JP4537130B2 - Tank dispenser for gaming machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention easily and appropriately connects a rod that guides a ball downward from a ball storage chamber on the back side of a gaming machine frame in a gaming machine that uses a ball called a pachinko ball as a gaming medium such as a pachinko machine or a slot machine. The present invention relates to a tank payout device for a gaming machine.

The tank payout device of the pachinko machine disclosed in Patent Document 1 has a spiral mechanism body that is driven by a drive motor at the bottom of the storage tank so that an opening is formed in the bottom surface of the storage tank and is positioned at the bottom of the opening. In a state where the storage tank ball is supplied to the spiral mechanism body of the discharge device via the opening, the spiral mechanism body is driven by the drive motor to separate the balls one by one. Discharge from the storage tank to the discharge ball detector. However, the direction of the ball pressure received from the sphere moving from the storage tank toward the opening from the storage tank and the flow from the storage tank to the internal space of the discharge device main body through the opening are divided into the front and rear by the spiral mechanism. At the same time, the direction of moving the spheres separated into the gaps in the spiral mechanism body one by one toward the discharge ball detector is in the opposite direction. The ball passed through the discharge ball detector is guided in the direction opposite to the direction of moving from the storage tank toward the opening through the guide passage, and flows downward to be provided in front of the gaming machine frame. Since it is guided to the ball storage tray, when a game board is installed in the game board storage room of the game machine frame, the game control device, the accessory control device, the discharge control device, etc. provided on the back of the game board To escape a mechanism has the disadvantage that it is not possible to increase the central opening formed in the game board housing chamber. Patent Document 2 discloses a tank payout device for a pachinko machine, in which an opening is formed in the bottom surface of a ball tank, a ball supply path extending right below the opening is provided, and a ball payout that pays out a ball to the lower part of the ball supply path And a ball dispensing channel for guiding the balls dispensed from the ball dispensing device to a ball storage dish provided on the front surface of the gaming machine frame at the bottom of the ball dispensing device. By providing a full detection switch for detecting that the storage device has been stored close to the lower portion of the payout device, the central opening formed in the game board storage chamber is enlarged. However, there is a drawback in that a structure interconnecting structures such as a ball tank, a ball supply channel, a ball dispensing device, and a ball dispensing channel is not practical.
JP-A-8-10415 JP 2002-85793 A

  The problem to be solved by the invention is that even if the central opening formed in the game board storage chamber is enlarged, the structures such as a ball tank, a ball supply path, a ball payout device, and a ball payout flow path are connected to each other. However, it is not practical.

A tank payout device for a gaming machine according to the present invention includes a tank mechanism and a vertical shaft mechanism on the back surface of the game main body storage structure in the gaming machine frame, and the tank mechanism has a box-shaped ball storage chamber opened upward, two spheres outlet formed in the bottom of the take-in portion provided on the bottom wall of the sphere storage compartment, a dispensing ball detection mechanism respectively provided beneath each sphere outlet, provided with the accepting unit sphere storage The ball stored in the chamber is discharged from the ball storage chamber through the ball outlet to the discharged ball detection mechanism one by one, and the discharge ball detection mechanism has a passage communicating with each of the ball outlets. and a connecting gutter which ejected sphere downward, downpipe mechanism, and two receiving portions of the cylindrical receiving the discharged balls individually from the connecting trough through each sphere outlet of the tank system, the A ball tray structure in which the ball received at the receiving part is provided on the front side of the gaming machine frame And two dispensing passages for each dispensed individually in the direction of the ball housing portion, catching game machine mounting structure which is installed in the gaming machine frame spheres accepted by each receiving portion from the back side of the gaming machine frame Two trajectory passages for individually discharging in the direction of the mechanism, and a passage switching mechanism for switching whether the ball received in the receiving portion flows into the payout passage or the ball passage, Two cylindrical insertion parts, which are attached to the game main body storage structure and are provided at the lower end of the tank mechanism connecting rod and communicate with each ball outlet individually, are fitted into the two receiving portions of the vertical rod mechanism from above. by which the tank system and downpipes mechanism are connected to each other Rukoto, tank mechanism is attached to the game main housing structure, ball disbursement mechanism, the outer peripheral surface of the rotatable rod is coupled to the output shaft of the motor One with a spiral in A spiral body is provided, and the spiral body is formed so as to project in a spiral shape radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the round bar at intervals separating the spheres one by one in the axial direction of the round bar, and taken into the take-in portion the spheres, one by one in a gap spiral is incorporated is separated to move to the ball outlet, characterized in that it is discharged alternately from each sphere outlet offset by half a rotation of the spiral dispensing body.

The tank payout device for a gaming machine according to the present invention includes a part for discharging the ball of the tank mechanism and a part for receiving the ball of the vertical mechanism by inserting the insertion part of the tank mechanism from above the vertical mechanism into the receiving part. However, there is an advantage that the balls smoothly flow from the tank mechanism to the vertical shaft mechanism because they are accurately connected without being displaced or separated . Since payment Dedama detection mechanism is provided directly below the sphere outlet for discharging the balls of ball dispensing mechanism, after which it is possible to reduce the vertical dimension of the tank dispenser, sphere passes through the dispensing ball detection mechanism from the sphere outlet There is an advantage that the time to be shortened. Further, since the ball paying mechanism includes the spiral paying body, there is an advantage that the balls can be smoothly discharged from the ball storage chamber.

