JP2007054346A - Substrate mounting device for game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a substrate mounting device for a game machine where operability is improved by preventing an already wired harness from falling out etc. from the casing of the game machine in the case of installing the game machine at an island structure. <P>SOLUTION: The substrate mounting device 100 for mounting an external concentrated terminal board 25 into the game machine is provided with: a mounting part 101 for mounting the substrate; and an end rail part 102 where a temporarily fixing part for holding the harness CBL for communicating with an external device is formed and which is arranged opposing to the substrate. The harness is temporarily fixed and held to be prevented from falling out from the casing. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention provides a gaming machine board that is provided in a gaming machine such as a pachinko machine or a slot machine, and an external terminal board for connecting the gaming machine and an external device such as a hall computer in a communicable manner is mounted in the housing. It relates to a mounting device.

  Conventionally, in gaming machines such as pachinko machines and slot machines that have been installed in a lot of gaming stores such as pachinko halls, gaming machines such as game processing, internal lottery of winning-related items and management processing related to medal reception and payout There are provided control boards such as a main control board that controls the overall operation and a sub-control board that is mainly in charge of control related to effects. In addition, an external terminal board for connecting the hall computer of the game store and these control boards so as to communicate with each other is fixed at a predetermined position in the housing.

  Such an external terminal board functions as a relay board for the gaming machine to communicate with an external device such as a hall computer, and for example, data information such as the number of medals inserted into the gaming machine and the number paid out to the player. By transmitting the main control board to the hall computer, the hall computer can centrally manage the operating status such as sales in the store and winning and losing in each gaming machine.

  By the way, when installing a gaming machine on an island structure built in a game space in a store, usually a communication harness that branches from a communication cable wired in the island structure to each stand is played. Connect the communication harness to the external terminal board after inserting the casing into the accommodation space of the island structure and nailing and fixing it in advance through the insertion hole on the machine back plate. is doing.

  However, in conventional gaming machines, the communication harness may accidentally fall out from the insertion hole of the housing during the work of inserting the housing into the island structure, and the installation work must be repeated. There were difficulties in sex.

  The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems, and when installing a gaming machine on an island structure, the harness already wired is prevented from dropping off from the casing of the gaming machine and improving workability. An object of the present invention is to provide a board mounting device for a gaming machine.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the invention according to claim 1 is a gaming machine in which a rear side is attached to an external terminal board on which a connector for signal connection to an external device is mounted on the front side and is attached to the gaming machine. In the board mounting apparatus for the present invention, a plate-like curtain plate portion is disposed opposite to the front side surface of the external terminal board, and a temporary fastening portion for temporarily fastening a harness connected to the connector is formed on the curtain plate portion. Features.

  According to the substrate mounting apparatus of the first aspect, the curtain plate portion having the temporary fixing portion capable of holding the harness is disposed opposite to the external terminal substrate on which the connector for signal connection with the external device is mounted. . By holding the harness connected to the connector in the temporary fixing part formed on the curtain plate part, for example, when installing a gaming machine on an island structure of a gaming store, the harness pulled out from the case is dropped from the housing There is no longer to do. In addition, since the harness is held near the connector to be connected, it is easy to assemble and install the gaming machine.

  As described above, according to the substrate mounting apparatus of the present invention, the harness can be temporarily fixed to the curtain plate portion arranged to face the external terminal substrate. As a result, for example, when installing a gaming machine on an island structure, the already wired harness will not fall out of the housing, and the harness can be held at a position near the connector to be connected. Operations such as assembly and installation of gaming machines can be easily performed.

  Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a substrate mounting apparatus according to the present invention will be described based on an example mounted on a gaming machine such as a slot machine. First, an outline of a slot machine 1 which is a typical example of a gaming machine on which a board mounting device is mounted will be described with reference to a perspective view shown in FIG.

  In the slot machine 1, a front door 3 that faces the player side and constitutes a so-called front mask is attached to an opening side of a housing 2 that is a substantially rectangular box body so as to be opened and closed by a hinge mechanism (not shown). The front door 3 is roughly divided into an upper panel portion and a lower panel portion, and these are integrally formed of a hard plastic designed to enhance the visual effect as a decorative board. In addition, a tray unit 4 that forms a tray part for storing medals is provided at the lower part of the front door 3.

