JP2001300009A - Audio equipment for game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance an acoustic effect of audio equipment by modifying the peripheral structure of a tray of a game medium and the layout of a speaker and additionally, eliminate a problem of jamming in a pachinko game machine without adversely affecting the interior thereof. SOLUTION: There are arranged a hollow half-split shaped front cover 52 mounted on the front of a frame body 11 of the game machine surrounding a tray 15 of a game medium, right and left speakers mounted on the internal surface portion of the front cover 52 being horizontally separated and an intermediate wall fixed on the internal surface part of the front cover 52 so as to be vertically extended below the tray 15.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an audio device for a game machine, and more particularly to an audio device suitable for a game machine such as a pachinko machine and a slot machine provided with a tray for game media paid out of the machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, game machines such as pachinko machines and slot machines are often provided with a speaker for staging. For example, a pachinko machine outputs a sound effect or the like for staging a ball game. A speaker is provided.
Usually, the speaker is mounted on the frame constituting the front panel main body or the rear mechanism frame supporting the same,
It is arranged on the side of the lower plate.

In a gaming machine such as a pachinko machine or a slot machine, game media paid out of the machine are stored in a receiving tray, and the cover of the receiving tray is provided with a ball lending machine for ball lending and card ejection. There are many operation units for performing a command operation such as a pachinko machine having a ball release operation lever.

[0004] Specifically, in a pachinko machine, for example, a ball tray for accommodating payout balls and lending balls from the inside of the machine is provided in front of a frame on which a game board is mounted. An upper plate is provided, and a lower plate is provided for letting the game balls removed from the ball flow down there. In this type of pachinko machine, a launching device and a launching passage for a game ball are provided on the back side of an upper plate panel rotatably supported by a frame (for example, see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 10-249017). At the front end of the plate, an operation lever or the like for performing a ball-pulling operation to the lower plate is provided. Further, the bottom surface of the upper plate is inclined to move the game balls to the launching device side, and the upper plate has a plate shape in which the game balls are aligned in a line near the ball supply port to the launching device side.

[0005]

However, the above-mentioned conventional gaming machine has the following problems.

(1) Since only one speaker is provided on the side of the lower plate or the like, the sound quality is poor and there is sound leakage, and the player cannot feel a sufficient sound effect. .

(2) When the speaker output is increased, the vibration is directly transmitted to the frame side, which tends to adversely affect the mechanism inside the gaming machine.

[0008] (3) Since the game ball aligning guide portion is provided near the ball supply port of the upper plate to the firing device side, ball clogging is likely to occur, and the bottom wall near the lowest aligning guide portion is formed. Since the ball hole is provided, the ball may not be quickly removed at the time of ball removal.

Therefore, the present invention improves the sound effect of the sound device by devising the structure around the receiving tray of the game medium and the arrangement of the speakers, and at the same time, clogs the ball of the ball game machine without adversely affecting the inside of the game machine. The purpose is to eliminate such problems.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention relates to a hollow half-shaped front mounted on a front surface of a frame of a game machine so as to surround a tray for a game medium of the game machine. A cover, left and right speakers attached to the inner surface of the front cover so as to be separated from each other, and an intermediate wall fixed to the inner surface of the front cover so as to extend vertically below the tray. It is characterized by having.

In this configuration, the left and right speakers are attached to the inner surface of the hollow half-shaped front cover, and an intermediate wall extending vertically below the game medium tray is provided between the two speakers. Therefore, it is difficult for the vibration of the speaker to be transmitted to the mechanism in the gaming machine, and furthermore, the space between the speakers can be appropriately divided to secure a sufficient sound effect, and the player can feel the sufficient sound effect. . Here, the hollow half shape refers to a shape that is long in a predetermined direction, closed on both sides in the longitudinal direction, and opened on one side in the short direction.

Further, the front cover is supported by the frame via a mounting plate rotatably supported by the frame of the gaming machine, and the front cover is provided inside the front cover by the mounting plate and the front cover. It is preferable that a speaker cabinet for partitioning the space from the external space be configured. In this configuration, the speaker effect is further enhanced by configuring the speaker cabinet.

[0013] A ball tray for accommodating pachinko balls may be arranged above the front cover, and the speaker may be mounted on the inner surface of the front cover so as to output sound toward the front. it can. In this configuration, the sound output of the speaker generates vibrations for preventing the ball tray from clogging the ball, so that the ball clogging is prevented.

A packing made of an elastic material is interposed between the inner surface of the front cover and the speaker, and an opening for audio output is provided only in a predetermined area on the front side of the inner surface of the front cover. Is preferred. In this configuration, the part and direction of the audio output are specified,
It is possible to make it easier for the player to feel sound effects and the like.

