JP3479873B2 - Ball game machine - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ball game machine such as a pachinko machine, an arrange ball machine, and a sparrow ball game machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a ball game machine such as a pachinko machine, a back mechanism plate is arranged on the back side of a front frame which constitutes the main body of the game machine, and a storage tank for storing game balls is provided on the upper side of the back mechanism plate. When,
It is provided with a payout means for paying out the game balls, and a tank rail for guiding the game balls in the storage tank to the payout means,
The game balls replenished from the replenishing device are stored in the reserving tank, and when there is a ball lending request from the automatic ball lending machine or when there is a payout command for prize balls at the time of winning While supplying the game balls to the payout means via the rail, the game balls are paid out to the upper plate side by the payout means.

[0003]

In the conventional ball game machine, the storage tank and the tank rail are separately mounted on the upper part of the back mechanism plate, and the weight of the storage tank is carried on the front frame side. There is. For this reason, the dimension from the upper end of the storage tank to the lower end of the tank rail becomes large, and there is a drawback that the degree of freedom in designing the accessory components below the tank is significantly impaired.

That is, on the lower side of the tank rail, there is an opening into which the back cover on the back side of the game board fits, and the storage tank and the tank rail are arranged above this opening. In recent years, there is a tendency to arrange a large-sized liquid crystal display means in the central portion of the game board, and a large liquid crystal display unit is mounted on the back side of the game board. Along with this, the shape of the back cover that covers each game component of the game board from the back side also tends to increase.

Further, in recent years, there is a tendency that a control board is divided into a plurality of boards according to control functions so as to have a single function, and each control board is housed in a board case and detachably mounted on the back side of a back cover. . Therefore, the shape of the back cover tends to increase in size in order to secure a mounting space for the substrate case.

However, in the conventional storage tank and tank rail mounting structure, since these occupy a large space on the upper side of the back mechanism plate, it is difficult to increase the size of the opening of the back mechanism plate and the back cover fitted thereto. , Upsizing of liquid crystal display means,
This is one of the major obstacles to promoting the monofunctionalization of control boards.

In view of such conventional problems, the present invention allows a storage tank and a tank rail to be compactly arranged on the back side of the main body of the game machine in a small exclusive space, and the freedom of designing the accessory components below the storage tank. The object is to provide a ball game machine capable of increasing the degree.

[0008]

[MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] The present invention provides a gaming machine main body 1
On the back side of the storage tank 11, which is formed in a horizontally long shape in the left-right direction and stores the game balls, a payout means 13 for paying out the game balls, and the supply on one side of the storage tank 11 in the left-right direction.
Left the game ball supplied from the mouth 35 to the payout means 13
In a ball game machine having a tank rail 12 that guides to the other side in the right direction, the tank rail 12 is integrally provided below the storage tank 11, and the storage tank 11 is in the left-right direction.
Has a bottom wall 34 that slopes to one side of the bottom wall 34
In the middle of the front-rear direction, the game ball flows on both the front and back sides.
The bottom has a recessed portion 38 that opens downward and
Forming a protruding portion 36 that protrudes upward from the wall 34 in the left-right direction,
Opened in the front-rear direction and long in the left-right direction in front of and behind the protrusion 36.
The supply port 35 is formed, and the tank tray is formed in the recess 38.
Ru der that fitted upstream side Le 12 from below.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

The drawings illustrate one embodiment of the invention and are shown in FIG.
Shows the back surface of the ball game machine, 1 is the game machine main body, and as shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, is constituted by a rectangular outer frame 2 and a front frame 3. The front frame 3 is arranged on the front side of the outer frame 2, and is attached to the outer frame 2 so as to be openable and closable via a hinge on one end side in the left-right direction.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, the front frame 3 is provided with a game board mounting frame 4 on the back side, and the game board 5 is detachably mounted on the game board mounting frame 4 from the back side. Game board 5
The game board mounting frame 4 is pressed from the back side by the back mechanism plate 6
It is fixed to. Game parts such as liquid crystal display means and winning means are mounted on the game board 5, and a back cover 7 for covering these game parts is removably mounted on the back side of the game board 5.

The back mechanism plate 6 is pivotally attached to the back side of the front frame 3 by a pair of upper and lower hinges 8 on one side in the left-right direction so as to be openable and closable.
It is fixed to the back side of the game board mounting frame 4 by four lock levers 9. The hinge 8 is on the same side as the hinge for pivoting the front frame 3. The back mechanism plate 6 has an opening 10 formed substantially in the center thereof, and the back cover 7 is fitted into the opening 10.

