JP2002117434A - Game facility - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game facility capable of efficiently performing a setting work in the new setting of a bill carrying device in addition to a game medium lending machine without causing any wastefulness. SOLUTION: In this game facility, bill carrying control function is separated from a metal lending machine body 51, only a lending control unit 15 is housed in the metal lending machine body 51, and a bill carrying control unit 16 is housed in a bill discrimination device 13 provided adjacently above the metal lending machine body 51. According to this, the connecting work of a communication cable for bill carrying control can be facilitated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a game facility,
More specifically, a game media lending machine for renting a game medium (metal, pachinko ball) used for playing a game machine such as a slot machine or a pachinko machine, and a bill transport device attached to the game medium renting machine, The present invention relates to a game facility provided with.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a game store equipped with gaming machines such as slot machines and pachinko machines, a plurality of gaming machines,
A plurality of game media lending machines interposed between these gaming machines for lending metal, pachinko, and the like are arranged back to back to form an island. In addition, a bill transport device for transporting bills inserted by a player to a bill storage box at an island end is provided along the back of a row of gaming machines and gaming media lending machines.

[0003] A conventional game facility will be described below with reference to the drawings. 6 and 7 are diagrams showing a game facility without a bill transfer device, FIG. 6 is a front view of the game facility, and FIG. 7 is a side view showing an internal structure of the game facility.

[0004] A metal lending machine main body 50 is installed adjacent to the slot machine 60. 1A is a bill insertion slot provided at the upper front part of the metal lending machine main body 50, and 1 is a bill identification device (Bill Bali) for identifying the authenticity of a bill inserted from the bill insertion slot 1A. Bill Recognition Device (Bill Bali) 1
Has a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has a bill storage portion 1B for storing bills at the bottom thereof. Reference numeral 2A denotes a money display LED provided below the bill insertion slot 1A, and reference numeral 2 denotes a money display LED2 indicating the amount of money inserted from the bill insertion slot 1A.
A money indicator for displaying on A.

[0005] Reference numeral 4 denotes a metal discharge port, and 5 denotes a metal tray. Reference numeral 6 denotes a hopper for renting out a predetermined number of metals in response to money input. A tank 8 for storing metal to be supplied to the hopper 6 is provided adjacent to and above the hopper 6. Reference numeral 10 denotes a rental control unit having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and a display panel 11 for displaying a system abnormality is attached to the front of the rental control unit. Further, a connector portion for connecting a communication cable to the bill validator 1, the hopper 6, and the like is provided on the back surface.

[0006] A bill is transferred from the bill insertion slot 1A to the bill transport device 1.
The lending control unit 10
Sends a control signal to the hopper 6, and a predetermined number of metals are discharged from the metal discharge port 4 to the metal tray 5. Also,
The bill is stored in the bill storage unit 1B.

In the gaming machine having the above-described structure, bills are stored in the metal lending machine main body 50. Therefore, when collecting bills, the bill storage section 1 in the metal lending machine main body 50 is used.
B must be opened and collected, and the metal lending machine body 5
The collection work is complicated because many 0s are installed.
Therefore, there is a demand that a gaming store in which the above-described gaming facilities are installed has a bill transporting device provided in addition to the gaming facility to increase the efficiency of bill collecting operations.

Next, the configuration of a game facility provided with a bill transport device will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. FIG. FIG. 8 is a front view of the gaming facility, and FIG. 9 is a side view showing an internal structure of the gaming facility. 6 and 7 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof will be omitted.

A bill validator 13 is installed above the main body 50 of the metal lending machine, and a bill transport device 14 is connected behind the bill validator 13. The inserted bill is configured to be received from the receiving port 14B of the bill transport device 14 and transported from upstream to downstream of the island. 14A
Is a motor for driving the bill transport device 14.
Thereby, the bills are collected in a bill storage box (not shown) installed at the island end, so that the efficiency of the collection operation is significantly improved.

[0010] Further, with the installation of the bill transporting device 14, the above-described bill identifying device 1 in the metal lending machine main body 50 is removed, and the lending control unit 10 is replaced with a lending and transport control unit 12. . Here, the lending and transfer control unit 12 is a control unit having both a metal lending control function and a bill transfer control function.

