JP5264339B2 - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide: a return rubber unit with which structure of the return rubber of the game board can easily be changed according to game nature; a game board; and a Pachinko game machine. <P>SOLUTION: The game board 1 is configured such that a return rubber unit 10, which includes a rubber member 11 which bounces game balls discharged in a playfield, a ball receiving member 12 which receives the game balls bounced by the rubber member 11, a mounting plate 13 which is structured integrally with the ball receiving member 12 for mounting the ball receiving member 12, and a cover plate 14 which fixes the rubber member 11 and can be attached to the mounting plate 13, can be attached/detached at the right upper part of a playfield 4. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

The present invention relates to a gaming machine provided with a barb Gomuyuni' bets repel game ball that is fired on the game board of the game area.

As is well known, pachinko gaming machines conventionally known as “Hikoki” or “wings” are provided with a variable winning device consisting of a pair of blades (movable pieces) on a game board, When the game ball wins, the solenoid is operated to open and close the blades of the variable winning device once or twice, and the game ball flowing down the game board is captured and guided into the variable winning device. A specific area called a V zone is provided inside the variable winning device, and a big hit occurs when a winning game ball passes through the specific area.
In the big hit state, as a round operation of one round, the blade is intermittently released by a solenoid operation for a predetermined number of times (for example, 18 times) or continuously until a predetermined number of game balls are detected. Then, the second round is continuously started according to the content of the winning jackpot, and the continuous opening and closing of the blades is further repeated. In the same manner, it is repeated until a predetermined number of rounds (up to 16 rounds depending on the content of the winning jackpot) so that a large number of game balls can be acquired during the jackpot period.

Also, in the pachinko gaming machine, in the normal gaming state, for example, a game ball is launched aiming at the game area on the left side of the game board, and when a predetermined gaming condition is established and the jackpot state is established, the launching handle is There is known a game machine that performs a so-called “right strike” in which a player turns a right ball and launches a game ball aiming at a return rubber provided on the upper right side of the game area.
In Patent Document 1, when a special game state is continuously executed, a game risk is given to the player, the player is given an opportunity to demonstrate the skill, and after the special game is confirmed, the special game continues. A gaming machine is disclosed that facilitates the player's willingness to play.
Further, in Patent Document 2, when a right strike is made, the game ball bounced back with rubber is guided to the wall portion of the guide member located in the vicinity to reduce the ball force, so that the game ball bounced back directly to the game nail Techniques for preventing collision and damage to the same have been disclosed.
JP 2007-252538 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 08-322988

By the way, the gaming machine based on the assumption of “right-handed” like the pachinko gaming machine disclosed in the above-mentioned Patent Document 2 has a possibility that the gaming nail may be damaged when the gaming ball bounced back by the return rubber is received by the gaming nail. For this reason, the guide member is attached to a position facing the return rubber attached to the upper right portion of the game area of the game board. For this reason, for example, if you try to create a gaming machine that assumes “right-handed” and a gaming machine that does not assume “right-handed” using the same game board, There was a problem that the design of the return rubber part of the game board had to be changed.
The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a gaming machine capable of easily changing the structure of the return rubber of the game board in accordance with game characteristics.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and can be realized by the following modes.
That is, the present invention is a gaming machine including a gaming board in which a first rubber member that repels a game ball that has been launched into a gaming area is arranged on the right side of the gaming area. a second rubber member repel fired gaming balls, the and the ball receiving member which receives the bounced gaming balls by the second rubber member, the ball receiving member and is integrally formed, on the game board of the ball receiving member A return rubber unit having an attachment member for attachment and a cover member fixed to the attachment member by fixing the second rubber member , wherein the return rubber unit is located upstream of the first rubber member. Thus, it is configured to be attachable to the upper right portion of the game area.

According to the present invention , the structure of the return rubber of the game board can be easily changed in accordance with the game performance of the game machine .

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a front view showing a gaming board of a pachinko gaming machine to which the present invention is applied.
In the gaming board 1 shown in FIG. 1, a substantially circular gaming area 4 is formed by an outer guide rail 2 and an inner guide rail 3. A game ball launched from a launching device (not shown) located below the game board 1 is discharged into the game area through a game ball introduction path 5 formed by the guide rail 2 and the guide rail 3. At the upper right portion of the guide rail 2, a return rubber unit 10 that repels a game ball launched into the game area 4 along the guide rail 2 is attached.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion surrounded by an alternate long and short dash line circle A in FIG. In FIG. 2, a part is shown by a cutaway cross section for explaining the internal structure of the rubber return unit 10.
The return rubber unit 10 shown in FIG. 2 includes a rubber member 11 that repels a game ball launched into the game area 4 of the game board 1 and a ball receiving member 12 that receives the game ball rebound by the rubber member 11. I have. The ball receiving member 12 is made of, for example, resin or metal. Therefore, in a state where the return rubber unit 10 is attached to the upper right portion of the guide rail 2 of the game board 1, the player performs “right-handed” to turn the launching handle of the launching device (not shown) to the right to launch the game ball. 2, the game ball P collides with the rubber member 11 of the return rubber unit 10. The game ball P that has collided with the rubber member 11 and bounced back collides with the ball receiving member 12 disposed to face the rubber member 11. The ball receiving member 12 reduces the sphere of the game ball P and adjusts the flow direction thereof.
In the approximate center of the game board 1 shown in FIG. 1, a variable winning device 21 that functions as a big winning opening is arranged. A pair of movable pieces 22L and 22R are provided on both sides of the upper portion of the variable winning device 21. The movable pieces 22L and 22R can be changed into a closed state where the game ball is difficult to win and an open state where the game ball is easy to win. It has been. Further, a specific area (V zone) 23 is provided inside the variable winning device 21. In the present embodiment, the shape of the movable piece is a blade shape, but this is merely an example, and a movable piece that is not a blade shape may be used.