  1 to 7 show the best mode for carrying out the invention. FIG. 1 shows an exploded tank dispensing device 1 of a gaming machine. FIG. 2 shows a plane in which the sphere is taken in between the spiral dispenser 18 and the front and rear walls of the take-in portion 16. FIG. 3 shows a longitudinal section of the internal structure of the tank dispensing apparatus 1. FIG. 4 shows a process in which the tank dispensing device 1 is attached to the game main body storage structure 4. FIG. 5 shows the tank dispensing device 1 attached to the game main body storage structure 4. FIG. 6 shows an exploded view of the gaming machine frame 51 and the gaming board 85 in the pachinko machine. FIG. 7 shows the back side of the gaming machine frame 51. In this specification, the directions of “front”, “rear”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “upper”, “lower” indicate that the gaming machine frame 51 and the gaming board 85 are in the state shown in FIG. It is the direction specified when placing and looking at them from the front. “Back” and “back” are in the same direction.

  The tank dispensing apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIG. The tank dispensing device 1 includes a tank mechanism 2 and a downspout mechanism 3, the downspout mechanism 3 is attached to the game main body storage structure 4, and the insertion portion 5 of the tank mechanism 2 is connected to the receiving portion 6 of the downspout mechanism 3. The tank mechanism 2 is attached to the game main body storage structure 4 after being fitted from above. Specifically, the tank mechanism 2 is configured to detect a ball stored in a box-shaped ball storage chamber 8 opened above the tank structure 7 from the ball storage chamber 8 by the operation of the ball discharge mechanism 9. The ball is discharged one by one, the discharged balls are electrically detected by the discharged ball detection mechanism 10, and the detected balls are discharged downward from the connecting rod 11. An insertion portion 5 is provided at the lower end portion of the connecting rod 11. The insertion portion 5 has a cylindrical shape having an outer shape fitted inwardly to the receiving portion 6 of the vertical hook mechanism 3, and is narrower than the connection rod 11. A screw insertion hole 13 is provided in the front wall 12 of the tank structure 7. The screw insertion hole 13 is a through hole into which a set screw 14 such as a tapping screw for attaching the tank structure 7 to the game main body storage structure 4 is inserted.

  The bottom wall 15 of the ball storage chamber 8 is provided with a take-in portion 16 on the right side at the center in the front-rear direction. The intake part 16 is horizontally long and is a depression that is recessed downward from the bottom wall 15 of the ball storage chamber 8. The ball payout mechanism 9 includes a payout motor 17 including a step motor and a spiral payout body 18. A motor case of the dispensing motor 17 is attached to the right outer surface of the tank structure 7. The spiral dispensing body 18 includes a spiral body on the outer peripheral surface of the round bar. The spiral body protrudes in a spiral shape radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the round bar at intervals of separating the spheres one by one in the axial center direction of the round bar of the spiral dispenser 18. The axial center of the round bar of the spiral dispenser 18 is oriented in the left-right direction, and the spiral body is rotatably accommodated in the take-in portion 16, while both ends of the round bar where the spiral body is absent in the spiral dispenser 18 are The left and right side walls surrounding the take-in portion 16 are rotatably penetrated into and out of the take-in portion 16. An end portion of a round bar projecting outside the left side wall of the take-in portion 16 in the spiral dispensing body 18 is coupled to an output shaft such as a motor shaft of the dispensing motor 17. By this connection, when the output shaft of the dispensing motor 17 rotates, the spiral dispensing body 18 also rotates together.

  The bottom surface of the bottom wall 15 of the sphere storage chamber 8 where the sphere comes into contact forms a slope where the sphere flows from the periphery toward the take-in portion 16. Therefore, the sphere stored in the sphere storage chamber 8 flows from the bottom wall 15 of the sphere storage chamber 8 into the intake portion 16. The spheres P shown in FIG. 2 that have flowed into the take-in portion 16 are taken in while being separated one by one in the space between the spiral body 18 and the front and rear walls of the take-in portion 16 in the front-rear direction. . A ball outlet 19 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 is formed at the bottom of the take-in portion 16 so as to be positioned immediately below one gap on the right side of the spiral body. Then, when the dispensing motor 17 rotates the spiral dispensing body 18, the spiral dispensing body 18 is separated and taken into the gap of the spiral body and moves the inside of the take-in portion 16 from the left side to the right side. The ball that has moved to the right end in FIG. 2 is divided into two front and rear spheres from the ball outlet 19, falls downward, and is discharged from the intake portion 16. The sphere separated on the front side of the spiral dispenser 18 and the sphere separated on the rear side of the spiral dispenser 18 are not discharged simultaneously from the ball outlet 19, and the spiral dispenser 18 is not discharged from the ball outlet 19. They are discharged alternately by a half rotation. A portion where the right wall of the take-in portion 16 penetrates the spirally-dispensing body 18 is blocked by a hole closing body 22 shown in FIG. 3 so that the ball does not leak from the inside of the take-in portion 16. The hole closing body 22 also has a function of maintaining a gap between the motor case of the dispensing motor 17 and the right outer surface of the take-in portion 16. The ball storage chamber 8 is provided with a cage 23 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 that is positioned immediately above the ball outlet 19 to prevent the flow of the ball from the ball storage chamber 8 into the take-in portion 16.

