JP2002143386A - Game medium control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a common use system capable of performing an automatic medal replenishing-collecting system of a ϕ25 medal and a ϕ30 medal by one system when replenishing a game medium to a juxtaposed island of the ϕ25 medal and the ϕ30 medal when replenishing the game medium to a game machine and a game medium dispenser of a slot machine. SOLUTION: In this game medium control system arranged in the juxtaposed island constituted by arranging one game machine row for the ϕ25 medal and one game machine row for the ϕ30 medal back to back, and replenishing and collecting the game medium to and from the game machine and the game medium dispenser, a replenishing and collecting system for the ϕ25 medal and the ϕ30 medal is formed as one game medium control system used in common for both type medals, composed of one medal replenishing conveyor and one medal collecting conveyor.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to game media such as medals and coins used in slot machines and the like, and relates to a game media management system for simultaneously managing one or two types of game media having the same size and shape. Is

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a game machine such as a slot machine and a game medium lending machine need to be replenished with a game medium in order to realize continuous operation for a long time. Therefore, replenishment of game media is indispensable in a game medium management system for managing game media. For gaming machines (mainly slot machines), φ25 medals and φ3
There are two types, one for 0 medals, and some amusement arcades introduce both φ25 medals and φ30 medals.

Conventionally, in most game arcades in which both of the above-mentioned medal types are introduced, two rows of gaming machine rows in which a plurality of gaming tables and medal dispensers are alternately arranged are back to back. The game table row on one side of the "island" composed of
It is an additional island for 25 medals and the other gaming table row for φ30 medals. In this island, a medal automatic replenishment and collection conveyor is separately provided for φ25 medals and φ30 medals. As described above, the conventional system requires two systems each including the φ25 medal supply conveyor / collection conveyor and the φ30 medal supply conveyor / collection conveyor for each island. Has become complicated, and maintenance and management have been troublesome, resulting in an increase in the cost of the amusement arcade.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to address the above problems, and its object is to provide a game machine such as a slot machine and a game medium lending machine with one game medium. A plurality of gaming machines for φ25 medals and a gaming machine row for gaming media lending machines are installed on one side row of the two islands, and a plurality of gaming machines and gaming media for φ30 medals are placed on the other side back to back with the gaming row. When replenishing game media to the attached island where gaming machine rows consisting of rented machines are arranged,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a shared game medium management system that can perform an automatic medal supply and collection system for φ25 medals and φ30 medals by one system.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a game medium sharing system according to the present invention has a diameter of φ25.
A gaming machine row for φ25 medals in which gaming machines for medals and gaming media lending machines for φ25 medals are alternately arranged in parallel, and a gaming machine for φ30 medals and a gaming media lending machine for φ30 medals are alternately arranged in parallel. A single row of gaming machines for φ30 medals is arranged on a side-by-side island that is shared by both types of φ25 medals and φ30 medals, and is provided with a gaming medium for the gaming machine and the gaming medium lending machine. In the game medium management system for replenishment and collection, the replenishment and collection system for φ25 medals and φ30 medals is one system for both types of medals consisting of one medal supply conveyor and one medal collection conveyor. And Further, a jug is provided in place of the medal supply conveyor. Furthermore, a medal sorting device and a medal sorting device for sorting medals inserted into a medal counting machine for counting the number of medals and medals collected by the medal collecting conveyor into both types of φ25 medals and φ30 medals. To receive and store φ25 medals distributed by
It is characterized by comprising a 25 medal upper tank and a φ30 medal upper tank for receiving and storing φ30 medals.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing an example of a game medium management system according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a side view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory view of another embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing a flow of a game medium management system of the present invention, FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing the flow of a system according to another embodiment, FIG. 7 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a sorting device, and FIG. 8 is an island comprising a gaming machine provided with a gaming media management system of the present invention and a gaming media lending machine. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, a game medium management system according to this embodiment includes a plurality of gaming machines (slot machines, etc.) 1 arranged side by side and a plurality of gaming machines installed adjacent to the gaming machines 1. A medal collection conveyor 111 and a medal replenishment conveyor provided on an island 5 (see FIG. 8) formed by arranging two gaming machine rows consisting of medium lending machines (commonly called sand) 2 back to back, Medal replenishment and collection unit 1
00 is provided. However, if at least one gaming machine 1 and gaming media lending machine 2 are provided,
A plurality of objects need not be arranged side by side.

