JP2010227480A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a circuit board for mounting memory devices such as a ROM and electronic devices such as a CPU by using a highly-flexible board, to facilitate peeling a seal such as a ROM seal off the flexible board by pasting the seal on the flexible board; and to provide a game machine having a circuit unit for easily achieving reuse of the electronic devices and the flexible board. <P>SOLUTION: The right side of the flexible board 261 is curved as if it is twisted from the side of a back face 261a toward a front face 261b in a direction indicated by an arrow A in the figure, so that the ROM seal 266 is peeled from the right of the flexible board 261 at an upper right corner 266a in the figure. Thus, the entire ROM seal 266 is easily peeled from the flexible board 261, for example, by holding the upper right corner 266a of the ROM seal 266 with the fingers and separating it from the flexible board 261. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a gaming machine provided with a circuit unit in which a storage element such as a read-only memory (ROM) and an electronic element such as a central processing unit (CPU) are provided on a circuit board.

  Conventionally, as this type of gaming machine, for example, a gaming machine described in Patent Document 1 below has been proposed. This gaming machine includes a board box, and a control board on which a ROM is mounted is accommodated in the board box. Here, on the surface of the ROM, a ROM seal describing the manufacturer name of the gaming machine and the like is attached with an adhesive.

JP 2006-231042 A

  By the way, in the above gaming machine, it is natural from the viewpoint of resource saving, but since the ROM is particularly expensive, there is a strong demand for reusing the ROM. Therefore, in order to respond to such a request, it is necessary to remove the above-mentioned ROM seal from the ROM.

  However, since the ROM seal is firmly attached to the surface of the ROM, if the ROM seal is peeled off from the ROM surface by hand, the ROM seal may be broken and partially remain on the ROM surface. Further, if the ROM seal is to be peeled off from the surface of the ROM using tweezers, for example, the control board on which the ROM is mounted may be damaged by the tweezers.

  Even if the ROM seal can be peeled off, an extra work is required to clean the ROM so as not to leave a trace of the ROM seal.

  For this, it is conceivable to attach the ROM seal to the surface of the control board in the vicinity of the ROM. However, in this case, the same fear as described above occurs when the control board is reused.

  Therefore, in order to cope with the above, the present invention utilizes a flexible flexible substrate as a circuit board on which a storage element such as a ROM and an electronic element such as a CPU are provided, and a seal such as a ROM seal is provided. An object of the present invention is to provide a gaming machine including a circuit unit that can be easily peeled off from a flexible substrate by being affixed to the flexible substrate so that electronic elements and flexible substrates can be easily reused. .

In solving the above-described problems, a gaming machine according to the present invention, according to claim 1,
A circuit unit (260) is provided.

The circuit unit is
A flexible substrate (261);
ROM and other electronic elements (262, 263, 264) provided on the surfaces (261a, 261b) of the flexible substrate,
And a sticker (266) which is attached to a part of the surface of the flexible substrate with a predetermined adhesive and displays an identification mark for identifying at least the ROM.

  According to this, when the flexible substrate is curved from the surface side toward the opposite surface side at a part of the surface by utilizing the flexibility of the flexible substrate, the seal is obtained. Is peeled off from a part of the surface of the flexible substrate at a portion corresponding to the part of the surface of the flexible substrate.

  Therefore, if the part of the seal thus peeled off from a part of the surface of the flexible substrate is separated from the flexible substrate with, for example, a finger, the seal is easily peeled from the flexible substrate as a whole. be able to. In addition, since it is not necessary to use tweezers when peeling the seal from the flexible substrate, the situation that the flexible substrate is damaged by the tweezers does not occur.

  Here, since the seal is attached to the surface of the flexible substrate, not the ROM, the ROM can be easily reused only by removing the ROM from the flexible substrate. In this case, as described above, since the seal is not attached to the surface of the ROM, the troublesome work of forcibly removing the seal from the surface of the ROM occurs, and as a result of this work, the trace of the seal is Occurrence of defects that remain on the surface can be prevented in advance.

  Moreover, in peeling off the seal attached to a part of the surface of the flexible substrate, just by separating the seal partially peeled from the flexible substrate by bending the flexible substrate as described above, The seal can be easily and easily peeled off from the surface of the flexible substrate. Therefore, the flexible substrate can be reused well without leaving a trace of the seal.

