JP5052153B2 - Ball dispenser for gaming machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a ball payout device for a gaming machine in which ball clogging is unlikely to occur and a ball is paid out smoothly.

In a gaming machine such as a pachinko gaming machine that uses a ball as a game medium, a ball payout device that pays out a ball as a prize ball or a rental ball to a tray at the front of the gaming machine is known. FIG. 11 shows a ball dispensing device disclosed in Patent Document 1. In FIG. 11, a ball inlet 7, a storage portion 8, and a basket 10 are provided at the bottom of the tank 2. A ball outlet 9 is provided at the bottom of the housing 8. The accommodating portion 8 accommodates a payout body 11 having a spiral structure. A payout motor 12 is fixed to the outer surface of the tank 2. An output shaft of the dispensing motor 12 is connected to the dispensing body 11. When the dispensing body 11 is rotated in one direction by the dispensing motor 12, the ball is paid out from the tank 2 via the ball inlet 7, the accommodating portion 8 and the ball outlet 9 as indicated by an arrow X2. However, there is a drawback that a large amount of balls concentrate from the tank 2 to the ball inlet 7 and the payout body 11 is overburdened so that ball clogging is likely to occur.
JP-A-8-10415

  The problem to be solved by the invention is that ball clogging is likely to occur.

A ball dispensing device for a gaming machine according to the present invention is a ball dispensing device for a gaming machine comprising a dispensing mechanism at the bottom of the tank, and the bottom surface of the tank has a slope that allows the ball to flow down toward the ball inlet of the dispensing mechanism. When the ball storage chamber of the tank is viewed from above, the front / rear width of the ball storage chamber is directed toward the ball entrance of the payout mechanism. The main feature is that the drawing mechanism is arranged in the portion with the smallest front-rear width, and the ball-cut detecting mechanism is arranged in the portion with the larger front-rear width than the smallest portion . Alternatively, the sensing lever of the ball-cutting detection mechanism may be provided with a protrusion on the part disposed in the ball storage chamber.

In the ball dispensing device for a gaming machine according to the present invention, the front and rear width of the ball storage chamber of the tank is narrowed toward the ball inlet of the dispensing mechanism, so that a large amount of balls flowing down the bottom surface are not concentrated on the ball inlet. The amount of spheres flowing down the bottom surface gradually decreases toward the sphere entrance, so that the payout mechanism is not overburdened and ball clogging hardly occurs, and the payout mechanism can smoothly discharge the sphere. There are advantages . When viewed from above the ball storage chamber of tanks, longitudinal width sphere storage chamber is narrowed stepwise toward the sphere inlet of the dispensing mechanism, the dispensing mechanism is arranged in the smallest portion of the longitudinal width, most If a ball-cut detection mechanism is arranged in the front and rear width part larger than the small part, it is attached to the tank so that the ball-cut detection mechanism does not protrude backward from the tank, or the ball cut detection mechanism is behind the tank. There is an advantage that it can be attached to the tank so as to reduce the size of the protrusion. If the sensing lever of the ball-cutting detection mechanism is provided with a protrusion on the part of the ball storage chamber, the ball that has reached the ball receiving part from the bottom of the tank does not remain on the ball receiving part without holding the ball on the ball receiving part. There is an advantage of better guidance.

  1 to 9 show the best mode for carrying out the invention. FIG. 1 shows a plane of a ball dispensing device 1 of a gaming machine. FIG. 2 shows the ball-cutting detection mechanism 5 in an exploded manner. FIG. 3 shows the tank 2 and the ball-cutting detection mechanism 5 in an exploded manner. FIG. 4 shows the tank 2 to which the ball cutting detection mechanism 5 is attached. FIG. 5 shows the periphery of the ball cutting detection mechanism 5 in the tank 2. FIG. 6 shows the operation of the ball-cut detecting mechanism 5 when the force from the sphere is not acting. FIG. 7 shows the operation of the ball-cutting detection mechanism 5 when a force larger than the weight of the weight 35 is acting from the sphere. FIG. 8 shows a pachinko gaming machine equipped with the ball dispensing device 1. FIG. 9 shows the back of the pachinko gaming machine on which the ball dispensing device 1 is mounted. In this specification, the directions of “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “upper”, and “lower” are viewed from the front side indicated by an arrow S with the gaming machine frame placed in the state of FIG. This is the direction specified when