The medal supply / recovery section 100 includes a medal counter 101, a sub tank 102, a relay conveyor 103, a medal lifter 104, a branch conveyor 105, a medal sorting device 106, a φ25 upper tank 107, a φ30 upper tank 108, a main tank 109, a medal. It comprises a washing machine 110, a medal collection conveyor 111 and a medal supply conveyor 112. Medal counting machine 101
When a medal is inserted from a medal insertion slot provided at the upper portion, the number of inserted medals is counted.
Into the slot of the medal counter 101, a medal that the gaming machine 1 such as a slot machine has paid back to the lower plate, that is, a so-called winning medal is mainly inserted by the player. That is, in the medal counting machine 101, the gaming machine 1 such as a slot machine collects medals refunded to the player. A medal counter 110 for counting the number of 25-diameter medals or φ30 medals is installed above a case 302 that houses the medal washer 110 for performing medal washing. The sub-tank 102 for receiving the φ25 medal or the φ30 medal inserted into the medal washing machine 110 and temporarily storing the medal is provided in the case 30.
2 is provided behind the medal washing machine 110.

Further, a relay conveyor 103 is provided along the rear side of the sub-tank 102 to receive and convey medals from the sub-tank 102. At one end of the relay conveyor 103, a medal lifter 104 for receiving the medals from the relay conveyor 103 and transporting the medals upward is provided. And the medal lifter 10
A branch conveyor 105 is provided at an upper portion of the conveyor 4 for receiving a φ25 medal or a φ30 medal from the medal lifter 104 and sending the received medal to a main tank 209 for medal storage or a medal sorting device 105 for sorting the φ25 medal and the φ30 medal. Below this branch conveyor, a φ25 upper tank 107 and a φ30 upper tank 108 are provided in parallel for separately sending and storing the sorted φ25 medals and φ30 medals. Further, a main tank 109 for storing both medals is placed below the upper tanks.

The above φ25 upper tank 107 or φ3
0 In the lower part of the upper tank 108, each gaming machine and each gaming medium renting machine constituting this island are provided with a φ25 medal or a φ3 medal.
A medal supply conveyor 111 for supplying 0 medals is arranged. One end of the medal supply conveyer 111 is placed immediately below the upper tanks, and forms one conveyer that reaches the other end of the island along the line of gaming machines at the center of the island. Here, the φ25 medals and φ30 medals transferred to the branch conveyor 105 are sensed by a sensor (not shown) when the φ25 upper tank or the φ30 upper tank provided at the lower part of the sorting device 106 is full, and the main tank 109 is received. Instructed to be sent to Also, φ25 upper tank 10
When one or both of the 7 and 30 upper tanks 108 are not full, the branch conveyor 105 sends the φ25 medal and the φ30 medal to the sorting device 10.
Sent to 6.

Further, the medals are sorted by the sorting device 106 and sent to the respective upper tanks.
The medal overflows from the full upper tank and is sent to the main tank 109. The MT conveyor 114 for transferring medals in the main tank to a medal washer 110 installed further below is provided in the main tank 10.
9 and a medal washer 110. One end of the MT conveyor 114 has a main tank 109.
, The other end is horizontally arranged so as to be located above the medal washing machine 110, and is provided in the case 301 (see FIG. 1).

As described above, the game medium management system of the present invention, as an example, as shown in FIG. 1, stores each of the above-described units in one unit including a vertical case part 301 and a cubic case 302. The constituent units are arranged and housed. Then, the units in this case are arranged at the end of the island consisting of the gaming machine rows.

Next, a description will be given of a configuration of a distribution device which plays a major role in the game medium management system of the present invention. As shown in the medal distribution device of FIG. 7, the disk member 11 is driven to rotate by a motor (not shown).
1A is provided. When a medal to be sorted (hereinafter referred to as a sorting medal) is dropped, the disc member 11 is displaced outwardly (radially) using centrifugal force when the disc is rotated.
Is formed in a partially interrupted state at the outer peripheral edge of, and a medal conveyance path 10R is formed in such a manner as to be connected to the interrupted portion.

The medal transport path 10R is formed by a pair of first guide members 12A and 12B which are arranged opposite to each other with a predetermined dimension (a dimension that allows the passage of φ25 medals and φ30 medals) therebetween. I have.

A first medal receiving member 15 for supporting medals from below is provided at an entrance portion of the medal transport path 10R (a broken portion of the surrounding member 11A). In addition, on the lower surface side of the first guide member 12B, the second medal receiving member 1 is protruded partially toward the medal conveyance path 10R.
6A, 16B, and the second medal receiving member 1
The third medal receiving member 17 is also provided below 6A and 16B.
Is provided. These first, second, and third medal receiving members 15, 16 (16A, 16B) and 17 are for receiving and supporting distributive medals from below on the medal transport path 10R. This medal receiving member 16A and 1
The size of the gap 19 between 6B is set to be larger than the diameter of the φ25 medal 31 and smaller than the diameter of the φ30 medal 32. As a result, of the medals discharged to the medal transport path R, the φ25 medal 31 falls from the gap 19 between the medal receiving members 16A and 16B, and
25 upper tank 107, φ30 medal 3
2 is transferred straight and put into the φ30 upper tank 108.

