JP2008093303A - Printing process of illumination device, illumination device, game board unit and pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a production method of an illumination device which can make the outline shapes of individual illumination figures clear. <P>SOLUTION: The method comprises the first printing process for printing characters and/or figures on a front panel 40 of the illumination device 30 by a silk screen printing and the second printing process for printing the peripheral rim part of the front panel 40 by an ink jet printing. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a printing method of an electric decoration device embedded in an opening formed on a substrate surface constituting a game board, and an electric decoration device printed by the printing method, a game board unit, and a pachikon gaming machine.

In gaming machines such as pachinko machines and arrange balls, conventionally, not only lighting effects but also status changes such as changes in gaming status on the gaming board are visually expressed and notified, and the electric For the purpose of, for example, a decoration effect, light emitting devices such as LED lamps and filament lamps are arranged on the board surface and other arbitrary parts.
As this type of pachinko gaming machine, for example, a printed circuit board having a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on the front surface is disposed in an opening formed in a game area of the game board, and the front surface of the opening is light-transmitted on the board surface. There are those provided with a decorative cover member or provided with an electric decoration part to which a translucent cell sheet is attached. According to this, since the illumination part does not protrude from the game board surface and is in the same plane, there is no possibility that the normal operation of the game ball flowing down the game area is prevented by the illumination part, and the illumination part is Compared to the conventional type protruding from the game board surface, it is possible to secure a wide space for the game ball to flow down or roll, so that a limited game area can be used effectively.

In Patent Documents 1 to 3, a translucent hole formed through a board surface by a translucent cell sheet is closed, and the light is emitted from a light source such as an LED disposed in the translucent hole. There is disclosed a gaming machine that emits an electric decoration design. The illumination design is configured such that a part of the cell sheet is a transmissive portion through which light can be transmitted, so that a diagram and an outline of the illumination design can be visually recognized by light emission from the light source.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 2-39783 JP 2004-209039 A JP 2005-152179 A

However, in the conventional electric decoration device, for example, various devices have been made to make the shape and outline of the electric decoration symbol stand out by light so that the shape can be clearly seen, but actually, Light from the light source is easily absorbed and attenuated by the inner wall of the light-transmitting hole formed on the surface of the board. Due to the irregular reflection, the emission direction is excessively diffused, and only the illumination design is concentrated and illumination is impossible. For this reason, the electrical design was apt to become a blurred design with an unclear outline.
The present invention has been made in view of the above, and provides a printing method of an electrical decoration device, an electrical decoration device, a game board unit, and a pachinko gaming machine that does not obscure the outline shape of the electrical design. It is an object.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention according to claim 1 is an electrical decoration device that includes a front plate on which characters and / or symbols are printed and is inserted into an opening formed in a board constituting a game board. A printing method comprising: a first printing step for printing characters and / or designs on the front plate by silk screen printing; and a second printing step for printing a peripheral portion of the front plate by ink jet printing. It is characterized by that.
Moreover, the printing method of the electrical decoration apparatus of Claim 2 is an electrical decoration apparatus provided with the front plate which printed the character and / or the pattern, and being inserted in the opening part formed in the board | substrate which comprises a game board. Characters and / or designs are printed on the front plate by silk screen printing, and a peripheral portion of the front plate is printed by ink jet printing.
The game board unit according to claim 3 is a game board comprising: a substrate; an opening formed in the substrate; and a cell sheet attached and fixed to the surface of the substrate. And an illumination device.
A pachinko gaming machine according to a fourth aspect is provided with the game board unit according to the third aspect.

  According to the present invention, characters and / or designs are printed on the front plate of the decorating device by silk screen printing, and the peripheral portion of the front plate is printed by inkjet printing, thereby shielding the peripheral portion of the decorating device. It is possible to enhance the property and to clarify the appearance of the electrical decoration device. Thus, the presence of the illumination device can be clearly recognized.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an overall front view of a pachinko gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a game board.
The pachinko gaming machine includes a rectangular frame F, and the game board 1 is attached to the frame F.
A variable winning device 2 that operates when a specific condition is satisfied is provided in the center of the front surface of the game area 1a constituting the game board 1. In other words, the variable prize winning device 2 functions as a big prize opening, and a gaming state advantageous to the player is generated when a game ball wins a prize in the big prize opening or a certain condition is established after winning.