Moreover, according to the description of claim 2, the present invention provides the gaming machine according to claim 1,
The seal is formed of a sealing material having elasticity enough to be peeled off from the flexible substrate by its restoring force under its curvature,
The predetermined adhesive is made of an adhesive that can peel off the seal from the flexible substrate under the curvature of the flexible substrate.

As described above, the seal is formed of a sealing material having elasticity that can be peeled off from the flexible substrate by its restoring force under the curve, and the predetermined adhesive is sealed under the curve of the flexible substrate. Since the adhesive is such that the flexible substrate can be peeled off from the flexible substrate, when the flexible substrate is bent from the surface side toward the surface side from the surface side to a part of the surface, the seal is The flexible substrate is easily peeled off from the surface of the flexible substrate at a portion corresponding to a part of the surface. As a result, the function and effect of the first aspect of the invention can be further improved.

Moreover, according to the description of claim 3, the present invention provides the gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2,
The seal is a ROM seal formed by adhering to a portion of the flexible substrate near the ROM that is easily bent.

  Thereby, the effect of the invention according to claim 1 or 2 can be more specifically improved while playing a role of clearly recognizing that the seal is a ROM seal for specifying a ROM.

According to the description of claim 4, the present invention provides the gaming machine according to claim 3,
The portion of the flexible substrate that is easily bent is an edge portion of the flexible substrate.

  According to this, since the seal is attached to the edge portion of the flexible substrate, the seal can be more easily peeled off from the flexible substrate by curving the edge portion.

  In addition, the code | symbol in the bracket | parenthesis of each said means shows the correspondence with the specific means as described in embodiment mentioned later.

It is a front view showing one embodiment of a pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention. It is a front view of the game board of FIG. It is a back perspective view of the game board main body of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view of the game board main body of FIG. It is a back perspective view which shows the display apparatus main body of FIG. 4 in the state which removed the cover body. It is the perspective view which looked at the circuit unit of the lowest stage of FIG. 5 from the back surface side. It is the perspective view which looked at the circuit unit of the lowest stage of FIG. 5 from the surface side. It is a partially broken perspective view which shows the curved state of the flexible substrate of FIG.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a pachinko gaming machine to which the present invention is applied. The pachinko gaming machine is erected on an island in the pachinko hall. The pachinko gaming machine has a machine frame (not shown) and a gaming machine main body supported to be openable and closable in the front-rear direction. B and the front door FD. The pachinko machine is a so-called digipachi pachinko machine.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the gaming machine main body B includes a gaming board 10, and the gaming board 10 is fitted into a frame (not shown) of the gaming machine main body B. The gaming machine main body B is supported by the frame so as to be openable and closable in the front-rear direction with respect to the machine frame.

  The gaming machine main body B includes a guide rail 20, an annular center ornament 30, and a failure nail group 40 including a number of failure nails. The guide rail 20 is disposed along the board surface 11 of the game board 10, and the guide rail 20 specifies the game area 12 on the board surface 11 of the game board 10 on the inner peripheral side thereof. Thus, the guide rail 20 guides a game ball launched from a ball launching device (not shown) by the turning operation of the handle H (see FIG. 1), and rolls it into the game area 12. In addition, the said ball | bowl launching device is arrange | positioned in the lower right part of the said frame of the gaming machine main body B. In addition, the handle H is provided as a component part of the ball launcher from the front of the lower right portion of the frame body of the gaming machine main body B.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the center decoration 30 is assembled from the board surface 11 side to the outer periphery of the central opening of the game board 10. Each obstacle nail of the obstacle nail group 40 is driven into the game board 10 in a distributed manner from the board surface 11 side from the left side to the lower side of the center decoration 30 inside the guide rail 20. Thus, according to the obstacle nail group 40, the game ball rolling from the guide rail 20 into the game area 12 rolls downward along the board surface 11 of the game board 10 through collision with each obstacle nail. .

  Further, the gaming machine main body B includes a start chucker 50, an electric tulip 60, a through gate 70, a windmill 80, a plurality of ordinary winning holes 90, an attacker 100, a plurality of starboard lamps 110, and a plurality of star-shaped movable objects 120. The start chucker 50, the electric tulip 60, the through gate 70, the windmill 80, each regular winning opening 90, the attacker 100, and each star board lamp 110 are located at each position shown in FIG. Is assembled in the game area 12 to the board surface 11. Moreover, each star-shaped movable accessory 120 is arrange | positioned at the right side part of the center decoration 30 as shown in FIG.

