JP2006158590A - Game board - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new illumination effect in a transparent game board. <P>SOLUTION: Regarding this game board 1, an EL element 22 for displaying a pattern by light emission is arranged inside of a substrate 1a. Thus, when a liquid crystal display etc. is arranged in rear of the substrate 1a (game board 1), it is possible to designate either of the EL element 22 and the display etc. in rear to be a special pattern display device controlled by a main controller and the other to be a performance display device controlled by a performance display controller. In this case, even when the display of the EL element 22 is superposed to that of the liquid crystal display in rear, the display is sufficiently conspicuous to make a player get to know the existence since the display is obtained by light-emitting. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention belongs to the technical field of a ball game machine, and particularly relates to a game board of a ball game machine.

A gaming board comprising a board made of translucent synthetic resin and having a part or all of the front face as a gaming area, a gaming board component mounted on the board, and a display device disposed behind the gaming board A pachinko machine having a liquid crystal display (for example, a liquid crystal display) is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-185074 (Patent Document 1). In addition, such pachinko machines have been put into practical use.
JP-A-7-185074

  In a ball game machine such as a pachinko machine, a main game that plays a special game when a special jackpot symbol is displayed on the symbol display device (is a big hit), but the main control device that performs the jackpot lottery There is a demand for a configuration in which a display device (special symbol display device) is directly controlled.

  In this case, it is allowed to display a symbol (effect symbol) on a symbol display device (effect display device) different from the special symbol display device, but the CPU of the main control device has a function restriction. In general, an effect display device that often performs complex display such as a moving image is controlled by a control device (effect display control device) different from the main control device.

That is, it is common to provide two display devices, a special symbol display device controlled by the main control device and an effect display device controlled by the effect display control device.
By the way, when the display is arranged behind the translucent game board as in Patent Document 1, for example, a display serving as an effect display device and a display serving as a special symbol display device are arranged behind the game board. The configuration which we did is necessary.

The game board according to claim 1 is:
In a gaming board comprising a rigid board that is translucent and has a part or all of the front face as a gaming area, and a gaming board part mounted on the board,
A light emitting display means for displaying a pattern by light emission is arranged inside the substrate.

In the game board, game board parts are mounted on a board as a main body, and a part or all of the front surface thereof is used as a game area.
Examples of the light-transmitting synthetic resin used as the substrate material include acrylic and polycarbonate, but are not limited thereto, and there is no particular limitation as long as the conditions of light-transmitting and rigidity are satisfied. Here, “rigidity” means that it does not deform as long as it is normally used as a game board. Moreover, since it should just be "light-transmitting", it does not need to be transparent and may be colored with dyes or pigments, or a colored film or the like may be laminated as long as the light-transmitting property is not impaired. .

  Naturally, game board parts include parts (essential parts) that are indispensable for playing ball games, such as winning devices and guide rails. For example, parts installed for decoration purposes or specific places Also included are parts that are not essential (non-essential parts) from the viewpoint of executing a ball game, such as parts for protecting a part (for example, a display device) from a game ball. For example, the light emitting display means becomes an essential part if it is a special symbol display device (the game state changes when a special jackpot symbol is displayed), and the display content does not affect the game (for example, an effect display device). Or just a guide display of the progress of the game).

  In the game board according to claim 1, since the light emitting display means for displaying a symbol by light emission is arranged inside the substrate, if a liquid crystal display or the like is arranged behind the substrate (game board), the light emitting display means and the liquid crystal behind One of the display and the like can be a special symbol display device controlled by the main control device, and the other can be an effect display device controlled by the effect display control device (usually the back liquid crystal display or the like is the effect display device). ). In this case, even if the display of the light emitting display means overlaps the display of the liquid crystal display or the like behind the display, it is sufficiently conspicuous so that the player can recognize the presence. However, the present invention does not necessarily (presuppose) disposing a liquid crystal display or the like behind the game board.

In addition, since the light-emitting display means is arranged inside the substrate, the light-emitting display seems to emit light, so that the advantages of using the light-transmitting substrate can be fully utilized.
Further, since the light emitting display means is arranged inside the substrate, an opaque or translucent film (for example, a half mirror film) is stretched on the back surface of the substrate, or aluminum or the like is vapor-deposited on the back surface of the substrate to make it blind. be able to. Alternatively, a reflective material may be disposed on the back surface of the substrate (for example, vapor deposition or sputtering of a half mirror film, aluminum or the like) to make the back surface of the substrate shine. When a liquid crystal display or the like is placed behind the game board, the above-described film or reflector should not be placed in the portion corresponding to the display area (screen) (or the film or the like should be made transparent in the corresponding portion). ) Good.

  The light emitting display means may be opaque, but the effect of showing that the substrate itself emits light by the light from the light emitting display means is so good that the light emitting display means is not noticeable. That is, even if the emitted light can be seen, it is better not to let the player visually recognize the light emitting display means itself.

  For this purpose, as described in claim 2, the light emitting display means can be made transparent by comprising a transparent light emitting element and a transparent wiring for supplying power to the light emitting element, whereby the effect of claim 1 can be achieved. Improve.

