JP2003320137A - Controller of game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To overcome the problem that the cost of a storage body is increased because a main control board and a plurality of auxiliary control boards, serving as a fraud object, each needs the storage body which is equipped with a sealing means for preventing fraud and an electronic component cooling means for cooling an electronic component, due to the separate provision of a main control unit and a plurality of auxiliary control units in a conventional controller of a game machine. <P>SOLUTION: This controller of the game machine is constituted by making one storage body 20 house the main control board 10A which is equipped with a main control means for generally controlling a game of the game machine and the auxiliary control boards 10 which are equipped with control means for controlling a game components, serving as a control object, in accordance with a control signal from the main control means. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a control device for a gaming machine such as a pachinko machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 6, on the back side of a game board 1 of a gaming machine such as a pachinko machine, for example, a main controller 2 for generally controlling the game of the gaming machine, and a gaming machine Symbol display control device for controlling symbol display devices such as special symbol display devices and ordinary symbol display devices 3, indicator light control device for controlling indicator lights such as decorative lamps of gaming machines 4, sound output of sound effects of gaming machines, etc. A sound control device 5, a ball control device, a ball launch device of a gaming machine, a ball launch / ball payout control device 6, and other sub-control devices, and a power supply device 7 are arranged. The game board 1 called a gauge board is attached to a game board storage space 80A formed between an open / close frame 8 as a game machine frame and a back mechanism plate 80 called a rear plate provided on the back side of the open / close frame 8. To be Upper part mounting body 11 on the back surface 1B of the game board 1
The main controller 2, the symbol display controller 3, the indicator light controller 4, and the sound controller 5 are attached to the back side of the game board 1 via the upper part mounting body 11. Further, the lower part mounting body 1 is provided below the back mechanism plate 80.
2 is attached, and for example, a ball launch / ball payout control device 6 and a power supply device 7 are attached via the lower part attachment body 12. The upper component mounting body 11 and the lower component mounting body 12 are called a set plate. The upper component mounting body 11 and the lower component mounting body 12 are used to play the game board 1 via a winning device or the like provided on the game board 1. The sphere guided to the back side of the sphere is guided to a sphere collection gutter (not shown). In addition, 13 is a tank, 14 is a ball payout mechanism, 15 is a ball payout mechanism 14 from the tank 13
Ball guide gutter to lead to, 16 is a rear cover, which covers the back side of the main control unit 2, the pattern display control unit 3, the indicator light control unit 4, the sound control unit 5 attached to the back side of the game board 1. Is. The main controller 2 and each sub controller 3 described above
Among the above, especially, the main controller 2, the symbol display controller 3,
Since the ball launch / ball payout control device 6 and the like are targets of fraudulent acts, a computer (CPU) and RO as control means
Countermeasures are taken by accommodating and fixing a control board on which electronic components such as storage means such as M and RAM are mounted and fixed in a lid box-shaped accommodating body 17. That is, a container 17 for accommodating the main control board and a container 1 for accommodating the symbol display control board, the ball firing / ball payout control board, etc.
7 is provided with sealing means for preventing fraud, and is further provided with electronic component cooling means such as ventilation holes for cooling electronic components. Then, a plurality of housings 17 that respectively house the control boards are attached to the upper component mounting body 11 and the lower component mounting body 12 with screws or the like.

[0003]

Since the conventional control device for the gaming machine is provided with the main control device and the plurality of sub control devices separately, each of the main control board and the plurality of sub control boards which are illegal targets are provided. However, there is a problem in that a container provided with a sealing unit for preventing fraud and an electronic component cooling unit for cooling the electronic component is required, and the cost of the container increases.

[0004]

A control device for a gaming machine according to the present invention provides a main control board on which a main control means for generally controlling a game of the gaming machine is mounted, and a control signal from the main control means. Since a plurality of sub-control boards having control means for controlling the game parts to be controlled based thereon are housed in a single housing, a housing in which the fraud prevention means and the electronic component cooling means are formed is provided. It suffices to prepare one, and it is possible to reduce the cost required for the control device housing. Further, if the storage body is attached to the opening / closing frame to which the game board is attached, the weight of the game board can be reduced. Therefore, the mounting work of the game board is facilitated, and the opening / closing frame to which the game board is mounted can be prevented from being lowered easily. Further, if only the main board and the plurality of sub-control boards that are likely to be fraudulent are stored in the storage body, it also serves as a countermeasure against fraud. Further, a connection board for electrically connecting the control boards housed in the housing is provided in the housing, and each control board is electrically connected to the connection board through the connector provided in the connection board. Then, the mounting work and the replacement work of each control board can be easily performed. Further, if the relay board is attached to the component mounting body provided on the back side of the game board, and each control board and each controlled object are electrically connected via the connector provided on the relay board, It is possible to prevent a problem such as disconnection of the signal line at the time of mounting.

