JP2006340924A - Contaminated air sucking-cleaning device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an uncomfortable feeling to be applied to a game player by positively sucking malodors such as the smoke of tobacco, alcoholic smells and bad breath by smoking or the expiration in a vicinity or on a next seat of a game player who plays on a game machine such as a pachinko game machine, to prevent the contamination by the smoke of tobacco or the like in the device from occurring by providing a paper filter at a suction port, and an ozone generator in a vicinity of the suction port, and at the same time, to enable the game player to comfortably play the game by performing a deodorization and a contamination prevention in a game hall in such a manner that an odorant and ozone are completely mixed and discharged upward. <P>SOLUTION: The side of the game machine or the like is provided with a vertically long wind tunnel which is a separate body from the game machine. Contaminated air is sucked in from a suction port beding located on the side of the game machine or the like by a centrifugal blower which is provided in the wind tunnel. An ozone gas which is generated by the ozone generating section which is provided on the rear side of the suction port in the wind tunnel, and the sucked in contaminated air are mixed, and are discharged to the upper side from a discharging port on the upper side of the wind tunnel by this contaminated air sucking-cleaning device. The width of the contaminated air sucking-cleaning device is limited in a range from 25 to 80 mm, and in addition, the height is set in a range of 830 mm or lower. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to smoking and exhalation of a player in a neighboring seat or the like during a game with a game machine such as a pachinko machine or a slot machine (hereinafter referred to as a game machine) in a game hall such as a pachinko hall (hereinafter referred to as a game room or the like). The present invention relates to a contaminated air suction cleaning device for improving deterioration of the gaming environment due to bad smell such as cigarette smoke, alcohol and bad breath.

  In amusement halls, a large number of gaming machines (hereinafter referred to as gaming machines) are installed in a straight line adjacent to each other, and two rows are installed in parallel with each other back to back (this group is called the island and the gaming industry). In the following, the islands are arranged in parallel (depending on the size of the game hall, and may vary slightly depending on the design of the game hall, but they are generally configured in the same way. The player is going to the game machine between the islands, and each player is facing the game machine back to back. In such an overcrowded situation, the air environment of this narrow gaming space becomes poor due to smoking by the player or alcoholism by the player after drinking. In addition to air pollution in the entire space, tobacco smoke, alcohol, and bad breath that diffuse directly from the next player creates an environment that is especially unbearable for the player.

For the entire air of the game hall etc., facilities such as a ventilator and an air purifier are installed on the ceiling and the wall. However, because it is located on the ceiling or near the wall, it is effective for ventilation and purification of the air nearby, but the air environment around each player in the game space between islands cannot be improved. In a sense, the player itself can be a source of air pollution, so that the discomfort felt by other players cannot be improved unless the player removes the contaminated air directly near the source.

Small ion generators and ozone generators that are installed on the top of the island (on top of gaming machines, etc.) or on the wall are also sold, but they do not act on the air near the player, so they feel less effective in the game space. I can't. A photocatalytic deodorization device that installs a powerful suction device on the upper part of the island is also sold, but because it is installed far from the player, it does not show a clear effect, and it has a higher price. Not popular.

  There is a butts collection system installed under the gaming machine, and some of these systems have an ozone deodorization function. However, since the purpose is to collect cigarette butts, the system should actively prevent cigarette smoke from diffusing. It does not suck in the surrounding contaminated air

On the other hand, the pachinko machine smoking blocking air curtain device disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-71263 is provided with a thin wind tunnel next to the pachinko machine, and blows air from a vertically long wind tunnel to form an air curtain. The idea is to block the smoke of tobacco released. In addition, fragrance or ozone is mixed and released into the air curtain. However, with this method, the interference between adjacent players due to contaminated air is reduced, but the released contaminated air only moves to the rear passage along the air curtain airflow. Furthermore, a player who is heading for a game machine on another island sits with his back turned. For the players behind, the air environment deteriorates because polluted air is sent from behind. It also creates a very poor environment for players and game hall managers who walk along the corridors. As shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-71263, even if the air curtain contains fragrance or ozone, it is not preferred that the passerby hits the body intermittently while passing. The fragrance has a strong preference element, and the preference varies depending on the passers and players, or it changes to an unpleasant odor when mixed with a bad odor, so it cannot improve the air environment. Furthermore, when ozone is included, it takes a certain amount of time for ozone and odor to react, so a mixed gas of ozone and odor is blown out, creating a more unpleasant situation. Under such circumstances, the invention of JP-A-10-71263 has not been put into practical use.
JP-A-10-71263

