JP2753620B2 - Display of ball and ball game machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to a display device mounted on a non-game area of a game board formed outside a section rail arranged in a substantially circular shape.

[Prior art]

In recent years, ball game machines that provide a player with a relatively large value by establishing a predetermined game state have been provided to the market. In such a ball game machine, a game effect lamp provided as a display device for displaying a predetermined game state and scattered in a game area is blinked.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

For this reason, even if the game effect lamp is operated in the predetermined game state, the player's attention is directed only to the vicinity of the game effect lamp, and the player's attention to the entire game area is distracted. There was a problem. In order to solve this, it is conceivable to provide an arc-shaped display section containing a game effect lamp so as to surround the game area in a non-game area outside the game area, but in this case, the entire arc-shaped display section is provided. When one is integrally formed by one display device by synthetic resin molding, the display device becomes large, deforms inwardly in an arc shape, and it is difficult to mount it on a game board, and when it is forcibly mounted. Have had the problem of breaking or, in the long term, cracking. The present invention has been made in view of the above problems,
Its purpose is to allow the player's attention to be directed to the game area when a predetermined game state occurs, and to be used in a display device of a ball game machine which is unlikely to be deformed when molded with synthetic resin. Is to provide.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a display device for a ball-and-ball game machine according to the present invention is provided with a synthetic resin attached to a non-game area of a game board formed outside a section rail arranged in a substantially circular shape. And arranged at least along the right side from the upper part of the partition rail, is constituted by a plurality of divided bodies, and is further decorated by light emitting means arranged inside each of the plurality of divided bodies. The display section is formed in an arc shape along the section rail.

[Action]

Since the display unit decorated by the light emitting means arranged inside the plurality of divided bodies is formed in an arc shape along the section rail arranged in a substantially circular shape, it becomes a predetermined game state, and the light emitting means becomes In operation, a circular arc of light is formed to surround the gaming area, thereby causing the gaming area to appear to float and the player's attention to be naturally directed to the gaming area. In addition, since the display device arranged along the right side from the top of the section rail is composed of a plurality of divided bodies, when the display device is molded with synthetic resin, the amount of deformation can be reduced, and this is achieved. In mounting the display device on the game board after the section rails are mounted, the mounting operation is performed smoothly, and there is no fear of breakage or cracking during or after mounting.

【Example】

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, a pachinko game machine as an example of a ball game machine to which the display device 25 of this embodiment is applied will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a front view of the pachinko gaming machine. In the figure, a door holding frame 3 is provided around a frame-shaped front frame 2 of the pachinko gaming machine 1, and the door holding frame 3 has a glass door frame having glass plates 4a and 4b (see FIG. 2). The front door 4 and the front door plate 5 are pivotally supported on one side and mounted to be freely opened and closed. A game board 10 is detachably provided on a game board mounting frame 23 (see FIG. 6) behind the glass door frame 4 and on the back surface of the front frame 2 by a game board mounting tool 24. Also, on the surface of the front door plate 5, a hit ball supply tray 6 for storing discharged prize balls and supplying one hit ball to a firing position.
Has been fixed. A speaker 7 for generating a sound effect related to the game is built in an internal space below the hit ball supply tray 6 on the upstream side. At the lower part of the front frame 2, there are provided an operation handle 8 constituting a part of a hitting ball firing mechanism, and an excess ball receiving tray 9 for storing prize balls that could not be stored in the hitting ball supply tray 6. I have. A hit ball launching device 22 is mounted on the rear surface of the front frame 2 so as to correspond to the operation handle 8 as shown in FIG. On the surface of the gaming board 10, guide the shot ball fired,
And a section rail for dividing the game area 12 for the guided ball to fall and the non-game area 13 not related to both sides of the ball.
