JP2003220279A - Door opening/closing detector for game hall equipment and game medium lending machine provided with the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a door opening/closing detector for game hall equipment capable of preventing damages of a detector at the time of opening a door and inspecting internal equipment or the like and a game medium lending machine provided with it. <P>SOLUTION: In the game hall equipment such as a medal lending machine and a slot machine, the door 11 is attached to the opening part 16 of a case body housing the internal equipment so as to be opened and closed around a turning shaft 31. The door opening/closing detector 40 for the game hall equipment is provided with a movable piece 42 provided movably along the inner surface of the case body, whose one end is arranged facing the opening part of the case body, the detector 44 arranged on the other end side of the movable piece, and a means composed of an energizing member 43 or the like for moving the movable piece corresponding to the opening/closing of the door 11. When the door is closed, the movable piece is moved toward the detector and the detector detects when the door is closed. When the door is opened, the movable piece is moved toward the opening part of the case body and the detector detects when the door is opened. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game hall facility installed in a game hall, and more particularly to a door opening / closing detecting device for a game hall facility such as a game medium lending machine or a slot machine having an opening / closing door.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a game hall such as a pachinko hall, various facilities having an opening / closing door are installed. For example, a lending machine for gaming media (medal or pachinko ball) installed between two adjacent gaming machines on Hall Island is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-202147 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-
As disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 85437 and the like, a currency identifying machine with a money storing unit is arranged as an internal device in an upper part of a housing, and an upper door is attached to an opening of a front upper part of the housing so that the upper door can be opened and closed. By opening the door, the coins can be easily collected and inspected from the coin storage part of the coin validator. Further, in a slot machine as a gaming machine, a front door having a display unit such as a reel display window and an operation unit is openably and closably attached to a front opening of a housing that houses a reel device, a control board, and the like.

In amusement hall facilities such as a game medium lending machine and a slot machine having such an opening / closing door,
In order to strictly control the opening and closing of the door, for example, in the case of a slot machine, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-37948, a door is provided near the opening of the housing or in the peripheral portion of the door, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-37948. It is known that a detector including a push-type sensor or an optical sensor for detecting opening / closing is provided.

[0004]

However, in the case where the detector is provided in the vicinity of the opening of the housing as described above, a tool or the like is not attached to the detector when the door is opened and the internal equipment is installed or inspected. It may be damaged by hitting. In particular, in the case of a game media lending machine, the width of the opening of the housing is small, and moreover, the upper door is opened and the money is frequently collected from the money storing portion of the money discriminating machine. Moreover,
In the state where the currency identification machine is housed, the gap between the top surface and the side surface of the housing is small, and it is difficult to secure a space for arranging the detector.

Further, in the case where the detector is provided on the peripheral portion of the door, when a communication cable for connecting the detector and the control board arranged in the housing is used, the cable length becomes long and the wiring is There are problems such as becoming troublesome.

The present invention has been made in view of the above point, and an object thereof is to make it possible to detect opening / closing of a door by a detector provided at an appropriate position apart from the opening of the housing. According to the present invention, there is provided a door opening / closing detection device for a game arcade facility that can prevent damage to the detector when the door is opened and the internal equipment is inspected, and a game media lending machine including the same.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 is a game in which a door is attached to an opening of a housing for accommodating internal equipment so as to be openable and closable around a rotation axis. As a door opening / closing detection device for a field facility, a movable piece that is movably provided along the inner surface of the housing and has one end facing the opening of the housing and the other end of the movable piece. And a means for moving the movable piece in response to opening and closing of the door.When the door is closed, the movable piece moves toward the detector and the detector detects when the door is closed, while the door is opened. Sometimes, the movable piece is moved toward the opening of the housing so that the detector detects when the door is open.

In this configuration, since the detector is arranged at an appropriate position away from the opening of the housing, tools and the like can be attached to the detector when the door is opened and the internal equipment is installed or inspected. It is possible to prevent the detector from being damaged by being hit. Also, when using a communication cable that connects this detector to the control board arranged in the housing, its length is shorter than when the detector is installed on the door side, and its wiring is also easy. Become.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the door opening / closing detection device for amusement arcade equipment according to the first aspect, a preferable form of means for moving the movable piece in response to opening / closing of the door is provided. That is, the means comprises a biasing member that constantly biases the movable piece toward the opening of the housing. When the door is closed, the movable piece contacts the door and resists the biasing force of the biasing member. The movable piece is configured to move toward the opening, and when the door is opened, the movable piece moves toward the opening of the housing due to the urging force of the urging member. With this configuration, the movable piece can be reliably moved according to the opening and closing of the door by the biasing member such as the spring and the elastic body, and the configuration can be simplified.

