JP4632233B2 - Game machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a gaming machine suitable for use in a slot machine.

  As a gaming machine, for example, a slot machine disclosed in Patent Document 1 is known. As shown in FIG. 1 of the document 1, the slot machine incorporates a reel mechanism having three rows of reels 19a, 19b, 19c on the front surface of the main body, and the side of these reels 19a, 19b, 19c. A display panel (EL lamp) 3 as a display device for performing so-called effect display is provided on the (right wall surface).

The three rows of reels 19a, 19b, and 19c each variably display a predetermined symbol, and stop and display a symbol combination corresponding to the winning form of the game in each column. The drum type or belt type variable display Acts as a means.
In such a configuration, when the rotation start knob is pressed by the player, the game starts, the reels 19a, 19b, 19c are rotated at a predetermined speed, and then the reels 19a, 19b, 19c are turned on when the stop button is pressed. Stop sequentially. When a specific pattern (for example, numeral 7) drawn on the three stopped reels 19a, 19b, and 19c is aligned on the winning line, it becomes a “hit”, and the display panel 3 displays FIG. By giving the display shown in the above, it is notified that a big hit has been made, and the player is given a pleasant feeling.
JP 2001-170250 A

By the way, in the slot machine described above, the reels 19a, 19b, and 19c start rotating at the timing when the rotation start knob is pressed, and at the same time, an internal lottery process is performed by acquiring a random number.
Usually, the random number is generated by an increment counter that counts a clock with a fixed period generated by a crystal oscillator. The increment counter has a constant speed cycle, and this cycle is short and rotates at a very high speed. Therefore, it is difficult to aim at a specific numerical value with human ability. Recently, however, fraudulent acts of targeting specific random numbers using special equipment have become a problem.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and usually makes it difficult to aim a specific random number without preparing special hardware or a program by using an initial indicating a reference rotation position of a reel. An object is to provide a gaming machine that can avoid fraud before it occurs.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a plurality of spinning reels and a plurality of reels for instructing to stop rotation of the corresponding spinning reels arranged in parallel to the plurality of spinning reels. A plurality of stop buttons and a start lever for instructing start of rotation of the plurality of spinning reels , wherein the game machine performs an internal lottery of a winning combination by random numbers, An initial indicating a reference rotation position, which is a reference position for specifying a rotation position of the corresponding spinning reel, and a reel substrate supporting each of the plurality of spinning reels. , comprising a sensor for detecting the position of the corresponding initial, and a control unit for acquiring the random number at the timing that has passed through the sensor, the control device, the start lever The process that is started by an operation and starts rotating the plurality of reel reels and the internal lottery process, and the reel corresponding to the stop button based on the pressing operation of any one of the stop buttons Control is performed to stop the reels, and it is determined whether or not the symbol displayed on each of the spinning reels matches the winning combination corresponding to the result of the internal lottery when all of the plurality of spinning reels are stopped When winning for the winning combination is confirmed, the sensor signal is fetched from the plurality of spinning reels for each game to be ended after paying out medals of the number of payouts corresponding to the type of winning combination 1 One of the reel reels is determined .

In the present invention, the control device may select the start timing of each spinning reel at random or based on numerical values set in advance in a time table.

Also, in the present invention, the control device selects a self-starting frequency pulse of a stepping motor that rotationally drives each of the plurality of spinning reels based on a random value or a numerical value set in advance in a frequency table. And

In the present invention, the mounting position of the sensor for detecting the initial is variable for each gaming machine.

According to the present invention, the control device makes it difficult to aim at a specific random number without preparing special hardware or a program by acquiring a random number at the timing when the initial indicating the reference rotation position passes the sensor. Therefore, it is possible to provide a gaming machine that can avoid fraud before it occurs.
Further, among the plurality pieces is the reel reel, it is every game change one the reel reel for taking the signals of the sensor, or the respective start timing randomly or in numerical value set in advance time table In addition, the self-starting frequency pulse of the stepping motor that rotationally drives each of the multiple reels can be selected at random or based on numerical values set in advance in the frequency table. It becomes difficult to obtain random numbers.
In addition, it is possible to provide a gaming machine that makes it difficult to aim at a specific random number and avoids illegal acts by changing the mounting position of the sensor that detects the initial for each gaming machine.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the reel-type gaming machine installed in Yu Technical field like (hereinafter referred to as "slot machine") will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a front view showing the external structure of the slot machine 100, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the internal structure of the slot machine 100, and FIG. 3 is a control system provided in the slot machine 100. It is the block diagram which showed the internal structure.

