EP0320792B1 - Appareil de jeu à monnaie - Google Patents

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EP0320792B1
EP0320792B1 EP88120511A EP88120511A EP0320792B1 EP 0320792 B1 EP0320792 B1 EP 0320792B1 EP 88120511 A EP88120511 A EP 88120511A EP 88120511 A EP88120511 A EP 88120511A EP 0320792 B1 EP0320792 B1 EP 0320792B1
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Tjark Bergmann
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F5/00—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks
    • G07F5/24—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks with change-giving
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    • 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
    • G07F17/34—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

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  • the invention relates to a gaming machine according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Gaming machines are known in a wide variety of forms and are installed, for example, in casinos, slot machines and similar locations. As a rule, such gaming machines are operated with coin money. Special coin validators in the cash acceptance units ensure that only coins of a certain currency can be used to operate the gaming machines. The profits are then paid out in this operating currency.
  • the limitation to one operating currency is disadvantageous when gaming machines are installed in locations where they are used by players of different nationalities with different home currencies. In places with international through traffic, e.g. airports, train stations, but especially on ferries and cruise ships, players who do not have the coin money of the respective operating currency of a gaming machine must first obtain this coin money. This is often so cumbersome that the player completely refrains from using the relevant gaming machine, especially since profit in foreign currency and in coin form again presents him with difficulties in changing.
  • WO -A- 8 500 910 shows a gaming machine that accepts coin money from two different currencies. The winnings can be issued in a currency other than the money entered.
  • the purpose of this device is that a traveler can issue coins in a foreign currency or exchange them for their own currency before crossing the border because, unlike banknotes, coins are difficult to exchange.
  • FR -A- 2 512 232 discloses an automatic multi-currency changer which can process both coin money and banknotes.
  • GB -A- 2 112 985 describes a gaming machine with an integrated banknote changer (only for one currency).
  • the device can either change the banknote immediately into coin money or initially just add its value to the game loan.
  • the object of the invention is to design a gaming machine of the type mentioned in the introduction so that the disadvantages mentioned are avoided.
  • the money acceptance unit of a gaming machine is able to accept coin and note money from several, but at least two different currencies.
  • the cash dispensing unit of such a gaming machine is able to pay out several, but at least two different coin currency types.
  • a preferred embodiment of a gaming machine according to the invention, in particular for installation in international ferry traffic, is such that two different currencies can be accepted and two different currencies can also be paid out.
  • the accepted currency types correspond to those to be paid out.
  • the gaming machine 1 has a symbol display of the game system unit 2 and a profit plan unit 3.
  • the profit plan display of the profit plan unit 3 shows, in the event that certain combinations of profit symbols come in, the profit achieved in each case as a different multiple of the bet.
  • the game system is based on a certain currency, the game currency.
  • the game currency is the currency A denotes.
  • the money acceptance unit 4 has an acceptance device for coin money with different values of the currency A and an acceptance device for the currency B. In addition, different bank note values of both currency types can be entered.
  • the corresponding test devices for coins and banknotes are an integral part of the cash acceptance unit 4.
  • the player therefore has the option of entering coin and note money in currency A or currency B.
  • the amount entered appears immediately on the game currency credit display 8. Since currency A is the game currency, the bet is debited directly from the game currency credit display 8. Any incoming winnings appear on a digital winnings display 9 also in currency A and, after a short period of time which enables the player to take note of the winnings, are automatically added to the loan amount displayed on the game currency credit display 8.
  • the player can now decide whether he would like this loan amount to be paid out in currency A by pressing the payout button 80 and thereby making a payment directly via the output unit 6, or else wishing to be paid out in the currency B.
  • pressing the change button 73 again initiates a change process, but now in the opposite direction - namely currency A in currency B - according to digital display 71.
  • the amount thus changed appears in currency B on the digital display 75, from where it is now also paid out in currency B by the cash dispensing unit 6 by subsequently pressing the payout button 80.
  • the money acceptance unit 4 is connected to inventory counters 13.
  • the computer unit 7 is connected to a statistics detector 14, which can be designed so that remote monitoring of the gaming machine 1 is possible.
  • a gaming machine 1 of the type described can also be provided with a currency exchange device 17. This is connected to the money acceptance unit 4. When the currency exchange device 17 is actuated, the gaming machine 1 is not put into operation, but the money dispensing unit 6 is supplied with an exchange rate-dependent amount of money of the currency that was set on the currency exchange device 17.

