JP3841651B2 - Pachinko machine payout control device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a payout control device that suppresses unnecessary payout of a rental ball in a pachinko gaming machine.
[0002]
[Prior art]
A pachinko gaming machine provided in a game hall is generally provided with a ball lending machine for each unit, and by inserting a card or cash and operating a button, the lending is paid out on the front ball tray of the pachinko gaming machine. It is configured as follows.
[0003]
By the way, in the gaming machine shown in the patent publication of Japanese Patent No. 2657946, even if there is a prize ball payout request during the rental ball payout operation, the prize ball is not paid out until the payout of the loaned ball is completed. In Japanese Patent No. 2559221, priority is given to the player's free will and priority is given to the rental ball payout request even when the winning ball payout state is incomplete. Japanese Patent No. 2995426, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-3959, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Etc. disclose what pays out a rental ball preferentially. However, in any case, the gaming machines shown in these publications give priority to paying out a rental ball so as not to distrust the player when a request for a prize ball and a request for rental are made. It was something to be made. For this reason, even if there are continuous prize ball payout requests, the ball payout request has priority, and as a result, there is a risk that the ball will be used unnecessarily.
[0004]
Japanese Patent No. 3019958 further includes a setting device for setting the number of discharge command signals derived by a single operation of the operating means, and a rental ball corresponding to the number of discharge command signals set by the setting device is provided. The prize balls are discharged by a prize ball discharging device so that the number of balls rented can be freely set, for example, for 100 yen, 200 yen, 300 yen, 500 yen. However, in the setting of 100 yen, it is often necessary to make a lending request for 100 yen immediately in a short time, and there is a drawback that it is troublesome and cannot concentrate on the game, and conversely, it is 500 yen When setting and playing, if a lot of award balls were obtained just by firing a ball for about 100 yen, the player lost about 400 yen as a result and lost. There was a fault that had such an impression.
[0005]
In addition, Japanese Patent No. 2639848, Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-11352, etc. are provided with a ball detection sensor on the ball tray so that when the number of remaining balls on the ball tray falls below a predetermined number, the rental balls are automatically replenished. JP-A-8-173625 further provides ball lending selection execution means for selectively executing the automatic ball lending according to the winning ball state. However, in these cases, since it is necessary to provide a ball detection sensor in the ball tray, there is a risk of malfunction when a ball clogging occurs in the tray.
[0006]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a payout control device that can prevent a ball from being paid out unnecessarily with a simple configuration. .
[0007]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
For that purpose, the payout control device of the pachinko machine of the present invention calculates the estimated number of remaining balls that should be on the ball tray from the accumulation of the number of payout balls paid out to the ball tray and the accumulation of the number of shot balls, When the estimated number of remaining balls exceeds a predetermined number, the payout of the rental balls is withheld, and if the ball launching device does not operate for a predetermined time or more, the accumulated number of paid-out balls, the accumulated number of launched balls, and the estimated remaining ball The number is updated to the initial value.
Further, the payout control device of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention calculates the estimated number of remaining balls that should be on the ball tray from the accumulation of the number of payout balls paid out to the ball tray and the accumulation of the number of shot balls. The lending payout request is canceled when the remaining number of balls exceeds a predetermined number, and if the ball launcher does not operate for a predetermined time or more, the accumulated number of discharged balls, the accumulated number of shot balls, and the estimated remaining ball The number is updated to the initial value.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in the above-mentioned payout control device, the number of payout balls to be paid out to the ball tray is detected as a sum of a rented ball and a prize ball.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that, in the above-mentioned payout control device, the number of shot balls is detected by the number of operations of the hitting ball of the ball launcher.
In the payout control device according to the present invention, the number of shot balls is detected by the number of actuations of a ball feeding member of the ball launcher.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that in the above-mentioned payout control device, the payout of the rental ball is reserved when the jackpot is being hit.
Further, according to the present invention, in the payout control device, when a card or money is newly inserted into the ball lending machine, the accumulated payout ball number, the accumulated shot ball number, and the estimated remaining ball number are updated to initial values. It is characterized by doing so.