  Returning to FIG. 1, a retraction hole 26 smaller than the diameter of one sphere is provided in the left wall of the intake portion 16. The payout ball detection mechanism 10 is divided into two front and rear balls discharged from the ball outlet 19 shown in FIG. 2, and the discharge ball detector 20 mounted on the payout ball detection mechanism 10 is formed on the front and rear sides in FIG. The sphere detection holes 21 shown are separately passed. The payout ball detector 20 outputs a payout ball detection signal to the main control device 86 shown in FIG. 6 and the firing and payout control device 102 shown in FIG. 7 every time a ball passing through the ball detection hole 21 is electrically detected. Inside the connecting rod 11, two passages through which the balls discharged separately from the dispensing ball detection mechanism 10 in two front and rear directions are separated by a partition wall. On the outer surface of the bottom wall 15 of the sphere storage chamber 8, a sphere break detector 24 for detecting that the number of spheres stored in the sphere storage chamber 8 is in a state where the number of balls remaining is small is provided. When the ball break detector 24 detects that the number of balls stored in the ball storage chamber 8 is small, the ball break detector 24 outputs an electric ball break detection signal to the main controller 86 shown in FIG. Then, the main controller 86 outputs a replenishment signal to the hall computer that manages the business of the game shop, the hall computer drives the replenishment mechanism in the gaming machine installation structure, and the replenishment mechanism replenishes the ball storage chamber 8 with the ball. . A tank relay terminal board 25 is provided in front of the ball storage chamber 8 in the tank structure 7. The tank relay terminal board 25 is provided with connectors for connecting wires from the payout ball detector 20, the passage switching solenoid 38, the full tank detector 43, and the ball breakage detector 24.

  The vertical rod mechanism 3 causes the ball discharged from the connecting rod 11 of the tank mechanism 2 to flow into the discharge passage 33 inside the passage structure 32 or to pass from the discharge passage 33 to the passage structure 32 by the operation of the passage switching mechanism 31. It is the structure which flows into the ball extraction passage 34 in the inside. The payout passage 33 is formed inside the passage structure 32 in order to pay out the balls discharged from the connecting basket 11 in the direction of the ball receiving portion of the ball tray structure 58 provided on the front side of the gaming machine frame 51. It is a passage. The ball removal passage 34 discharges the ball discharged from the connecting rod 11 of the tank mechanism 2 from the back side of the gaming machine frame 51 toward the ball catching mechanism of the gaming machine installation structure in which the gaming machine frame 51 is installed. It is. The payout passage 33 and the ball removal passage 34 are structured to be divided forward and backward by a partition so as to individually pass the balls discharged from the connecting rod 11 in two front and rear directions, and as they go from the upper part to the lower part The structure meanders in the front-rear direction. The ball extraction passage 34 is provided on the right side of the payout passage 33 and has a structure that is divided forward and backward by a partition so that the balls discharged from the payout passage 33 in two front and rear sections are individually passed.

  The receiving portion 6 is provided at the upper end portion of the payout passage 33 as the upper end portion of the passage structure 32. The receiving portion 6 has a cylindrical shape having an inner shape for externally fitting the insertion portion 5, and is larger than the payout passage 33. The mounting housing 35 provided on the front side of the passage structure 32 is provided with a screw insertion hole 36 and a latching portion 37. The screw insertion hole 36 is a through hole into which a set screw 30 such as a tapping screw for attaching the vertical hook mechanism 3 to the game main body storage structure 4 is inserted. The latching portion 37 is for attaching the vertical rod mechanism 3 to the game main body storage structure 4, and includes a horizontal protrusion that protrudes forward from the substrate of the attachment rod 35 and a vertical protrusion that protrudes downward from the tip of the horizontal protrusion. And a protrusion. Between the vertical protrusion of the latching portion 37 and the front surface of the attachment housing 35, there is a gap for taking in and supporting the periphery of the engagement hole 47 in the game main body storage structure 4.

