JPS6045372A - Picture pattern moving apparatus of electromotive throttle machine - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a symbol moving device for an electric slot machine. More specifically, the present invention relates to a symbol moving device that can re-move the symbols on the stopped reels.

Electric slot machines have multiple reels (usually six) with many symbols displayed around them, a stepping motor that rotates each reel, and a stop switch that stops each reel. The reels are rotated by inserting medals and driving the stepping motor, and when the player operates a stop switch at will, the corresponding reels are stopped one after another, and each stopped reel is displayed at a specific position. It is configured to detect a combination of symbols and pay out a predetermined number of coins only when the combination of symbols is a specific combination.

In this way, all conventional slot machines, including not only electric type machines but also mechanically driven ones, are 1 Once the stop switch is activated to stop the reels, the reels will no longer rotate until the game ends. It is not possible to move the picture.

The present invention has been completed in order to add a part to the conventional slot machine that allows players to participate in the game. The present invention relates to a pattern moving device that can rotate the stop reel and move the pattern to form a desired pattern within the time limit.

Next, the apparatus of the present invention will be explained with reference to a schematic block diagram of the function realizing means shown in FIG.

(1), (2) and (3) are all slot machine reels, and each is powered by a stepping motor (4),
(5) , driven by (a). θ is a start switch □, which is usually used in the form of a lever switch.

When the start switch 00) is activated, the basic clock signal is generated at 1υ and is converted into a 4 bus for excitation of the stepping motor for driving each reel, and the stepping motors (4), (5), (6) ) to drive.

The positions of the symbols displayed on the reels are determined by the basic clock signal and the reference position detectors (7) and (8) for the symbols on the reels, which are placed on each reel (1), (2), and (8), respectively.
) and (9) are constantly detected by the symbol detecting means ( ) to which the reference position signal of the symbol on the reel is input.

02), Qg) and (14) are reel (1) respectively
, (2), and (3), and the stepping motors (4), (5), and (6) are stopped by the operation of each switch (+2), (13), and (1→). do.

The picture detection means 06) receives the basic clock signal and the reel reference position signal, detects the position of the displayed picture on the stopped reel, and outputs the stop position signal of the displayed picture to the picture combination determination means 06).

The display pattern position is detected by the pattern detection means) in a conventional manner. For example, reel (1
) When a protrusion (not shown) indicating a reference symbol provided on the reel passes the reference position detector (7) of the symbol on the reel, the number counter in the symbol detection means (15) is activated.
(not shown) to zero. When comparing the specific number of steps of the basic clock signal with the rotation of the symbols on the reels, the number of steps of the basic clock signal matches the movement of the symbols, so the number of steps of the basic clock signal is counted by the reel counter and displayed. The position of the pattern can be detected.

The picture combination determining means 06) receives the display picture stop position signal from the picture detecting means θ5), judges whether the combination is a predetermined specific combination, and determines whether or not the combination of stopped pictures matches the specific combination. Only when the medals are the same, the payout number information set for that specific combination is output to the payout number determining means (17), and the payout means (E) is driven to pay out a predetermined number of medals.

Information on the state of the reels, that is, information on whether each reel is rotating or stopped, is constantly sent from the symbol detection means to the reel state detection means. The reel state detection means 0) detects the reel state information, and sends an output to the stamping motor drive means) and the timer Q◇ when the first reel stop information is input. This output is maintained until the next reel stop information is input. 1 timer 0 sends an output to the re-driving means for a predetermined period of time based on the input from the reel state detecting means (19).

(to the stamping motor drive means), Hong = attack 1, -
- Only while there is input from the reel state detection means (1g) and the timer 〇〇, a signal is sent to the driver means ◇υ to enable re-driving only the stepping motor of the reel that was initially stopped.

The driver means (11) generates a basic clock signal and drives the stepping motor by reactivating the corresponding stop switch only while the re-drive enable signal is input, and rotates the y to move the picture. let The basic clock signal at this time is sent to the symbol detection means) and is used as symbol position information after the reels have stopped.

When using this inventive device, the reels that have been stopped can be restarted under certain conditions, allowing the player to move the reels to desired symbols.

The symbols on the reels are moved by operating the stop switch again, and various methods can be used to make the symbols move. For example, the symbols may be moved one by one, a plurality of pictures, or randomly by reactivating the stop switch once.

Further, the re-driving time set by the timer can be arbitrarily selected, but it is preferably set to about 1 to 5 seconds, usually 2 to 3 seconds.

FIG. 2 shows a schematic block diagram of hardware corresponding to the function realizing means shown in FIG. 1.

