JP5463465B2 - Moving decoration equipment for gaming machines - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile decoration device used for decoration of a front door of a gaming machine or a center accessory.

  In the center of the game area of the pachinko machine, a center role covering the periphery of the liquid crystal display device is disposed, and this center role has a moving decoration device for exciting the game. As a conventional mobile decoration device, one disclosed in Patent Document 1 is known. The device described in Patent Document 1 has a configuration in which a long movable decorative body accommodated in a storage chamber in a curved state is projected from an entrance while being extended when a special game state such as a jackpot is achieved. Yes.

  However, one end of this moving decorative body is fixed to the operating arm inside the storage chamber, and the moving decorative body always advances and retreats from the same entrance / exit. It was not satisfactory enough.

JP 2003-79828 A

  In view of the above-described conventional problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a moving decoration device for a gaming machine that can produce a special aspect unprecedented and excite the fun of the game.

A moving decoration device for a gaming machine according to the present invention, which has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, is a gaming machine equipped with a long moving decoration body, a storage room for the moving decoration body, and a driving means for the moving decoration body. A mobile decoration device,
The storage chamber and the driving means are arranged on the left and right sides of the front of the gaming machine, and the moving decoration body is connected to the left and right driving means at the same time by the two driving means. It is possible to move from one side to the other side. In the present specification, the term “move” means that, in particular, a moving decorative body that is engaged with the driving means on one side and not engaged with the driving means on the other side is transferred to drive on one side. It means that the engagement with the means is released and the state shifts to a state of engaging with the driving means on the other side.

  In the above-described invention, the moving decorative body is bent upward, assuming that a large number of connecting members having a vertical flat surface and an upper arc portion are connected and bent upward but not downward. The accommodated moving decorative body can be extended straight when moving, and the open space can be moved from one accommodation chamber to the other accommodation chamber by the driving means, and the left and right accommodation chambers are communicated by a transfer passage. The moving decorative body can be moved in the closed space from one storage chamber to the other storage chamber by the driving means.

  In addition, the accommodation passage of the moving decoration body is formed in a spiral shape in the accommodation chamber, and the moving decoration body can be wound and accommodated in this accommodation passage, and a communication passage connecting the two accommodation chambers is provided, The moving decorative body can be circulated and moved from one storage chamber to the other storage chamber through the communication passage, and the moving decorative body is reciprocated from one side of the gaming machine to the other side by reversing the driving means. Can be moved.

  In the moving decoration device of the present invention, since the moving decoration body has a length for simultaneously engaging the left and right driving means, one driving means pulls out the moving decoration body from the storage chamber and jumps into the other storage chamber and then the other. Can be engaged with the driving means. Thereafter, the other driving means pulls in the moving decorative body, so that the moving decorative body can be smoothly moved, and the game mode can be changed to excite the excitement.

  When the moving decorative body is connected to a large number of connecting members each having a vertical flat surface and an upper arc portion, and is bent upward but not downward, one driving means The movable decorative body accommodated by being bent can be drawn straight out during movement, and then jumped into the other storage chamber. Therefore, since there is no need to provide a communication passage for transferring the moving decoration device between the two storage chambers, an unprecedented decoration mode can be provided.

  When the mobile decorative body is wound and accommodated in the accommodation room, the length of the accommodation room can be shortened. When two storage chambers are connected by a communication passage, the moving decorative body can circulate and move from one storage chamber to the other storage chamber, and when the driving means is reversed, The body can be reciprocated between the two storage chambers.

It is a front view of the movement decoration apparatus with which the movement decoration body was accommodated in the storage chamber. It is a perspective view of the back of a movement decoration apparatus. It is an enlarged view of a storage chamber. It is a perspective view of a moving decoration body. It is (a) perspective view, (b) front view, (c) top view, and (d) side view of a connecting member. It is (a) perspective view, (b) top view, and (c) side view of one head member. It is (a) perspective view, (b) top view, and (c) side view of the other leading member. It is a front view of the movement decoration apparatus whose movement decoration body is the movement initial stage. It is a front view of the movement decoration apparatus which a movement decoration body is moving. It is a front view of the movement decoration apparatus whose movement decoration body is the latter stage of movement. It is a front view of the movement decoration apparatus which the movement decoration body completed the movement. It is a front view of the movement decoration apparatus which enabled the movement decoration body to go around in one direction. It is a flowchart for moving a moving decoration. It is a front view of the movement decoration apparatus which connected the storage chamber by the transfer passage.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described.
1-3 is a figure which shows the movement decoration apparatus of this invention, Comprising: This movement decoration apparatus can be arrange | positioned at the front door of a game machine, or a center accessory. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a frame, and for example, a display screen of a center accessory is fitted into the central window 11. On the left and right sides of the frame body 1, the accommodating chambers 2 for moving decoration bodies are arranged opposite to each other. In the front view 1, the right storage chamber is referred to as a storage chamber 2A, and the left storage chamber is referred to as a storage chamber 2B. Reference numeral 3 denotes a moving decorative body, and 4 denotes a driving means, that is, a motor, for the moving decorative body 3. The front motor in FIG. 1 is referred to as a motor 4A, and the left motor is referred to as a motor 4B.