In FIG. 1, the slot machine 100 includes a front door 101 facing a player, and a box-shaped housing 102 to which the front door 101 is attached so as to be openable and closable.
The front door 101 basically has a mechanically strong structure in which a front panel molded of hard plastic or the like is attached to a metal frame (not shown), and the upper panel portion 103 is formed by the front panel. A middle panel portion 104 and a lower panel portion 105 are configured.

  On the upper panel 103, there is provided a central display board 103d on which an effect lamp 103a, sound emitting parts 103b and 103c to which speakers are attached, LEDs for displaying the number of credits, and lamps for displaying a jackpot are mounted. It is attached.

Further, the middle panel unit 104 is provided with a spinning reel device 200 including a plurality (three in this embodiment) of spinning reels R1, R2, and R3 at a substantially central position. A liquid crystal display panel (here, transparent liquid crystal) 106 having a substantially rectangular reel display window is mounted on the front surface of the spinning reel device 200. The liquid crystal display panel 106 protects the spinning reel device 200 from the outside by a reel display window, and allows the player to view the spinning reels R1, R2, and R3 through the reel display window.

  The liquid crystal display panel (transparent liquid crystal) 106 is formed by sealing liquid crystal between a transparent substrate such as a glass plate on which a thin film transistor layer is formed and a transparent substrate facing the transparent substrate. The liquid crystal display panel 106 has a structure in which light is transmitted to the display surface side and the transmitted light is visually recognized from the outside. By adopting this structure, the reels R1, R2, and R3 can be visually recognized through the reel display window even when the liquid crystal is not driven.

At the lower end of the middle panel portion 104, an operation portion 104a for operation by a player is provided, and a medal insertion portion MD for inserting game medals is provided. In addition, bet buttons BET (B1, B2 ) for presenting the number of medals per game are provided on the operation surface of the operation unit 104a, and further, on the front thereof, a command for instructing the start of one game is provided. a start lever ST, during rotation the reel-reel R1, R2, R3 three stop buttons for stopping individually SP1, SP2, SP3 are provided, these buttons provided on the operation unit 104 a Is indicated by reference numeral 300 in FIG.
Further, an image (not shown) related to the game contents of the slot machine 100 is drawn on the lower panel unit 105, and a discharge port 105a and a tray 105b for paying out game medals acquired by the player. And a sound emitting unit 105c provided with a speaker.

Next, the back surface structure of the front door 101 and the internal structure of the housing 102 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 shows a state where the front door 101 is unlocked and opened from the housing 102.
In the figure, speakers SR and SL constituting sound emitting portions 103b and 103c are provided on the upper surface of the rear surface of the front door 101.
Further, at the bottom of the reel display window , a distribution mechanism G0 for determining whether an input inserted from the medal insertion unit MD is a regular game medal or a foreign object, and a game medal distributed by the distribution mechanism G0 are provided. 102, a guide member G1 that guides the hopper device HP, a guide member G2 that guides and discharges the foreign matter distributed by the distribution mechanism G0 to the discharge port 105a, and a payout device that outputs from the hopper device HP. A guide member G3 for guiding and outputting the game medal to the discharge port 105a is provided, and a speaker SW is attached in the vicinity of the discharge port 105a so as to correspond to the sound emitting unit 105c.

In the housing 102, a main power supply device PWU, an auxiliary storage portion SHP for storing game medals overflowing from the hopper device HP, and rotating reels R1, R2 facing the reel display window on the front door 101 side. , R3, and a main control unit 400 including an electric circuit board and the like for centrally controlling the entire operation of the slot machine 100.

Here, as shown in the block diagram of FIG. 3, the main control unit 400 is formed by a semiconductor memory or the like in which a system program for managing the entire operation of the slot machine 100 and an execution program for the slot machine game are stored in advance. A main control board 400a having a storage unit MEM and a microprocessor (not shown) that executes these programs.
Further, each of the electric circuit boards on which the main control board 400a is mounted is formed of an electric circuit board, and a sub-control board 400b that performs distributed control according to a command from the main control board 400a, and an image reproduction board 400k, A central display board 1 0 3d and an external concentrated terminal board 600 are provided. Further, the reel reel control unit 400c, the input port 400d, and the input / output ports 400g and 400h are also provided.