Here, the proper position where the detector is separated from the opening of the housing is usually a position near the pivot axis of the door, but in order to detect the opening degree of the door early, the door is opened. It is preferable to detect the movement on the tip side of the. Therefore, in the invention according to claim 3, in the door opening / closing detection device of the game hall facility according to claim 1 or 2, the detector is arranged at a position near the pivot axis of the door, and the movable piece is The door is arranged so as to substantially coincide with the tangential direction of the concentric circle of the rotating shaft when viewed in the rotating shaft direction of the door and to obliquely intersect the opening of the housing.

In this structure, the detector is arranged at a position close to the pivot axis of the door, which is one of the appropriate positions apart from the opening of the housing, and the detector is prevented from being damaged while the movable piece is moved. When arranging so as to be movable along the inner surface of the housing and having one end facing the opening of the housing, the housing substantially coincides with the tangential direction of the concentric circle of the rotating shaft when viewed in the rotating shaft direction of the door. By arranging the movable piece so that it crosses the opening diagonally, one end of the movable piece on the opening side can be brought closer to the tip side of the door. By moving according to the opening degree, the detector can detect when the door is open.

The invention according to claim 4 shows a preferred application example of the door opening / closing detection device for amusement arcade equipment according to any one of claims 1 to 3. That is, a currency discriminator with a money storage unit is housed as an internal device in the upper part of the housing, and a door is provided so as to be openable and closable with the lower end as a rotation axis side in order to take out the currency discriminator with a money storage unit from the housing. It is applied to existing game media lending machines. In this game media lending machine as an application example, the width of the opening of the housing is relatively small, the upper door is opened, and the currency discriminator with a money storage unit is taken out from the housing and the money is collected from the money storage unit. Since it is frequently performed, it is effective to prevent damage to the detector by arranging the detector at an appropriate position such as a position near the pivot axis of the door away from the opening of the housing. .

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 show a medal lending machine A as a game arcade facility. The medal lending machine A is installed beside a slot island of a game arcade and between two adjacent slot machines.

The medal lending machine A has a housing 1 made of a metal plate such as a steel plate. Inside the housing 1, as an internal device, a bill validator 2 with a bill storage portion, a main control board 3, Relay board 4, card processor 5 and medal hopper 6
Etc. are stored. The relay board 4 performs communication between the main control board 3 and other internal equipment, and also between the internal equipment such as the main control board 3 and an external equipment (not shown), for example, a data aggregation management device in a game arcade. Communication. In addition, the front side of the housing 1 is an upper door 11, a central door 12,
It is composed of a lower door 13 and a lower panel 14.

The upper door 11 is attached to an opening 16 in the front upper part of the housing 1 as a take-out port of the bill validator 2 so as to be openable and closable with the lower end as the rotation axis side. A locking device 17 and a bill slot 18 are provided. When a bill is inserted into the bill insertion slot 18, the bill validator 2 discriminates whether the bill is valid or not, and if the bill is improper, the bill is returned from the bill slot 18 while the appropriate bill is the bill of the bill validator 2. It is designed to be stored in the storage section.

The central door 12 is mounted so as to be openable and closable with the lower end as the rotation axis side, like the upper door 11, for inspection of the main control board 3, the card processing machine 5 and the like. The door 12 has a locking device 21 and various display units 2
2a, 22b, 22c, 22d and a card ejection / insertion slot 23 are provided. In addition to locking the central door 12, the locking device 21 turns the locking key to the left in cooperation with detectors 48 and 49, which will be described later, to bring the medal lending machine A into an independent management state (data collection management of deposit data, etc.). It has a function of switching to a state in which it does not communicate with the device) and a function of releasing an error by turning the lock key to the right. The card ejection / insertion slot 23 communicates with the card processor 5, and when the bill validator 2 determines that the inserted bill is appropriate, the card processor 5 is built in under the control of the main control board 3. After storing certain items in the card to be issued, the card is issued from the card ejection / insertion slot 23, and if a card issued by your own machine or another card issuing machine is inserted into this card ejection / insertion slot 23, a medal will be awarded. The hopper 6 is instructed to eject medals.

