JP6416422B2 - Decorative display body and gaming machine having the same - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a decorative display body for decorating the front surface of a gaming machine such as a slot machine or a pachinko machine, and in particular, a character, a figure, a pattern, etc. (hereinafter referred to as “design”) for decoration or display are added with a metallic tone. The present invention relates to a decorative display body that enables decorative expression and a gaming machine including the decorative display body.

A gaming machine (pachinko machine) has a substantially circular game area surrounded by a guide rail on the front surface of a game board, and a predetermined game is performed by driving a game ball into the game area.
In addition, the game board is provided with a decorative display body that allows the symbols to be expressed in three dimensions and enables metallic decoration to be expressed in order to improve the visual presentation of the player.
For example, the decorative display described in Patent Document 1 has a colored transparent ink layer (design layer) formed of colored ink on a light-transmitting base sheet formed of PC (polycarbonate), PET (polyethylene terephthalate), or the like. Mirror surface that is printed and formed on this base sheet and colored transparent ink layer with an ultraviolet curable ink layer to form irregular irregular reflection areas, and metal powder is mixed into the surface on which the ultraviolet curable ink layer is formed. When the decorative display body is viewed from the back surface (reverse printed surface) of the base sheet by overlaying and printing the ink layer, metallic luster and metallic light are formed. I try to bring out a rough feeling.

JP 2004-237478 A

  However, since the decorative display body described in Patent Document 1 is formed by superimposing a mirror-surface ink mixed with metal powder on the surface on which the colored transparent ink layer is printed and formed, it is caused by a mixture of different substances. In particular, when expressing the golden gloss, it is difficult to adjust the color and the gloss is dull as a whole, and it is extremely difficult to express the vivid golden gloss.

  This invention is made | formed in view of this subject, and it aims at providing the decoration display body which realized the favorable metallic-tone decoration expression, and a game machine provided with the same.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a decorative display body for decorating a predetermined part of a gaming machine, having a colorless transparent ink layer on the back surface of a transparent material, and a mirror surface ink layer on the colorless transparent ink layer. And having a colored transparent ink layer overlapping the specular ink layer on the surface of the transparent material.

  With the above-described configuration, the front of the game board can be brilliantly brilliantly expressed, and the player's visual presentation can be improved.

  According to the present invention, since the colored transparent ink layer and the specular ink layer are separated with at least the transparent material as a boundary, it is possible to realize a good metal-like decorative expression always in a stable state.

It is a perspective view of the gaming machine according to the present invention. It is a front view of a game board. It is a front view of a decoration display body. It is the IV-IV line expanded sectional view in FIG.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following embodiments do not limit the invention according to the claims of the present application, and all combinations of features described in the embodiments are not necessarily essential to the solution means of the invention. .

  In the following description, the left-right direction of each part of the gaming machine 1 will be described according to the left-right direction for a person facing the front of the gaming machine 1.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the gaming machine 1 can be opened and closed around a vertical axis by a rectangular frame-shaped outer frame 2 installed in an island facility of a game hall and a left frame portion of the outer frame 2 by a hinge not shown. The inner frame 3 attached to the inner frame 3, the game board 4 shown in FIG. 2 attached to the inner frame 3 and assembled with various elements, and the front side of the game board 4. A glass frame 6 fitted with a glass plate 61 that can be opened and closed around a vertical axis by hinges 5 and 5 so that the player can see through the front of the game board 4, and a prize ball provided on the rear side of the game board 4 A payout device (not shown) capable of paying out game balls such as a ball and a rental ball, an upper tray part 7 for storing game balls to be paid out from the payout device, and a lower portion of the glass frame 6 A game ball formed on the front surface of the game board 4 by introducing a game ball provided on the back side and stored in the upper tray part 7 An unillustrated launching device for launching toward the region 41, a lower saucer portion 8 into which an overflow ball can be introduced when the game ball is full in the upper saucer portion 7, and a lower right front portion of the glass frame 6 A launching handle 9 which is provided when the game ball stored in the upper tray 7 is launched into the game area 41, and speakers 10L, 10R which are provided on the upper part of the glass frame 6 and output sound effects according to the game situation. An illumination device 11 provided on the glass frame 6 for lighting effects that light and flash according to the game situation, and a display device 12 (indicated by a dotted line in FIG. 2) installed on the rear side of the game board 4; A control device (not shown) configured by a microcomputer that is installed on the back side of the game board 1 and controls game progress and game effects is provided.