  The upper panel 5 and the side lamps 6a and 6b with a built-in high-intensity light-emitting diode are arranged on the upper panel of the front door 3. Is going. In addition, the upper panel section is provided with left and right effect sound emitting sections 7a and 7b with built-in speakers, which provide effects such as sound effects and musical sounds selected according to the progress of the game. Furthermore, a liquid crystal display unit 8 is disposed between the sound emission units 7a and 7b for effects. The liquid crystal display unit 8 displays a moving image selected in accordance with the progress of the game, gives the game a story, or suggests an internal winning result to the player to cause a sense of expectation. Etc.

  A middle panel unit 9 having a substantially rectangular transparent display window 9 a is attached to the center of the upper panel portion from the back side of the front door 3. The three cylindrical reels 10a, 10b, and 10c provided in the housing 2 are configured to be viewed through the display window 9a.

  That is, the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c are arranged in the lateral direction along the respective rotation axes to constitute the reel unit 10, and a plurality of different types are provided on the outer peripheral surfaces of the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c. For example, 21 identification symbols including are arranged at almost equal intervals. And it is configured so that three vertical and three horizontal symbols facing the display window 9a can be seen from the player side through the display window 9a.

  In the middle of the front door 3, a medal insertion part 11 having an insertion slot for inserting medals used in the game, a bet button 12, a start lever 13, and three stop buttons for instructing the operation of the game 14a, 14b, and 14c are disposed, respectively.

  The bet button 12 is a push-type operation switch for presenting the number of medals bet on the game of the slot machine 1. The start lever 13 is a lever switch for instructing to rotate the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c all at once. The start lever 13 is turned on when a lever having a spherical operation knob at the tip is tilted in any of the vertical and horizontal directions. When the hand is released from the lever, the spring is automatically returned to its original position and turned off by the biasing force of the spring.

  The stop buttons 14a, 14b, and 14c are push-type switches for individually instructing to stop the rotation of the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c, and are arranged in parallel corresponding to the arrangement of the reels.

  The lower panel formed on the front door 3 is provided with a panel 15 for displaying, for example, a picture of an appearing character so that the player can recognize the model type of the slot machine 1 and the like.

  The tray unit 4 is provided with a medal discharge port 16 for discharging medals at the time of winning and the like, and an effect sound emitting unit 17 that incorporates a speaker and generates effect sound according to the progress of the game.

  Next, the internal structure of the slot machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. First, a main control board 21 that performs overall control of the overall operation of the slot machine 1 is attached to the upper portion of the housing 2. The main control board 21 is a control circuit board on which electronic components such as an interface circuit having a matching function when communicating with a CPU, ROM, RAM, and other peripheral devices are mounted, and is housed in a transparent board case. It is fixed in the body 2 so as not to be detached.

  Near the center of the housing 2, a reel unit 10 in which three reels 10a, 10b, and 10c are arranged in parallel in the axial direction is opposed to the display window 9a formed on the front door 3 side. It is installed at the position to be. Each reel 10a, 10b, 10c is rotationally driven by a stepping motor fitted to each hub portion.

  Below the reel unit 10, a hopper unit 22 that stores medals inserted from the medal insertion unit 11 and pays out medals from the medal payout port 22 a at the time of a prize payout, and a spillover medals from the hopper unit 22 are accommodated. The overflow tank 23 and a power supply unit 24 that distributes required power to each device built in the slot machine 1 are installed.

  Further, the main control board 21 described above is communicably connected to the upper right inner wall of the housing 2 to a hall computer that is a computer that centrally manages the operating state of gaming machines installed in the gaming store. An external terminal board called an external concentration terminal board 25 that functions as a relay board is fixed via a board mounting apparatus 100 according to the present invention. In the slot machine 1 of this embodiment, for example, the number of medals inserted and paid out, and status signals such as whether or not the slot machine 1 is operating normally are sent to the hall computer via the external concentrated terminal board 25. It is sent from time to time. As a result, the hall computer can grasp and manage operating statuses such as sales and game wins and losses for all gaming machines installed in the store.

  Next, on the front door 3 side, speakers 31a and 31b facing the above-described sound emitting portions for production 7a and 7b are attached at the upper position. Further, a sub-control board 32 for controlling and driving the liquid crystal display unit, the speakers 31a, 31b, and the like is attached to the back surface of the liquid crystal display unit 8 (see FIG. 1) disposed between the speakers 31a, 31b. The sub control board 32 controls the display of the effect image by the liquid crystal display unit 8, the illumination control using the upper lamp 5 and the side lamps 6a, 6b, and the effect sound effect using the effect sound emitting units 7a, 7b, 17 It is a control circuit board for mainly performing control related to game effects such as control.