On the other hand, a chute guide 18 is connected to one end of the first guide member 12A. The chute guide 18 guides the distributed medals moving by the centrifugal force caused by the rotation of the disc member 1 to the entrance of the medal conveyance path 10R, and is arranged along the tangential direction of the disc member 11. One end (upper end in the figure) of the first guide member 12B is arranged so as to protrude inward from the disk member 11 in order to reliably take in the medals distributed by the shoot guide 18 into the medal transport path 10R. ing.

Here, the operation of the sorting device will be described with reference to FIG. First, when the distributing medals are transferred to the disk member 11, the distributing medals are dispersed and moved outward by the centrifugal force accompanying the rotation of the disk member 11, and the broken parts of the enclosure member 11A are interrupted. The guide is guided by the shoot guide 18 to the entrance of the medal transport path 10R. Then, in the medal transport path 10R, each distributed medal is transferred in one direction by centrifugal force due to the rotation of the disk member 11.

If the distributed medal transferred to the entrance of the first guide member 12A, 12B is a φ30 medal 32, the medal advances straight, passes through the guide member 12, and has a φ30 upper tank 108 located beyond it. It is thrown into.

On the other hand, when the distributed medal is the φ25 medal 31, the medal receiving members 16A, 16A
It falls by its own weight in the gap 19 between B. At this time, the φ25 medals 31 dropped from the medal conveyance path 10R are transferred to the φ25 medal upper tank 107.

As described above, in the medal sorting apparatus according to the present embodiment, in the case of the distributed medal φ25 medals 31 conveyed along the medal conveying path 10R, the φ2 medal 31 is used.
The five medals 31 have a function of being dropped and transferred to the φ25 medal upper tank 107, and the distributed medals can be continuously distributed to the φ25 medals 31 and the φ30 medals 32.

Next, as a second embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 3, 4 and 6, medals are supplied to each of the gaming machines and the game medium lending machines (commonly called slots) in the first embodiment. However, in the second embodiment, the medal is transferred to the mugs 212 and 213 for receiving the game machine medium instead. In the first and second embodiments, when both the φ25 upper tank 107 and the φ30 upper tank 108 are full or when there is a shortage of medals on another island, medals are transferred from the branch conveyor 105 or 205 to another island. It can be transported.

[0022]

As described above, according to the game medium management system according to the present invention, the φ25 medal and the φ30 medal
An automatic replenishment and recovery system for medals on an adjacent island where medals are used together on the same island can be shared. That is, by simply incorporating one set of each of the constituent units required for the game medium supply system such as a medal supply conveyor and a collection conveyor, each of the game machines of φ25 medals and φ30 medals, each game medium lending machine and each game medium Supply and recovery to the main tank, sub-tank and upper tank for storing the medium can be performed. As a result, the game media supply system can have a simple configuration, so that the space of the game hall can be effectively used, and the configuration is simplified, so that the maintenance and management of the system can be easily performed, and the occurrence of failures and the like can be reduced by half. Therefore, there is an effect that the operation rate of the entire game hall can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing an example of a game medium management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic explanatory view of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of a game medium management system of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of a system according to another embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a schematic explanatory view of a sorting device.

FIG. 8 is a configuration diagram of an island including a game machine provided with a game medium management system of the present invention and a game medium lending machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Gaming machine (slot machine etc.) 2 Game media lending machine (commonly called sand) 5 Island 100 Medal replenishment and recovery unit 101 Medal counter 102 Sub tank 103 Relay conveyor 104 Medal lifter 105 Branch conveyor 106 Medal sorting device 107 φ25 upper tank 108 # 30 Upper tank 109 Main tank 110 Medal washer 111 Medal collection conveyor 112 Medal replenishment conveyor 200 Medal replenishment and collection unit 201 Medal counter 202 Sub tank 203 Relay conveyor 204 Medal lifter 205 Branch conveyor 206 Medal sorting device 207 # 25 Upper tank 208 # 30 Upper tank 209 Main tank 210 Medal washer 211 Medal collection conveyor 212 Mug 213 Mug

Claims (3)

[Claims] A φ25 medal gaming machine and a φ25 medal gaming medium lending machine are alternately arranged in parallel to form a φ25 medal.
A row of gaming machines for medals, a gaming machine for φ30 medals and φ30
A gaming media lending machine for medals is alternately arranged in parallel, and one row of φ30 medals for gaming machines is arranged in a back-to-back manner. In the game medium management system for replenishing and collecting game media to the machine and the game media lending machine, a replenishment and collection system for φ25 medals and φ30 medals is provided by one medal replenishment conveyor and one
A game medium management system comprising a single system for both types of medals comprising one medal collection conveyor. 2. A game medium management system according to claim 1, wherein a jug is provided instead of said medal supply conveyor. 3. A medal distribution device for distributing medals inserted into a medal counting machine for counting the number of medals and medals collected by the medal collection conveyor into both φ25 medals and φ30 medals. 3. The game medium management system according to claim 1, further comprising: a φ25 medal upper tank that receives and stores φ25 medals and a φ30 medal upper tank that receives and stores φ30 medals, which are distributed by the medal distribution device.