JP2001113006A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately deliver prize balls even in a power failure. SOLUTION: When the power feed from a power substrate to a prize ball control substrate is stopped at a power failure (point P6) and the voltage of a 12 V-power supply is dropped to a level LV1, the interruption terminal of a CPU is validated by the action of a voltage monitoring circuit (point P7), and the drive of a ball cutting motor is stopped. When the voltage of the 12 V-power supply is further dropped to a level LV3 from the level LV1, a forced interruption terminal is validated by the action of the backup voltage monitoring circuit, and a forced interruption process is executed (point P8). In the forced interruption process, the CPU stops the detection process by a prize ball delivery switch then executes a process for prohibiting the access to a RAM. When the voltage of the 12 V-power supply is further dropped from the level LV3 to a level LV2, a reset terminal is validated by the action of the voltage monitoring circuit, and the operation of the CPU is stopped (point P9).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game machine, and more particularly, to a game machine including at least a prize ball control board for executing payout of a prize ball when a prize is won.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a gaming machine, for example, a pachinko gaming machine, a predetermined number of game balls are paid out as a prize ball when a shot game ball wins a winning opening. The game balls that have won each of the winning holes on the game board are temporarily stopped in a safe ball tank, and the stopped game balls are detected one by one by a sensor, and a predetermined number of game balls as prize balls are driven by a motor or the like. After being paid out to the player by the device, the detected game balls are discharged from the safe ball tank. In this conventional pachinko gaming machine, the winning game balls are parked in the safe ball tank, and the prize balls are paid out and then discharged outside the machine, so that even if an unexpected situation such as a power failure occurs, the winning game balls are safe. Because it is parked in the ball tank, it has the effect of not giving a disadvantage to the player.

However, the conventional pachinko gaming machine has the following problems. (1) The configuration is bulky and complicated due to the necessity of providing a safe ball tank. (2) When a power failure or the like occurs, since the data of the number of prize balls to be paid out disappears, the maximum number of prize balls are paid out, and accurate prize balls are not paid out. For example, even when 5 or 10 prize balls should be paid out for one winning ball, 15 prize balls are paid out.

In order to solve these problems, recently, a prize payout control board for paying out prize balls is provided, and data corresponding to the number of prize to be paid out is stored in a memory of the prize payout board. Proposals have been made for battery backup. As the invention according to the proposal,
The applicant of the present application has made the invention described in Japanese Patent Application No. 10-126693, entitled "Ball Ball Game Machine". This proposal has an excellent effect that the mechanism of the pachinko machine can be simplified and the player is not disadvantaged even when a power failure occurs.

[0005]

However, in a pachinko game machine or the like provided with the above-described prize payout board, the following problems can be considered. If a power failure occurs while paying out the prize balls, the falling game balls cannot be detected. In particular, when a power failure occurs when a game ball is falling, the falling game ball cannot be detected. The undetected game balls are paid out to the player as prize balls. As a result, there has been a problem that accurate payout of prize balls may not be performed. The gaming machine of the present invention has been made to solve these problems appropriately and to provide a gaming machine that accurately pays out prize balls even when a power failure occurs.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a gaming machine according to claim 1 comprises a prize ball driving means for paying out game balls as prize balls, and a prize ball driving means. Prize ball detecting means for detecting a game ball to be paid out, prize ball payout control means for controlling the prize ball driving means, and storage means for storing the number of prize balls to be paid out, which is stored in the storage means. When the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped in a gaming machine including a prize ball control board that controls to pay out prize balls in accordance with the number of prize balls, the storage by the storage means is retained. Power holding processing means for stopping driving of the prize ball driving means before stopping detection of game balls by the prize ball detection means when power supply to the prize ball control board is stopped. And comprising Characterized in that it has been.

Here, the prize ball is a predetermined prize paid out when a predetermined condition such as when a game ball is awarded to a winning port of a pachinko game machine, when a predetermined combination of symbols is formed in an arrangement ball game machine, or the like. The number of game balls. When the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, the case where the supply of power is stopped due to a power failure (including an instantaneous power failure) is naturally included in addition to the normal process of turning off the power. The power failure processing means may be any means that, when the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, stops driving the prize ball driving means before stopping the detection of the game ball by the prize ball detection means. When the supply of power is stopped due to a power failure or the like, the driving of the prize ball driving unit may be stopped before the detection of the game ball by the prize ball detection unit is stopped according to the voltage drop level of the power supply. At this time, the time from when the operation of the prize ball driving means is stopped to when the detection by the prize ball detecting means is stopped is to ensure the falling time of the game ball from the position of the prize ball driving means to the prize ball detecting means. Is desirable.

In the gaming machine according to the first aspect of the present invention, the award ball payout means pays out the award ball by controlling the drive of the award ball drive means in accordance with the number of award balls stored in the storage means. When the supply of power to the control board is stopped, the memory by the storage means is held by the storage holding means, and when the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, the game balls are detected by the prize ball detection means. Before the detection is stopped, the power failure processing means stops the driving of the prize ball driving means. Thus, even if a power failure occurs while a game ball as a prize ball is falling from the prize ball drive unit, the falling game ball is detected by the prize ball detection unit, and the detected number is not determined. Data subtracted from the number of winning prize balls is stored and held by the storage and holding means during a power failure. As a result, after the restoration of the power failure, the payout of the prize balls is executed in accordance with the unpaid prize ball number data stored and retained, which has an excellent effect that the payout of the prize balls can be performed accurately.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the gaming machine according to the first aspect, when supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, detection of a game ball by the prize ball detection means is performed. And a power failure processing means for stopping the driving of the prize ball driving means a predetermined time before stopping.

The gaming machine described in claim 2 functions to stop the detection of the game ball by the prize ball detecting means after a predetermined time has elapsed after stopping the driving of the prize ball driving means when a power failure occurs. Here, assuming that the predetermined time is a time from when the ball is dropped from the prize ball driving means to when it is detected by the prize ball detecting means, it is possible to detect even a game ball dropped by the prize ball driving means when a power failure occurs. .

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a gaming machine comprising: a prize ball driving means for paying out a game ball as a prize ball; and a prize ball detecting means for detecting a game ball paid out by the prize ball drive means. A gaming machine comprising: a prize ball control board configured to include, and a main control board that controls the progress of a game caused by a behavior of a game ball fired on a game board surface, wherein the main control board Transmitting means for transmitting to the prize ball control board data relating to winning due to the behavior of a game ball fired on the game board surface; and a prize ball based on the data transmitted by the transmission means to the prize ball control board. Storage means for storing data relating to the number, and prize ball payout control means for paying out prize balls by the prize ball drive means based on the data stored by the storage means, further comprising: When the power supply to the Is a memory holding means for holding the memory by the memory means, and when the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, the prize ball drive is stopped before the detection of game balls by the prize ball detection means is stopped. 3. The gaming machine according to claim 1, further comprising: a power failure processing unit configured to stop driving of the unit.

The gaming machine according to the third aspect has the same effect as the gaming machine according to the first or second aspect.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Note that the embodiment of the present invention
It is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to the following specific examples at all, and can take various forms within the technical scope of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the pachinko machine 10 of this specific example includes a substantially rectangular outer frame 11 and a front frame 12, and a known card reader 13 is provided on the left of the outer frame 11. The front frame 12 is rotatably attached to the outer frame 11 by upper and lower left and right hinges 14. An upper plate 15 is provided below the front frame 12.
, A lending button 16, a settlement button 17, and a balance display section 18 are provided. When the prepaid card is inserted into the card slot 19 of the card reader 13, the stored balance is displayed on the balance display section 1.
8, when the lending button 16 is pressed, the lending of the game balls is executed, and the game balls are discharged from the payout opening of the upper plate 15.

A window-shaped metal frame 20 is removably attached to the front frame 12. A sheet glass 21 is doubly fitted into the metal frame 20. A game board 22 is housed behind the glass sheet 21. Upper plate 1
5, a lower plate 23 is provided below the front frame 12, and the lower plate 2
A firing handle 24 is attached to the right side of 3.
A rotating ring (not shown) is provided on the outer periphery of the firing handle 24, and when rotated clockwise, a game ball can be played on the game board 22.
Can be fired on. The upper plate 15 and the lower plate 23 are connected, and are configured to guide game balls to the lower plate 23 when the upper plate 15 becomes full of game balls.