  With reference to FIG. 1, a ball payout device 1 for a gaming machine will be described. In FIG. 1 a, the ball dispensing device 1 includes a tank 2 including a dispensing mechanism 3, a sampling mechanism 4, a ball cutting detection mechanism 5, and the like. When the extraction mechanism 4 closes the bottom of the tank 2 by a closing operation by a person and the payout mechanism 3 is stopped, a ball called a pachinko ball discharged from the supply mechanism of the gaming machine installation structure is above the tank 2. To the inside of the tank 2 and stored in the tank 2. When the dispensing mechanism 3 is driven in a state where the sphere is stored in the tank 2, the sphere is dispensed outward from the tank 2 or when the extraction mechanism 4 opens the bottom of the tank 2 by an opening operation by a person. Is extracted from the tank 2 to the outside below.

  The tank 2 includes a box-shaped sphere storage chamber that opens upward. The ball storage chamber of the tank 2 has a front and rear width L1 which is a dimension from the front wall of the payout arrangement portion where the payout mechanism 3 is arranged to the rear, and the front wall of the ball detection arrangement portion where the ball cutting detection mechanism 5 is arranged. L1 <L2 <L3, where L2 is the front-rear width that is the dimension from the rear to the rear, and L3 is the front-rear width that is the dimension from the front wall of the other part to the rear. The bottom surface 6 of the tank 2 constitutes a slope that causes the sphere to flow down toward the sphere inlet 7 such that the sphere flows down from left to right as indicated by the arrow X1. The payout mechanism 3 is arranged at the payout arrangement portion where the front-rear width L1 is the smallest, and the ball-cut detection mechanism 5 is arranged at the ball detection arrangement portion where the front-rear width L2 is intermediate. There is an advantage that the sphere flowing down the bottom surface 6 of the tank 2 along the rear wall of the portion is guided obliquely toward the sphere inlet 7 by the sensing lever 19 of the sphere cutting detection mechanism 5. That is, since the front and rear width of the ball storage chamber for storing the ball of the tank 2 is narrowed toward the ball inlet 7 of the dispensing mechanism 3, a large amount of the balls flowing down the bottom surface 6 of the tank 2 concentrate on the ball inlet 7. The amount of the sphere flowing down the bottom surface 6 of the tank 2 gradually decreases toward the sphere inlet 7, the displacing mechanism 3 is not excessively burdened, and the clogging is less likely to occur. There is an advantage that can be paid out smoothly.

  When the ball storage chamber of the tank 2 is viewed from above, the front and rear widths L1 to L3 of the ball storage chamber are narrowed in a stepped manner toward the ball inlet 7 of the dispensing mechanism 3 such that L1 <L2 <L3. Since the payout mechanism 3 is arranged at the smallest part of L1, and the ball-cutting detection mechanism 5 is arranged at the part of the front and rear width L2 larger than the smallest part, the ball-cutting detection mechanism 5 is located behind the tank 2. There is an advantage that it is attached to the tank 2 so as not to protrude, or is attached to the tank 2 so as to reduce the dimension of the ball-cut detecting mechanism 5 protruding backward from the tank 2. In addition, the payout mechanism 3 has a spirally-shaped payout body 11 disposed in the housing portion 8 so as to separate the balls one by one in the front-rear direction, and the outside of the ball storage chamber of the tank 2 so as to drive the payout body 11. Since the payout motor 12 is fixed to the rear wall, the payout motor 12 is arranged at a portion (L1-L3) that is the difference between the front-rear width L1 and the front-rear width L3. There is an advantage that it is attached to the tank 2 so as not to protrude rearward from the tank 2, or is attached to the tank 2 so as to reduce the size of the dispensing motor 12 or the housing 13 protruding rearward from the tank 2. .

