JP2005160881A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine in which a player cannot perform illegal ball-discharging operation from the front surface of the game machine. <P>SOLUTION: The game machine 1 has a game ball paying-out apparatus 25 and a ball-discharging apparatus inside the game machine using game balls, and reserved game balls reserved inside are discharged by a ball discharging means 45 for operating the ball-discharging apparatus. The locking mechanism 8 of the ball-discharging apparatus is provided inside the game machine, thereby the reserved game balls cannot be discharged even if operating the ball discharging means 45 without unlocking the locking mechanism. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a ball removing device in a gaming machine using a gaming ball such as a pachinko machine, and more specifically, the storage ball or tank rail stored in the gaming machine is safely discharged out of the machine and from the front of the gaming machine. The present invention relates to a game machine with a ball removal device that prevents unauthorized ball removal.

For example, in a pachinko machine using a game ball, a pachinko game is performed by launching game balls sent from the upper plate to the launch device onto the game board surface by turning the handle of the game ball launch device. The prize ball payout device on the back of the pachinko machine is activated according to the winning conditions during the pachinko game, and a predetermined number of game balls stored in the storage tank, tank rail, etc. on the back are passed through the predetermined prize ball path and the upper plate Or it is paid out to the lower plate.
On the other hand, depending on the handling of the gaming machine installed on the island where the game hall is attached, it is necessary to take out the storage game balls in the storage tank or tank rail and replenish them to other pachinko machines. When exchanging the model or the like, it is necessary to remove the stored game balls in the gaming machine when removing the machine base from the gaming machine mounting portion of the mounting island, and a ball removing device is provided.

This ball removal operation is usually performed by inserting a ball removal operation rod through a small operation hole formed in the front face of the front frame of the gaming machine and using a ball removal device provided in a part of the ball passage of the prize ball payout path. It operates in the unplugged state, and the storage balls, such as storage tanks and tank rails, stored upstream from the ball removal device are guided to the ball removal route and released to the back of the pachinko machine.
The normally used ball pulling operation bar is a simple wire bar having a knob and is managed in a game hall. For example, an easily available straight bar such as a bamboo skewer But you can substitute it.
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By the way, the prize ball dispensing device and the ball removing device are installed adjacent to each other in the vertical direction, and many of the electric type prize ball dispensing devices are provided with a ball removing device at the bottom. Some of them are designed to be discharged. In this case, a ball removal discharge path different from the prize ball path is provided at the rear stage of the prize ball payout device, and a ball removal device for guiding to the ball removal discharge path side different from the prize ball path is incorporated at the time of ball removal. .
In such a gaming machine, even if it is easy to pull out the stored ball in the gaming machine, the player illegally operates it from the front of the gaming machine to illegally pull out the stored ball to the prize ball payout supply tray. There was a big problem to get out.

That is, the ball removal device can be easily operated with a device other than the predetermined ball removal operation bar as described above, and therefore, an illegal object is allowed to enter from the upper plate or the lower plate supply port from which the prize ball on the front of the gaming machine is paid out. There may be cases where fraudulently draining the stored balls in the gaming machine to the supply tray of the prize ball payout route may be performed. Such injustice suffers great damage for the hall side and is easy to be performed without being noticed, and the abnormality was detected for the first time by the hall manager after the closing of the store, and became a big problem.
The object of the present invention is proposed to solve the above-mentioned problem, and a game in which an illegal ball removal operation is prevented by preventing a ball removal operation from being performed unless it is a person involved in the hall. Provide a machine.

  The present invention achieves the above object, that is, the invention of claim 1 of the present invention has a prize ball payout device and a ball removal device inside a gaming machine using game balls, In a gaming machine in which a stored game ball stored inside is discharged by a ball removing means to be operated, a lock mechanism of a ball removing device is provided inside the game machine, and the ball removing means is provided unless the lock mechanism is released. The game machine is characterized in that the stored game ball cannot be discharged even if the button is operated.

  According to the present invention, the stored game ball cannot be discharged even if the ball removing means is operated unless the lock mechanism of the ball removing device is released. Therefore, if a person related to the game hall does not remove the lock mechanism provided inside the gaming machine by opening the front door and the middle frame of the gaming machine with the key, the ball removing means such as a ball removing rod can be operated from the front of the gaming machine. The stored game ball cannot be discharged.

  The invention according to claim 2 of the present invention is characterized in that the lock mechanism fixes a valve member that opens and closes a ball outlet of a ball remover provided in a part of a ball passage in a closed state. The gaming machine according to 1.