The lower door 13 has its lower end opened and closed on the upper end of the lower panel 14 via a hinge 26.
By opening the lower door 13, medals can be supplied into the hopper portion 6a of the medal hopper 6. Also,
A medal tray 27 is attached to the lower portion of the lower panel 14, and medals are discharged from the medal hopper 6 to the tray 27.

The door opening / closing detection device 40 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes three doors 11 to 13 of the medal lending machine A.
Of the above, it is applied to the upper door 11 that requires the strictest opening / closing control, and prior to explaining the configuration of the door opening / closing detection device 40, the configuration of the upper door 11 will be described with reference to FIG.
And FIG. 4 will be described.

That is, the left and right end portions of the upper door 11 are flange portions 11a, 11a formed by bending inwardly.
Each of the flange portions 11a has only a side surface 11b along the inner side surface of the casing 1 at the upper end side and the lower end side, and at the middle portion, the side surfaces 11b are bent at right angles from the side surface 11b. When the upper door 11 is closed, the contact surface 11c comes into contact with the bill validator 2 so that the bill validator 2 can be pushed deeper into the housing 1.

At the lower end of the upper door 11, the upper door 1
1 and the central door 12 are both closed, an extending portion 11d is formed inside the upper end of the central door 12 so as to vertically overlap with the upper portion, and the extending portion 11d is formed.
A shaft portion 31 protruding inward from the side surface 11b of each flange portion 11a is provided at a position above d. Corresponding to the shaft portion 31, a T-shaped hinge member 32 is attached to the inner surface of the housing 1 by bolting. The hinge member 32 is formed in a stepped shape such that the end 32a on the mounting side and the end 32b on the opposite side sandwich the side surface 11b of the flange portion 11a of the upper door 11 between the inner side surface of the housing 1. The end portion 32b is provided with a fitting hole 33 into which the shaft portion 31 is rotatably fitted. Thus, the upper door 11 is supported by the hinge member 32 so as to be openable and closable with the shaft portion 31 as a rotation shaft, and the closed-time extending portion 11d.
Comes into contact with the hinge member 32 to regulate the closed position.

On the other hand, the door opening / closing detection device 40 is provided in the housing 1
A movable piece 42 movably held on the inner surface on the left side of the housing via a holding plate 41 and one end of which is arranged in the opening 16 of the housing 1 as desired;
6 Coil spring 43 as a biasing member that constantly biases toward 6
And a detector 44 composed of an optical sensor arranged on the other end side of the movable piece 42.

The detector 44 is the shaft portion 31 of the upper door 11.
Is disposed below the mounting surface 46a of the support member 46 that slidably supports the lower surface of the bill validator 2 in the front-rear direction at a position substantially the same as and behind the locking device 21 of the central door 12. In addition, the light projecting / receiving sections 44a and 44b are arranged on the horizontal mounting surface 47a of the mounting bracket 47, which is fixed to the support member 46 by screwing, in the upward and leftward direction (the width direction of the lending machine A). It is installed in.
The mounting bracket 47 has a vertical mounting surface 47b facing forward in addition to the horizontal mounting surface 47a, and the vertical mounting surface 47 corresponds to the locking device 21 and includes a light sensor similar to the detector 44, and switches the management state. Detector 48 and error canceling detector 49 are the light emitting / receiving units 48a, 48b, 49.
It is attached in a state where a and 49b are arranged in the front and left-right directions.

As shown in FIG. 3, the movable piece 42 substantially coincides with the tangential direction of the concentric circle of the rotating shaft when viewed in the rotating shaft direction of the upper door 11, and obliquely intersects the opening 16 of the housing 1. It is arranged to. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the movable piece 42 is formed in a channel shape to reduce the contact surface with the inner surface of the housing 1, and the end surface on the opening 16 side is at the closed position. Left side flange part 11 of an upper door 11
While it is vertically cut out so as to come into surface contact with the contact surface 11c of a, the detecting portion 42a that can be inserted between the light emitting / receiving portions 44a and 44b of the detector 44 is provided at the end portion on the detector 44 side. Is formed by bending it in steps.

