JP2015229092A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine capable of preventing a medal jamming as well as securing a sufficient presentation area in a space at the back side of a front door.SOLUTION: A game machine 1 includes: a medal (token) input port 14; a medal direction changer 170 for changing a direction to a lateral direction so that front and back surfaces of medals are directed to face lateral side of the game machine; and a medal selector 16. Between the medal direction changer 170 and the medal selector 16, as a passage part 185 is provided extending from the medal direction changer 170 toward a depth side of the game machine 1, and rolling the medals ejected from the medal direction changer 170 to the medal selector 16 in an erected state, therefore a sufficient presentation area can be secured in a space at a back side of a front door 3, and a size reduction of the medal selector can be realized. Also, since a guide part 180 abuts on medals entered from a reception opening and promotes rolling of the medals, the rolling of the medals become smooth, which prevents a medal jamming.

Description

  The present invention relates to a gaming machine including a medal slot, a medal direction conversion unit, and a medal selector.

As an example of a slot machine as a gaming machine, one described in Patent Document 1 is known.
This slot machine includes a medal slot for inserting medals into the gaming machine from the outside, a medal selector for rolling medals in an upright position to select medals inserted from the medal slot, and the medal And a storage device for storing appropriate medals selected by the selector.
In such a slot machine, the player inserts the medal from the medal slot so that the front and back surfaces of the medal face the front-rear direction of the gaming machine. The medal selector rolls leftward from the front of the gaming machine with the front and back directions of medals inserted from the medal insertion slot unchanged, and determines whether or not it is an appropriate medal on the way, Counting by the sensor, the rolling direction is changed from the left direction to the back side of the gaming machine while rolling the medal by a curve chute as a guide path consisting of a gentle curved path, and the resultant is put into the storage device.

  By the way, in recent years, a gaming machine such as a slot machine has a tendency to mount a large-screen liquid crystal display device or the like and to mount a large number of parts for production in order to improve the merchantability. For this reason, design considerations are being made to secure a space on the back side of the front door for a large number of parts for production, and to make the gaming machine more productive. Under such circumstances, the medal inserted from the medal slot of the conventional gaming machine as described above is temporarily moved to the left by the medal slot, the slope of the medal selector, and the curve chute, and then discharged. The space occupied by forming a useless passage that moves to the right by moving a slope such as a guideway becomes an obstacle to the production-related parts placement design as described above, and places such parts. There was a problem that it became difficult.

Then, what was described in patent document 2 is known as an example of the slot machine as a gaming machine for solving this problem.
This slot machine has a medal slot for inserting medals into the gaming machine from the outside, and an inclination for rolling the medals in a standing direction in order to select the medals inserted from the medal slot. A medal selector having a road and a storage device for storing appropriate medals selected by the medal selector. The direction of the medal on the ramp is directed from the front of the gaming machine to the back. It is formed in the downward slope direction.
In addition, this slot machine is equipped with a medal direction changing device, and the medal direction changing device changes the front and back direction of the medal to the left and right directions without changing the moving direction of the medal while maintaining the standing posture of the medal. can do. Accordingly, the medal in such a state can be smoothly shifted to the slope where the medal rolls in the standing direction and rolls in the advancing direction while descending from the front of the slot machine toward the back.
In this way, the medal is moved from the front side to the back side of the slot machine without moving in the left-right direction, and directly inserted into the storage device, so that a useless passage is unnecessary, and thus the space occupied by the passing route is occupied. Can be reduced. Therefore, it is possible to store production parts and the like in the space on the back side of the front door.

JP 2008-154651 A JP 2011-200505 A

By the way, in the conventional gaming machine, the direction of the front and back surfaces of the medal inserted from the medal slot can be changed to the left and right by the medal direction changing device. Since it is dropped while being rotated, there is a risk of clogging of medals in the medal direction changing device.
In the conventional gaming machine, the medal direction changing device is suspended from the medal slot. Therefore, in order to receive medals discharged from the medal direction changing device, it is necessary to provide a medal selector directly below the medal slot and the medal direction changing device. Then, this medal selector occupies a part of the space on the back side of the front door of the gaming machine. Therefore, it becomes difficult to arrange parts such as production members that move left and right in the space on the back side of the front door, or to place parts such as electrical decoration members at the position of the medal selector. It becomes difficult to secure a sufficient production area in the space on the back side.

