JP3107038B2 - Pachinko machine variable winning device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a movable member having a plurality of open / close operations in a next cycle, provided that a winning ball received during an open / close operation in one cycle of the movable member wins a continuous winning opening. The present invention relates to a variable prize device configured to be continued over a period of time.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, a prize ball received during an opening / closing operation of a movable member in one cycle (for example, the movable member performs 16 opening / closing operations at short time intervals) is conditioned on a continuous winning opening. Multiple cycles (for example, 15 times)
A number of pachinko machines have been offered to the market with variable winning devices configured to be continued. In such a variable winning device, the number of opening and closing operations of the movable member in one cycle was constant.

[0003]

As a result, there is a problem that even in a jackpot game state in which a plurality of cycles are continued, the player does not shine and cannot fully attract the player's interest. The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a variable winning device for a pachinko machine that can change the number of opening and closing operations in each opening and closing cycle of a movable member of the variable winning device. To provide.

[0004]

Means for solving the above problems will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. According to the first aspect of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, the prize ball received during the opening and closing operation of the movable members 24 a and 24 b in one cycle has won the continuous prize opening 43. , 24b, the opening and closing operation in the next cycle is continued over a plurality of cycles. In the variable prize winning device 20, when the continuation of the next cycle is established, the next 1
Extract the opening and closing times in the cycle, it is the extracted
The movable members 24a, 24b
There is characterized in Rukoto the closing drive. With this configuration, in the big hit game state in which a plurality of opening / closing cycles are executed, the number of opening / closing operations can be made different for each opening / closing cycle, so that the player's interest can be sufficiently attracted.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, the variable winning device 20 includes a variable display 28 for displaying the extracted number of opening / closing operations. The number of times of opening / closing operation for each opening / closing cycle can be reliably displayed on the fluctuation indicator 28, and the player is not distrusted.

Further, according to the invention of claim 3, as shown in FIG. 1, the fluctuation indicator 28 displays the number of times the opening / closing cycle is continued during an interval between the opening / closing cycles. With one fluctuation indicator 2
8 can be displayed for both the opening / closing operation number display function and the continuation number display function, so that the cost of the variable winning device can be reduced and the structure can be simplified.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, referring to FIG. 9, the pachinko machine 1 to which the variable winning device 20 according to the embodiment is applied.
Will be described. A metal frame 3 is provided around the opening of the front frame 2 formed in a frame shape of the pachinko machine 1, and a glass door frame 4 and a front door plate 5 are pivotally supported on one side of the metal frame 3 and can be opened and closed. It is provided in. A game board 9 to be described later is arranged behind the glass door frame 4, and an upper plate 6 for storing hit balls is fixed to a surface of the front door plate 5. An operation handle 7 for adjusting the resilience of a hit ball and a lower plate 8 for storing prize balls overflowing from the upper plate 6 are provided below the upper plate 6 and on the lower front surface of the front frame 3. I have.

On the surface of the game board 9 located behind the glass door frame 4, a guide rail 10 for guiding a ball hit by operation of the operation handle 7 is planted in a substantially circular shape. The area surrounded by the rail 10 is the game area 1
1. In the approximate center of the game area 11, a variable winning device 20 having a pair of movable members 24a and 24b is arranged. The variable winning device 20 constitutes a main part of the present embodiment, and a detailed configuration thereof will be described later.

Below the variable winning device 20, a plurality of starting winning ports 12, 13a and 13b are arranged in parallel in the horizontal direction. When a ball is hit in the starting winning ports 12, 13a, 13b, the movable members 24a,
24b is opened and closed once or twice at relatively short time intervals. Specifically, when a hit ball wins in the starting winning opening 12 arranged in the center, the movable members 24a,
24b opens and closes twice, and the right and left start winning openings 13
When the hit ball is awarded to a, 13b, the movable members 24a, 24b
b performs the opening and closing operation once. Note that the starting winning openings 12, 13
Each of a and 13b has a built-in start detection switch (not shown) for detecting a winning ball.

Further, in the game area 11, the variable prize winning device 2 is provided.
Normal winning openings 14, 15a, 1 above and to the left and right of 0
5b are arranged, and tulip winning openings 16a, 16b are arranged below the winning openings 15a, 15b. Out of the above winning ports and winning devices, the starting winning port 1
The number of prize balls ejected by hitting the ball at 2, 13a, 13b is a relatively small number (for example, 7),
Other winning ports 14, 15a, 15b, 16a, 16
The number of prize balls ejected by b and the prize ball hitting the prize device 20 is set to a relatively large number (for example, 15).

