EP0606470B1 - Umlaufkontrollsystem für spielmedien - Google Patents

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EP0606470B1
EP0606470B1 EP91917338A EP91917338A EP0606470B1 EP 0606470 B1 EP0606470 B1 EP 0606470B1 EP 91917338 A EP91917338 A EP 91917338A EP 91917338 A EP91917338 A EP 91917338A EP 0606470 B1 EP0606470 B1 EP 0606470B1
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Takatoshi Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken Takemoto
Kazunari Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken Kawashima
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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
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    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
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    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F1/00—Coin inlet arrangements; Coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms
    • G07F1/02—Coin slots

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  • This invention relates to a game medium circulation control system, and more particularly to a slot-machine game apparatus which enables an automatic and effective control of medal circulation in units of islands each consisting of a number of parallel arranged slot machines.
  • a coin collecting/supplying device to be used for a coin ruminant slot machine is disclosed in US-A-4 342 384.
  • the device is provided at each of a plurality of slot machines to collect coins from each of the slot machines and also to supply coins to each of the slot machines.
  • the device is used, where coins put into the slot machine by the game players for the game play are overflowing from a hopper provided in the slot machine, to collect the overflowing coins. Therefore, the device does not collect the coins obtained by the player as a game prize. Further, the game mediums thus obtained as a prize are not reused for the game.
  • the invention relates to a game medium circulation control system according to claim 1.
  • the game medium counter may be unitized with a printer or a card read/writer or may be equipped with a disburse button to be used in dispensing the game mediums after they are counted.
  • the medals gained from the individual game machines can be counted by the medal counter in units of islands and the value resulting from this counting can be indicated on the counting display.
  • a printer or a card read/writer is connected to the medal counter, a premium coupon or a gift card is dispensed so that a customer can exchange it for a prize.
  • the disburse button is depressed so that the medals counted by the medal counter are conveyed, together with the spent medals discharged from the slot machines, to the medal polishing machine where the medals are polished and then successively conveyed to the upper medal reservoir. From the medal reservoir, the medals can be supplied to the individual slot machines by the supply conveyer.
  • the supply conveyer is possible to circulate game medals within a closed system, substantially without letting them out of the island.
  • FIG. 1 shows a portion of an island consisting of a number of parallel arranged slot machines, there being a medal dispenser D equipped between each pair of adjacent slot machines A, A so that an amount of game medals corresponding to the value of paper currency inserted can be dispensed.
  • a supply conveyer 1 extending from an upper medal reservoir 2 disposed at an upper central portion of the island communicates with the individual slot machines A and the individual medal dispensers D via respective medal distributors 20.
  • a button switch 7 is disposed above each slot machine A.
  • a medal counter B which is equipped with a hopper 8, a counting display 3, an adjustment button 9, a counting start button 10 and a disburse button 6, is disposed.
  • a printer or a card read/writer C which is equipped with a status display 11, a premium coupon outlet or a gift card outlet 12 and a card-reading-direction selecting switch 13, is disposed, communicating with the lower portion of the individual slot machine A via a conveyer.
  • a lower medal reservoir 14 is provided communicating with the medal counter B via a collecting conveyer 4.
  • a medal polishing machine 5 is disposed between the upper and lower medal reservoirs 2, 14 for raising medals from the lower medal reservoir 14 to the upper medal reservoir 2 while polishing.
  • a main reservoir 15 is disposed which is equipped at its lower portion with a quantitative disburse device 16.
  • the printer for issuing premium coupons may be omitted.
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 shows another embodiment which is identical with the previous embodiment except for the following.
  • a medal counter B which is equipped with two counting displays 3, two adjustment buttons 9, two disburse buttons 6, two card-reading-direction selecting switches 13 and two premium coupon or a gift card outlets 12, and a printer or a card read/writer C, which is unitized with the medal counter B.
  • FIG. 6 shows a modified medal counter B which is equipped with, in addition to a counting display 3, an adjustment button 9 and two disburse buttons 6, a game machine number 19, a switch 17 and a call lamp 18.
  • the medals gained from a slot machine A are put into the hopper 8, they are counted by the medal counter B and the result of this counting is indicated on the counting display 3.
  • the adjustment button 9 is depressed, a premium coupon or a gift card is dispensed from the outlet 12 of the printer or card read/writer C so that the customer may bring it to the adjustment corner for exchange with a premium or prize.
  • the disburse button 6 is simply depressed.
  • the medals counted by the medal counter B are conveyed by the collecting conveyer 4 and are then polished and raised to the upper medal reservoir 2 by the medal polishing machine 5.
  • the medals stored in the medal reservoir 2 are supplied to the slot machine A or the medal dispenser D by the supply conveyer 1, and keep being supplied until the signal is canceled.
  • the overflowing medals are conveyed to the main reservoir 15 from an overflow circuit.
  • the quantitative disburse device 16 acts to supply medals into the lower part of the medal polishing machine 5.
  • the medals used by a customer are supplied to the hopper in the slot machine A.
  • the overflowing medals are conveyed to the collecting conveyer 4.
  • a medal supplier and the supply conveyer 1 are activated to continue the supply of medals until the signal is canceled. Also upon issuance of a supply request signal from the hopper of the medal dispenser D, the medal supplier and the supply conveyer 1 are activated to continue the supply of medals until the signal is canceled.
  • This invention can also applied to pachinko game machines. In such a case, it is possible to circulate pachinko balls as game mediums within a closed system, substantially without letting them be removed from the island.
  • game mediums such as medals gained from individual game machines such as slot machines are counted in units of islands by the medal counter, and the medals counted by the medal counter are circulated, together with the spent medals discharged from the slot machines, while being polished by the medal polishing machine.
  • medals gained from individual game machines such as slot machines are counted in units of islands by the medal counter, and the medals counted by the medal counter are circulated, together with the spent medals discharged from the slot machines, while being polished by the medal polishing machine.
  • medals in the island efficiently, substantially free of letting them be removed from the island, so that the medals can be conveniently used by customers, thus realizing a game machine system such as a slot machine game apparatus having a good operativity.
  • the customer may bring only it to the adjustment corner for exchange with a premium or prize.
  • the disburse button is simply depressed.

