JP2022149851A - Pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a Pachinko game machine capable of facilitating replacement of a performance board for controlling a performance operation and suppressing damage at the time of the replacement.SOLUTION: A Pachinko game machine includes a main board for executing lottery processing and controlling a game operation, and a performance board for controlling a performance operation for notifying a player of a result of the lottery processing. The Pachinko game machine is given signal transmission means including a first relay port for receiving a game signal including the information on the lottery processing from the main board, and a second relay port for sending out the game signal to the performance board, which transmits a game signal in a non-contact manner between the first relay port and the second relay port.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

The present invention relates to a pachinko game machine capable of facilitating replacement of a performance board for controlling performance operations and suppressing damage during the replacement.

Along with the diversification of tastes, the development of game machines capable of providing more freshness is frequently carried out, and the replacement cycle of game machines in halls is becoming shorter. Such replacement gaming machines are required to be designed in consideration of reuse and recycling, partly because of social demands for environmental protection. Here, it has been proposed to make it possible to easily recycle the effect devices that strongly reflect the characteristics of individual gaming machines.

For example, in Patent Document 1, in a game machine, in order to reuse the effect control sub-board that performs the effect processing, a driving unit for driving a display device that displays the result of the effect processing is added to the effect control sub-board. It discloses providing an interface section for detachable connection from the. According to this, the effect control sub-board can be reused in game machines having different types of display devices.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2011-067428

In a general pachinko game machine, a main board that performs lottery processing and controls game operations, and an effect board ('sub-board) that performs an effect operation for notifying the player of the result of the lottery process. are wired to transmit the game signal, and then the control signal is sent from the effect board to each effect device directly or via the sub-sub board. Here, if the operation for removing the effect board and the like from the game machine main body is complicated, the recycling cost will increase, and the progress of recycling will be hindered. In addition, if the performance board or the like is damaged by the work of removing it, it may become difficult to recycle it.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances described above, and an object of the present invention is to facilitate replacement of a performance board that controls performance operations and to suppress damage during replacement. To provide a pachinko game machine capable of

A gaming machine according to the present invention is a pachinko gaming machine comprising a main board for performing a lottery process and controlling game operations, and an effect board for controlling an effect operation for notifying a player of the result of the lottery process. a first relay port for receiving a game signal including information about the lottery process from the main board; and a second relay port for sending the game signal to the effect board, wherein the first relay port and A signal transmission means for transmitting the game signal in a non-contact manner to the second relay port is provided.

According to this feature, the first relay port on the main board side and the second relay port on the effect board side can be easily separated, thereby facilitating replacement of the effect board and suppressing damage during the replacement. You can.

In the above invention, the signal transmission means may be a means for optically transmitting the game signal. According to this feature, the game signal can be transmitted at high speed even between the first relay port and the second relay port which are separable from each other.

In the above-described invention, the game signal may be encrypted and transmitted at the first relay port and decrypted at the second relay port. Further, the signal transmission means may be characterized by: an image display device displaying an image obtained by encrypting the game signal; and capturing the image displayed on the image display device and decoding the game signal. good. According to this feature, it is possible to transmit game signals at higher speed and with higher stability even between the first relay port and the second relay port which are separable from each other.

1 is a front view of a pachinko game machine in one embodiment according to the present invention; FIG. 1 is a top view of a pachinko gaming machine in one embodiment according to the present invention; FIG. 1 is a side view of a pachinko game machine in one embodiment according to the present invention; FIG. It is a block diagram of the main part of the pachinko game machine.

A pachinko game machine as one embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. FIG.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a gaming machine 1, which is a pachinko gaming machine, is mounted inside an outer frame 2, which is a frame body installed on an island facility in a game hall (not shown). The game machine 1 has a main body frame 5 attached to the outer frame 2 so as to be openable and closable, and a door frame 3 having an opening 3a attached to the main body frame 5 so as to be openable and closable. The door frame 3 is further provided with a transparent plate 6 for closing the opening 3a, a handle 7 operated for shooting game balls, an upper tray 8 for storing game balls, and a lower tray 9. there is It should be noted that, when indicating the direction hereinafter, the direction seen from the player facing the gaming machine 1 as shown in the figure is used.

