JP2951584B2 - Ball counting device for pachinko machines - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a counting device and a ball number counting system for a pachinko machine, and more particularly, to a counting device capable of counting the number of balls played by a competitor by mounting the device at a pachinko machine position. The present invention relates to an apparatus and a ball counting system for a pachinko machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a pachinko game, the number of balls played by a competitor has been counted by a ball counting machine installed at a prize counter or the like separate from the game on a pachinko machine. In other words, recent pachinko machines have a large number of balls per pachinko machine, and at the pachinko machine position, each competitor during the competition stores the balls in a large carton and keeps them in the pachinko machine. After finishing, or leaving the pachinko machine during the competition, go to the prize counter etc. where the ball counting machine is installed and count at once, and store the counting result on a storage medium such as a magnetic card, or like a receipt It was printed. The pachinko balls were returned to the pachinko machine after being counted.

[0003]

However, in a method of counting the number of balls issued by an athlete at a place different from a pachinko machine such as a prize counter, as in the conventional technique, each athlete is required to perform a pachinko game during a pachinko game. In the pachinko parlors, the number of balls that are actually used on the pachinko island or pedestal is reduced because balls are stored in the ball box at each pachinko stand position. And the number of balls that each competitor keeps at the pachinko machine position is added to the actual number of balls that are actually working at the pachinko machine position. There was a problem that it was necessary. In particular, there is a problem that the number of actually operated balls is insufficient on a pachinko machine having a large number of balls in recent years. or,
When there are a plurality of ball boxes, the ball boxes that need to be moved are heavy, and it has been difficult to move the ball boxes to the counting place.

Accordingly, in view of these problems, the present invention provides a counting device for counting at each pachinko machine position and a ball number counting system for pachinko machines in order to reduce extra balls stored at each pachinko machine. The task is to

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems Therefore, the present invention provides

A counter is provided at the lower part of the front of the pachinko machine so that a ball box can be placed thereon, and a counter is provided at the lower part of the counter and has an opening which can be opened and closed. A counting device that has an opening that counts pachinko balls that are opened and received from the insertion port and can output a signal as a count signal, and that has a discharge port that sequentially discharges pachinko balls that have been counted by the counting device, and a counting device that counts from the counting device. A signal can be input, the storage medium can be received, the input count signal can be counted, the counted number of balls can be written to the storage medium, and when the storage medium is inserted into the opening, the counting device Outputs an operation start signal to the counting device so as to make the operation start, and causes the shutter of the counting device to open,
A ball-counting device for a pachinko machine, comprising: a storage device that outputs an operation end signal so as to end the operation to the counting device when the storage medium is taken out from the opening and closes a shutter of the counting device.

[0007] The above problem is solved by providing the above.
The operation is as follows. That is, the counting device is installed at the lower front of the pachinko machine. The player inserts the storage medium into the storage device. Then, the insertion opening of the counting device is opened, and the counting device is ready for counting. When the number of balls in the storage device increases, the competitor places the ball box on the counting device and moves the ball received at the pachinko machine to the ball box. Further, when the number of balls in the carton increases, the competitor moves the balls in the carton to the counting device. Then, the ball is received from the insertion opening of the counting device, moves in the counting device, and reaches the counting means. The counting means counts the balls passing sequentially and outputs a count signal. The ball whose counting has been completed moves further and is discharged from the discharge port. The discharged ball is returned to the pachinko machine as a working ball. The storage device inputs the count signal output from the counting means, counts the count signal, and stores the count result in a storage medium. The competitor removes the stored storage medium from the counting device. Then, the shutter of the counting device closes, and the counting ends.

[0008]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a state in which an embodiment of the present invention is attached to a pachinko machine position, FIG. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view of FIG. 1, and a perspective view of the embodiment. An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 3 which is a diagram and FIG.

1 is a ball number counting system for a pachinko machine according to the present invention. Reference numeral 2 denotes a pachinko machine, and reference numeral 3 denotes a pachinko ball lending device installed between the pachinko machines. The pachinko machine 2 and the ball rental device 3 are installed alternately and continuously. The pachinko ball lending device 3 is installed in each pachinko parlor, and when a competitor inserts a storage medium W such as a card, the pachinko ball is lent to the competitor up to the number of pachinko balls stored in the storage medium W. Device. The ball number counting system 1 for a pachinko machine is a system that includes a counting device 4 and a storage device 5, and the storage device 5 stores the number of balls counted by the counting device 4 in a storage medium W. You. 6 is a ball box. In this embodiment, the storage medium W is a magnetic card used in the between-the-box ball lending device 3, and stores a predetermined number of balls that can be borrowed in advance at a prize counter or the like.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the pachinko machine 2 includes a machine main body 21, an upper plate 22, a ball tray 23, and a handle 2.
4, a counter 25, and a discharge gutter 26. The pachinko machine 2 plays the pachinko ball placed in the upper plate 22 by rotating the handle 24 into the table main body 21, and receives the winning ball obtained by winning in the ball receiving plate 23. The ball tray 23 has an opening 27 in the lower part, and the tray shutter 28 closing the opening 27 opens the ball in the ball tray 23 by being opened by the competitor, and the counter 25 side of the ball tray 23 installed below. Can be discharged to