  As a transparent light emitting element, the transparent electroluminescent element (EL element) and transparent LED (for example, Unexamined-Japanese-Patent No. 2002-80222, Unexamined-Japanese-Patent No. 2004-220888, etc.) of Claim 3 are illustrated.

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described based on examples of the present invention. The present invention is not limited to the following examples and the like, and it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented in various ways without departing from the gist of the present invention.
[Example]
The game board 1 of the present embodiment is for a pachinko machine and has the appearance shown in FIG.

The board 1a of the game board 1 is made of a transparent synthetic resin (acrylic resin in the present embodiment) and has a thickness of 10 mm, and the game board has sufficient rigidity.
Guide rails 2a, 2b, and 2c are attached to the substrate 1a, and a game area 3 is defined within a substantially circular section surrounded by the guide rails. Although not shown in the drawing, a return rubber is attached to the cut portion between the guide rails 2a and 2b, and a guide sheet metal for the out hole 4 is attached to the cut portion between the guide rails 2b and 2c. Closed.

  At the center of the game area 3 is attached a center accessory 5 having a warp inlet 5a at the top, a warp outlet 5b at the left and right of the center, and an effect display device 5c at the bottom (the display section is three 7-segment LEDs). A gate 7 is disposed below the gate 7. An electric tulip type variable winning device 8 is arranged below the gate 7, and an attacker type big winning device 9 (shown in a state where the large winning opening 9 a is opened) is arranged below the electric tulip type variable winning device 8.

  A ramp windmill 11 and a normal winning opening 12 are arranged in pairs on the left and right sides of the center character 5. Also, below the normal winning opening 12, the normal winning openings 14 and 15 integrated with the side decoration 13 are arranged in pairs on the left and right sides (however, for convenience of explanation, the left side decoration 13 Shows the removed state.)

In the lowermost part of the game area 3, an out hole 4 for discharging the game ball that has passed through the game area 3 as an out ball is provided.
Further, an EL element 22 serving as a light-emitting display means is disposed obliquely below the left lamp windmill 11 and obliquely above the normal winning opening 12, and transparent electrodes 24a and 28a connected thereto reach the outer periphery of the substrate 1a. . The EL element 22 and the transparent electrodes 24a and 28a are embedded in the substrate 1a, details of which will be described later.

Note that well-known obstacle nails and windmills are also arranged in the game area 3, but illustration and description thereof are omitted.
In order to mount the center board 5, the gate 7, the variable winning device 8, the big winning device 9, the lamp windmill 11, the normal winning port 12, and the side decorations 13, which are game board parts, on the substrate 1 a The mounting hole 1b is required. Although FIG. 1 shows a mounting hole 1b for the left side decoration 13, the shape (contour) of the mounting hole 1b varies depending on each game board component. However, the point penetrating the substrate 1a is common to all the mounting holes 1b.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the substrate 1 a is provided with a groove-like recessed portion 20, and a fitting member 21 made of a transparent synthetic resin (acrylic resin in this embodiment) is fitted into the recessed portion 20. ing. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram for explaining the layer structure, and the dimensions are different from actual ones.

  An element substrate 23, which is a film made of a transparent synthetic resin (polycarbonate in this embodiment), is bonded to the upper surface of the fitting member 21 (the surface facing the groove bottom of the recessed portion 20). The transparent wirings 24 a and 28 a are provided on the element substrate 23. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2B, the EL element 22 includes a first electrode 24, a first insulating layer 25, a light emitting layer (EL material) 26, a second insulating layer 27, Two electrodes 28 are sequentially stacked. The first electrode 24 and the second electrode 28 are transparent with a thin film of ITO, for example, the light emitting layer 26 made of, for example, an inorganic EL material is also transparent with a thin film, and the first insulating layer 25 and the second insulating layer 27 are also transparent with a thin film. The EL element 22 is transparent as a whole. Although the EL element 22 is shown in FIG. 1, it is not visible when it is not emitting light.

  Since the first electrode 24 and the second electrode 28 are arranged in parallel with each other, and the wiring directions of the first electrode 24 and the second electrode 28 are orthogonal to each other, the first electrode 24 and the second electrode 28 When a voltage is applied between them, the light emitting layer (EL material) 26 at the intersections (not actually intersecting) emits light.

  Therefore, the first electrode 24 and the second electrode 28 are extended as transparent wirings 24a and 28a on the element substrate 23 (a region where a plurality of wirings 24a and 28a are arranged in parallel in FIG. 1). 2 (b), only the transparent wiring 24a of the first electrode 24 is shown.) The ends of the transparent wirings 24a and 28a are formed by a conductive adhesive 29 on the outer periphery of the substrate 1a. It is tied to the flexible wiring board 30.

  The flexible wiring board 30 is pulled out from the outer periphery of the board 1a and connected to an EL drive circuit (not shown). The EL drive circuit controls light emission of the EL element 22 by controlling voltage application between the first electrode 24 and the second electrode 28.

