JP2887301B2 - Card payout device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates, the prize exchange for the card in order to display the number of award issued game media by the gaming machine
About the card dispensing equipment to be paid out from the case.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a game arcade equipped with a game machine such as a pachinko game machine, a player who has acquired a game medium such as a pachinko ball by the game machine puts the acquired game medium into a game medium counter. It has become. The game media counter uses a receipt made of thermal paper as a recording medium for the number of prize balls, counts the number of prize balls inserted, and presses a checkout switch. And a bar code are printed. The player can cut one receipt with a cutter, take it to a checkout place, and exchange it for a prize corresponding to the number of prize balls displayed on the receipt.

[0003]

However, in such a conventional technique, the receipt on which the number of prize balls is printed is
Since it is disposable, there is a problem that it costs money, wastes resources, and causes garbage pollution.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of such problems of the prior art, and enables the recording medium having the number of prize balls to be reproduced, thereby reducing costs, protecting resources and reducing garbage pollution. Premium exchange that can be planned
An object of the present invention is to provide a card payout device for a replacement card .

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[0006]

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[0008]

The Means for Solving the Problems The above object was to achieve
The gist of the present invention is to provide a case for accommodating one or more prize exchange cards, a transport device that takes out the prize exchange cards one by one from the case, and sends the prize exchange cards along a transport path, The prize replacement card which is provided along the transport path and is transported by ink which is received by receiving a signal of the number of prize balls from the outside and disappears by irradiating light of a predetermined wavelength from a halogen lamp. visually prize number of balls in
A recording unit for printing as possible , wherein the case is internally provided.
Surrounding wall for stacking multiple premium exchange cards
A transport belt mechanism and a transport guide.
And a transport roller, wherein the transport belt mechanism is
Eject the prize exchange cards one by one between the surrounding wall
Forming a possible gap for exchanging the prize inside the surrounding wall
Lower part of the surrounding wall so that the card can be placed on the transport surface
And one prize exchange placed on the transport surface.
Having an engaging portion with a replacement card, and
Moving the premium exchange card in the gap direction.
Wherein the transport guide comprises a card exit and the card
Conveying connecting an outlet and the gap of the conveying belt mechanism
And the conveyance roller is driven by power.
Moving the transport path of the transport guide from the gap to the
A structure for transporting the premium exchange card to a card exit.
The card dispensing device .

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[0010]

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[0012]

The prize exchange card prints and records the number of prize balls using ink that disappears when light of a predetermined wavelength is irradiated. A store clerk at the amusement arcade can read the recorded number of prize balls by eye and pay a prize corresponding to the number of prize balls to the player.

When the prize exchange card for which payment is completed is irradiated with light of a predetermined wavelength, the number of prize balls recorded disappears and becomes invisible. Therefore, if the prize exchange card itself is not damaged, the number of prize balls can be repeatedly recorded by disappearing ink.

When the number of prize balls is represented by at least one of a number and a bar code on the prize exchange card, the number of prize balls is confirmed by visually checking the number or reading the bar code. You can know.

[0015] When the balance of the balance obtained by subtracting the purchase amount of the lending ball from the amount of money inserted by the ball lending machine is recorded, it is easy to check the balance.

In the card dispensing device, a prize exchange card is taken out one by one from a plurality of prize exchange cards accommodated in a case by a transport device and sent along a transport path.
The recording unit provided along the transport path receives a prize ball number signal from the outside, and prints the number of prize balls on a prize exchange card being conveyed by ink that disappears by irradiating light of a predetermined wavelength. .

When the case has an enclosing wall and the transport device has a transport belt mechanism, a transport guide, and a transport roller, the premium exchange card is engaged with the engaging portion of the transport belt mechanism, and the transport surface is moved. And is discharged from the gap between the conveyor belt mechanism and the surrounding wall by power. The transport roller is
The prize exchange card is driven by power and conveys the prize exchange card from the gap to the card exit through the conveyance path of the conveyance guide.

In the card taking-in device, a prize card on which data is written is inserted from a card insertion slot, the contents of the card are read by a reading section, and the data is displayed on a display section. ,
In the next step, the card is irradiated with light for erasing by a light source to erase the data on the card, and in the next step, the apparatus stands by in a re-writable state. If it is necessary to return the balls too much, the recording unit prints the number of balls on the waiting card, and the transport device returns the premium card to the card insertion slot. If there is not much ball processing and the next card is inserted, the card in standby is stored in the card storage section by the card storage mechanism. Card storage section The stored card can be reused.