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the counting device 4 is installed below the counter 25 below the front of the pachinko machine 2. The counting device 4 has an insertion opening 4
The insertion port 41 can be opened and closed by a shutter 42 that is slid by driving a shutter driving motor 43. 44 is a discharge port. As shown in FIG. 2, the discharge port 44 is opened at the lower part of the back of the counting device 4 when attached to the counter 25, and can discharge pachinko balls into the discharge gutter 26. 45 is an alignment lane. The alignment lane 45 extends from the discharge port 44 to the lower part of the insertion port 41 and is fixed with a height difference so that the discharge port 44 side is low, and has a gradually increasing width from the end of the insertion port 41 to the substantially middle part a. It becomes narrower and slightly wider than one pachinko ball at the position of the substantially middle part a. The pachinko balls having the same width from the substantially middle part a to the end on the side of the discharge port 44 are arranged in the middle lane 45 from the insertion port 41 to the alignment lane 45, and are inserted into the alignment lane 45. It is possible to move from the end on the side of the port 41 toward the discharge port 44. Reference numeral 46 denotes a counting means. The counting means 46 is connected to the storage device 5 so as to be able to output a signal. The counting means 46 is provided above the alignment lane 45 on the discharge port 44 side from the substantially middle part a of the alignment lane 45, and is provided with an optical sensor (not shown) ), And a count signal can be transmitted each time a pachinko ball passes under itself. As the count signal, in this embodiment, an electric signal of one pulse is used every time the passage of one pachinko ball is confirmed, but light may be used. The counting device 4 starts operation by inputting an operation start signal from the storage device 5, operates the shutter driving motor 43, moves the shutter 42, and opens the insertion port 41.
Similarly, the operation ends by inputting the operation end signal,
Operate the shutter driving motor 43 to operate the shutter 42
To close the insertion slot 41.

In this embodiment, the storage device 5 is housed and installed in the table ball lending device 3 so that the opening 51 for housing the storage medium W is positioned on the surface, and is connected to the counting device 4 so as to be able to input and output signals. Is done. Then, the storage device 5 stores the counting device 4
Is countable, and is writable so as to store the counted total number in the storage medium W, and is connected to the inter-ball lending device 3 so as to be able to input and output signals. Also used as an output device. When the storage medium W is inserted into the opening 51, the storage device 5 can output an operation start signal to the counting device 4 so that the counting device 4 starts operating.
When the storage medium W is taken out from the storage device 1, an operation end signal can be output to the counting device 4 so as to end the operation. The ball box 6 has a box shape capable of storing pachinko balls, has an opening 61 at a lower portion, and the ball box 6 can be installed around the opening 61 so that the opening 61 corresponds to the insertion port 41 of the counting device 2. The connection part 62 is formed. An opening / closing shutter 63 is provided in the opening 61 of the ball box 6, and the player operates the lever 64 to make the opening 61 open so that the pachinko balls in the ball box 6 can be sequentially dropped from the opening 61. is there.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. A competitor has started a competition on a predetermined pachinko machine 2. At this time, the storage medium W has already been inserted by the competitor into the opening 51 of the storage device 5 stored and installed in the inter-ball lending device 3, and therefore, the counting device 4 is instructed by the storage device 5 to start operation. The operation start signal has already been inputted and the shutter 41 is in the operating state, and the shutter driving motor 43 is driven to move the shutter 42 so that the insertion port 41 is already open. The competitor has already placed the carton 6 on the counting device 4. The number of balls stored in the storage medium W has already been recognized by the storage device 5 also serving as an input / output device of the between-the-lens ball lending device 3.