  A passage switching solenoid 38 constituted by an electromagnetic solenoid of the passage switching mechanism 31 is disposed between the attachment housing 35 and the passage structure 32 and is fixed to the attachment housing 35. The passage switching valve 39 of the passage switching mechanism 31 is disposed in a communication hole 40 shown in FIG. 3 formed at the connecting portion between the dispensing passage 33 and the ball removal passage 34. A valve shaft 41 fixed to the lower portion of the passage switching valve 39 is rotatably attached to the vertical shaft mechanism 3 and is connected to a plunger 42 which is an output member of the passage switching solenoid 38. For example, when the passage switching solenoid 38 is not supplied with power, the passage switching valve 39 blocks the communication hole 40 so that the ball flows into the dispensing passage 33. When the passage switching solenoid 38 is supplied with electric power, the passage switching valve 39 blocks the payout passage 33 so that the ball flows through the ball removal passage 34. Regarding the operation of the passage switching valve 39, the power supply to the passage switching solenoid 38 has been described as a single-acting type. However, the passage switching solenoid 38 is constituted by a latching solenoid, and the passage switching valve 39 is operated by changing the polarity of the power supply. By doing so, power consumption can be reduced. The payout passage 33 is provided with a full tank detector 43 on the downstream side of the passage switching valve 39. The full tank detector 43 stops the prize ball control by the main controller 86 shown in FIG. 6 when the ball is full from the ball storage portion 68 shown in FIG. 6 to the front horizontal rod 80 and the full tank detector 43 in the payout passage 33. In order to do this, the full tank detector 43 is turned on with a full ball and an electrical full detection signal is output to the main controller 86. The game main body storage structure 4 has an attachment hole 44 for fastening a set screw 14 for attaching the tank mechanism 2, a receiving shelf 45 for mounting the tank mechanism 2, an attachment hole 46 for fastening a set screw 30 for attaching the vertical hook mechanism 3, An engagement hole 47 for latching the latch portion 37 is provided.

  A method of attaching the tank dispensing device 1 to the game main body storage structure 4 will be described. In FIG. 1, first, the latching portion 37 of the vertical rod mechanism 3 is inserted into the engagement hole 47 from the back side of the game main body storage structure 4, and the front surface of the mounting rod 35 of the vertical rod mechanism 3 is the game main body storage structure 4. When the vertical rod mechanism 3 is moved downward, the vertical projection of the latching portion 37 faces the front surface of the game main body storage structure 4 below the engagement hole 47, and the side of the latching portion 37 is The protrusion is received at the lower edge of the engagement hole 47. Thereafter, the set screw 30 is fastened from the back side of the mounting housing 35 to the mounting hole 46 of the game main body storage structure 4 via the screw insertion hole 36. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 7, the downside mechanism 3 is positioned on the right side of the central opening 73 along the right edge of the central opening 73 in the game main body storage structure 4, and the game main body storage structure 4. It is arrange | positioned and fixed so that it may become vertically long on the back surface. Next, the insertion portion 5 of the connecting rod 11 in the tank mechanism 2 is inserted into the receiving portion 6 from above the vertical rod mechanism 3. Thus, when the insertion part 5 of the tank mechanism 2 is inserted into the receiving part 6 from the upper side of the vertical shaft mechanism 3, the portion for discharging the ball of the tank mechanism 2 and the portion for receiving the ball of the vertical mechanism 3 are positioned. There is an advantage that the balls smoothly flow from the tank mechanism 2 to the vertical shaft mechanism 3 because they are accurately connected without being displaced or separated. Moreover, the inner diameter of the insertion portion 5 is configured to be narrower than the inner diameter of the receiving portion 6, and the inner surface of the insertion portion 5 is located in the same plane as the inner surface of the receiving portion 6 as shown in FIG. If the inner surface of 6 does not protrude inward from the inner surface of the insertion portion 5, there is an advantage that the ball flows more smoothly without being caught by the reception portion 6 in the process of moving from the insertion portion 5 to the reception portion 6. Thereafter, the tank mechanism 2 is mounted on the receiving shelf 45 of the game main body storage structure 4, and the set screw 14 is fastened to the mounting hole 44 of the game main body storage structure 4 from the back side of the tank mechanism 2 via the screw insertion hole 13. Is done. As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the tank mechanism 2 and the vertical mechanism 3 are connected to each other and fixed to the back surface of the game main body storage structure 4, and the tank payout device 1 is attached to the back surface of the game main body storage structure 4. Provided.

  In the tank dispensing device 1 attached to the back surface of the game main body storage structure 4 as described above, when a ball is supplied to the ball storage chamber 8, the ball entering the ball storage chamber 8 contacts the ball of the bottom wall 15. It is guided in the direction of the taking-in part 16 by the inclination of the bottom surface to flow into the taking-in part 16. The spheres that have entered the take-in portion 16 are divided forward and backward by the spiral dispenser 18 and are separated into the gaps of the spiral and taken one by one. In this state, when the spiral dispenser 18 is driven in the forward rotation direction by the dispenser motor 17, the spiral dispenser 18 moves from the left side to the right side inside the take-in portion 16 within the take-in portion 16. The ball is discharged downward from the ball outlet 19 of the take-in portion 16. The sphere discharged from the sphere outlet 19 is taken into the dispensed ball detection mechanism 10. That is, since the dispensing ball detection mechanism 10 is provided directly below the ball outlet 19, the vertical size of the tank dispensing device 1 can be reduced, and the ball passes from the ball outlet 19 through the dispensing ball detection mechanism 10. There is an advantage that the time can be shortened. As shown in FIG. 3, the direction of the spherical pressure indicated by the arrow X <b> 1 received from the sphere that the spiral dispenser 18 moves from the ball storage chamber 8 toward the take-in portion 16 and the spiral dispenser 18 inside the take-in portion 16. Since the spiral dispenser 18 of the ball dispensing mechanism 9 is driven in the normal rotation direction by the dispensing motor 17 so that the direction indicated by the arrow X2 that moves the ball toward the ball outlet 19 is the same direction, the ball storage chamber The load acting on the spiral dispenser 18 from the sphere present in the ball 8 and the sphere present in the take-in portion 16 is reduced, and the spiral dispenser 18 smoothly rotates and is less likely to cause ball clogging. There is an advantage that can be paid out smoothly.