[0011]

As described above, in a conventional game facility, when the lending control unit 10 is housed in the metal lending machine main body 50 and a new bill transport device is later installed, the metal lending machine is required. Banknote transfer device 1 from the main body 50 side
4, the lending and transport control unit 12 had to be replaced. For this reason, there has been a problem that the replacement work is necessary and the lending control unit 10 used conventionally is wasted.

As shown in FIG. 9, a communication cable 20 between the lending and transport control unit 12 and the bill transport device 14 and a communication cable 21 between the lending and transport control unit 12 and the bill identifying device 13 are connected. It is necessary to connect to the connector section 22 on the back of the lending and transport control unit 12, but especially since the number of the communication cables 20 is very large, the work of adding the connector section 22 and the communication cable 2
The connection work of 0, 21 was extremely complicated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and has as its object to efficiently carry out installation work when newly installing a banknote transport device in addition to a game media lending machine. An object of the present invention is to provide a game facility that can be performed and that does not cause waste.

[0014]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A gaming machine according to the present invention comprises a plurality of gaming medium rental machines interposed in a plurality of gaming machine rows,
A plurality of bill validators provided adjacent to the game media lending machine, and a bill transport device for receiving the bills identified by the bill validator and transporting the bills to a bill collection box located at the island end. In the gaming machine, a lending control unit for controlling the lending of game media is housed in the gaming medium lending machine body, and a bill transport control unit for controlling bill transport is provided separately from the gaming medium lending machine body. It is characterized by the following.

Further, the bill conveyance control unit is housed in the same housing as the bill discriminating apparatus.

Further, the bill transport control unit is provided adjacent to a bill identifying device.

[0017]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, a gaming machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the configuration of a game facility in which a banknote transfer device is provided in addition to a metal lending machine will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a front view of the gaming facility, and FIG. 2 is a side view showing an internal structure of the gaming facility. The same components as those in the drawings of the conventional example are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof will be omitted.

Adjacent above the metal lending machine body 51,
The bill validator 13 is provided in a housing having a rectangular parallelepiped shape. A bill transport device 14 is connected to the rear. Here, the bill validator 13 and the bill transporter 14
Is attached to a support frame (not shown).

In the metal lending machine body 51, a lending control unit 15 (lending control unit) having a rectangular parallelepiped shape is housed. In addition, an abnormality of the system (for example, an abnormality in bill conveyance such as a jammed bill) is provided in front of the lending control unit 15.
Is mounted on the display panel 11 for displaying.

The lending control unit 15 is a control unit for controlling an operation related to lending of metal. The lending control unit 15 controls the hopper 6 to discharge a predetermined number of metals based on an identification signal from the bill validator 13. The display of the money indicator 2 is controlled.

On the other hand, a housing for accommodating the bill validator 13 houses a bill transport control unit 16 (bill transport controller) for controlling bill transport. here,
A communication cable 25 is provided between the bill transport control unit 16 and the bill transport device 14. Note that the bill transport device 1
A communication cable 25 </ b> A for notifying the abnormality of the bill conveyance state (for example, a jammed bill) from 4 is connected to the lending control unit 15, and the display panel 11 is configured to display an abnormality.

Here, the main control operations performed by the bill transport control unit 16 will be described as follows. When the sensor detects that a bill has been inserted from the bill insertion slot 13A, the bill transport control unit 16 controls the rotation of the motor 14A based on the detection result. Also, when another banknote is conveyed from the upstream of the island, the banknotes should be placed in a standby state before the confluence of the transport path in order to prevent the banknotes from overlapping at the confluence and causing jamming of the banknotes. Control.

As described above, in the gaming machine of the present embodiment, the bill transport control function is separated from the metal lending machine main body 51, and only the lending control unit 15 is stored in the metal lending machine main body 51. The transport control unit 16 is accommodated in the bill validator 13 provided above and adjacent to the metal lending machine main body 51.

FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are diagrams showing the structure of the game facility in the case where the bill transport device is not provided. FIG. 3 is a front view of the gaming facility, and FIG. 4 is a side view showing an internal structure of the gaming facility. The same components as those in FIGS. 1 and 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted. The lending control unit 15 is accommodated in the metal lending machine main body 51.