FIG. 2 is a back view of the pachinko machine 10 viewed from the back. As shown in the figure, a mechanism board 26 to which the game board 22 described above is detachably attached is housed in the outer frame 13 described above. A ball tank 27, a guiding gutter 28, and a payout device 29 are provided on the mechanism board 26 from above. With this configuration, if there is a winning of a game ball in the winning opening on the game board 22, a predetermined number of game balls are delivered from the ball tank 27 via the guiding gutter 28 by the payout device 29 to the above-mentioned upper plate 15
Can be discharged. The main control board 30 and the prize ball control board 31 are detachably attached to the mechanism board 26.
2, a special symbol display device 32, a firing control board 33 on the lower left portion of the front frame, and an external connection terminal board 50 on the left side of the special symbol display device 32 are attached. The structure related to the payout of game balls and the like centering on the mechanism board 26 is the same as that of the conventional structure, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Next, the game board 22 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the gaming board 22 has an LCD panel unit (hereinafter, referred to as "LCD") 32a constituting a special symbol display device 32 in the center, and an ordinary electric accessory as a first type starting port below the LCD panel unit 32a. 36, an ordinary symbol display device 37 on the upper part of the LCD 35, ordinary symbol operation gates 38 and 39 on the left and right of the LCD 35 used to start changing the symbol displayed on the ordinary symbol display device 37, and a large winning port 40 on the lower part of the ordinary electric accessory 36. An opening 41 at the bottom of the board, other winning ports, a windmill, a game nail (not shown), and the like are provided. With this configuration, when the above-described firing handle 24 is rotated, the firing motor 3 driven by the firing control board 33 is provided.
3a is driven, and the game ball on the upper plate 15 is fired on the game board 22 via the guide rail. If the launched game ball wins in each winning opening, the game ball is taken in as a safe ball on the back surface of the board, and if not won, it is similarly taken in as an out ball via the out port 41 on the back surface of the board.

Next, the electrical configuration of the pachinko machine 10 will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. Pachinko machine 1
As shown in the figure, the electric circuit of 0 includes the main control board 30, the prize ball control board 31, the special symbol display device 32, the launch control board 33, the lamp control board 34, and the sound control board 35.
And so on. The circuit diagram does not show a so-called relay board or the like for transferring signals.

The main control board 30 includes a ROM storing a game control program and a RAM serving as a work area for operations and the like.
And an external input / output circuit for inputting / outputting data from / to each board or various switches and various actuators. On the input side of the main control board 30, a first-type starting port switch 36a, ordinary symbol operation switches 38a and 39a, an accessory continuous operation switch (hereinafter, simply referred to as "V switch") 40a, a count switch 40b, a full tank Switch 43, supply switch 44,
A plurality of other winning port switches 52 and the like are connected.
On the output side, a special winning opening solenoid 40c, a V solenoid 40b, a normal accessory solenoid 36b, an external connection terminal board 50, and the like are connected.

The first type start switch 36a is in the ordinary electric accessory 36 on the game board 22, and the ordinary symbol actuation switches 38a and 39a are ordinary symbol actuation gates 38 and 3, respectively.
9, the V switch 40a is in a specific area within the special winning opening 40, and the count switch 40b is also in the special winning opening 40.
The full tank switch 43 is located in the lower plate 16, the refill switch 44 is located in the ball tank 27, and the other winning port switches 52 are located in the respective winning slots on the board other than the ordinary electric accessory 36 and the large winning port 40. Installed. Here, the V switch 40a gives the fact that the game ball which has won in the special winning opening 40 has passed through the special device operation area (hereinafter, referred to as “special area”), and the count switch 40b makes the winning in the special winning opening 40. When all the game balls are full, the refill switch 43 indicates that the lower bowl 16 is full of game balls.
4 indicates that a game ball is present in the ball tank 27, and the other prize port switch 52 is the ordinary electric accessory 36 and the large prize port 4.
This is for detecting that a game ball has won each winning port on the board surface other than 0. The special winning opening solenoid 40c connected to the output side is connected to the special winning opening 40, V
The solenoid is a special area in the special winning opening 40, and the ordinary accessory solenoid 36b is used for opening and closing the ordinary electric accessory 36, respectively.

The special symbol display device 32 is the aforementioned LCD
32a, a symbol display device control board (hereinafter, simply referred to as "symbol control board") 32b for driving and controlling the LCD 32a, and an auxiliary unit 32c such as a backlight and an inverter board. Have been. The symbol control board 32b is configured as a logic operation circuit centered on an 8-bit one-chip microcomputer similarly to the main control board 30 described above.

The prize ball control board 31 drives and controls the ball cutting motor 29b in accordance with a command command from the main control board 30, and pays out a game ball as a prize ball to a player when a prize is won. Prepaid card unit 1
3 and the CR settlement display board 42, etc.
It is configured as a logical operation circuit using a microcomputer. The CR settlement display substrate 42 is the upper plate 1 described above.
5, a rental button 16, a settlement button 17, a balance display section 18, and the like. An award ball payout switch 29a is connected to the input side of the award ball control board 31. The prize ball payout switch 29a is a ball cutting motor 29 in the payout device 29.
b, and detects a game ball paid out by the ball cutting motor 29b.

The firing control board 33 drives and controls the firing motor 33a in accordance with the amount of rotation of the firing handle 24 operated by the player, and stops the firing when the player presses the firing stop switch 24b. Or to turn on the touch lamp 45 when the touch switch 24a built in the firing handle 24 is in an on state. The touch switch 24a is built in the firing handle 24 and detects that a player is touching the firing handle 24.

The lamp control board 34 is mainly composed of a driving element such as a transistor, and receives a command from the main control board 30 to form a normal symbol display device 37, various kinds of lamps such as a jackpot lamp and an error lamp, and various kinds of LEDs. It is for lighting and displaying lamps.

The sound control board 35 is composed of a sound source IC, an amplifier and the like, and drives and controls the speaker 46 in response to a command from the main control board 30.

The transmission to the special symbol display device 32, the prize ball control board 31, the launch control board 33, the lamp control board 34, and the sound control board 35 is performed in one direction so that it can be transmitted only from the main control board 30. It is configured as a communication circuit. This one-way communication configuration can be implemented using an inverter circuit or a latch circuit.

The main control board 30, the prize ball control board 31,
As shown in FIG. 5, the symbol control board 32b, the firing control board 33, the lamp control board 34, the sound control board 35, etc.
Various power supplies are supplied from the power supply circuit 55. The power supply circuit 55 includes a 24 V AC power supply and 32 V DC, 12 V DC,
Further, a configuration is employed in which a backup power supply of 5 V DC is generated by a capacitor. Then, the main control board 30,
Each board such as the prize ball control board 31 and the symbol control board 32b uses the supplied DC 12V power supply to drive the IC drive DC 5V.
Generate V.

Here, as shown in the figure, the DC 12 V power supplied from the power supply circuit 55 is reset (RES) by the CPU 61 via the voltage monitoring circuit 60 of the main control board 30.
Connected to terminal. Similarly, the DC 12V power supplied from the power supply circuit 55 is connected to the reset (XRES) terminal of the CPU 63 via the voltage monitoring circuit 62 of the prize ball control board 31, and to the XNMI terminal of the CPU 63 via the backup voltage monitoring circuit 64. It is connected to the. The 5V backup power supply of the power supply circuit is connected to the backup terminal (VBB) of the CPU 63. Similarly, the DC 12V power supplied from the power supply circuit 55 is connected to the reset (RES) terminal of the CPU 66 via the voltage monitoring circuit 65 of the symbol control board 32b.

As shown in FIG. 6, a voltage monitoring circuit 60 of the main control board 30 includes a voltage monitoring IC 11, resistors R17, R
18 and R19, a bypass capacitor C10 and the like. VSB which is an input terminal of the voltage monitoring IC 11
The terminal has a DC12 voltage divided by resistors R17 and R18.
V power is supplied, and the RESET terminal, which is an output terminal, is pulled up to 5 V DC by a resistor R19 and is connected to the RES terminal, which is an input terminal of the CPU 61. Although not shown, the voltage monitoring circuit 65 has the same configuration as the voltage monitoring circuit 60.