[0008]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Next, embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine 1 according to the present invention and a ball lending machine 2 provided adjacent thereto. As shown in the figure, on the front surface of the pachinko gaming machine 1, there are an upper ball tray 3, a lower ball tray 4, and a plurality of winning holes, from which prize balls and rental balls are paid out by operating an internal payout device. , A game board 6 provided with a symbol variation display 5 and the like is provided, and a pachinko ball on the ball tray 3 is fired when the player operates the hitting ball launching handle 7. In addition, the ball lending machine 2 is provided with a slot 8 for cards, money and the like. In addition, 9 is a ball rental request button provided on the outer surface of the ball tray 3, 10 is a cancel button, and 11 is a loading status display.
[0009]
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the payout control apparatus according to the present invention. This payout control device comprises a CPU, a RAM, and a ROM, and as shown in the figure, when the hitting handle 7 of the hitting ball is operated by operating the hitting ball launcher of the hitting ball launcher, the hit detection signal is emitted. , And when a game ball wins a winning opening on the game board 6, a winning ball payout request signal is received from the winning detection unit, and a big hit / medium signal transmitted when the game board is hit , And a ball rental payout request signal is received from the ball lending machine 2. Then, a payout command signal is output to the payout device.
[0010]
Next, the operation of the payout control device will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. As shown in FIG. 3, this program includes a game monitoring routine, a request signal monitoring routine, a dish status estimation routine, a prize ball payout routine, a ball rental payout routine, and a ball rental cancellation routine. The game monitoring routine detects whether the player is using this pachinko machine and whether it is a new player. As shown in FIG. The presence / absence is monitored, and when a ball launch signal is not received for 10 minutes or more in step 2, and when it is detected in step 3 that a card or money is newly inserted into the ball lending machine 2, The process proceeds to 4, and variables R, T, and Z described later are set to zero (updated to initial values), and the process returns.
[0011]
Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the request signal monitoring routine proceeds to step 6 and updates the lending payout request unit K when receiving a lending payout request signal from the ball lending machine 2 in step 5. When, for example, a card is inserted in the ball lending machine 2 and the ball lending request button 9 is pressed, a lending payout request for 500 yen is made, and “K = 5” is stored. When a prize ball payout request signal is received from the winning detection unit in step 7, the process proceeds to step 8 where the prize ball payout request number S is updated. For example, a prize ball payout request signal indicating that 15 prize balls should be paid out. When received, “S = 15” is stored.
[0012]
In addition, the dish state estimation routine is based on the number of winning balls and the number of balls that are paid out by operating the paying-out device, and the number of balls that are fired by operating the hitting ball launching handle 7. The number of pachinko balls remaining on the plate 4 is estimated. The accumulated number R of award balls and rental balls that have been paid out since the player has started playing the game without an interval of 10 minutes or more. In step 10, the cumulative number of fired balls T is read in step 11, and the estimated remaining number Z is obtained as a difference between the cumulative number of paid-out balls R and the cumulative number of fired balls T.
[0013]
Further, as shown in FIG. 7, the prize ball payout routine outputs a payout command signal to the payout device at step 16 when it is determined at step 15 that the prize ball payout request number S is present. Accordingly, the prize ball payout request count S is decremented by 1 in step 17.
[0014]
Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the rental ball payout routine determines that there is a rental ball payout request unit K in step 20, determines that there is no prize ball payout request number S in step 21, and When it is determined that the estimated remaining number Z is not equal to or greater than 20, and it is determined that the jackpot is not a big hit in step 23, the payout of paying out 25 rents, which is a rental payout request unit, to the payout device in step 24 A command signal is output, and in step 25, the lending payout request unit K is decremented by 1 in accordance with the payout command.
[0015]
Further, as shown in FIG. 9, when the estimated remaining number Z is 150 or more in step 30, the rental ball canceling routine has a remaining ball on the ball tray 3 or the ball tray 4. Since it is recognized, the player cancels the unpaid ball rental request, that is, sets the rental ball payout request unit K to zero in step 31 and cancels the ball dispense request in step 32. Information is displayed through a display or voice.
