JP2002078864A5 - - Google Patents

Description

0006
[Means for solving problems]
The first invention outputs an electric game device used for a game, a control device for controlling the electric game device, a rectifying circuit for converting a supplied AC power source into a DC power source, and a constant voltage. In a gaming machine provided with a power supply device having a constant voltage circuit and a smoothing circuit provided in the front and rear stages of the constant voltage circuit to remove a ripple component of a DC power supply, the rear stage of the constant voltage circuit. A voltage monitoring means that monitors the power supply voltage smoothed by the smoothing circuit and outputs a failure detection signal when a change in this voltage is detected to stop the operation of at least a part of the control device, and the rectifying circuit. A current suppressing means is provided in the subsequent stage so as to receive the output of the rectifying circuit, and the current suppressing means is a current limiting means provided between the smoothing circuit provided in the front stage of the constant voltage circuit and the rectifying circuit. And a short-circuiting means for short-circuiting the current limiting means, and in connection with the fact that the output side of the constant voltage circuit exceeds a predetermined voltage, the short-circuiting means is operated and the current limiting means is not operated. A game machine characterized by being in a state .

0010
The second invention is characterized in that, in the first invention, the short-circuiting means is composed of an element having a constant voltage drop.

[0011]
A third aspect of the invention is, in the first or second invention, a game control in which the control device comprehensively controls a game performed in the game machine and sends a control command signal to another control device. The power supply monitoring means transmits the power failure detection signal to both the game control device and the discharge control device, including the device and a discharge control device that sends a discharge command signal to the discharge mechanism that discharges the game ball. It is characterized by that.

[0012]
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
In the first invention, a power supply device having a rectifying circuit, a smoothing circuit, and a constant voltage circuit, and a voltage monitoring means for generating a power failure detection signal are provided, and the current suppressing means is the smoothing circuit in the subsequent stage of the constant voltage circuit. When the output voltage reaches a predetermined voltage, the operation of the current suppression means is stopped. Therefore, after the smoothing circuit in the previous stage is sufficiently charged, the smoothing circuit in the subsequent stage is charged (that is, the smoothing circuit in the previous stage is sufficiently charged). Since the operation of the current suppression means is stopped (with a slight delay after charging), there is no need for a special configuration (delay circuit, delay type relay, etc.) for delaying the operation of the current suppression means, and the component price is reduced. In addition to being able to reduce the voltage, the current suppression means has a simple structure, so that reliability can be improved. In addition, the inrush current at the time of turning on the power can be prevented without affecting the power failure detection accuracy, and the rectifier circuit is not damaged by the overcurrent.

0015.
Further , the current suppressing means is configured by a short-circuiting means for short-circuiting the current limiting means and the current limiting means, and when the output of the constant voltage circuit reaches a predetermined voltage, the short-circuiting means is operated to short-circuit the current limiting means. Since the operation of the current limiting means is stopped, the current suppressing means can be simply configured.

0016.
In the second invention, since the short-circuiting means is composed of elements having a constant voltage drop, it is not necessary to select and use the elements due to variations in the characteristics of the elements constituting the short-circuiting means, and the short-circuiting means are connected to each other. The variation in the potential difference is reduced, and the power failure detection accuracy can be improved.

[0017]
In the third invention, since the power failure detection signal is transmitted to both the game control device and the discharge control device, the memory of the game control device and the discharge control device is backed up and stopped, so that the game state can be saved and the game state can be saved. Accurate ball ejection can be achieved.

[0042]
In addition, the game control device 100 monitors whether the prize ball is accurately discharged. Specifically, it monitors whether the number of prize balls instructed to be discharged as a prize ball control command signal transmitted to the discharge control device 200 and the actual number of prize balls counted by the prize ball detection sensors 713A and 713B described later match. And, it monitors whether the prize ball is discharged even though the prize ball discharge command is not transmitted. If an abnormality such as the prize ball being discharged is found even though the prize ball discharge command signal has not been transmitted, the abnormality handling process is performed. For example, an abnormality detection signal is output from the frame external information output unit 42 to the hall computer, a decoration control command signal is transmitted to the decoration control device 300, and the prize ball abnormality notification LED 31 is blinked to notify the abnormality. Alternatively, the game is forcibly stopped by stopping the game control, stopping the launch of the hit ball, or the like.

Claims (3)

An electric game device provided for the game,
A control device for controlling the electric gaming device;
A rectifier circuit for converting the supplied AC power to DC power source, a constant voltage circuit for outputting an constant voltage, provided upstream and downstream of the constant voltage circuit, a smoothing circuit for removing a ripple component of the DC power supply And a power supply having:
In a gaming machine equipped with
A voltage monitor for monitoring a power supply voltage smoothed by the smoothing circuit at a subsequent stage of the constant voltage circuit, outputting a power failure detection signal when detecting a change in the voltage, and stopping at least a part of the operation of the control device. Means,
A current suppressing means is provided at a subsequent stage of the rectifier circuit,
The current suppressing means,
Current limiting means provided between the smoothing circuit and the rectifier circuit provided in a preceding stage of the constant voltage circuit, and short-circuit means for short-circuiting the current limiting means,
The output side of the constant voltage circuit is in connection with exceeding the predetermined voltage, by operating the short-circuit device, a game machine, wherein to Rukoto said current limiting means in a non-operating state. The gaming machine according to claim 1 wherein the shorting means is characterized by Rukoto constituted by elements the voltage drop is constant. The control device has a game control device that comprehensively controls a game performed in the gaming machine and sends a control command signal to another control device, and a discharge command to a discharge mechanism that discharges game balls. Including an emission control device that sends out a signal,
It said power supply monitoring means, a game machine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that for transmitting the power failure detection signal to both of the game control device and the discharge controller.