  In the state where the game board 1 is assembled in the pachinko machine, the EL drive circuit is controlled by the main control device of the pachinko machine (or is incorporated as a part of the main control device), and the EL element 22 emits light. Directly controlled by

The main control device controls various operations of the pachinko machine, but mainly controls the opening / closing of the variable winning device 8 and the opening / closing of the big winning device 9 in relation to the game board 1.
Regarding the variable winning device 8, when the game ball passes through the gate 7 (when the passage detection signal is inputted), the lottery is performed, and when this is a win, the variable winning device 8 is opened. If the opening time of the variable winning device 8 reaches the set time or if a predetermined number of game balls wins in the opened variable winning device 8, the opening is terminated.

  When the main control device wins the variable winning device 8 (when the winning detection signal is input), the main control device performs a big win lottery, causes the EL element 22 to emit light, and displays a special symbol variation display. A special symbol indicating the result (a jackpot symbol or a missing symbol) is determined and displayed on the EL element 22. As shown in FIG. 1, the EL element 22 has a 7-segment format. For example, “7” is a jackpot symbol and the others are off symbols.

In addition, with the start of the variation display of the special symbol, the result of the jackpot lottery and the variation time data of the special symbol are transmitted to a sub-control device such as an effect display control device.
Upon receiving these data, the effect display control device controls the effect display device 5c to display the variation of the symbol, and the effect display device 5c responds to the result of the big win lottery almost simultaneously with the fixed display of the special symbol on the EL element 22. The displayed design is displayed.

When the jackpot lottery is won, the main control device starts the jackpot game after the confirmation display of the jackpot symbol, and opens and closes the jackpot device 9.
In this game board 1, since the EL element 22 that displays a pattern by light emission is arranged inside the substrate 1 a, since the light emission display by the EL element 22 seems to emit light, the light-transmitting substrate The advantages of adopting 1a can be fully utilized.

In addition, since both the transparent EL element 22 and the transparent wirings 24a and 28a for supplying power to the EL element 22 are transparent, the above effect is further improved.
Further, since the EL element 22 is arranged inside the substrate 1a, an opaque or translucent film (for example, a half mirror film) is stretched on the back surface of the substrate 1a, or aluminum or the like is deposited on the back surface of the substrate 1a. Can be blindfolded. Alternatively, a reflective material may be disposed on the back surface of the substrate 1a (for example, vapor deposition or sputtering of a half mirror film, aluminum or the like) to make the back surface of the substrate 1a shine.
[Modification]
Since the board 1a of the game board 1 according to the embodiment is transparent, a liquid crystal display or the like is disposed behind the board 1a (game board 1), and this is suitable for an effect display device. An example is shown in FIG.

In the example of FIG. 3, the center accessory 5 is removed (the mounting hole is not opened), and a rib-shaped display outline 10 is provided instead.
An effect display device (for example, a liquid crystal display) is arranged behind the game board 1, and the display (indicated by “888” in the figure) is visible inside the display outline 10 through the substrate 1a.

  Note that the screen size of the effect display device does not need to match the display outline 10, and can be large, for example, a size corresponding to the game area 3 or a size corresponding to the outline of the board 1a. In such a case, an effect display is performed even outside the display outline 10, and this can be seen through the substrate 1a.

Since this gaming board 1 has EL elements 22 that display symbols by light emission, disposed inside the board 1a, when a liquid crystal display or the like is placed behind the board 1a (gaming board 1), the EL elements 22 and the back One of the liquid crystal display and the like can be a special symbol display device controlled by the main control device, and the other can be an effect display device controlled by the effect display control device. In this case, even if the display of the EL element 22 overlaps the display of a liquid crystal display or the like behind the display, the display is based on self-light emission, so that the player can be noticed sufficiently and the presence can be recognized.
[Others]
In the embodiment, the transparent wirings 24a, 28a and the flexible wiring board 30 are connected at the outer peripheral part of the substrate 1a, but this may be performed at the inner peripheral part of the mounting hole 1b.

  Moreover, although the transparent EL element 22 is used in the Example, light emitting elements, such as transparent LED, can also be used.

The front view of the game board of an Example. It is explanatory drawing of the layer structure of the board | substrate in an Example, (a) is a cross-section figure of a board | substrate, (b) is a cross-section figure of an EL element. The front view of the game board of a modification.

Explanation of symbols

1 ... game board,
1a: substrate,
22 ... EL element,
24a, 28a ... transparent wiring.

Claims (3)

In a gaming board comprising a rigid board that is translucent and has a part or all of the front face as a gaming area, and a gaming board part mounted on the board,
A game board characterized in that a light emitting display means for displaying a symbol by light emission is arranged inside the substrate. The game board according to claim 1,
The game board according to claim 1, wherein the light emitting display means includes a transparent light emitting element and a transparent wiring for supplying power to the light emitting element. In the game board according to claim 2,
The game board, wherein the light emitting element is a transparent electroluminescence element (EL element) or a transparent LED.

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