Next, the configuration of the variable winning device 20 arranged substantially at the center of the game area 11 will be described with reference to FIGS. First, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the variable winning device 20 has a mounting board 21 mounted on the surface of the game board 9, and an upper obstacle 22 projects in an arc shape on the upper front surface of the mounting board 21. Has been established. The upper obstruction member 22 prevents a hit ball falling in the game area 11 from winning in the variable winning device 20. The upper obstacle member 22 displays the number of winning balls that have won one open state (a predetermined number of opening / closing operations) of the movable members 24a and 24b of the variable winning device 20 when a large hit state described later is reached. A ball number display LED 23 is provided so as to face the front surface thereof. In the present embodiment, the allowable number of winning balls accepted in one open state (opening / closing cycle described later) of the movable members 24a and 24b is set to 10 as will be described later. 5 to display winning balls
Although one ball number display LED 23 is used, the corresponding number of LEDs is turned on for 1 to 5 winnings, and the corresponding number for 6 to 10 winnings. Are displayed by changing the LED from lighting to blinking.

A pair of movable members 24a and 24b are arranged at both ends of the upper obstacle member 22. The movable members 24a and 24b are configured such that an arc-shaped bar member moves up and down in the vertical direction, and levers 25a and 25b extending to the rear surface side of the mounting board 21 (however, 25a is not shown). Is swung by the open / close solenoids 26a and 26b, so that it is moved up and down. That is, when the opening / closing solenoids 26a, 26b are OFF, as shown in FIG. 5, the upper end of the movable members 24a, 24b abuts against both ends of the upper obstacle member 22, so that a hit ball falling in the game area 11 cannot be received. When the open / close solenoids 26a and 26b are ON, the movable members 24a and 24b move down as shown in FIG. ing. The opening and closing solenoids 26a, 26b
Is performed at the time of winning a hit ball into the start winning prize openings 12, 13a, 13b and at the time of a big hit state to be described later.

The movable members 24a and 24b are accommodated in a front decorative plate 27 which covers the front surface of the mounting board 21. The display 28 and the first variation display 29 face each other. The second change indicator 28 and the first
The fluctuation indicator 29 is constantly fluctuating, and when a winning ball is detected by a continuation detector 50 and a passing ball detector 41 described later, the fluctuation display is stopped and the display result is derived. . In addition, the first fluctuation display 29 fluctuates and displays numbers from 0 to 9 at a speed that cannot be visually recognized by the player, and the second fluctuation display 28 fluctuates between “10” and “16” alternately. it's shown. These functions will be described later in detail. An opening 30 is formed in the front decorative plate 27 between the second variation indicator 28 and the first variation indicator 29, and a lower ball flow lowering plate 42, which will be described later, and normal winning openings 44a and 44b are formed through the opening 30. You can see the parts.

The hit ball received when the movable members 24a and 24b are open is guided by a guide surface 31 inclined toward the center of the mounting board 21, and is formed on the rear surface of the guide surface 31 at the lower end of the flow. It is guided from the ball entrance 32 to the rear of the mounting board 21. As shown in FIG. 1, a concave winning space is formed behind the mounting board 21, and an upper ball flow downwardly inclined downward toward the rear so as to be continuous with the ball inlet 32 above the winning space. A plate 33 is formed. On the upstream side of the upper ball flow lowering plate 33, a prize ball detector 3 for detecting a prize ball flowing from the ball inlet 32.
4, an intermittent downflow mechanism 35 is provided downstream of the upper ball downflow plate 33. The number of winning balls detected by the winning ball detector 34 is displayed on the ball number display LED 23.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 7, the intermittent flow-down mechanism 35 includes an intermittent solenoid 36 mounted and fixed on the upper surface of an upper wall constituting a winning space, and a ball-cutting member oscillating by the intermittent solenoid 36. And a member 37. The ball cutting member 37 has a lower portion supported by a support shaft 38, an upper end connected to the intermittent solenoid 36, and an arc-shaped concave portion 39 formed at the lower end. Thus, when the intermittent solenoid 36 is in the OFF state,
As shown by the solid line in FIG. 1, the concave portion 39 receives a winning ball flowing down the upper ball down plate 33, and the intermittent solenoid 39 is turned on.
In the state, the concave portion 39 as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG.
The winning prize is moved downstream and released while being received by the player, and when the next winning prize flows down the upper ball downflow plate 33, it is locked at the end of the concave portion 39. Then, the intermittent solenoid 36 is turned on a short time after the winning ball detector 34 detects the winning ball, and turns on the ON state for a predetermined time (for example, 0.4 to 08).
After setting the value to the value in seconds), the state shifts to the OFF state. In this case, the ON / OFF operation is reliably repeated only for the winning number detected by the winning ball detector 34. Therefore, even if a winning prize ball is continuously received by the variable prize winning device 20, each winning prize ball is flowed downstream at a predetermined time interval by the intermittent flow-down mechanism 35.