The voltage monitoring circuit 62 of the prize ball control board 31
As shown in FIG. 7, the voltage monitoring IC 8, the resistors R38, R
39 and 40, and bypass capacitors C22 and C23. A DC voltage divided by resistors R39 and R40 is connected to a VS terminal which is an input terminal of the voltage monitoring IC 8.
A 12 V power supply is supplied, and a RESET terminal, which is an output terminal, is pulled up to 5 V DC by a resistor R38 and is connected to an XRES terminal, which is an input terminal of the CPU 63.

The backup voltage monitoring circuit 64 includes a comparator IC1A, resistors R41 to R45, and the like. The minus input terminal of the comparator IC1A
The power of 5V DC divided by the resistors R43 and R44 is supplied, the plus input terminal is supplied with 12V DC of voltage divided by the resistors R41 and R42, and the output terminal is pulled to 5V DC by the resistor R45. Up and CP
It is connected to the XNMI terminal which is the input terminal of U63.

With the above configuration, the main control board 30 and the prize ball control board 31 when the power of the pachinko machine 10 is turned on.
An operation start-up state of each CPU with a sub-control board other than the main control board such as the symbol control board 32b will be described with reference to a timing chart shown in FIG. When the power of the pachinko machine 10 is turned on, the DC3
2V, DC12V, battery backup power supply (VB
B) DC5V is generated. This generated DC
The 12V power is supplied to each control board as shown in FIG.

Here, as shown in FIG. 8, when the power is turned on (point P1), the voltage of the DC 12V power supply gradually rises from 0V to 12V in a parabolic manner. When the voltage of the gradually rising DC12V power supply reaches the reference value LV2, the outputs of the voltage monitoring circuit 62 of the prize ball control board 31 and the voltage monitoring circuit 65 of the symbol control board 32b change from the low level to the high level, and the reset of the CPU 63 is released.
The PU 63 starts the security check operation (point P2). When the power supply voltage of DC12V is the reference value LV2, the output of the voltage monitoring circuit 60 of the main control board 30 maintains the low level state. When the power supply voltage of DC12V rises from the reference value LV2 to the reference value LV1, the output of the voltage monitoring circuit 60 changes from a low level to a high level, and C
The reset of the PU 61 is released, and the CPU 61 starts the security check operation (point P3).

The security check time T1 of the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 is determined by the CPU 63 of the prize ball control board 31.
The security check time T2 of each CPU of the sub control board such as the CPU 66 of the symbol control board 32b is designed to be equal to or longer than the security check time T2. As is well known, the security check is a function of checking whether the contents of the ROM in which the contents of the game are written by the CPUs 30, 31, and 32b, which are one-chip microcomputers, are legitimate contents.

The security check time T1 of the main control board 30 is equal to the security check time T2 of the sub control board.
In addition, the security check operation of the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 is performed later than the security check operation of the sub-control board. Thus, when the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 starts executing the control of the game according to the program written in the ROM, each CPU of the sub-control board has already executed the control of the game. As a result, immediately after the power is turned on, the CPU 61 of the main control board 30
Can transmit data to each sub-control board, and since each sub-control board is executing the original control, the data can be reliably received. In this specific example, the security check time T1 is about 439 ms, and the time from when the power of the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 is turned on to when the control of the game is executed is about 529 ms to 549 ms. The security check time T2 is about 200 ms, and the time from when the power is turned on to when the CPU 63 of the prize ball control board 31, which is one of the sub-control boards, controls the game is about 20 ms.
It is 2 ms to 203 ms.

Next, the operation when the power supply to the pachinko gaming machine 10 is cut off will be described with reference to the timing chart shown in FIG. When the power supply to the pachinko gaming machine 10 is interrupted (point P6), DC12V
Although the power supply voltage of the power supply voltage drops sharply immediately after the cutoff, it drops substantially linearly thereafter and becomes 0 V after a predetermined time. In the course of this linearly decreasing, the aforementioned reference voltage LV1
(Point P7), the output voltage of the voltage monitoring circuit 60 of the main control board 30 changes from the high level to the low level, and the CPU 61 is reset. Thereafter, as the time elapses, the power supply voltage of DC12V gradually decreases and reaches the reference voltage LV3 (point P8).
The output voltage of the backup voltage monitoring circuit 64 changes from the high level to the low level. As a result, the XNMI terminal of the CPU 63 of the award ball control board 31 becomes low level,
A non-maskable interrupt is applied to the CPU 63.

When the power supply voltage of DC12V further decreases from the reference voltage LV3 to reach the reference voltage LV2 (point P
9) The output voltage of the voltage monitoring circuit of each sub-control board, such as the voltage monitoring circuit 62 of the award ball control board 31 and the voltage monitoring circuit 65 of the symbol control board 32b, changes from high level to low level. Thus, the CPU of each sub-control board is reset. Here, the RAM of the prize ball control board 31 is backed up by a battery, and the RAM is stored even when the power is turned off.
Is held for a predetermined time (about 1 hour 20 minutes to about 3 hours 30 minutes in this specific example). By the way, as described above, the XNMI terminal is enabled before the CPU 63 of the award ball control board 31 is reset. As a result, the CPU 63 prohibits access to the RAM and prevents writing. As a result, the contents of the RAM in a stable state before resetting can be backed up by a battery instead of backing up the contents of the RAM in an unstable state that is a reset state.

As described above, when the power is turned off, the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 is first reset, and then each CPU of the sub-control board is reset. This has the effect that each sub-control board can reliably receive data transmitted by the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 before the power is turned off. In this specific example, the reference voltage LV1 is 9.39V to 10.21V, the reference voltage LV3 is 8.00V to 9.23V,
The reference voltage LV2 is designed to be 7.20V to 7.75V.

The operation of this embodiment having the above-described configuration is shown in FIG.
15 will be described with reference to FIG. Main control board 30
When the processing executed by the CPU 61 shifts to the "winning storage routine" shown in FIG. 10, first, it is determined whether or not there is a winning (step S100). In this specific example, the ordinary electric accessory 36 as a starting port is configured as a prize ball of five prize balls, the special winning port 40 is configured as a prize ball of 15 prize balls, and the other prize ports are configured as prize balls of 10 prize balls. The winning of the ordinary electric accessory 36 is detected by the first type starting port switch 36a, the winning of the large winning port 40 is detected by the count switch 40b, and the winning of other winning ports is detected by the other winning port switch 52. When a positive determination is made that there is a winning (step S100), the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is incremented (+1) (step S110), and thereafter, a winning order storing process is executed (step S120).

Winning order storage processing (step S120)
As shown in the memory map of FIG. 11, data for determining the number of winning balls is written in a 20-byte memory space using a 2-bit memory for one win in the order of winning. In this specific example, 0 is set for the winning of five winning balls.
1 (H), 10 for winning of 10 winning balls
(H), 11 (H) data are written for winning of 15 prize balls. In this specific example, data indicating the number of winning balls for four winnings is written in one byte by using two bits from the least significant bit in the order in which the winning is detected, and if a one-byte memory is used. Is written to the memory at the next higher address. The position in the memory space to be written is determined by the incremented unpaid winning number MMN.
Can be determined by the value of

When the winning data is stored in the "winning storage routine", the "winning transmission routine" shown in FIG.
Is executed. The "winning storage routine" shown in FIG.
The "winning transmission routine" shown in FIG. 12 is periodically executed by a hardware interrupt. In the "winning transmission routine" shown in FIG. 12, it is first determined whether or not the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is not zero (step S150). If the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is not zero, a winning transmission process is executed (step S160). In this specific example, 1-byte data of address A000 (H) is left as it is, that is,
The data of the number of winning balls for four winnings is transmitted to the symbol control board 32b at a time. For example, even if the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is 3 or less and 1 or more, 1-byte data is transmitted as it is. When the winning transmission processing is executed, the value 4 is subtracted from the value of the unpaid winning number MMN (step S17).
0) Then, it is determined whether the value of the unpaid winning number MMN subjected to the subtraction processing is equal to or smaller than zero (step S180). If a negative determination is made that the value is not equal to or less than zero, a storage update process is executed (step S190).