In amusement halls, a large number of gaming machines are installed adjacent to each other in a straight line, and several rows of islands are installed in parallel, with two rows installed in parallel. The players are going to the game machines between the islands, and each player is facing the game machine back to back. In such an overcrowded situation, the air environment of this narrow gaming space is poor due to smoking by the player or alcoholism by the player after drinking. In addition to contamination of the entire space, tobacco smoke, alcohol, or bad breath released from the next player creates a particularly unbearable environment for the player. Take, for example, tobacco smoke as an air pollutant. Tobacco smoke consists of combustion gases, partial oxides and pyrolysis components that are generated when tobacco leaf components and cigarette paper components burn, and these non-condensables, vapors (volatile organisms), liquid particles (Colloids) are released into the air in the form of gas and tar particles. The cigarette smoke odor is an important factor in the odor of cigarette smoke, and unpleasant odors are brought about by vaporizing, evaporating and volatilizing the substances sorbed in the tar-like fine particles in the air. Fine tar particles stay in the air and deposit and adhere to all places such as clothes and indoor walls, ceilings, floors and windows. Tar particles are sorbed gradually from high volatility to air. Although it volatilizes inside, its volatilization and transpiration last for a long time, and its odor is irritating with a characteristic “burnt odor”, and even smokers often do not like it. Is called. Usually, the amount of tar generated from one cigarette is 10 to 40 mg, and the composition of smoke components of a general cigarette is that 60% of smoke is a gas component (N ₂ : 73%, CO: 10%, CO ₂ : 4.2%, H ₂ : 1%, Ar: 0.6%, CH ₄ : 0.6%, about 40 other types: 1.1%), and CO and NOx concentrations are The concentration is very high compared to the air pollution standards (Monthly Global Environmental Magazine p66, December issue, 1998). Thus, it is a big problem that not only the odor due to tar components but also gas exceeding the air pollution standard is included. Obviously, the number of people who smoke will be serious.

  Since the conventional technology is designed to ventilate or purify the air of the entire amusement park from the ceiling or the wall on average, it ventilates and purifies the contaminated air in the narrow gaming environment between the densely packed islands I can't. Therefore, in order to improve at least the poor air environment of the game space, it is necessary to eliminate such stagnation of contaminated air. In addition, from the viewpoint of consideration for each player, a large-scale and large-scale device does not provide a large air suction means or agitation means for each game space between islands, but occurs near the player. It is necessary to eliminate the stagnation of the contaminated air without causing the player to take care. Moreover, simply eliminating the stagnation only diffuses or moves the polluted air to other places and cannot improve the environment of the entire amusement park. Therefore, a means for purifying the pollutants is necessary.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a vertically long wind tunnel different from the gaming machine etc. is provided beside the gaming machine etc., and a suction mechanism by a centrifugal blower is provided inside the wind tunnel, and contamination is caused from the suction port located beside the gaming machine etc. Contaminated air that sucks air, mixes ozone gas generated from an ozone generator provided behind the suction port inside the wind tunnel, and the sucked contaminated air and discharges it upward from the discharge port above the wind tunnel A suction cleaning device is formed, and the thickness of the device is in the range of 25 mm to 70 mm. Further, the height is set to less than 830 mm.

  By actually installing the contaminated air suction cleaning device of the present invention in the playground, the contaminated air in the game space is sucked in the vicinity of the pollution source and released above the island by vigorous mixing with ozone in the device. From this, the air environment of the game space can be improved. Furthermore, due to the strong mixing with ozone of this system, the polluted air flows from the game space to the upper part of the island while purifying reaction (chemical reaction), and as a result, ozone diffuses throughout the playground and at the same time purifies the contamination in the playground To do.

  A vertically long wind tunnel is provided, and a suction mechanism using a centrifugal blower is provided inside the wind tunnel. Contaminated air is sucked from a vertically long suction port located on the side of a game machine or the like, and an ozone generator provided behind the suction port inside the wind tunnel. The generated ozone gas and the sucked contaminated air are mixed and discharged upward from the discharge port above the wind tunnel, and the thickness of the device is limited to a range of 25 mm to 70 mm. Furthermore, the height is less than 830 mm.

  Example 1 will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of the contaminated air suction cleaning apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view thereof. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the configuration of the present invention for explaining the function. Since the contaminated air suction cleaning device of the present invention is characterized by being installed in a narrow space between game machines and the like in order to exert its effect, the thickness of the device as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. Was very thin, this time limited to the range of 30 mm to 45 mm. In Example 1, the width is 30 mm except for the suction chamber (5). In Fig. 2, the suction chamber (5) is located 80mm behind the front of the wind tunnel, and its width is only 45mm. The height can be adjusted to the standard of the gaming device, but in this embodiment is 810 mm, and the depth is 190 mm at the maximum. As shown in FIG. 3, a filter holder is inserted so that a filter (14) is inserted into the back side of the front panel (2) of the contaminated air suction and cleaning device of the present embodiment, which is located almost on the same plane as the front panel of a gaming machine or the like. (15) is attached. Contaminated air is sucked through the filter (14) from the suction slit (3) processed in the front panel (2), and the wind tunnel along with ozone generated from the ozone generator (13) installed immediately after the filter (14). After passing through (4), it is guided to the suction chamber (5) which has been decompressed by the centrifugal blower (12). After that, the mixed gas of ozone and polluted air is stirred and mixed by a centrifugal blower (12), and is mixed through the blowing chamber (6) and upward through the blowing slit (1) of the front panel (2). To be released.