In the above configuration, the game is started by operating the bet button BET the player is placed on the operation section 104a (B1, B2)及 beauty start lever ST (300), the stop button at a proper timing SP1, SP2 , SP3 (300) are sequentially operated to start the big hit lottery. These operation contents are taken in via the input port 400d, and a big win lottery process including a lottery is executed by the main control board 400a, and the result is supplied to the central display board 103d and displayed. The central display board 103d performs driving or lighting control of a connected 7-segment LED 500 or a display device such as a lamp under the control of the main control board 400a.

Further, the distribution mechanism G 0 and the hopper device HP is input and output ports 400 g, are connected to the main control board 400a through 400h, is controlled. Further, the sub-control board 400b includes a sound control unit 400i, and a lighting control unit 400 j, speakers SL in the sound control unit 400i, SR, SW is directed lamps 103 a are respectively the illumination control unit 400j It is connected. On the other hand , a production liquid crystal display panel 106 is connected to the image reproduction substrate 400k.

Then, according to the content of the performance control commanded from the main control board 400a in accordance with the progress of the game or the like, the audio controller 400i speaker SL, SR, the control of the sound effects by SW, the illumination control unit 400j may effect lamps 103 a control of illumination effects by the image reproducing substrate 400k controls the effect display by the liquid crystal display panel 106. The control of effect display will be described later.
The spinning reel control unit 400c controls an electric motor (not shown) provided in the spinning reel device 200, and controls rotation, braking, and stopping of the spinning reels R1, R2, and R3.

FIG. 4 shows an exploded perspective view of the spinning reel. Here, among the 3 core Ru reel-reel R1, R2, R3, are shown being extracted only one.
Boss 201 is mounted on the reel reel, the central shaft is rotatably supported by the rotation shaft of the stepping motor 204 mounted on the reel substrate 203. On reel substrate 203, a backlight unit 206 to other sensor 205 for detecting the initial 202 indicating a reference rotational position that is attached to a predetermined position of the reel reel is mounted.
Note that the reel reel, projections or the like indicating a reference rotational position, physical initials 202 is provided, the position is detected by the sensor 205 counts the number of steps by the stepping motor 204 to the origin, the symbol Is to recognize.

FIG. 5 shows an example of stopping the spinning reel described above, and FIG. 6 shows the stop position of the initial 202 at that time.
That is, the symbol of the reel reel R 1 to R 3 is, if stopped, as shown in FIG. 5, the stop position of the initial 202 corresponding to each of the reel-reel R 1 to R 3 are, FIG. 6 (a ) To (c) as shown in FIG. At this time, the position of the sensor 205 is fixed.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart cited for explaining the basic operation of the embodiment of the present invention, and specifically shows the processing procedure of the CPU mounted on the main control board 400a shown in FIG.
In FIG. 7, the player first instructs the start of the game by operating the start lever (S71). Upon receiving this, the CPU 205 detects the initial 202 indicating the reference rotational position, that is, from the built-in random number counter (not shown) when the initial 202 passes the sensor 205 mounting position. A random number is acquired (S73). And an internal lottery process is performed with reference to a lottery table (S74).

8 and 9 are flowcharts showing the detailed procedure of the operation shown in FIG. In FIG. 8, first, the game is started by the player operating the start lever (FIG. 8, S81), and each of the spinning reels R1 to R3 starts rotating.
At this time, a process for determining the rotation order of the spinning reels R1 to R3 is executed (FIG. 9, S92). Specifically, CPU is a random number counter is initialized and is to determine one of the reel reel R 1～R3 the sensor 205 is mounted to detect the position of the initial 205 (S93), the here, It is assumed that a selection is made based on a numerical value set in advance in a time table (not shown) (S94). In addition, you may set at random irrespective of a time table. Further, the random than the self bootable frequency self-start frequency pulses for starting the stepping motors 204 of the reel reel R1-R3, or predetermined numerical value by selecting the reel-reel R1~ a table or the like R3 may be driven.

