JP2002079199A - Device for cleaning board surface and device for cleaning passage on board surface - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for cleaning the surface of a board and a device for cleaning passages on the board surface, with which the board surface can automatically be cleaned while omitting manual cleaning work by giving the action of gentle air flow to the board surface where both the devices are provided by paying attention to the fact that gentle air flow can naturally prevent the deposition phenomenon of dust. SOLUTION: This device for cleaning the surface of the board is constituted so that the gentle air flow is sent along the board surface from an air sending port disposed on one side of the board surface and discharged from an air discharging port disposed on the other side opposite to the air sending port in the board surface direction for the purpose of cleaning the board surface.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a plate cleaning apparatus for cleaning a game surface of a motor-driven pachinko machine used for mass entertainment, for example, and more particularly, to a plate for efficiently cleaning the space between the plate surfaces by a breeze. The present invention relates to a surface cleaning device and a plate surface passage cleaning device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, various game consoles such as a pachinko game console and a pachislot game console installed in a game store have the following surfaces.
With long-term use, dust such as fine dust, dust, and metal powder adheres and gradually becomes dirty. For this reason, the clerk regularly wipes the dirty board surface by wiping the dirty portions of the gaming table one by one.

[0003]

In such a manual cleaning operation, in addition to cleaning unevenness, cleaning cannot be performed during a game, and can only be performed after a game store is closed or on a holiday. In addition, at the time of cleaning, the clerk must open and close the front glass plate for each gaming table and clean it, which takes time,
It required a lot of work. In particular, it is difficult to clean because many pins and parts are in the uneven state protruding from the board surface, and during cleaning, the hands of the workers and cleaning tools hit the pins on the board and the game decorations around it, and it is delicate. In some cases, there was a problem that the adjustment of the adjusted pin might be changed.

[0004] In recent years, on the pachinko ball transport line, a sealed type or a single island has been adopted. In this case, dust generated in the transport line floats and adheres to the pachinko ball or is carried to the board surface. Was causing dirt.

As a result, in order to maintain the aesthetics of the game console, the frequency of cleaning by the clerk increases, the number of replacements of dirty pins and game decorations increases, and a polishing mechanism for removing dirt from pachinko balls is frequently used. And the life of the polishing pad is shortened.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a method for cleaning a plate surface.
Focusing on the breeze that can naturally avoid the adhesion of dust that causes dirt, the plate surface cleaning that enables automatic cleaning by applying a breeze effect to the plate surface, eliminating the need for manual cleaning work It is an object of the present invention to provide a device and a plate-side passage cleaning device.

[0007]

According to the present invention, when cleaning the plate surface, a small air is blown along the plate surface from a blow port provided on one side of the plate surface, and the blower is opposed to the blow port. It is a plate surface cleaning device that exhausts a breeze from an exhaust port provided on the other side in the plate surface direction.

As a result, on the plate surface to be cleaned, the dust is received by the breeze and is naturally carried to the exhaust port to be exhausted. Therefore, the dust stays on the plate surface or adheres to other members. Disappears.

Therefore, long-term automatic cleaning can be ensured by continuously blowing air. For example, if the present invention is applied to the board of a pachinko gaming table, continuous cleaning can be performed throughout the game even during the game. For this reason, a beautiful board surface can always be secured, and a fresh and comfortable gaming table can be maintained.

[0010] In particular, since automatic cleaning can be achieved, labor saving of the cleaning operation can be achieved, and the use suitable for cleaning a large number of pachinko game tables and pachislot game tables can be achieved.

Also, since no manual intervention is required for cleaning,
There is no such a problem that the finely set pin adjustment on the board is changed.

In addition, the use of the breeze for cleaning operation improves the protection performance of pins and game decorations, reduces the number of replacements, and reduces the adhesion of dust to the pachinko balls themselves. The life can be extended and the consumption of the polishing pad can be suppressed to reduce the cost.

As described above, when the plate surface is cleaned, automatic cleaning can be realized by providing a wind force removing function for each plate surface to be cleaned, which removes the adhesion phenomenon of dust causing dirt by wind power.

In another aspect of the present invention, when cleaning a plate surface passage formed between an opposing surface of one of the opposed plate surfaces and the other plate surface, an air outlet provided on one side of the plate surface passage. It is characterized by a plate surface passage cleaning device that blows a breeze and sucks a breeze from a dust collection port provided on the other side opposite to the blow port.

