EP0436259B1 - Geldspielgerät - Google Patents

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EP0436259B1
EP0436259B1 EP90250326A EP90250326A EP0436259B1 EP 0436259 B1 EP0436259 B1 EP 0436259B1 EP 90250326 A EP90250326 A EP 90250326A EP 90250326 A EP90250326 A EP 90250326A EP 0436259 B1 EP0436259 B1 EP 0436259B1
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Lutz Bernhard Albrecht
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Bally Wulff Automaten GmbH
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    • 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
    • G07F9/02—Devices for alarm or indication, e.g. when empty; Advertising arrangements in coin-freed apparatus
    • 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
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means

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  • the invention relates to a gaming machine with a microprocessor, a memory and an input / output unit.
  • Gaming machines are generally known. These gaming machines usually have a housing that can be opened from the front so that maintenance can be carried out and the money collected during the games can be removed. The door is usually opened with a key that the authorized person carries with him. However, it has been shown that abuse occurred both among the people who had a key to open the gaming machine in that the people carried out actions that were not permitted, and people who did not have a key to open the gaming machine Manipulations opened the door and intervened on the gaming machine.
  • encoded keys for a vending machine are known from the document US-A-4512453 (column 8, lines 37-39: data key, programming key, clearing key, reject / lockout key), which permit different operations / manipulations, for example on the cash cassette (Column 8, line 52 - column 9, line 1).
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a gaming machine in which the authorization for access to the interior of the gaming machine can be checked.
  • a device for checking the access authorization to the inside of the gaming machine which has a circuit separate from the gaming machine for generating a permanently assigned identification code number and in the gaming machine a device for comparing the code number read from the circuit with the authorization code numbers, can be used for connections the person with the authorization to open the gaming machine is identified in the circuit with the device for comparing the code numbers. If the device is opened without authorization and the circuit is not connected to the device for comparing the code numbers, a signal is emitted which indicates that the device is not authorized.
  • the identification number of the circuit, the date, the time and any actions that are carried out are stored so that it can be determined later on. who opened the device and when and what actions he performed. It can thus be checked whether the maintenance has been carried out and faults have been eliminated and whether authorized withdrawals have been made.
  • Fig. 1, 1 denotes a gaming machine which has a housing 2 and a door 3 closing the housing. Inside the housing 2, the circulation bodies 4 with drive gates, a coin processing unit 5, which has coin channels (not shown), coin validators and payout devices, a coin till 6, the control of the gaming machine and other elements are accommodated.
  • a coin processing unit 5 which has coin channels (not shown), coin validators and payout devices, a coin till 6, the control of the gaming machine and other elements are accommodated.
  • door contacts 6 are arranged which emit a signal to the control when the door is opened.
  • the maintenance personnel i.e. Technicians and cashiers each have potted circuits assigned to them to generate a permanently assigned identification number 7, which is not visible or accessible, but only has output connections 8.
  • the output connections 8 must be brought into contact with a connection socket 9 which is present in the gaming machine and which is connected to a device for comparing the identification code number.
  • the circuit 2 schematically shows the device for checking the access authorization to the gaming machines in the form of an exemplary embodiment in accordance with the circuit. It consists of the circuit for generating an identification code number 7 and a device 10 for comparing the identification code number with stored code numbers.
  • the circuit 7 has a code generator 11 for generating the identification code number, which is preferably designed as a shift register which can be set in parallel.
  • the inputs of the shift register 11 are connected to contact bridges 12.
  • These contact bridges 12 are set by the manufacturer of the gaming machine in such a way that it is interrupted that there is a binary-coded number at the shift register inputs. This binary-coded number can be read out sequentially at the output 13 of the shift register 11.
  • the output 13 is connected to the output connections 8 shown in FIG. 1.
  • circuit 7 After the circuit 7 has been encoded, it is cast into a block so that the encoded number cannot be recognized.
  • the gaming machine 1 there is a microprocessor arrangement for the control in a known manner, which is also part of the device for checking the access authorization.
  • the microprocessor arrangement consists of the microprocessor 14 itself, a ROM 15 in which the control program is stored, a RAM 17 and an input / output unit 16 which is connected to the output socket 9.
  • the individual elements of the microprocessor arrangement are connected to one another via a bus 18.
  • the code numbers which have been set for the various circuits 7 for the respective maintenance personnel are stored in the RAM 17.
  • data can be stored in the RAM 17 which make statements about the actions to be carried out by the respective owner of the circuit 7 on the gaming machine.
  • the mode of operation of the device for checking the access authorization to the interior of the gaming machine is as follows.
  • the door contacts 6 are interrupted and a corresponding signal is delivered to the microprocessor 14. If the output connections 8 of a circuit 7 for identification are not connected to the contacts of the socket 9 within a predetermined period of time, then issued a signal from the microprocessor 14, which can be used to determine that the gaming machine 1 has been opened without authorization. For example, the control is influenced in such a way that the gaming machine is no longer playable. As a result, an outsider is made aware of the non-recordable device, so that the operator can often determine afterwards who opened the device without identifying himself. Of course, this signal of non-identification can also trigger optical or visual signal systems.
  • the microprocessor After the connections 8 have been plugged into the socket 9, the microprocessor sends out a control signal and the binary data are read out from the circuit 7 via the output 13 and passed on via the data line connected to the input / output unit 16.
  • the microprocessor 14 compares the data with the code numbers stored in the RAM 17. If the identification code number of the circuit does not match one of the stored ones, an alarm signal is again issued. If there is a match, the data, controlled by the microprocessor 14, are stored in the RAM 17, and in addition to the identification code number, the date, the time and after actions carried out on the gaming machine 1, such as moving money, removing coins or refilling coins, eliminating errors in the device, and clearing the error memory or the like corresponding data is stored. If the actions performed are not those assigned to the respective identification code numbers, a corresponding note is saved.
  • the shift register 11 is read out via the voltage supply of the gaming machine 1, so that no additional voltage supply for the circuit 7 is necessary. Furthermore, the RAM 17 is battery-buffered, so that the data are retained even when the device is switched off.
  • the input / output unit 16 is also connected to a data readout socket 19, via which the data stored in the RAM 17 is read out via an external data readout system, which is connected to the data readout socket 19, via the input / output unit 16, which is controlled by the microprocessor 14 . In this way, there is a complete log of when and by whom what actions were taken on the gaming machine.
  • the circuit 7 is designed as a shift register.
  • a shift register can also be introduced on or in a chip card.
  • the circuit can also be a microprocessor or other folded contacts, these exemplary embodiments also being in the form of chip cards.

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DE4000252A1 (de) 1991-07-11
DE4000252C2 (enrdf_load_stackoverflow) 1992-07-30
ES2062314T3 (es) 1994-12-16
EP0436259A3 (en) 1991-10-16

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