A first start port 24 for operating a special symbol (not shown) is disposed in the lower region of the variable winning device 21. Further, a gate 25 for operating a normal symbol (not shown) is disposed in the right region of the variable winning device 21. Below the gate 25, an electric tulip (hereinafter referred to as “electric chew”) 26 that functions as a second starting port for operating a special symbol is disposed.
When the normal symbol stops at a predetermined symbol, the electric chew 26 changes from a closed state where it is difficult to win the game ball to an open state where it is easy to win. A lower large prize opening 27 is disposed below the electric chew 26. The lower prize winning opening 27 is opened when a predetermined jackpot is won.
Further, a normal winning opening 28 is arranged in the lower area on the left side of the game board 1. An out port 29 is disposed at the bottom.
The game nail 30 slows down the falling speed of the game ball and changes the falling direction in a complicated manner to enhance the interest in game progression. In FIG. 1, only the game nail 30 in the upper region of the game area 4 of the game board 1 is shown, and the other game nails are not shown.

Next, the structure of the return rubber unit 10 will be described with reference to FIGS.
3 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the rubber return unit of the present embodiment, FIG. 4 is an exploded view of the rubber return unit of the present embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a game board with the rubber return unit of the present embodiment. It is a perspective view when attached.
The return rubber unit 10 of the present embodiment shown in FIGS. 3 to 5 includes a rubber member 11 that rebounds a game ball launched into the game area 4 of the game board 1, and a game ball rebound by the rubber member 11. The ball receiving member 12 to be received, a mounting plate (mounting member) 13 that is configured integrally with the ball receiving member 12 and is attached to the game board 1, and the rubber member 11 is fixed and attached to the mounting plate 13. A cover plate (cover member) 14.

As shown in FIG. 4, two substantially circular protrusions 14 a are formed on the cover plate 14 in order to fix the rubber member 11. The rubber member 11 is provided with an insertion portion 11a into which the protrusion 14a of the cover plate 14 can be inserted, and the rubber member 11 is attached to the cover plate 14 by inserting the protrusion 14a of the cover plate 14 into the insertion portion 11a. Can do.
The cover plate 14 is provided with a positioning boss member 14b, and the mounting plate 13 is provided with a boss receiving portion 13a for receiving the positioning boss member 14b. A through hole shaped pilot hole is formed at the center of the boss member 14b and the boss receiving portion 13a.
Therefore, when attaching the return rubber unit 10 of the present embodiment to the game board 1, the cover plate 14 is aligned with the positioning boss member 14 b and the boss receiving portion 13 a of the attachment plate 13. The rubber unit 10 can be easily attached to the game board 1 while keeping the rubber member 11 and the ball receiving member 12 in an appropriate positional relationship by screwing the screw 15 from the front side (player side) of FIG. it can.

Next, the gaming operation of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present embodiment will be described.
During the normal game, the player launches a game ball aiming at the game area on the left side of the game board 1. Here, when the game ball wins the first start port 24 located below the variable winning device 21, a winning lottery is performed. When a big win is won in the win lottery, a first big win game is performed in which the open / close door of the lower big prize opening 27 is opened. In the first jackpot game, for example, the period until the open / close door of the lower major prize opening 27 is opened or a predetermined number (for example, nine) of game balls wins in the lower major prize opening 27 is 1 for a certain period. For example, an operation of repeating a round opening operation for 15 rounds is performed.
On the other hand, if the winning lottery when the game ball is won at the first starting port 24 is won, the movable pieces 22L and 22R of the variable winning device 21 are changed to the open state, for example, once for 0.8 seconds. Open and close the game.
When a game ball wins in the variable winning device 21 during the open / close game and the winning game ball passes through the specific area 23, the second jackpot game using the variable winning device 21 is executed. In the second jackpot game, the movable pieces 22L and 22R of the variable winning device 21 are opened and closed, for example, 18 times, or a period until a predetermined number (for example, nine) of game balls wins in the variable winning device 21. For example, the opening / closing operation (intermittent operation) for one round is repeated for 15 rounds.