11 are planted almost circularly. In the approximate center of the game area 12, a variable display device 14 having a plurality of drum-shaped variable display members is provided. The variable display device 14 enters a special game state when the display mode when the variable display member is stopped becomes the big hit mode, and the variable prize ball device 15 located below the variable display device 14 The cycle is repeated a predetermined number of times until time elapses or until a certain number of winning balls are generated. Therefore, when the variable winning prize ball device 15 is opened in the specific gaming state, a large number of prize balls can be generated in a short time. In the game area 12, when a specific game state is set, a game effect lamp 16a to 1 which is turned on or blinks during the state.
6f are provided interspersed. On the other hand, in the non-game area 13, a display device 25 made of a synthetic resin, which is a main part of this embodiment, is arranged along the right side from the top of the section rail 11. The display device 25 will be described later in detail. Next, the structure of the back of the pachinko gaming machine 1 will be described with reference to FIG. On the back surface of the gaming board 10, a winning ball aggregate cover body 17 in which a guiding path for guiding a winning ball winning in each of the winning areas to the left and right while guiding the ball downward is fixed. A relay terminal board 18 for relaying a wiring extending from a switch, a lamp, a drive source, and the like provided on the game board 10 to a control board 20 to be described later is attached to an upper portion of the rear surface of the winning ball collecting cover body 17. .
Wirings 33 and 60 extending from lamps 31 and 58 provided in the display device 25 described later are also connected to the relay terminal board 18. On the back of the pachinko gaming machine 1, a mechanism plate 19 indicated by a dashed line in FIG. The mechanism plate 19 is provided with a well-known mechanism for processing a winning ball from a winning port provided on the gaming board 10 and oscillating a predetermined number of prize balls corresponding to the winning ball. . In addition, below the rear surface of the mechanism plate 19, a variable display device 14, a variable winning ball device 15, provided in the game area 12,
Game effect lamps 16a to 16f, and the lamp 31 of the display device 25,
Control board 20 including control circuit to control the operation of 58
Is provided. As shown in FIG. 6, lamp insertion holes 21a to 21c are formed in the upper portion of the game board 10, and the lamp insertion holes 21a to 21c are formed.
To 21c are fixed to the mechanism plate 19 (not shown;
(A prize ball payout lamp, a ball cutout lamp, etc.) are inserted forward, and the lighting of them can be recognized by the player via the light transmitting portion of the display device 25. Next, with reference to FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, the configuration of the display device 25 molded of a synthetic resin, which is a main part of this embodiment, will be described. FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of the entire display device 25, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the game board 10 cut from substantially the center and viewed from the left side, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a hit ball receiving rubber portion. Referring mainly to FIG. 1, the structure of the display device 25 will be described.
The right divided body 26 which is disposed in the non-game area 13 along the right side from the top of the
And a left split 27. The right divided body 26 is a “crescent moon” extending from the upper center to the right side and the lower part of the non-game area 13.
The left divided body 27 is formed in a “triangular” shape from the upper center of the non-game area 13 to the upper left portion. First, the configuration of the right divided body 26 will be described. The right divided body 26 includes a substantially “crescent” shaped right divided body 28 integrally formed of a non-permeable synthetic resin, and a right divided body main body 28.
First display covers 43a to 43c covered along the inside of 28
And an ornament 36 attached to the upper bent portion of the right split body 28. A lamp housing recess 29 is formed in the right split body 28 along the side facing the partition rail 11. In the lamp housing recess 29, lamp mounting portions 30 are provided at appropriate intervals. The lamp mounting part 30 includes lamp substrate mounting pieces 30a, 30b for holding a lamp substrate 32 on which the lamp 31 is integrally provided and lamp substrate holding pieces 30c, 30d (30
d is not shown), and the lamp substrate mounting pieces 30a, 3
Numeral 0b is provided with a locking claw at its tip to removably lock the lamp substrate 32, and the lamp substrate holding pieces 30c, 30d
Is for holding the lamp substrate 32 in contact with the side of the lamp substrate 32. Note that a lamp wiring 33 is connected to each of the lamp boards 32, and this lamp wiring 33 is connected to the relay terminal board 18 via the lamp insertion hole 21c. For this reason, the lamp 31 is turned on or blinks when the variable display device 14 is in a specific display mode and is in a specific game state. At the upper left end of the right split body 28, a fitting projection 34 is formed to be fitted with an upper right end (fitting recess 62) of a left split body 55 described later. Non-gaming area 13
Then, by fixing the left divided body 27 to the non-game area 13, the right divided body 26 and the left divided body 27 are arranged so as to be integrally visible. Further, the right split body 28 has an accessory mounting hole 35 formed in the upper right bent portion, and the accessory mounting hole 35 is provided in the accessory mounting hole 35.