  The payout mechanism 3 is provided at the right end of the tank 2 and includes a ball inlet 7, a storage portion 8, a ball outlet 9, a basket 10, a payout body 11, a payout motor 12, and a housing 13. The ball inlet 7 is provided as a through hole in the vertical direction on the bottom surface 6 in the dispensing arrangement portion of the tank 2. The accommodating portion 8 protrudes downward from the bottom surface 6 as a depression downward from the peripheral edge of the ball inlet 7. The ball outlet 9 is formed as a through hole in the vertical direction at the bottom of the front end portion of the housing portion 8. The gutter 10 is located on the bottom surface 6 so as to be positioned immediately above the ball outlet 9 and to block the ball outlet 9. The upper surface of the basket 10 constitutes a slope that allows the sphere to flow down from the front wall of the tank 2 toward the sphere inlet 7. The payout body 11 is housed in the housing portion 8 and has a spiral shape including a payout shaft 14 and a spiral body 15. The payout shaft 14 is configured by a round bar extending linearly in the front-rear direction. The spiral body 15 projects in a spiral shape radially outward from the outer peripheral surface of the payout shaft 14 at intervals that separate the spheres one by one in a direction parallel to the axial center extending in the front-rear direction of the payout shaft 14. The payout motor 12 is housed in a housing 13, and the housing 13 is fixed to the outer surface of the rear wall of the tank 2. The motor case of the dispensing motor 12 is fixed to the tank 2 or the housing 13. A dispensing body 11 is connected to the output shaft of the dispensing motor 12.

  When the dispensing body 11 is driven by the dispensing motor 12 in the circumferential direction of the dispensing shaft 14 in one direction indicated by an arrow W in FIG. 1B, the left portion 8A of the accommodating portion 8 with respect to the dispensing body 11 is the dispensing body. 11 is configured as an extruding side (hereinafter referred to as extruding side portion 8A) that pushes the ball from the bottom of the accommodating portion 8 toward the ball inlet 7, and the right portion 8B of the accommodating portion 8 with respect to the dispensing body 11 is the dispensing body 11 Is configured as a pull-in side (hereinafter referred to as a pull-in side portion 8B) in which the ball is drawn from the ball inlet 7 toward the bottom of the accommodating portion 8. That is, in the extruding side portion 8A, the ball is not easily drawn from the tank 2 into the accommodating portion 8 by the dispensing body 11 driven in the direction indicated by the arrow W. In the pull-in side portion 8B, the ball is easily pulled into the accommodating portion 8 from the tank 2 by the dispensing body 11 driven in the direction indicated by the arrow W.

  Therefore, since the extrusion side portion 8A is arranged on the upstream side and the drawing side portion 8B is arranged on the downstream side with respect to the flow direction of the sphere flowing in the direction indicated by the arrow X1 on the bottom surface 6, the sphere is drawn from the bottom surface 6 Supplying preferentially to the extruding side portion 8A over the side portion 8B, the ball pushed upward without being taken into the dispensing body 11 at the extruding side portion 8A is taken into the dispensing body 11 at the drawing side portion 8B. There is an advantage that the balls are agitated satisfactorily on the dispensing body 11 and the balls are appropriately taken into the space between the accommodating portion 8 and the dispensing body 11. Since the protrusion 36 protrudes above the ball receiving portion 31 on the sensing lever 19 of the ball cutting detection mechanism 5, the ball 36 that has reached the ball receiving portion 31 from the bottom surface 6 of the tank 2 is received by the ball receiving portion 31. There is an advantage that it is guided well toward the ball inlet 7 without being retained in the portion 31.

  As the dispenser 11 is driven, the spiral body 15 separates the spheres taken into the space between the accommodating portion 8 and the dispenser 11 one by one, and after the time indicated by the arrow X2 in FIG. 1, and as the guided ball sinks under the basket 10 and reaches the ball outlet 9, the ball is discharged from the ball outlet 9 to the lower lower part of the tank 2 as indicated by an arrow X 3 in FIG. . In FIG. 1 c, a sphere detector 16 is provided at the sphere outlet 9. The ball detector 16 outputs a ball detection signal for detecting a ball paid out from the ball outlet 9 to a main controller 67 (see FIG. 9) provided on the back surface of the game board.