In this case, the region of the breeze flowing in the passage between the plate surfaces is specified in a certain direction, and a uniform and stable breeze flow can be obtained as a whole. For this reason, dirt can be flowed down naturally over the entire plate surface, and an even cleaning action can be obtained between the plate surfaces.

Another aspect of the present invention is characterized in that an ion wind generator for flowing an ion wind from an air outlet is provided.

In this case, by flowing an ionized breeze having an effect of suppressing the generation of static electricity, the generation of static electricity of each component on the plate surface can be suppressed, and the stain adhesion phenomenon can be properly avoided. . Further, in the case of a game medium such as a pachinko ball, it is possible to reduce the static electricity that occurs during a game or during polishing, thereby suppressing the adhesion of dust.

Still another invention is characterized in that the amount of ions contained in the breeze is adjusted.

In this case, the amount of ions can be adjusted according to the degree of cleaning request, and can be switched to an amount of ions suitable for cleaning purposes such as various game consoles.

[0020]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. The drawings show a plate-side passage cleaning device applied to an electric pachinko machine. In FIGS. 1 and 2, the plate-side passage cleaning device 11 is provided for each pachinko game table 12, and a front glass plate 13 and a back side thereof are provided. The cleaning device cleans both opposing inner surfaces 13a and 14a of the plate surface passage 15 having a path between the parallel opposing surfaces with the decorative board 14 provided in parallel to the plate surface. A blower 16 for flowing a breeze downward is provided, and an exhauster 17 for discharging a breeze is provided on a lower side opposite to the blower 16, and a charge control for controlling the charge of the pachinko balls 18. The device 19 is provided.

The above-mentioned glass plate 13 is formed by depositing a transparent and highly wear-resistant conductive metal on the glass inner surface 13a, and by providing this conductive metal deposited layer.
The static electricity of the pachinko balls 18 is removed by suction, and the sucked static electricity is maintained by the grounding wiring 20 by the static electricity absorbing action.

Similarly, the decorative board 14 uses a conductive material for each part such as pins and accessories attached to the board, and furthermore, a conductive resin material or a conductive paint is coated on the board surface 14a of the decorative board 14. Then, these are used for the static electricity absorption processing, and are used in common with the ground processing wiring 20 installed on the decorative board 14, thereby absorbing and removing the static electricity to reduce the electricity accumulation (capacitor effect).

In this case, it is desirable to suppress the generation of static electricity by reducing the unevenness of the surface of the board surface 14a as much as possible, and it is preferable to set the average surface roughness Ra = 1 to 3 μm. .

The plate surface passage 15 is formed by airtightly closing a flat glass plate 13 which can be freely opened and closed on a concave decorative plate 14 to form a flat narrow airtight space along the plate surface 14a.

The above-described blower 16 is constructed by connecting a primary filter 21, a secondary filter 22, and an ion wind generator 23 in this order between a blower (not shown) and the pachinko gaming table 12.

When supplying the breeze from the blower, first,
In order to prevent contamination, the first step is to remove 10 dust.
Using a first filter 21 having a size of about μm, and using a second filter 22 such as a hepa filter for removing dust up to the bacterial level as a second stage, purifying the supplied air, and then generating a subsequent ionic wind It leads to the device 23.

The above-described ion wind generator 23 not only cleans using a small wind force flowing through the plate surface passage 15 but also cleans it.
Further, the breeze is ionized so that an effect of suppressing static electricity can be obtained.
The degree of ionization is variably adjusted based on a feedback signal from an ion state detection sensor provided at 7.

The ionized ionized wind is blown uniformly downward in the entire surface of the plate-shaped passage 15 from the blower opening 24 which is elongated and opened to the full width of the plate-shaped passage 15. In this case, the ion wind does not hinder the free fall of the pachinko balls and the repulsive force that rebounds by hitting pins etc.
It is suitable to flow a flow rate of about m / min at the same speed.

The above-described exhaust device 17 is provided with an upper blowing port 24.
Is uniformly exhausted in the horizontal direction from an exhaust port 25 which is elongated in the lower part of the plate surface passage 15 and has a full width. The ion state detection sensor S1 and the ion wind quantitative discharge device 26 are connected to the exhaust port 25. , In this order.

