JP5273854B2 - Defender control device for medal pusher game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a falling-to-dealer control device of a token pusher game machine, which enables fine adjustment of a pay-out ratio without being suspected by a player. <P>SOLUTION: A large number of tokens on a game field (11) are pushed to move by a token pusher (12) which moves back and forth in the longitudinal direction, and the tokens made thereby to fall into a token fall-in opening (13) provided on this side of the game field are paid out to the player directly or indirectly, while the tokens made thereby to fall into falling-to-dealer openings (14) provided on both sides of the game field are collected to a token tank in the game machine. The falling-to-dealer control device having this constitution includes: shutters (15) so provided as to shut up the falling-to-dealer openings (14); shutter driving mechanisms (15m) adjusting the opening width and/or opening position in the horizontal direction of the shutters; and an automatic control circuit (6a) of the shutter driving mechanisms. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&amp;INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an improvement in a parental control device for a medal pusher game machine.

A medal pusher game machine that has been widely used in the past is provided with a game field in a casing that is shielded with a transparent acrylic plate or the like so that the inside can be seen by players, and the game field has a flat table and A fixed member provided between the upper surface of the table and a predetermined gap, and a state sandwiched between the table and the fixed member, and reciprocatingly slide back and forth between the retracted position and the pushing position. A flat pusher is provided.
A large number of medals are placed on the flat table upper surface and the pusher upper surface, and new medals are thrown into the game by operating the medal entry device by the player.
The medal placed on the pusher is pushed onto the table by being pushed by the front end edge of the fixing member when the pusher moves toward the rearward retracted position. The medals accumulated on the table are sequentially pushed out by the front end edge of the pusher when the pusher moves toward the forward pushing position, and fall into the drop opening leading from the front end edge of the table to the medal payout storing portion. Is paid out to the player. Other medals fall on the parent dropouts provided on both sides of the table and are collected in a medal tank in the machine.

In such a medal pusher game machine, as one of means for adjusting the payout rate (payout rate) of medals to the player, the hit rate of the slot game performed as a bonus game in the middle of the medal pusher game is changed by software To be done.
However, there is a problem that if the hit rate of the slot game is changed, this is easily noticed by the player, and the player moves away from the noticed game machine.

As another means for adjusting the payout rate, a pin is provided on the table to change the flow of medals, or, for example, as in the device described in Patent Document 1 below, There is a known method of adjusting the level.
However, since the player can see the pin state on the table and the adjustment state of the edge of the fallen mouth, the player will be aware of the setting state, and the player will not be able to attach to the poorly adjusted machine A situation occurs. In addition, there are players who know the setting state and those who do not know, and a difference or an unfair situation occurs between them.

JP 2007-185204 A

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and the object of the present invention is to enable fine adjustment of the payout rate without recognizing the player and to eliminate unfairness among the players. At the same time, it is an object of the present invention to provide a parental control device for a medal pusher game machine capable of easily adjusting a payout rate according to a medal size and a game state without being influenced by a game probability.

The above purpose is provided in front of the game field by pushing a large number of medals placed on the game field (11) by the medal pusher (12) reciprocating back and forth along the upper surface of the game field. The medal dropped to the medal drop opening (13) is paid out directly or indirectly to the player, and dropped to the parent drop opening (14) provided on both sides of the game field. Is a parental control device provided in a medal pusher game machine configured to collect this in a medal tank in the game machine,
A shutter (15) provided so as to block the parent opening (14), a shutter drive mechanism (15m) for adjusting the horizontal opening width and / or position of the shutter, and automatic control of the shutter drive mechanism In the above-mentioned medal pusher game machine parent control device comprising a circuit (6a),
The shutter is constituted by a folding door (15a) that can be opened / closed and folded in an accordion manner by a fold, and the opening width and / or the opening position can be changed by changing the folding amount. This can be achieved by the above-mentioned medal pusher game machine parental control device.

Keep the present invention, the shutter is opened and closed in accordion by folds, is constituted by possible folding doors folding, by changing the folding amount, configured such that the opening width and / or the opening position is changeable .
Furthermore, it is also recommended to provide a cover to hide the shutter from the player's line of sight.

With the configuration as described above, it is possible to automatically and easily finely adjust the opening width and / or opening position of the parent opening without being noticed by the player.
Therefore, it is possible to provide a parental control device that can eliminate unfairness among players and can adjust the payout rate in accordance with the medal size and game state without being affected by the game probability.