  The ball-cutting detection mechanism 5 will be described with reference to FIG. The ball-cut detecting mechanism 5 includes a mechanism housing 17, a lever detector 18, and a sensing lever 19. The mechanism housing 17 includes a support portion 20, a shaft 21, an attachment hole 22, and an attachment portion 23. The support portion 20 supports the sensing lever 19 so as to be rotatable in the front-rear direction, and is relatively heeled in the left-right direction and protrudes forward from the upper portion of the mechanism housing 17. The shafts 21 are individually provided in short cylinders so as to be coaxially opposed to the surfaces of the support portion 20 that are opposed to the left and right. The attachment portion 23 is provided as a through hole in the front-rear direction at the lower portion of the mechanism housing 17. The attachment hole 22 is for attaching the lever detector 18 and is provided as a through hole in the front-rear direction in an intermediate portion in the vertical direction of the mechanism housing 17.

  The lever detector 18 includes a recess 25, a light emitting unit 26, a light receiving unit 27, and a mounting foot 28. The concave portion 25 is formed as a groove that is recessed from the front surface of the lever detector 18 to the inside on the rear side and penetrates in the forward and vertical directions. The light emitting unit 26 forms one side of the recess 25. The light receiving unit 27 forms the other side of the recess 25. The mounting foot 28 includes a hook at the tip of an elastic piece individually protruding rearward from the four corners of the rear portion of the lever detector 18.

  The lever detector 18 is attached to the mechanism housing 17 as follows. The mounting feet 28 are inserted into the mounting holes 22 from the front side of the mechanism housing 17, and the hooks of the mounting feet 28 protrude from the mounting holes 22 to the rear side of the mechanism housing 17 and engage with the mechanism housing 17, thereby the lever detector 18. Is attached to the mechanism housing 17 in contact with the front surface of the mechanism housing 17 (see FIG. 3).

  Returning to FIG. 2, the sensing lever 19 is provided with a slant piece portion 30, a ball receiving portion 31, a bearing hole 32, a weight accommodating portion 33, an air escape hole 34, a weight 35, a protrusion 36, and a detected portion 37. The inclined piece 30 projects rearward and upward from the upper part of the sensing lever 19. The ball receiver 31 protrudes forward and downward from the lower part of the sensing lever 19. The bearing hole 32 is provided in the upper part of the oblique piece part 30 as a through-hole to the left-right direction. The weight accommodating portion 33 is provided on the upper portion of the oblique piece portion 30 as a concave portion that is located behind the bearing hole 32 and opens to the left for accommodating the weight 35. The air escape hole 34 is provided in the right wall of the weight accommodating part 33 as a through-hole to the left-right direction. The weight 35 is pushed into the weight housing portion 33 and attached. The weight 35 is composed of one sphere. When the weight 35 is pushed into the weight housing portion 33, air escapes from the inside of the weight housing portion 33 to the outside via the air escape hole 34, so that the weight 35 is easily pushed into the weight housing portion 33. The protrusion 36 protrudes from the lower front surface of the sensing lever 19 to the front side and upward from the upper surface of the ball receiving portion 31. The detected portion 37 protrudes rearward from the rear surface of the sensing lever 19.

  The sensing lever 19 is attached to the mechanism housing 17 as follows. The ball receiving portion 31 is directed downward, the weight accommodating portion 33 is directed upward, the detected portion 37 is directed to the rear side, and the bearing hole 32 is inserted into the gap between the support portions 20 facing the left and right. The shaft 21 and the bearing hole 32 are fitted together. Thus, the sensing lever 19 is attached to the mechanism housing 17 so as to be able to rotate in the front-rear direction about the shaft 21 (see FIG. 3).

  With reference to FIG. 3, a structure in which the ball cutting detection mechanism 5 is attached to the tank 2 will be described. The tank 2 is provided with a detection housing part 39, a detection escape part 40, and a mounting part 41. The detection accommodating portion 39 is configured as a groove that is recessed downward from the upper surface of the rear wall 42 in the rear wall 42 in the ball-cut detection mechanism arrangement portion of the tank 2 and penetrates in the upper direction and the front-rear direction. The detection escape portion 40 is configured in the lower side portion of the detection accommodating portion 39 as a groove that is recessed downward from the upper surface of the lower side portion of the detection accommodating portion 39 and penetrates in the upper direction and the front-rear direction. The mounting portion 41 is provided on the rear wall 42 of the tank 2 in a cylindrical shape that protrudes rearward.

