EP0778059B1 - Wettstreit- oder freizeitspielmaschine, wobei eine schwebende scheibe bewegt wird - Google Patents

Wettstreit- oder freizeitspielmaschine, wobei eine schwebende scheibe bewegt wird Download PDF

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EP0778059B1
EP0778059B1 EP96904871A EP96904871A EP0778059B1 EP 0778059 B1 EP0778059 B1 EP 0778059B1 EP 96904871 A EP96904871 A EP 96904871A EP 96904871 A EP96904871 A EP 96904871A EP 0778059 B1 EP0778059 B1 EP 0778059B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/22—Accessories; Details
    • A63F7/36—Constructional details not covered by groups A63F7/24 - A63F7/34, i.e. constructional details of rolling boards, rims or play tables, e.g. frame, game boards, guide tracks
    • A63F7/3603—Rolling boards with special surface, e.g. air cushion boards
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/22—Accessories; Details
    • A63F7/30—Details of the playing surface, e.g. obstacles; Goal posts; Targets; Scoring or pocketing devices; Playing-body-actuated sensors, e.g. switches; Tilt indicators; Means for detecting misuse or errors
    • A63F7/305—Goal posts; Winning posts for rolling-balls
    • A63F7/3065—Electric
    • A63F7/3075—Electric imparting energy to the ball, e.g. bumper-kickers, reprojectors
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/24—Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
    • A63F2009/2401—Detail of input, input devices
    • A63F2009/2436—Characteristics of the input
    • A63F2009/2442—Sensors or detectors
    • A63F2009/2444—Light detector
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
    • A63F7/06—Games simulating outdoor ball games, e.g. hockey or football
    • A63F7/066—Games simulating outdoor ball games, e.g. hockey or football the playing bodies being projected by means of compressed air

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  • the object of the invention is a machine for a competition and leisure game by moving a floating chip.
  • a game machine is known from WO-A-95/24247, which has been published after the priority data of the present application.
  • Another game system is known from US-A-3.910.580. It has been especially conceived to allow the game to be played by two participants, one on either side of the gameboard,shooting a discoid chip which floats over the gameboard on a cushion of air.When one of the participants is unable to stop the chip from crossing his goal line by use of his special controls, the chip enters the goal area and a goal is scored, the chip being stored in the interior of the machine.
  • the floating chip is stopped or repelled by activating the control units which, depending on how they are operated, either cause the control centre to emit an order for the automatic repulsion of the chip which has been detected by the presence sensors that send information to the aforementioned centre, or, by another operation, provoke the voluntary action of the electromagnetic elements independently of the presence or absence of the chip in the detection area of the sensors.
  • the invention centres on the way the orders to the electromagnetic elements are carried out following the action of the control units and the data supplied by the presence sensors, the positioning of these sensors and their situation in relation to the goal area, as well as the composition of this area and that of the generating system of the closed circuit of air pressures.
  • the newly-invented machine differs from the previous machine as described in WO-A-95/24247 (PCT ES 94/00024) in that it uses a new system which creates different air pressures using a closed circuit system in order to avoid breakdown due to dust and dirt.
  • the repulsion of the chip as laid out in the invention is also carried out in a different manner: through the movement, of a new system of mobile controls fitted with a set of repulsion devices which, with capacity to cause automatic repulsion and using far fewer sensors and repulsion devices than used by the previous model, move directly, together with the control system, which can detain the chip and with which it is possible, by moving the controls, to produce, at will, either automatic repulsion or the voluntary action of the repulsion devices independently of the presence or absence of the chip in the detection area.
  • the registering of a goal against is also produced differently; not by detection of the chip in a detector area where repulsion capacity has not been activated by positioning the controls, but by detection of the chip's presence inside the goal areas where it will have physically situated itself if the player has been unable to stop its path.
  • the chip will be stored there until the player provokes its launch and brings it into play.
  • the invention is centred, on a new configuration of improved machine for competition and leisure game by moving a chip which floats on a cushion of air.
  • the floating is achieved by the use of a closed circuit with different air pressures which produce high pressure in an area underneath a gameboard with orifices through which air is blown.
  • the gameboard is also equipped with special goal areas fitted with an enclosure for storing the gamechip and an expulsion system or "serve" of the chip after the goal is scored.
  • This machine is closed to the exterior except for the systems for holding and moving the specific new control systems.
  • the chip's access to the goal area can be protected and, according to the player's choice, the chip can be automatically repulsed if it enters their area of action, or their repulsion devices can act voluntarily independently of the presence or absence of the chip in their area of movement.
  • the new machine according to the invention proves to be a better product, in that the new design, on being able to improve the toughness of its structure, the easiness of understanding the working of the game and its lower maintenance costs results in a more useful product, both here and abroad.
  • each of the two control units is made up of a mobile device or carrier part which slides from side to side along a guide-rail or bar to which it is attached by means of sliding devices.
  • a control device with a revolving ball which is for the player to hold in order to place the control in the desired position within its longitudinal space, and on the other, situated so as to allow a tilting movement along a turning axis, a platform containing a set of sensors and impulse devices is fixed in such a way that it keeps them fixed at a predetermined height above the surface of the gameboard whatever their longitudinal position may be in relation to the goal line.