  The back mechanism of the gaming machine frame 51 and the front mechanism of the game board 85 will be described with reference to FIG. The gaming machine frame 51 includes a fixed frame 52 and a movable frame 53. The fixed frame 52 is called an outer frame to be attached to a gaming machine installation structure outside the figure of the pachinko parlor, and has a frame shape surrounding a vertically long rectangular space opened in the front-rear direction. The movable frame 53 is called a front frame or an intermediate frame, and is attached to the fixed frame 52 by a left hinge 54 so as to be able to be opened in the front lateral direction and to be detachable (replaceable). The movable frame 53 includes a frame-shaped movable frame main body 55 surrounding a vertically long rectangular space opened in the front-rear direction, and the game main body storage structure 4 extending from the movable frame main body 55 to the inside. A panel frame 57 and a ball tray structure 58 are attached to the movable frame main body 55 so that the panel frame 57 and the ball tray structure 58 can be opened in the front lateral direction by upper and lower hinges 59 provided on the left side. The panel frame 57 has a frame shape surrounding the window 60 opened in the front-rear direction. A light transmitting front panel 61 made of glass or synthetic resin is attached to the back surface of the panel frame 57 so as to cover the window 60.

  The right vertical piece of the movable frame main body 55 is provided with a locking device 62, a plurality of lock mechanisms 63; 64; 65, and a lock release operation body 66. In a state where the movable frame 53, the panel frame 57, and the ball tray structure 58 are closed and supported by the lock mechanism 63-65 so that they cannot be opened and closed, the store clerk of the game store holds the key plate (key) outside the figure on the gaming machine frame 51. When the key plate is inserted into the key hole 67 of the locking device 62 from the front side and the key plate is rotated 90 degrees to the right, for example, the support form of the locking mechanism 63 between the fixed frame 52 and the movable frame 53 is released. After the release of this support mode, the store clerk pulls the movable frame 53 forward, whereby the movable frame 53 is opened to the front side around the hinge 54. Further, when the key plate inserted into the key hole 67 of the locking device 62 is rotated 90 degrees to the left, for example, the support form by the lock mechanism 64 between the movable frame 53 and the panel frame 57 is released.

  After the release of this support mode, the store clerk pulls the panel frame 57 forward, whereby the panel frame 57 is opened to the front side around the hinge 59. As described above, when the store clerk operates the unlocking operation body 66 provided on the front surface of the movable frame 53 in a state where the panel frame 57 is opened to the front side, the lock mechanism 65 between the movable frame 53 and the ball tray structure 58. The support form by is released. After the release of the support form, the store clerk pulls the ball tray structure 58 forward, whereby the ball tray structure 58 is opened to the front about the hinge 59. A ball storage unit 68 and a firing operation mechanism 69 are provided on the front surface of the ball dish structure 58. The ball storage portion 68 has a shape opened upward to receive a ball used for a game. On the back surface of the ball tray structure 58, a ball intake port 70 for supplying a ball from the front reed 80 to the ball storage unit 68 and a ball supply port 71 for supplying a ball from the ball storage unit 68 to the launching mechanism 77 are provided.

  The game main body storage structure 4 includes a game main body storage chamber 72 opened to the front side, and a central opening 73 that penetrates the back wall of the game main body storage chamber 72 in the front-rear direction. On the left side of the game main body storage chamber 72, a frame side hinge 74 and a frame side connector 75 for attaching the game board 85 are provided. The frame-side hinge 74 has a structure including a hinge pin that protrudes upward from a support portion that is bent to the front side of a hinge housing fixedly attached to the left side portion of the game main body storage chamber 72. The frame-side connector 75 has a connector pin made of a conductive material movably attached to a connector body made of an electrically insulating material such as a synthetic resin, and an elastic body such as a coil spring built in the connector pin has a tip of the connector pin It is a structure called a spring connector that pushes the part outward from the connector pin, and as the connector pin is pushed from the electrode of the game board, the elastic body compresses and the connector pin and the electrode are pressed against each other and come into contact with each other .