  Further, in the conventional gaming machine, the direction of movement of the medals on the slope of the medal selector is formed in a downward slope direction from the front of the gaming machine toward the back side, that is, the slope is formed from the front side of the gaming machine to the back side. However, since the medal selector needs to be provided directly below the medal slot and the medal direction changing device, the front portion of the medal selector is located near the back side of the front door. For this reason, it is necessary to extend the ramp to the storage device located on the back side of the gaming machine, so the length of the medal selector (the length in the front-rear direction of the gaming machine) becomes longer, and the medal selector becomes smaller. There is a problem that it is difficult to make it.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and can prevent a clog of medals inserted from a medal insertion slot, can secure a sufficient rendering area in the space on the back side of the front door, and a medal selector. An object of the present invention is to provide a gaming machine that can be downsized.

In order to achieve the above object, the gaming machine of the present invention is provided on the front door, and the front and back surfaces of the disk-shaped medal face the front side or the back side of the gaming machine, so that the medal is externally played. A medal slot for insertion into the machine,
It is connected to the medal slot so as to hang down from the medal slot, and the front and back sides of the medal are placed on the left and right sides of the gaming machine without changing the traveling direction while maintaining the standing posture of the medal inserted into the medal slot. A game machine equipped with a medal direction conversion unit that changes the direction to the left and right so as to face,
The medal direction changing part has a receiving opening for receiving a medal from above at the top, and a cylinder having an inner diameter larger than the diameter of the medal,
Projecting convex portions projecting from the inner periphery of the cylindrical body toward the vertical central axis of the receiving opening and facing each other with a gap of approximately medal thickness; and
The guide convex portion is provided below and forms a drop gap having a width of approximately medal thickness, and has an inclined portion having a symmetrical inclined surface across the drop gap,
The inclined portion is disposed at a position where the width direction of the drop gap is not coincident with the direction of the front and back surfaces of the medal inserted from the medal insertion slot, and the front and back surfaces of the medal are arranged on the guide convex portion. In the state of being sandwiched between, the lower end of the medal is provided at a height position that can contact both of the symmetrical inclined surfaces,
The inclined surface is formed such that when the lower end portion of the game medal comes into contact, one contact portion becomes a downward inclination and the other contact portion becomes an upward inclination when viewed from the front and back sides of the game medal. And
At least one of the inclined surfaces of the pair of inclined surfaces is in contact with a medal that has entered through the receiving opening at or near the upper end of the inclined surface so that the front and back surfaces of the medal face the left and right sides of the gaming machine. It is characterized in that a guide portion is provided for urging the rotation.

In the present invention, a game medal that has entered from the medal insertion slot into the receiving opening in a standing state falls downward while the front and back surfaces are supported by the guide convex portion. And before a part (upper side) of a medal falls off from a guide convex part, a lower end part contact | abuts both the symmetrical inclined surfaces of an inclined part. At this time, the inclined surface is formed so that one abutting portion is inclined downward and the other abutting portion is inclined upward as viewed from the front and back sides of the medal, so that when the medal further falls, One abutment portion of the medal descends along a downward slope, and the other abutment portion of the game medal attempts to descend along a downward slope that is an upward slope with respect to the downward slope. Therefore, the game medal rotates laterally in the downward inclination direction of the respective inclined surfaces while the front and back surfaces are supported by the guide convex portions. Then, when the medal rotates to the position of the drop gap, the support from the lower side of the inclined portion is lost, so it falls into the drop gap and is discharged.
Here, since the medal direction conversion unit drops the medal while rotating it by the inclined surface, there is a possibility that the medal clogging may occur in the medal direction conversion unit. For this reason, a guide portion is provided at or near the upper end of at least one of the pair of inclined surfaces, the guide portion abuts against a medal that has entered from the receiving opening, and the front and back surfaces of the medal are on the gaming machine. By urging the medal to turn to the left and right, the rotation becomes smooth. Therefore, medal clogging can be prevented.

  In addition, since the medal that has entered the receiving opening of the medal direction changing unit is pushed by the guide unit and is urged to rotate, the medal starts early compared to the case where there is no guide unit. Therefore, since the vertical dimension of the medal direction conversion portion can be reduced, the passage portion can be disposed upward accordingly. As a result, the game area can be expanded in the vertical direction.

In addition, the gaming machine of the present invention is provided in the front door, and the medal is inserted into the gaming machine from the outside so that the front and back surfaces of the disk-shaped medal face the front side or the back side of the gaming machine. And the medal slot
It is connected to the medal slot so as to hang down from the medal slot, and the front and back sides of the medal are placed on the left and right sides of the gaming machine without changing the traveling direction while maintaining the standing posture of the medal inserted into the medal slot. A medal direction conversion unit that changes the direction to the left and right so as to face,
A gaming machine equipped with a medal selector for selecting medals,
Between the medal direction conversion unit and the medal selector, the medal direction conversion unit extends toward the back of the gaming machine, and the medals discharged from the medal direction conversion unit are turned upright to the medal selector. A passage portion to be moved is provided.