  According to the present invention, since the valve member of the ball removing device is fixed in the closed state, even if the valve member is opened by the ball removing means, the valve member is not opened and the ball removing operation cannot be performed. When a ball removal operation is required, a person related to the game hall opens the front door and the inner frame of the gaming machine, releases the lock mechanism of the internal ball removal device, and then opens and closes the ball removal device by operating the ball removal device. The lever is actuated to remove the game balls stored in the gaming machine.

    The invention of claim 3 of the present invention is the gaming machine characterized in that the lock mechanism fixes a valve opening / closing lever of the ball removing means for operating the ball removing device.

  According to the present invention, the normal ball removing device is provided with a ball outlet in a part of the ball passage on the front or rear side of the prize ball payout device on the back of the gaming machine, and provided with a valve member for opening and closing the ball outlet. The valve member is controlled to open and close by a valve opening / closing lever which is a ball removing operation means. Since the valve opening / closing lever is fixed by the lock mechanism, the valve member is not opened and the ball is not removed even if the ball removing means is operated. When the ball removal operation is necessary, the game hall personnel open the front door and the middle frame of the gaming machine and release the lock mechanism as described above.

  The invention according to claim 4 of the present invention is the gaming machine characterized in that the locking mechanism closes a ball punching hole that leads from the front of the gaming machine of the ball punching means for operating the ball punching device.

  According to the present invention, the ball punching hole penetrating from the front to the back of the gaming machine that operates the ball punching device is closed, so that the ball pulling rod cannot be inserted, the ball pulling means cannot be operated, Is not done. When the ball removal operation is necessary, the game hall personnel open the front door of the gaming machine and release the lock mechanism that opens the ball removal hole as described above.

  The invention according to claim 5 of the present invention is a gaming machine characterized in that the ball removing means for operating the ball removing device is provided inside the gaming machine and cannot be operated from the front of the gaming machine.

  That is, according to the present invention, there is no ball removing means on the front surface of the gaming machine, the ball removing device cannot be operated from the front surface, and it is provided inside the gaming machine that can only be opened by a game hall hall administrator. When a punching operation is necessary, the game hall officials open the gaming machine and operate the ball removing means inside to remove the ball.

  The invention according to claim 6 of the present invention is the gaming machine characterized in that the ball removing means for operating the ball removing device electrically opens and closes the ball removing device.

  In other words, according to the present invention, the ball removing device is operated by using an electric drive device instead of manually, and the ball removing operation of the ball removing device can be easily performed without requiring a complicated mechanical mechanism. .

  According to the present invention, since a lock mechanism is provided in the internal ball removal device, the stored game ball cannot be discharged even if the player operates the ball removal means from the front unless the lock mechanism is released. Therefore, if a person related to the game hall opens the front door or middle frame on the front of the gaming machine with the key and does not remove the lock mechanism provided inside, the ball removing means from the front of the gaming machine will not operate. The ball removal means for inserting a ball removal rod into the hole and removing the ball cannot be operated. In other words, the ball removal device does not operate unless the lock mechanism of the internal ball removal device is removed. Therefore, the hall personnel use the open / close key to open the gaming machine, release the lock mechanism on the back side, and the ball personnel will remove the ball. Unauthorized acts discharged to the ball payout side are eliminated.

    A game machine having a game ball payout device and a ball removal device inside a game machine using a game ball, wherein the stored game balls stored therein are discharged by a ball removal means for operating the ball removal device. A game machine in which a lock mechanism of a ball removal device is provided inside the machine so that the stored game ball cannot be discharged even if the ball removal means is operated unless the lock mechanism is released. A structure that cannot be operated from the front of the machine may be used.

Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described using a pachinko machine as an example.
FIG. 1 is a view showing the back side of a pachinko gaming machine 1, and awarding a prize ball through a storage ball tank 21 at the top, a tank rail 22 for aligning and flowing down the storage balls below, and a ball passage 24 having a bent portion 23. A device 25 is provided, and a lower part of the prize ball payout device 25 is a ball removal device, and a prize ball payout side passage 46 and a ball removal side passage 48 are formed.

  2 and 3 are a perspective view and a rear view of the main part showing the prize ball dispensing device 25 and the ball removal device. The prize ball payout device 25 is in a lower space 32 of a horizontal partition wall 30 provided in the case 26, and a disk-like rotating body 27 is provided to be rotatable about a rotating shaft 28. The rotating body 27 is stepping. The motor 34 rotates every predetermined rotation. The rotating body 27 is provided with four through holes 29a to 29d for storing game balls, and the game balls sent from the upper ball passages 24a and 24b are stored in the through holes 29a and 29c and rotated 90 degrees. At 29b and 29d positions, the ball falls into the prize ball payout passage 46 and is awarded a prize ball.

