EP0178278A1 - Vorrichtung zur Fernübertragung des Guthabens eines Spielautomaten mittels Impulsen - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zur Fernübertragung des Guthabens eines Spielautomaten mittels Impulsen Download PDF

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EP0178278A1
EP0178278A1 EP85870075A EP85870075A EP0178278A1 EP 0178278 A1 EP0178278 A1 EP 0178278A1 EP 85870075 A EP85870075 A EP 85870075A EP 85870075 A EP85870075 A EP 85870075A EP 0178278 A1 EP0178278 A1 EP 0178278A1
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control unit
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Jean-Claude Julien Franck
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3202—Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
    • G07F17/3223—Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3225—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
    • G07F17/3232—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users wherein the operator is informed
    • G07F17/3234—Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users wherein the operator is informed about the performance of a gaming system, e.g. revenue, diagnosis of the gaming system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F5/00—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks
    • G07F5/18—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks specially adapted for controlling several coin-freed apparatus from one place
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F9/00—Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus
    • G07F9/002—Vending machines being part of a centrally controlled network of vending machines

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  • the present invention relates to a remote control device by pulses, credit of an automatic device.
  • an automatic device is generally carried out using an appropriate device, for example a lever microswitch, to convert the passage of a coin, token or other credit indicator into an impulse. electric to charge a credit.
  • an appropriate device for example a lever microswitch
  • the number of parts required to switch on the automatic equipment, inter alia, to start a game is more than one.
  • the user may be led, during a game or the implementation of the automatic device, to introduce into the coin slots, other coins.
  • a known device for remote control by pulses, crediting an automatic apparatus comprises a remote control box provided with a counter-display, a connecting cable comprising several wires electrically isolated from each other and a counter- credit accumulator.
  • the player supplies the automatic device by paying the manager a fixed sum which he enters in the counter-display using a credit button.
  • the manager transfers point by point to the game machine, 1 provision paid, by pressing a button on the remote control unit of the counter-display in order to produce various pulses of an electrical signal.
  • This signal is transmitted using the connecting cable to a credit accumulator.
  • this cable has always consisted of a multi-wire cable.
  • connection cap between the display counter and the accumulator counter is the object of attempts at fraud and cheating on the part of the player and even of the manager of the machine, because he is not generally the owner of the machine .
  • cheating consists in carrying out a crediting of the automatic device without paying, and for the manager, it consists in avoiding that the points which are paid to him and that he transfers to the counter- accumulator are not registered on the remote control display counter.
  • a common way to cheat is to insert a needle into the cable sheath to cause electrical contact.
  • optical cables have some drawbacks, the most important of which are the power losses and their price, due in particular to the high cost of the coupling members.
  • the present invention aims to remedy this drawback and provides a link between microprocessors, the security and immunity of which are fully guaranteed and at a low price, lower than that of known cable connections.
  • It relates to a device for remote control by pulses, for crediting an automatic device.
  • This device is essentially characterized in that it includes an optionally bidirectional link by optical cable between the automatic device and a remote credit control unit.
  • the output signals from photoreceptors intended to convert a light signal into an electrical signal are amplified and shaped by a device consisting of an amplifier transistor and a voltage comparator driving the inputs of the microprocessors mounted in the electronic game and respectively in the control unit.
  • the data bus of the microprocessor of the control block comprises a group of 16 encoding contacts mounted in terms of contacts allowing the encoding of a binary dialogue key between the remote control block of the credit and the interface mounted in the electronic game.
  • a credit pulse control device of an automatic device comprises a control unit 2 provided with a counter-display 3 connected by a connecting cable 4 to the automatic game device 1 proper.
  • the control unit 2 includes buttons 5 for crediting with the help of which the game manager entered in the counter-display 3, the provision paid by a player.
