JP2706970B2 - Central control device for pachinko halls - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a centralized control device for a pachinko hall having a hit detection function of a pachinko game machine.

(Prior Art) In a pachinko hall, a pachinko game machine, which is nail-adjusted so that the payout rate is relatively high, is not occupied by a single player for a long time. The difference between the safe ball (prize ball) and the out ball (hit ball) in the pachinko game machine, that is, the so-called difference ball number is a predetermined number (scheduled hit number).
When the game reaches, the pachinko ball obtained before the stoppage is exchanged for a prize or the pachinko game machine that has been stopped is guided to other players for management. It is a good idea. Therefore, the number of safe balls and the number of out-balls in the pachinko game machine are counted for each pachinko game machine by the hole computer, and the hole computer determines that the difference between the respective count results has reached the expected number of hits. At that time, for example, the machine number of the pachinko game machine is notified as a stop board, and based on this notification, a pachinko hall employee is notified of the pachinko game machine by a pachinko game machine. In addition, a notice is issued to prohibit the continuation of the game. At this time, in order for the hall computer to detect whether or not the above-described prohibition notice is being complied with, it is necessary to be configured to be able to detect the operating status of the pachinko game machine. In such a case, in the related art, while the out-ball signal output from the pachinko game machine in response to the occurrence of the out-ball is given to the hall computer, the pachinko game machine is operating in the computer. To judge. In other words, during the operation of the pachinko game machine, the out ball is always generated intermittently, so it is attempted to determine the operating status of the pachinko game machine based on the out ball signal output with the occurrence of the out ball. You do it.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) By the way, in recent years, a special winning opening has been provided with an electrical accessory that is operated in response to a win of a pachinko ball, and a predetermined condition is established in an operating state of the electrical accessory. Pachinko game machines that maintain a special prize state with an extremely high winning rate are provided. In such a pachinko game machine, in order to smoothly release the prize balls during the special prize period, pachinko balls continuously winning in the winning opening are temporarily stored on the back side of the pachinko game machine, and the holding is performed. A predetermined number of pachinko balls are released as prize balls each time one of the pachinko balls is dropped into the out ball discharge path. Therefore, even though the pachinko game machine is not playing with the pachinko game machine due to being stopped during the special prize, the pachinko ball held on the back side of the pachinko game machine falls for a certain period of time as it falls. Since the out ball signal is output each time, the hole computer is erroneously determined to be in operation because the pachinko game machine that is not operating is being operated by being hit.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a centralized control device for a pachinko hall that can reliably detect an operating state of a pachinko game machine in a hit state.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The centralized control device for a pachinko hall of the present invention is provided with an operation detecting means for detecting an operation state of an operation member for playing with a pachinko game machine. When the operation detecting means is in the detection state in the hitting state, an abnormality notification is issued.

(Operation) When a pachinko ball wins the winning opening during play with a pachinko game machine, a safe ball is released in response to the winning. When the difference between the safe ball and the out ball corresponding to the driven pachinko ball reaches a predetermined number, the centralized control device stops the pachinko game machine. As described above, when the operating member is operated to play with the pachinko game machine that has been stopped,
The operation detecting means detects this. As a result, the centralized control device issues an abnormality notification that the stopped pachinko game machine has been operated.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows a front view of the pachinko game machine 1.
Reference numeral 2 denotes a prize ball storage tank provided at the upper rear portion of the pachinko game machine 1. A predetermined number of pachinko balls (so-called safe balls) are provided in the tank 2 from a ball supply passage (not shown) via a ball supply pipe 3. Are supplied and stored, and the stored pachinko balls are released from the pachinko game machine 1. The tank 2 is provided with a tank switch 2a (see FIG. 1) that is turned on and off in accordance with the number of pachinko balls stored in the tank. Reference numeral 4 denotes a first counter for counting the winning balls supplied into the tank 2 as described above. This first counter outputs one counting pulse P1 every time, for example, 10 winning balls are counted. Reference numeral 5 denotes a second counter provided at the lower rear portion of the pachinko game machine 1, which counts pachinko balls (so-called out balls) discharged from the out port 1b into the board 1a of the pachinko game machine 1. For example, each time 10 out balls are counted, one counting pulse P2 is output.