Following the procedure described above, the rotation of each reel-reel R 1 to R 3 is started (Fig. 8, S82), the detection of the initial 202 by sensor 205 previously selected is executed. Then, the random number value is taken from the random number counter at the detection timing (S83). Then, to detect the reel symbol position, where the reel reel R1~R3 becomes constant rotation, to allow acceptance of the stop button by the player (S86).
FIG. 10 (a) shows an example of changing the start timing when all the reel reels R1 to R3 are started at the same time. FIG. 10 (b) shows each change when the reel reels R1 to R3 are individually started. An example of change in startup timing is displayed in a graph. In both cases, the dotted line indicates a point in time when the initial 202 is detected and constant speed rotation is reached and the player can accept the stop button operation.
If the symbol positions of the spinning reels R1 to R3 have failed to be detected or if the rotation has not been performed at a constant speed, error processing or recovery processing of the spinning reels R1 to R3 , the sensor 205, etc. is executed. (S85).

As described above, the present invention acquires random numbers at the timing when the initial 202 indicating the reference rotation position of the spinning reels R1 to R3 passes the sensor 205 without preparing special hardware or a program. It is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine that makes it difficult to aim at a specific random number and can avoid fraud.
Further, among the plurality pieces is the reel reel R 1 to R 3, it is every game change the reel-reel R 1 to R 3 which captures the signal from the sensor 205, or randomly each activation timing, Alternatively, by selecting based on a numerical value set in advance in the time table, the self-starting frequency pulse of the stepping motor 204 that rotates and drives each of the spinning reels R1 to R3 is set randomly or in advance in the frequency table. The selection based on the numerical value makes it difficult to obtain a specific random number. Furthermore, it is possible to provide a gaming machine that makes it difficult to aim at a specific random number and can avoid illegal acts by changing the mounting position of the sensor 205 that detects the initial 202 for each gaming machine.

It is the front view which showed the external appearance structure of the slot machine. It is sectional drawing which showed the internal structure of the slot machine. It is a block diagram of the configuration of a control system built in the slot machine. It is a disassembled perspective view of a rotating reel. It is a figure which shows an example of the symbol stop of a spinning reel. It is the figure quoted in order to demonstrate the positional relationship of an initial and a sensor at the time of a spinning reel stop. It is a flowchart which shows the basic operation | movement of this invention embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows detailed operation | movement of this invention embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows detailed operation | movement of this invention embodiment. A modification of the start timing of the reel-reel of this embodiment is a diagram graphically displays.

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200 reel reel device 202 initial 203 sensor 400a main control board (CPU)
R1-R3 round drum reel

Claims (4)

A plurality of spinning reels, a plurality of stop buttons for instructing rotation stop of the corresponding spinning reels arranged in parallel with the plurality of spinning reels, and the plurality of spinning cylinders A gaming machine having a start lever for instructing the start of rotation of the reel, and performing an internal lottery of a winning combination by random numbers,
An initial indicating a reference rotation position that is provided on each of the plurality of rotation reels and serves as a reference position for specifying the rotation position of the corresponding rotation reel;
A sensor that is provided on a reel substrate that supports each of the plurality of spinning reels, and that detects a position of the corresponding initial;
A control device that obtains the random number at the timing of passing the sensor ,
The control device includes:
A process that is started by operating the start lever and starts rotating the plurality of spinning reels and a process for drawing the internal lottery, and corresponds to the stop button based on the pressing operation of any one of the stop buttons. The spinning reel is controlled to stop, and the symbols displayed on each spinning reel when all of the plurality of spinning reels are stopped coincide with the winning combination corresponding to the result of the internal lottery. And confirming whether or not the winning combination has been confirmed, every time the game is finished after paying out medals of the number of dividends according to the type of the winning combination,
One of the plurality of spinning reels is determined as one of the spinning reels that captures the signal of the sensor . The controller is
2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the starting timing of each of the spinning reels is selected randomly or based on a numerical value set in advance in a time table. The controller is
2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the self-starting frequency pulse of the stepping motor that rotationally drives each of the plurality of spinning reels is selected randomly or based on a numerical value set in advance in a frequency table. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein a mounting position of a sensor for detecting the initial is variable for each gaming machine.

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