[0015]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 to FIG. 10 are views showing an audio device of a game machine according to one embodiment of the present invention. The audio device of this embodiment is a game machine as shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. The pachinko machine 10 is configured as an upper plate panel 50 (ball tray panel).

First, the overall structure of the gaming machine will be described. A pachinko machine 10 shown in FIG. 2 includes a front panel frame 11 and a window door 12 provided at an upper front portion of the frame 11.
And a game board 13 mounted on the front of the frame 11. Although not shown in detail, the front panel frame 11 has hinge mechanisms 115A, 115A at the left end side in FIG.
It is supported by the back side mechanism frame 100 via B to be able to open and close, and is normally closed. In addition, the window door 12 is a game board 13
The opening window 12a corresponding to the board surface 13a (game area) is formed, and is supported by the frame body 11 via a hinge mechanism (not shown) so as to be rotatable in the opening and closing direction so that the frame body 11 can be opened and closed back and forth. ing. The window door 12 is provided with illuminated display units 121 and 122 containing a plurality of light emitting element groups. The window door 12 is locked at a closed position with respect to the frame body 11 by a lock mechanism 123, and further locked together with the frame body 11 in the closed state by the back side mechanism frame 100.

Below the window door 12, there is provided an upper ball tray 15 which constitutes a part of the upper plate panel 50. Below the upper ball tray 15, a lower ball tray 16 and a game are provided. And an operation handle 17 that is rotated by a user. Reference numeral 18 denotes a ball-pulling operation lever for performing a ball-pulling operation of the upper ball-receiving pan 15, and a ball-pulling-out operation of moving the ball-pulling-operation lever 18 to the left in the drawing changes the upper ball-receiving pan 15 to the lower ball-receiving pan 16. Gaming balls can flow down and out. 19 is an ashtray.

In this pachinko machine 10, a predetermined prepaid card, which is a frequency card, is inserted into the card insertion slot 1a of the ball lending machine 1 disposed adjacent to the side (of course, cash may be inserted), and the upper ball receiving tray is provided. When a lending ball lending operation, which will be described later, is performed on the front of the lending ball 15, the lending ball B is dispensed from the payout port 2.
From 9, the ball is lent to the upper ball tray 15, and a firing device (not shown) is operated on the back side of the upper ball tray 15 in accordance with the operation amount of the handle 17 by the player, and fires a game ball into the game area. Then, for example, a plurality of start winning ports 23 provided on the game board 13 and general winning ports 24A, 24B, 25
When a game ball enters any one of A, 25B and the special winning opening 26, the payout of the game ball from the payout port 29 to the upper ball receiving tray 15 is performed. Further, when the game ball passes through the passage gate 27, the normal symbol display device 60 for executing the normal symbol variation display by alternately lighting the two colors of the ordinary symbol display LEDs 60a and 60b operates, and the variation stops in a predetermined stop mode. Then, the tulip of the starting winning opening 23 opens. When a game ball wins in the start winning opening 23, the symbol display device 7 is activated.
At 0, the special symbol change display game is executed, and the opening / closing door of the special winning opening 26 opens and closes in the front-rear direction according to the result (stop mode).

Next, the configuration of the upper plate panel 50 will be described.

As shown in FIG. 1, the upper plate panel 50 is formed by a boss hole-like hinge portion 15h on the left end side of the upper ball receiving plate 15,
It is pin-coupled to the front panel frame 11 and is supported rotatably in the front-rear opening and closing directions. Specifically, the upper plate panel 50 includes an upper ball receiving tray 15 and a support plate 51 (a door-shaped mounting plate: a hinge plate 15h formed on the left end side in the figure).
For example, a pressed part made of a sheet metal material and a resin molded part are integrated with each other), an upper sphere pan 15 is integrally mounted on an upper part, and a hollow half-shaped front cover 52 surrounding the front and left and right sides thereof; It is composed of Here, the support plate 51 includes the upper ball receiving tray 15 and the front cover 5.
2 is closed, and no inner wall surface is formed by the front panel frame 11 between the front cover 52 and the front panel frame 11, that is, a space independent of the front panel frame 11 is formed.

As shown in FIGS. 4 to 7, the upper ball tray 15 is provided with a guide portion 15a for guiding the game balls in a line toward the launching device side. The inner bottom surface 15b is provided with an outlet 29 as shown in FIG.
The guide portion 15a is inclined to be lower than the guide portion 15a side. Further, at the lowest position of the inner bottom surface 15b of the upper ball receiving tray 15, there is formed a ball removing hole 15c for extracting a game ball to flow down to the lower ball receiving tray 16 side.