  A game main body shelf 76 is provided on the front surface below the game main body storage chamber 72 in the game main body storage structure 4. On the front surface of the front wall of the game main body storage structure 4 extending downward from the game main body shelf 76, a launch mechanism 77, a launch rail 78, a foul ball inlet 79, and a front side fence 80 are provided. The firing rail 78 receives one sphere supplied from the sphere supply port 71 of the ball tray structure 58. The launch mechanism 77 alternately receives power supply and interruption, thereby firing one ball supplied from the ball storage unit 68 to the launch rail 78 toward the game area on the front surface of the game board 85. The launch rail 78 guides the ball fired from the launch mechanism 77 to the entrance of the launch path on the front surface of the game board 85. The foul ball inlet port 79 takes in a ball that falls from the launch passage of the game board 85. The sphere taken into the foul sphere inlet 79 is discharged to the sphere inlet 70 via the front recumbent rod 80. The front horizontal rod 80 discharges the ball discharged from the tank discharge device 1 shown in FIG. 1 attached to the back of the movable frame 53 to the ball inlet 70. A game main body lock member 81 is provided on the right side of the game main body storage chamber 72. The game main body lock member 81 includes a lock operation body 82 that is rotatable at the center of a cylindrical base that protrudes forward from the game main body storage structure 4. The lock operation body 82 has a horizontally long shape fixed to the end of the operation shaft that protrudes forward from the pedestal.

  On the back surface of the game board 85, a main control device 86, a composite control device 87, a component attachment structure 88 called a set board, a board-side flexible wiring 89, a board-side hinge 90, and an attachment portion 91 are provided. The component mounting structure 88 guides and discharges a winning component (not shown) provided on the front surface of the game board 85 and a ball discharged from the out port to the back side of the game board. On the back side of the game board 85, the back mechanism of the game parts provided on the front surface of the game board 85 is routed through an escape hole formed in the game board 85 and an escape hole formed in the component mounting structure 88. Then protrude. The back mechanism of the gaming parts protruding to the back side of the gaming board 85 is a winning ball detector that outputs a winning signal that electrically detects a winning ball to the winning parts and outputs a main control device 86, a driving mechanism 92 that moves the moving parts, A symbol display 93, a symbol control device 94 for controlling the symbol display 93, a step motor 97 for symbol display components, an indicator lamp substrate, and the like.

  The board-side flexible wiring 89 is composed of a plurality of foil-shaped electric wires and foil-shaped electrodes 95 that connect the electric parts provided on the game board 85 and the electric parts provided on the gaming machine frame 51. It is the structure attached to the surface of the synthetic resin substrate which has property. The electrodes 95 are called a number of rounds corresponding to the connector pins of the frame-side connector 75, and the foil-shaped electric wires are individually extended from the electrodes 95. The surface of the electric wire is covered with an electrical insulating material such as a resist film, and is protected from human contact. The board-side flexible wiring 89 includes a winning ball detector, a drive mechanism 92 that moves a movable part, a symbol control device 94, an indicator lamp substrate, and the like. The board-side hinge 90 has a structure provided with a hinge hole penetrating in the vertical direction in a support portion bent to the front side of a hinge housing fixedly attached to the game board 85. The attachment portion 91 is fixed to the right side portion of the game board 85. The attachment portion 91 includes a lock insertion hole 96.

  The gaming board 85 is mounted on the gaming machine frame 51 as follows. At least in a state where the panel frame 57 is opened to the front side, the back surface of the game board 85 is directed to the front surface of the movable frame 53, the left side portion of the game board 85 is inserted into the game main body storage chamber 72 from the front side, and the board side hinge When the 90 hinge holes are inserted into the hinge pins of the frame side hinge 74 from above, the gaming board 85 is attached to the gaming machine frame 51 so as to be rotatable around the board side hinge 90 and the frame side hinge 74. Thereafter, when the right side portion of the game board 85 is pushed toward the gaming machine frame 51 by the operator, the center of the board side hinge 90 and the frame side hinge 74 is fitted, and the game board 85 stores the right side of the game main body. The lock operating body 82 is inserted into the lock insertion hole 96 of the game board 85 from the rear side and protrudes to the front side while being rotated close to the chamber 72 and stored in the game main body storage chamber 72. In this state, when the operator rotates the lock operation body 82, for example, 90 degrees counterclockwise, the lock operation body 82 is engaged with the mounting portion 91 around the lock insertion hole 96, and the game board 85 is connected to the game main body storage chamber. 72. By attaching the game board 85 to the game main body storage chamber 72 in this way, the electrode 95 of the board side flexible wiring 89 and the connector pin of the frame side connector 75 are connected to each other.

  The back mechanism of the gaming machine frame 51 will be described with reference to FIG. The tank structure 7 of the tank dispensing device 1 is disposed on the right side just above the central opening 73 of the gaming machine frame 51 and attached to the back surface of the gaming subject storage structure 4. Is arranged on the right side of the central opening 73 of the gaming machine frame 51 and attached to the back surface of the game main body storage structure 4. The lower end of the payout passage 33 of the vertical hook mechanism 3 is connected to the upper right inside of the front horizontal hook 80. Therefore, the sphere that has flowed down through the payout passage 33 is discharged to the sphere storage portion 68 of the ball tray structure 58 via the front horizontal rod 80. A power supply device 101 and a launch / payout control device 102 are attached to the back surface of the front wall extending downward from the game main body shelf 76 in the game main body storage structure 4. The power supply device 101 is disposed at the lower right side of the central opening 73. The firing / dispensing control device 102 is arranged at the lower left of the central opening 73. The external information terminal board 103, the payout relay terminal board 104, and the power terminal board 105 are attached to the back surface of the game main body storage structure 4 above the frame side connector 75 in a form in which they are arranged in order from the bottom to the top. . A ball tray relay board 106 is attached to the back surface of the game main body storage structure 4 on the left side of the launch / payout control apparatus 102. Each of the power supply device 101, the launch / payout control device 102, the frame side connector 75, the payout relay terminal board 104, the power supply terminal board 105, the external information terminal board 103, and the ball tray relay board 106 is a frame side flexible wiring 107, Connected to each other. The frame-side flexible wiring 107 is a synthetic resin substrate in which a large number of foil-shaped wires connecting the electrical components provided on the gaming board 85 and the electrical components provided on the gaming machine frame 51 are flexible. It is a structure attached to.