On the other hand, a downwardly extending drop passage 40 is formed at the rear end of the upper ball flow lowering plate 33.
The passing ball detector 41 faces zero. The passing ball detector 41 detects a winning ball sent by the intermittent flowing mechanism 35. When a winning ball is detected, the variable display of the first fluctuation display 29 is briefly displayed (intermittent flowing mechanism 3).
(The time during which the display result is shorter than the predetermined time set to 5 and the display result can be visually recognized by the player). Then, when the variable display of the first variable display 29 is stopped and the display result is a predetermined specific display (for example, the numeral 7) is displayed, the opening mechanism 45 described later is driven. In addition,
The probability that the specific display is displayed is set to about 1/10 which is likely to be displayed at least once when the number of prize-winning balls allowed in the opening and closing cycle described later is won.

The winning ball that has passed through the passing ball detector 41 falls to the center of the lower ball flowing down plate 42 constituting the bottom surface of the winning space. The lower ball flowing down plate 42 is configured to be inclined downward toward the front, and a continuous winning opening 43 is opened in the center downstream side thereof. Normal winning holes 44a, 44b are provided in front of both sides of the lower ball flowing down plate 42. Is provided. An opening mechanism 45 is provided at the entrance of the continuous winning opening 43, and the continuous winning opening 43 is always closed by the opening mechanism 45.

The opening mechanism 45 includes an opening solenoid 46 fixed to the lower back surface of the lower ball flow lowering plate 42, and an opening / closing member 47 slid in the front-rear direction by the opening solenoid 46. An obstruction projection 48 is provided at a tip end of the opening / closing member 47, and a through hole 49 is formed upstream of the projection 48. The through hole 49 is formed in substantially the same shape as the continuous winning opening 43.

When the opening solenoid 46 is in the OFF state, as shown in FIGS.
Is located on the upstream side and the obstacle projection 48 closes the continuous winning opening 43, so that it is a winning ball that has passed through the passing ball detector 41 and flows down the center of the lower ball flowing down plate 42. The ball collides with the obstacle projection 48 and is distributed to the left and right, and is guided to the normal winning ports 44a and 44b. On the other hand, when the opening solenoid 46 is in the ON state, the opening member 47 is located on the downstream side as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 so that the through hole 49 and the continuous winning opening 43 coincide with each other. The winning ball passing through the ball detector 41 and flowing down the center of the lower ball flowing down plate 42 is received by the continuous winning opening 43 and detected by the continuous detector 50 provided thereunder. When the open solenoid 46 is in the ON state, the obstacle projection 48 is housed in a housing 51 formed on the downstream side. The ON time of the open solenoid 46 is determined when the fluctuation display of the first fluctuation display 29 is stopped, that is, when the winning ball passes through the passing ball detector 41, the winning ball reaches the continuous winning opening 23. A time slightly longer than the time until is set.

When a winning ball is won in the continuous winning opening 43 and the continuation detector 50 is turned on, the next open state of the movable members 24a and 24b is continued. To briefly explain this,
First, a winning ball received during one or two opening / closing operations of the movable members 24a, 24b based on winning in the starting winning ports 12, 13a, 13b wins in the continuous winning port 43 through the above-described process. When the continuous detector 50 is turned on,
It becomes a big hit state. When the big hit state is reached, the movable member 24
a and 24b are given a predetermined number of times at relatively short time intervals (for example,
(10 or 16 times) opening / closing operation, or opening / closing operation during the predetermined number of opening / closing operations until the number of winning balls accepted by the movable members 24a and 24b reaches a predetermined number (for example, 10). Perform the operation. The opening / closing operation (hereinafter, referred to as an opening / closing cycle) regulated by the opening / closing frequency and the number of winnings is a predetermined number of times (on the condition that the winning ball accepted during the opening / closing cycle wins the continuous winning opening 43 through the above-described progress). (For example, 15 times). However, when the continuous winning opening 43 is won, the opening / closing cycle is immediately ended, and the operation is shifted to the next opening / closing cycle after a predetermined interval time.