On the inner surface of the front cover 52,
The left and right speakers 61 and 62, which are speakers, are mounted with their voice coils (not shown in detail) facing the front, and are mounted on the front side of the frame 11 of the pachinko machine 10 with built-in speakers. The dish panel 50 is configured to be mounted as an acoustic device. These speakers 61, 6
Numeral 2 is spaced apart from the left and right sides of the upper ball receiving tray 15, and between the speakers 61, 62 is abutted or fixed to the lower surface side of the upper ball receiving tray 15, and the space inside the front cover 52 is left and right. A partition plate 71 is provided.

The front cover 52 is connected to the speaker 6.
A pair of bowl-shaped bulging portions 53 and 54 bulging so as to protrude forward in the shape of a bowl at the front of the bowl-shaped bulging portions 53 and 54, respectively. A plurality of parallel slits 53a, 54a (sound output openings) are formed.

The speakers 61 and 62 are of a magnetic-shield type having a structure for preventing leakage of magnetic flux, for example, and have four mounting holes around them. As shown in FIGS. Are mounted on the front cover 52 by a plurality of boss-shaped projections 63 and positioning projections 64 provided on the inner surfaces of the bowl-shaped bulging portions 53 and 54. That is, each of the speakers 61 and 62 is positioned by engaging with the tip projection of the pair of positioning projections 64, and a plurality of screws 8 are attached to the pair of boss-shaped projections 63.
Fixed by 1. Also, the front cover 52
The inner surfaces of the bowl-shaped bulging portions 53 and 54 of each speaker 61,
Reference numeral 62 denotes a ring-shaped punching plate 68a and a ring-shaped punching plate 68a provided on annular support cylinders 66 and 67 (shown in common) provided between the boss-shaped projection 63 and the positioning projection 64, respectively. They are tightly engaged via a ring-shaped packing 68b made of an elastic material or the like.

The partition plate 71 is formed in a plate shape from, for example, polyethylene, and is formed between the parallel rib portions 72 and 73 formed so as to protrude from the front surface of the support plate 51 or the inner surface of the front cover 52 toward the upper ball receiving tray 15. And is in contact with the lower surface of the upper ball receiving tray 15. The partition plate 71 and the parallel rib portions 72 and 73 are intermediate walls fixed to the inner surface of the front cover 52 so as to extend vertically below the upper ball tray 15.

The upper plate panel 50 has the speakers 61 and 62 built in the closed speaker cabinet including the support plate 51 and the front cover 52 as described above, and the internal space thereof is divided into right and left by a partition plate 71. It has become.

On the other hand, the bowl-shaped bulging portion 5 of the front cover 52
An inclined surface 55 is formed between the front and rear sides of the ball lending machine 1 between the front and rear sides so that the lower side is closer to the player (toward the player). Operation units 56a and 56b for operating operations such as lending and card return
And a frequency indicator 57 composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display element for displaying the frequency of the prepaid card (frequency card) in use.
And are provided.

One of the left and right bowl-shaped bulging portions 53 and 54, for example, the right bowl-shaped bulging portion 5 as viewed from the front.
4 is formed with a concave portion 91 whose front is open,
The operation lever 18 is provided in the concave portion 91 as an operation member for performing a ball removing operation. This operation lever 1
8, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, the operation lever 18 is disposed substantially on the same plane as or close to the opening / closing shutter 102 that opens and closes the punch-out hole 15 c. 18a is slidably supported in a guide hole 105 formed in the front cover 52, and is opened and closed via a ball release lever 101.
02. The opening / closing shutter 102 is slidably guided in the left-right direction by a lever guide portion 103 provided on the front cover 52, and can open and close the hole 15c. Further, the ball removing lever 101 is constantly urged in a direction (right side in FIG. 5) in which the ball removing hole 15c is closed by a tension spring 104 interposed with a predetermined tension between the ball removing lever 101 and the front cover 52. Only when the ball removal operation lever 18 is operated by the player, the ball is moved to the left in FIG. 5 against the urging force of the tension spring 104 to open the ball removal hole 15c.

As shown in FIG. 10, the fork-shaped claw 101a of the ball release lever 101 is opened and closed by the shutter 1.
02 is inserted into the engaging concave portion 102a and is engaged with the opening / closing driving projection portion 102b, whereby the ball releasing lever 10
1 to open / close shutter 102, open / close shutter 1
The operation is transmitted only in the sliding direction of 02, so that unnecessary twist and bending moment are not applied from the operation lever 18 side.

In FIG. 9, 191 and 192 are:
The front cover 52 of the upper plate panel 50 is attached to the support plate 5.
1 is a boss portion for fastening a screw to the front cover 52.
Such a boss portion is provided at an appropriate position in the left-right direction of,

Next, the operation will be described.