[0019]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Each drawing shows an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the premium exchange card 10 is a rectangular thin card. The premium exchange card 10 is used in a game arcade equipped with a game machine (not shown) such as a pachinko game machine or a slot machine, and records the number of game media such as pachinko balls and slot machines acquired by the game machine. It is a recording medium. The premium exchange card 10 is made of high quality paper, plastic, or other material so that it can be used repeatedly.

The prize exchange card 10 has a display 11 of "Thank you very much.", A display 12 of the name of the game hall to be used, a display 13 of the date of use, and a display 13 below the display 13. Expiration date display 14 with space left open
The display 15 of the "balance" and the display 17 of the "number of prize balls" are printed on one side with ordinary ink which is difficult to disappear.

In the balance display area 16, a display 21 of the amount of the balance obtained by subtracting the purchase amount of the lending ball from the amount input by the ball lending machine is recorded by a number using ink which disappears by irradiating light of a predetermined wavelength. Have been. This ink is
It is not affected by visible light having a wavelength of 400 to 700 nm, but disappears in a short time when irradiated with light of 820 nm by a halogen lamp or the like. In the number-of-prize-balls display area 18, a display 22 of the number of prize-balls is recorded by numerals using the same ink. Display 13
A bar code display 23 relating to the date, the balance, the number of prize balls, and security is recorded in the space between and the display 14.

The card dispensing device 30 shown in FIG. 2 records the displays 21, 22, 23.13a on the prize exchange card 10.

The card dispensing device 30 includes a case 31
It has a transport device 32 and a recording unit 33. Case 3
Reference numeral 1 denotes a card holder constituted by an enclosing wall for accommodating a plurality of premium exchange cards 10 in a stack. The case 31 has one end of a lever 31a rotatably attached to the upper end thereof, and a weight 31c attached to the other end of the lever 31a via a short lever 31b.
In the card dispensing device 30, the premium exchange card 10 is supplied to the transport surface 41a side by the pressure of the weight 31c.

The transport device 32 has a configuration in which the premium exchange cards 10 are taken out of the case 31 one by one and sent along the transport path 32a. The transport device 32 has a transport belt mechanism 41, a transport guide 42, and a transport roller 43. The transport belt mechanism 41 forms a gap between the prize exchange card 10 and the surrounding wall formed by the case 31 so that the prize exchange card 10 can be discharged one by one.
Is provided on the lower part of the surrounding wall so as to be placed on the transport surface 41a.

The transport belt mechanism 41 includes a driving pulley 41c.
The endless belt 41d is stretched between the endless belt 41d and the driven pulley 41b.
0 is moved in the gap direction. The endless belt 41d has an engaging portion 41e with one prize exchange card 10 placed on the transport surface 41a.

The transport guide 42 has a transport path 32a connecting the card outlet 42a and the gap of the transport belt mechanism 41. The transport roller 43 includes a pinch roller 43a.
And a card driving roller 43b. The pinch roller 43a and the card driving roller 43b
Downstream, the transport path 32a is provided vertically. The transport roller 43 is driven by power, and has a configuration for transporting the premium exchange card 10 from the gap along the transport path 32a of the transport guide 42 to the card outlet 42a.

The recording ink section 33 (recording section) is provided along the transport path 32a, and receives a date, a balance, a prize ball number signal, or the like from the outside, and emits light of a predetermined wavelength to remove the ink. Prize exchange card 1 to be transported
A configuration is provided in which the number of prize balls is printed at 0. FIG. 3 shows the configuration of the recording ink unit 33.

The recording ink section 33 has a heat-sensitive tape cassette 61. A feed-side reel 62 and a take-up reel 63 are rotatably housed in the heat-sensitive tape cassette 61. A concave portion 61a is formed in the center of the side of the heat-sensitive tape cassette 61, and the thermal head 64 can be arranged in the concave portion 61a.

The feed reel 62 and the take-up reel 63
The heat-sensitive tape 65 includes rollers 66a, 66b, 6
6c and the like, and are wound around the thermal head 64. In the roller 66c,
A drive roller 68 provided on a drive shaft of a motor 67 is in contact with an opening formed in the heat-sensitive tape cassette 61. A reel drive belt 66d is wound around the roller 66c and the rotation shaft 63a of the take-up reel 63, and the take-up reel 63 is rotated by the rotation of the drive roller 68.
Is designed to rotate. In addition, take-up reel 6
A configuration in which the third rotation shaft 63a is directly rotated may be employed.

The card take-in device 50 reads and displays the information of the premium exchange card 10, and erases the display 21, 22, 23.13a of the used premium exchange card 10.

As shown in FIG. 4, the card loading device 50 includes a card storage unit 51, a card storage mechanism 52, a transport device 53, a reading unit 54, a light source 55, and a recording unit 56.
And a display unit (not shown).