  Below the sub-control board 32, the middle panel unit 9 having a transparent display window 9a for seeing through the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c is attached. The middle panel unit 9 includes a cold cathode fluorescent tube 33 for illuminating the outer peripheral surfaces of the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c to display a design brightly, and operation switches such as a start lever 13 and stop buttons 14a, 14b, and 14c. And a central display board 34 that relays these switch signals to the main control board 21 on the housing 2 side, and these are formed as a unit.

  A medal selector 35 is attached below the middle panel unit 9. The medal selector 35 is a device that determines and distributes the suitability of medals inserted into the medal insertion unit 11 on the front surface. When the inserted medal is determined to be appropriate by the medal selector 35, a medal acceptance signal is transmitted to the main control board 21. The main control board 21 stores medals internally by adding a credit each time a medal acceptance signal is received.

  Below the medal selector 35, a medal guide unit 36 that guides the appropriate medal selected and detected by the medal selector to the hopper unit 22 on the housing 2 side, and a medal that has been dropped as inappropriate by the medal selector 35 (or A flow chute 37 that guides the foreign matter) to the front medal discharge port 16 and a medal payout passage 38 that guides the medals discharged in contact with the medal payout port 22a of the hopper unit 22 to the front medal discharge port 16 are provided. ing. Further, a speaker 39 is attached adjacent to the medal discharge port 16 so as to face the above-described effect sound emitting unit 17.

  The slot machine 1 configured as described above enters a standby state when a prize is won in the previous game and the payout of medals is completed, or when a loss is confirmed in the previous game. In this state, when the bet button 12 is pressed, medals are bet on the game from medals (credits) stored therein, and the game starts.

  When the start lever 13 is tilted in the game start state, the main control board 21 starts to rotate the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c all at once. At the same time, the winning combination is drawn by internal processing, and the result is stored in a flag (memory).

  Next, when the player presses the stop buttons 14a, 14b, and 14c in an arbitrary order, the main control board 21 sequentially stops the corresponding reels accordingly. When the main control board 21 detects that all the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c have stopped, the symbol combination displayed on each reel matches the symbol combination related to the winning combination stored in the flag. It is determined whether or not. When they match, the winning is confirmed, and a medal with the number of payouts corresponding to the type of winning combination is added to the credit. When the credit exceeds the upper limit due to the payout of the winning prize, the hopper unit 22 is operated to pay out the surplus medal from the medal discharge port 16 to the tray unit 4.

  As described above, the player of the slot machine 1 performs a game operation for rotating and stopping the reels 10a, 10b, and 10c, and loses the bet medals if the symbols variably displayed on the display window 9a are not aligned with the active line. If a winning combination is achieved with a predetermined combination of symbols, it is possible to acquire more medals than the betted number, so that it is possible to enjoy a winning / losing game with an interest in increasing the number of medals depending on the skill and luck.

  Next, the board mounting apparatus 100 according to the present invention for mounting the external concentration terminal board 25 at a predetermined position in the housing 2 of the slot machine 1 described above will be described. Here, FIG. 3A is a front view of the board mounting apparatus 100 to which the external concentration terminal plate 25 is attached, and FIG. 3B is a side view thereof.

  Referring to these drawings, the external concentration terminal board 25 includes a connector 25a for connecting to a hall computer, photocouplers 25b, 25b,... For optically transmitting signals in an electrically insulated state, and for each channel. Monitor LEDs 25c, 25c,... That display the signal output state are mounted on the front side.

  The board mounting apparatus 100 is opposed to the substantially flat mounting portion 101 mounted on the back side of the external concentrated terminal plate 25 and screwed to the side plate 2a of the housing 2 and the front surface of the external concentrated terminal plate 25 as described above. The monitor LEDs 25c, 25c,... Are formed of a metal plate made of stainless steel or the like so as to be integrally formed.

  The curtain plate portion 102 includes an introduction groove portion 102a having an opening on the side facing the harness insertion hole 26 (see FIG. 2) formed on the back plate of the housing 2, and a holding groove portion that is bent at a right angle with respect to the introduction groove portion 102a. 102b is continuously cut out, thereby forming a temporary fixing portion that can hold the communication harness (CBL) connected to the connector 25a in a temporarily fixed state.

  The external concentrated terminal board 25 is mounted on the mounting portion 101 of the board mounting apparatus 100 via an insulating base 110 that is plastic molded in conformity with the external dimensions of the external concentrated terminal board. That is, the insulating stand 110 is screwed and fixed to the side plate 2a of the housing 2 with the mounting portion 101 interposed therebetween, and the external concentration terminal plate 25 is fitted by the claw portion 111 formed on the side portion.