  The mechanism housing 17 is attached to the tank 2 as follows. The ball receiving portion 31 is positioned on the side of the ball storage chamber with respect to the rear wall 42, the mechanism housing 17 is disposed on the rear side with respect to the rear wall 42, and the support portion 20 that is opposed to the rear wall 42 is disposed on the detection accommodating portion 39. The detection unit 37 is disposed in the detection escape unit 40. Thereafter, a set screw 43 such as a tapping screw is fastened to the mounting portion 41 from the rear of the mechanism housing 17 via the mounting portion 23, and the mechanism housing 17 is fixed to the tank 2. As a result, the ball cutting detection mechanism 5 is attached to the tank 2 (see FIGS. 4 and 5).

  As shown in FIG. 5, when the ball cutting detection mechanism 5 is attached to the tank 2, the distance L4 between the support portion 20 and the rear wall 42 arranged in the detection housing portion 39 in the left-right direction is It is set smaller than the dimension L5 in which the bearing hole 32 fits in the left-right direction (L4 <L5). Therefore, the external force is applied to the sensing lever 19 from the direction (left and right direction in the best mode) orthogonal to the direction of operation of the sensing lever 19 with respect to the lever detector 18 (see FIG. 3). Even when the support portion 20 is pushed outward by the sensing lever 19, the support portion 20 is received by the rear wall 42, and the fitting between the shaft 21 and the bearing hole 32 is appropriately released without being released. There is an advantage that the sensing lever 19 is held and appropriately supported by the support portion 20 without falling off the support portion 20.

  With reference to FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, the operation of the ball-cut detecting mechanism 5 attached to the tank 2 will be described. In FIG. 6, when electric power is supplied to the lever detector 18 and the force from the sphere is not acting on the sensing lever 19, the weight housing portion 33 rotates rearward and downward about the shaft 21 due to the weight of the weight 35. The sensing lever 19, the slant piece 30 and the ball receiving portion 31 are rotated upward on the front side about the shaft 21 by the weight of the weight 35, and the front side from the rear wall 42 is received. The detected portion 37 moves in a direction away from the detection light L of the lever detector 18 to the front side. As a result, the lever detector 18 outputs, for example, a ball cutting signal as a signal indicating a decrease in the amount of stored balls to the payout launch control device 68 (see FIG. 9), so that the payout launch control device 68 stops paying off the balls. A ball-off signal is output to a hall computer (not shown) that executes a simple game interruption process and manages the business of the game shop. The hall computer controls the replenishment mechanism. Supply to tank 2.

  In FIG. 7, when electric power is supplied to the lever detector 18 and a force larger than the weight of the weight 35 from the sphere acts on the ball receiving portion 31 downward from above, the weight housing portion 33 is larger than the weight of the weight 35. Rotate forward about the shaft 21 by force and move upward from the upper surface of the mechanism housing 17, and the sensing lever 19, the slant piece portion 30 and the ball receiving portion 31 are centered on the shaft 21 by a force greater than the weight of the weight 35. The ball receiving portion 31 comes into contact with the bottom surface 6 or the rear wall 42 of the tank 2, the detected portion 37 blocks the detection light L of the lever detector 18, and the stored amount of the sphere is, for example, a sphere More than cut. As a result, the lever detector 18 does not issue a ball-cut signal to the payout / release control device 68, and the payout / release control device 68 does not execute a game interruption process for stopping the payout of the ball and manages the business of the game shop. No signal is output to the hall computer outside the figure.

  With reference to FIG. 8, a pachinko gaming machine equipped with the ball dispensing device 1 will be described. The pachinko gaming machine has a form in which a gaming board (not shown) is attached inside the gaming machine frame 51 in a replaceable manner. The gaming machine frame 51 includes a movable frame 53 that can be opened and closed at the front part of the fixed frame 52, and a front door 54 and a dish structure 55 that can be opened and closed at the front part of the movable frame 53. The fixed frame 52 is fixed to the gaming machine installation facility. The gaming machine installation facility is a facility called an island of a gaming store where a pachinko gaming machine is installed. The movable frame 53 is centered on a hinge 56 located on the left side, and can be opened in one side so that it can be opened forward and closed rearward in front of the fixed frame 52. The movable frame 53 is provided with a locking device (not shown), a mechanism for attaching a gaming board (not shown) in a replaceable manner, a ball launching mechanism (not shown), and a ball dispensing device 1. The front door 54 and the dish structure 55 are individually openable so that the front door 54 and the dish structure 55 are opened forward in front of the movable frame 53 and closed rearward, with a hinge (not shown) located on the left side as the center.