The storage update process (step S190) is a process of repeatedly executing the process of copying 1-byte data of the address whose address is higher than 1 to the address whose address is lower than 1 until an address where no data is written.
More specifically, the data at address A001 (H) is stored at address A000 (H), and the data at address A002 (H) is stored at address A001 (H) and address A003.
(H) data is sequentially stored in address A002 (H),
This is a process of copying one byte at a time, and is a process of repeatedly executing up to an address where data is not written. On the other hand, in step S180, the number of unpaid winnings MMN
Is determined to be zero or less, the number of unpaid winnings M
The process of clearing the value of MN to zero (step S200) and clearing the memories at addresses A000 (H) to A013 (H) to zero (step S210) is executed.

In this specific example, the winning transmission process (step S160) is configured to transmit one byte of data by one process, but the first bit which is the least significant bit of the address A000 (H) is transmitted. And two-bit data of two bits may be transmitted by one process. In the case of this configuration, the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is decremented (-1) after the transmission process, and the storage update process shifts the data right by two bits, and the seventh bit and the most significant bit, that is, 8 bits The data of the first bit and the second bit whose address is higher by one are copied to the eyes.

When the CPU 63 of the prize ball control board 31 determines that the prize data is transmitted from the main control board 30 (step S250 (FIG. 13 “Reception Data Storage Routine”)), it adds the unpaid prize number ZMN. A process is performed (step S260). In the addition processing in step S260, if the transmitted 1-byte data is data representing the number of winnings for four winnings, the number of unpaid winnings ZMN is +4, and the number of winnings for three winnings is calculated. In the case of the data, the number of unpaid winnings ZMN is +3, and in the case of data representing the number of winnings for two winnings, the number of unpaid winnings ZMN is +2, and the number of winnings for one winning is represented. If it is data, this is a process of adding +1 to the unpaid winning number ZMN. When the process of adding the unpaid winning number ZMN is performed (step S260), it is determined whether or not the unpaid winning number ZMN is not over the memory (step S27).
0). In this specific example, the memory for storing the winning number is a 20-byte memory, similar to the memory for storing the winning number of the main control board shown in FIG. 01 (H), the number of award balls of 10 award balls is 10
(H), 2 bits of 11 (H) are used for the number of prize balls of 15 prize balls. Therefore, a 20-byte memory can store the number of prize balls for 80 game balls winning.

If it is determined that the memory is not over, a winning order storing process is executed (step S28).
0). This processing is performed in Step S performed by the main control board 30.
Similar to the process 120, the process of writing the number of prize balls corresponding to a prize in the memory, which is transmitted from the memory space corresponding to the unpaid prize number ZMN obtained by adding +1 to the unpaid prize number ZMN before being added. 01 (H), 10 (10) in the memory space corresponding to the unpaid winning number ZMN obtained by adding the winning numbers 1 to 4
(H) or 11 (H) data is written. It should be noted that whether the winning number is 1 to 4 based on the transmitted 1-byte data is determined from the most significant bit to which bit.
It can be determined whether (H) is continuous. Step S25
If the 1 to 4 winning numbers represented in the 1-byte data transmitted at 0 correspond to memory over,
A process is performed to add a new winning number OMN by adding the corresponding winning number (step S290).

Step S280 and / or step S2
When the processing of Step 90 is executed, the number of award balls M5D, MAD,
MED addition processing is executed (step S300).
This processing includes 01 in the transmitted 1-byte data.
If the data of (H) exists, the number of award balls M5D is incremented (+1), and if the data of 10 (H) exists, the number of award balls M
In this process, AD is incremented, and if there is 11 (H) data, the award ball number MED is incremented. FIG.
By executing each process of the “received data storage routine” shown in FIG. 3, the winning number of the 15 prize balls to be paid out is the number of prize balls MED, the winning number of the 15 prize balls is the number of prize balls MAD,
The winning number of individual winning balls is stored as the number of winning balls M5D, and the order of winning for the 80 winning balls to be paid out is stored in the memories A000 to A013 (H).

In the case where 2-bit data, that is, data for one winning, is transmitted by one transmission processing, each processing (steps) of the "reception data storage routine" shown in FIG. By executing S310 to S390), the winning number of the fifteen prize balls to be paid out is determined as the prize ball number MED, the winning number of the ten prize balls is determined as the prize ball number MAD,
The winning number of the five prize balls is stored as the number of prize balls M5D.
The winning order for the 80 winning balls to be paid out may be stored in the memory at the addresses A000 (H) to A013 (H).

Next, a process in which the CPU 63 of the winning ball control board 31 drives and controls the ball cutting motor 29b to pay out a winning ball will be described with reference to a "winning ball payout routine" shown in FIG. If the value of the unpaid winning number ZMN added by the processing of the step S260 is not zero and the over winning number OMN is zero (steps S400 to S41)
0), the number of prize balls for a prize that has not been paid out is stored in the memories A000 (H) to A013 (H) in the order of the prize. In this case, the CPU 63 of the award ball control board 31 determines that the address of the address is A000.
The data written in the first and second bits of the memory, which are the least significant bits of (H), are 11 (H), 10 (H),
(H) or 01 (H) is determined (step S420).

If it is determined to be 11 (H) by the determination processing, the ball cutting motor 29b is operated until it is detected by the prize ball payout switch 29a that 15 game balls have been paid out.
Is controlled (step S430), and thereafter, a process of decrementing (−1) the value of the winning ball number MED is executed (step S440). If it is determined to be 10 (H) by the determination process, the ball cutting motor 29b is drive-controlled until it is detected by the prize ball payout switch 29a that 10 game balls have been paid out (step S450), and thereafter,
A process of decrementing (-1) the value of the winning ball number MAD is executed (step S460). 01 by the judgment process
If (H) is determined, the ball cutting motor 29b is drive-controlled until it is detected by the prize ball payout switch 29a that five game balls have been paid out (step S470),
Thereafter, a process of decrementing (-1) the value of the winning ball number M5D is executed (step S480).

When the execution of the prize ball payout process is completed (steps S420 to S480), after updating the winning order storage (step S490), the number of unpaid winnings ZMN is decremented (step S500). The winning order storage update process (step S490) is performed for the A000 (H) address 1
A process of shifting the byte data to the right twice, that is, moving the written data to the right by 2 bits, is executed, and the seventh bit and the eighth bit, which is the most significant bit, have A001.
(H) The data of the first bit and the second bit of the address are moved, and this process is repeated by repeating the process up to the address where no data is written. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S410 that the over-winning number OMN is not zero, the number of winning prize ball data that has not yet been paid out exceeds 80 and the winning order is not stored. Is executed (step S51).
0). The over-prize-ball payout process will be described with reference to the “over-prize-ball payout process” shown in FIG.

In this process, the CPU of the prize ball control board 31
33, first, whether the value of the award ball number MED is zero (step S550), whether the value of the award ball number MAD is zero (step S560), and whether the value of the award ball number M5D is zero (step S560). S570) is determined one after another. Prize ball number MED
Is not zero (Step S550), the value of the award ball number MED is decremented after paying out 15 game balls as award balls (Steps S580 to S590). If the value of the prize ball number MED is zero and the value of the prize ball number MAD is not zero (steps S550 to S560), the value of the prize ball number MAD is decremented after paying out ten game balls as prize balls. (Steps S600 to S610).
If the value of the prize ball number MED and the value of the prize ball number MAD are both zero and the value of the prize ball number M5D is not zero (steps S550 to S570), the prize is paid out after paying out five game balls as prize balls. The value of the number of balls M5D is decremented (steps S620 to S630).

Steps S580 and S590, steps S600 and S610, or step S6
After the execution of any one of steps S20 and S630, the value of the over-winning number OMN is decremented (step S6).
40), the process exits to "RETURN". In steps S550 to S570, the number of award balls MED and MAD are determined.
When it is determined that the values of M5D and M5D are all zero, nothing is executed, and the processing directly exits to "RETURN".

According to the specific example described in detail above,
The main control board 30 stores the number of winning balls in the order of winning, and transmits the stored winning data to the winning ball control board 31.
On the other hand, the prize ball control board 31 stores the number of prize balls in the order of winning until the memory of 20 bytes exceeds the memory,
If the prize ball cannot catch up or a large number of winnings occur at one time, 20
When the byte memory is over, only the number of winning balls is stored. For the memory overrun, the prize balls are executed in order from the one with the largest number of prize balls. Thus, in normal times, the prize balls can be paid out in the order of the winning prize, and in a transient when the prize balls cannot catch up, the payout is executed with priority given to the prize balls with a large number of prize balls for the memory over. As a result, there is an excellent effect that the memory space for storing the winning order can be configured without unnecessarily increasing. In addition, in this specific example, since the battery backup function is mounted, even when returning from a power failure, prize balls can be paid out according to the stored data, and prize balls can be paid out in the order of winning. It has the effect of being able to.