An ornament 36 is fixed via 38. That is, the mounting plate 38 is fixed to the mounting boss protruding from the back surface of the right split body 28, and the decorative component 36 having the mounting hole 36a is fixed to the surface of the mounting plate 38. The accessory 36 and the mounting plate 38 are attached to the mounting hole 36a such that the light-transmitting plate 37 made of a transparent material faces the mounting hole 36a.
And is fixed. A mounting hole 38a is formed in the mounting plate 38 corresponding to the light transmitting plate 37. The contact hole 38a corresponds to the lamp insertion hole 21c, so that light emitted by a lamp (not shown) fixed to the mechanism plate 19 is visually recognized by the player via the light transmitting plate 37. . At the lower bent portion of the right split body 28, there is provided an information paper sticking section 39 for sticking information paper describing various information. On the section rail 11 side of the information paper sticking portion 39 and the accessory mounting hole 35, fraud prevention protrusions 40a, 40b are provided in a protruding manner. The fraud preventing protrusions 40a and 40b are formed at a height such that they protrude from the tips of the obstacle nails 83 (see FIG. 2) set in the game area 12 of the game board 10. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, the tips of the anti-fraud protruding pieces 40a and 40b are located between the tip of the obstacle nail 83 and the inner glass plate 4b.
Due to such a structure, even if the glass plate 4b is pressed, the glass plate 4b contacts only the fraud prevention protrusions 40a, 40b,
The tip of the obstacle nail 83 cannot be brought into contact. Accordingly, the player presses the glass door frame 4 or the glass plate 4a to bring the glass plate 4b into contact with the tip of the obstacle nail 83, thereby changing the arrangement of the obstacle nails 83 and increasing the winning rate. Can be prevented. In this embodiment,
Although the anti-fraud protruding pieces 40a and 40b are partially provided,
The whole may be formed so as to protrude from the tip of the obstacle nail 83, and the number of protruding pieces may be arbitrarily formed. Further, on the back surface of the right divided body 28, a positioning hole 80 (see FIG. 2) formed in the game board 10 is fitted to fit the right divided body 26.
Positioning projections 41a and 41b for determining the position of the projection are provided in a protruding manner. Further, mounting holes 42a to 42c for mounting the right divided body 26 to the surface of the game board 10 with screws are formed at appropriate intervals. By the way, the lamp storage recess 29 has first display covers 43a to 43a as display portions made of a transparent material.
It is covered with 3c. First display cover 43a
43c have diamond cuts or knurl cuts on their inner surfaces to scatter light emitted from the lamp 31. Then, the first display cover 43a
43c are formed in a circular arc shape having a cross section of “L” composed of a plane perpendicular to the surface of the game board 10 and a plane parallel to the surface of the game board 10 (a surface directly viewed by a player), and each of the right divided body 28 Mounting holes
It is configured to be fixed with screws via 52a to 52e. The first display cover 43a attached to the uppermost part of the first display covers 43a to 43c covers the lamp housing recess 29 from the fitting protrusion 34 to below the accessory mounting hole 35, From the rear end, hit ball receiving rubber 47
The ball receiving rubber mounting portion 44 for detachably mounting the ball is formed in a stepped shape. The hit ball receiving rubber mounting portion 44 has a “U” shape that holds a rubber holding protrusion 45 penetrating a through hole 47 a formed in the front center of the hit ball receiving rubber 47 and a rear end 47 b of the hit ball receiving rubber 47. And a rubber holding portion 46 formed in
When the ball receiving rubber 47 of the ball receiving rubber mounting portion 44 is attached, the front surface of the ball receiving rubber 47 is set in the step portion and faces the game area 12, and therefore, along the division rail 11. The hit ball hits against the front surface of the hit ball receiving rubber 47 and is dropped downward.