  After the first or second jackpot game is over, for example, a 100 time-short game is awarded as a bonus game. When the game ball passes through the gate 25 during the short-time game and the normal symbol hits and stops at the symbol, the electric chew 26 as the second starting port is in an open state for a longer time than in the normal game. Even when a game ball wins the electric chew 26, the winning lottery is performed in the same manner as the first start port 24. When a big win is won in the winning lottery, a big win game is executed in which the open / close door of the lower big prize opening 27 is opened. In addition, when winning a small win, an open / close game is executed in which the movable pieces 22L and 22R of the variable winning device 21 are changed to an open state for a time longer than the open / close period of the normal game, for example. When the game ball won in the variable winning device 21 passes through the specific area 23 during the open / close game, for example, the first big hit game using the lower large winning port 27 or the second using the variable winning device 21 is used. One of the jackpot games is executed.

Accordingly, the pachinko gaming machine configured as described above performs “right-handed” during the short-time game and wins a game ball in the variable winning device 21 through the movable piece 22R on the right side of the variable winning device 21. It is said to be a gaming machine that assumes “right-handed” aiming at big hits.
Therefore, in the pachinko gaming machine shown in FIG. 1, the return rubber unit 10 is attached to the upper right side of the gaming board 1. With this configuration, the game ball P bounced off by the rubber member 11 of the return rubber unit 10 when the player performs “right-handed” collides with the ball receiving member 12 disposed opposite to the ball receiving member 12. At 12 the ball is killed. Further, by appropriately adjusting the angle of the ball receiving member 12, the game ball can be guided in the direction of the gate 25 or the movable piece 22R of the variable winning device 21.
Further, since the return rubber unit 10 of the present embodiment is provided with the ball receiving member 12 that receives the game ball P bounced off by the rubber member 11 at a position facing the rubber member 11, the bounce off the rubber member 11. There is an advantage that it is possible to prevent a problem that the game nail 30 of the game board 1 is broken by the game ball P having momentum.

FIG. 6 is a front view showing another configuration example of the game board according to the present embodiment. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the same site | part as the game board shown in FIG. 1, and detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.
The gaming board 40 shown in FIG. 6 is a gaming board of two conventional types of gaming machines. In other words, the pachinko gaming machine equipped with the game board 40 does not have the jackpot function and the short-time game function by lottery, and therefore, the game board 1 shown in FIG. 1 is provided in the game area on the right side of the variable prize device 21. The gate 25, the electric chew 26, and the lower prize winning port 27 that have been set are deleted.
In a pachinko gaming machine equipped with this type of gaming board 40, there is no need to perform “right-handed”, so in the gaming board 40, the return rubber unit attached to the upper right side of the gaming board 1 shown in FIG. 10 is removed. In this case, when the player performs “right-handed”, the game ball collides with the rubber member 6 arranged in advance in the cut portion of the guide rail 2 outside the game board 40, and the game ball bounced back is For example, the game area can be guided to the left side of the game board 40.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the return rubber unit 10 is configured to be detachable on the upper right side of the game area of the game board, so that the game board 1 based on “right-handed” shown in FIG. By attaching the unit, it is possible to guide the game ball in the direction of the gate 25 or the movable piece 22R of the variable winning device 21 without damaging the game nail 30 of the game board 1 when “right-handed” is performed. It becomes possible. On the other hand, in the game board 40 that does not assume “right-handed” shown in FIG. 6, the rubber member 6 formed in advance on the game board 40 can be used as it is by removing the return rubber unit 10. Can be guided to the game area on the left side of the game board 40.
Thus, in this embodiment, the structure of the return rubber of the game board can be easily changed according to the game performance by configuring the return rubber unit 10 to be detachable on the upper right side of the game area of the game boards 1 and 40. It becomes possible.

It is the front view which showed the game board of the pachinko game machine to which this invention is applied. FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion surrounded by a one-dot chain line circle A in FIG. 1. It is the perspective view which showed the structure of the return rubber unit of this Embodiment. It is an exploded view of the return rubber unit of this Embodiment. It is a perspective view when the return rubber unit of this Embodiment is attached to the game board. It is the front view which showed the other structural example of the game board of this Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Game board, 2 ... Guide rail, 3 ... Guide rail, 4 ... Game area, 5 ... Game ball introduction path, 6 ... Rubber member, 10 ... Rubber unit, 11 ... Rubber member, 11a ... Insertion part, 12 ... Ball Receiving member, 13 ... Mounting plate (mounting member), 13a ... Boss receiving portion, 14 ... Cover plate (cover member), 14a ... Projection, 14b ... Boss member, 15 ... Screw, 21 ... Variable winning device, 22L 22R ... Movable 23, specific area, 24 ... first start port, 25 ... gate, 26 ... electric chew, 27 ... Shimodai winning port, 28 ... regular winning port, 29 ... out port, 30 ... game nail, 40 ... game board

Claims (1)

A gaming machine having a gaming board in which a first rubber member that repels a game ball launched into a gaming area is arranged on the right side of the gaming area,
A second rubber member repel game ball that is launched into the game board of the game area, and the ball receiving member which receives the game ball bounced by the second rubber member being configured to the ball receiving member integral with, A return rubber unit having an attachment member for attaching the ball receiving member to the game board, and a cover member that can be attached to the attachment member by fixing the second rubber member ;
The gaming machine, wherein the return rubber unit is configured to be attachable to an upstream side of the first rubber member and on an upper right side of the game area.

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