Further, in this specific example, when the memory is over, a configuration is adopted in which the memory over is paid out with priority and then paid out in accordance with the winning order. Even if the winning data is transmitted on the way, the writing process may be performed as it is on the data after the prize ball processing, and there is an excellent effect that the storing process of the winning data is not complicated. In this specific example, the winning data transmitted from the main control board 30 to the prize ball control board 31 is configured to transmit one byte of data at a time. Therefore, the transmission processing of the main control board 30 and the prize ball control board 31 There is also an excellent effect that the time for the receiving process can be shortened.

In addition, in this specific example, when the memory is not over, the addresses A000 (H) to A013 (H)
In the 20-byte memory space, data indicating the number of winning balls is written in the order of winning, and the number M5D, MAD, and MED of the winning balls, which are data indicating the number of winning balls, are incremented. Even if part or all of the data written to the memory at the addresses A000 (H) to A013 (H) disappears, the number of award balls M5
Prize balls can be paid out in accordance with D, MAD, and MED, and there is an effect that unexpected disadvantage is not given to the player. When the memory is not over, the total number of winning balls indicated by the data written to the addresses A000 (H) to A013 (H) and the number of winning balls M5D, MAD,
By comparing the total number of award balls indicated by the MED with the total number of award balls, it is also possible to compare and determine whether the total number of award balls is correct.

Further, in this specific example, a configuration is employed in which data is transmitted in one direction from the main control board 30 to the prize ball control board 31.
Since the prize ball control board 31 CPU 63 is configured to rise earlier than the U61, even if there is a prize of a game ball immediately after returning from a power failure or the like, the prize ball transmitted by the main control board 30 to the prize ball control board 31 is related. This has the effect that data can always be received. On the other hand, when the power is cut off due to a power failure or the like, the main control board 30 is stopped earlier than the prize ball control board 31, so that the prize sphere control board 31 transmits the data relating to the winning transmitted from the main control board 30. This has the effect that the adverse effect of not receiving can be prevented beforehand. In addition, the XNMI terminal becomes valid before the XRES terminal becomes valid and the CPU 63 of the prize ball control board 31 stops operating. At this time, data writing to the RAM can be prohibited, so that the power supply becomes unstable. There is also an extremely excellent effect that accurate winning data can be stored and retained at the time of a power failure without writing data in the state.

In this specific example, when the prize balls are paid out when the memory is over, the prize balls with a large number of prize balls are paid out preferentially, but the prize balls with a small number of prize balls are paid out preferentially. No problem at all. Further, in this specific example, when returning from the power failure, the prize balls are paid out in the order of winning according to the stored data, but when returning from the power failure, priority is given to winning with a large number of prize balls, Alternatively, a configuration in which a prize with a small number of prize balls is paid out with priority may be adopted. Further, in this specific example, until the memory is over, data indicating the number of winning balls is written in the memory in the order of winning, and the corresponding number of winning balls M5D, MAD,
The configuration is such that the value of MED is incremented, but the number of award balls M5D, MAD, and MED are incremented only when the memory is over, and when the memory is not over, data indicating the number of award balls is simply written in the memory in the order of winning. There is no problem even with the configuration of.

Next, a second specific example will be described with reference to FIGS. In the second specific example, the circuit shown in FIG. 17 is employed as the circuit shown in FIG. 7 used in the first specific example, and the other configuration is the same as the first specific example. In the second specific example, a voltage monitoring circuit 70 is added to the circuit shown in FIG. 7 of the first specific example, and the output of the voltage monitoring circuit 70 is output to the interrupt terminal X of the CPU 63.
Connected to INT. The voltage monitoring circuit 70 has the same configuration as the voltage monitoring circuit 60 of the main control board 30.

In the second specific example, when power supply from the power supply board 55 to the prize ball control board 31 is stopped due to a power failure or the like (point P6), as shown in the timing chart of FIG. When the voltage drops to the level LV1, the interrupt terminal XINT of the CPU 63 becomes valid by the operation of the voltage monitoring circuit 70 (point P7). This timing is determined by the CPU 6 of the main control board 30 described in the first embodiment.
This is the same timing as the timing at which 1 stops its operation. CP
When the interrupt terminal XINT of U63 becomes valid, FIG.
The "power failure processing routine 1" shown in FIG.
The drive of the ball cutting motor 29b is stopped (step S7).
00 to S710). The drive stop processing of the ball cutting motor 29b is executed just in case even when the driving signal of the ball cutting motor 29b is not output.

When the voltage of the 12V power supply further decreases from the level LV1 to the level LV3, the operation of the backup voltage monitoring circuit 64 activates the forced interrupt terminal XNMI and executes the forced interrupt processing (point P8 in FIG. 18). In this forced interrupt processing, a “power failure processing routine 2” shown in FIG. 20 is executed. In the power failure processing routine 2, the CPU 63 sets the award ball payout switch 29a.
After the detection process by the CPU is stopped, a process of prohibiting access to the RAM is executed. The voltage of the 12V power supply is level LV
When the voltage further decreases from level 3 to level LV2, the voltage monitoring circuit 62 activates the reset terminal XRES, and
The PU 63 stops operating (point P9 in FIG. 18).

According to the second specific example, when the supply of power to the prize ball control board 31 is stopped due to a power failure or the like, the CPU 6
3 first stops the driving of the ball cutting motor 29b, stops the input by the prize ball payout switch 29a after a lapse of a predetermined time, and thereafter executes a process of prohibiting access to the RAM. Thus, when a power failure occurs, the ball cutoff motor 29b does not execute the prize ball payout process after the process of detecting the number of prize balls by the prize ball payout switch 29a is stopped. it can. In addition, since the driving of the ball cutting motor 29b is stopped and the input by the prize ball payout switch 29a is stopped after a predetermined time has elapsed, even if there is a game ball falling from the ball cutting motor 29b when a power failure occurs, This falling game ball has an excellent effect that it can be detected as a prize ball, and has the effect that the number of prize balls can be accurately detected.

In this example, the C of the award ball control board 31
The detection process of the prize ball payout switch 29a is stopped when the XNMI terminal of the PU 63 becomes valid, and thereafter the access to the RAM is prohibited. However, the gist of the present invention is not limited to this specific example. . For example, when the distance from the ball cutting motor 29b to the prize ball detection switch 29a is long, the time when the XNMI terminal becomes valid may be made closer to the time when the XRES terminal becomes valid, or the backup voltage monitoring may be performed. X without providing the circuit 64
Immediately after the RES terminal becomes valid, access to the RAM may be prohibited.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing a gaming machine 10 employing the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a back view of the gaming machine 10 as viewed from the back.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing a configuration of a game board 22 of the gaming machine 10.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the gaming machine 10.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration for supplying power from a power supply board 55.

FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration of a voltage monitoring circuit 60 of the main control board 30.

FIG. 7 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration of a voltage monitoring circuit 62 and a backup voltage monitoring circuit 64 of the award ball control board 31.

FIG. 8 is a timing chart showing the operation states of the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 and the CPUs of the sub-control boards when the power is turned on.

FIG. 9 shows the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 when the power is turned on and off.
6 is a timing chart illustrating an operation state of a CPU of each sub-control board.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing processing of a “winning storage routine”.

FIG. 11 is a memory map showing a memory area for storing a winning order.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the processing of a “winning transmission routine”.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing processing of a “received data storage routine”.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a process of a “received data storage routine” of the second specific example.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing processing of a “prize ball payout routine”.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a process in an “over prize ball payout process”.

FIG. 17 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration of a voltage monitoring circuit 62, a backup voltage monitoring circuit 64, and a voltage monitoring circuit 70 of the award ball control board 31 of the second specific example.

FIG. 18 shows the CPU of the prize ball control board 31 when the power is turned on and off
6 is a timing chart showing an operation state of FIG.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart showing a process of “power failure processing routine 1”.