Reference numeral 6 denotes an electrical accessory provided below the panel surface 1a. The winning opening 6a is closed by an opening / closing plate 6b, and the opening / closing plate 6b is driven by a driving device (not shown) and opens only for a predetermined time forward. Thereby, the pachinko ball is configured to be extremely easy to win the winning opening 6a. Reference numeral 7 denotes a three-digit roulette, which starts operating in response to a win of a pachinko ball with respect to a specific winning opening 8 provided on the board surface 1a, and after a predetermined time has elapsed, or the pachinko game machine 1 The stop switch 9 provided on the front of the player is stopped by being pressed by a player. Then, when the three-digit pictograms of the roulette 7 are arranged in a predetermined combination, the opening / closing plate 6a is driven for a predetermined time in accordance with the combination and opened forward. In this case, especially when the combination of pictograms of the roulette 7 is, for example, "777", the open / close plate 6a is opened forward for a long time, so that a special prize state in which pachinko balls are easily won is achieved.

11 is a saucer from which pachinko balls from tank 2 are released,
Reference numeral 12 denotes an operation dial, which is an operation member. When the operation dial is rotated by a predetermined angle or more, a ball firing device (not shown) is driven to
The pachinko balls in 11 are projected on the board 1a.
Reference numeral 13 denotes an angle sensor serving as operation detection means, which detects that the operation dial 12 has been rotated by a predetermined angle from a non-operation state, and outputs an operation detection signal P3. That is, the operation detection signal P3 indicates that the corresponding pachinko game machine 1 is in the operating state.

FIG. 1 shows an electrical configuration. 14 is a centralized control computer of a well-known configuration, which is a centralized control device for pachinko halls, which comprises counting signals P1, P2 from counters 4, 5;
And a signal from the tank switch 2a, and based on the input of each signal, the number of safe balls, the number of out balls, and the number of difference balls (the difference between the number of out balls and the number of safe balls) of each pachinko game machine 1. ), The number of hits, the number of balls, and the like are also calculated and stored. Further, the central management computer 14 obtains operation data indicating the operation status of each pachinko game machine 1 based on the input of the operation detection signal P3 from the angle sensor 13 provided for each pachinko game machine 1. Has become. Specifically, when the display command signal Sa is given from the input device 15, the central management computer 14 causes the boat 16 to display the machine numbers of all the pachinko game machines 1 in the operating state. In addition, this display board
Reference numeral 16 denotes a well-known configuration in which numbers indicating the numbers of all the pachinko game machines in the pachinko hall are arranged in a matrix array on the board body, and light emitting diodes are arranged corresponding to each number. The above-mentioned unit number is displayed according to the lighting of the diode. Further, when the print command Sb is given from the input device 15, the central management computer 14 calculates the number of pachinko game machines 1 in operation based on the operation detection signal P3, and displays the calculation result on the CRT display. Displayed on 17 and printer out by printer 18.

The central management computer 14 receives an operation detection signal P3 from the angle sensor 3 provided in the pachinko game machine 1 in a hit state (the hit state is detected by its own calculation). Is given through the speaker 19, an alarm announcement including the machine number of the pachinko game machine 1 is issued. Note that, for the warning announcement, for example, a synthesized sound by a voice synthesizer can be used.

In the above-mentioned pachinko game machine 1, though not shown, when a pachinko ball wins successively in each winning opening, the subsequently won pachinko ball is temporarily held on the back side of the pachinko game machine 1 and a predetermined Each time the pachinko ball releasing operation is completed, the held pachinko balls are discharged one by one to the out ball discharging path, whereby the pachinko balls are smoothly discharged. .

 Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described.

