JP2003047759A - Game medium lending system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide game medium supply system permitting management of game medium lending data based on cash not on a card by a third party. SOLUTION: A game medium supply system has a game medium supply system's unit section outputting game medium count data in accordance with an amount inletted and supplying game mediums of a number corresponding to the game medium count data according with the amount inletted to a game machine, when a coin is inletted or paper money is inserted. Coin or cash-based lending of game mediums is managed by a third party.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game medium lending device for lending game media such as pachinko balls and medals to game machines such as pachinko and pachislot machines, and a set of coins or banknotes per game machine. Relates to a game medium lending device including a game medium lending unit. Further, the present invention relates to a data aggregation device for a game media lending machine, which enables computer management of a third party particularly when aggregating the rental data of the game media.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a game medium lending device is provided in which a game machine such as a pachinko machine is provided with a card reader / writer unit, and a game medium is lent out by a card in which the number of usable game media is recorded. There is. In this game medium lending device, a card insertion slot for inserting a card is provided on the card reader / writer side, and a lending command button for instructing the lending of a game medium is provided on the card reader / writer unit or the gaming machine. There is. Then, when the player inserts the card and presses the lending command button, a preset amount of game medium is lent to the gaming machine.

[0003]

However, in such a system, since the game medium can be lent out only with the card, when the remaining data of the card runs out during the game, a new card is purchased. I had to.
Usually, the card vending machine is installed in a place distant from the gaming machine, so it is very troublesome if the player wants to continue playing the game at a small price.

Also, for the side that manages the game arcade, costs have been incurred for disposable cards, and labor and associated costs have been required for collecting used cards. In the first place, the reason for lending game media after purchasing a card from a vending machine in advance is to manage the game media lending data by a third party, and in view of that purpose, it is not mandatory to use the card. It has not been done.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and instead of the third party management of the game medium lending data by the card, the third party management of the game medium lending data by cash is performed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a game media lending system and a device therefor at a lower cost.

[0006]

In order to solve the above problems, a game medium lending system according to the present invention is a game machine 1.
One set is provided for each table, and when a coin is inserted from the coin insertion slot or a banknote is inserted from the bill insertion slot, the number of game media data corresponding to the amount of the inserted coin or the inserted bill is output. And a game medium lending unit section by cash for lending to the game machine a number of game media corresponding to the game medium number data according to the cash input amount. It is characterized by that.

[0007] Further, the cash game medium number data of the inserted coins or bills output by the game medium number data output means with respect to the input amount is recorded in real time on a counting computer in the store and recorded on the counting computer. The data is characterized by being aggregated and managed by a third party data management aggregation computer via a communication line.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view of a game medium lending device of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, since the game medium is lent out by cash of coins or bills, the game medium renting device 1 is constituted by only the game medium renting unit 3 by cash. When a coin is used, the coin is inserted into the coin slot 3, and when a bill is used, the bill is inserted from the bill insertion port 4 of the bill receiving device 6 for bill reception to lend the game medium.

In this embodiment, the bill receiving device 6 for receiving bills is installed as a unit separate from the game medium lending device 1 of the present invention. The banknotes inserted from the banknote insertion slot 4 of the bill receiving bill charging device 6 are sent to the banknote transport conveyor 7.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the entire game medium lending device. As shown in the figure, the bill is inserted into the bill validator 6 and outputs the data of the number of game media to be rented, and at the same time lends the game media. When using coins, the coins are inserted into the coin selector from the coin insertion slot 3 and the data on the number of game media to be rented is output and the game media are lent out.

According to the above configuration, it is possible to manage the game medium lending data by a third party without using a conventional card, and it is possible to reduce the cost of collecting the card, the card reader / writer, and the card. Further, when a problem occurs in the banknote transport conveyor 7 and the conveyor stops or a banknote jam occurs in the bill burr device 6, conventionally, a game of a player is taken out in order to take out the gaming medium lending machine 1 from the gaming machine row. I had no choice but to interrupt the bill billing device 6 for accepting bills
Since it has been put out of the game, it is not necessary to interrupt the game of the player even while performing the return work.