[0016]
For this reason, according to the payout control device, the winning ball payout has priority over the lending ball payout, and the number of remaining balls that should be on the ball tray is calculated, and when the remaining number of balls exceeds a predetermined number, The pay-out request for the rental ball is canceled when the remaining number of balls is more than enough, and unnecessary pay-out of the rental ball can be suppressed. In addition, since the payout of the rental ball is reserved even when a big hit occurs, it becomes possible to enjoy a game advantageous to the player by always using the minimum required ball rental. In addition, since it is not necessary to provide a ball detection sensor in the ball tray, the configuration is simple, and there is an advantage that it can be easily implemented simply by changing the program of the existing control device.
[0017]
Note that the payout device for paying out the winning balls and the payout device for paying out the rental balls may be provided separately or may share one device.
Further, the accumulated number of payout balls of the winning ball is updated by the payout operation of the solenoid, the motor, etc. of the payout device or the operation of the payout ball detection sensor even if it is updated by winning detection as in the above embodiment. You may make it do.
Further, the number of balls to be fired is not limited to being detected by the number of actuations of the hitting ball of the ball launching device, but may be detected by the number of actuations of a solenoid or the like that operates the ball feeding member of the ball launching device.
[0018]
In this embodiment, the setting is made such that the time when no ball is fired in step 2 is 10 minutes, the estimated remaining number Z in which paying out the balls in step 22 is set to 20, and the paying out of balls in step 30 The estimated remaining number Z for canceling the request is set to 150, but it goes without saying that any of these can be changed to a numerical value as appropriate, and can be freely set by a store clerk or player at the site of use. It may be possible. Further, whether to perform the payout control itself may be freely set by a store clerk or a player. Further, in this case, it is desirable that the operation unit for changing these settings be provided in the vicinity of the ball rental request button 9, the cancel button 10, and the insertion status display display 11, but is not limited to the outer surface of the ball tray 3. It is provided in a place where the player can easily operate, such as near a ball removal button provided on the ball tray 3 or below the glass frame.
[0019]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the payout control device of the present invention has the remarkable effect that the payout of the rented ball is always suppressed to the necessary minimum and the player can advantageously play the pachinko game without waste.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine and a ball rental machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the payout control apparatus showing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the payout control apparatus showing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the payout control apparatus showing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the payout control apparatus showing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart of the payout control apparatus showing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart of the payout control apparatus showing the embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the payout control apparatus showing the embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Pachinko machine 2 Ball lending machine 3 Ball tray 7 Hitting handle 9 Ball rental request button

Claims (7)

  Calculate the estimated number of remaining balls that should be on the ball tray from the cumulative number of balls dispensed and the number of fired balls, and rent a ball when the estimated number of remaining balls exceeds a predetermined number That the payout of the ball and the ball launcher are not activated for a predetermined time or more, the accumulated payout ball count, the cumulative shot ball count, and the estimated remaining ball count are updated to the initial values. A payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine.   Calculate the estimated number of remaining balls that should be on the ball tray from the cumulative number of balls dispensed and the number of fired balls, and rent a ball when the estimated number of remaining balls exceeds a predetermined number The payout request is canceled, and if the ball launcher does not operate for a predetermined time or more, the accumulated payout ball count, the cumulative shot ball count, and the estimated remaining ball count are updated to the initial values. A payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine. The payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the number of payout balls to be paid out to the ball tray is detected as a sum of a rental ball and a prize ball . The payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the number of balls to be fired is detected by the number of times the ball launcher has actuated . The payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein the number of balls to be fired is detected by the number of actuations of a ball feed member of the ball launcher . 6. The payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the payout of the rental ball is reserved when the jackpot is being hit . 7. The accumulated number of paid-out balls, the accumulated number of shot balls, and the estimated remaining number of balls are updated to initial values when a card or money is newly inserted into the ball lending machine . A payout control device for a pachinko gaming machine according to 1.

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