EP1571625B1 - Spielautomat mit einem durchsichtigen, abnehmbaren, zwischen der Münzausgabe und deren Beleuchtung angebrachtem Element - Google Patents

Spielautomat mit einem durchsichtigen, abnehmbaren, zwischen der Münzausgabe und deren Beleuchtung angebrachtem Element Download PDF

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EP1571625B1
EP1571625B1 EP04004726A EP04004726A EP1571625B1 EP 1571625 B1 EP1571625 B1 EP 1571625B1 EP 04004726 A EP04004726 A EP 04004726A EP 04004726 A EP04004726 A EP 04004726A EP 1571625 B1 EP1571625 B1 EP 1571625B1
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Kazuki Emori
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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
    • G07F17/3216—Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects
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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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  • a recent slot machine including stop buttons (a so-called “pinball slot machine” or a so-called “Pachi-Slot machine” in Japan) has a mechanical variable display means provided with a plurality of rotatable reels for variably displaying symbols in a front display window or an electrical variable display means for displaying symbols on reels on a screen.
  • control means controls the variable display means for rotating the reels, thereby variably displaying symbols.
  • the rotating reels are stopped in order automatically in a given time or as the player performs stop operation.
  • game medium such as medals or coins are paid out to the player as the profit of the winning game.
  • the decorative effect includes, for example, coordinating of the color that can pass through the semitransparent plate with the color of the installation location, fitting characters and symbols to the game play location and the gaming machine.
  • the semitransparent plate screwed and placed between the illumination light and the medal payout opening is used to also produce other effects than the illumination effect, and is an important component.
  • the semitransparent plate is fixed to a decorative panel. Therefore, there occurs a problem that assembling the semitransparent plate to the decorative panel, replacement and manufacturing takes quite time.
  • the transparent member is placed detachably between the illumination means and the tray, thus making it possible to provide the gaming machine that can shorten the time taken for assembling the semitransparent plate placed between the illumination light and the medal payout opening to a decorative panel, and the time taken for replacing and manufacturing.
  • the transparent member may include a bottom member for transmitting light from the illumination means, a rear member fixed roughly at right angles with the bottom member, and a side member fixed between the rear member and the bottom member.
  • the transparent member is made up of the bottom member, the rear member, and the side member, thus making it possible to provide the gaming machine that can shorten the time taken for assembling the semitransparent plate placed between the illumination light and the medal payout opening to a decorative panel, and the time taken for replacing and manufacturing, and can be fixed with good stability.
  • a pinball slot machine 1 as a gaming machine is provided for the player to play a game using game medium such as a card storing information of the game play value given to the player as well as coins, medals and tokens.
  • game medium such as a card storing information of the game play value given to the player as well as coins, medals and tokens.
  • the display windows 4L, 4C, and 4R are formed with a top line 8b, a center line 8c, and a bottom line 8d in the horizontal direction and a cross down line 8a and cross up line 8e in the slanting directions as pay lines.
  • As the pay lines one, three, or five lines are made activated as the player operates a 1-BET switch 11, a 2-BET switch 12, or a MAX-BET switch 13 (described later) or inserts medals into a medal insertion slot 22. Which pay lines are made activated is indicated as a BET lamp 9a, 9b, or 9c (described below) is lighted.
  • one game is over when all reels stop.
  • the 1-BET lamp 9a is lighted; when the BET count is 2 and three pay lines are made activated, the 2-BET lamp 9b is lighted; and when the BET count is 3 and all the five pay lines are made activated, the MAX-BET lamp 9c is lighted.
  • the credit display unit 19 is made up of seven-segment LEDs for displaying the deposited number of medals.
  • a frontward projection portion 10 of a horizontal plane is formed below the display screen 5a.
  • the display screen 5a displays not only the various lamps and the various display units, but also various effects of animation, and the "operation order" required for realizing completion of the winning game when the internal winning of "small prize of bell” is accepted in the "assistance time period" described in the related art.
  • first stop operation the stop operation performed by the player pushing the first stop button when all reels rotate
  • second stop operation the stop operation next performed by the player pushing the second stop button
  • third stop operation the stop operation performed by the player pushing the third stop button following the second stop operation
  • the abbreviations of the stop buttons 7L, 7C, and 7R are listed from left to right in the stop operation order.
  • the operation order is indicated as "left center right.”
  • the six different operation orders of "left center right,” “left right center,” “center left right,” “center right left,” “right left center,” and “right center left” are available.
  • the ROM 32 of the microcomputer 30 stores probability lottery tables used to determine random number sampling performed each time the player operates the start lever 6 (start operation), stop control tables for determining the reel stop mode in response to operation of the stop buttons, various control commands to be transmitted to the sub-control circuit 72, and the like.
  • the commands include a standby screen command and a start command. The commands will be discussed later.
  • the sub-control circuit 72 does not input commands and information to the main control circuit 71 and one-way communications are conducted from the main control circuit 71 to the sub-control circuit 72.