In addition, the front surface of the hit ball receiving rubber 47 is in the game area 12 as described above.
However, as shown in FIG. 3, a reflective ball preventing portion 48 is formed on the first display cover 43a so as to protrude from the front edge thereof. This is to prevent the hitting ball from hitting the glass plate 4b when the hitting ball hitting the hit rubber receiving rubber 47 is reflected toward the glass plate 4b, as shown in FIG. This prevents the glass plate 4b from being damaged. The first display cover 43b in the middle of the first display covers 43a to 43c covers the lamp housing recess 29 from below the accessory mounting hole 35 to the upper portion of the information paper attaching section 39. The first display cover 43c is provided with the information paper attaching section 39.
Is covered with the lamp housing recess 29 on the side. In this embodiment, two lamps 31 are installed in the lamp housing recess 29 covered with the first display cover 43b in the middle.
Lamp housing recess 2 covered by lower first display cover 43c
The lamp 31 is not installed in 9. This is because the lamp housing recess 29 covered with the first display cover 43c is extremely small, but the lamp 31 may be installed as needed. Further, second display covers 49a to 49c (which also constitute a display unit) made of a transparent material are fixed to the surfaces of the first display covers 43b and 43c. The second display covers 49a to 49c are formed of a material having a color different from that of the first display covers 43a to 43c, and the inner surface thereof is subjected to processing such as diamond cut or knurl cut for scattering light. By providing the first display covers 43b and 43c having different colors and the second display covers 49a to 49c in such a manner as to overlap each other, the decorative effect as the display unit is enhanced. In this embodiment, as the structure for fixing the second display covers 49a to 49c, in this embodiment, engagement projections 50a to 50d protruding from one ends of the second display covers 49a to 49c (however, the second display cover 49c are provided).
c, two engagement projections 50c, 50d are projected from the first display covers 43b, 43c.
The attachment holes 53a to 53c formed at the other ends are connected to the first display covers 43b, 43, respectively.
The screws are aligned with the mounting holes 52c to 52e of c and integrally fixed to the right split body 28 with screws. This allows the second
The fastening structure of the display covers 49a to 49c is simplified. Pin escape cutouts 54a to 54c are formed at predetermined intervals at bases of surfaces of the first display covers 43a and 43b perpendicular to the game board 10. This is performed by inserting the rail mounting pins 81 into the rail mounting holes 82 in order to fix the partition rails 11 to the game board 10 as shown in FIG. 81 will come out a little. Then, pin escape notches 54a to 54c are formed to absorb the protruding portions of the rail mounting pins 81. With such a configuration, there is no gap between the partition rail 11 and the first display covers 43a and 43b, and a favorable appearance can be obtained. In this embodiment, the first display covers 43a and 43b are provided as the members to be provided with the partition rails 11, so the pin escape notches 54a to 54c are formed in the first display covers 43a and 43b. When the member is, for example, the right divided body 28, the pin divided notches 54a to 54c may be formed in the right divided body 28. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the partition rail 11 is provided to face all of the first display covers 43a to 43c.
The section rail 11 may not be present in the portion corresponding to 43b. This is because the hit ball shot into the game area 12 hardly collides strongly with the first display cover 43b located on the side, so that even if the hit ball hits the side surface of the first display cover 43b, This is because the first display cover 43b is hardly damaged. Next, the configuration of the left divided body 27 formed in a “triangular” shape from the upper center to the left upper part of the non-game area 13 will be described. The left divided body 27 is integrally molded from a non-permeable synthetic resin. Substantially "triangular" left split body
55, and a first portion covered along the upper piece of the left divided body 55.