In the present invention, a passage portion extending from the medal direction changing portion toward the back side of the gaming machine is provided between the medal direction changing portion and the medal selector. And it is not necessary to provide directly under the medal direction conversion part, and can be provided away from the back surface of the front door of the gaming machine.
Therefore, since the medal selector does not occupy the space on the back side of the front door, a sufficient effect area can be secured in the space on the back side of the front door.
Further, since the medal selector can be arranged on the back side of the gaming machine conventionally, the slope provided in the medal selector can be shortened as compared with the conventional one. Thereby, since the length of the medal selector can be shortened, the medal selector can be miniaturized.
Further, since the passage portion extends from the medal direction changing portion hanging down from the medal insertion port to the back side of the gaming machine, even if a long foreign object enters the medal insertion port for improper purpose, Since it becomes difficult to pass through the passage portion, it becomes difficult for the foreign matter to reach the medal selector ahead of the passage portion. Therefore, it is also effective for countermeasures against illegal games.

  The said structure of this invention WHEREIN: The sensor which detects the foreign material which entered illegally from the said medal insertion slot may be provided in the said channel | path part.

  According to such a configuration, even if a foreign object enters the medal insertion slot for an illegal purpose, the foreign object can be detected by the sensor. Therefore, when a foreign object is detected by a sensor, an illegal game can be prevented in advance by stopping the game.

According to the present invention, the guide portion is provided at or near the upper end portion of the inclined surface, the guide portion abuts on the medal that has entered from the receiving opening, and the front and back surfaces of the medal face the left and right sides of the gaming machine. By urging the medal to rotate, the rotation becomes smooth. Therefore, medal clogging can be prevented.
Further, a path extending between the medal direction conversion unit and the medal selector from the medal direction conversion unit toward the back side of the gaming machine and rolling the medals discharged from the medal direction conversion unit to the medal selector in a standing state. Since the section is provided, it is possible to secure a sufficient effect area in the space on the back surface side of the front door and to reduce the size of the medal selector.

1 is a perspective view showing an example of a gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a perspective view of the state which opened the front door same as the above. It is a side view of the principal part. It is a perspective view which shows a medal direction conversion part. It is a perspective view in the state where a part showing a medal direction change part was notched. It is a perspective view of a storage device.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to a slot machine, which is one of gaming machines, will be described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to the slot machine, but is applied to other gaming machines in which medals are inserted. Is also applicable.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the slot machine 1 according to the present embodiment can be broadly divided into a square box-shaped housing 2 having a front opening on the front side, and a front opening of the housing 2 can be opened and closed. It is comprised from the front door 3 which plugs in. The front door 3 is divided into an upper door 4 that covers the upper opening of the housing 2 so that it can be opened and closed, and a lower door 5 that covers the lower opening of the housing 2 so that it can be opened and closed. The upper door 4 and the lower door 5 are rotatably attached to the frame end of the upper unit on the left side from the front of the housing 2 by a hinge.

  In this specification, “medal width” means the diameter of a disk-shaped medal, and “medal thickness” means the thickness (thickness) of a disk-shaped medal. Accordingly, the medal width direction of the medal insertion slot 14 and the receiving opening 171 described later means the longitudinal direction thereof, and the medal thickness direction of the medal insertion slot 14 and the receiving opening 171 etc. means the short side thereof. Means direction.

As shown in FIG. 2, a reel unit 200 including three rotating reels 10 and a main board unit 20 are accommodated in the upper part of the opening of the housing 2. A unit and a hopper unit 15 are installed.
The reel unit 200 is detachably provided on the housing 2, and the main board unit 20 is fixed to the frame of the reel unit 200. The main board unit 20 is a main board on which various electronic components such as a CPU and a ROM are mounted and is housed in a board case, and functions as a main control means for controlling the operation of the gaming machine 1. The hopper unit 15 is a storage device 130 capable of storing medals and paying out medals when winning. Appropriate medals selected by a medal selector 16 described later are inserted into the hopper unit 15.

The upper door 4 is a plate-like door that is rotatably attached to the frame of the upper unit via a hinge. As shown in FIG. 1, the rotary reel 23 can be seen from the front side at a substantially central portion. There is a symbol display window 8A, and a decorative frame 7 for effect display is provided above the symbol display window 8A.
When the upper door 4 is closed, it is automatically locked by a latch lock provided on the opposite side of the hinge of the housing 2, and the upper opening of the housing 2 is closed. Further, the upper door 4 is unlocked by lowering the operation portion provided on the lower side (inner side) of the lower door 5 with the lower door 5 released.

  The lower door 5 is a plate-like door that is rotatably attached to a side plate of the housing 2 via a hinge, and an upper portion of the lower door 5 is a counter-like operation unit for operating the gaming machine 1. It has become. In addition, a lower tray 5 is provided with a payout tray 13 that can store medals paid out from the hopper unit 15 through the payout port 17. Is provided with a lower speaker 110.

  In the operation unit, a medal slot 14 for inserting medals is arranged on the right side from the front of the gaming machine 1. In addition, a start switch 11 for starting the rotation of the rotary reel 10 is arranged on the left side from the front of the gaming machine 1 and a stop switch 12 for stopping the rotation of the rotary reel 10 is provided in the operation unit. The three reels 10 are arranged substantially in front of the gaming machine 1 so as to correspond to the rotary reels 10. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, a medal selector 16 for determining whether the medal inserted from the medal insertion slot 14 is correct is provided on the back side of the lower door 5. The medals that have passed through the medal selector 16 are transferred to the hopper unit 15 in principle through the chute 113, and the medals canceled by the medal selector 16 are discharged to the payout tray 13 shown in FIG. The Further, when the medals stored in the hopper unit 15 are almost full, the appropriate medals that have passed through the medal selector 16 and are inserted from the chute 113 overflow, and are located on the right side of the hopper unit 15. 2 is put into a collection box 150 placed on the right side from the front.

When the lower door 5 is closed, it is automatically locked by a latch lock, and the lower opening portion of the housing 2 is closed. The lower door 5 is unlocked by inserting a predetermined key into the keyhole and turning, and releasing the lower door 5 allows the upper door 4 to be unlocked.
Note that the gaming machine 1 may stop the rotating reel 10 so that the winning determination lottery result performed by the main board wins a predetermined winning combination, and the winning symbol becomes a winning state by operating the stop switch 12. If it is possible to win, a medal is paid out from the hopper unit 15 or an advantageous game such as a bonus game is started.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the medal slot 14 is formed in a medal slot 30 disposed on the right side from the front of the front door 3. The medal insertion part 30 is composed of a groove extending from the front side to the back side, and a medal placement part 31 having a U-shaped cross section in the direction perpendicular to the direction from the front side to the back side. And a plate-like back plate 32 that is slightly further away from the thickness of the medal from the back end face to the back side. The medal slot 14 is a hole in a slit state slightly larger than the thickness of the medal between the front surface of the back plate 32 and the back end of the medal holder 31. Then, a right-handed player mainly holds a medal with his right hand, and puts a plurality of medals on the medal holder 31 with the front and back surfaces facing forward and backward, and gradually from the front side. By pushing, medals fall one after another from the medal slot 14 and enter the gaming machine 1.

  The medal slot 14 has a shape in which medals are inserted in such a direction that the front and back surfaces of the medal face the front direction or the back direction of the gaming machine 1, that is, the medal width direction is the left-right direction of the gaming machine 1. It is made of a slit-like shape that opens in a direction facing the direction. Then, the medals inserted with the front and back directions of the medals directed toward the front direction or the back direction of the gaming machine 1 are guided to the receiving opening 171 of the lower medal direction conversion unit 170 while maintaining the state of the direction. It has become.

  As illustrated in FIG. 3, the medal direction conversion unit 170 is a substantially cylindrical member, and is connected to the medal insertion unit 30 provided with the medal insertion port 14 so as to hang down from the medal insertion unit 30. The direction is changed in the left-right direction so that the front and back surfaces of the medal face the left and right sides of the gaming machine 1 without changing the traveling direction while maintaining the standing posture of the medal inserted into the insertion slot 14.

That is, first, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the medal direction conversion unit 170 has a receiving opening 171 for receiving a medal from above at the top, and a cylindrical body 170a having an inner diameter larger than the diameter of the medal, and a cylindrical body A pair of guide projections 173 and 173 projecting from the inner periphery of 170a toward the vertical central axis of the receiving opening 171 and facing each other with a gap of approximately medal thickness, and provided below the guide projections 173 and 173 A pair of inclined portions having a substantially medal thickness and forming a drop gap communicating with a medal discharge portion provided at the lower end of the cylindrical body 170a and having a symmetrical inclined surface 175a across the drop gap 175.
The inclined portion 175 is disposed at a position where the width direction of the drop gap does not coincide with the direction of the front and back surfaces of the medal inserted from the medal insertion port 14, and the front and back surfaces of the medal are the guide convex portions 173. , 173, the lower end of the medal is provided at a height position where it can abut against both of the symmetrical inclined surfaces 175a, 175a.
In addition, the inclined surface 175a is formed so that when the lower end of the game medal comes into contact, one of the contact parts is inclined downward and the other contact part is inclined upward as viewed from the front and back sides of the game medal. Has been.