In the upper panel 50 of the pachinko machine 10 configured as described above, the pachinko machine 10 is not directly on the frame 11 side,
The speaker 6 is provided on the inner surface of the upper bowl 15 of the upper panel 50.
Since the upper panel 50 is configured as an independent sealed speaker cabinet, the sound output of the speakers 61 and 62 mounted on the inner surface thereof can be effectively taken out to the front side. In addition, it is possible to suppress the transmission of vibrations in which the vibrations of the speakers 61 and 62 adversely affect the front panel frame 11, its internal mechanism, the back mechanism, and the like.

The left and right speakers 61 and 62 are attached to the inner surface of the front cover 52 facing the front, and the inner space of the upper plate panel 50 is abutted between the two speakers 61 and 62 by contacting the upper ball receiving tray 15. Since the left and right partition plates 71 are provided, the player can feel a sufficient sound effect from both the left and right sides.
By giving a moderate vibration to the upper ball saucer 15 by
Ball clogging on the guide portion 15a side can be eliminated.

Further, by appropriately setting the position and direction of the speakers 61 and 62 and the shape and position of the sound output opening such as the parallel slits 53a and 54a, the position and direction of the sound output can be changed. By specifying, it is possible to make it easier for the player to feel sound effects and the like.

The inclined surface 55 of the front cover 52
Are provided with operation units 56a and 56b for operating operations such as lending of the ball lending machine 1 and card return, and the frequency display 57, so that a lending request operation to the ball lending machine 1 can be easily performed. At the same time, the card frequency display surface of the frequency display 57 becomes easy to see from the eye level of the player. Of course, this assumes that the player is sitting in a chair in front of the pachinko machine 10 and the handle 17 is almost at the waist level of the player, and the lending button 56a and the return button 5
Speaker 6 in addition to or in place of
An operation unit may be provided for allowing a player (user) to adjust the conditions of the audio output from the players 1 and 62.

In the above-described embodiment, the pachinko machine is used as a pachinko machine. However, it is needless to say that the game machine is not limited to this. Needless to say, the present invention can also be applied to this.

[0038]

According to the present invention, since the left and right speakers are attached to the inner surface of the front cover, it is possible to prevent the vibration of the speakers from being transmitted to the mechanism in the game machine. In addition, the front cover is supported via a mounting plate rotatably supported on the frame of the gaming machine, and the mounting plate and the front cover constitute a speaker cabinet. Can be.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of an upper plate panel of a gaming machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the gaming machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a gaming board of the gaming machine.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the upper plate panel of one embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a front sectional view of the upper plate panel of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the upper plate panel of the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a bottom view of the upper plate panel of one embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a mounting structure of the speaker on the upper plate panel of the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a side sectional view of a bowl-shaped bulging portion on one side of a front cover in the upper plate panel of the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of main components of the gaming machine according to the embodiment, showing the configuration of the ball-pulling operation means.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Pachinko machine 11 Front panel frame 15 Upper ball tray 15h Hinge part 16 Lower ball tray 17 Operation handle 18 Ball removal operation lever 50 Upper plate panel 51 Support plate (door-like mounting plate) 52 Front cover 53, 54 bowl shape Swelling portions 53a, 54a Parallel slits (opening for audio output) 55 Inclined surface 56a Lending button (operation unit) 56b Return button (operation unit) 61, 62 Speaker (audio output means) 63 Boss-like projection (inner surface) ) 64 Positioning projection (inner surface) 66, 67 Support cylinder (inner surface) 68a Punching plate 68b Packing 71 Partition plate (intermediate wall) 72, 73 Parallel rib (intermediate wall) 100 Back mechanism frame

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A hollow half-shaped front cover mounted on a front surface of a frame of a gaming machine so as to surround a tray for a game medium of the gaming machine, and a left and right space separated from an inner surface of the front cover. A sound device for a gaming machine, comprising: left and right speakers attached; and an intermediate wall fixed to an inner surface of the front cover so as to extend vertically below the tray. 2. The front cover is supported by the frame via a mounting plate rotatably supported by the frame, and a space in the front cover is defined by the mounting plate and the front cover. 2. The sound device for a gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a speaker cabinet that partitions the external space is formed. 3. A ball receiving tray for accommodating a pachinko ball is disposed above the front cover, and the speaker is mounted on the inner surface of the front cover so as to output sound toward the front. The audio device for a gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein 4. A packing made of an elastic material is interposed between the inner surface of the front cover and the speaker, and an opening for audio output is provided only in a predetermined area on the front side of the inner surface of the front cover. The audio device for a gaming machine according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein: