JP2001299989A - Game switch device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To intend a lever to keep from falling down. SOLUTION: A lever piece 11 rotatably supported to a device body 2 by a lever shaft 14 is divided to a lever shaft side piece 12 and a grasp side piece 13 between a lever shaft 14 and a grasp part 16 and the divided ends are each rotatably connected by a piece shaft 15 perpendicular to the lever shaft 14. Thereby, the grasp part 16 is artificially operated from a position shown by a solid line to a position shown by a predicted line making the piece shaft 15 as a center.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game switch device used for a game machine such as a pachinko machine and a slot machine, and more particularly to a lever type structure.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional game switch device disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-328352, a lever having a grip portion is projected forward of a device main body.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional game switch device, the lever can be rotated in the operation direction for turning on or off the switch, for example, in the vertical direction, but the grip portion is in the way. In such a case, the lever cannot be laid down and evacuated.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a game switch device in which the lever can be retracted and retracted without affecting the operability of the lever.

[0005]

According to the present invention, a rod-shaped lever piece is rotatably supported on a device main body by a lever shaft, and a grip portion is provided at a tip of the lever piece protruding forward from the device main body. The game switch device is characterized in that the lever piece is divided into a lever shaft side piece and a grip part side piece between the lever shaft and the grip portion, and the respective divided ends are rotatably connected to each other. Therefore, according to the present invention, when the grip portion is artificially retracted, the grip-side piece rotates with respect to the lever shaft-side piece, and the amount of protrusion of the lever piece from the apparatus main body decreases. Further, in the present invention, if the rotation direction of the grip portion side piece with respect to the lever shaft side piece is in the horizontal direction, when the game switch device is mounted on the front frame which can be opened, the front frame is opened. As a result, the grip portion comes into contact with the surrounding counterpart member and falls down and retreats in the horizontal direction, and the opening of the front frame increases. In the present invention,
If the lever shaft side piece and the grip portion side piece are provided with the operation position locking mechanism, the shape retention of the lever piece at the operation position is excellent. Also, in the present invention, the structure of the lock mechanism can be simplified if the engagement and disengagement of the lock ball and the lock recess receiving the lock ball is performed under elastic action. Further, in the present invention, if the elastic action is formed by a spring, the durability is enhanced. In the present invention, if the arc surface adjacent to the lock recess has a radius of curvature centered on the center of rotation between the divided ends, the lock ball detached from the recess can be arced under uniform elastic action. Sliding on the surface, the operation of falling down the grip can be performed smoothly.

[0006]

1 to 4 show a first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 shows a cross section of a game switch device 1, FIG. 2 shows a vertical cross section of the game switch device 1, FIG. 3 schematically shows the divided ends of the lever shaft side piece and the grip part side piece, FIG. 4 shows the appearance of a ball type slot machine in which the game switch device 1 of FIG. 1 is mounted, and FIG. FIG. 5 schematically shows an upper surface of the spherical slot machine of FIG. 4.

Referring to FIG. 1, the structure of the game switch device 1 will be described. An opening 4 is formed in the front wall 3 of the device body 2 made of synthetic resin so as to penetrate inside and outside. A cylindrical switch casing 5 is inserted into the opening 4 from the front, and a front flange 6 of the switch casing 5 is connected to the opening 4.
A nut 7 is fastened to an end which is abutted against the front surface of the surrounding device body 2 and protrudes inside the device body 2 from the opening 4 of the switch casing 5. Therefore, the switch casing 5 is attached to the front wall 3 of the device main body 2 by the nut 7 and the front flange 6. In the switch casing 5, a large-diameter concave portion 8, a small-diameter through hole 9, and a large-diameter return spring housing hole 10 are formed coaxially in this order from the front side to the rear side.

The switch casing 5 has the lever piece 1
1 is assembled. The lever piece 11 is divided into a lever shaft side piece 12 and a grip section side piece 13. The lever shaft side piece 12 is rotatably attached to the through hole 9 of the switch casing 5 by the lever shaft 14. A handle portion side piece 1 is provided at a front end which is a divided end portion of the lever shaft side piece 12 protruding forward from the switch casing 5.
The rear portion, which is the divided end portion of No. 3, is rotatably assembled by the piece shaft 15. The lever shaft 14 and the piece shaft 15 are spaced apart from each other in the front-rear direction and are arranged to be orthogonal to each other. Therefore, the lever shaft side piece 12 is moved around the lever shaft
The grip portion side piece 13 can rotate in the lateral direction with respect to the apparatus main body 2 around the piece shaft 15. A spherical grip 16 is provided in front of the grip side piece 13.
Is attached.

A lock spring 17 and a lock ball 18 are disposed between the lever shaft 14 and the piece shaft 15 and between the lever shaft side piece 12 and the grip portion side piece 13. Then, the lock ball 18 is taken into the arc-shaped lock concave portion 19 formed on the end face of the grip portion side piece 13 by the spring force of the lock spring 17, so that the lever shaft side piece 12 and the grip portion side piece 13 are separated. It is held in the form of a single straight rod.

[0010] As shown in FIG.
Reference numeral 0 denotes a pair of support portions 22 vertically opposed by a concave portion 21 formed at a divided end portion of the lever shaft side piece 12, in addition to the lock spring 17, the lock ball 18, and the lock concave portion 19; A projection 23 formed at the divided end of the side piece 13. A lock mechanism housing recess 24 is formed on the bottom surface of the recess 21, and the lock spring 17 and the lock ball 18 are housed in the lock mechanism housing recess 24 from the recess 21 side.
The concave portion 21 and the convex portion 23 are fitted with each other, and the piece shaft 1
5 is fastened from the through hole 25 of the upper support part 22 to the screw hole 27 of the lower support part 22 via the bearing hole 28 of the convex part 23. The lever shaft 14 is inserted into the bearing holes 28 on the left and right side surfaces at an intermediate portion of the lever shaft side piece 12, but the bearing holes 28 are arranged at positions where they do not interfere with the lock mechanism housing recess 24. The right front side of the convex portion 23 at the rear of the grip side piece 13 is formed on an arc surface 29 centering on the bearing hole 28.

Returning to FIG. 1, when the player holds the grip 16 by hand and the grip 13 is rotated laterally about the piece shaft 15, the lock ball 18 is locked by the compression of the lock spring 17. It comes out of the concave portion 19 and slides on the arc surface 29.
An annular interference member 31 is arranged between the small diameter portion 30 of the lever shaft side piece 12 and the large diameter concave portion 8 of the switch casing 5. The interference member 31 is formed in a cylindrical shape from a material such as rubber or soft synthetic resin. The interference member 31 is externally fitted to the lever piece 11.

In FIG. 2, the player holds the grip 16.
When the lever shaft side piece 12 is rotated downward from the solid line position to the virtual line position about the lever shaft 14 when the lever shaft side piece 12 is The lever piece 11 and the switch casing 5 are prevented from directly colliding with each other. The imaginary line exaggerates the rotational movement of the lever piece 11. When the lever piece 11 rotates from the position indicated by the solid line to the position indicated by the imaginary line about the lever shaft 14, the lever piece 11 does not actually interfere with the switch casing 5.

An annular return spring receiving portion 32 is provided on the rear side of the lever shaft side piece 12, and a return spring 33 is provided between the return spring receiving portion 32 and the bottom surface of the return spring receiving hole 10 of the switch casing 5. The lever shaft side piece 12 and the inner peripheral surface of the return spring housing hole 10 are arranged so as not to be in contact with each other. The return spring 33 is a frusto-conical coil spring whose diameter gradually decreases from the front side to the rear side. In a state where the lever shaft side piece 12 is rotated to the position indicated by the imaginary line in FIG. 2, when the player releases the operating force on the grip portion 16, the lever shaft side piece 12 virtually moves upward about the lever shaft 14. The lever shaft-side piece 12 is rotated from the line indicated position to the position indicated by the solid line by the spring force of the return spring 33, and is held in a forward direction by the spring force of the return spring 33. At the rear end of the lever shaft side piece 12 projecting rearward from the return spring receiving portion 32, a rod-shaped on / off operation portion 34 is provided.