The receiving opening 171 is located on the upper surface of the cylindrical body 170 a and is disposed in the same direction as the medal insertion slot 14, and is formed so that the width direction of the receiving medal is the left-right direction of the gaming machine 1. The receiving opening 171 can be received as it is without changing the front and back direction of the medal inserted from the medal insertion slot 14.
The guide convex portion 173 is formed in a fan shape having a thickness of 90 degrees in the central angle obtained by dividing the cylindrical shape into four equal parts at intervals of 90 degrees on the central axis. Further, the guide convex portions 173 are fan-shaped pillars having a central angle of 90 degrees, and a pair of guide convex portions 173 are provided symmetrically with respect to the central axis of the cylindrical body 170a. The guide protrusion 173 has vertical surfaces 173a and 173b arranged at right angles. The vertical surface 173a extends to the lower end of the cylindrical body 170a, and the vertical surface 173b extends to the upper end of the inclined surface 175a. Therefore, the inclined surface 175a is connected to the lower end of the vertical surface 173b.
The receiving opening 171 is provided at the upper end of the vertical surfaces 173b and 173b, and medals that have entered the receiving opening 171 fall along the inclined surface 175a from the vertical surface 173b.

  In addition, the inclined surfaces 175a and 175a are arranged so as to form a pair that is inclined downward with respect to the drop gap. The two inclined surfaces 175a near the lower end of the medal come into contact with the corresponding inclined surfaces 175a, respectively (specifically, the medal has entered the receiving opening 171). Further, when viewed from the front and back sides of the medal before the medal is rotated by the inclined surface 175a, one abutting portion is inclined downward and the other abutting portion is inclined upward. ing.

  In such a medal direction conversion unit 170, a medal that has entered the receiving opening 171 from the medal insertion port 14 in a standing state falls downward while being supported by the guide convex portions 173 and 173. And while a part (upper side) of the medal does not fall off from the guide convex portions 173 and 173, the lower end portion comes into contact with both the symmetrical inclined surfaces 175a and 175a of the inclined portions 175 and 175. At this time, the inclined surfaces 175a and 175a are formed so that one abutment portion is inclined downward and the other abutment portion is inclined upward as viewed from the front and back sides of the medal, so that the medal will fall further. Then, one abutting portion of the medal descends along the descending slope, and the other abutting portion of the game medal tends to descend along the descending slope that is an ascending slope with respect to the descending slope. Therefore, the medal rotates laterally in the downward inclination direction of the inclined surfaces 175a and 175a while the front and back surfaces are supported by the guide convex portions 173 and 173. When the medal rotates to the position of the drop gap, the support from the lower side of the inclined portions 175 and 175 is lost, so that it falls into the drop gap and is discharged.

Here, since the medal direction conversion unit 170 drops the medal while rotating it by the inclined surfaces 175a and 175a, there is a possibility that the medal clogging may occur in the medal direction conversion unit 170.
For this reason, in this embodiment, the upper and lower ends of the pair of inclined surfaces 175a and 175a are in contact with medals that have entered from the receiving opening 171 so that the front and back surfaces of the medals face the left and right sides of the gaming machine 1. A guide portion 180 that promotes the rotation of the medal is provided.
The guide portion 180 has a second inclined surface 180a whose inclination is gentler than that of the inclined surface 175a. When the inclination angle of the second inclined surface 180a is an angle with respect to a virtual vertical plane along the longitudinal direction of the receiving opening 171 and the inclination angle of the first inclined surface 175a is an angle with respect to the virtual vertical surface, the present embodiment Then, the inclination angle of the second inclined surface 180a is larger than the inclination angle of the first inclined surface 175a. That is, the second inclined surface 180a has a smaller angle with respect to the horizontal plane than the first inclined surface 175a. The inclination angle of the second inclined surface 180a is set to about 30 °, for example.

The guide portion 180 having the second inclined surface 180a is provided at the upper end portion of the first inclined surface 175a and at a position radially outward from the center of the cylindrical body 170a, that is, on the outer peripheral side. Further, the guide portion 180 is provided below the receiving opening 171 by a predetermined distance.
Therefore, in the medal direction conversion unit 170 provided with such a guide portion 180, when the second inclined surface 180a of the guide portion 180 comes into contact with a medal that has been inserted into the medal insertion slot 14 and entered the receiving opening 171, By rotating the medal 1 so that the medal is pushed by the second inclined surface 180 a and the front and back surfaces of the medal face the left and right sides of the gaming machine 1, the rotation becomes smooth. Therefore, medal clogging can be prevented.
Further, since the medal falls while sliding downward from the upper end of the inclined surface 180a, the medal rotates smoothly without being caught by the guide portion 180.