In the present embodiment, the number of times the movable members 24a and 24b are opened and closed, which is one of the conditions for controlling the above-described opening and closing cycle, is selected from either one of "10" and "16". It is supposed to be. That is, when the ON signal of the continuation detector 50 is derived, the fluctuation of the second fluctuation indicator 28 is stopped. When the display result is "10", the number of times of opening and closing of the movable members 24a and 24b in the next opening / closing cycle is 10, and when the display result is "16", the movable member in the next opening / closing cycle. 24a, 24b
Is set to 16 times. The second fluctuation indicator 28 displays the number of continuations during the interval time between the opening / closing cycle and the opening / closing cycle. At the same time when the opening / closing cycle starts, “10” and “1” are displayed.
6 "is alternately displayed. This variable display speed may or may not be visible to the player.

The operation of the pachinko machine 1 including the above described variable winning device 20 will be described mainly with reference to FIG. First, the operation at the time of starting winning is explained.
Start winning opening 12 (displayed as start B) or starting winning opening 1
When a ball is hit at 3a, 13b (displayed as start A, C), the open / close solenoids 26a, 26b (displayed as solenoid C) are turned on twice or once, and the movable members 24a, 2b are turned on.
4b is opened and closed. When a hit ball is won in the variable winning device 20 by the opening and closing operation of the movable members 24a and 24b,
The winning ball is detected by the winning ball detector 34 (displayed as switch C). The detection signal of the winning prize detector 34 is sent to the ball number calculating circuit 60.
Since the drive circuit for driving the ball number display LED 23 (displayed as a ball number display light emitting diode) of the ball number calculation circuit 60 is inactivated, the ball number display LED 23 does not display the winning ball number.

However, a drive signal is sent from the ball number calculation circuit 60 to the intermittent solenoid 36 (shown as solenoid A) based on the detection of a winning ball, and the intermittent solenoid 36 is driven. The winning ball flows down by the driving of the intermittent solenoid 36, and is detected by the passing ball detector 41 (displayed as a switch A), and the first fluctuation display 29 which is variably displayed.
Is stopped by the display control circuit 61 (displayed as 7-segment stop B), and the display result is displayed on the first fluctuation display 29 (displayed as 7-segment display). And
When the display result displayed on the first variation display 29 is “7” which is a specific display, the open solenoid 46 (displayed as solenoid B) is driven. On the other hand, the first fluctuation indicator 29
When the display result is a display other than the specific display, since the opening solenoid 46 is not driven, a big hit state does not occur.

When the open solenoid 46 is driven, the continuous winning opening 43 is opened to receive a winning ball and a continuous detector 50.
(Displayed as switch B) is turned on and a big hit state is set. Also, the display control circuit 62 displays the fluctuation display of the second fluctuation display 28 which is displaying the fluctuation based on the ON signal of the continuous detector 50.
(Displayed as 7-segment stop A), and the display result is displayed on the second variation display 28 (displayed as the number of times). The numerical value displayed by the second fluctuation indicator 28 is either 10 or 16, and determines the number of times the movable members 24a and 24b are opened and closed in the first opening and closing cycle in the big hit state. When a big hit state occurs, the process shifts to the first opening / closing cycle after a predetermined interval time. During this interval time, the number of continuations of the open / close cycle is displayed on the second variation display 28.

Next, the operation during the opening / closing cycle will be described. As described above, the solenoid C is operated by the second fluctuation display 28 to execute the opening / closing cycle based on the ON signal from the continuous detector 50 at the time of starting winning. The movable member 24 is turned ON by the number of times of opening and closing indicated by
a and 24b are driven to open and close. Then, the winning balls received by the movable members 24a and 24b during the opening / closing drive are detected by the minute ball number calculating circuit 60 passing through the switch C, and the detected signal number is displayed on the ball number display light emitting diode. Further, the solenoid A is turned on by the number of balls detected by the switch C, and the switch A is turned on at a predetermined time interval. Each time the switch A is turned on, the 7-segment B is stopped, and it is determined whether or not the display result is 7. When the display result is other than 7, the continuous winning opening 43 is not opened. When it is guided to 44b and is 7, the continuous winning opening 43 is opened and the winning ball is guided to the continuous winning opening 43.