A switch 37 is mounted in a switch recess 36 at the center of the switch mount 35, and a switch recess 3 is provided.
Brackets 38 projecting from both sides from 6 are attached to the inner surface of the front wall 3 of the apparatus main body 2 with set screws 39. The switch 37 is a non-contact type, and has a pair of sensing units 41 facing each other so as to form a recess 40 through which the on / off operation unit 34 can pass in a non-contact manner. The sensing section 41 is formed by a light emitting section as a switch element and a light receiving section as a switch element. Then, an optical path from the light emitting section to the light receiving section is formed via the recess 40. The two terminals 42 of the switch 37 protrude from the rear surface of the switch mount 35 and are connected to a control device (not shown) by wiring.

Referring to FIG. 4, a slot machine 50 in which the game switch device 1 is used as a game start switch device 58 will be described. There is also a medal-type slot machine that uses medals as a slot machine, but in the first embodiment, a ball-type slot machine in which a symbol matching game is started by inserting the same ball as a ball used in a pachinko machine instead of a medal Is illustrated. For example, the exchange value of one medal and one ball is different such that the exchange value of one medal is 20 yen and the exchange value of one ball is 4 yen. In the ball type slot machine, a plurality of balls are inserted in order to make the input value of one game the same in the above.

The slot machine 50 comprises an outer frame 51, an outer frame 5
1, a front frame 52 attached to the front frame 52, a locking device 80 provided on the free end side of the front frame 52, a panel 53 made of glass or synthetic resin attached to the front frame 52, and a panel 53. It has a symbol variable display device 56 arranged on the back side of the symbol recognition area 54, an upper plate device 57 provided below the panel 53, and a lower plate device 70 arranged below the upper plate device 57. Panel pattern recognition area 54
Are displayed with a plurality of hit lines 55. Upper plate device 57
The game start switch device 58 of the lever type, a plurality of symbol stop switch devices 59, the remaining ball number display unit 60, the ball insertion switch device 61, the ball removal switch device 62, the ball rental switch device 63, the card return switch device 64 , A card balance frequency display section 65, a ball insertion port 66, an upper ball receiving port 67, and a dummy button 68. An ashtray 71,
A lower bowl receiving port 72 and a ball removing lever 73 are provided. The symbol stop switch device 59 corresponds to the symbol in three rows of the symbol variable display device 56. The slot machine 50 has a specification form in which a ball is lent by a prepaid card.

The casing of the upper plate device 57 in FIG. 4 corresponds to the device main body 2 of the switch device 1 in FIG. In a state where the balls are put in the upper plate device 57, the player presses the ball input switch device 61 once, five balls, two times, ten balls, and three times, fifteen balls. But the upper plate device 5
7 is inserted into the slot machine 50 through the ball insertion port 66. Next, as shown in FIG. 2, in a state where the lock ball 18 is fitted into the lock concave portion 19 and the lever piece 11 is linear, the lever piece 11 is pressed by the player by pressing down the grip portion 16. The lever rotates downward from the position indicated by the solid line to the position indicated by the broken line around the lever shaft 14. Then, a switch corresponding to the switch 37 of FIG. 1 provided inside the upper plate device 57 detects the on / off operation unit 34 of FIG. 1 and turns on, and the signal is provided on the back side of the slot machine 50. The control device controls the rotation of the symbol on the symbol variable display device 56. Therefore, when the player operates the game start switch device 58, the symbols in the three rows of the symbol variable display device 56 change from top to bottom.

In this state, for example, when the player presses the left symbol stop switch device 59, the left symbol of the variable symbol display device 56 stops, and when the player presses the middle symbol stop switch device 59, the variable symbol display device is pressed. When the symbol in the middle of the symbol 56 stops and the symbol stop switch device 59 on the right side is pressed, the symbol on the right side of the symbol variable display device 56 stops. The player may press the symbol stop switch device 59 in any order, and the symbol of the symbol variable display device 56 corresponding to the pressed symbol stop switch device 59 stops. When these stopped symbols are arranged in a predetermined combination such as a small hit, a medium hit, and a big hit, a prize ball corresponding to each hit is sent from the slot machine 50 to the upper plate via the upper plate ball receiving inlet 67. Dispensed to device 57. Since the further game operation deviates from the gist of the present invention, the description is omitted.