  The frame-side flexible wiring 107 is connected to the frame-side connector 75, the external information terminal board 103, the payout relay terminal board 104, the power supply terminal board 105, the power supply apparatus 101, and the launch / payout control apparatus 102. The tank relay terminal board 25 of the tank structure 7 is connected to the payout relay terminal board 104 by a harness 108. A power supply wiring 110 having a plug 109 of a pachinko machine is connected to the power supply terminal board 105. The external information terminal board 103 is connected to a hall computer (not shown) that manages the store sales of the amusement store. The ball tray relay substrate 106 is connected with wiring from the ball tray structure 58 shown in FIG. A power switch 111 and a reset button 112 are provided on the lower left side of the rear surface of the power supply device 101.

  The gaming machine frame 51 shown in FIG. 6 is attached to the gaming machine installation structure of the gaming store, the gaming board 85 is attached to the gaming machine frame 51, the panel frame 57 and the ball tray structure 58 are closed, and the movable frame 53 is closed. 7 is connected to the output terminal of the island power source that outputs AC 24 volts of the game machine installed structure, and the power switch 111 shown in FIG. The power supply device 101 on the back surface of the gaming machine frame 51 is inserted by the player, the main control device 86 and the composite control device 87 and the symbol control device 94 on the back surface of the gaming board 85, and the launch / payout control device 102 on the back surface of the gaming machine frame 51. DC power is supplied to the main controller 86, the composite controller 87 and the symbol controller 94 are activated, and a ball called a pachinko ball is moved to the ball storage portion 68 and the tank payout shown in FIG. The player fires in a state where the ball is stored in the ball storage chamber 8 of the apparatus 1, the ball break detector 24 does not output a ball break detection signal, and the full tank detector 43 does not output a full tank detection signal. When the operation mechanism 69 is operated, the firing operation mechanism 69 outputs a variable resistance value corresponding to the operation amount of the player to the firing / dispensing control device 102. As a result, the firing / dispensing control device 102 drives the launching mechanism 77 with a cycle of less than 100 shots per minute and a launching output corresponding to the variable resistance value, for example, and the launching mechanism 77 removes the sphere supplied from the ball storage unit 68. Fire one by one.

  The ball launched from the launch mechanism 77 is launched into the game area via the launch passage of the game board 85. Balls launched into the game area collide with center decorations, winning parts, side lamps, windmills, game nails, ball repellents, etc., and flow down the gaming area to win the winning parts. The ball that has reached the bottom of the game area without winning the winning component is discharged from the out port to the back side of the game board. When a ball wins a winning component, the winning ball detector electrically detects the winning ball in the winning component and outputs a winning detection signal to the main controller 86 through wiring. Then, the main control device 86 outputs a prize ball payout signal according to the type of the winning detection signal to the launch payout control device 102, so that the launch payout control device 102 pays out the number of balls as the prize balls based on the prize ball payout signal. The dispensing motor 17 is driven in the forward direction. Thereby, a ball as a prize ball is paid out from the ball storage chamber 8 of the tank payout device 1.

  Thus, as the ball is paid out from the ball storage chamber 8, the payout ball detector 20 outputs the payout detection signal to the launch payout control device 102 through the wiring, and the launch payout control device 102 delivers the payout detection signal to the tank. A calculation process is performed to count up as the number of balls paid out from the apparatus 1 or to count down the set number of prize balls determined based on the prize ball payout signal. As a result of this arithmetic processing, the firing payout control device 102 determines the counted up value based on the prize ball payout signal when the tank payout device 1 has finished paying out the number of balls according to the prize ball payout signal. If the value matches the set number of winning balls or the value counted down from the set number of winning balls determined based on the winning ball payout signal becomes “0”, the driving of the payout motor 17 in the forward rotation direction is stopped.