Below the variable winning device 2, a start winning port 3 and a normal electric accessory (central start port) 4 are disposed, and a gate 4a is disposed immediately above the normal electric accessory 4. Also, a normal winning opening 5 is provided on each of the left and right sides of the variable winning device 2. When the game ball enters the start winning opening 3, the symbol on the display 11 is changed, and when the symbol stops at a specific symbol (big hit symbol or small hit symbol), the blade members 20L and 20R are controlled to open. At this time, a win is achieved by winning in the specific area 12 provided in the big winning opening.
A glass door frame (not shown) provided with a glass plate covering the front surface of the game board 1 is pivotally supported at one side edge of the frame F so as to be freely opened and closed.

Below the game board 1, a launch ball supply tray 6 that supplies game balls to a launching device that launches game balls to the game board 1, a lower tray 7 that stores game balls overflowing from the launch ball supply dish 6, A hitting ball launching handle 8, a speaker 9 for emitting voice / sound effects to the player, and the like are provided.
This game board 1 is a plate member on which various board surface parts are mounted. On the back surface of the game board, a synthetic resin in which back parts related to the progress and production of the game such as a liquid crystal screen, a main control board and a sub control board are assembled. A mechanical mechanism plate (not shown) is mounted so as to be freely opened and closed.
Around the game area 1a of the game board 1, the game ball launched from the hitting ball launching handle 8 is guided to the upper part of the game area 1a, or as a game ball guide rail that guides to an unillustrated out-ball collection port. A rail R1 and an inner rail R2 are provided.
Further, an electrical decoration device (decorative part) 30 as shown by a broken line in FIG. 2 is embedded on the back side of the cell sheet attached to the upper center of the game area 1a, and is printed on the front surface of the electrical decoration device 30. The character “BATTLE” is configured to emit light when an LED arranged in the interior of the illumination device 30 is turned on and to be seen through the cell sheet.

3 (a) and 3 (b) are a front view and a rear view of the illumination device, and FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b) are cross-sectional views taken along line AA in FIG. It is B sectional drawing. Further, FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the electric decoration device as viewed obliquely from the front.
The electrical decoration device 30 is embedded from the back side into the opening 26 formed in the plywood (substrate) 25 constituting the game board 1 and then screwed and fixed between the back side of the plywood 25 with screws 27. .
The opening 26 has a through hole 26a penetrating the plywood and a shallow digging portion 26b formed at the peripheral edge of the through hole 26a.

The electric decoration device 30 as a decorative part includes a hollow base member 31 having a frame body portion 32 through which the inner side penetrates, and a thin wall portion 33 integrally projecting from the outer peripheral edge of the frame body portion 32. A front plate 40 disposed on the front surface side, a printed circuit board 45 inserted into the frame body portion 32 from the back surface side of the base member 31, and a back surface lid attached and fixed to the back surface side of the frame body portion 32 And a member 50.
A plurality of screw holes 34 for inserting screws 27 from the back side are formed in the thin portion 33 of the base member 31.
The front plate 40 is formed of a resin thin plate having translucency, and arbitrary characters and designs are formed on the front surface thereof by printing or the like.
An LED (not shown) is arranged on the front surface of the printed circuit board 45, and a lead wire (not shown) extending from the printed circuit board 45 is led out from a lead hole 51 provided in the back cover member 50.

In the electrical decoration device 30 configured as described above, the LED on the printed circuit board 45 is caused to emit light, whereby characters, patterns, and the like formed on the front plate 40 that is a light-transmitting material can be emitted. Since the front surface of the opening 26 is closed by the cell sheet in a state where the illumination device 30 is fixed in the opening 26, characters and the like formed on the front plate 40 cannot be seen from the front when the LED is turned off. When the LED emits light, characters and the like can be visually recognized from the front through the cell sheet.
In the present embodiment, the outline of the front plate 40 on which the characters and the like are printed is clearly shown so that the player can clearly see the characters and the like of the lighting device 30 from the front through the cell sheet when the LED emits light. There is a feature in the point.

FIG. 6 is a front view of the electrical decoration device 30 of the present embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 6, in the electrical decoration device 30 of the present embodiment, at least “BATTLE” is formed on the front plate 40 made of a translucent member in order to emit the letters “BATTLE” of the front plate 40 when the LED emits light. "Is printed in white. That is, the background portion (black) 41 is printed while leaving the character portion of “BATTLE”. At this time, characters, designs and the like on the front plate 40 are printed by silk screen printing.
Silk screen printing is a method of rubbing with a rubber called a squeegee from the top of a plate, using a plate with holes (holes) only in the image area on a mesh of silk (currently nylon, tetron, etc.). In this printing method, the ink passes through the hole in the image line portion, and such silk screen printing is inexpensive and has a large amount of ink that can be printed. The background color (black) 41 can be completely covered.

  However, since it is difficult to print the background color portion 41 up to the peripheral portion 42 of the front plate 40 in silk screen printing, there is a possibility that light leaks from the peripheral portion of the front plate 40 during LED emission. In particular, when the front plate 40 is attached to the base member 31, if there is a gap between the frame body portion 32 of the base member 31 and the front plate 40, irregular reflection is caused by the inner wall portion of the frame body portion 32 of the base member 31. Leaked light. Therefore, in the present embodiment, after the background portion 41 is printed on the front plate 40 by silk screen printing, ink is ejected from the nozzles to the peripheral portion 42 of the front plate 40 for printing. The background was printed. If it does in this way, since it can prevent that light leaks from the peripheral part 42 of the front board 40, it will become possible to clarify the outline shape of the electrical decoration apparatus 30. FIG. At this time, if the printing film thickness by ink jet printing is thicker than the printing film thickness by silk screen printing, light leaking from the gap between the frame body portion 32 and the front plate 40 can be shielded.

Hereinafter, the printing procedure of the front plate 40 of the illumination device 30 will be described with reference to FIG.
In this case, first, as a first step, as shown in FIG. 7 (a), a pattern 43 in the image of cracks is printed on the front plate 40 by silk screen printing.
Next, as a second step, as shown in FIG. 7B, the characters “BATTLE” are printed in white on the front plate 40 printed with a pattern 43 that is imaged of cracks by silk screen printing. That is, the background portion (black) 41 of the characters “BATTLE” is printed on the front plate 40. Thereafter, as a third step, the background color (black) is printed by ink jet printing on the peripheral portion 42 of the front plate 40 which could not be printed in the second step, thereby shielding light. Thereby, the front board 40 of the electrical decoration apparatus 30 of this embodiment can be produced.

  In the present embodiment, the lighting device 30 has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and any type of lighting device can be used as long as any character or design is printed on the translucent front plate. It can be applied to the type of lighting equipment.

1 is an overall front view of a pachinko gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is an enlarged view of the game board of this invention. (A) And (b) is the front view and back view of the electrical decoration apparatus which concern on one Embodiment of this invention. (A) And (b) is AA sectional drawing and BB sectional drawing in Fig.3 (a). It is the disassembled perspective view which looked at the electrical decoration apparatus from diagonally forward. It is a front view of the electrical decoration apparatus 30 of this embodiment. (A) thru | or (c) is a figure explaining the printing procedure of the front plate 40 of the electrical decoration apparatus 30. FIG.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Game board, 1a ... Game area, 2 ... Variable prize-winning device, 3 ... Start prize opening, 4 ... Normal electric accessory, 4a ... Gate, 5 ... Normal prize opening, 6 ... Launch ball supply tray, 7 ... Bottom plate , 8 ... Handle for launching ball, 9 ... Speaker, 11 ... Display, 12 ... Specific area, 20 ... Blade member, 25 ... Plywood (substrate), 26 ... Opening, 26a ... Through hole, 26b ... Shallow digging portion, 27 ... Screws, 30 ... Illuminating device, 31 ... Base member, 32 ... Frame body part, 33 ... Thin wall part, 34 ... Screw hole, 40 ... Front plate, 41 ... Background part, 42 ... Peripheral part, 43 ... Pattern, 45 …Printed board

Claims (4)

A printing method of an electrical decoration device comprising a front plate on which characters and / or designs are printed, and being inserted into an opening formed in a substrate constituting a game board,
A first printing step of printing characters and / or designs on the front plate by silk screen printing; and a second printing step of printing a peripheral portion of the front plate by ink jet printing. Printing method for decoration device. An electrical decoration device that includes a front plate on which characters and / or designs are printed, and is inserted into an opening formed in a board constituting a game board,
An electrical decoration device, wherein characters and / or designs are printed on the front plate by silk screen printing, and a peripheral portion of the front plate is printed by ink jet printing. A game board comprising a substrate, an opening formed in the substrate, and a cell sheet attached and fixed to the surface of the substrate;
A game board unit comprising the electrical decoration device according to claim 2.   A pachinko gaming machine comprising the gaming board unit according to claim 3.

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