JP2006223504A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (7)

A housing opened forward;
A front door that closes the front opening of the housing;
A plurality of annular reels provided in the housing and provided with a plurality of patterns in the circumferential direction are supported to form a unit, and these reels are displayed in a variable manner by rotating each of the reels about an axis extending in the left-right direction. A reel device;
A display unit provided on the front door and enabling visual recognition of a part of the patterns attached to each reel;
An insertion section where a game medal is inserted at the start of a game, a start operation means operated to start rotation of each reel after the game medal is inserted into the insertion section, and the reel provided for each reel A plurality of stop operation means operated to stop the rotation of the front door, an operation region provided below the display unit in the front door;
A control device that is provided in the housing and performs drive control of each reel and lottery of the role in the reel device;
A storage tank that is provided in the housing and stores game medals, and a payout device that pays out game medals stored in the storage tank to the outside of the gaming machine from a payout opening provided in the front door. A hopper device,
A game by the hopper device when a predetermined pattern or a combination of predetermined patterns corresponding to a winning combination by the lottery by the control device stops at an effective position visible from the display unit after the rotation of each reel is stopped. In gaming machines that are designed to pay out medals,
The reel device is arranged such that the center of rotation of each reel is positioned at the approximate center in the vertical direction of the casing,
The display unit is arranged at a position facing the reels of the front door,
The vertical dimension of the upper space of the reel device in the casing and the vertical dimension of the lower space are made substantially the same, and the control device is arranged in the upper space, and the hopper is disposed in the lower space. Place the equipment,
Furthermore, an auxiliary display device is provided above the display unit in the front door to perform display according to the game situation on a rectangular display screen,
A gaming machine characterized in that the display screen is provided so that a lower part of the display screen overlaps with an upper part of the reel device in the front-rear direction while partitioning the display screen and the display unit vertically in the front door. . The vertical dimension of a space above the reel device, a space in which the reel device is disposed, and a space below the reel device in the casing are substantially the same. Game machines. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the display unit is inclined so as to be positioned closer to the lower end toward the lower end. The gaming machine according to claim 3, wherein the arrangement position of the display unit is set so that a center in a vertical direction of the display unit is located above a rotation center of each reel. The vertical dimension of the display screen is longer than the vertical dimension of the display unit, and the area of the display screen is larger than the area of the display unit. The gaming machine described in 1. An auxiliary display control device for controlling the auxiliary display device based on a control signal from the control device;
The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary display control device is provided above the reel device. An auxiliary display control device for controlling the auxiliary display device based on a control signal from the control device;
6. The auxiliary display control device is attached to a rear surface of the auxiliary display device, which is biased upward from a portion of the rear surface overlapping the reel device in the front-rear direction. The gaming machine according to any one of the above.