Reference numeral 11 is a storage tank, 12 is a tank rail, and 13 is a payout means, which are arranged on the back side of the gaming machine main body 1 and above the back mechanism plate 6, and from the storage tank 11 to the tank rail.
The game balls are supplied to the payout means 13 via 12 and paid out by the payout means 13. Reference numeral 14 denotes a vertical passage case, which is vertically arranged on the back side of the back mechanism plate 6 on one side of the opening 10.

Reference numeral 15 is a main control board for controlling game operations on the game board 5 side, which is housed in a board case 16 and is detachably attached to the upper part of the back side of the back cover 7. 17 is a lamp control board for controlling the display lamps on the front side of the game machine body 1 including the game board 5, 18 is a voice control board for controlling the sound effect generated from the speaker, and these control boards 17, 18 are board cases
It is stored in 19,20 and is detachably attached to the lower part of the back side of the back cover 7. 21 is a payout control board for controlling the payout means 13, 22 is a power supply board for supplying power to each unit,
These boards 21 and 22 are housed in a common board case 23 and mounted on the lower back side of the back mechanism plate 6.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the vertical passage case 14 is provided with two payout passages 24 and one recovery passage 25, and the payout passages 24 are in a lower passage unit (not shown). Connected to the upper plate (not shown) etc. via the passage of
The collection passage 25 guides the game ball to the game ball collection device (not shown) on the island side.

The storage tank 11 is for storing game balls replenished from a replenishing device (not shown), and is constructed in the shape of a horizontally long rectangular box whose upper side is open and which is long in the left-right direction. A tank rail 12 and a payout means 13 are integrally provided near the lower side of the storage tank 11. The length of the storage tank 11 in the left-right direction is substantially the same as the width of the back mechanism plate 6 in the left-right direction or slightly shorter than the width.

In the storage tank 11, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, the front wall 26 is brought into contact with the back mechanism plate 6 from the back side, and
The lower end is engaged with the step portion 27 on the back mechanism plate 6 side from the upper side, and the mounting portions 28 at the left and right ends are detachably fixed to the back mechanism plate 6 with screws or the like. Further, the storage tank 11 is detachably fastened together with the back mechanism plate 6 to the front frame 3 by fastening means 29.

The fastening means 29, as shown in FIGS.
A protrusion 30 protruding rearward from the game board mounting frame 4 of the front frame 3,
Fastening knob 31 rotatably provided at the rear end of the protrusion 30
Long holes 32 and 33 in which the projection 30 and the fastening knob 31 are removably fitted are formed in the back mechanism plate 6 and the front wall 26 of the storage tank 11. The fastening means 29 rotates the fastening knob 31 on the back side of the front wall 26 to fasten the back mechanism plate 6 and the front wall 26 of the storage tank 11 to the front frame 3.

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 6, the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11 is formed in a slanted shape so that one end side in the middle of the front-rear direction and the left-right direction is lowered, and the bottom wall 34 is To supply the game balls in the tank 11 to the tank rail 12,
A supply port 35 communicating with the tank rail 12 from above is formed. The supply port 35 has a long hole shape that is long in the longitudinal direction of the storage tank 11, is eccentrically arranged on one side in the left-right direction of the storage tank 11, and is arranged from the lower side of the bottom wall 34 to the storage tank.
The protrusions 36 projecting upward into the inside 11 are formed on both front and rear sides, respectively, and are opened in the front-rear direction.

As shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, the projecting portion 36 is arranged in the middle of the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11 in the front-rear direction so that the game balls in the storage tank 11 flow to the front and rear sides. It is integrally formed in the lower portion of the bottom wall 34 of the tank 11 along the longitudinal direction thereof. At the top of the protrusion 36, the front and rear supply ports 35
Is integrally provided with an eaves portion 37 that covers from above, and by the eaves portion 37, the weight of the game balls in the storage tank 11 is prevented from being directly applied to the game balls in the supply port 35 and the tank rail 12 in the vertical direction. . The upper surface of the eaves portion 37 has a mountain shape.

The lower side of the protrusion 36 is a recessed portion that opens downward.
38, a part of the upper side of the tank rail 12 is fitted into the recess 38 from the lower side. For this reason, at least a part of the tank rail 12, that is, the upper side portion near the supply port 35, is configured to project above the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11.