  Since the ball break detector 24 detects the presence of a ball in the ball storage chamber 8 and is turned off, the firing / dispensing control device 102 is controlled to drive the dispensing motor 17 in the forward rotation direction. The output torque when the ball break signal is not input to the payout control device 102 and the prize ball payout signal is not input for a certain period of time or when the discharge payout control device 102 is driving the payout motor 17 in the forward rotation direction. When the state where the monitored output torque rises above a predetermined value which is a threshold value continues for a certain period of time, the firing / dispensing control device 102 determines that a ball clogging has occurred in the ball dispensing mechanism 9. . Then, the polarity of the electric power supplied from the firing / dispensing control device 102 to the dispensing motor 17 is switched for a certain time so that the firing / dispensing control device 102 drives the dispensing motor 17 from the normal rotation direction to the reverse rotation direction. As a result, the dispensing motor 17 is driven in the reverse direction for a predetermined time. The fixed time for switching the polarity of the electric power so as to drive the payout motor 17 from the forward rotation direction to the reverse rotation direction is the time until a part of the sphere is taken into the retraction hole 26 of the take-in portion 16 in the tank structure 7. Thus, this time is calculated from the empirical rule and set in the firing / dispensing control device 102.

  Thereafter, the firing / dispensing control device 102 switches the polarity of the electric power supplied from the firing / dispensing control device 102 to the dispensing motor 17 so as to drive the dispensing motor 17 from the reverse rotation direction to the normal rotation direction. Alternatively, when the discharge / dispensing control device 102 monitors the output torque while the dispensing motor 17 is driven in the reverse rotation direction, the state where the monitored output torque rises above a predetermined value which is a threshold value continues for a certain period of time. The polarity of the electric power supplied from the firing / dispensing control device 102 to the dispensing motor 17 so that the firing / dispensing control device 102 drives the dispensing motor 17 from the reverse rotation direction to the normal rotation direction by determining that the ball has been taken into the retraction hole. Switch so that is restored. When the output torque is monitored in this way, a threshold value is set by replacing the firing / dispensing control device 102 with a predetermined time determined from the above rule of thumb. As a result, the payout motor 17 is driven in the forward rotation direction. This forward / reverse switching control is performed a predetermined number of times until the ball blockage generated in the ball payout mechanism 9 is resolved. If the ball clogging that has occurred in the ball payout mechanism 9 is not resolved even after a predetermined number of times, the firing payout control device 102 stops the forward / reverse switching control and also eliminates the ball clogging by a pachinko store clerk. Therefore, an abnormal signal is output to a not-shown alarm.

The disassembled perspective view which shows a tank delivery apparatus (best form). The top view which shows the taking-in part periphery (best form). The longitudinal cross-sectional view which shows the inside of a tank delivery apparatus (best form). The perspective view which shows the assembly process of a tank delivery apparatus (best form). The perspective view which shows the assembly process of a tank delivery apparatus (best form). The disassembled perspective view (best form) which shows the game machine frame and game board of a pachinko machine. The rear view which shows a game machine frame (best form).

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Tank payout apparatus 2 Tank mechanism 3 Vertical hook mechanism 4 Game main body storage structure 5 Insertion part 6 Receiving part 7 Tank structure 8 Ball storage chamber 9 Ball payout mechanism 10 Discharge ball detection mechanism 11 Connection rod 31 Passage switching mechanism 32 Passage structure Body 33 Discharge passage 34 Ball passage

Claims (1)

A tank mechanism and a downspout mechanism are provided on the back side of the gaming subject storage structure in the gaming machine frame,
Tank mechanism includes a box-shaped sphere storage chamber which is open upwardly, and two spheres outlet formed in the bottom of the take-in portion provided on the bottom wall of the sphere storage compartment, respectively provided beneath each sphere outlet A payout ball detection mechanism, a ball payout mechanism that pays out balls stored in the ball storage chamber in the take-in portion one by one from the ball storage chamber to the payout ball detection mechanism one by one, and each ball outlet And a connecting rod for discharging downward the ball that is electrically detected by the dispensing ball detection mechanism.
Downpipes mechanism, and two receiving portions of the cylindrical receiving the discharged balls individually from the connecting trough through each sphere outlet of the tank system, on the front side of the gaming machine frame a sphere that accepted by each receiving unit A game in which the gaming machine frame is installed from the back side of the gaming machine frame, with two dispensing paths for individually dispensing in the direction of the ball housing portion of the provided ball tray structure, and the balls received in each receiving unit Two ball extraction passages for individually discharging in the direction of the ball catching mechanism of the machine installation structure, and a passage switching mechanism for switching whether the ball received by the receiving portion flows into the payout passage or the ball extraction passage. With
A vertical shaft mechanism is attached to the game main storage structure, and two cylindrical insertion portions provided at the lower end portion of the tank mechanism connecting rod and individually communicating with the ball outlets are the two receiving portions of the vertical shaft mechanism. is fitted from above by Rukoto and a tank mechanism and downpipes mechanism are connected to each other, the tank mechanism is attached to the game main housing structure,
The ball payout mechanism includes one spiral payout body having a spiral body on the outer peripheral surface of a rotatable round bar coupled to the output shaft of the motor, and the spiral body separates spheres one by one in the axial direction of the round bar It is formed so that it protrudes in a spiral shape radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the round bar, and the spheres taken into the take-in part are separated into the gaps of the spiral one by one and moved to the sphere exit And a tank payout device for a gaming machine characterized in that the ball payout device is alternately displaced from each ball outlet by a half rotation of the spiral payout body .

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