  The front door 54 is provided with a window 57 and a front panel 58. The window 57 is configured as a through hole in the front-rear direction. The front panel 58 is configured in a colorless plate shape having light transmissivity made of glass or synthetic resin having a size for closing the window 57 later. The dish structure 55 is disposed below the front door 54. A tray 59 and a ball launching operation mechanism 60 are provided at the front of the dish structure 55. The tray 59 includes a supply port 61, a payout port 62, and a sampling mechanism (not shown).

  In FIG. 8, the movable frame 53 is closed and supported by the fixed frame 52 so that it cannot be opened and closed, the front door 54 and the dish structure 55 are closed and supported by the movable frame 53 so that they cannot be opened and closed, and the player clicks on the tray 59. When a sphere called a sphere is inserted and the sphere launching operation mechanism 60 is operated clockwise, the sphere launching mechanism takes an operation amount of the sphere launching operation mechanism 60 from the tray 59 via the supply port 61 into the sphere launching mechanism. Fire one by one toward the front of the game board with a firing force according to the. When the ball that has reached the front of the game board flows down the front of the game board and wins a winning part on the front of the game board, the payout mechanism 3 of the ball payout device 1 pays the ball as a prize ball to the player. Dispensing from the dispensing outlet 62 to the tray 59 to take out.

  In FIG. 9, the ball outlet 9 of the payout mechanism 3 of the ball payout device 1 is connected to the payout outlet 62 by a payout passage 64. A sampling passage 65 is connected to a ball outlet (not shown) of the sampling mechanism 4 of the ball dispensing device 1. A member for mounting the game board in the movable frame 53 is provided with an escape hole 66 for escaping a rear part of the game board. A main controller 67 is provided on the rear surface of the game board. A payout launch control device 68 and a power supply device 69 are provided on the rear surface of the member on which the game board is mounted in the movable frame 53, and a launch mechanism 70 is provided on the front surface of the member on which the game board is mounted in the movable frame 53.

  In a state where the power supply device 69 is connected to an unillustrated island power supply device provided in the gaming machine installation structure, the power supply device 69 is supplied from the island power supply device when a non-illustrated power switch is turned on by a store clerk in the game store. The 24 volt AC power source is converted into a DC power source of a voltage used in the pachinko machine, and the power source 69 converts the converted DC power source and the 24 volt AC power source not converted into the main controller 67 and the payout launch control device 68. Distribute power to a general control device (not shown), a symbol control device (not shown), a display control device (not shown) and a sound control device (not shown).

  FIG. 10 shows a plan view of a ball dispensing device 1 according to a different embodiment for carrying out the invention. As shown in FIG. 10, the rear wall of the front-rear width L <b> 1 and the rear wall of the front-rear width L <b> 3 in the ball storage chamber of the tank 2 may be connected by an inclined wall 44. In addition to the linear shape as shown by the solid line, the inclined wall 44 is an arc shape that protrudes toward the sphere storage chamber as shown by the virtual line L6, or an arc shape that protrudes toward the rear as shown by the virtual line L7. It may be. In this case, although not shown, the ball-cut detecting mechanism 5 shown in FIG. 1a may be removed or provided on the front wall having the front-rear width L2. When removing the ball-cut detecting mechanism 5 from the tank 2 as described above, the ball-cut detecting mechanism 5 may be provided in a portion around the tank 2 or provided in the gaming machine installation structure.

  In FIG. 1, a ball outlet 9 is formed as a vertical through hole at the bottom of the rear end portion of the accommodating portion 8, and the spiral body 15 of the payout body 11 guides the ball from front to back while separating the balls one by one. It may be. In this case, the rotation direction of the paying body 11 is a direction opposite to the W direction shown in FIG. The ball outlet 9 may be configured as one hole connected to the left and right without being divided into left and right.

  In FIG. 1, the payout mechanism 3 is provided at the left end of the tank 2, and the bottom surface 6 of the tank 2 forms a slope that causes the sphere to flow down toward the sphere inlet 7 such that the sphere flows down from right to left. May be. Also in this case, the spiral body 15 of the paying body 11 may be guided backward from the front while separating the balls one by one.