FIG. 20 is a flowchart illustrating a process of a “power failure processing routine 2”.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Pachinko machine 22 ... Game board 24 ... Shooting handle 24a ... Touch switch 30 ... Main control board 31 ... Prize ball control board 32 ... Special symbol display device 32a ... LCD panel unit (LCD) 32b ... Symbol display device control substrate (design) Control board) 33: Launch control board 34: Lamp control board 35: Sound control board 36: Normal electric accessory (starting port) 36a: First-type start switch 37: Normal symbol display device 40: Big winning port 40a: Official property Continuous operation switch (VSW) 40b ... Ten count switch (count SW) 52 ... Other winning opening switch 55 ... Power supply board 60,62,65 ... Voltage monitoring circuit 61,63,66 ... CPU (one chip microcomputer) 64 ... Backup voltage Monitoring circuit 70: Voltage monitoring circuit

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] November 29, 2000 (200.11.
29)

[Procedure amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] Claim 3

[Correction method] Change

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[Procedure amendment 2]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0003

[Correction method] Change

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[0003]

[SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION However, the conventional pachinko machine, had the following problems. (1) Ri consists that there is a need to provide a safe ball tank cassava, becomes complicated. (2) When a power failure or the like occurs, since the data of the number of prize balls to be paid out disappears, the maximum number of prize balls are paid out, and accurate prize balls are not paid out. For example, even when 5 or 10 prize balls should be paid out for one winning ball, 15 prize balls are paid out.

[Procedure amendment 3]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0005

[Correction method] Change

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[0005] while However, in the pachinko machine or the like comprising a prize payout substrate described above, grace, considered the following problems. If a power failure occurs while paying out the prize balls, the falling game balls cannot be detected. In particular, when a power failure occurs when a game ball is falling, the falling game ball cannot be detected. The undetected game balls are paid out to the player as prize balls. As a result, there has been a problem that accurate payout of prize balls may not be performed. The gaming machine of the present invention has been made to solve these problems appropriately and to provide a gaming machine that accurately pays out prize balls even when a power failure occurs.

[Procedure amendment 4]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0011

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a gaming machine comprising: a prize ball driving means for paying out a game ball as a prize ball; and a prize ball detecting means for detecting a game ball paid out by the prize ball drive means. A gaming machine comprising: a prize ball control board configured to include, and a main control board that controls the progress of a game caused by a behavior of a game ball fired on a game board surface, wherein the main control board Transmitting means for transmitting to the prize ball control board data relating to winning due to the behavior of a game ball fired on the game board surface; and a prize ball based on the data transmitted by the transmission means to the prize ball control board. Storage means for storing data relating to the number, and prize ball payout control means for paying out prize balls by the prize ball drive means based on the data stored by the storage means, further comprising: When the power supply to the Is a memory holding means for holding the memory by the memory means, and when the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, the prize ball drive is stopped before the detection of game balls by the prize ball detection means is stopped. a Yu TECHNICAL machine you <br/> characterized by being configured to include a power failure processing means for stopping the driving means, a.

[Procedure amendment 5]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0015

[Correction method] Change

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FIG. 2 is a back view of the pachinko machine 10 viewed from the back. As shown in the figure, a mechanism board 26 to which the game board 22 described above is detachably attached is housed in the outer frame 13 described above. The mechanism board 26 is provided with a ball tank 27 , a guide gutter 28, and a payout device 29 from above. With this configuration, if there is a winning of a game ball in the winning opening on the game board 22, a predetermined number of game balls are delivered from the ball tank 27 via the guiding gutter 28 by the payout device 29 to the above-mentioned upper plate 15
Can be discharged. The main control board 30 and the prize ball control board 31 are detachably attached to the mechanism board 26.
2, a special symbol display device 32, a firing control board 33 on the lower left of the front frame 12, and an external connection terminal board 50 on the left side of the special symbol display device 32 are attached.
The structure related to the payout of game balls and the like centering on the mechanism board 26 is the same as that of the conventional structure, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

[Procedure amendment 6]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0016

[Correction method] Change

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Next, the game board 22 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the gaming board 22 has an LCD panel unit (hereinafter, referred to as "LCD") 32a constituting a special symbol display device 32 in the center, and an ordinary electric accessory as a first type starting port below the LCD panel unit 32a. 36, LCD 3 2a top of normal symbol display device 37, the normal symbol display device 37 on the left and right LCD 3 2a used for variation initiation of symbols displayed normal symbol operating gate 38 and 39, usually electric won game 36 bottom big winning of A mouth 40, an out port 41 at the bottom of the board, other various winning ports, a windmill, a game nail (not shown), and the like are provided. With this configuration, when the above-described firing handle 24 is rotated, the firing motor 33a driven by the firing control board 33 is driven, and the game ball on the upper plate 15 is fired on the game board 22 via the guide rail. . If the launched game ball wins in each winning opening, the game ball is taken in as a safe ball on the back surface of the board, and if not won, it is similarly taken in as an out ball via the out port 41 on the back surface of the board.

[Procedure amendment 7]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0018

[Correction method] Change

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The main control board 30 includes a ROM storing a game control program and a RAM serving as a work area for operations and the like.
And an external input / output circuit for inputting / outputting data from / to each board or various switches and various actuators. On the input side of the main control board 30, a first-type starting port switch 36a, ordinary symbol operation switches 38a and 39a, an accessory continuous operation switch (hereinafter, simply referred to as "V switch") 40a, a count switch 40b, a full tank Switch 43, supply switch 44,
A plurality of other winning port switches 52 and the like are connected.
Further, the output side, a special winning opening solenoid 40c, V solenoid 40 d, is usually won game solenoid 36b and the external connection terminal board 50 and the like are connected.

[Procedure amendment 8]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0019

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The first-type starting port switch 36a is in the ordinary electric accessory 36 on the game board 22, the ordinary symbol operating switches 38a and 39a are in the ordinary symbol operating gates 38 and 39, respectively, and the V switch 40a is a special winning opening. The count switch 40b is in the special winning area 40
The full tank switch 43 is located in the lower plate 23 , the supply switch 44 is located in the ball tank 27, and the other prize port switches 52 are provided in the respective winning ports on the board other than the ordinary electric accessory 36 and the large prize port 40. Installed. Here, the V switch 40a counts that the game ball winning in the special winning opening 40 has passed through the special device operation area (hereinafter, referred to as “special area”), and the count switch 40b wins in the special winning opening 40. When all the game balls are full, the refill switch 43 indicates that the lower bowl 23 is full of game balls.
4 indicates that a game ball is present in the ball tank 27, and the other prize port switch 52 is the ordinary electric accessory 36 and the large prize port 4.
This is for detecting that a game ball has won each winning port on the board surface other than 0. The special winning opening solenoid 40c connected to the output side is connected to the special winning opening 40, V
The solenoid 40d is used for opening and closing the special accessory in the special winning opening 40, and the ordinary accessory solenoid 36b is used for opening and closing the ordinary electric accessory 36.

[Procedure amendment 9]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0021

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The prize ball control board 31 drives and controls the ball cutting motor 29b in accordance with a command command from the main control board 30, and pays out a game ball as a prize ball to a player when a prize is won. Prepaid card unit 1
3 and the CR settlement display board 42, etc.
It is configured as a logical operation circuit using a microcomputer. The CR settlement display substrate 42 is the upper plate 1 described above.
5, a rental button 16, a settlement button 17, a balance display section 18, and the like. An award ball payout switch 29a is connected to the input side of the award ball control board 31. Shodama払infusible <br/> and spherical cutting motor 2 of the switch 29a is dispenser 29
It provided below the 9b, detecting the game balls to be paid out by a sphere Switching Operation motor 29b.

[Procedure amendment 10]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0022

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The firing control board 33 drives and controls the firing motor 33a in accordance with the amount of rotation of the firing handle 24 operated by the player, and stops the firing when the player presses the firing stop switch 24b. or is intended for data Tchisu Lee pitch 24a incorporated in the firing handle 24 is turned a touch lamp 45 when in the oN state. The touch switch 24a is built in the firing handle 24 and detects that a player is touching the firing handle 24.