  Next, the operation of the board mounting apparatus 100 will be described with reference to the perspective view of FIG. Here, when installing and installing the slot machine 1 in the island structure constructed in the game space of the game store, the communication harness CBL branched from the communication cable connected to the hall computer is connected to the housing 2 in advance. It is desirable that the harness is inserted through the harness insertion hole 26 in order to efficiently advance the work.

  In the board mounting apparatus 100 according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 4, the harness CBL inserted into the housing 2 through the harness insertion hole 26 is inserted into the introduction groove 102a and entangled with the holding groove 102b. Temporarily fix. In this temporarily fixed state, even if the harness CBL is accidentally pulled during the operation of inserting the housing 2 of the slot machine 1 into the island structure, the harness CBL is not dropped from the harness insertion hole 26 to the outside. Disappear.

  Further, even if an external force acts on the harness in a state where the connector CNT on the harness CBL side is connected to the connector 25a of the external concentration terminal plate 25, the external force is transmitted to the connector 25a by being held by the temporary fixing portion. Not affected. Therefore, problems such as disconnection of the connectors CNT and 25a are not caused.

  In the structure of the board mounting apparatus 100 according to the present invention, the curtain plate portion 102 is disposed to face the front side of the external concentration terminal board 25. For this reason, the above-described monitor LED 25c and the like mounted on the board are visually shielded, for example, illegal actions such as stealing the display state of the monitor LED 25c from the gap of the display window 9a of the slot machine 1 and carrying the game advantageously. The effect which prevents is also provided.

  According to the board mounting apparatus 100 of the embodiment described above, the communication harness CBL is temporarily fixed and held in the temporary fixing portion that is disposed opposite to the front surface of the external concentration terminal board 25. During the operation of installing the slot machine 1, the harness CBL is not dropped from the housing 2, and the operation of installation or the like can be facilitated or made efficient.

  Further, since the harness CBL is held at a position close to the connector 25a to be connected, the slot machine 1 can be easily connected when the slot machine 1 is assembled.

  Further, even if an external force is applied to the harness CBL drawn out of the housing 2, there is no problem such as disconnection of the connectors CNT and 25a.

  Further, since the monitor LED 25c and the like mounted on the external concentration terminal board 25 are visually shielded by the curtain plate portion 102, illegal actions such as stealing the display state of the monitor LED 25c and carrying the game of the slot machine 1 advantageously are performed. It can also be prevented.

It is a perspective view showing the appearance structure of the slot machine which is an example of the gaming machine to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 2 is a front view showing the internal structure of the slot machine shown in FIG. 1 with the front door opened. It is the front view and side view of a board | substrate mounting apparatus which mounted | wore with the external concentration terminal board by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view for demonstrating the effect | action of the board | substrate attachment apparatus shown in FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Slot machine 2 ... Housing | casing 3 ... Front door 4 ... Receptacle unit 5 ... Upper lamp 6a, 6b ... Side lamp 7a, 7b ... Sound emission part 8 ... Liquid crystal display unit 9 ... Middle panel unit 9a ... Display window 10 ... reel unit 10a, 10b, 10c ... reel 11 ... medal insertion part 12 ... bet button 13 ... start lever 14a, 14b, 14c ... stop button 15 ... panel 16 ... medal discharge port 17 ... sound emission part 21 for production 21 ... main control Board 22 ... Hopper unit 22a ... Medal payout port 23 ... Overflow tank 24 ... Power supply unit 25 ... External concentration terminal plate 25a ... Connector 25b ... Photo relay 25c ... Monitor LED
26 ... Harness insertion holes 31a, 31b ... Speaker 32 ... Sub-control board 33 ... Cold cathode fluorescent tube 34 ... Central display board 35 ... Medal selector 36 ... Medal guide part 37 ... Flow chute 38 ... Medal payout passage 39 ... Speaker 100 ... Board Mounting device 101 ... Mounting portion 102 ... Curtain plate portion 102a ... Introducing groove portion 102b ... Hitting groove portion 110 ... Insulating base 111 ... Nail portion

Claims (1)

In the board mounting device for gaming machines, the rear side is attached to the external terminal board mounted on the front side with a connector for signal connection to an external device, and is mounted in the gaming machine.
A board mounting apparatus characterized in that a plate-like curtain plate part is disposed opposite to the front side surface of the external terminal board, and a temporary fastening part for temporarily fastening a harness connected to the connector is formed on the curtain board part.

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