  The gaming machine main body B includes a display effect device 200 as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, and the display effect device 200 has an opening 13 (FIG. 4) provided at the center of the game board 10. The game board 10 is mounted from the back side so as to face the front.

  As shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. 5, the display effect device 200 includes an apparatus main body 200 a and a lid body 200 b that closes the apparatus main body 200 a from the back surface. The apparatus main body 200a is attached to the gaming board 10 of the gaming machine main body B from the back side, and as shown in FIG. 5, the apparatus main body 200a has a liquid crystal panel 210, a lamp control panel 210a, and an effect control panel 210b. And a plurality of circuit elements 220 and a plurality of circuit units 230 to 260.

  Here, the liquid crystal panel 210 is attached to the opening 13 so as to face the front through the opening 13 of the game board 10 on the display surface. As shown in FIG. 5, the lamp control panel 210a and the effect control panel 210b are mounted on the liquid crystal panel 210 side by side from the back side. Note that the lamp control panel 210a controls various types of light emission control in the pachinko gaming machine, and is a control panel that can change depending on the model of the pachinko gaming machine, but if anything, the pachinko gaming machine The control panel is common to all models. The effect control board 210b is responsible for overall control of the effects of the pachinko gaming machine, and the effect control board 210b is a control board common to each model of the pachinko gaming machine. Of the plurality of circuit elements 220, the three circuit elements 220 positioned on the lower side in FIG. 5 are both connectors.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the plurality of circuit units 230 to 260 are mounted on the back surface of the apparatus main body 200 a side by side at the lower right portion in the figure. Here, as shown in FIG. 6 or FIG. 7, the circuit unit 260 located at the lowest stage includes a flexible substrate 261, a CPU 262, a ROM 263, a RAM 264, and a connector 265.

  The flexible substrate 261 is configured by forming conductive wiring patterns on both sides of a longitudinal thin film made of a flexible electrically insulating resin material (for example, polyimide resin material). At the side edge portion (one side edge portion in the vertical direction shown in FIG. 7), it is fitted into a belt-like groove (not shown) formed in the lower right part of the back surface of the display device body 200a, and the display device body 200a It extends in the back direction.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the CPU 262, ROM 263, and RAM 264 are mounted on the back surface 261 a of the flexible substrate 161 side by side in the longitudinal direction (left-right direction in FIG. 7). As shown in FIG. 6, the connector 265 is attached to the surface 261 b of the flexible substrate 261, and the connection terminals of the CPU 262, ROM 263, and RAM 264 are connected to the connector 265 through the flexible substrate 261. .

  Here, the ROM 263 stores in advance a control program executed by the CPU 262 together with various data. The CPU 262 executes the control program and performs display control of the liquid crystal panel 210 via the connector 265. The RAM 264 stores data processed by the CPU 262 as input by the CPU 262 via the connector 265. In the present embodiment, various data stored in the ROM 263 is data for causing a lamp, a movable object, a liquid crystal panel, and the like to perform effects and displays peculiar to the pachinko gaming machine.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 7, the circuit unit 260 has a ROM seal 266. The ROM seal 266 includes a manufacturing number of the ROM 263 and a model number of the pachinko gaming machine (consisting of numerals, alphabets, etc.). Various identification characters such as and other identification marks are displayed. Examples of the sealing material for the ROM seal 266 include thick high-quality paper, miracoat paper, thick Japanese paper, YUPO, and Tetoron.

  Therefore, the ROM seal 266 is attached to a portion near the ROM 263 on the back surface 261a of the flexible substrate 261 with a predetermined adhesive. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, the ROM seal 266 is attached to the back surface 261 a of the flexible substrate 261 at a portion 261 c on one side edge in the width direction between the ROM 263 and the RAM 264. In the present embodiment, as the predetermined adhesive, an adhesive that can peel the ROM seal 266 from the flexible substrate 261 under the curvature of the flexible substrate 261 is employed.

  In the present embodiment configured as described above, for example, when the gaming board body B of the pachinko gaming machine is replaced with a new gaming board body, the reusable gaming board body B It is requested from the viewpoint of resource saving that it is removed from the board body B and reused.

  For example, when reusing the circuit unit 260 of the image display device 200 described above, the lid 200b is removed from the display device body 200a, and then the circuit unit 260 is removed from the display device body 200a.