[Procedure amendment 11]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0029

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The voltage monitoring circuit 62 of the prize ball control board 31
As shown in FIG. 7, the voltage monitoring IC 8, the resistors R38, R
39 and R 40, bypass capacitors C22 and C23
And so on. A VS terminal, which is an input terminal of the voltage monitoring IC 8, has a voltage D divided by resistors R39 and R40.
The power of C12V is supplied and RESET which is the output terminal
The terminal is pulled up to DC5V by a resistor R38 and is connected to an XRES terminal which is an input terminal of the CPU 63.

[Procedure amendment 12]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0033

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The security check time T1 of the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 is determined by the CPU 63 of the prize ball control board 31.
The security check time T2 of each CPU of the sub control board such as the CPU 66 of the symbol control board 32b is designed to be equal to or longer than the security check time T2. As is well known, the security check is a function for checking whether the contents of the ROM in which the contents of the game are written by the CPUs 61 , 63, and 66 , which are one-chip microcomputers, are legitimate contents. .

[Procedure amendment 13]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0034

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The security check time T1 of the main control board 30 is equal to the security check time T2 of the sub control board.
In addition, the security check operation of the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 is performed later than the security check operation of the sub-control board. Thereby, when the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 starts executing the control of the game according to the program written in the ROM (point
P5) , each CPU of the sub-control board has already executed control of the game (point P4) . As a result, even if the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 transmits data to each sub-control board immediately after the power is turned on, each sub-control board can reliably receive data because each sub-control board is executing the original control. .
In this specific example, the security check time T1 is about 439 ms, and the time from when the power is turned on until the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 executes the game control is about 529.
ms to 549 ms. The security check time T2 is about 200 ms, and the time from when the power is turned on to when the CPU 63 of the prize ball control board 31, which is one of the sub-control boards, controls the game is about 202 ms to 203 ms.

[Procedure amendment 14]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0037

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

As described above, when the power is turned off, first, the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 is reset (point P7) , and thereafter, each CPU of the sub control board is reset.
Is reset (point P9) . This allows
This has the effect that each sub-control board can reliably receive data transmitted by the CPU 61 of the main control board 30 before the power is turned off. In this specific example, the reference voltage LV
1 is 9.39V to 10.21V and the reference voltage LV3
Is between 8.00V and 9.23V, and the reference voltage LV2 is designed to be between 7.20V and 7.75V.

[Procedure amendment 15]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0038

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The operation of this embodiment having the above-described configuration is shown in FIG.
15 will be described with reference to FIG. Main control board 30
When the processing executed by the CPU 61 shifts to the "winning storage routine" shown in FIG. 10, first, it is determined whether or not there is a winning (step S100). In this specific example, the ordinary electric accessory 36 as a starting port is configured as a prize ball of five prize balls, the special winning port 40 is configured as a prize ball of 15 prize balls, and the other prize ports are configured as prize balls of 10 prize balls. The winning of the ordinary electric accessory 36 is detected by the first type starting port switch 36a, the winning of the large winning port 40 is detected by the count switch 40b, and the winning of other winning ports is detected by the other winning port switch 52. When a positive determination is made that there is a prize (step S100), the value of the unpaid prize number MMN is incremented (+1) (step S110), and then a prize order storing process is executed ( step S120) . Is Rita
On the way . Also, a negative determination is made in step S100.
Then, the processing exits to the return.

[Procedure amendment 16]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0040

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

When the winning data is stored in the "winning storage routine", the "winning transmission routine" shown in FIG.
Is executed. The "winning storage routine" shown in FIG.
The "winning transmission routine" shown in FIG. 12 is periodically executed by a hardware interrupt. In the "winning transmission routine" shown in FIG. 12, it is first determined whether or not the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is not zero (step S150). If the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is not zero, a winning transmission process is executed (step S160). In this specific example, 1-byte data of address A000 (H) is left as it is, that is,
Prize balls number of data to be four pairs prize is sent to the symbol control board 32b at a time. For example, even if the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is 3 or less and 1 or more, 1-byte data is transmitted as it is. When the winning transmission processing is executed, the value 4 is subtracted from the value of the unpaid winning number MMN (step S17).
0) Then, it is determined whether the value of the unpaid winning number MMN subjected to the subtraction processing is equal to or smaller than zero (step S180). When a negative determination of not zero or less made, stored update processing is performed
( Step S190) , the process exits the return .

[Procedure amendment 17]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0041

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The storage update process (step S190) is a process of repeatedly executing the process of copying 1-byte data of the address whose address is higher than 1 to the address whose address is lower than 1 until an address where no data is written.
More specifically, the data at address A001 (H) is stored at address A000 (H), and the data at address A002 (H) is stored at address A001 (H) and address A003.
(H) data is sequentially stored in address A002 (H),
This is a process of copying one byte at a time, and is a process of repeatedly executing up to an address where data is not written. On the other hand, in step S180, the number of unpaid winnings MMN
Is determined to be zero or less, the number of unpaid winnings M
A process of clearing the value of MN to zero (step S200), and clearing the memories at addresses A000 (H) to A013 (H) to zero (step S210) is executed, and the process returns.
Ru missing in. Further, a negative determination is made in step S150.
Then, the processing exits to the return.

[Procedure amendment 18]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0042

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

In this specific example, the winning transmission process (step S160) is configured to transmit one byte of data by one process, but the first bit which is the least significant bit of the address A000 (H) is transmitted.及beauty 1 the second bit of data
It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the data is transmitted by performing the processing twice. In the case of this configuration, the value of the unpaid winning number MMN is decremented (-1) after the transmission processing, and the storage updating processing shifts the data right by two bits, and is the seventh bit and the most significant bit of eight.
In the bit, the data of the first bit and the second bit of the address which is higher by one are copied.

[Procedure amendment 19]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0044

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

If it is determined that the memory is not over, a winning order storing process is executed (step S28).
0). This processing is performed in Step S performed by the main control board 30.
Similar to the process 120, the process of writing the number of prize balls corresponding to a prize in the memory, which is transmitted from the memory space corresponding to the unpaid prize number ZMN obtained by adding +1 to the unpaid prize number ZMN before being added. 01 (H), 10 (10) in the memory space corresponding to the unpaid winning number ZMN obtained by adding the winning numbers 1 to 4
(H) or 11 (H) data is written. Note that if the number of winning by 1 byte of data sent is Re <br/> not Noi 1-4, to which bit from the most significant bit 00
It can be determined whether (H) is continuous. Step S2 7
At 0, the 1 represented in the transmitted 1-byte data
When the number of winning pieces of four to four corresponds to the memory over, a process of adding the number of the corresponding winning number to make a new over winning number OMN is executed (step S29).
0).

[Procedure amendment 20]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0045

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

Step S280 and / or step S2
When the processing of Step 90 is executed, the number of award balls M5D, MAD,
MED addition processing is executed ( step S300) , and
Exit on the turn . This processing is performed if the transmitted 1-byte data includes 01 (H) data, the number of award balls M5D.
Is incremented (+1), and if there is 10 (H) data, the award ball number MAD is incremented, and if there is 11 (H) data, the award ball number MED is incremented. Further, a negative determination is made in step S250.
Then, the processing exits to the return. By executing each process of the “reception data storage routine” shown in FIG. 13, the winning number of 15 prize balls to be paid out is the number of prize balls MED, the winning number of 10 prize balls is the number of prize balls MAD, and 5 The number of prize balls won is stored as the number of prize balls M5D, and the order of prizes for the 80 prize balls to be paid out is stored in memories A000 to A013.
(H).

[Procedure amendment 21]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0046

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

In the case where 2-bit data, that is, data for one winning, is transmitted by one transmission processing, each processing (steps) of the "reception data storage routine" shown in FIG. By executing S310 to S390), the winning number of the fifteen prize balls to be paid out is determined as the prize ball number MED, the winning number of the ten prize balls is determined as the prize ball number MAD,
The winning number of the five prize balls is stored as the number of prize balls M5D.
The order of winning for the 80 winning balls to be paid out may be stored in the memory at addresses A000 (H) to A013 (H) (steps S360 to S390) .
FIG. 13 is referred to for the same description.