The card storage section 51 can store a plurality of premium exchange cards 10. The card storage unit 51 has a display 21 of the amount of the balance, a display 22 of the number of prize balls,
The premium exchange card 10 in which the barcode display 23 and the date display 13a are deleted is stored. Card storage mechanism 52
Is the premium exchange card 10 sent by the transport device 53.
Is stored in the card storage unit 51.

The transport device 53 has a first step card feeder 71, a second step card feeder 72, and a third step card feeder 73.

The first step card feeder 71 among the feeders 71 to 73 includes an endless belt 71c stretched between pulleys 71a and 71b at both ends, and pulleys 71a and 71b.
The pinch rollers 71d and 71e are provided so as to oppose b. The other feeders 72 and 73 have the same configuration. The transport device 53 includes each of the feeders 71 to 73
Thus, the premium exchange card 10 is sent along the transport path 53b.

The reading section 54 is connected to the transport path 5 of the transport device 53.
A bar code display 23 of data recorded on the premium exchange card 10 to be conveyed is provided at the position of the first step card feeder 71 along 3b, and a data signal ( (A data signal). The data read by the bar code reader is stored in a card capturing device 50.
Is digitally displayed on the display unit.

The light source 55 travels along the transport path 53b to the second
The prize exchange card 10 provided at the position of the step card feeder 72 is constituted by a halogen lamp for irradiating the conveyed premium exchange card 10 with light of a predetermined wavelength (820 nanometers) for erasing predetermined ink.

The recording section 56 is constituted by the above-described heat-sensitive tape cassette 61, and is provided at the position of the third step card feeder 73 along the transport path 53b. The recording unit 56 prints the number of balls in a predetermined ink on the prize exchange card 10 by using a predetermined ink when returning too many balls by card.

Next, the operation will be described. In FIG. 2, the card dispensing device 30 accommodates a plurality of premium exchange cards 10 in a case 31. The card dispensing device 30 engages one prize exchange card 10 in the case 31 with the engaging portion 41e of the transport belt mechanism 41, places the card on the transport surface 41a, and moves the transport belt mechanism 41 and the case by power. 31
Is discharged from the gap between the surrounding wall.

The card discharged from the gap is placed on the transport path 32a and is pushed by the engaging portion 41e and proceeds. When the card reaches the position where it is sandwiched between the rollers 43, the transport belt is transported by the rollers 43. The recording paper is fed by a fixed size at a speed faster than the mechanism 41 and stopped.

When a game player inserts game media such as pachinko balls and medals obtained by the game machine into a game media counter (not shown), and presses a checkout switch after the counting is completed, the player goes along the transport path 32a. The recording ink unit 33 provided with the prize exchange card 10 which is conveyed by using the heat-sensitive tape 65 of the heat-sensitive tape cassette 61 in response to a signal such as data and date from an external counter. The data is printed on. The heat-sensitive tape 65 is printed on the premium exchange card 10 by thermal welding using ink that disappears when the dot elements of the thermal head 64 generate heat and emit light of a predetermined wavelength.

When printing is completed, the thermal head 64
The premium exchange card 10 is ejected from the card outlet 42a of the transport guide 42 while being pinched between the pinch roller 43a and the card drive roller 43b. And
The motor 67 is driven to set an unused portion of the heat-sensitive tape 65.

At this stage, the endless belt 41d of the transport belt mechanism 41 is driven to send out the next premium exchange card 10 to the print set position.

As shown in FIG. 1, the premium exchange card 10 paid out by the card payout device 30 is printed with a display 21 of the amount of the remaining balance, a display 22 of data, a date 13a, and a bar code display 23. . Since data such as the balance and the number of prize balls are represented by numbers on the card, the player can know these data by visually checking the numbers. Check the number of game media you have won, etc.
0 can be taken.

The premium exchange card 10 records a display 21 of the amount of the balance, a display 22 of data, a bar code display 23, and a display 13a of date with ink which disappears by irradiating light of a predetermined wavelength. I have. At the prize exchange,
Insert the premium exchange card 10 into the card capturing device 50,
By reading the barcode display 23, it is possible to read the amount of money, data, date, and other information related to security written on the card, and the clerk responds based on the information. That is, the user knows the balance, passes the amount corresponding to the amount to the customer, and passes the premium corresponding to the data to the customer.

The premium exchange card 10 for which payment has been completed
When light of a predetermined wavelength is irradiated, recorded data disappears and becomes invisible. Therefore, if the prize exchange card 10 itself is not damaged, the data can be repeatedly recorded with the disappearing ink.

At the prize exchange, the clerks at the amusement arcade
The recorded data can be read by eye, and a prize corresponding to the data can be paid to the player.