The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a state of a game field in which an accordion shutter of a parent control device is provided at a parent outlet of a medal pusher game device, as viewed from the upper front side.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state where the game field is viewed from the upper right in order to show details of the accordion type shutter;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a part of an accordion shutter opening / closing device.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which the accordion shutter shown in FIG. 3 is closed;
5A and 5B are diagrams for explaining the opening and closing operation of the shutter shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, wherein FIG. 5A is a front view, and FIG. 5B is a top view.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a state in which a cover for concealing the parent outlet and the shutter is attached,
FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the cover,
FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of the parental control device according to the present invention.

In these figures, 11 is a game field, 12 is a medal pusher, 13 is a medal drop opening, 14 is a parent drop opening, 15 is a shutter, 15a is an accordion folding door, 15b is a door opening / closing roller, 16 is a cover , 2 Is a medal injection device, 3 is a medal supply device, 4 is a fee collection device, 5 is a display device, 6 is a game calculation control device, 6a is an automatic control circuit of a shutter drive mechanism, 61 is a CPU, 62 is a program memory (storage device) 3) Work RAM, 64 ROM, 65 Clock circuit, 66 Image processing circuit, 67 Sound circuit, 68 Data bus, 69 I / O port, 7 Speaker, M is medal, S is open Width.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, on the game field 11 of the medal pusher game machine, a large number of medals M released from a medal supply device and a medal injection device (see FIG. 8) not shown here. Is scattered.
These medals are pushed and moved by a medal pusher 12 that reciprocates in the front-rear direction along the upper surface of the game field 11, and a part of the medals falls to a medal drop opening 13 provided in front of the game field 11. A medal that has fallen into the medal drop opening 13 is directly or indirectly made by the player.
On the other hand, medals dropped in the parent drop openings 14 provided on both sides of the game field 11 are collected in a medal tank in the game machine.

In the present invention, an accordion-type shutter 15 is provided so as to block the parent drop opening 14, and the opening width and / or opening position of the horizontal opening through which the medal of the shutter 15 passes is automatically adjusted. It has become so.
That is, as will be described later, a shutter drive mechanism ( such as a roller 15b shown in FIGS. 3 to 5 ) that adjusts the opening width and / or position of the shutter 15 in the horizontal direction is provided, and the shutter drive mechanism is automatically controlled. A circuit (an automatic control circuit 6a in the game arithmetic circuit 6 in FIG. 9 ) is provided.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, when the parent opening 14 and the shutter 15 provided on both sides of the game field 11 are visible to the player , a cover 16 is attached to hide the same.

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the shutter 15 and its driving mechanism will be described.
The embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 uses a pair of left and right folding doors 15 a that can be folded in an accordion manner as the shutter 15.
The folding door 15a is configured so that it can be opened / closed and folded in a horizontal direction in an accordion manner by a vertical crease, and is opened by being pulled out from the both ends of the parent outlet 14 to the center by a roller 15b or returned to the center. The width S can be increased or decreased.
Further, the opening position can be changed and adjusted by making the pull-out amounts of the left and right folding doors 15a different from each other.
In the illustrated embodiment, the shutter 15 is provided substantially vertically . However, the shutter 15 is not necessarily provided vertically, and may be provided horizontally , for example.

Next, with reference to FIG. 8 , an embodiment of a circuit configuration of a medal pusher game machine provided with the parental control device according to the present invention will be described.
The game calculation control device 6 performs control necessary for the medal pusher game which is the main game, performs game calculation of a sub game such as a bonus game game generated during the main game, and based on the calculation result, While displaying a game image on the display device 5, normally, based on the game result, a command signal is sent to a medal payout device (not shown in the figure) to pay out a predetermined amount of medals (bonus medals). It has become.
In the illustrated embodiment, the game calculation control device 6 controls the operation of the entire medal pusher game machine including the operations of the medal injection device 2, the medal supply device 3, the fee collection device 4, the medal pusher 12, and the like. The program to be executed is also executed.
Furthermore, in the present invention, the automatic control circuit 6a of the shutter drive mechanism is constructed by the cooperative action of the hardware of the game calculation control device 6 and the game program installed therein according to the progress of the game, The shutter driving mechanism 15m is controlled by the automatic control circuit 6a so that the opening width and / or opening position of the shutter 15 can be changed according to the game situation.