Hl (3D and Hi c13 are Tsuretsure CPU, ROM
E, J: URAM, and the address bus (to) is connected to each other and the input port (to) and output port (to)
Oyohi data t< s (connected by 3η).

The input capo 1 (b) includes a start switch αo), an input coin detector μs, and a payout coin counter C39.

-Reel stop switch (+2), (13), (1→ and reel symbol reference position detector (γ), (8>, (9
) signals are sent.

Stepping motor (4) from fly boat c39,
(5), (0) and output to the payout hopper motor 6o.

Although not shown, the signals are also output to various display lamps.

Next, FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a schematic flowchart in which the function realizing means shown in FIG. 1 is achieved by using four microphones and a computer. In this embodiment, the setting time of the timer is 6 seconds, and the number of patterns moved by one reactivation of the stop switch is one.

Each symbol in FIG. 6 indicates the respective processing and judgment.

(100): Initial setting of input/output boat (101):
Have medals been added? (102) Is the start switch ON? (103): Oscillation of basic clock signal (1
104): Is there an input from the reel's 7 sensor?
(105) : Set the counter that detects the symbol position on the reels to 0 (106) : ! Did the number of basic clock signal steps corresponding to one J-ru symbol oscillate? (107): Reel counter +1 (108): Is the stop switch ON? (109): Is the ON of that stop switch the first ON of all the stop switches? (110) : Stop the excitation of that reel (111) : Save the stopped symbols of that reel (112
)! ! Are all three J-Rails stopped? (113
): Compare the combination of the three reel display symbols and the winning combination (114): Won? (115) : Payout coins 200) : Stop excitation of that reel (201) : Set timer for 6 seconds (202) :
The number of symbols moved per restart of the stop switch is set to 1.
Set to (203): Is the stop switch ON? (204): Is the stop switch that was turned on the first stop or -y stop switch? (205): ! Has it been within 6 seconds since the I-ru stopped?
(206): When using the symbol moving device of the present invention, the basic number of steps required to advance one symbol is oscillated to the stepping motor. You can change it freely and create the pattern you want.

To explain this operation in detail, first, after inserting medals, the start switch is activated to rotate the reels. Next, a stop switch on one of the reels is activated by, for example, being pressed to stop that reel. Then, when the stop switch is pressed, the reels rotate a predetermined number or a random number of symbols. This movement can be performed any number of times within a predetermined period of time, but this operation becomes impossible when other reels are stopped.

By allowing the player to perform the operations described above, if he or she does not like the pattern on the reels that was initially stopped, he or she can freely change it. The game machine can be made to have greater player participation.

[BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS] Fig. 1 is a schematic block diagram of the function realizing means of the picture moving device of the present invention, and Fig. 2 is an example of an electronic circuit used to achieve the function realizing means shown in Fig. 1. A schematic block diagram of
FIG. 6 is a 70-chart of an embodiment of a program for operating an electric squat machine equipped with the device of the present invention. (Main symbols in the drawing) (1), (2), (8): Reel (4), (5), (6): Stepping motor (7
), (8k (o): Reel symbol reference position detector QO) Ni start switch θυ: Driver means (b), Qa), θ4): Reel stop switch (15
): Symbol detection means 06): Symbol combination determination means (17): Payout number determining means θ8): Medal payout means (b)): Reel condition detection means): Stepping motor drive means G! 1): Timer 01: CPU 09: ROM 0: RAM 04): Input boat I3-Double output boat Patent applicant Leisure Instruments Co., Ltd. □゛-λ

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1(a) A plurality of reels each having a plurality of symbols displayed around them; (13) A stepping motor 1 for rotationally driving each reel; (Q) A stepper motor 1 provided corresponding to each stepping motor; a stop switch that stops the corresponding stepping motor; (1) Reel status detection means that outputs an output when the first reel stops; (e) Enabled state upon input from the J-le status detection means. stepping motor re-driving means; (f) a timer for maintaining the stepping motor re-driving means in an enabled state for a predetermined period of time based on an input from the IJ-ru state detecting means; and (g) while there is an input from the stepping motor re-driving means; It consists of a driver means that re-drives the stepping motor by reactivating the stop switch of the reel that stopped first, and the output of the stepping motor re-driving means is maintained while all other reels are rotating and within a time set by a timer. 2. A symbol moving device for an electric slot machine, characterized in that the stepping motor re-driving means moves one symbol on the reel with one re-activation of a stop switch. 6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the stepping motor re-driving means moves a plurality of symbols on the reel by one re-activation of a stop switch. 4. The stepping motor re-driving means: 2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the symbols on the reels move randomly with one reactivation of the stop switch.