A description will be given of a case where a bill transfer device is newly installed in a game facility without this bill transfer device. The bill validator 1 in the metal lending machine body 51 is removed. Further, the bill validator 13 is provided adjacent to the upper part of the metal lending machine main body 51, and the bill transport device 14 is connected behind the bill validator 13. Here, since the bill transport control function is separated from the metal lending machine main body 51, the lending control unit 15 can be used without being replaced.

The connector on the back side of the lending control unit 15 has a communication cable 2
It is only necessary to connect the communication cable 25A for notifying the abnormality of the bill transporting state from the bill transporting device 14 with the bill transporting device 14.
These communication cables 21 and 24A are communication cables 2 and
Since the number is smaller than that of 5, the connection work can be easily performed.

Next, a game facility according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a front view of the game facility. In FIG. 5, the pachinko machine 70
, A pachinko ball lending machine main body 80 is installed. A pachinko ball lending control unit 81 is housed in the pachinko ball lending machine main body 80.

At the upper part of the pachinko ball lending machine main body 80, a bill discriminating device 82 having a bill insertion slot 82A is installed, and a back surface thereof is connected to a bill conveying device 83.
That is, the bill transporting device 83 is arranged along the back of the pachinko machine 80 and the pachinko ball lending machine main body 80.

A bill transport control unit 84 is provided below and adjacent to the bill transport device 83. here,
Because the storage space of the bill validator 82 is limited,
The space is provided below the bill transporting device 83.

The pachinko ball lending machine main body 80 is configured to control only the pachinko ball lending, and to control the bill transport by an external bill transport device 83.

Here, a communication cable 90 for notifying the abnormality of the bill transport state from the bill transport device 14 from the bill transport device 83 is connected to the bill transport control unit 84.
Display panel 85 provided on pachinko ball lending machine main body 80
May be displayed.

As described above, in the gaming machine of the present embodiment, the bill transport control function is separated from the pachinko ball lending machine main body 80. Therefore, when the bill transport device 83 is newly installed, the pachinko ball lending control unit is provided. 81 can be used as it is and installation work can be easily performed.

[0034]

According to the gaming machine of the present invention, the lending control section for controlling the lending of the game media is accommodated in the main body of the gaming medium lending machine, and the bill transport control section for controlling the bill transport is connected to the gaming medium lending machine. Since it is provided separately from the main body, it is possible to efficiently perform an installation operation when a new bill transport device is installed.

Another advantage is that the bill transport control unit can be used without replacement before and after the new bill transport device is installed in addition to the game media lending machine.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a game facility according to a first embodiment of the present invention (in the case where a bill transfer device is provided).

FIG. 2 is a side view showing an internal structure of a game facility (in the case where a bill transporting device is provided) according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a game facility (without a bill transfer device) according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing an internal structure of the game facility (in the case where a bill transport device is not provided) according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a game facility according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing an internal structure of a game facility (in the case where a bill transport device is not provided) according to a conventional example.

FIG. 7 is a side view showing the internal structure of a game facility (without a bill transfer device) according to a conventional example.

FIG. 8 is a front view of a game facility (in the case where a bill transporting device is provided) according to a conventional example.

FIG. 9 is a side view showing an internal structure of a game facility (in the case where a bill transport device is provided) according to a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Money Indicator 2A Money Indicator LED 4 Metal Discharge Port 5 Metal Pan 6 Hopper 8 Tank 10 Lending Control Unit 11 Display Panel 12 Lending and Transport Control Unit 13 Banknote Recognition Device 13A Banknote Insertion Portion 14 Banknote Transfer Device 14A Motor 15 Lending Control Unit 16 Bill transport control unit

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of game media lending machines interposed in a plurality of gaming machine rows, a plurality of bill identification devices provided adjacent to the game media lending machines, and a plurality of bill identification devices identified by the bill identification devices. A bill transport device that receives bills and transports them to a bill collection box installed at the island end, and a lending control unit that controls lending of gaming media in the gaming media lending machine body, A gaming facility, wherein a bill transport control unit for controlling bill transport is provided outside the game medium lending machine main body separately. 2. The game facility according to claim 1, wherein the bill transport control section is housed in the same housing as the bill validator. 3. The game facility according to claim 1, wherein the bill transport control unit is provided adjacent to a bill validator.