The tank rail 12 and the payout means 13 are shown in FIG.
Also, as shown in FIG. 3, the storage tank 11 is arranged in series below the storage tank 11 in a substantially horizontal single line along the longitudinal direction so that the storage tank 11 is accommodated within the range of the storage tank 11 in the longitudinal direction. The tank rail 12 is for guiding the game balls in the storage tank 11 to the payout means 13 side, and as shown in FIGS. 4 and 7.
Guide passage where the good side communicates with each supply port 35 of the storage tank 11
It has 39 front and back.

The tank rail 12 is a supply port for the storage tank 11.
An inclined bottom plate 40 that inclines so as to gradually decrease from the 35 side toward the other end side, and a partition wall that projects integrally from the inclined bottom plate 40 and that is integrally formed and that divides each guide passage 39 into front and rear.
41 and a pair of front and rear side plates 42, 43 mounted on both front and rear sides of the inclined bottom plate 40.

In the tank rail 12, the partition wall 41 is fitted in the recessed portion 38 on the lower side of the projecting portion 36, and the upper end sides of the side plates 42, 43 contact the lower side of the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11. Further, it is detachably attached to the lower side of the storage tank 11 by a screw or the like (not shown). The tank rail 12 has a supply port 35 of the storage tank 11.
A sensing plate 44 is arranged in each guide passage 39 near the lower side of the.

Each sensing plate 44 is for sensing when a game ball in the storage tank 11 has run out and operating each ball breakage detection switch 45 on the lower side of the tank rail 12.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, each of the sensing plates 44 is pivotally supported below the inclined bottom plate 40 by a pivot shaft 46 on the lower side of the sensing plate 44, and arranged below the sensing plates 44. It is urged upward by a biasing means 47 such as a weight type. Each ball break detection switch 45 is mounted on the back side of the back mechanism plate 6 corresponding to each guide passage 39 of the tank rail 12, and detects the ball break when each sensing plate 44 rises. ing.

As shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, the payout means 13 is for paying out an appropriate number of game balls guided from the tank rail 12 and supplied by a payout case 48. The tank rail 12 is provided with a rotating body 51 rotatably supported around a rotary shaft 50 in the front-rear direction in the payout case 48, and a payout motor 52 that drives the rotary body 51 via the rotary shaft 50. Along with it, it is detachably attached to the lower side of the storage tank 11. The payout motor 52 is fixed to the back side of the payout case 48.

The payout case 48 is attached to the lower case body 53 having an arc shape, the upper case body 54 having an arc shape facing the lower case body 53, and before and after each of the case bodies 53, 54. The side wall 42, 43 and the partition wall 41 arranged between the front and rear side walls 42, 43. Inside the payout case 48, two front and rear walls are provided corresponding to each guide passage 39 of the tank rail 12. The payout room 49 is defined.

One rotating body 51 is arranged in each payout chamber 49. On the outer circumference of each rotating body 51, a plurality of recesses 55 for feeding out the game balls are formed at substantially equal intervals in the circumferential direction, and the game balls in the recesses 55 are rotated clockwise of the rotor 51. The required number is paid out.

The pay-out case 48 is provided with two pay-out openings 56 in the vertical direction corresponding to each pay-out chamber 49, and each pay-out opening 56 has two pay-out passages in the vertical passage case 14.
Connected to 24. The lower case body 53 may be formed integrally with the inclined bottom plate 40 of the tank rail 12 or separately. The side plates 42, 43 and the partition wall 41 may be provided integrally over the tank rail 12 and the payout case 48, or may be provided separately. A cover 57 is integrally formed on the upper case body 54, and the cover 57 covers the guide passage 39 of the tank rail 12 from above from between the dispensing means 13 and the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11.

The lower case body 53 is provided with an extraction passage 59 having an opening / closing plate 58. The extraction passage 59 is provided so as to connect the upper side of the dispensing means 13 and the recovery passage 25 in the vertical passage case 14 via the vicinity of the lower side of the dispensing means 13. The opening / closing plate 58 opens and closes the extraction passage 59, is slidably supported in the left-right direction at the end on the tank rail 12 side, and is biased in the closing direction by the spring 60. The opening / closing plate 58 includes an operating portion 61, and the operating portion 61
Protrudes rearward from the tank rail 12.