[Procedure amendment 22]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0048

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

[0048] If it is determined that the determination process by 11 (H), the sphere Switching Operation motor 29 up to 15 of game balls by winning balls payout switch 29a is detected to have been paid out
b is controlled (step S430), and thereafter, a process of decrementing (−1) the value of the winning ball number MED is executed (step S440). If it is determined to be 10 (H) by the determination process, 10 (H) is set by the award ball payout switch 29a.
Spheres Switching Operation <br/> the motor 29b is driven and controlled to be pieces of game balls are paid out is detected (step S450), then the processing to decrement (-1) the value of the prize balls number MAD Execute (step S460). 0 by the judgment process
If it is determined to be 1 (H), the award ball payout switch 29a
Controls the ball cutting motor 29b until it is detected that five game balls have been paid out (step S47).
0), and then decrement the value of the award ball number M5D (−
1) A process is performed (step S480).

[Procedure amendment 23]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0049

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

The prize ball payout when the execution of the process is completed (step S420~S480), after performing the winning sequence stored and updated (step S490), a non-払入Award number ZMN decremented (step S500), the processing is disconnect to return
I can . The winning order storage updating process (step S490)
The 1-byte data at the address A000 (H) is shifted right two times, that is, the written data is shifted right by 2 bits, and the 7th bit and the 8th bit which is the most significant bit are added. , A001 (H), the first and second bits of data are moved, and this process is repeated until an address where no data is written. On the other hand, in step S410, the over-winning number O
When MN is made a determination that it is not zero, as yet paid out order of winning has not exceeded the winning prize ball data 80 a and the pay out prize balls which is not stored process execution
( Step S510) , the process of step S500 is performed.
Then, the process returns to the return. Step S400
If the answer is no, the process goes back to the return . Step S
The over-prize-ball payout process at 510 will be described in accordance with the “over-prize-ball payout process” shown in FIG.

[Procedure amendment 24]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0050

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

In this process, the CPU of the prize ball control board 31
6 3, first, whether the value of the prize balls number MED is zero or (step S550), whether the value of the prize balls number MAD is zero (step S560), the value of the winning balls number M5D is whether zero or ( Step S570) is performed one after another. Prize ball number MED
Is not zero (Step S550), the value of the award ball number MED is decremented after paying out 15 game balls as award balls (Steps S580 to S590). If the value of the prize ball number MED is zero and the value of the prize ball number MAD is not zero (steps S550 to S560), the value of the prize ball number MAD is decremented after paying out ten game balls as prize balls. (Steps S600 to S610).
If the value of the prize ball number MED and the value of the prize ball number MAD are both zero and the value of the prize ball number M5D is not zero (steps S550 to S570), the prize is paid out after paying out five game balls as prize balls. The value of the ball number M5D is decremented (steps S620 to S630 ) .

[Procedure amendment 25]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0058

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

In the second specific example, when power supply from the power supply board 55 to the prize ball control board 31 is stopped due to a power failure or the like (point P6), as shown in the timing chart of FIG. When the voltage drops to the level LV1, the interrupt terminal XINT of the CPU 63 becomes valid by the operation of the voltage monitoring circuit 70 (point P7). This timing is determined by the CPU 6 of the main control board 30 described in the first embodiment.
This is the same timing as the timing at which 1 stops its operation. CP
When the interrupt terminal XINT of U63 becomes valid (step
Flop S700), runs the "power failure processing routine 1" shown in FIG. 19, CPU 63 is driven spheres Switching Operation motor 29b is stopped (Step S 710), the process exits the return
You . Drive stop processing of the sphere Switching Operation motor 29b, even when the ball Switching Operation <br/> motor 29b is not output the drive signal,
It is performed just in case. If negative judgment is made in step S700
If so, the process exits to the return.

[Procedure amendment 26]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0059

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

When the voltage of the 12V power supply further decreases from the level LV1 to the level LV3, the operation of the backup voltage monitoring circuit 64 activates the forced interrupt terminal XNMI and executes the forced interrupt processing (point P8 in FIG. 18). In this forced interrupt processing, a “power failure processing routine 2” shown in FIG. 20 is executed. In the power failure processing routine 2, the CPU 63 sets the award ball payout switch 29a.
After stopping the detection process by the R (step S750).
A process for prohibiting access to the AM is executed (step S
760), the process Ru missing in return. When the voltage of the 12V power supply further decreases from the level LV3 to reach the level LV2,
The reset terminal XRES is enabled by the operation of the voltage monitoring circuit 62, and the CPU 63 stops operating (point P9 in FIG. 18).

[Procedure amendment 27]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0060

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

According to the second specific example, when the supply of power to the prize ball control board 31 is stopped due to a power failure or the like, the CPU 6
3, first, the driving of the sphere Switching Operation motor 29b is stopped to stop the input by Shodama payout switch 29a after a predetermined time has elapsed, then executes processing for prohibiting access to the RAM. Thus, at the time of power failure, without Tamasetsu Ri motor 29b after the detection process of the winning balls number by the winning balls payout switch 29a is stopped to perform the prize balls payout processing, preventing the detection omission of prize balls number Can be. Moreover, as the driving of the sphere Switching Operation motor 29b is stopped, since the stopped input by Shodama payout switch 29a after a predetermined time has elapsed, there is a game ball in falling from the sphere Switching Operation motor 29b during power failure Also, the present invention has an excellent effect that the falling game balls can be detected as prize balls, and has an effect that the number of prize balls can be accurately detected.

[Procedure amendment 28]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0061

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

In this example, the C of the award ball control board 31
The detection process of the prize ball payout switch 29a is stopped when the XNMI terminal of the PU 63 becomes valid, and thereafter the access to the RAM is prohibited. However, the gist of the present invention is not limited to this specific example. . For example, when the distance from the sphere Switching Operation mode <br/> over motor 29b until prize balls paid out switch 29a is long, XRE when the XNMI terminal is valid
The configuration may be such that the time when the S terminal becomes valid may be approached, or the access to the RAM may be prohibited immediately after the XRES terminal becomes valid without providing the backup voltage monitoring circuit 64. .

[Procedure amendment 29]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] Explanation of sign

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

[Description of Signs] 10 ... Pachinko machine 22 ... Game board 24 ... Launching handle 24a ... Touch switch 30 ... Main control board 31 ... Winning ball control board 32 ... Special symbol display device 32a ... LCD panel unit (LCD) 32b ... Symbol display Device control board (symbol control board) 33 ... Launch control board 34 ... Lamp control board 35 ... Sound control board 36 ... Normal electric accessory (starting port) 36a ... First type starting port switch 37 ... Normal symbol display device 40 ... Large Winning opening 40a ... Commodity continuous operation switch (VSW) 40b ... Ten count switch (count SW) 52 ... Other winning opening switch 55 ... Power supply board 60,62,65 ... Voltage monitoring circuit 61,63,66 ... CPU (one chip) Microcomputer: 64: backup voltage monitoring circuit 70: voltage monitoring circuit

[Procedure amendment 30]

[Document name to be amended] Drawing

[Correction target item name] Fig. 4

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

FIG. 4

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A prize ball driving means for paying out a game ball as a prize ball, a prize ball detecting means for detecting a game ball paid out by the prize ball driving means, and a prize controlling the prize ball driving means. Ball payout control means, and storage means for storing the number of prize balls to be paid out, comprising: a prize ball control board for controlling to pay out prize balls according to the number of prize balls stored in the storage means. In the gaming machine, when supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, storage holding means for holding the storage by the storage means, and when supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, A power failure processing means for stopping driving of the prize ball drive means before stopping detection of the game ball by the prize ball detection means; 2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein when the supply of power to the award ball control board is stopped, the award is given a predetermined time before the award ball detection means stops detecting a game ball. And a power failure processing means for stopping driving of the ball driving means. 3. A prize ball control board comprising: a prize ball driving means for paying out a game ball as a prize ball; and a prize ball detection means for detecting a game ball paid out by the prize ball drive means. And a main control board that controls the progress of the game caused by the behavior of the game ball fired on the game board surface, wherein the main control board is fired on the game board surface. Transmitting means for transmitting data relating to winning due to the behavior of the game ball to the prize ball control board; and storing the data relating to the number of prize balls based on the data transmitted by the transmitting means on the prize ball control board. Means, and prize ball payout control means for paying out a prize ball by the prize ball drive means based on the data stored by the storage means, and further, the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped. Sometimes the storage means A memory holding unit for holding a memory according to the above, when the supply of power to the prize ball control board is stopped, the driving of the prize ball driving unit is stopped before the detection of the game ball by the prize ball detection unit is stopped. The gaming machine according to claim 1, further comprising: a power failure processing unit.