In the gaming machine of the present embodiment, the medal whose direction has been changed to the left and right by the medal direction conversion unit 170 rolls toward the medal selector 16 so that the front and back faces the left and right sides of the gaming machine. A passage portion 185 is provided.
As shown in FIG. 3, the passage portion 185 extends from the medal direction conversion unit 170 toward the back side of the gaming machine (right side in FIG. 3), and the medals discharged from the medal direction conversion unit 170 are sent to the medal selector 16. And includes a receiving passage portion 186, an inclined passage portion 187 connected to the receiving passage portion 186, and a discharge passage portion 188 connected to the inclined passage portion 187. .

  The receiving passage portion 186 is configured by a substantially quarter-circular plate, and a substantially quadrangular arc-shaped passage is provided therein. The passage cross section of this passage is slightly wider than the thickness of the medal and is slightly higher than the medal diameter. One of the passages opens upward, and the other opens in the lateral direction (rightward in FIG. 3). The opening end surface having one opening is connected to the discharge portion at the lower end of the medal direction conversion unit 170, and the opening end surface having the other opening is connected to the inclined passage portion 187. In the present embodiment, the receiving passage portion 186 is formed integrally with the medal direction changing portion 170, but may be formed separately.

  The inclined passage portion 187 includes a substantially rectangular plate-like inclined passage main body 187a having an inclined passage inclined relative to a horizontal plane, and a sensor 187b provided on a side portion of the inclined passage main body 187a. The inclined passage is such that the cross section of the passage is slightly wider than the thickness of the medal and the dimension in the height direction is slightly longer than the diameter of the medal. The inclined passage is formed in a straight line inclined with respect to the horizontal plane.

An opening communicating with one end of the inclined passage is formed on one end surface (left end surface) of the inclined passage main body 187a, and an opening communicating with the other end of the inclined passage is formed on the other end surface (right end surface). Yes. One end surface of the inclined passage main body 187 a is connected to the receiving passage portion 186, and the other end surface is connected to the discharge passage portion 188.
The sensor 187b is a passage sensor that detects a foreign object that has illegally entered from the medal insertion slot (for example, a thin celluloid board inserted from the medal insertion slot 14 in order to play illegal games). The intrusion is determined based on the length of detection time that passes through the sensor 187b. Therefore, when a foreign object other than a normal medal is detected by the sensor 187b, a game in the gaming machine 1 can be stopped by inputting a detection signal from the sensor 187b to the main board unit 20 or the like. ing. A side surface of the inclined passage main body 187a facing the sensor 187 side of the inclined passage opens, and the sensor 187b can detect a medal rolling on the inclined passage through the opening.

  The discharge passage portion 188 is configured by a substantially quarter-circular plate, and a substantially quarter-arc passage is provided therein. The passage cross section of this passage is slightly wider than the thickness of the medal and is slightly higher than the medal diameter. One of the passages opens in the lateral direction (leftward in FIG. 3), and the other opens downward. The opening end face having one opening is connected to the other end face (right end face) of the inclined passage portion 187, and the opening end face having the other opening is connected to the medal selector 16.

  In the passage portion 185 having such a configuration, the quadrangular arc passage of the receiving passage portion 186, the linear inclined passage of the inclined passage portion 187, and the quarter arc passage of the discharge passage portion 188 are continuous, and the medal direction The medal discharged downward from the conversion unit 170 is bent in the passage direction of the receiving passage portion 186 toward the back side of the gaming machine, and then the gaming machine along the inclined passage of the inclined passage portion 187. It rolls toward the back side of the paper, and is further bent in the direction of travel downward in the passage of the discharge passage portion 188 and inserted into the medal selector 16.