  In FIG. 8, the gaming machine is not limited to a pachinko gaming machine but may be a slot machine. In other words, the game board is replaced with a symbol display, the ball launch operation mechanism 60 is replaced with a ball take-in operation mechanism, the ball launch mechanism is replaced with a ball take-in mechanism, and the game start operation mechanism and the symbol stop operation mechanism are movable. If it is provided at the front portion of the frame 53, the ball dispensing device 1 can be applied to a slot machine.

  In FIG. 9, the payout launch control device 68 may be configured to be divided into a payout control device that controls the launch mechanism 70 that controls the payout mechanism 3 and a launch control device. In this way, when the payout control device and the launch control device are configured as different structures, the lever detector 18 may output a ball-cut signal to both the payout control device and the launch control device. You may make it output to a launch control apparatus, without outputting to a control apparatus.

FIG. 4A is a plan view of a ball dispensing device for a gaming machine, FIG. b is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A in FIG. a, and FIG. The disassembled perspective view of a ball-cut detection mechanism (best form). The disassembled perspective view of a tank and a ball-cut detection mechanism (best form). The perspective view (best form) of the tank to which the ball-cut detection mechanism is attached. The top view around the ball-cut detection mechanism in a tank (best form). The side view (best form) of the ball-cut detection mechanism in which the ball | bowl does not act. The side view (best form) of the ball-cut detection mechanism with which the ball acted. The perspective view (best form) of the pachinko game machine which mounts the ball dispensing device. The rear view (best form) of the pachinko game machine equipped with the ball payout device. Plan view of a ball dispenser of a gaming machine (different forms) Plan view of a ball dispenser of a gaming machine (conventional)

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1 is a ball dispensing device, 2 is a tank, 3 is a dispensing mechanism, 4 is a sampling mechanism, 5 is a ball cutting detection mechanism, 6 is a bottom surface, 7 is a ball inlet, 8 is a storage portion, 9 is a ball outlet, 10 is a basket, 11 is a dispensing body, 12 is a dispensing motor, 13 is a housing, 14 is a dispensing shaft, 15 is a spiral body, 16 is a ball detector, 17 is a mechanism housing, 18 is a lever detector, 19 is a sensing lever, and 20 is a support. , 21 is a shaft, 22 is a mounting hole, 23 is a mounting portion, 24 is a missing number, 25 is a recess, 26 is a light emitting portion, 27 is a light receiving portion, 28 is a mounting foot, 29 is a missing number, 30 is a slanted portion, 31 is Ball receiving portion, 32 is a bearing hole, 33 is a weight accommodating portion, 34 is an air escape hole, 35 is a weight, 36 is a protrusion, 37 is a detected portion, 38 is a missing number, 39 is a detection accommodating portion, and 40 is a detection escape portion. , 41 is a mounting portion, 42 is a rear wall, 43 is a set screw, 44 is a slant wall, 45 to 50 are missing numbers, 51 is a gaming machine frame, 52 is a fixed frame, 3 is a movable frame, 54 is a front door, 55 is a tray structure, 56 is a hinge, 57 is a window, 58 is a front panel, 59 is a tray, 60 is a ball launching operation mechanism, 61 is a supply port, 62 is a discharge port, 63 is a missing number, 64 is a discharge passage, 65 is a withdrawal passage, 66 is an escape hole, 67 is a main control device, 68 is a discharge firing control device, 69 is a power supply device, and 70 is a launch mechanism.

Claims (2)

In a ball dispensing device of a gaming machine having a dispensing mechanism at the bottom of the tank, and a bottom surface of the tank having a slope that causes the ball to flow down toward the ball inlet of the dispensing mechanism, the width of the ball storage chamber for storing the ball of the tank is When the tank storage chamber is viewed from above, the front and rear width of the storage chamber is reduced in a staircase pattern toward the outlet of the discharge mechanism. A ball payout device for a gaming machine, characterized in that a payout mechanism is arranged at a portion, and a ball-cut detecting mechanism is arranged at a portion having a larger front-rear width than the smallest portion . A ball dispensing device for a gaming machine, wherein the sensing lever of the ball-cutting detection mechanism according to claim 1 is provided with a protrusion at a portion disposed in the ball storage chamber.

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