[0005]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of a control device for a gaming machine according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an opening / closing frame in which a controller for a gaming machine, which is composed of a housing, a main control board and a plurality of sub-control boards housed in the housing, is attached to a lower back side, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a container for accommodating a substrate and a plurality of sub control substrates together and a control substrate accommodated in the container; FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a control-board connecting substrate provided inside the container; FIG. 4 is a view showing the back side of the game board, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing control objects and the like controlled by each control board. Incidentally, the same or corresponding parts as those of the conventional example of FIG. In the embodiment, a main control board 10A equipped with a main control computer (main control means) for generally controlling the game of a gaming machine, and a game component to be controlled based on a control signal from the main control computer are provided. A plurality of sub-control boards 10 equipped with a sub-control computer (sub-control means) for controlling and a single container 20 that is housed together are attached to the lower rear side of the opening / closing frame 8 to form a control device for the gaming machine.
For example, each of the main control board 10A, a symbol display control board, an indicator light control board, a sound control board, a ball firing / ball payout control board, a movable object control board for controlling a driving means such as a solenoid in a movable winning device, etc. The sub-control board 10 and the storage body 20
Is housed in a game machine control device. The open / close frame 8 is fixed to the fixed frame 9 by a hinge including upper and lower fixed frame side hinges 91 and 92 and upper and lower fixed frame side hinges 81 and 82.
It is attached so that it can be opened. The storage body 20 has an opening 21 on the side opposite to the side attached to the open / close frame 8 with screws 18 or the like (see FIG. 3), and the opening 21 is opened by a lid 22 that can be opened by a hinge (not shown). It consists of a lid box that can be closed. Further, sealing portions 23a and 23b are provided on both the opening 21 side and the lid 22 side, and the sealing portions 23a and 23b are caulked to each other to provide a fraud prevention countermeasure structure. When 23b is released, a trace remains and it can be known that the fraudulent operation was performed. That is, the sealing portions 23a and 23b are provided as fraud prevention means for leaving a trace when fraud is performed. In addition, in the upper plate 24 and the lower plate 25 of the storage body 20, air is circulated between the control boards 10A and 10 which are stored and fixed in the storage body 20 via a slide guide fixing portion to be described later, so that each control board 10A. , 10 are provided with ventilation holes 26 (electronic component cooling means) for cooling electronic components such as a computer (CPU) as control means and storage means such as ROM and RAM (lower plate in the figure). The ventilation hole 26 formed in 25 is omitted).