Further, when the slot machine 50 is installed on the island of a pachinko parlor, a key plate (not shown) is inserted into the locking device 80 and is manually operated in one direction, for example, 90 degrees.
When the front frame 52 is rotated, the front frame 52 is unlocked (unlocked) with the outer frame 51 so that it can be opened and closed. In this state, the front frame 52 is pulled forward by a manual operation, so that the front frame 52 is opened halfway to the front in the lateral direction with the hinge 81 as a center. In the process of opening the front frame 52, if the grip contacts a peripheral device such as a card sand (not shown) adjacent to the slot machine 50, the grip 13 on the grip portion side is moved with the opening of the front frame 52. 1 falls from the position indicated by the solid line to the position indicated by the imaginary line in the lateral direction of FIG. For this reason, the opening degree of the front frame 52 is larger than that in a mode in which a lever piece similar to the lever piece 11 is not bent in the middle. Therefore, replacement and maintenance and inspection of the internal device such as the symbol variable display device 56 in the pachinko parlor become easy.

Also, as shown in FIG.
If the handle 3 is artificially laid down, the amount of protrusion of the grip portion 16 from the front surface of the upper plate device 57 is reduced.
The dimension before and after 0 becomes smaller. That is, when the protrusion amount of the grip portion 16 indicated by a solid line from the front frame 52 is “A”, and the maximum protrusion amount of the upper plate device 57 from the front surface of the front frame 52 is “B”,
When the grip 16 is artificially lowered from the position indicated by the solid line to the position indicated by the imaginary line around the piece axis 15, the grip 16 can be arranged within the range of the maximum protrusion amount B as indicated by the imaginary line. . Therefore, when the slot machine 50 is packed for shipment from the factory to the pachinko parlor, the game start switch device 58 does not interfere, and the packing of the slot machine 50 can be reduced in size.

As shown in FIG. 2, when the switch 37 is turned on / off by the on / off operation section 34 in the game start switch device 1, the lever shaft side piece 12 and the grip section side piece 13 are connected to each other. Are integrated so that they cannot be bent via the piece shaft 15 and the convex portion 23 and the support portion 22, and the lever piece 11 composed of the integrally formed lever shaft side piece 12 and the grip portion side piece 13 is a lever shaft. 14
It is operated in the vertical direction around the center. In contrast, FIG.
As shown in (1), when the grip portion side piece 13 falls down, the grip portion side piece 13 is operated in the horizontal direction about the piece shaft 15 and perpendicular to the vertical direction. Therefore, the on / off operation and the falling operation do not interfere with each other, and the on / off operation and the falling operation can be appropriately performed.

In FIG. 4, the game switch device 1 is used for the ball type slot machine 50, but the game switch device 1 can be applied to a medal type slot machine or a pachinko machine.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a divided end portion of the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the slot machine of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a top view showing the slot machine of the first embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 game switch device 2 device main body 11 lever piece 12 lever shaft side piece 13 grip portion side piece 14 lever shaft 16 grip portion 17 lock spring 18 lock ball 19 lock concave portion 20 operation position lock mechanism 29 arc surface.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A game switch device in which a rod-shaped lever piece is rotatably supported on a device main body by a lever shaft and a grip portion is provided at a tip of the lever piece protruding forward from the device main body. A game switch device wherein a lever shaft side piece and a grip side piece are divided between the grip portion and the divided end portions are rotatably connected to each other. 2. The game switch device according to claim 1, wherein a rotation direction of the grip portion side piece with respect to the lever shaft side piece is a horizontal direction. 3. The game switch device according to claim 1, wherein an operation position lock mechanism is provided on the lever shaft side piece and the grip portion side piece. 4. The game switch device according to claim 3, wherein the operation position lock mechanism engages and disengages the lock ball and the lock recess receiving the lock ball under elastic action. 5. The game switch device according to claim 4, wherein the elastic action is formed by a spring. 6. The game switch device according to claim 4, wherein the arc surface adjacent to the lock recess has a radius of curvature centered on the rotation center of the divided ends.