The ion state detection sensor S1 measures the amount of ions contained in the exhausted ion wind to determine the current state of the ion amount, and based on this, detects the ion amount of the ion wind generator 23 described above. Is adjusted so that the static electricity suppression effect is obtained.

The ion wind quantitative discharge device 26 uniformly exhausts gas at the same flow rate as the ion wind generator 23 described above, and exhausts gas so that a natural flow in which the ion wind is not disturbed in the plate surface passage 15 is obtained. You have set the amount. At this time, the exhaust gas may be discharged to the atmosphere, or may be recycled. Furthermore, a suction device can be provided to facilitate exhausting,
A dust collector may be provided to purify air during exhaust.

The charge control device 19 is provided between the pachinko ball supply line 27 and the middle part of the back of the pachinko gaming table 12.
The charge measuring sensor S2 is connected to the ball charge control device 28.

The charge measuring sensor S 2 measures the degree of charge of the pachinko balls 18... Led from the pachinko ball supply line 27, and based on the measured charge state, a ball charge giving a positive / negative high voltage adding action. Control device 2
8, the charge amount is variably adjusted to control the charge amount of the pachinko balls 18. For controlling the charge amount, the charge amount of the pachinko ball 18 can be changed by, for example, applying ionization from the ball charge control device 28 using a conductive brush.
In this case, a conductive brush or polishing cloth may be incorporated for polishing the balls in order to absorb the electric charge of the pachinko balls 18 and to remove the dirt from the pachinko balls. In the figure, reference numeral 29 denotes a ball discharge line.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the board-surface passage cleaning device 11. The CPU 31 controls each circuit device according to a program stored in the ROM 32, and stores the control data in the RAM 33 in a readable manner.

The blower 34 is driven to blow air each time a game is started to supply a constant amount of breeze to the blower 16. Also,
The breeze can be continued to be supplied even when the pachinko gaming table 12 is in a game use standby state. In this case, the dust adhering element is eliminated and the cleaning effect is further enhanced.

The plate-side passage cleaning device 1 thus configured
The air blowing process 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Now, when the player starts operating the game by rotating the handle of the pachinko gaming table 12 (step n1), C
The PU 31 detects the use start signal used in the game and drives the blower 34 (steps n2 to n3), and based on this, starts supplying a constant amount of breeze from the blower 34 to the blower 16 (step n4).

The supplied breeze first passes through the primary filter 21.
After the dust of about 10 .mu.m has been removed, the second filter 22 removes the dust more finely and cleans the supplied air (steps n5 to n6).

Thereafter, the breeze, which has been guided to the ion wind generator 23 and ionized, flows uniformly from the upper side to the lower side of the plate surface passage 15 at a constant speed. At this time, the ionic wind flows in the plate surface passage 15 while suppressing the static electricity, and absorbs and removes the static electricity of the pachinko balls 18 and the surroundings (steps n7 to n8).

The breeze passing through the plate surface passage 15 is exhausted through the exhaust port 25 of the exhaust device 17 (step n9).

At the time of this exhaust, the ion state detection sensor S1 provided in the exhaust device 17 obtains the amount of ions in the breeze, and variably adjusts the obtained amount of ions to an appropriate ionization degree by a feedback signal. In addition, the ion wind generator 23
The same flow rate as above is used to uniformly exhaust the gas, and the ion wind flows in the natural constant direction in the plate surface passage 15 (step n10).

Next, the pachinko ball processing operation of the plate surface passage cleaning device 11 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
When the pachinko game table 12 is used for a game and the pachinko ball 18 is led to the pachinko game table 12 from the pachinko ball supply line 27, first, it is guided to the charge measurement sensor S2 of the charge control device 19 provided immediately before ( Step n1
1).

At this time, the degree of charge of the passing pachinko balls 18 is measured by the charge measuring sensor S2 (step n12).

Based on the measured state of charge, the amount of charge is variably adjusted by the ball charge control device 28 to control the amount of charge of the supplied pachinko balls 18, so that dust is unlikely to adhere (step n13). To n14).

The pachinko balls 18 are ionized by the ball charge control device 28 to guide the pachinko balls 18 to the pachinko game table 12 in a state in which the amount of charge of the pachinko balls 18 is reduced, and then pass through the plate surface passage 15 (step n15). .