As described above, since the main control board 10A and the plurality of sub-control boards 10 are housed together in one housing 20, the fraud prevention means and the electronic part cooling means are formed. Since only one body 20 needs to be prepared, it is possible to reduce the cost of the control device housing.
Further, since the storage body 20 is attached to the open / close frame 8, the weight of the game board 1 can be reduced as compared with the conventional case, and the work of attaching the game board 1 to the open / close frame 8 becomes easy. Further, when the game board 1 having a plurality of control devices attached to the back side is attached to the opening / closing frame 8 as in the conventional case, the weight of the opening / closing frame 8 to which the game board 1 is attached becomes heavy, so that the opening / closing frame 8 is When the opening / closing frame 8 is opened / closed, the lower end side of the opening / closing frame 8 may collide with the curtain plate portion 93 of the fixed frame 9 so that the opening / closing frame 8 cannot be smoothly opened / closed. On the other hand, like the embodiment, when a plurality of control devices are not attached to the back side and the game board 1 which is lighter than the conventional one is attached to the opening / closing frame 8, the weight of the opening / closing frame 8 to which the game board 1 is attached is attached. Since it is lighter than the conventional one, the opening / closing frame 8 is less likely to fall downward, and the opening / closing operation of the opening / closing frame 8 can be smoothly performed. Also,
The opening / closing frame 8 is formed with an opening 83 for exposing the back side of the game board 1 on the upper side, and the upper end side between the upper end of the opening 83 and the upper end of the opening / closing frame 8 has a frame portion. Although the mechanical strength is low and the mechanical strength is low, the lower side of the opening / closing frame 8 has a large number of frame portions, and therefore has high mechanical strength. Therefore, when the storage body 20 is attached to the lower portion of the back side of the opening / closing frame 8 as in the embodiment, the weight of the control device in which the plurality of control boards 10A and 10 are stored in the storage body 20 is reduced in mechanical strength. Since it can be supported by the lower side of the large opening / closing frame 8, it is possible to realize a configuration in which the opening / closing frame 8 is unlikely to fall downward. Also, game board 1
Since it is possible to eliminate a plurality of control devices mounted on the back side of the gaming machine via the upper part mounting body 11, when the gaming machine is mounted on the island, there is more space on the back side of the gaming machine, and air between the back sides of the gaming machine is increased. Therefore, the cooling effect on each of the control boards 10A, 10 and the power supply device housed in the housing 20 can be enhanced.
Moreover, since the number of parts protruding to the back side of the game board 1 can be reduced, it is possible to reduce the depth dimension of the game machine,
As a result, the installation space of the game machine can be reduced.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, each control board 10 is inserted into the inner bottom surface 27 of the container from the opening 21 side.
A slide guide fixing portion 28 is provided which allows the lower one side of A and 10 to be slid and fixed.
An inter-control-board connecting board (connecting board) 30 is attached to the inner surface 29 opposite to the opening 21 with screws 31 or the like (see FIG. 3). A first connector 32 is formed at the insertion-side tip of each control board 10A, 10 that is mounted and fixed in the storage body 20 via the slide guide fixing portion 28. The inter-control-board connecting board 30 is provided with inter-control-board connecting connectors 33 to which the first connectors 32 are connected, and each of the control-board connecting connectors 33 is a pattern formed on the inter-control-board connecting board 30. It is connected via a connection line 34. For example, the pattern control line 34 electrically connects the main control board 10A to each of the other sub-control boards 10. The sub control boards 10 may be connected to each other by the pattern connection line 34. The control board 10 mounted and fixed to the upper plate 24 of the storage body 20 via the slide guide fixing portion 28.
An opening 36 is formed on the upper side of the A and 10 to face the second connector portion 35, and the signal line 3 from the relay board to be described later is formed in the second connector portion 35 through the opening portion 36.
9 is connected via the connection connector 37.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the game board 1 has
Design display 41 such as special design display or normal design display,
Decorative lamp (indicator light) 42, side lamp (indicator light) 4
3, hole 46 for arranging game parts to be controlled such as the symbol starting prize winning device 44 and the variable prize winning device 45 is formed, and these game parts are arranged through the holes 46. Further, a decorative body 47 for decorating the periphery of the game area is attached to the front side of the game board 1. Then, the outer surface 11a of the upper part mounting body 11 mounted on the back side of the game board 1
A relay board 50 is provided in the. Control for connecting to the relay board 50, a connection connector 52 provided at the other end of a signal line 51 whose one end is connected to a game component to be controlled (for example, a special symbol display 41 shown in FIG. 4) A control board side connection connector 55 connected to the target side connection connector 53 and the control target side connection connector 53 via a wiring pattern 54 is mounted. The control board side connection connector 55 is connected via the connection connector 38 to the other end side of the signal line 39, one end side of which is connected to the second connector 35 of each of the control boards 10A and 10 via the connection connector 37. That is, the control boards 10A, 10 are connected to each other via the first connector 32, the inter-control board connecting connector 33, and the wiring pattern 34 of the inter-control board connecting board 30.
Each of the control boards 10A, 10 and the controlled object is the second connector 3
5, connection connector 37, signal line 39, connection connector 3
8, the control board side connection connector 55, the wiring pattern 54 of the relay board 50, the control target side connection connector 53, the connection connector 52, and the signal line 51. Electronic components such as computers mounted on the control boards 10A, 10 are connected to the first connector 3 via a wiring pattern (not shown).
2 and the second connector 35. Further, as the controlled object, for example, as shown in FIG.
1, lamps 42, 43, various sensor switches 6 such as a ball detection sensor switch provided in the symbol start winning device 44, etc.
0, a movable object drive system 61 such as a solenoid for driving the variable winning device 45, a speaker 62, a ball payout device 63, a ball launching device 64, and the like.

Further, the power supply device (not shown) may be attached, for example, at an arbitrary position on the lower back side of the opening / closing frame 8. This power supply is a DC power supply such as DC24V, which is a rough rectification after full-wave rectification of AC24V AC power received from an island power supply such as an island transformer of a pachinko parlor, full-wave rectification and smoothing. And DC 12V and DC which made constant voltage
A constant voltage power source such as 4.5 V and DC 5 V is supplied to each control board 10A, 10.

As described above, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, the main control computer mounted on the main control board 10A housed in the housing 20 inputs signals from various sensor switches through the second connector 35. Then, a control signal is sent to each sub-control board 10 stored in the storage body 20 via the first connector 32. The sub-control computer mounted on each sub-control board 10 controls each controlled object based on the control signal sent. Further, the main control computer of the main control board 10A can also send out various kinds of information regarding the gaming machine to the monitoring monitor of the hall via the second connector 35. Further, by providing a medium, it is possible to add data to be provided to each control board 10A, 10 via the second connector 35.