  • the main actuators whose operation is controlled by a control signal from the microcomputer 30 include the various lamps (1-BET lamp 9a, 2-BET lamp 9b, MAX-BET lamp 9c, and WIN lamp 17), the various display units (payout display unit 18, credit display unit 19, and bonus game information display unit 20), a hopper (containing a drive section for paying out medals) 40 as game play value giving means for storing medals and paying out a predetermined number of medals according to an instruction of a hopper drive circuit 41, and stepping motors 49L, 49C, and 49R for rotating the reels 3L, 3C, and 3R.
  • FIG. 7 shows a winning stop control table. This table is used when stop control of the reels is performed so that "bell-bell-bell" is placed in a row along the activated line and the winning game of small prize of bell is complete after the internal winning of small prize of bell is accepted.
  • the stop control position of the left reel 3L is any of code number "04", “09", “12", “17”, or "20".
  • the symbols corresponding to these code numbers are "Replay (symbol 96)."
  • the number of slide frames may be called the number of pulled-in frames.” In the embodiment, the number of slide frames is four at the maximum. For example, when "cherry" with code number 12 (symbol 97 in FIG. 4) arrives at the position of the center line 8c while the right reel 3R is rotating, if the player operates the stop button 7R, stop control of the right reel 3R can be performed so as to stop and display "blue 7" with code number 08 (symbol 91 in FIG. 4) at the position of the center line 8c.
  • the CPU 31 supplies a payout command signal to the hopper drive circuit 41 for paying out a predetermined number of medals to the player from the hopper 40.
  • the medal detection section 40S counts the number of medals paid out from the hopper 40.
  • a medal payout completion signal is input to the CPU 31, which then stops driving the hopper 40 through the hopper drive circuit 41 and terminates the medal payout processing.
  • FIG. 10 shows the configuration of the sub-control circuit 72.
  • the sub-control circuit 72 performs display control of the liquid crystal display 5 and output control of sound from the speakers 21L and 21R based on the control commands from the main control circuit 71.
  • the sub-control circuit 72 which is implemented on a separate circuit board from the circuit board implementing the main control circuit 71 includes a microcomputer (sub-microcomputer) 73 as the main component, an image control circuit 81 as display control means of the liquid crystal display 5, a sound source IC 78 for controlling sound output from the speakers 21L and 21R, and a power amplifier 79.
  • the sub-microcomputer 73 includes a sub-CPU 74 for performing the control operation following a control command transmitted from the main control circuit 71, program ROM 75 as storage means, and work RAM 76.
  • the signal from the main control circuit 71 to the sub-microcomputer 73 is input through an IN port 77, and the signal to the image control circuit 81 is output through an OUT port 80.
  • the sub-CPU 74 includes the number-of-AT-sets counter and a number-of-AT-games counter.
  • the number-of-AT-sets counter stores the number of sets.
  • the number-of-AT-games counter stores information concerning the number of games in one assistance time period.
  • the sub-CPU 74 displays an image on the liquid crystal display 5 based on the command signal from the CPU 31.
  • the sub-CPU 74 transmits a signal to the image control CPU 82 and displays an image on the display screen 5a of the liquid crystal display 5.
  • the belly panel 100 may have a part fitted into the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a for attachment or may be attached to the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a so that it can be opened and closed like a door.
  • the left or right or upper or lower end of the belly panel 100 may be fixed to the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a using a fitment so that the belly panel 100 can be opened and closed with the fitting as the rotation shaft, and a part of any end other than the end where the fitness is placed may be fitted into the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a and fixed (closed).
  • FIG. 1 is a drawing to show a state in which the belly panel 100 is fixed to the panel display unit 2a (closed), needless to say.
  • the belly panel 100 is provided with an opening to attach a transparent member or a semitransparent member, which will be hereinafter referred to simply as transparent member, for transmitting light for illuminating the medal payout opening 15 and the medal reception tray 16 in the vicinity of the medal payout opening 15.
  • a transparent member or a semitransparent member which will be hereinafter referred to simply as transparent member, for transmitting light for illuminating the medal payout opening 15 and the medal reception tray 16 in the vicinity of the medal payout opening 15.
  • the above-mentioned illumination light member provided on the back of the belly panel 100 may be used or any other member such as an LED (light emitting diode) provided separately from the illumination light member may be used.
  • the transparent member a substance having plasticity such as PC, transparent or semitransparent glass, or any other substance may be used.
  • FIG. 11 shows the structure of the cabinet portion of the panel display unit 2a positioned on the back of the belly panel 100 to which the transparent member is attached.
  • FIG. 12 is a perspective view to schematically show the portion shown in FIG. 11 or the portion containing the periphery of that portion.
  • the front wall of the medal reception tray 16 is removed for convenience of the description. That is, the hatched portion in FIG. 11 indicates the bottom portion of the medal reception tray 16 on which medals are put.
  • the frame member 110 of the belly panel 100 with the belly panel 100 attached to the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a as shown in FIG. 1 or 2 is in contact with the lower ends of walls 101a and 101b of the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a inside the lower end of the frame member 110 in FIG. 11 for storing a member such as an illumination light member 104. Therefore, the walls 101a and 101b of the panel display unit 2a do not transmit light from the illumination light member 104 such as a fluorescent lamp in the direction of the medal reception tray 16.