The ball removal device is operated by operating the valve plate 44 for switching to the prize ball payout passage 46 and the ball removal passage 48. In the normal state, the valve plate 44 has the prize ball passage side through holes 29b and 29d of the rotating body 27 opened, and the ball removal side through holes 29a and 29c are closed by the valve plate 44.
When the valve plate 44 is moved forward at the time of ball removal, the winning ball passage side through holes 29b and 20d of the rotating body 27 are closed by the valve plate 44, and the ball discharge side through ports 29a and 29c are opened by the valve plate 44. Then, the upper ball passages 24a and 24b pass through the through holes 29a and 29c of the rotating body 27 and are discharged to the lower ball passage 48, and the upper storage balls are removed.

  As the ball removal means 45 for operating the ball removal device, a ball removal hole 46 penetrating from the front surface to the back surface is formed in the front frame 2 of FIG. 2, and an operation rod is inserted into the ball removal hole 42 from the front surface to open and close. The lever 47 is pushed to the back side. 2 and 3, the rod 43 is pressed downward by the rotation of the opening / closing lever 47, and the crank 49 is rotated. The valve plate 44 is pulled and moved forward by the rotation of the crank 49, and the upper ball passages 24a and 24b and the ball removal passage 48 are communicated with each other through the ball removal side through holes 29a and 29c of the rotating body 27 as described above. The ball is drawn toward the lower ball passage 48 side.

  Reference numeral 40 denotes a lock lever that fixes the open / close lever 47 so as not to rotate. A hook-shaped lever 40 that can rotate 45 degrees is fixed to the front frame 2. When the lock lever 40 is rotated downward in the figure, the opening / closing lever 47 is locked and locked, and even if it is pushed from the front with the operation rod, it does not move, and the ball removing device does not operate. At the time of ball removal, the ball removal operation is performed manually by opening the back surface and unlocking the lock lever 40 or by inserting a ball removal rod from the front surface.

  As an example of another locking mechanism, the rotation end portion of the lock lever 40 in FIG. 2 is provided in the flat plate portion 41, and the ball hole 42 opened in the front frame 2 by the rotation end flat plate portion 41 of the lock lever 40. If the ball removal rod inserted into the ball removal hole 42 from the front does not reach the opening / closing lever 47 and the lock lever 40 is not removed, the ball removal operation may not be performed from the front of the gaming machine.

  A gaming machine 1 according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The ball removing device of the third embodiment is shown in FIG. 4 in the bent portion 23 portion of the ball passage 24 connecting the tank rail 22 and the prize ball payout device 25 from the upper storage ball tank 21 with reference to the back view of FIG. 9 to 9 are provided.

  4 is a perspective view showing a state where the ball removal device on the back side of the pachinko machine is locked in a normal use state and the ball removal port is closed, and FIG. 5 is a view showing a principal portion showing the ball removal device. FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a state in which a ball removal rod is inserted from the front of the gaming machine, and FIG. 7 is a valve member that operates the ball removal rod to rotate the valve opening / closing lever. FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a state in which the valve member is pushed by the ball pressure of the stored game ball from the state of FIG. 7 and the ball outlet is opened, and FIG. 9 is from the state of FIG. FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing that the ball release rod is released and the open / close lever is returned to the original state by a spring force, and the valve member is maintained in an open state.

  There is a ball passage 24 that normally flows down between the tank rail 22 and the prize ball payout device 25. The ball passage 24 is formed as an inclined passage that falls due to the gravity of the game ball, and a turn portion 23 is formed in the middle. A ball outlet (not shown) is provided in the bent portion 23 of the ball passage, and a lower portion of the ball outlet is a ball passage 48 and communicates with a lower discharge rod. A valve member 6 is provided outside the ball outlet so as to cover the ball outlet with a lid. The valve member 6 is pivotally supported by an upper shaft 61 outside the ball outlet 4, and the upper shaft 61 It is attached so that the lower part swings and opens with the fulcrum as the fulcrum.

  The lower end of the swing side of the valve member 6 is attached with a metal weight rod 62 to connect two sets of valve members 6a and 6b corresponding to the two rows of ball passages 22a and 22b. The weight rod 62 automatically closes the valve member 6 to the ball outlet side with a weight. A hook-shaped opening / closing lever 7 is provided at one end of the weight rod 62 in the longitudinal direction. The opening / closing lever 7 normally locks one end of the weight rod 61 and rotates when the opening / closing lever 7 is pressed by the operation of the ball removal rod 21 inserted into the ball removal hole of the front frame 2 of the gaming machine at the time of ball removal. Then, the lock of the weight rod 62 is released or locked, and the valve member 6 is regulated and released to perform ball removal.