The body frame 5 is a frame having a substantially rectangular cross section provided along the outer frame 2 . Inside the body frame 5, a game board 10 is fixed which forms a game area 19 between itself and a transparent plate 6 fitted in the door frame 3 and rolls game balls along its surface. Approximately in the center of the game board 10, there is provided a first effect section 12 for displaying the result of the jackpot lottery process with an effect to notify the player. As the first rendering section 12, for example, a display device using a liquid crystal panel may be used, but a dot matrix display device using LEDs, a rotating belt type display device, or the like may also be used. The game board 10 is further provided with winning openings such as the start chucker 13 and the attacker 14, other winning openings (not shown), nails, accessories, and the like, which allow the path of the game ball falling while rolling in the game area 19. can be distributed.

The door frame 3 is separate from the second effect part 4 provided on the upper part, and can be opened and closed by rotating around the rotation axis between the middle hinge 11b and the lower hinge 11c. The upper hinge 11a is used together with the lower hinge 11c to obtain a rotation shaft for rotating the body frame 5 with respect to the outer frame 2 described above. The second performance part 4 is provided so as to protrude on the front side around the transparent plate 6 when the door frame 3 is closed, and can perform performance in accordance with the progress of the game with mounted lighting, speakers, and the like. The second effect section 4 is a so-called decorative body using LEDs, and together with the first effect section 12 , is a effect section whose effect operation is controlled by the effect board 30 .

Referring also to FIG. 3 , the gaming machine 1 includes a main board 20 that performs lottery processing and controls game operations at a position on the far side of the game board 10 below the first effect section 12 . The main board 20 is enclosed in a board case (not shown) and attached to the back side of the game board 10 . Further, on the far side of the first effect section 12, a effect board 30 is provided for mainly controlling the effect operation for notifying the result of the lottery process.

As shown in FIG. 4, the main substrate 20 includes a CPU 21, a ROM 22, a RAM 23 and an input/output port 24. In the main substrate 20, the CPU 21 executes processing related to game operations according to programs recorded in the ROM 22. FIG. In addition, the CPU 21 advances the processing while rewritably recording data and the like generated during the processing in the RAM 23 as necessary. By these operations, the main substrate 20 mainly controls game operations.

The main board 20 receives, for example, a signal for detecting the winning of a game ball from a sensor provided in a winning opening such as the start chucker 13 via an input/output port 24, and performs lottery processing such as a big win. In addition, the main board 20 sends a signal for paying out prize balls to the payout control board 60, which will be described later. In addition, the main board 20 sends out signals for activating electric accessories related to the progress of the game, solenoids of the attacker 14, and the like. Thus, the main board 20 can control game operations such as winning detection, lottery processing, and payout. Further, the main board 20 transmits a game signal including information about the lottery process such as the result of the lottery process to the effect board 30 . The game signal is, for example, a signal that includes information such as whether or not a big winning lottery is won, and the time spent in an effect for displaying the lottery result.

A payout control board 60 is connected to the main board 20 and includes a CPU 61 , a ROM 62 , a RAM 63 and an input/output port 64 . The payout control board 60 can mainly control the payout-related operation among the game operations by the main board 20 described above, based on the signal from the main board 20 . Then, it is possible to control the payout of prize balls and the payout in response to a request for lending game balls.

Like the payout control board described above, in general, the performance board and the like that receive signals from the main board are electrically connected directly to the main board by wiring. On the other hand, in this embodiment, game signals from the main board 20 can be transmitted to the performance board 30 in a non-contact manner via two relay ports.

Specifically, the first relay port 40 connected to the main board 20 is capable of receiving game signals transmitted from the main board 20 in one direction. A second relay port 50 is connected to the effect board 30, and a game signal or a signal corresponding thereto can be transmitted from the second relay port 50 to the effect board 30 in one direction. Between the first relay port 40 and the second relay port 50, a signal transmission means for transmitting a game signal in a non-contact manner is provided. can be transmitted. As a signal transmission means, the first relay port 40 is provided with an output device 41 for outputting a game signal, and the second relay port 50 is provided with a reader 51 for reading the game signal output from the output device 41 .

For example, an image display device capable of displaying a two-dimensional code is used as the issuing device 41 , and a camera capable of recognizing the two-dimensional code by image processing is used as the reading device 51 . Thus, by converting the game signal into a two-dimensional code, the game signal can be transmitted in a non-contact manner. In addition, by appropriately using optical signal transmission means, it is possible to transmit game signals at high speed and with high stability. Other means capable of transmitting game signals in a non-contact manner, such as sound waves and magnetic waves, can also be used as the signal transmission means without relying on optical means.

