the opening unit 110, in addition to the output of the gate opening signal, the medal shown in FIG. According to the combination of the medal cups 21, the medals may be paid out to the player. Specifically, in the case of the combination indicated by “a” and “e” in FIG.
-D "and" f-h "," 5 ",
In the case of the combination indicated by “i” and “j”, “15” medals may be paid out.

[0034]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects. Claim 1
According to the described medal-dropping gaming machine, a medal-dropping gaming machine which is rich in unexpectedness and is interesting can be provided by giving a change to the payout mode of medals.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a medal dropping game machine.

FIG. 2 is a schematic front view of the medal dropping game machine.

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view of the same.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of a bingo combination.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 medal dropping game machine 11 display window 12-14 spinning reel 20 medal falling board 21 medal cup 22 medal detecting means 23 gate 30 medal stock board 24 medal passing display part 25 light emitting part 40 sliding member 41 pressing plate 42 connecting rod 50 medal Collection unit 60 Medal launcher 61 Medal slot 62 Operating rod 63 Slit unit 70 Medal discharge unit 71 Discharge port 72 Medal tray 90 Central control unit 91 Local cup determining means 92 Drive control means 93 Stop symbol determining means 94 Specific prize mode determination Means 95 Bingo hand determination means 100 Medal detection means 110 Gate opening means 111 Profit giving means 112 Reel drive source

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A medal slot, a medal shooting device for shooting medals inserted from the medal slot, and a medal shooting device provided in a shooting direction of medals fired from the medal shooting device. A plurality of medal cups arranged in a matrix, the medal falling board surface being provided on the medal falling board surface, capable of receiving the shot medals, and discharging the received medals to the medal falling board surface; Medal detection means for detecting medals that have passed through the medal cup; provided below the medal cup surface below the medal flow surface, and are always closed, and temporarily close a part of the medal flowing down the medal flow surface. At the time of blocking and opening, a gate that allows the blocked medal to flow down to the medal flow-down surface, and a medal flow at a position through this gate A medal stock surface provided below the medal flow surface of the lower plate for storing medals flowing down the medal flow surface, and a medal stock surface stored on the medal stock surface by sliding on the medal stock surface in a tip direction of the medal stock surface. A sliding member that sequentially pushes the pushed medals in the direction of the front end of the medal stock board surface; a medal collection unit that is provided at the front end of the medal stock board surface and into which the medals pushed out by the sliding member fall; A plurality of rotating reels displayed and arranged side by side, a reel drive source for rotating each rotating reel, and a medal cup arranged in a matrix vertically based on a medal detection signal from the medal detecting means. When it is determined that the medal has passed the specified medal cup, the drive of the reel drive source is started. A drive control unit that stops driving of the reel drive source after a predetermined time has elapsed, a stop symbol determination unit that determines a stop position of each of the plurality of rotating reels, and a stop symbol information from the stop symbol determination unit. In the case where the combination of stopped symbols matches a predetermined specific prize mode, a specific prize mode determination means for outputting a specific prize signal, and a specific prize signal from the specific prize mode determination means are provided. Based on the medal detection information from the medal detection means, the combination of the medal cup containing the medals matches the bingo combination set in advance. In this case, the bingo combination determining means for outputting the gate opening signal and starting the driving of the reel drive source; and opening the gate from the bingo combination determination means. Based on the signal, the gaming machine is dropped medal is characterized in that a gate opening means for opening the gate.