[0014] When the balls accumulate in the ball tray 23, the competitor opens the tray shutter 28 so as to move the balls from the opening 27 of the ball tray 23 to the ball box 6. Then, the balls accumulated in the ball tray 23 fall into the ball box 6 from the opening 27 and are stored in the ball box 6. The athlete moves the lever 64 of the ball box 6 to open the opening / closing shutter 63 to open the opening 61 in order for the counting device 4 to count the number of pachinko balls. Then, in the counting device 4, since the insertion port 41 is already in the open state, the pachinko balls fall from the opening 61 of the ball box 6 and sequentially fall into the insertion port 41 of the counting device 4. The pachinko balls that have fallen into the insertion port 41 fall from the insertion port 41 to the ball alignment lane 45 and are aligned while moving in the ball alignment lane 45 toward the discharge port 44 until the position substantially at the middle a of the ball alignment lane 45. Are aligned in a row. Further, the pachinko ball moves and eventually passes below the counting means 46. When passing, the counting means 46 outputs a count signal to the storage means 5 every time a pachinko ball passes. The pachinko balls counted by the counting means 46 move to the discharge port and are discharged to the discharge gutter 26 of the pachinko machine 2. The discharged pachinko balls have already been counted as payouts and are returned to the pachinko machine 2 to be used as working balls for competition. Storage means 5
Then, the count signal from the counting means 46 is input. Then, every time the count signal is input, the count signal is added to the number of balls already stored in the storage medium W inserted into the opening 51.

Eventually, the ball box 6 has no balls, and the pachinko balls no longer fall into the counting device 4. Then, the count signal is not output from the counting means 46 of the counting device 4, and the storage means 5 does not perform the addition. Then, if there is no input of the count signal for a predetermined time in the storage means 5,
The total number of balls counted and added up to that time is stored in the storage medium W. When balls are accumulated again in the ball tray 23, the competitor moves the balls of the pachinko machine 1 to the ball box 6 again as described above. When the balls are accumulated in the ball box 6, the opening / closing shutter 63 of the ball box 6 is opened again, and the balls are dropped to the counting device 4 to be counted. Pachinko ball movement,
The counting method is the same as described above. At the end of the competition, the competitor removes the carton 6 from the counting device 4, and
The storage medium W is taken out of the storage means 5. Then, in the storage means 5, the counting result from the counting signal from the counting device 4 has already been stored in the storage medium W. Therefore, the extracted storage medium W is stored in the storage medium W based on the previously stored number of pachinko balls. The number obtained by adding the number of balls counted by the counting device 4 and counted by the storage device 5 to the number of balls obtained by subtracting the number of balls lent by the lending device 3 is stored. In this embodiment, the storage device 5 is installed in the inter-ball lending device 3 and is configured to be usable as an input / output device of the inter-ball lending device 3. The pachinko machine 2 may be installed near the pachinko machine 2 other than the pachinko machine 3, and in this case, it may be an input / output device for the storage medium W, which is independent of the input / output device of the pachinko ball lending device 3. In this case, the storage device 5 is configured to read the number of balls stored in the storage medium W from the storage medium W.

Although a magnetic card is used as the storage medium W, an IC card in which a storage element such as an LSI is embedded or a card with a magnetic tape on the surface may be used. Any embodiment can be used as long as the number of balls set can be stored in the storage medium. Of course, in that case, the storage device 5 is also an input / output device according to the embodiment of each storage medium.

[0017]

Therefore, according to the present invention, the balls put out by the athlete are counted each time by the counting device installed at the lower part of the front of the pachinko machine without being brought together to the prize counter or the like. It is possible to reduce the number of non-working balls stored in the ball boxes at the positions of the pachinko machines, and to reduce the required number of balls in the entire pachinko stadium. Also, there is no need to carry a heavy carton to the counter installation position such as a prize counter.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a state in which an embodiment of the present invention is attached to a pachinko machine position.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of a central longitudinal section of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a perspective explanatory view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of a vertical center cross section of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 W Storage medium 1 Pachinko machine ball counting system 2 Pachinko machine 21 Main body 22 Upper plate 23 Ball receiving tray 24 Handle 25 Counter 26 Drain gutter 26 27 Opening 28 Receiving tray 3 Inter-unit ball lending device 4 Counter 41 Insertion opening 42 Shutter 43 shutter drive motor 44 discharge port 45 alignment lane 46 counting means 5 storage device 51 opening 6 carton 61 opening 62 connecting portion 62 63 opening / closing shutter 64 lever

────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-5-68740 (JP, A) JP-A-2-123482 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) A63F 7/02

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A counter provided at the lower part of the front of the pachinko machine so that a carton can be placed thereon, and an insertion port installed at the lower part of the counter and having an openable and closable shutter is positioned below the ball tray of the pachinko machine. A counting device which is provided with an outlet which is opened in the counter and which can count pachinko balls received from the insertion port and output a signal as a count signal, and which has an outlet for sequentially discharging the pachinko balls counted by the counting device; and And the count signal of
It is possible to receive the storage medium, count the input count signal, write the counted number of balls to the storage medium, and, when the storage medium is inserted into the opening, start the operation of the counting device. An operation start signal is output to the counting device to open the shutter of the counting device, and when the storage medium is removed from the opening, an operation end signal is output so as to end the operation to the counting device to close the shutter of the counting device. A ball counting device for a pachinko machine, comprising: