JP2942495B2 - Arrange ball machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an arrangement ball machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Arranged ball machines are provided at the lower portion of a game board with, for example, 16 ball inlets arranged in a row in a row, and play balls at predetermined time intervals on the game board. Is provided, and a predetermined number of game balls are fired on a game board for each game by the firing means,
While judging the success or failure of the winning combination based on the combination of the entrances into which the game balls have entered, the game is played sequentially after a predetermined pause time for each game.

[0003] The firing means drives the hitting hammer intermittently by a firing motor, and hits and fires a game ball at a firing position by the hitting hammer. It is configured so that it can also be used as a personal computer.

[0004]

In a ball game machine such as a pachinko machine, an arrangement ball machine and the like, the maximum allowable number of fire balls when the game means is fired on the game board by the firing means is 100 or less per minute. Is regulated as follows. The launching means is commonly used for a pachinko machine and an arrange ball machine. For this reason, when the number of firings of the firing means is set according to the maximum allowable firing number, in a pachinko machine that continuously fires a game ball and plays a game, even in an actual game, the maximum allowable firing number from the firing means is used. It is possible to fire a game ball.

However, in the case of an arranged ball machine, one game is ended each time a required number of game balls are fired, and then the game is started again after a predetermined pause time. The number of firing means per minute including the and the pause time is much smaller than that of the pachinko machine.

That is, when the number of shots of the shooting means is set to match the maximum allowable number of shots of 100, a pachinko machine fires game balls at 0.6 second intervals. However, in the arrangement ball machine, one game is completed every time 16 game balls are fired. For example, if the next game is started after a pause time of about 2 seconds, 16 balls are fired and 2 seconds pause is sequentially performed. Since this is repeated, the number of shots when the game is actually continued for one minute is 80, which is 20 less than the maximum allowable shot number of 100.

Accordingly, in the case of an arranged ball machine, 1
The number of shots at which the firing means actually fires the game balls per minute is reduced by about 20% as compared with the case of the pachinko machine, which is a large difference in the operation rate between the pachinko machine and the arrange ball machine in the game store. It is one of the causes.
An object of the present invention is to provide an arrangement ball machine that can set the number of firing units per unit time including a pause time according to the maximum allowable number of firings in view of the conventional problems.

[0008]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a winning opening means 29 in which a number of winning openings 35 are arranged is provided on a gaming board 5.
And launch means 9 for launching game balls onto the game board 5 at predetermined time intervals. The launch means 9 allows a predetermined number of game balls to be fired on the game board 5 for each game. while determining the success or failure of the winning combination by the combination of winning hole 35 the ball is won, the firing means 9 is to perform a sequential game at a predetermined dwell time T ₁ interrupts the firing of game ball for each game in ball arranging machines, as the firing number per total unit time T that total the game time T ₂ and the quiescent time T ₁ is to and the maximum allowable firing number substantially approximated by the following maximum allowable firing number per unit time, rest time
Depending on the T ₁ is obtained by setting the firing number of game balls of the firing means 9 in the game time T _2.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 illustrate an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a front frame which is pivotally attached to the front side of an arrangement ball machine main body 2 so as to be freely opened and closed. Front frame 1
A glass door 3 and a front plate 4 are attached to the game console, and a game board 5 is detachably attached to the rear side of the glass door 3 and the front plate 4.

An upper plate 6 is mounted on the front plate 4, and this upper plate
A ball sweeping lever 7 is provided at the front edge of 6. Front frame 1
A lower plate 8 and an operation handle 10 of the firing means 9 are provided at the lower part of the box. The firing means 9 includes an operating handle 10, a hammer 12 for hitting a game ball of the firing unit 11, and a firing motor 13 which is activated when the operating handle 10 is operated to drive the hammer 12 in the hitting direction. When the operating handle 10 is operated, the game balls supplied one by one from the upper plate 6 to the firing unit 11 are hit by the hitting hammer 12 and fired.

A stepping motor is used as the launching motor 13, and the launching motor 13 is mounted on the back side of the front frame 1 via a mounting plate or the like. The mounting plate is provided with a motor control board incorporated in the protective case.

On the front of the game board 5, as shown in FIG.
A guide rail 18 for guiding the game ball fired by the firing means 9 is provided, and an upper winning means 19, a variable symbol display means 20, a central winning means 21, a lower winning means are provided in a central portion surrounded by the guide rail 18. 22, upper left winning means 2
3, prize winning means 24 in the upper right, points left and right 25, 26,
Starting winning prize means 27 at the lower left, lower right prize winning means 28, etc. are arranged, and prize opening means 29 are arranged below these,
A group of obstacle nails is provided near the upper side of the winning opening means 29.

The variable symbol display means 20 includes three symbol display units 30
, Which are activated when a game ball wins the starting winning means 27, so that the display symbols of the symbol display portions 30 to 32 fluctuate for a certain period of time. The central winning means 21 is provided with an opening / closing plate 33, and the inside thereof is divided into three passages, and the central passage is set as an operation area 34.

The winning opening means 29 has 16 winning openings 35 in a horizontal line and is covered by a lower cover 36 from the front side. The lower cover 36 is provided with a prize display means 37 in addition to the numbers 1 to 16 indicating the 16 prize holes 35. The prize display means 37 is provided with 16 prize display portions 38 vertically corresponding to the respective prize ports 35 of the prize port means 29 in a horizontal row, and when a game ball wins one of the prize ports 35, The winning display section 38 corresponding to the winning opening 35 is lit on.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a control system of the firing motor 13. In FIG. 3, reference numeral 39 denotes a motor drive circuit which drives the firing motor 13 in a pulsed manner. Reference numeral 40 denotes a settlement processing circuit, which performs all settlement processing such as payout of game balls according to the counted score when 16 game balls fired from the launch means 9 win the winning opening means 29 etc.
For example at a rest time T ₁ of the 2 seconds to begin the next game, the game is in issue a pause signal 2 seconds every ending.

Reference numeral 41 denotes a firing control means, which comprises a first oscillation circuit 42, a second oscillation circuit 43, a switching circuit 44, and an AND circuit 45, and is mounted on a motor control board together with the motor drive circuit 39.

The oscillating circuits 42 and 43 oscillate pulse signals for driving the firing motor 13. The first oscillating circuit 42 is for a pachinko machine and oscillates a pulse signal having a frequency such that the number of game balls fired per minute is 100, and the second oscillating circuit 43 is for an arrangement ball machine. Thus, a pulse signal having a frequency such that the number of game balls fired per minute is 120 is generated.

The oscillation frequency of the second oscillator circuit 43, in the ball arranging machine, as shown in FIG. 4, the actual game time T ₂
To be of the case took a pause time T ₁ of two seconds between the next real game time T _2. The number of shots per minute 120 when the firing motor 13 is driven by the pulse signal from the second oscillation circuit 43 is the number of shots per unit time T _{1 obtained} by adding the game time T ₂ and the pause time T _1. The actual game time T ₂ according to the pause time T ₁ so that is less than or equal to the maximum allowable number of launches per unit time and is approximately similar to the maximum allowable number of launches.
This is a value when the number of fired game balls within is set to a large value, and is calculated as follows.

[0019] In other words, in search of all sleep time by multiplying the number of games the rest time T ₁ in the unit time, determine the actual total game time by subtracting this all sleep time from the unit time.
On the other hand, the total number of game balls fired in all the games within a unit time is obtained from the number of games and the number of game balls fired for one game. When the total game time is divided by the total number of shots, a time interval when the firing means 9 fires a game ball is obtained.Therefore, the unit time is divided by this time interval to obtain a game ball in the unit time of the firing means 9. Is calculated.

[0020] Thus, one game firing number was sixteen, downtime T ₁ as 2 seconds, when performing 6 times the game in a unit time, firing the number is 1 per minute firing means 9
It becomes 20 pieces. Then, in the case of performing a game in this firing number, firing the number of game balls of all total unit time including the sleep time T ₁ becomes 96 or so per minute.

The switching circuit 44 includes the first oscillation circuit 42 and the second
The switching circuit connects the oscillation circuit 43 to the AND circuit 45, and switches the rotation speed of the firing motor 13 according to the pachinko machine and the arrangement ball machine. A
The ND circuit 45 receives an operation signal from the operation handle 10,
When there is no pause signal from the settlement processing circuit 40, the first
A pulse signal from the oscillation circuit 42 or the second oscillation circuit 43 is sent to the motor drive circuit 39.

Next, the operation of the arrangement ball machine configured as described above will be described. In the case of an arrangement ball machine, the switching circuit 44 selects the second oscillation circuit 43 side, and when starting the game, the firing motor 13 is driven by a pulse signal from the second oscillation circuit 43.

That is, at the start of the game, the launching means 9
When the operating handle 10 is turned in the firing direction, the second oscillation circuit 43
And the operation signal from the operation handle 10 are input to the AND circuit 45. On the other hand, at this time, before the game is started, and no pause signal is output from the settlement processing circuit 40, the pulse signal from the second oscillation circuit 43 is output from the AND circuit.
It is sent to the motor drive circuit 39 via 45.

For this reason, the firing motor 13 rotates at the set speed to drive the hammer 12, and the upper plate 6 is driven in conjunction with the hammer 12.
The game balls supplied one by one onto the launch unit 11 are sequentially hit with a hitting hammer 12 and fired on the game board 5. There are 16 game balls used in one game, and 16 game balls are sequentially fired at a speed corresponding to the oscillation frequency of the second oscillation circuit 43. That is, the oscillation frequency of the second oscillation circuit 43 is a pause time of 2 seconds.
Because there is T _1, the firing number per minute is set to be 120. Accordingly, the firing means 9 sequentially fires the game balls at a time interval of 0.5 seconds by the rotation of the firing motor 13.

The game ball fired on the game board 5 wins the top winning means 19 or the like, or wins one of the 16 winning holes 35 arranged in a row in the winning opening means 29. Then, for example, if a game ball wins in any one of the winning openings 35 of the winning opening means 29, a winning display section 38 of the winning display section 38 of the winning display means 37 corresponding to the winning opening 35 where the gaming ball wins. Lights up to indicate the winning position.

If four consecutive winning combinations are formed in the lighting state by the winning of each game ball, the winning combination is determined even during the game, and the winning combination is determined. In addition to calculating the winning score according to the difficulty,
For each winning score, 16 game balls are paid out to the upper plate 6 as prize balls.

When the launching means 9 fires 16 game balls and any one of the game balls wins, the settlement processing circuit 40 operates to perform the settlement processing, and then a pause signal is output from the settlement processing circuit 40. I do. Therefore, even if there is an operation signal from the operation handle 10, the pulse signal from the second oscillation circuit 43 is cut by the AND circuit 45, and the firing motor 13 stops.
Therefore, the firing means 9 interrupts the firing of the game ball for 2 seconds,
From the end of the game until the start of the next game in order to ensure the rest time T ₁ of 2 seconds.

After two seconds have elapsed, the firing motor 13 rotates again to start firing game balls. This launch means
If 9 is used for pachinko machines, the switching circuit 44
Should be selected as the first oscillation circuit 42. In this case, the number of shots per minute is 100,
The launching means 9 launches game balls at intervals of 0.6 seconds.

As described above, in the arrangement ball machine,
If the firing number of the firing means 9 is set to 120, when the operation handle 10 is operated, the firing motor 13 rotates to drive the hammer 12, and fires sequentially at time intervals of 0.5 seconds. . Therefore, the actual game time T ₂ required during actual performing sixteen game balls 1 game fire is, 0.5 × 16 = 8
(Seconds). For this reason, it is possible to shorten the game time T _2, the pause time T ₁ of 2 seconds after the end of each game very, can secure a similar firing number as in the case of pachinko machines, the same and the pachinko machine operating rate of arrange ball machine It is possible to improve to the extent. By the way, firing the number of game balls in total unit time, including rest time T ₁ of the Arrange ball machine,
In this embodiment, the number is 96.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, in the embodiment, the first oscillation circuit 42 for the pachinko machine and the second oscillation circuit 43 for the arranged ball machine are provided, and these are switched by the switching circuit 44 for use. The circuit 43 alone may be used.

Launching means 9 for an arrangement ball machine
Firing number by, as the firing number per total unit time T that total the game time T ₂ and the quiescent time T ₁ is maximum permissible firing number substantially approximate per unit time, depending on the length of the pause time T ₁ Change. Therefore, the number of games, pause time
The number of game balls fired by the firing means 9 changes depending on T ₁ , the number of fires in one game, and the like.

For example, even if the number of shots in one game is 16,
If the game number of times and 7 times, was the pause time T ₁ and 1 seconds,
The firing number of the firing means 9 per unit time is about 126. In the embodiment, the stepping motor is used as the launching motor, and the number of launches per unit time T is actually 100 units for the pachinko machine and 120 units for the arrangement ball machine. It is desirable to set the value slightly lower in consideration of the safety factor so as not to exceed the maximum allowable number of shots per hit.

[0033]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the winning board means 29 in which a number of winning ports 35 are arranged is provided on the game board 5, and game balls are placed on the game board 5 at predetermined time intervals. A launch means 9 for launching is provided, and a predetermined number of game balls are fired on the game board 5 for each game by the launch means 9 to determine the success or failure of the winning combination based on a combination of the winning holes 35 where the game balls have won. while, in the ball arranging machine launching means 9 for each game is to perform the sequential game at a predetermined dwell time T ₁ interrupts the firing of game balls, the game time T ₂ and the quiescent time T ₁ total and firing number per total unit time T such that maximum permissible and maximum permissible firing number substantially approximated by firing number less per unit time, a game ball firing means 9 in the game time T ₂ according to the pause time T ₁ Since the number of shots is set, Allen It fired the number of game balls increase of the ball machine, to shorten the game time T ₂ it is possible to increase the operating rate to the same level as pachinko machine.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an arrangement ball machine showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a game board showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a control system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a time explanatory diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

[Description of sign]

5 Game board 9 Launching means 29 Winning means 35 Winning mouth T Total unit time T ₁ Pause time T ₂ Game time

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A winning opening means in which a plurality of winning openings (35) are arranged.
(29) is provided on the game board (5), and a launch means (9) for launching the game ball on the game board (5) at predetermined time intervals is provided,
By this launching means (9), a predetermined number of game balls are fired on the game board (5) for each game, and the winning holes (3
While determining the success or failure of the winning combination by the combination of (5), the arrangement is such that the game is sequentially performed after a predetermined pause time (T ₁ ) in which the firing means (9) suspends the firing of the game ball for each game. In a ball machine, the game time (T ₂ ) and the pause time (T
_The game time according to the pause time (T ₁ ) so that the number of shots per unit time (T) obtained by adding ₁ ) is less than or equal to the maximum allowable number of fires per unit time, and An arrangement ball machine characterized in that the number of game balls fired by the firing means (9) in (T ₂ ) is set.