  A second embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 4 is a front view of Embodiment 2 of the contaminated air suction cleaning apparatus of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view thereof. The internal configuration of the second embodiment is almost the same as the configuration diagram of the first embodiment. Example 2 is a suction chamber as shown in Example 1 and has no projection as shown in FIG. 2 (5). The dimensions of Example 2 are 40 mm in width, 810 mm in height, and 210 mm in depth at maximum. The functional aspect is the same as in the first embodiment.

  The difference between Example 1 and Example 2 is due to the frame structure of the island where gaming machines are installed. When there is a support column at the place where the present invention is applied, the one as in the first embodiment is applied. In this example, the width in Example 1 is set to 30 mm on the front panel surface and 45 mm in the suction chamber, whereas in Example 2, the width is set to 40 mm. The specified lower limit of 25 mm or more of the width of claim 1 of the present invention is because the suction amount of the contaminated air is limited by further reducing the width. On the other hand, the upper limit of 80 mm or less is a balance between the number of game machines installed in the amusement hall and the space. The width of the gaming machine is about 520mm to 565mm including the inter-bed sand machine (cash thrower). For example, if 20 565 mm gaming machines are installed side by side, 19 to 20 products of the present invention can be introduced. In that case, if it is 25 mm or more and 80 mm or less, 19 to 20 units of the present invention can be installed by securing a space equivalent to 3 units from 1 gaming machine. On the other hand, if it exceeds 80 mm, the occupied space of the product of the present invention becomes more than four gaming machines.

  These 20 units are usually arranged in one row, and this set is arranged in two rows back to back, and these two rows are called islands. The size of the playground is determined by the number of islands in the playground. According to the above calculation, when it is set to 80 mm or less, the installation space for six gaming machines per island is sacrificed, but this space is appropriate considering the space between adjacent players.

  On the other hand, when installing more than 80 mm, it will occupy the installation space of 8 or more gaming machines, and if the number of islands is n islands, the space for 8n units will be wasted. In this case, the space per player is widened, but considering the wasted space of the entire amusement hall, it will impede the operating efficiency of the amusement hall. Not appropriate.

  In claim 2, the height of the contaminated air supply and cleaning device is preferably set to 830 mm or less in consideration of the size of the gaming machine installation location and the size of the gaming machine.

  FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the state in which the contaminated air suction cleaning device of the present invention is actually installed. On both sides of the gaming machine (19), there is a device for inserting cash or a prepaid card for starting the gaming machine and a support (17) for supporting the island. The first embodiment of the present invention is installed in the space between the support post (17) and the gaming machine (19). In this way, the above-described contamination of the gaming environment can be eliminated by incorporating the game machine sandwiched with the contaminated air suction cleaning device of the present invention, that is, incorporating the contaminated air suction cleaning system of the present invention into the island.

  By setting the width of the air suction cleaning device of the present invention in the range of 25 mm or more and 70 mm or less and defining the height as 830 mm or less, the player can widen a comfortable space without impairing the business efficiency of the game hall. And provide a comfortable air environment.

1 is a front view of Example 1. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of Example 1. FIG. It is a structure schematic diagram for function description of a contaminated air suction cleaning apparatus. 6 is a front view of Example 2. FIG. The perspective view of Example 2. FIG. It is a schematic diagram of the state which actually installed the contaminated air suction cleaning apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Outlet slit 2 Front panel 3 Suction slit 4 Wind tunnel 5 Suction chamber 6 Outlet chamber 7 Control part 8 Fixing bracket A
9 Fixing bracket B
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Power supply wiring 11 Control circuit 12 Centrifugal blower 13 Ozone generator 14 Filter 15 Filter holder 16 Contaminated air suction cleaning device 17 Prop 18 Device for inserting cash or prepaid card for starting a game machine 19 Game machine

Claims (2)

    A vertically long wind tunnel different from a gaming machine is provided beside a pachinko machine or slot machine (hereinafter referred to as a gaming machine, etc.), and a suction mechanism using a centrifugal blower is provided inside the wind tunnel, and the suction located next to the gaming machine, etc. Smoke contaminated air such as odors from the mouth, mix the ozone gas generated from the ozone generator provided behind the suction port inside the wind tunnel and the sucked contaminated air, and release it upward from the discharge port above the wind tunnel A polluted air suction cleaning apparatus characterized in that the width is 25 mm or more and 70 mm or less. The contaminated air suction cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the height is less than 830 mm.

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