In the above structure, when the game balls are supplied from the island side supply device, the game balls enter the storage tank 11,
It is guided along the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11 to the respective supply ports 35 before and after the projecting portion 36, and is supplied from the respective supply ports 35 to the respective guide passages 39 of the tank rail 12. Each guide passage 39
The game balls supplied to the game balls move to the payout means 13 side through the guide passages 39. In addition, usually, payment means
On the side better than 13, storage tank 11 to tank rail 12
The game balls are filled over each of the guide passages 39.

Therefore, if there is a ball lending request from the automatic ball lending machine side (not shown), the payout means 13 is in accordance with the ball lending request.
The payout motor 52 is operated to drive each rotating body 51 in the payout direction via the rotary shaft 50. For this reason the tank rail
The game balls that have entered the concave portions 55 of the rotating body 51 from the 12 guide passages 39 are sequentially paid out as lending balls as the rotating body 51 rotates.

If a game ball wins in the prize area of the game board 5 and there is a payout command for a prize ball, the payout motor 52 on the payout means 13 side operates according to the payout command,
Similarly, the game balls in the storage tank 11 are paid out as prize balls. Then, the game balls paid out by the payout means 13 are guided from each payout passage 24 in the vertical passage case 14 to the upper plate on the front side of the front frame 3 via the lower passage unit.

Each payout means 13 operates to activate the tank rail.
When paying out the game balls in each of the 12 guide passages 39, depending on the number of payouts of the game balls, the game balls stored in the storage tank 11 pass through the supply port 35 to the upper side of each guide passage 39. And is guided to the payout means 13 side via each guide passage 39.

When extracting the game ball in the storage tank 11, the opening / closing plate 58 is operated in the opening direction against the spring 60. Thereby, the extraction passage 59 communicates with each guide passage 39 of the tank rail 12, and the game balls in the storage tank 11 and the tank rail 12 are extracted from the extraction passage 59 through the recovery passage 25 to the island side.

In this embodiment, since the tank rail 12 is integrally arranged on the lower side of the storage tank 11, the storage tank 11 is compared with the case where the conventional storage tank 11 and the tank rail 12 are provided separately. While securing a sufficient volume on the side,
The size from the upper end of the storage tank 11 to the lower end of the tank rail 12 can be reduced.

Therefore, the storage tank 11 and the tank rail 12
It is possible to easily install the storage tank 11 and the tank rail 12 in a small exclusive space by reducing the vertical space that is occupied on the back side of the back mechanism plate 6 in a small space. Greater flexibility in designing components. For example, it is easy to increase the size of the opening 10 of the back mechanism plate 6 and increase the size of the back cover 7 that fits into the size of the opening 10. Can be easily promoted.

Particularly, the upper side of the tank rail 12 is a storage tank.
Since it is fitted in the recessed portion 38 formed on the lower side of the protrusion 36 of the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11, the storage tank 11 and the tank rail are compared with the case where the storage tank 11 and the tank rail 12 are simply coupled. The vertical dimension with 12 can be further reduced.

On the lower side of the storage tank 11, a tank rail is provided.
Since the 12 and the dispensing means 13 are arranged in a substantially single line along the longitudinal direction of the storage tank 11, the opening 10 of the back mechanism plate 6
It suffices to provide the vertical passage case 14 and the like on the side of the opening 10, and the opening 10 can be enlarged in the left-right direction. Moreover, since the tank rail 12 and the payout means 13 are attached to the storage tank 11, these can be handled as one unit.

Normally, the tank rail 12 is provided on the dispensing means 13 side.
However, the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11 is inclined so that the side of the supply port 35 becomes lower, and the dispensing means 13 is provided on the side opposite to the supply port 35. Although there is a payout means 13 on the extension,
Considering that a part of the tank rail 12 is fitted in the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11, the dispensing means 13 is connected to the storage tank.
Can be placed close to the 11 side.

Since the supply port 35 on the storage tank 11 side is opened in the front-rear direction and the eaves portion 37 covering the supply port 35 from the upper side is provided on the upper side thereof, the weight of the game balls in the storage tank 11 is on the supply port 35 side. It does not directly add to the game ball in the vertical direction, which causes a bridge phenomenon in the game ball in the storage tank 11 near the supply port 35, or a bridge phenomenon in the game ball in each guide passage 39 of the tank rail 12. Is less likely to occur,
Supply the game ball in the storage tank 11 from the supply port 35 to the tank rail 12
Can be supplied smoothly.

Although the respective embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. Storage tank 11, tank rail 12, and dispensing means
13 may be manufactured separately, and may be integrally joined with a screw or the like at the assembly stage, or a part or all of the storage tank 11, the tank rail 12, and the discharging means 13 may be integrally formed by a synthetic resin material. It may be molded.