  The storage chamber 2 is provided with a spiral storage passage 21 and an entrance / exit 22. The entrance / exit 22 is wider than the storage passage 21 and is smoothly connected to the storage passage 21. In addition, the storage passage 21 is formed smoothly without a step. The moving decorative body 3 is housed in the housing passage 21 while being bent in a spiral shape. In addition, it can also be accommodated by bending upward from the side. The driving means 4 includes a sprocket 41, and a concave portion 42 on the outer periphery of the sprocket 41 is engaged with the moving decorative body 3 to move the moving decorative body 3. A sensor 8a such as a photosensor is disposed at the entrance / exit 22 of the storage chamber 2A, and a sensor 8b is disposed at the entrance / exit 22 of the storage chamber 2B. Further, an origin X for position detection is provided on the front end side of the moving decorative body 3 by a slit or the like, and an origin Y is provided on the rear end side. As described above, the moving decorative body 3 can be engaged / disengaged with the driving means 4.

  The structure of the moving decorative body 3 will be described with reference to FIGS. The moving decorative body 3 has a chain structure and includes a large number of connecting members 5 and leading members 6 and 7 at both ends (FIG. 4). The connecting member 5 includes an engaging portion 51 into which the sprocket 41 is engaged, an outer plate 52 extending from the engaging portion 51 in one direction, and an inner plate 53 extending in the opposite direction (FIG. 5). The upper part of the engaging part 51 is formed in a round shape on the cylindrical surface 511, and the concave part 42 of the sprocket 41 is engaged with the cylindrical surface 511. Further, the cylindrical surface 511 has side surfaces 54 at both ends, and a vertical flat surface 541 and an arc portion 542 thereabove are formed on one side of the side surface 54. A vertical wall surface (flat surface) 512 is formed between the side surfaces 54 and 54.

  A protrusion 531 is provided on the outer side of the inner plate 53, and a flat surface 532 perpendicular to one side and an arc portion 533 above the flat surface 532 are formed. The outer plate 52 is provided with a hole 521 into which the protrusion 531 is fitted, and a flat surface 522 perpendicular to one side and an arc portion 524 above the flat surface 522 are formed.

  One leading member 6 shown in FIG. 6 has a head 61 formed in a quadrangular pyramid shape instead of the outer plate 52. Other structures are the same as those of the connecting member 5. The other leading member 7 shown in FIG. 7 has a head 71 formed in a quadrangular pyramid shape in place of the inner plate 53. Other structures are the same as those of the connecting member 5. The heads 61 and 71 are formed to be tapered in order to facilitate jumping into the entrance / exit 22 of the storage chamber 2.

  The connecting member 5 can be connected in a chain shape as shown in FIG. 4 by fitting the protrusion 531 of the inner plate 53 into the hole 521 of the outer plate 52. In the state shown in FIG. 8 where the movable decorative body 3 is pulled out from the storage chamber 2A, the flat surface 522 of the outer plate 52 abuts on the flat surface 541 of the adjacent connecting member 5, and the flat surface 532 of the inner plate 53 is Since it is in contact with the vertical wall surface 512 of the adjacent connecting member 5, the moving decorative body 3 cannot be bent downward, and a substantially horizontal linear state is maintained. On the other hand, since the outer plate 52 has an arc portion 524 and the inner plate 53 has an arc portion 533, the flat surface 541 slides on the arc portion 524, and the vertical wall surface 512 slides on the arc portion 533. The body 3 can bend upward. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3, the moving decorative body 3 can be wound in a spiral shape or bent at a substantially right angle. Note that the movable decorative body 3 cannot be bent in the front-rear direction of the gaming machine because the inner plate 53 is sandwiched between the outer plates 52.

  As described above, the long movable decorative body 3 is composed of multiple joints, and has a bendable direction and a non-bendable direction. When moving to the left and right of the gaming machine, it moves in a stretched state with the non-bending direction on the bottom. The length is a length that can be simultaneously engaged with one drive means 4A and the other drive means 4B.