  • the connecting cable 4 makes it possible to transfer the points entered in the counter-display 3 corresponding to the provision paid, to a counter-totalizer of credit 6 mounted in the game apparatus 1.
  • the credit pulse control device comprises a bidirectional link by optical cable 4 between the automatic device 1 and the remote credit control unit 2.
  • the exchange of information by optical cable 4 is done by "all or nothing" pulse transmissions.
  • the alternation of light emissions and extinctions makes it possible to transmit binary bits and therefore also information encoded in binary form.
  • encoding is carried out in a binary frame transmitted in series according to a dialogue protocol related to the standard RS-232 protocol.
  • the box 2 of the remote control is provided with a microprocessor 7 provided with internal encoding contacts 8 making it possible to read the credit buttons 5, to dialogue with the non-volatile RAM memory 9, display at least 6 characters on display block 10, read and interpret the pulses from the input line Rx a similar microprocessor 11 mounted in the automatic device 1 proper and a power module not shown.
  • the microprocessors 7, 11 are of the INTEL 8748 type. They are both equipped with an identical quartz crystal which allows them to generate and manage signals that are extremely precise in time. Their integrated software is however different.
  • the connecting cable 4 is made up of two optical fibers 4 ', 4' 'made of CROFON ⁇ (Dupont de Nemours). These fibers have a diameter of 1 mm and are equipped at each end with optical connectors 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the OPTIMATE type ensuring the optical coupling of injection or reception.
  • the light sources 16 and 17 are light emitting diodes of powers.
  • the excitation of the diodes 16 and 17 is carried out by the signals produced at the outputs Tx of two microprocessors 7, 11 and amplified by the amplifiers 18, 19.
  • the light conducted by the optical fibers 4 ', 4 " is captured by the photo- receivers 20, 21.
  • the output signals of these are amplified and shaped by the electronic devices designated as a whole by the reference numbers 22 and 23. These devices consist of an amplifier transistor and a comparator voltage type LM311 not shown, which attacks the Rx inputs of microprocessors 7 and 11 in "all or nothing" setting obtained by emission of light or extinction.
  • a data bus 24, 25 allows each of the microprocessors 7, 11 to acquire binary information and also to provide it, since it is bidirectional.
  • the arrows of said bus indicate the direction of data flow.
  • control microswitches 5 consisting of pushbuttons accessible from the outside of the housing 2 makes it possible to charge a credit.
  • a group 8 of 16 DIP-switch type contacts placed inside the control box 2, encodes a binary dialogue key between the credit remote control block 2 and the interface mounted on the inside the game device 1.
  • the control panel 2 also includes a 10-digit counter-display 10 (interface for at least 5 digits) of the 7-segment LED type. Another technology is of course possible.
  • the microprocessor 7 can, via the bus 24 possibly display the content of its internal registers, and in particular of those which total the credit points transmitted to the counter- game credit totalizer 6.
  • CMOS RAM memory q which is permanently kept on by a mini-battery 27, makes it possible to store information in the event of an interruption of the mains voltage source.
  • the electronic device mounted in the game device is similar to that of the control box 2. It includes a directional data bus 25 of the second microprocessor 11. It allows the microprocessor 11 to read the open / closed state of each of the 16 second set contacts 26.
  • An integrated circuit 28 of the 8155 INTEL type serving as a relay for the transmission and reception of bytes organized in frames of variable lengths, allows the microprocessor 11 to dialogue with the microprocessors not represented, which animate the game proper, by providing or receiving information from them by bus 31.
  • the main mission of each of the communication microprocessors 7, 11 is to generate transmission signals TX and to capture and decode the RX signals transmitted by the other.
  • a specific frame is generated, which contains at least the number or the value of the button which has been actuated.
  • the transmission of this frame is provided by the optical fiber 4 ′ to the microprocessor 11.
  • the number or value of the button is extracted from the frame by the microprocessor of the counter-totalizer 6, which will add to the credit counter, the number of points corresponding to the number or the value of the credit button.
  • the game processor signals to the microprocessor 11 that the mission is accomplished and ensures the transmission by the optical fiber 4 "of a frame for acknowledging said mission.
  • the frame which has been received and decoded by the processor 7 enables the latter to update its own totalizers and to immediately authorize a new credit transfer.
  • the credit transfer according to the present invention is immediate.
  • the transfer of credit by remote control constitutes only one particular nonlimiting example of dialogue between the remote control unit and the game.
  • the transfer can relate to the content of the credit registers, attempts to cheat, an impulse to troubleshoot or diagnose or even an impulse to reset the counters of the game.