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  1. Steuerungssystem für die Zirkulation von Spielmitteln, das in einer Spielinsel installiert ist, welche eine Vielzahl von Spielmaschinen (A) aufweist, um die in den Spielmaschinen (A) verwendeten Spielmittel zu steuern, die eine Verteiler/Sammel-Einrichtung (1, 4) aufweisen, um die Spielmittel zu der Vielzahl von Spielmaschinen (A) zu verteilen, damit sie in der Vielzahl von Maschinen (A) verwendet werden, und um die Spielmittel von den jeweiligen Spielmaschinen (A) zu sammeln, in denen die Spielmittel verwendet werden,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    daß ein Spielmittelzähler (B) in jeder von der Vielzahl von Spielmaschinen (A) vorgesehen ist;
    daß jeder von den Spielmittelzählern (B) eine Spielmittel-Aufnahmeeinrichtung (8) aufweist, um die Spielmittel aufzunehmen, wobei jeder von den Spielmittelzählern (B) die Spielmittel zählt, die in die Spielmittel-Aufnahmeeinrichtung (8) eingegeben werden, und ein Zählergebnis abgibt, und um die derart gezählten Spielmittel zu der Verteiler/Sammel-Einrichtung (4) weiterzuführen.
  2. Steuerungssystem für die Zirkulation von Spielmitteln nach Anspruch 1,
    wobei die Verteiler/Sammel-Einrichtung (4) folgendes aufweist:
    ein Spielmittelreservoir (2) zum Speichern von Spielmitteln, die gemeinsam in der Vielzahl von Spielmaschinen (A) verwendet werden;
    einen Zuführungsförderer (1), der an das Spielmittelreservoir (2) angeschlossen ist, um Spielmittel für die Zuführung von dem Spielmittelreservoir (2) zu fördern;
    einen Spielmittelverteiler (20), um die von dem Zuführungsförderer (1) geförderten Spielmittel zu jedem von der Vielzahl von Spielmaschinen (A) zuzuführen;
    einen Sammelförderer (4), um die von dem Spielmittelzähler (B) gezählten Spielmittel zu sammeln; und
    eine Spielmittel-Poliermaschine (5), die mit dem Sammelförderer (4) und dem Spielmittelreservoir (2) in Verbindung steht, um die Spielmittel dem Spielmittelreservoir (2) zuzuführen.
  3. Steuerungssystem für die Zirkulation von Spielmitteln nach Anspruch 2,
    die ferner eine Spielmittel-Abgabeeinrichtung (D) aufweist, wobei jeweils eine für zwei der Spielmaschinen (A) vorgesehen und zwischen den zwei Spielmaschinen (A) angeordnet ist, um die Spielmittel abzugeben, die dem Spielmittelverteiler (20) zugeführt werden, wobei die Spielmittel-Abgabeeinrichtung (D) eine Ausgabeeinrichtung aufweist, die zumindest eine Komponente von einem Drucker und einem Karten-Leser/Schreiber (C) aufweist,
    wobei die Ausgabeeinrichtung, die für die SpielmittelAbgabeeinrichtung vorgesehen ist, an die Spielmittelzähler (B) angeschlossen ist, die jeweils an den zwei Spielmaschinen (A) vorgesehen sind, zwischen denen die Spielmittel-Abgabeeinrichtung (D) angeordnet ist, und wobei die Ausgabeeinrichtung die Anzahl von Spielmitteln erhält und ausgibt, die von den Spielmittelzählern ausgegeben werden.
  4. Steuerungssystem für die Zirkulation von Spielmitteln nach Anspruch 2,
    das ferner eine Zählanzeigeeinheit (3) zum Anzeigen eines auszugebenden Zählresultates und einen Ausgabeknopf (6) aufweist, um die gezählten Spielmittel abzugeben;
    wobei der Spielmittelzähler (B) die einem Spielmittelverteiler (20) zugeführten Spielmittel abgibt, wenn der Ausgabeknopf (6) gedrückt wird.
  5. Steuerungssystem für die Zirkulation von Spielmitteln nach Anspruch 1,
    wobei der Spielmittelzähler (B) mindestens eine Komponente von einem Drucker und einem Karten-Leser/Schreiber (C) aufweist, um die Anzahl von gezählten Spielmitteln auszugeben.
  6. Steuerungssystem für die Zirkulation von Spielmitteln nach Anspruch 1, 2, 3 oder 5,
    wobei der Spielmittelzähler (B) eine Zählanzeigeeinheit (3) aufweist, um ein auszugebendes Zählresultat anzuzeigen.
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CA002115750A CA2115750C (en) 1991-10-04 1991-10-04 Game medium circulation control system
PCT/JP1991/001355 WO1993006902A1 (en) 1991-10-04 1991-10-04 Play medium flow control system

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