The CPU 61 in the game calculation control device 6 executes a game program recorded in a program memory 62 such as a hard disk drive, and performs calculation processing necessary to advance the game according to the program. In the above embodiment, the program memory 62 is also installed with a game program for changing and controlling the opening width and / or opening position of the shutter 15 according to the game situation.
The work RAM 63 exchanges data necessary for the operation of the CPU 61 and temporarily records and holds data.
In the ROM 64, various data and programs of a relatively small size necessary for backing up the operation of the CPU 61 are recorded in addition to the character data, image data, voice data, etc. displayed on the display device 5 for the bonus game or the like. ing. If the program memory 62 is a large-capacity storage device such as a hard disk drive, character data, image data, etc. may be recorded there.
The clock circuit 65 oscillates clock pulses necessary for the operation of the entire apparatus, and performs time management from the start of the game to game over, other time management necessary for the progress of the game, and the like.

As described above, the game program for the main game and the sub game is installed in the program memory 62.
The CPU 61 calculates and executes the game programs of the main game and the sub game in cooperation with the program memory 62 and the work RAM 63, and displays the calculation results as game images on the display device 5 via the image processing circuit 67. , Configured to progress the game.
That is, in the present invention, the CPU 61 calculates and executes the game program in cooperation with the program memory 62 and the work RAM 63, whereby the automatic control circuit 6a of the shutter drive mechanism is constructed. And / or the opening position change control operation is executed.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and includes all modified embodiments that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art from the above description within the scope of the object.

  Since the present invention is configured as described above, according to the present invention, it becomes possible to automatically and easily finely adjust the opening width and / or the opening position of the parent outlet without being noticed by the player. Therefore, it is possible to provide a parent control device that can eliminate unfairness among players and can adjust the payout rate according to the medal size and game state without being affected by the game probability. The present invention has a great industrial utility value.

An example of a game terminal medal pusher game machine dropped on the dealer control device according to the present invention is provided a front perspective view of the top side. It is the perspective view which looked at the state of the game field of the medal pusher game device which provided the shutter of the parent drop control device concerning the present invention in the parent drop mouth from the upper right. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which an accordion shutter is provided at a parent dropout on both sides of the game field when the state shown in FIG. 2 is viewed from the upper front side. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which the accordion-type shutter shown in FIG. 3 is completely closed. It is explanatory drawing which shows opening and closing operation of an accordion-type shutter. It is a perspective view which shows the state which attached the cover for concealing the parent drop mouth and shutter in the state shown in FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the state which attached the cover different from what was shown in FIG. 6 for concealing the parent drop mouth and shutter in the state shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the circuit structure of the parental control apparatus which concerns on this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Game field 12 Medal pusher 13 Medal drop opening 14 Parent drop 15 Shutter 15a Accordion type folding door 15b Door opening and closing roller 16 Cover 2 Medal injection device 3 Medal supply device 4 Charge collection device 5 Display device 6 Game calculation control device 6a Shutter Driving mechanism automatic control circuit 61 CPU
62 Program memory (storage device)
63 Work RAM
64 ROM
65 Clock circuit 66 Image processing circuit 67 Sound circuit 68 Data bus 69 I / O port 7 Speaker M Medal S Aperture width

Claims (2)

A large number of medals placed on the game field (11) were pushed in front of the game field (11) by being pushed and moved by a medal pusher (12) reciprocating back and forth along the upper surface of the game field. The medal dropped to the medal drop opening (13) is paid directly or indirectly to the player, and the medal dropped to the parent drop opening (14) provided on both sides of the game field is A shutter (15) provided in a medal passage leading to the parent drop opening (14) provided in a medal pusher game machine configured to collect this in a medal tank in the game machine, and a shutter (15) Shutter drive mechanism (15m) that opens and closes and automatic control device (6a) that controls the shutter drive mechanism (15m) In the parent drop control device consisting of,
The shutter (15) is configured by a foldable folding door (15a) that can be opened / closed and folded in an accordion manner by a fold, and the opening width and / or opening position can be changed by changing the folding amount. The above-mentioned medal pusher game machine's parental control device.   2. The parent drop control device for a medal pusher game machine according to claim 1, further comprising a cover (16) for hiding the shutter (15) from the line of sight of the player.

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