Here, a series of flow when a game player plays a game with cash will be described with reference to a flow chart shown in FIG. The game medium lending machine 1 is in a standby state until cash is inserted. In step S1, cash is inserted into the coin insertion slot 3 or the bill insertion slot 4. In step S2, the authenticity of the inserted cash is checked and the amount of money is checked. In the case of S3, if YES, the determination is YES and the process proceeds to S4. In the case of NO, the cash inserted from the coin insertion slot 3 or the bill insertion slot 4 is returned. S
In step 4, the amount of money input is displayed. In step S5, the lending button is pressed down. At the step S6, the lending button is pushed down. In step S7, S
The game media are lent out based on 6. After renting out, send the cleared data to the hall computer.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the transaction data of the game medium lending transmitted to the hall computer in real time is connected to a third party's computer via a communication line. In this way, the game medium lending data in cash is transmitted to the computer of the third party in real time and accumulated, so that the data cannot be falsified.

[0014]

As described above, according to the game medium lending device of the present invention, instead of the third party management of the game medium lending data by the card, when a coin is inserted from the coin insertion slot or from the bill insertion slot. If you insert a bill,
The number of game media according to the input amount is lent to the game machine, and the game medium lending data in cash of coins or bills is once aggregated in the hall computer in real time.
It is possible to provide a game medium lending system and a game medium lending device that do not require a card, a card vending machine, a card reader / writer, and a card recovery cost by transmitting the information to a third party computer for third party management. Further, according to an embodiment of the game medium lending device according to the present invention, by providing a bill receiving bill bill device separately from the lending device main body, when a trouble of the bill bill device such as bill jam occurs. There is an advantage that it is not necessary to interrupt the game of the player for the return work.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view (A) and a side sectional view (B) of a game medium lending device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an overall configuration of a game medium lending device according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a series of flowcharts in the case of playing a game by renting a game medium with cash according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of data aggregation of the game medium lending device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Game media rental device 2 Cash media rental unit section 3 coin slot 4 banknote insertion slot 5 gaming machines 6 Building Bali device 7 Banknote conveyor

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Hagiwara Tsunemitsu             7 Suzukawa, Isehara City, Kanagawa Oh             ー In Izumi (72) Inventor Masao Maruyama             7 Suzukawa, Isehara City, Kanagawa Oh             ー In Izumi (72) Inventor Mikio Ito             1-47-1 Nakuno, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi             No. 2 Nagoya International Center Building Daiko             Ku Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Muneaki Kizen             1-47-1 Nakuno, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi             No. 2 Nagoya International Center Building Daiko             Ku Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masateru Kawahara             1-47-1 Nakuno, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi             No. 2 Nagoya International Center Building Daiko             Ku Electric Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 2C088 BA88 BC78 BC79 CA02 CA31                       CA35

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A set of one gaming machine is provided, and when a coin is inserted from a coin insertion slot or a bill is inserted from a bill insertion slot, the amount of the inserted coin or the inserted bill is changed. A game medium number data output means for outputting the corresponding game medium number data, and a game medium lending unit section for cash for lending to the game machine a number of game mediums corresponding to the game medium number data corresponding to the cash input amount. And a game medium lending device. 2. The game medium lending device according to claim 1, wherein a bill receiving device for receiving bills including the bill insertion slot is provided separately. 3. The game medium lending device according to claim 1, wherein a coin discriminating device for receiving coins including the coin slot is provided separately. 4. The game according to claim 1, wherein a bill receiving device including the bill insertion slot for receiving bills and a coin identifying device for receiving coins including the coin slot are provided separately. Media lending device. 5. The cash game medium number data of inserted coins or bills output by the game medium number data output means for the input amount is recorded in real time on a counting computer in the store, and is recorded on the counting computer. The data is aggregated and managed by a third party data management aggregation computer via a communication line.
4. The game medium lending device according to 4.