As shown in FIG. 3, the medal selector 16 has an inclined path 111 that rolls medals in a standing posture in a standing direction in order to select medals inserted from the discharge passage portion 188 of the passage portion 185. It is arranged such that its longitudinal direction is in a direction perpendicular to the front door 3.
The medal selector 16 is inserted from the medal insertion slot 14 and is in a state in which the direction of the front and back of the medal is rotated 90 degrees in the horizontal direction by the medal direction conversion unit 170, that is, the front and back of the medal are directed to the left and right directions of the gaming machine 1 In the state where the medals discharged from the medal direction converting unit 170 and rolling through the passage unit 185 are erected with the front and back surfaces thereof facing the left and right direction of the gaming machine 1, the opening slit on the front side of the upper surface of the medal selector 16 Accept from (not shown). Then, the medal selector 16 rolls in the same direction from the front side toward the back direction of the gaming machine 1 via the ramp 111, and in the middle of rolling the medal on the ramp 111, an appropriate sensor 112 is used. The selection of whether or not a medal is made and the number of inserted medals is counted.
A straight chute 113 is connected to the medal outlet of the medal selector 16. The chute 113 is provided with a chute sensor 114. The chute sensor 114 counts the number of medals and matches the number of the medals with the sensor 112.

As shown in FIG. 6, the medals that roll the chute 113 are discharged toward the storage device 130.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 6, the storage device 130 is a hopper unit 15 for storing appropriate medals selected by the medal selector 16. The storage device 130 opens upward and can store medals, and is positioned below the hopper 131 so that a predetermined number of medals stored in the hopper 131 can be sent out from the payout port 17 and discharged. A medal delivery disk 132 and a rotation drive means (not shown) for the medal delivery disk 132. A circular hole capable of storing a medal is opened on the surface of the medal feeding disk 132, and the medal feeding disk 132 is rotated by a rotation driving motor as a rotation driving means. One sheet can be discharged from the lower side toward the dispensing port 17.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a collection box 150 for collecting medals overfilled with medals stored in the storage device 130 is disposed on the right side of the storage device 130. An overflow chute 161 that can be inserted from the chute 113 and overflows from the hopper 131 to the collection box 150 is provided above the hopper 131 on the collection box 150 side.

  The overflow chute 161 is inclined toward the recovery box opening 165 provided on the right side wall of the hopper 131, and medals overflowing from the hopper 131 pass through the overflow chute 161 and are collected from the recovery box opening 165 to the recovery box 150. It is supposed to be discharged. The overflow chute 161 is provided with a guide wall 161a at a position close to the collection box opening 165, and the medal is directed to the collection box opening 165 by the guide wall 161a and the right corner wall portion of the hopper 131. It comes to guide you.

In the gaming machine 1 according to the present embodiment, a medal inserted from the medal insertion slot 14 enters the medal direction conversion unit 170 from the receiving opening 171 of the medal direction conversion unit 170, and the medal direction conversion unit 170 causes the medal to be changed. While maintaining the standing posture, the direction is changed in the left-right direction so that the front and back surfaces of the medal face the left and right sides of the gaming machine 1 without changing the traveling direction.
Then, the medal whose direction has been changed rolls on the passage portion 185 from the medal direction conversion unit 170 and enters the medal selector 16, rolls through the slope 111 of the medal selector 16, and the storage device. The tokens stored in 130 and overflowing from the storage device 130 are discharged to the recovery box 150 by the overflow chute 161.

In the gaming machine 1 of the present embodiment, a passage portion 185 extending from the medal direction conversion unit 170 toward the back side of the gaming machine 1 is provided between the medal direction conversion unit 170 and the medal selector 16. Therefore, unlike the conventional case, it is not necessary to provide the medal selector 16 directly below the medal insertion slot 14 and the medal direction conversion unit 170, and can be provided away from the back surface of the front door 3 of the gaming machine 1.
Therefore, since the medal selector 16 does not occupy the space on the back side of the front door 3, a sufficient effect area can be secured in the space on the back side of the front door 3. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the line indicated by a two-dot chain line L is the position of the front door 3 (closed position), but conventionally, the medal selector 16 is directly below the medal insertion slot 14 and the medal direction conversion unit 170. In contrast to this, in the present embodiment, since the passage portion 185 is provided, the medal selector 16 can be disposed on the back side of the gaming machine 1 accordingly. Therefore, a sufficient effect area A can be secured between the medal selector 16 and the front door 3, that is, in the space on the back side of the front door 3.

Further, since the medal selector 16 can be disposed on the back side of the gaming machine 1 conventionally, the ramp 111 provided in the medal selector 16 can be shortened as compared with the conventional one. Thereby, since the length of the medal selector 16 can be shortened, the medal selector 16 can be reduced in size.
Further, since the passage portion 185 extends from the medal direction changing portion 170 hanging down from the medal insertion port 14 to the back side of the gaming machine 1, even if a long foreign object enters the medal insertion port 14 for illegal purposes. Since the foreign matter is unlikely to pass through the passage portion 185, the foreign matter is difficult to reach the medal selector 16 located before the passage portion 185. Therefore, it is also effective for countermeasures against illegal games.