A display cover 68, a second display cover 69, and the left split body
55, and a lamp decoration 64 attached to the upper bent portion. In the left split body 55, a lamp housing recess 56 is formed along the upper piece from the upper portion facing the partition rail 11. The lamp accommodating portion 57 is provided in the lamp housing concave portion 56. The lamp mounting portion 57 has a structure for holding a lamp substrate 59 on which the lamp 58 is integrally provided, and has the same structure as the lamp mounting portion 30. Therefore, a detailed description is omitted. Further, a lamp wiring 60 is connected to the lamp board 59, and the lamp wiring 60 is connected to the relay terminal board 18 via the lamp insertion hole 21a. Therefore, the lamp 58 is connected to the variable display device 14.
Lights up when a specific display mode is set to a specific game state,
Or it is blinking. Further, a lamp insertion hole 61 into which a lamp (ball indicator lamp) fixed to the mechanism plate 19 is inserted is formed in the lamp housing recess 56. The lamp insertion hole 61 corresponds to the lamp insertion hole 21a. Also, at the upper right end of the left split body 55, the fitting protrusion
A fitting recess 62 that fits with 34 is formed. Further, a lamp decoration mounting hole 63 is formed in the upper right bent portion of the left divided body 55, and the lamp decoration mounting hole 63 is formed.
A lamp decoration 64 formed of a translucent material is fixed to the lamp. A lamp (prize ball payout lamp) fixed to the mechanism plate 19 faces the lamp decoration 64. When a prize ball is generated and a predetermined number of prize balls are paid out, the lamp is turned on so that the player can visually recognize the prize ball. ing. The lamp facing the lamp decoration 64 is inserted through the lamp insertion hole 21b. Further, on the section rail 11 side of the lamp decoration mounting hole 63, a fraud prevention protrusion 66 having the same function as the fraud prevention protrusions 40a, 40b is protruded. In this case as well, the entire left divided body 27 may be formed so as to protrude from the tip of the obstacle nail 83, and the number of protruding pieces may be arbitrarily formed. On the back surface of the left split body 55, a positioning hole 80 (see FIG. 2) formed in the game board 10 is fitted to fit the left split body 27.
The positioning projections 65a and 65b for determining the position of the projection are provided in a protruding manner. Further, mounting holes 67a, 67b for attaching the left divided body 27 to the surface of the game board 10 with screws are also formed at appropriate intervals. By the way, the lamp housing recess 56 is covered with a first display cover 68 and a second display cover 69 as a display unit made of a transparent material. First
The display cover 68 and the second display cover 69 have diamond cuts or knurl cuts on their inner surfaces, respectively.
The light emitted from the lamp 58 and the indicator lamp (not shown) is scattered. In this case, the first display cover 68 and the second display cover 69 are different from the fastening structure of the first display covers 43b and 43c and the second display covers 49a to 49c, and are positioned vertically. It has become
The upper and lower edges are fixed by an adhesive and integrated. Therefore, they are not fastened in the longitudinal direction. of course,
Also in this case, the first display cover 68 and the second display cover 69
Different colors are arranged. In this case, the polymer may be stopped by polymerization. By the way, mounting protrusions 70a and 70b are formed at one end of the first display cover 68 and the second display cover 59, respectively.
The mounting projections 70a and 70b are fitted into mounting holes 71 formed at one end of the lamp housing recess 56, and mounting holes formed at the other end.
1st display cover by inserting screws into 72 and screwing
68 and the second display cover 69 are fixed to the left split body 55. Further, the notch portions 54a to 54c for pin escape are also provided on the left divided body 27.