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Claims (2)

  1. Machine à sous munie d'une unité système de jeu (2), d'un dispositif indicateur des symboles de gains et de jeu, d'une unité de planification des gains (3) pour un plan de gains selon les combinaisons de symboles, d'une unité de réception d'argent (4) destinée à recevoir des pièces d'au moins deux monnaies différentes, d'une unité de réserve d'argent (5) destinée à garder ces pièces d'au moins deux monnaies différentes en réserve et séparées selon leur catégorie, d'une unité distributrice d'argent (6) destinée au versement de ces pièces dans une des monnaies différentes, au moins au nombre de deux, l'unité système de jeu (2) et l'unité de planification des gains (3) étant conçues selon l'une des monnaies qui peut être acceptée en tant que monnaie de jeu et les montants acceptés, en monnaie différente de celle-ci mais pouvant être acceptée, pouvant être changés en monnaie de jeu au moyen d'un dispositif changeur de monnaie (17) et être affichés en tant que crédit sur l'indicateur de crédit en monnaie de jeu (8) et un ordinateur (7) destiné au calcul des différents processus de changement d'argent étant prévu, les parités de change étant réglables manuellement en fonction des fluctuations de cours, le montant affiché dans la monnaie de jeu sur l'indicateur de crédit en monnaie de jeu (8) pouvant être payé à la fin du jeu dans la monnaie de jeu en actionnant de façon facultative une touche de paiement (80) ou dans la monnaie de paiement choisie, après un change préalable, en actionnant une touche de change (73) avec affichage du montant du change sur un indicateur numérique (75) puis en actionnant une touche de paiement (80), caractérisé en ce que l'unité de réception d'argent (4) permet d'accepter également divers billets d'au moins deux monnaies différentes et de les garder en réserve, séparés selon leur catégorie, dans l'unité de réserve d'argent (5), en ce que l'ordinateur (7) présente une mémoire de données (74) destinée à enregistrer l'ensemble des processus d'introduction, de paiement ainsi que de change et est commuté à des compteurs de stock spécifiques de la monnaie (13) de l'unité de réserve d'argent (5), compteurs dont le stock est surveillé par l'ordinateur (7) de telle sorte que, lors du dépassement d'un niveau donné, des pièces acceptées soient déviées dans des réservoirs de caisse (10) séparés selon les monnaies et les catégories, un jeu au moins étant effectué après l'introduction de billets ou de pièces d'une monnaie dans l'unité de réception d'argent (4) et un montant reçu dans une monnaie acceptée et affiché sur l'indicateur numérique (75) pouvant être changé par le joueur dans une monnaie de jeu en actionnant la touche de change (73), ce montant changé de cette manière pouvant être représenté sur l'affichage de crédit en monnaie de jeu (8), les gains réalisés pendant le jeu étant affichés, pour informer le joueur, sur l'indicateur numérique des gains (9) puis imputés automatiquement en tant que crédit en monnaie de jeu par transfert sur l'indicateur de crédit en monnaie de jeu (8) ou, après introduction de billets ou de pièces et lors de l'actionnement d'un dispositif de monnaie de change (17) de l'unité distributrice d'argent (6), dispositif relié à l'unité de réception d'argent (4), une quantité d'argent dépendante du taux de change, pouvant être prise dans une monnaie différente de celle de l'argent introduit dans l'unité de réception d'argent (4).
  2. Machine à sous selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que l'ordinateur (7) est connecté à un signalisateur de statistiques.
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