  In addition, since the sensor 187b is provided in the inclined passage portion 187 of the passage portion 185, foreign matter that has illegally entered from the medal slot 14 can be detected by the sensor 187b. Therefore, when a foreign object is detected by the sensor 187b, an illegal game can be prevented beforehand by stopping the game.

Further, the medal direction conversion unit 170 drops the medal while rotating it by the pair of inclined surfaces 175a. However, since the guide portions 180 are provided on the pair of inclined surfaces 175a, the guide portion 180 is relative to the medal. The rotation is smooth by urging the medal to be in contact with the front and back so that the front and back surfaces of the medal face the left and right sides of the gaming machine. Therefore, medal clogging can be prevented.
Further, the guide portion 180 has a second inclined surface 180a whose inclination is gentler than that of the inclined surface 175a, and the medal falls while sliding in a downward direction from the upper end of the inclined surface 180a. It rotates smoothly without being caught by 180. Therefore, medal clogging can be prevented more reliably.
Further, since the medal that has entered the receiving opening 171 of the medal direction conversion unit 170 is pushed by the guide unit 180 and is urged to rotate, the medal starts earlier compared to the case where the guide unit 180 is not provided. Therefore, since the vertical dimension of the medal direction changing portion 170 can be reduced as compared with the conventional case, the passage portion 185 can be arranged upward accordingly. As a result, the game area A can be expanded in the vertical direction.

  In the present embodiment, the sensor 187b for detecting the foreign material that has illegally entered from the medal insertion port 14 is provided in the inclined passage portion 187 of the passage portion 185. However, the guide portion 180 has been illegally entered from the medal insertion port 14. You may comprise by the sensor which detects a foreign material.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game machine 3 Front door 14 Medal insertion slot 16 Medal selector 170 Medal direction conversion part 170a Cylindrical body 171 Receiving opening 173 Guide convex part 175 Inclination part 175a Inclined surface 180 Guide part 185 Passage part 187 Sensor

Claims (3)

A medal slot provided on the front door, and with the disc-shaped medal facing the front side or the back side of the gaming machine so that the medal is thrown into the gaming machine from the outside;
It is connected to the medal slot so as to hang down from the medal slot, and the front and back sides of the medal are placed on the left and right sides of the gaming machine without changing the traveling direction while maintaining the standing posture of the medal inserted into the medal slot. A game machine equipped with a medal direction conversion unit that changes the direction to the left and right so as to face,
The medal direction changing part has a receiving opening for receiving a medal from above at the top, and a cylinder having an inner diameter larger than the diameter of the medal,
Projecting convex portions projecting from the inner periphery of the cylindrical body toward the vertical central axis of the receiving opening and facing each other with a gap of approximately medal thickness; and
The guide convex portion is provided below and forms a drop gap having a width of approximately medal thickness, and has an inclined portion having a symmetrical inclined surface across the drop gap,
The inclined portion is disposed at a position where the width direction of the drop gap is not coincident with the direction of the front and back surfaces of the medal inserted from the medal insertion slot, and the front and back surfaces of the medal are arranged on the guide convex portion. In the state of being sandwiched between, the lower end of the medal is provided at a height position that can contact both of the symmetrical inclined surfaces,
The inclined surface is formed such that when the lower end portion of the game medal comes into contact, one contact portion becomes a downward inclination and the other contact portion becomes an upward inclination when viewed from the front and back sides of the game medal. And
At least one of the inclined surfaces of the pair of inclined surfaces is in contact with a medal that has entered through the receiving opening at or near the upper end of the inclined surface so that the front and back surfaces of the medal face the left and right sides of the gaming machine. A gaming machine characterized in that a guide portion is provided to encourage rotation of the game machine. A medal slot provided on the front door, and with the disc-shaped medal facing the front side or the back side of the gaming machine so that the medal is thrown into the gaming machine from the outside;
It is connected to the medal slot so as to hang down from the medal slot, and the front and back sides of the medal are placed on the left and right sides of the gaming machine without changing the traveling direction while maintaining the standing posture of the medal inserted into the medal slot. A medal direction conversion unit that changes the direction to the left and right so as to face,
A gaming machine equipped with a medal selector for selecting medals,
Between the medal direction conversion unit and the medal selector, the medal direction conversion unit extends toward the back of the gaming machine, and the medals discharged from the medal direction conversion unit are turned upright to the medal selector. A gaming machine characterized in that a moving passage is provided. The gaming machine according to claim 2, wherein a sensor for detecting a foreign substance illegally entered from the medal slot is provided in the passage portion.

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