In this case, the pachinko balls 18.
5, the inner surface 13a of the glass plate 13, a large number of pins, and the wirings 20 for ground processing provided on the board surface 14a of the decorative board 14 absorb and remove the electric charge of the pachinko balls 18 to form a passage. The state where dust hardly adheres to each of the surfaces 13a and 14a and the pins and the pachinko balls 18 in the step 15 is maintained (step n16).

Thereafter, the pachinko balls 18 are discharged through the ball discharge line 29 in a non-charged state (step n17).

FIG. 6 shows another embodiment of the air blower 61, in which the secondary filter 22 of the air blower 16 is replaced with an electric dust collector 62, and both sides of the electric dust collector 62 are shown. Similarly, the primary filter 63 and the ion wind generator 64 are connected and used in an integrated manner. The electrostatic precipitator 62 performs a dust collecting operation as a molecular adsorption device using positive and negative high voltages, and can obtain substantially the same operation and effect as the above-described secondary filter 22 when sucking a breeze.

As described above, when the board-side passage cleaning device is applied to the board of a pachinko game board, continuous cleaning can be performed throughout the game even during a game, and in particular, automatic cleaning can be achieved, thereby saving labor of cleaning work. In addition to the above, it is possible to use a pachinko game machine or a pachislot game machine, which is installed in a large number, in a suitable manner for cleaning. Furthermore, by flowing an ionized breeze that has the effect of suppressing the generation of static electricity, the generation of static electricity in each component on the plate surface can be suppressed, and the stain adhesion phenomenon can be properly avoided. In addition, it is possible to reduce the static electricity carried by the pachinko balls and suppress the adhesion of dust. In addition, since the amount of ions can be adjusted according to the degree of request for cleaning, it is possible to switch to an amount of ions suitable for cleaning purposes such as various game consoles.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the plate surface cleaning device of the present invention corresponds to the plate surface passage cleaning device 11 of the embodiment. The dust collector corresponds to the inner surface 13a of the glass plate and the board surface 14a of the decorative board, and the dust collecting port corresponds to the electric dust collector 62. However, the present invention can be applied based on the technical idea described in the claims. However, the present invention is not limited to only the configuration of the embodiment.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, the plate-side passage cleaning device 11 of the pachinko gaming table 12 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and if a similar air blowing configuration is used, the present invention can be applied to only one-side cleaning. can do.

[0051]

According to the present invention, automatic cleaning can be realized by providing a wind power removing function for removing the dust adhesion phenomenon by wind power for each plate surface to be cleaned.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front perspective view showing a plate-side passage cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a side surface side of the plate surface passage cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a control circuit block diagram of the plate surface passage cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an air blowing process operation of the plate surface passage cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a pachinko ball processing operation of the plate-side passage cleaning device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an external perspective view showing another embodiment of the blower of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Plate surface passage cleaning device 13a ... Glass plate inner surface 14a ... Board surface 15 ... Plate surface passage 16, 61 ... Blower 17 ... Exhaust device 19 ... Charge control device 23, 64 ... Ion wind generator 24 ... Blower port 25 ... Exhaust Mouth 62 ... Electric dust collector

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Yasuo Kasahara 801 Minamifudo-cho, Higashi-iri, Horikawa, Shiokoji-dori, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto (72) Inventor Satoshi Watanabe 2-3-2-20 Kobuchi, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture F term (reference) 2C088 BA92 DA07 DA13 3B116 AA01 AB53 BB22 BB72 BB89 4D054 AA20 BA19 BC03

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A plate surface cleaning device for cleaning a plate surface, comprising: an air outlet through which a breeze flows from one side of the plate surface along the plate surface;
A plate surface cleaning device, comprising: an exhaust port configured to exhaust the breeze from the other side in the same plate surface direction opposite to the blower port. 2. A plate-surface passage cleaning device for cleaning a plate-surface passage formed between an opposing surface of one of the opposing plate surfaces and the other plate surface, wherein a breeze is blown to one side of the plate surface passage. A plate surface passage cleaning device comprising: a ventilation port for flowing air; and a dust collection port for suctioning a breeze on the other side opposite to the ventilation port. 3. The plate surface cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an ion wind generator for flowing an ion wind from an air outlet.
The plate surface passage cleaning device as described in the above. 4. The apparatus for cleaning a plate surface or a passage on a plate surface according to claim 3, wherein the amount of ions is adjusted.