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EP85870075A 1984-06-08 1985-05-29 Vorrichtung zur Fernübertragung des Guthabens eines Spielautomaten mittels Impulsen Withdrawn EP0178278A1 (de)

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BE0/213099A BE899865A (nl) 1984-06-08 1984-06-08 Inrichting om van op afstand het tegoed van een automatisch apparaat door middel van impulsen te bedienen.

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EP0509386A2 (de) * 1991-04-13 1992-10-21 Nsm Aktiengesellschaft Geldbetätigter Spielautomat mit Fernbedienung
US5375049A (en) * 1991-12-21 1994-12-20 Heraeus Instruments Gmbh Surgery lamp
GB2284913A (en) * 1993-12-16 1995-06-21 Busybody Systems Limited Reading of recorded usage or operation of an item
US5467856A (en) * 1992-07-08 1995-11-21 Kabushiki Kaisha Universal Gaming machine and method of detecting fraud in the same
US6003651A (en) * 1997-11-13 1999-12-21 International Game Technology Sensing of coin output from a gaming device to reduce incorrect number of coins output

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FR2358704A1 (fr) * 1976-07-14 1978-02-10 Pitney Bowes Inc Compteur d'affranchissements comportant un canal d'entree/sortie suppresseur de bruit
US4197524A (en) * 1978-12-29 1980-04-08 General Electric Company Tap-actuated lock and method of actuating the lock
GB2042234A (en) * 1979-02-13 1980-09-17 Barcest Ltd Entertainment machines
GB2101381A (en) * 1981-06-25 1983-01-12 Ace Coin Equip Transmission of information in a gaming or amusement machine
GB2139390A (en) * 1983-05-02 1984-11-07 Ainsworth Nominees Pty Ltd Gaming machine communication system

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FR2358704A1 (fr) * 1976-07-14 1978-02-10 Pitney Bowes Inc Compteur d'affranchissements comportant un canal d'entree/sortie suppresseur de bruit
US4197524A (en) * 1978-12-29 1980-04-08 General Electric Company Tap-actuated lock and method of actuating the lock
GB2042234A (en) * 1979-02-13 1980-09-17 Barcest Ltd Entertainment machines
GB2101381A (en) * 1981-06-25 1983-01-12 Ace Coin Equip Transmission of information in a gaming or amusement machine
GB2139390A (en) * 1983-05-02 1984-11-07 Ainsworth Nominees Pty Ltd Gaming machine communication system

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EP0509386A2 (de) * 1991-04-13 1992-10-21 Nsm Aktiengesellschaft Geldbetätigter Spielautomat mit Fernbedienung
EP0509386A3 (en) * 1991-04-13 1993-07-14 Nsm Aktiengesellschaft Remotely controlled money-activated gaming machine
US5375049A (en) * 1991-12-21 1994-12-20 Heraeus Instruments Gmbh Surgery lamp
US5467856A (en) * 1992-07-08 1995-11-21 Kabushiki Kaisha Universal Gaming machine and method of detecting fraud in the same
GB2284913A (en) * 1993-12-16 1995-06-21 Busybody Systems Limited Reading of recorded usage or operation of an item
US6003651A (en) * 1997-11-13 1999-12-21 International Game Technology Sensing of coin output from a gaming device to reduce incorrect number of coins output

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