When a player rotates the operation dial 12 to play with the pachinko game machine 1, a firing device (not shown) is driven, and the pachinko balls in the receiving tray 12 are sequentially hit on the board surface 1a. When the pachinko ball that has been ejected is discharged from the out port 1b without winning any of the winning ports 8 and 10, the out ball signal P2 is output from the second counter 5 every time the pachinko ball reaches 10 pachinko balls. Is output to the central management computer 14, and the central management computer 14 counts the number of out balls. When the pachinko balls that have been hit into the winning opening 10, a predetermined number of pachinko balls are released to the saucer 12, and accordingly, the number of pachinko balls stored in the tank 2 decreases. When the number of pachinko balls in the tank 2 reaches a predetermined number, the tank switch 2a is turned on, and the pachinko balls are supplied into the tank 2 through the ball supply pipe 3 in response to this. Then, the first
Since the counting signal P1 is output from the counter 4 to the hall computer 14, the hall computer 14 can indirectly count the prize balls (the number of safe balls) paid out to the pachinko game machine 1.

When a pachinko ball hit during the game wins the winning opening 8, a predetermined number of prize balls are paid out and the roulette 7 rotates at the same time. And the roulette 7-3 that was stopped
When the digit pictograms have a predetermined combination, the opening and closing plate 6b opens the winning opening 6a for a predetermined time by driving the electric accessory 6. Thus, when the combination of pictograms of the roulette 7 becomes, for example, "777", the opening / closing plate 6b opens the winning opening 6a for a relatively long time, so that the driven pachinko ball is received by the opening / closing plate 6b. It becomes a special prize state in which it is easy to win the winning opening 6a. At this time, the pachinko balls continuously winning in the winning opening 6a and the pachinko balls winning in other winning openings are temporarily held on the back side of the pachinko game machine 1, and the held pachinko balls are out one by one. Released into the ball discharge path.

When the central management computer 14 detects a hit state in the game as described above, the occurrence of the hit is reported through the speaker 19, and based on the notification, the employee in charge is notified of the player Will be notified that the pachinko balls obtained by hitting the ball will be exchanged for prizes and that continuation of the game will be prohibited.

Then, when the player turns the operation dial 12 to play with the pachinko game machine that has been stopped, the angle sensor 13 detects this, and the computer for the hall detects this.
The operation detection signal P3 is output to 14. Then, the hall computer 14 determines that the pachinko game machine 1 is in operation based on the input of the operation detection signal P3 from the stopped pachinko game machine 1, and announces the fact through the speaker 19. . Thereby, the responsible employee can instruct a patron who is playing with the stopped pachinko game machine 1 to stop playing.

In short, according to the above configuration, the central management computer 14 is configured to detect that the pachinko game machine 1 in the hit state has been operated based on the operation detection signal 13 from the angle sensor 13. Therefore, unlike the conventional case where the operating status of the pachinko game machine in the hit state cannot be accurately detected, it is possible to quickly cope with the situation where the pachinko game machine in the hit state is operated improperly. it can.

In the above embodiment, the operation of the operation dial 12 is configured to be detected by the angle sensor 13, but instead of this, a touch sensor for detecting that a person touches the operation dial 12 is provided. The operation state of the operation dial 12 may be detected based on the detection state of the touch sensor.

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, according to the centralized control device for pachinko halls of the present invention, the operation detecting means for detecting the operation state of the operation member for playing with the pachinko game machine is provided. Above, when the operation detecting means is in the detection state in the hit state, it is configured to issue an abnormality notification, so that it is possible to reliably detect the operating status of the pachinko game machine in the hit state. It has excellent effects.

[Brief description of the drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electric configuration, and FIG. 2 is a front view of a pachinko game machine. In the figure, 1 is a pachinko game machine, 12 is an operation dial (operation member), 13 is an angle sensor (operation detection means), and 14 is a central management computer (central control device).

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] When the difference between a safe ball and an out ball reaches a predetermined number, the pachinko game machine is stopped.
The pachinko game machine is provided with operation detecting means for detecting an operation state of an operation member for playing, and when the operation detecting means is in the detection state in the hitting state, an abnormality notification is issued. A centralized control device for pachinko halls.