Therefore, the stop control of the 7 segment B is as follows.
Since it is performed for each of the winning balls received by the movable members 24a and 24b, it is not known which number of winning balls of the received winning balls will cause the specific display to appear, and the appearance timing of the specific display will be determined for each open / close cycle. Will be different.
In other words, the guidance pattern of the winning ball to the continuous winning opening 43 differs for each opening and closing cycle depending on the timing at which the specific display is derived, so that the interest of the player can be attracted.

After the specific display is displayed in the 7th segment B even in the opening / closing cycle as described above, the opening solenoid 46 is driven to open the continuous winning opening 43 and win as in the case of the start winning. Switch B accepting ball
Turns ON and immediately ends the open / close cycle. Also,
The 7-segment A, which is variably displayed, is stopped based on the ON signal of the switch B, and the display result is displayed on the second variability display 28. Thus, the numerical value displayed by the second variation indicator 28 is either 10 or 16, and determines the number of times the movable members 24a and 24b are opened and closed in the next opening and closing cycle. When the open / close cycle is completed, the process proceeds to the next open / close cycle after a predetermined interval time. During this interval time, the number of continuations of the open / close cycle is displayed on the second variation display 28.

In addition, at the time of the start winning prize and at the time of the opening / closing cycle, the specific display is derived on the first fluctuation display 29 by the winning prize ball which has flown first while a plurality of prize balls are waiting in the intermittent flow-down mechanism 35. When the winning ball is won in the continuous winning opening 43, the movable members 24a, 24b are immediately
The open state is ended and the operation proceeds to the interval time. At this time, the intermittent flow-down mechanism 35 is driven faster than the normal speed in order to process all the winning balls waiting by the intermittent flow-down mechanism 35 within the interval time. It is desirable.
Then, during the interval time, the passing ball detector 41 may be deactivated so that the first fluctuation display 29 does not stop fluctuation.

[0029]

As is apparent from the above description, in the first aspect of the present invention, the continuation of the next cycle is performed.
Jackpot gaming but when satisfied, extracts the opening and closing times in the next cycle, since the movable member is in so that the opened and closed on the basis of the extracted opening and closing times, a plurality of opening and closing cycle is executed In this state, the number of opening / closing operations can be made different for each opening / closing cycle, so that the interest of the player can be sufficiently attracted.

Further, in the invention of claim 2, fluctuations winning device is provided with the variable display device for displaying the extracted opening and closing times, certainly change indicator opening and closing times of each opening and closing cycle , And the player is not distrusted.

Further, according to the third aspect of the present invention, the number of times of the open / close cycle is displayed on the variable display during an interval between the open / close cycles, so that one variable display is provided. The function of displaying the number of times of opening / closing operation and the function of displaying the number of continuations can be shared, so that the cost of the variable winning device can be reduced and the structure can be simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a variable winning device according to an embodiment, showing a state in which an opening mechanism is operated.

FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view showing a state in which an opening mechanism of the variable winning device is operating.

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the variable winning device, showing a state in which an opening mechanism is not operated.

FIG. 4 is a partial perspective view showing a state where the opening mechanism of the variable winning device is not operated.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the variable winning device as viewed from the front.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a state where the movable member of the variable winning device is open.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the variable winning device.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the operation of the variable winning device.

FIG. 9 is a front view of a pachinko machine to which the variable winning device according to the embodiment is applied.

[Description of Signs] 1 Pachinko machine 20 Variable winning device 24a, 24b Movable member 28 Second variable indicator (variable indicator) 43 Continuous winning opening 50 Continuous detector (ball detector)

Continuation of front page (56) References JP-A-1-170485 (JP, A) JP-A-63-154188 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A63F 7 / 02

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] An opening / closing operation of the movable member in the next one cycle is continued over a plurality of cycles on condition that a winning ball received during the opening / closing operation of the movable member in one cycle wins the continuous winning opening. in variations winning device configured, when the continuation of the next cycle is met, extracting opening and closing times in the next cycle, the extracted open
Variation winning device pachinko said movable member, characterized in Rukoto be opened and closed on the basis of the closing operation count. 2. The variable prize apparatus of a pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein said variable prize apparatus includes a variable display for displaying the extracted number of opening / closing operations. 3. The variable winning device for a pachinko machine according to claim 2, wherein the variable indicator displays the number of times the open / close cycle continues during an interval between the open / close cycles.