In the prior art, the work of mounting each control board of each control device was carried out for each control device by mounting the control board on the housing and then mounting the housing on the component mounting bodies 11 and 12. Installation work is difficult, and when replacing the control board, the control board must be removed after the container is removed and the same work must be performed again. It was On the other hand, as described above, the plurality of control boards 10A, 1 stored in the storage body 20
Control board connection board 3 for electrically connecting 0s
0 is provided in the container 20, and the control boards 10A and 10 are connected to each other via the board-to-board connector 33.
Since the control boards 10A and 10 are electrically connected to each other, the mounting work and the replacement work of the respective control boards 10A and 10 can be easily performed only by the mounting and demounting work via the connector, and the mounting work and the replacement work become easy. Further, since the slide guide fixing portion 28 is provided, the mounting work and the replacement work are further facilitated. Further, the relay board 50 is attached to the component mounting body 11 provided on the back side of the game board 1, and the relay board 50 is mounted.
The control boards 10A, 10 are electrically connected to the respective control targets via the connectors 53, 55 and the wiring pattern 54 provided in the. Therefore, when each control object (game component) is attached to the game board 1, the signal line 51 can be preliminarily connected between each control object and the control-object-side connection connector 53 of the relay board 50. It is possible to eliminate problems during work. That is, since the wiring connection to each control target is a solder connection, or even if it is a connector connection, there is a connector in a place where it is difficult to connect after mounting each control target on the game board 1, so that each control target is conventionally used. Signal line 51 in advance
Although each control target was attached to the game board 1 in a state of connecting, in this case, when the game board 1 is attached to the opening / closing frame 8 or the like, the signal line 51 interferes with the signal line 51 and the signal line 51 is pinched or disconnected. There was a problem such as causing it. On the other hand, in the embodiment, the signal line 51 from each control target is connected to the control target side connection connector 53 of the relay board 50 in advance, so that the signal line 51 is connected when the game board 1 is attached. It is possible to prevent a trouble such as disconnection of the signal line 51 without being an obstacle. Further, the connection of the signal line 39 between the control board side connector 55 of the relay board 50 and each of the control boards 10A, 10 can be easily performed after the game board 1 is attached.

In the above, the six control boards 10A, 1
All of 0s are stored in one storage body 20, but, for example, a main control board, a pattern control board, a ball firing / ball payout control board, etc., which are particularly likely to be illegal targets, that is, a control board that influences prize balls. Alternatively, the sound control board, the indicator light control board, and the like may not be housed in the housing body 20 and may be separately mounted at an arbitrary position. That is, if at least the main control board 10A and the plurality of sub-control boards 10 that affect the prize balls and are likely to be fraudulent are stored in the storage body 20, it becomes a measure against fraudulent activity. Further, in the above description, the ball launch / ball payout control board is equipped with the computer for controlling the ball launch and the computer for controlling the ball payout, but the ball launch control board and the ball payout control board may be separated. Although six control boards have been exemplified above, other control boards may be housed in the housing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an opening / closing frame to which a control device according to an embodiment including a main control board and a plurality of sub-control boards housed in a housing is attached.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a storage body and a control board stored in the storage body.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a control-board connecting board provided in the housing.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the back side of the game board.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a control target and the like controlled by each control board.

FIG. 6 is a view of a conventional gaming machine in which a plurality of control devices are arranged on the back side as seen from the back side.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 game board, 8 open / close frame, 10A main control board, 10
Sub control board, 11, 12 parts mounting body, 20 storage body,
30 board for connection between control boards (connection board), 50 relay board.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A main control board having a main control means for generally controlling a game of a gaming machine, and a control means for controlling a game component to be controlled based on a control signal from the main control means. A control device for a gaming machine, characterized in that a plurality of mounted sub control boards are housed in a single housing. 2. The control device for a gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a storage body is attached to an opening / closing frame to which the game board is attached. 3. The control device for a gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein only a main board and a plurality of sub-control boards that are likely to be fraudulent are housed in a housing. 4. A connection board for electrically connecting the control boards housed in the housing is provided in the housing, and each control board is electrically connected to the connection board through a connector provided in the connection board. The control device for a gaming machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that. 5. A relay board is attached to a component mounting body provided on the back side of a game board, and each control board and each control target are electrically connected via a connector provided on the relay board. The control device for the gaming machine according to any one of claims 1 to 4.