  The material of the moving decorative body 3 and the storage chamber 2 is a resin, and among them, a material having particularly good slidability, for example, polyacetal (POM), polyamide (PA), nylon (Ny), polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) ) And the like can be used. In addition, it is desirable that the moving decorative body 3 and the storage chamber 2 are made of different materials from the viewpoint of slidability.

  In the structure configured as described above, the moving decoration body 3 is accommodated in the accommodation chamber 2A as shown in FIG. 1 in a normal gaming state, for example. When a special game state such as a jackpot is reached, the moving decoration body 3 moves in front of the gaming machine or in front of the display screen of the accessory.

  The operation of the mobile decoration device is performed by a computer (not shown), for example, according to a flow as shown in FIG. That is, in the initial state shown in FIG. 1, the sensor 8a detects the origin X and confirms that the position of the moving decorative body 3 is normal (S1). The motor 4A is driven to start the movement decoration body 3 (S2, FIG. 8), and is rotated by a predetermined step (S3). At this time, the motor 4A is accelerated at a constant acceleration.

  When the motor 4A rotates by a predetermined step and the moving decorative body 3 moves a required distance and the sensor 8b detects the origin X (S4), the moving decorative body 3 is normally accommodated as shown in FIG. Since it jumps into the chamber 2B, the motor 4A is stopped and the motor 4B is driven (S6). The moving decorative body 3 is wound in a spiral shape as shown in FIG. 11 and stored in the storage chamber 2B through the state shown in FIG. When the sensor 8b detects the origin Y at the rear end of the moving decorative body 3 (S7), the motor 4B is stopped because the movement is completed (S8). The movement operation from the storage chamber 4A to the storage chamber 4B is completed by the operation as described above. Once the movement is completed, if the driving means 4 is reversed, the movable decorative body 3 can be moved to the original storage chamber 2A. Therefore, the moving decoration body 3 can be reciprocated in front of the display screen to greatly excite the fun of the game.

  If the sensor 8b does not detect the origin X even after a predetermined time has elapsed after the motor 4A is driven, an abnormality has occurred in which the leading member 6 has been detached from the doorway 22; Reverse rotation (S5). Then, when the sensor 8a detects the origin X, the process returns to step S1. As a result, the trouble can be solved, and the moving operation can be performed again from the beginning. In order to prevent the moving decoration body 3 from warping upward, it is effective to make the leading members 6 and 7 heavy or to fix a weight.

  The above shows the case where the entrances 22 and 22 of the storage chambers 2A and 2B are open spaces that are not communicated with each other, but as shown in FIG. The moving decorative body 3 can also be moved in the closed space. In this case, as the moving decorative body 3, not only one that does not bend downward but also one that is bent downward can be used.

  In addition, as shown in FIG. 12, the accommodation chamber 2 is provided with an accommodation passage 21 that communicates with the doorway 22 and curves in a U shape from the horizontal. By providing the communication guide 23 that connects 21, the movable decorative body 3 can be circulated in one clockwise direction, for example. By reversing the driving means 4, the traveling direction can be reversed. It is necessary to arrange the driving means 4 so that the moving decorative body 3 is always engaged with at least one driving means 4.

  1 frame body, 2, 2A, 2B accommodation chamber, 3 moving decoration body, 4, 4A, 4B driving means,

Claims (6)

A mobile decoration device for a gaming machine comprising a long mobile decoration body, a storage room for the mobile decoration body, and a driving means for the mobile decoration body,
The storage chamber and the driving means are arranged on the left and right sides of the front of the gaming machine, and the moving decoration body is connected to the left and right driving means at the same time by the two driving means. A moving decoration device for a gaming machine, which is movable from one side to the other side.   The moving decoration is accommodated by being bent upward and accommodated as a moving decoration body, in which a large number of connecting members having a vertical flat surface and an upper arc portion are connected and bent upward but not downward. The moving decoration device for a gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the body is stretched straight when moving, and the open space is moved from one storage chamber to the other storage chamber by the driving means.   2. The moving decoration device for a gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the left and right storage chambers are communicated with each other by a transfer passage, and the moving decorative body is moved in the closed space from one storage chamber to the other storage chamber by a driving means. .   The moving decoration device for a gaming machine according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the accommodating passage of the moving ornament is formed in a spiral shape in the accommodating chamber, and the moving ornament is wound and accommodated in the accommodating passage.   The moving decoration of the gaming machine according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a communication passage connecting the two storage chambers is provided, and the moving decorative body is circulated and moved from one storage chamber to the other storage chamber through the communication passage. apparatus.   The moving decoration device for a gaming machine according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein the driving means is reversely moved so that the moving decorative body is reciprocated from one side of the gaming machine to the other side.

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