  In this embodiment, the lock device 8 is composed of a latch 81 fixed to the machine body on the back surface of the pachinko gaming machine, and the latch 81 is locked to the end of the weight rod 62 attached to the valve member 6 to lock the lock device 8. It is said. Therefore, the weight rod 62 attached to the valve member 6 has one end locked by the opening / closing lever 7 and the other end locked by the lock latch 81, so that the upper storage ball is mistaken in the normal gaming state. Safety that prevents malfunctions that flow toward the ball removal passage 48 is achieved.

Further, unless the lock device 8 is released, the valve member 6 will not open no matter how much the valve opening / closing lever 7 is operated, so that the ball removal operation cannot be performed. The lock device 8 cannot be released, and the ball removal operation can be performed only by those involved in the hall. For this reason, an illegal ball removing operation by the player is prevented.
The mechanism of the lock device 8 may be one that can be manually opened and closed as described above, and the lock device 8 can be easily applied.

  A gaming machine in which a predetermined prize ball is paid out by rotating a handle, firing a game ball on the game board, and winning the game ball in a prize opening on the game board, and more specifically, a storage tank inside the game machine It is suitable for a pachinko gaming machine in which game balls are stored in a tank rail.

It is a back view of the pachinko game machine which shows one Example of this invention. It is a principal part perspective view of the pachinko game machine which shows the 1st, 2nd Example of this invention. It is a principal part back view of the pachinko game machine which shows the 1st, 2nd Example of this invention. It is a figure of the principal part which shows the ball removal apparatus on the back surface of the pachinko game machine which shows 3rd Example of this invention, and is the perspective view which shows the state which locked the ball removal opening | mouth in the normal use state. It is a figure of the principal part which shows the ball removal apparatus of the back surface of the pachinko game machine which shows 3rd Example of this invention, and is a perspective view which shows the state which released the locking mechanism. It is a figure of the principal part which shows the ball removal apparatus of the back surface of the pachinko game machine which shows 3rd Example of this invention, and is a perspective view which shows the state which inserts the ball removal rod 21 from the game machine front surface. FIG. 5 is a view of a main part showing a ball removing device on the back of a pachinko gaming machine showing a third embodiment of the present invention, in which the valve opening lever 21 is operated to rotate the valve opening / closing lever 7 and the valve member 6 is opened. It is a perspective view shown. FIG. 10 is a view of a main part showing a ball removing device on the back of a pachinko gaming machine showing a third embodiment of the present invention, and the ball member is opened from the state of FIG. 7 by the ball pressure of the stored game ball. It is a perspective view which shows a state. FIG. 10 is a view of a main part showing a ball removing device on the back of a pachinko gaming machine showing a third embodiment of the present invention, releasing the ball removing bar 21 from the state of FIG. It is a perspective view which shows having been maintained in the open state.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game machine 2 Front frame 6 Valve member 7 Valve opening / closing lever 8 Locking device 21 Storage tank 22 Tank rail 23 Bending part 24 Ball passage 25 Prize ball payout device 26 Tace 27 Rotating body 28 Rotating shaft 29 Rotating body through-hole 30 Partition wall 32 Lower space 34 Stepping motor 40 Lock lever 41 Flat plate portion at the end of the lock lever 42 Ball release hole 43 Rod 44 Ball release switching valve plate 45 Ball release means 46 Prize ball payout passage 47 Valve open / close lever 48 Ball release passage 61 Valve member 6 Upper shaft 62 Valve member 6 weight rod 81 Latch for lock device 8

Claims (6)

  A gaming machine having a gaming ball payout device and a ball removing device inside a gaming machine using a game ball, wherein the stored gaming balls stored therein are discharged by a ball removing means for operating the ball removing device. A gaming machine characterized in that a lock mechanism of a ball removal device is provided inside the game machine, and the stored game ball cannot be discharged even if the ball removal means is operated unless the lock mechanism is released.   The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the lock mechanism fixes a valve member that opens and closes a ball outlet of a ball removal device provided in a part of a ball passage in a closed state.   3. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the lock mechanism fixes a valve opening / closing lever of the ball removing means for operating the ball removing device.   The gaming machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the lock mechanism closes a ball removal hole that communicates with a ball removal means that operates a ball removal device.   5. A gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a ball removing means for operating the ball removing device is provided inside the gaming machine and cannot be operated from the front of the gaming machine.   6. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the ball removing means for operating the ball removing device electrically opens and closes the ball removing device.

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