  • the transparent member 105 is sandwiched and fixed between the belly panel 100 and the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a and is specifically discussed with FIG. 16.
  • the transparent member 105 is sandwiched between the belly panel 100 made up of the frame member 110 and the semitransparent member 120 and the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a and is fitted into the transparent member placement part 103.
  • the transparent member 105 is restricted in motion in the up and down direction and in the back and forth direction of the plane of the drawing and is fixed.
  • the transparent member 105 Since the transparent member 105 is sandwiched between the belly panel 100 and the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a in the back and forth direction relative to the belly panel 100 (in other words, in the side-to-side direction of the plane of the drawing), the transparent member 105 is restricted in motion and is fixed.
  • the light from the illumination light member 104 in FIG. 16 passes through the transparent member 105 and illuminates the display means 16 through an opening made in the lower end of the cabinet of the panel display unit 2a and the belly panel 100 (also opening of the transparent member placement part 103).
  • the transparent member 105 is made up of a bottom member 105a, a rear member 105b, and two side members 105c.
  • the light emitted from the illumination light member 104 to the medal payout opening 15 passes mostly through the bottom member 105a, needless to say.
  • the rear member 105b is provided for transmitting the transparent member 105 to be stably fitted into the transparent member placement part 103.
  • the side members 105c are provided for providing the mechanical strength of the transparent member 105.
  • the transparent member shown in FIGS. 13A and 13B is only an example of the member incorporating the invention and may have any other structure. Specifically, a structure wherein the side members 105c are removed using strong members as the bottom member 105a and the rear member 105b, a structure wherein the stability of the transparent member is ensured by the side members 105c and the bottom member 105a, or any other structure may be adopted for providing the function of the transparent member described above.
  • the simplest structure can be provided as the transparent member is implemented only as the bottom member 105a.
  • the machine according to the embodiment of the invention has the transparent member placed detachably between the illumination light member and the medal payout opening. Therefore, it is possible to shorten the time taken for assembling the semitransparent plate placed between the illumination light and the medal payout opening to a decorative panel, and the time taken for replacing and manufacturing.
  • the transparent member is made up of the bottom member, the rear member, and the side members. Therefore, it is possible to provide the gaming machine that can shorten the time taken for assembling, replacing and manufacturing the semitransparent plate placed between the illumination light and the medal payout opening to a decorative panel, and to fix the transparent member with good stability.
  • the transparent member is colored. Therefore, it is possible to shorten the time taken for assembling, replacing and manufacturing the semitransparent plate placed between the illumination light and the medal payout opening to a decorative panel, and to produce the decorative effect.
  • the present invention can be applied to other gaming apparatus that is configured without a stop button and is featured so that the reels start spinning by activation of a start lever or a start button and stop automatically after a prescribed time elapsed.

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  1. Spielautomat, der umfasst:
    eine Symbolreihen-Anzeigeeinrichtung, die zum Anzeigen einer Vielzahl von Symbolen für einen Spieler zum Anordnen der Symbole ausgeführt ist;
    eine Betätigungs-Eingabeeinrichtung, die einen Hebel oder eine Taste umfasst, der/die durch den Spieler zum Spielen eines Spiels zu betätigen ist;
    eine interne Lotterieeinrichtung, die zum Ausführen einer internen Lotterie des Spiels mit einer Zufallszahl ausgeführt ist;
    eine Beleuchtungseinrichtung, die zum Beleuchten eines Fachs ausgeführt ist, das an einem Gehäuse des Spielautomaten ausgebildet ist; dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    ein transparentes Element abnehmbar zwischen der Beleuchtungseinrichtung und dem Fach angeordnet ist.
  2. Spielautomat nach Anspruch 1, wobei das transparente Element umfasst:
    ein unteres Element, das zum Durchlassen von Licht von der Beleuchtungseinrichtung ausgeführt ist;
    ein hinteres Element, das an dem unteren Element im Wesentlichen im rechten Winkel dazu befestigt ist; und
    ein seitliches Element, das zwischen dem hinteren Element und dem unteren Element befestigt ist.
  3. Spielautomat nach Anspruch 1, wobei das transparente Element aus einem Kunststoffelement besteht.
  4. Spielautomat nach Anspruch 1, wobei das transparente Element zwischen dem Gehäuse und einer Frontplatte, die in das Gehäuse eingesetzt ist, eingeschlossen und befestigt ist.
  5. Spielautomat nach Anspruch 1, wobei das transparente Element farbig ist.
  6. Spielautomat nach Anspruch 1, wobei das transparente Element mit einer Dekoration verziert ist, die wenigstens einen Buchstaben, ein Zeichen oder ein Muster enthält.
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AT04004726T ATE353154T1 (de) 2004-03-01 2004-03-01 Spielautomat mit einem durchsichtigen, abnehmbaren, zwischen der münzausgabe und deren beleuchtung angebrachtem element
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