The holding plate 41 is formed in a channel shape having flange portions 41a and 41b at both ends so as to hold the movable piece 42 between the movable piece 42 and the inner side surface of the housing 1, and the flange portions 41a and 41b. It is fixed to the inner surface of the housing 1 by bolting. The holding plate 41 is formed with a notch 51 for disposing the coil spring 43. One end of the coil spring 43 is hooked on the holding plate 41 and the other end is hooked on the movable piece 42. The pulling reaction force constantly urges the movable piece 42 toward the opening 16 of the housing 1. Further, the movable piece 42 is integrally formed with a stopper portion 52 that restricts the movement toward the opening 16 by contact with the holding plate 41.

Next, to explain the operation of the door opening / closing detection device 40, when the upper door 11 is closed, one end of the movable piece 42 is a left flange portion of the upper door 11 as shown by a solid line in FIG. The coil spring 43 is brought into contact with the contact surface 11c of the coil 11a.
When the upper door 11 is closed, the detector 44 moves toward the detector 44 against the urging force of the detector, and the detector 42a is located between the light emitting / receiving portions 44a and 44b of the detector 44. To do.

On the other hand, when the upper door 11 is opened, the movable piece 42 moves toward the opening 16 of the housing 1 by the urging force of the coil spring 43, as shown by a phantom line in FIG. Is separated from the detector 44, the detector 44
Detects when the upper door 11 is open. The opening / closing of the upper door 11 detected by the detector 44 is input as an input signal to the main control board 3 in the housing 1 and stored as opening / closing information together with the date and time, and the opening / closing information is processed by the bill validator 2. The received deposit data and the like are transferred through the relay board 4 to the data aggregation management device of the game hall as an external device.

In the door opening / closing detecting device 40, since the detector 44 is arranged at a position away from the opening 16 of the housing 1, the upper door 11 is opened and the bill validator 2 is inspected. It is possible to prevent the detector 44 from being damaged by a tool or the like hitting the detector 44 when the bill is collected from the bill storage unit.
Particularly, in the case of the present embodiment, the detector 44 is the bill validator 2
The detector 33 is damaged because it is disposed below the mounting surface 46a of the support member 46 for mounting and supporting the lower surface of the central door 12 behind the locking device 21 of the central door 12 with a relatively large space. It is possible to increase the degree of freedom in setting the arrangement of the detector 44 while preventing it. Moreover, since the detector 44 is attached to the one mounting bracket 47 together with the control state switching detector 48 and the error canceling detector 49, it contributes to simplification of assembly work and reduction of the number of parts. be able to.

The communication cable (not shown) for connecting the detector 44 and the main control board 3 in the housing 1 has a length longer than that in the case where the detector 44 is provided on the upper door 11 side. In addition to being shortened, there is an effect that the wiring can be facilitated.

Further, the movable piece 42 is arranged so as to be substantially coincident with the tangential direction of the concentric circle of the rotating shaft when viewed in the rotating shaft direction of the upper door 11, and intersects the opening 16 of the housing 1 at an angle. Therefore, although the detector 44 is arranged below the rotation axis of the upper door 11, one end of the movable piece 42 on the opening 16 side can be brought close to the upper end side of the upper door 11. Therefore, even when the opening degree of the upper door 11 is relatively small, such as about 5 °, the movable piece 42 moves according to the opening degree of the upper door 11, and the detector 44 can detect the opening / closing of the upper door 11. ,
The detection accuracy can be improved.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but includes various other embodiments. For example, in the door opening / closing detection device 40 of the above embodiment, the opening / closing of the upper door 11 is detected by the detector 44 via only the movable piece 42, but the door opening / closing detection device of the present invention detects the movable piece 42 and the movable piece 42. A cam member or the like is interposed between the container 44 and
The opening / closing of the upper door 11 may be configured to be detected by the detector 44 via the movable piece 42 and the cam member, and the opening / closing of the upper door 11 may be detected between the opening of the housing and the detector arranged at a position apart from the opening. This is effective when the movable pieces cannot be arranged linearly.

In the above embodiment, the coil spring 43 is used as the urging member that constantly urges the movable piece 42 toward the opening 16 of the housing 1, and the optical sensor is used as the detector 44. In the invention, an elastic body such as rubber may be used instead of the coil spring, and another detector such as a push type sensor may be used instead of the optical sensor.

Further, in the door opening / closing detection device of the present invention, instead of using the biasing member such as the coil spring 43 or the elastic body for constantly biasing the movable piece 42 toward the opening 16 of the housing 1, the door 11 is opened. And the movable piece 42 is connected via a link mechanism, and when the door 11 is closed, the movable piece 42 moves toward the detector 44 and the detector 44 detects when the door 11 is closed.
The movable piece 42 may move toward the opening 16 of the housing 1 when the door 11 is opened, and the detector 4 may detect when the door 11 is opened. In this case, a guide member may be provided so that each member of the link mechanism makes a constant motion.

Further, the door opening / closing detecting device of the present invention uses the movable piece 4 as a security measure in order to prevent the door 11 from being illegally opened / closed by utilizing the detection dead zone of the movable piece 42.
Even if a cover member for preventing the insertion of unauthorized equipment into the end on the opening side of 2 is provided up and down, or in combination with a management device that detects and manages the locking / unlocking of the locking device 17 by a detector. Good.

In addition, the door opening / closing detection device of the present invention is not limited to the case of being applied to the upper door 11 of the medal lending machine A as in the above embodiment, but may be applied to other doors such as the central door 12 of the medal lending machine A. It can be applied not only to the medal lending machine, but also to amusement hall equipment such as a slot machine in which a door is openably and closably attached to an opening of a housing, such as a slot machine.

[0035]

As described above, according to the door opening / closing detection device for the amusement arcade equipment of the present invention, the opening / closing of the door via the movable piece is performed by the detector provided at an appropriate position away from the opening of the housing. Therefore, it is possible to prevent damage to the detector when the door is opened and the internal equipment is inspected.

In particular, in the invention according to claim 2, the means for moving the movable piece in response to opening and closing of the door is constituted by a biasing member such as a spring or an elastic body, so that the reliability of the operation can be improved. In addition to being able to do so, there is an effect that the structure can be simplified.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the detector is arranged near the pivot axis of the door to prevent damage to the detector and the like. Since it can be moved to the side, even when the door opening is relatively small, the movable piece moves according to the door opening, and the detector can detect when the door is open, improving detection accuracy. It also has the effect that

Further, the invention according to claim 4 is applied to a game medium lending machine, which is a game hall facility, in which the width of the opening of the housing is relatively small and the door is opened to perform a lot of work such as collecting money. Therefore, it is very effective in preventing damage to the detector.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a medal lending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional side view showing an internal configuration of the medal lending machine.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG.

4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line XX and YY in FIG. 3, where the left half of the center line L is the XX line cross section and the right half is the YY line cross section.

5 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line ZZ in FIG.

6A is a front view of the movable piece, FIG. 6B is a left side view of the same, and FIG. 6C is a right side view of the same.

[Explanation of symbols] A medal rental machine (amusement hall equipment) 1 case 2 bill validator (internal equipment) 16 openings 31 Shaft (rotating shaft) 40 Door open / close detection device 42 movable pieces 43 Coil spring (biasing member) 44 detector

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A game arcade facility in which a door is attached to an opening of a casing for housing internal equipment so as to be openable and closable about a rotation axis, and one end of which is provided movably along an inner surface of the casing. A movable piece arranged facing the opening of the housing, a detector arranged on the other end side of the movable piece, and means for moving the movable piece in response to opening and closing of the door are provided. Sometimes the movable piece moves closer to the detector and the detector detects when the door is closed, while when the door is opened the movable piece moves closer to the opening of the housing and the detector detects when the door is opened. A door opening / closing detection device for amusement arcade facility characterized by being configured. 2. The means comprises a biasing member for constantly biasing the movable piece toward the opening of the housing, and when the door is closed, the movable piece contacts the door to resist the biasing force of the biasing member. 2. The door opening / closing detecting device for amusement arcade equipment according to claim 1, wherein the movable piece moves toward the detector, and when the door is opened, the movable piece moves toward the opening of the housing by the urging force of the urging member. 3. The detector is arranged at a position closer to a rotation axis of the door, and the movable piece is substantially aligned with a tangential direction of a concentric circle of the rotation axis when viewed in the rotation axis direction of the door. The arrangement according to claim 1 or 2, which is arranged so as to obliquely intersect the opening of the housing.
Door opening / closing detection device for the amusement park facility described. 4. A currency discriminator with a money storage unit is housed in the upper part of the housing as an internal device, and a door is opened and closed with the lower end as a rotation axis side in order to take out the currency discriminator with the money storage unit from the housing. It is provided so that it is possible.
A game medium lending machine comprising the door opening / closing detection device of the game arcade equipment according to any one of 1.