It suffices that the tank rail 12 is provided in the vicinity of the lower side of the storage tank 11, and it is not always necessary that a part of the tank rail 12 is fitted into the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11. . Further, when the tank rail 12 is fitted to the lower side of the storage tank 11, substantially the entire tank rail 12 may be fitted.

The payout means 13 is not limited to the rotary type provided with the rotating body 51, and other payout type may be adopted. Further, the payout means 13 may be vertically arranged on the back side of the back mechanism plate 6 to one side of the opening 10.

The supply port 35 may be provided in the bottom wall 34 of the storage tank 11 so as to open vertically. In this case, the protrusion 36 and the eaves 37 in the storage tank 11 may be omitted. However, if the eaves portion 37 is provided on the upper side of the supply port 35 at a predetermined interval, the weight of the game ball in the storage tank 11 does not directly affect the game ball in the tank rail 12, and the storage tank
It is possible to prevent ball clogging due to a bridge phenomenon on the side of the supply port 35 of 11 or in the tank rail 12.

It is desirable that each guide passage 39 of the tank rail 12 be provided with a stacking collapsing means for breaking the stacking of the game balls in the guide passage 39. Supply port 35 and tank rail
The number of guide passages 39 in 12 may be one. Also tank rail 12
May be provided so as to be in contact with the back mechanism plate 6, or a part of the tank rail 12 may be provided so as to be constituted by the back mechanism plate 6.

The tank rail 12 and the payout means 13 may be detachably fixed to the back mechanism plate 6 via a spacer or the like. A skirt portion extending downward from the rear wall may be integrally provided on the storage tank 11, and the tank rail 12 and the payout means 13 may be covered from the back side by the skirt portion. Further, the tank rail 12 and the payout means 13 may be attached to the skirt portion.

Further, the ball game machine includes a pachinko machine, an arrangement ball machine, a sparrow ball game machine and the like, but it goes without saying that the present invention can be similarly implemented in any of the ball game machines. .

[0049]

In the present invention, it can be arranged compactly in a small space occupied and the storage tank 11 and the tank rails 12 on the back side of Yu technique machine body 1, a large degree of freedom in designing the accessory components of the lower Ru can be in.

[0050]

[0051]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a rear view of a ball game machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a rear cross-sectional view of the upper part of the ball game machine showing the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a rear cross-sectional view of the upper portion of the ball game machine showing the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a side sectional view of an upper part of the ball game machine showing the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a plan cross-sectional view of the upper portion of the ball game machine showing the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side sectional view of an upper portion of a ball game machine showing the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a plan cross-sectional view of a tank rail showing an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Gaming machine body 11 Storage tank 12 tank rail 13 Payment method 34 bottom wall 35 Supply port 37 Eaves

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A back side of the gaming machine body (1), which is long in the left-right direction.
There a storage tank in which the configured and game ball in a horizontally long shape (1
1), a payout means (13) for paying out game balls, and a supply port (35) on one side in the left-right direction of the storage tank (11).
The game ball that was left to the payout means (13) on the other side in the left-right direction
In a ball game machine having a tank rail (12) for guiding to the side, the tank rail is provided below the storage tank (11).
(12) is integrally provided , and the storage tank (11) is located in the left-right direction.
It has a bottom wall (34) inclined to one side, and the bottom part of the bottom wall (34) is
In the middle of the front-rear direction, the game ball flows on both the front and back sides.
As described above, there is a recessed portion (38) opening downward and
Form the protrusion (36) protruding from the bottom wall (34)
The front and rear of the protrusion (36), and open in the front-back direction
Form the supply port (35) that is long in the direction and put it in the recess (38).
A ball game machine characterized in that the upper side of the tank rail (12) is fitted from below . 2. The front of the storage tank (11) close to the lower side thereof
The ball game machine according to claim 1, wherein the tank rail (12) and the payout means (13) are provided . 3. The storage tank for connecting the tank rail (12)
The ball game machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the ball game machine is detachably attached to a lower side of the (11) . 4. The tank rail (12) is provided with the supply ports (3).
The ball game machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that a guide passage (39) communicating with (5) is provided at the front and rear . 5. The supply port (3) is provided in the storage tank (11).
5. An eaves portion (37) for covering 5) from above is provided, and the supply port (35) is provided below the eaves portion (37) so as to open in the front-rear direction. The ball game machine according to any one of 1.