  • Each control unit incorporates push-buttons on the left and right sides of the mobile control device.
  • the purpose of these push-buttons is to control the action of the impulsers that the control itself contains by selecting, through their occasional or continuous operation, either the action of the impulsers independently of the presence or absence of a chip in their field of action, or their automatic action with detection by presence sensors in their field of action.
  • Figure 1 a simplified view gives us an outline of the machine like that described here, with a gameboard showing the two control units which contain the sets of impulsers that operate the aforementioned gameboard. Also shown are the orifices in the board for blowing out pressurized air and the goal area enclosures behind the lines defended by the sets of impulsers.
  • Figure 2 a longitudinal section of the machine is shown, in which the structure of the closed circuit of air pressures can be appreciated.
  • FIG. 3 a drawing shows a detail from the structure of the control unit with impulse system, in which coils with impulsers, detection sensors, push-buttons governing the movement of the whole and the sliding linear control are indicated.
  • Figure 4 an outline is shown of the goal-area system for reception of the chip, detection of it for the purpose of registering the goal,and expulsion of it towards the field of play on carrying out the serve.
  • Figure 5 is a diagram of the connection of the different devices of the machine to the electronic control system.
  • the machine for competition which is the object of invention will, as can be appreciated in Figure 1, be a machine with a gameboard(1.1) and control unit(1.2)in which a closed circuit of air pressures has been created which,as can be seen in Figure 2, is made up of a high pressure chamber(2.1) which is produced by a turbine(2.2), a low pressure chamber(2.3) which is generated by air intake by the turbine itself and a compensation area(2.4) where the pressurized air blown out through the orifices on the gameboard(1.1) is received and from where the low pressure chamber takes in air, thus closing the circuit with clean air without having to take in air from the exterior which could contain grease or dust.
  • a machine is constructed with main body dimensions of 1300 by 700 by 200, which gives us an air pressure body with a capacity of 95 litres and the equivalent of 56 square centimetres of air blowing out given the sum of the 1240 orifices for blowing out air situated on the gameboard, each of 1.8mm in diameter, with the aim of optimizing the performance of the air pressures system, the air passing from the compensation chamber(2.4) to the low pressure chamber(2.3) total a transit section of 900 square centimetres which do not have any significant influence as transit resistance.
  • control units On both sides of the gameboard are the control units(1.2.1 and 1.2.2) which as can be seen in Figure 3 are composed, in this case, of a sliding carriage(3.1) with four ball bearings which slide it from side to side along the guide rail(3.2) which in this case is made of a steel bar with an H-shaped profile which allows the ball bearings to roll along the indented parts of the profile without being able to leave their transverse position in relation to the guide rail.
  • the aforementioned carriage is fitted with a tilting body(3.3) where the group of impulsers are attached(3.4).In this case there are two of them and they are not shown fully to keep the diagrams simple and also as they are known in the trade.
  • the carriage also has a fastening device(3.5) which in this case incorporates a ball which makes it possible to cause it to move along the rail that guides the carriage and which exits to the exterior through a linear joint with a minimal loss of pressure.
  • Each set of controls is also in this case fitted with two push-buttons(3.6.1 and 3.6.2) one on either side, left and right of the goal area located on the outside of the machine construction.
  • the goal area systems ( Figure 4) which are composed of a reception area with detectors(4.1) to recognise the presence of the chip in order to register the goal that has been scored on the chip's entry, storage areas(4.2) where the chip is held until ejected onto the gameboard by activation of an impulser governed in this case by the simple, relevant push-button.
  • the dotted lines in Figure 5 indicate the direction of the different signals emitted and received by the different devices, such as push-buttons(5.1),sensors(5.2), electrorepulsion devices(5.3) and visualization displays(5.4) towards a conventional control circuit formed by a microprocessor and peripherals.

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  1. Es handelt sich um ein Gerät für Wettbewerbe/Turniere und Freizeit bei dem ein schwebender Puck (1.3) bewegt werden muß, besagte Maschine enthält eine Spielfläche mit einer Oberfläche und einem scheibenförmigen Puck (1.3), besagte Oberfläche ist so arrangiert um den besagten scheibenförmigen Puck schwebend über die besagten Oberfläche (1.1) gleiten zu lassen, die Spielfläche enthält Öffnungen, durch welche gepreßte Luft geblasen wird, um die Bewegung des Pucks zu erleichtern, besagte gepreßte Luft wird durch ein geschlossenes System von Luft (Luftkreislauf) erzeugt, besagtes Gerät enthält fernerhin auf zwei gegenüberliegenden Seiten der Spielfläche eine Abstoß/Rückschlag-Vorrichtung (3.4), besagte Maschine ist von der Art, bei der zwei Spieler gemeinsam ein Spiel spielen, jeder auf der gegenüberliegenden Seite der Spielfläche, indem sie den besagten scheibenförmigen Puck (1.3) hin und her schießen, solange bis der Puck weder zurückgehalten noch zurückgestoßen werden kann, durch Bewegen der besagten Abstoßvorrichtungen (3.4), aktiviert durch eine Kontrolleinheit (5.5), wobei besagte Kontrolleinheit (5.5) Signale von Sensoren erhält (5.2) welche die Anwesenheit des Pucks feststellen und wobei eine Gruppe von Abstoßvorrichtungen (3.4), je nach dem wie die Schußknöpfe auf der Kontrolleinheit betätigt werden, handeln, besagte Abstoßvorrichtungen (3.4) bewegen sich zusammen mit einem Hauptkörper (3.1, 3.3), dessen Mobilität sich auf eine Längsbewegung begrenzt, die eingebunden ist in einer Haltevorrichtung (3.5) um den Hauptkörper (3.1, 3.3) selbst sowie die Gruppe von Rückschlagvorrichtungen (3.4) zu bewegen; femer enthält das Gerät eine Handlungslinie, nach dessen überqueren der Puck in die Torzone vordringt, wenn sein Weg nicht durch die Gruppe von Rückschlagvorrichtungen blockiert wird, und somit ein Tor registriert wird.