Pin escape cutouts 73a and 73b are formed. In this case, a pin escape notch 73a located at the upper part is formed in the second display cover 69, and a pin escape notch 73b located at the lower part is formed in the left split body 55, respectively. The right divided body 26 and the left divided body 27 formed as described above first move the positioning projections 41a and 41b of the right divided body 26 to the game board 1.
0, and is fixed to the game board 10 by screwing screws from the mounting holes 52a to 52e from the upper center of the non-game area 13 to the right side from the upper center of the non-game area 13, and then the left divided body 27 The positioning projections 65a, 65b of the game board 10 are inserted into the positioning holes 80 of the game board 10, and are arranged on the upper left side from the upper center of the non-game area 13 and screws are screwed from the mounting holes 67a, 67b to the game board 10. Fixed. At this time, the fitting projection 34 of the right divided body 26 and the fitting concave part 62 of the left divided body 27 are fitted, and the connection portion seems to be continuous. That is, the non-game area of the game board 10
13 can be seen as being covered by an integrally formed display device 25. Also, the display covers 68, 69, 43a to 43 constituting the display section
c, 49a to 49c are provided so as to continuously surround from the upper part of the section rail 11 to the right side part. For this reason, when the gaming state becomes the specific gaming state, the display covers 68, 69,
43a-43c, 49a-49c are illuminated by lamps 31, 58,
Since the game area 12 is raised, the player's attention naturally comes into the game area 12. Furthermore, since the right divided body main body 28 and the left divided body main body 55, which are the main constituent members of the display device 25, are configured separately, the amount of deformation at the time of molding them can be reduced. After assembling the body 26 and the left divided body 27 respectively, the game board 10
To be installed in the compartment rails 11
, And can be smoothly mounted along the section rails 11. In the above-described embodiment, the display covers 68, 69, 43a to 43c, and 49a to 49c constituting the display unit are shown as being continuous without any break, but the display is partially made of a material that does not transmit light. Even if the cover is configured, the game area
The game area 12 may be configured to float around the area 12.

【The invention's effect】

As is apparent from the above description, the display device of the ball game machine according to the present invention is formed of a synthetic resin disposed at least along the right side from the upper part of the section rail and has a plurality of divided bodies. In addition, since the display portion decorated by the light emitting means arranged inside the plurality of divided bodies is formed in an arc shape so as to follow the section rail, a predetermined game state is established and the light emitting means is formed. When activated, a circular arc of light is formed surrounding the gaming area, thereby causing the gaming area to appear to float and the player's attention to be naturally directed to the gaming area. In addition, when the display device is molded with a synthetic resin, the amount of deformation can be reduced, so that when the display device is mounted on the game board after the partition rails are mounted, the mounting work is performed smoothly. In addition, there is no fear of breakage or cracking during or after mounting.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of the entire display device according to the embodiment,
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view cut from the center of the game board and viewed from the left side, FIG. 3 is a rear view of the display device, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a hit ball receiving rubber portion, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a front view of a pachinko game machine as an example of a ball game machine to which the display device according to the embodiment is applied, and FIG. 6 is a schematic rear view of the pachinko game machine. 1 Pachinko game machine (ball game machine) 10 Game board 11 Section rail 12 Game area 13 Non-game area 25 Display device 26 Right split 27 Left split 31, 58 lamp (light emitting means) 43a-43c first display cover (display) 49a-49c second display cover (display) 68 first display cover (display) 69 Second display cover (display unit)

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A display device made of synthetic resin attached to a non-game area of a game board formed outside of a substantially circular section rail, wherein the display apparatus includes at least an upper portion of the section rail. The display unit is arranged along the right side, and is constituted by a plurality of divided bodies, and furthermore, the display unit decorated with the light emitting means arranged inside each of the plurality of divided bodies is circular so as to be along the section rail. A display device for a ball game machine, wherein the display device is formed in an arc shape. 2. An information paper sticking section for sticking information paper on which various information is described is provided at a lower portion of a divided body arranged along a right side of the section rail.
The display device of the ball game machine described in the above.