In this manner, the effect board 30 can receive the game signal from the second relay port 50 . The effect board 30 has a CPU 31 , a ROM 32 , a RAM 33 , an input port 34 and an output port 35 . In the effect board 30, the CPU 31 executes processing related to the effect operation according to the program recorded in the ROM 32. Further, the CPU 31 advances the processing while rewritably recording data and the like generated during the processing in the RAM 33 as necessary. These actions allow the effect board 30 to control the effect action.

A performance board 30 extracts the success or failure of a big winning lottery from the game signal obtained through the input port 34 and extracts the time spent in performance for displaying the lottery result, and notifies the player of the result of the lottery processing accordingly. Controls the performance action for As the effect operation, for example, a multi-digit number is changed on the first effect section 12, and if the result of the lottery process is a big win, the multi-digit number is stopped at zero, and if it is a failure, it is stopped at another number. (number) to stop. A series of actions from the fluctuation of the number to the stop are performed according to the time spent on the above-described performance. In addition, as an effect operation, an effect using light, sound, and the like by the illumination and the speaker mounted on the second effect section 4 can be performed in accordance with the progress of the game.

Specifically, the effect board 30 selects one pattern corresponding to the game signal from among a plurality of patterns of predetermined effect operations, and transmits a signal indicating this pattern via the output port 35. can. Such signals are input to respective sub-sub-boards for image presentation, LED presentation and sound presentation (not shown). Each sub-sub board operates the lighting and the speaker of the first performance part 12 and the second performance part 4 in a pattern corresponding to the input signal, and can perform the performance of the pattern selected by the performance board 30. - 特許庁

As described above, the game signal is transmitted from the main board 20 to the effect board 30 without contact between the first relay port 40 on the main board 20 side and the second relay port 50 on the effect board 30 side. Thereby, the first relay port 40 on the main board 20 side and the second relay board port 50 on the effect board 30 side can be easily separated. As a result, it is possible to facilitate replacement of the effect board 30 and to suppress damage during the replacement.

Although the example of transmitting the game signal from the issuing device 41 to the reading device 51 using the two-dimensional code has been described above, this may be performed using a code. For example, the game signal is encrypted at the first relay port 40, the image corresponding to the encryption is displayed on the image display device used as the issuing device 41, the image is captured by the reader 51, and the image is decrypted at the second relay port 50. A game signal is obtained.

A predetermined code can also be used as the game signal. A correspondence table defining codes corresponding to sets of information such as whether a big winning lottery is right or not and the time spent in performance for displaying the lottery results is stored in a main board 20, and a game signal is transmitted by the main board 20.例文帳に追加This code is extracted when creating. Then, the extracted code is transmitted as a game signal to the performance board 30 storing the same corresponding table, and the performance board 30 selects the performance corresponding to the code and performs the performance. Also, a second correspondence table that defines patterns of effects corresponding to codes may be stored in the effect board 30 to effect effects.

Although the embodiments according to the present invention and modifications based thereon have been described so far, the present invention is not necessarily limited to these examples. Also, those skilled in the art will be able to find various alternatives and modifications without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claims.

1 Game Machine 10 Game Board 20 Main Board 30 Effect Board 40 First Relay Port 41 Dispatch Device 50 Second Relay Port 51 Reader

Claims (4)

a main board that performs lottery processing and controls game operations;
A pachinko gaming machine comprising an effect board for controlling an effect operation for notifying the player of the result of the lottery process,
a first relay port for receiving a game signal including information about the lottery process from the main board; and a second relay port for sending the game signal to the effect board, wherein the first relay port and the second relay port. A pachinko game machine characterized by being provided with signal transmission means for transmitting said game signal in a non-contact manner between two relay ports. 2. A pachinko game machine according to claim 1, wherein said signal transmission means is means for optically transmitting said game signal. 3. A pachinko game machine according to claim 2, wherein said game signal is encrypted and transmitted by said first relay port, and is decrypted by said second relay port. 3. The signal transmission means is characterized in that: an image display device displays an image obtained by encrypting the game signal; and an image displayed on the image display device is picked up to decode the game signal. 3. The pachinko game machine according to 3.

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