As shown in FIG. 4, the card loading device 50
Stores a plurality of used premium exchange cards 10 in the card storage unit 51.

The reading section 54 is a prize exchange card 10 inserted through the card insertion slot 53a of the card capturing device 50.
The data and the like recorded in the memory are read and displayed, and a data signal is sent to the outside. The prize exchange card 10 having a problem in the reading unit 54 is sent to the first step card feeder 7.
1 is driven in reverse to return to the card insertion slot 53a.

After the reading, display, and the like are performed by the reading unit 54, the light source 55
Irradiate light of a predetermined wavelength (820 nanometers),
a, display 21 of the balance amount, data display 22, date 1
3a, the predetermined ink on the barcode display 23 is erased. The prize replacement card 10 from which the ink has disappeared is the third step car.
Is sent to the recording unit 56 by the feeder 73 and stands by.

If the ball needs to be returned too much, the recording unit 56
Prints a small number of balls with predetermined ink on the waiting premium exchange card 10, and the premium exchange card 10 on which the large number of balls are recorded is returned to the card insertion port 53a again. The premium exchange card 10 that is not rewritten is stored in the card storage unit 51 by the card storage mechanism 52. The premium exchange card 10 in the card storage section 51 can be taken out and used repeatedly as a reproduction card.

In the above-described embodiment, printing is performed with the ink that disappears on the premium exchange card 10 by using the thermal transfer ink ribbon of the thermal tape cassette 61. In addition to the thermal tape cassette, the toner used in the copying machine is used. A type of ink or an ink ribbon for a dot printer may be used.

The used gift exchange card 10 is
The clerk collects and erases the display 21, the data display 22, the date display 13a, and the barcode display 23 of the premium exchange card 10 using the light source 55 described above. You may do so.

The premium exchange card 10 may be provided with a magnetic recording medium, and data and the like may be magnetically recorded on the magnetic recording medium.

In the card dispensing device 30, an alarm device is provided, and when the number of the prize exchange cards 10 in the case 31 becomes less than a predetermined number, an alarm signal is sent to the hall management computer or a lamp or the like is used in the game medium counter. A warning may be issued by turning on a light, or the like, to notify the clerk.

Further, when the heat-sensitive tape 65 wound around the feed-side reel 62 of the heat-sensitive tape cassette 61 of the recording ink unit 33 or 56 approaches the end, an alarm is issued and the replacement of the recording ink unit 33 is urged. Is also good.

[0056]

According to Luke over de dispenser written to the present invention, the prize exchange card, used as a recording medium for data, the data by irradiating light of a predetermined wavelength from the halogen lamp since the recording ink disappears, and can reproduce a recording medium data, as well as reducing the cost, it is possible to resource conservation and waste pollution reduction, before
The case of the card dispenser has an enclosing wall, and the transfer device has
An engaging portion that engages with one prize exchange card on the transport surface
Transport belt mechanism, transport guide and transport roller
If you do, make sure that each prize exchange card is
It can be easily taken out .

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[0060]

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[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a premium exchange card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic front view showing a card payout apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing an internal configuration of a heat-sensitive tape cassette used in the card dispensing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing the internal configuration of the card loading device according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10: Premium exchange card 21: Display of the balance 22: Display of the number of premium balls (display of data) 23: Bar code display 30: Card dispensing device 31: Case 32: Transport device 33: Recording unit (recording) Ink unit) 50: Card loading device 54: Reading unit 55: Light source

Continuation of the front page (58) Field surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁶ , DB name) A63F 7/02 B42D 15/02 B42D 15/10

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A case for accommodating a plurality of prize exchange cards, a transport device for taking out the prize exchange cards one by one from the case and sending the prize exchange cards along a transport path; and provided along the transport path. A recording unit that receives the signal of the number of prize balls from the outside and visibly prints the number of prize balls on the conveyed prize replacement card by ink that disappears by irradiating light of a predetermined wavelength from a halogen lamp. has the door, the case is stacked a plurality of prize exchange card inside
A transfer belt mechanism, a transfer guide, and a transfer belt;
And a transport roller, wherein the transport belt mechanism includes the surrounding wall.
Between the prize exchange cards can be ejected one by one
A gap is formed, and the premium exchange card inside the surrounding wall is
Provided at the lower part of the surrounding wall so that it can be placed on the transport surface.
And one prize exchange car on the transport surface.
Having an engaging portion with the transporting surface, and having a power
Structure for moving the product replacement card in the gap direction.
The transport guide includes a card outlet, and the card outlet.
A transfer path connecting the gap of the transfer belt mechanism;
Wherein the transport roller is driven by power,
The card exits the transport path of the transport guide from the gap.
A card dispensing device having a configuration for transporting the premium exchange card to a mouth .