  Thereafter, by utilizing the flexibility of the flexible substrate 261 of the circuit unit 260, the flexible substrate 261 is directed from the back surface 261a side to the front surface 261b side on the right side as shown in FIG. And curved so as to be twisted in the direction indicated by the arrow A in the figure.

  Here, as described above, the ROM seal 266 is formed of a sealing material having elasticity that can be peeled off from the flexible substrate 261 by its restoring force under its curvature, and the predetermined adhesive is the above-described adhesive. In this way, the adhesive is such that the ROM seal 266 can be peeled off from the flexible substrate 261 under the curvature of the flexible substrate 261. Therefore, when the flexible substrate 261 is bent at the right side as described above, the ROM seal 266 is peeled off from the right side of the flexible substrate 261 at the upper right corner 266a shown in FIG.

  Therefore, if the upper right corner 266a (see FIG. 8) of the ROM seal 266 is separated from the flexible substrate 261 with, for example, fingers, the ROM seal 266 can be easily removed from the flexible substrate 261 as a whole. Can be peeled off. Note that it is not necessary to use tweezers to remove the ROM seal 266 as described above, so that the flexible substrate 261 is not damaged by the tweezers.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, as described above, the ROM seal 266 is attached not to the ROM 263 but to the back surface 261a of the flexible substrate 261. Therefore, when the circuit unit 260 is reused, the ROM 263 is used. The ROM 263 can be easily reused simply by removing the connector from the connector 265 and the flexible substrate 261. This means that the expensive ROM can be reused with a simple operation.

  Here, as described above, since the ROM seal 266 is not attached to the surface of the ROM 263, troublesome work of forcibly removing the ROM seal from the surface of the ROM 263 occurs, and as a result of this work, there is a trace of the ROM seal. Occurrence of a problem of remaining on the surface of the ROM 263 can be prevented in advance. This holds true for the RAM 264 and CPU 262 as well.

  When the ROM seal 266 attached to the back surface 261a of the flexible board 261 is peeled off, as described above, the flexible board 261 is bent to remove the ROM seal 266 partially peeled from the flexible board 261. The ROM seal 266 can be easily and easily peeled off from the back surface of the flexible substrate 261 only by pulling it away from the H.261. Therefore, the flexible substrate 261 can be reused well without leaving a trace of the ROM seal 266.

  Further, when the ROM 263 is reused, if the data and control program of the ROM 263 can be rewritten while the ROM 263 is connected to the flexible substrate 261, the ROM 263 can be attached to the flexible substrate 261 only by removing the ROM seal 266 as described above. It can be reused while connected. Note that a new ROM seal required for the identification is attached to the flexible substrate 261 in the rewritten ROM 263.

In carrying out the present invention, the following various modifications are possible without being limited to the above embodiment.
(1) The sticking position of the ROM seal 266 to the flexible substrate 261 is preferably in the vicinity of the ROM 263, but is not particularly limited as long as the flexible substrate 261 is easily bent.
(2) Unlike the above embodiment, the CPU 262, ROM 263, RAM 264, and ROM seal 266 may be provided on the surface 261b of the flexible substrate 261 instead of the connector 265. In this case, the connector 265 may be provided on the back surface 261a of the flexible substrate 261.
(2) In carrying out the present invention, the present invention may be applied to various gaming machines such as a throttle machine (cylinder-type gaming machine) including a circuit board unit, without being limited to pachinko gaming machines.

  260: Circuit unit, 261: Flexible substrate, 262: CPU, 263: ROM, 264: RAM, 266: ROM seal.

Claims (4)

In a gaming machine equipped with a circuit unit,
The circuit unit is
A flexible substrate;
ROM and other electronic elements provided on the surface of the flexible substrate;
A game machine comprising: a sticker attached to a part of the surface of the flexible substrate with a predetermined adhesive and displaying an identification mark for specifying at least the ROM. The seal is formed of a seal material having elasticity to the extent that it is peeled off from the flexible substrate by its restoring force under its curvature,
The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined adhesive is made of an adhesive that can peel off the seal from the flexible board under the curvature of the flexible board.   The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the seal is a ROM seal that is attached to a portion of the flexible substrate that is near the ROM and is easily bent.   The gaming machine according to claim 3, wherein the flexible portion of the flexible board is an edge portion of the flexible board.

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