  2. Eine Maschine wie im Anspruch 1 definiert, wobei die Abstoßvorrichtungen (3.4) entweder manuell, durch Schußknöpfe, die sich auf der Kontrolleinheit befinden, aktiviert werden können, oder automatisch, durch Erkennung des Pucks durch den Erkennungssensor (5.2), aktiviert werden können.
  3. Eine Maschine gemäß Anspruch 1 bis 2 enthält ferner einen Puckerkennungssensor, der sich in der Torzone befindet, besagter Sensor ist verantwortlich für die Registrierung / Erkennung des Pucks, der in die Torzone eindringt und wobei die Torzone eine Aufbewahrungszone enthält, um die Pucks aufzubewahren, die in die Torzone eingetreten sind, und besagte Aufbewahrungszone enthält fernerhin eine Auswurfvorrichtung die durch externes Einwirken, den Puck zurück auf die Spielfläche wirft.
  4. Eine Maschine gemäß Anspruch 1 bis 3 wobei besagter geschlossener Luftkreislaufsystem verschiede Kammern mit unterschiedlichen Luftdruck umfaßt sowie eine Turbine/ Ventilator, um die Luft von einer Kammer in die andere zu treiben.
  5. Ein Spielgerät gemäß Anspruch 4 wobei die Spielfläche, die Luftdruckkammern, die Torzone und die Aufbewahrungszone für die Pucks komplett eingeschlossen sind, nur mit Ausnahme der Aktivierungsteile, die zugänglich von außen sind, wobei die Spielfläche durch eine transparente Abdeckung sichtbar bleibt.
  6. Eine Maschine für Wettbewerb und Freizeit durch Bewegung eines scheibenförmigen Pucks enthält:
    eine Spielfläche,
    einen scheibenförmigen Puck, wobei besagter Puck relativ auf der Oberfläche der Spielfläche bewegt wird,
    eine Spielfläche die Bohrungen/Löcher hat, durch die gepreßte Luft durchgeblasen wird, um die Bewegung des Pucks zu vereinfachen,
    eine Gruppe von Abstoß-/Rückschlagvorrichtungen, die eine Längsmobilität haben, besagte Abstoßvorrichtungen sind verantwortlich für das Zurückhalten oder Zurückschlagen des Pucks,
    eine Kontrolleinheit verantwortlich für die Aktivierung der Abstoßvorrichtungen und eine Bewegung der Abstoßvorrichtungen erlauben, besagte Kontrolleinheit weiter eine Gruppe von Impulsgebern enthält,
    eine Torzone, die hinter den Impulsgebern liegt und definiert ist durch eine Bewegungslinie über die querverlaufende Ausdehnung der Spielflächenoberfläche, und einem Puckerkennungssensor, der in der Torzone liegt, besagter Sensor verantwortlich ist für die Registrierung der Pucks, die in die Torzone eindringen.
  7. Eine Maschine gemäß Anspruch 6, wobei die Abstoßvorrichtungen entweder manuell durch Schußknöpfe, die auf der Kontrolleinheit liegen, oder automatisch, durch Erkennung des Pucks durch den Puckerkennungssensor, aktiviert werden können.
  8. Eine Maschine gemäß Anspruch 6, wobei die Torzone weiter eine Aufbewahrungszone für die Pucks, die in die Torzone eingetreten sind, enthält, wobei besagte Aufbewahrungszone weiter eine Auswurfvorrichtung enthält, die verantwortlich ist, den Puck, mittels externen Einfluß, wieder auf die Spielfläche zu schleudern.
  9. Eine Maschine gemäß Anspruch 6, bei dem besagter geschlossener Luftkreislauf ein System von Kammern mit unterschiedlichen Luftdrücken enthält und eine Turbine/Ventilator die Luft von einer Kammer zur anderen treibt.
  10. Eine Maschine gemäß Anspruch 9, wobei die Spielfläche, die Kammern mit unterschiedlichen Luftdrücken, die Torzone und die Aufbewahrungzone für Pucks durch eine transparente Abdeckung geschlossen wird, und wobei die Aktivierungskontrollen außerhalb verbleiben.
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