  The display device 12 is installed on the rear side of the game board 4 and is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display, so that the display device 12 is formed at a substantially central portion of the game area 41 that can be seen by the player through the glass plate 61 of the glass frame 6. Fluctuating the not-illustrated effect symbols composed of various characters, which are information related to the game, and three columns of numbers in the left, middle, and right columns, so as to synchronize with the above-mentioned special symbol variation display and stop display. In addition to the stop display, the game is enhanced by displaying a moving image according to the progress of the game at that time.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the game board 4 is formed in a substantially square shape when viewed from the front by a transparent synthetic resin plate such as acrylic resin, and the front surface is substantially surrounded by an inner guide rail 42 and an outer guide rail 43. A circular game area 41 is formed.

  In the game area 41, a frame-shaped decorative frame 13 that decorates the periphery of the display device 12, a large number of nails 14 and a single windmill 15 that change the flow direction of game balls driven into the game area 41, and a game A stage 16 that introduces a game ball that has entered a warp hole 131 provided on the left side of the decorative frame 13 among the game balls flowing down the area 41 and performs an effect of rolling the game ball in the left-right and front-rear directions. The start winning port 17 where the game ball flowing down the game area 41 and the game ball falling from the front side of the stage 16 can win a prize, and the right area of the game area 41 (the right side of the decoration frame 13). The game state is advantageous to the player from the normal game based on the result of the lottery performed when the game ball passes through the through-chucker 18 through which the game ball can pass and the start winning opening 17 of the game ball. Special An unillustrated attacker capable of changing from a closed state in which the game ball flowing down the right area of the game area 41 cannot enter the grand prize opening to an open state in which it can win the grand prize opening when the game state 41 is shifted to, and a special game When the game state shifts to the specific game state after the state is over, a right-handed game ball can be changed from a closed state in which a prize can not be won to an open state in which a prize can be won, and a game ball that has been driven into the game area 41 Among them, an out port 19 and the like for discharging the out ball that has not won a prize to the back side of the game board 4 are provided.

The game balls stored in the upper tray 7 are launched from the launching device when the launching handle 9 is rotated, and guided to the upper left by the inner and outer guide rails 42, 43. A predetermined game is played by being driven into the game area 41 from the upper left.
The progress of the game is well known and will not be described.

(Example)
As shown in FIG. 2, a synthetic resin transparent plate 20 is provided below the right area of the game area 41 in the game board 4 to block from the front side the movement path of the game balls won by the attacker and electric chew. On the surface of the transparent plate 20, that is, the portion where the game ball does not flow down, a decorative display body 21 printed with a metal-like decorative expression, that is, a pattern A having an oval shine when the gaming machine 1 is viewed from the front side. Is pasted. The decorative display body 21 improves the visual effect of the player by realizing a decorative expression that brightly shines the front of the game board 4 by shining the design A imitating an oval like an oval. .

  As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the decorative display body 21 has a sheet-like or plate-like transparent material 22 formed of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PC (polycarbonate), or the like (the gaming machine 1 is seen from the front side). In this case, a pattern imitating an oval pattern as in the present embodiment is performed by performing thick printing with irregularities on the rear surface 22a using a colorless transparent ink (for example, ultraviolet curable screen ink). A silver transparent ink layer (for example, an ultraviolet curable type) in which a colorless transparent ink layer 23 in the shape of A is printed and further a metal powder such as aluminum powder is mixed on the colorless transparent ink layer 23 in the shape of a pattern A. A mirror-like ink layer 24 that imitates the pattern A is printed by screen ink.

  Further, on the surface of the transparent material 22 (the front surface when the gaming machine 1 is viewed from the front side) 22b and the surface overlapping the silver mirror surface ink layer 24 via the transparent material 22 and the colorless transparent ink layer 23, It is configured by printing and forming a colored transparent ink layer 25 that is shaped like a pattern A with yellow colored transparent ink. In addition, Preferably, in order to protect the said ink layer 25 on the colored transparent ink layer 25, a protective ink is printed and formed or a laminate film is stuck.

  As described above, in the decorative display body 21 of the present embodiment, as viewed from the front side of the gaming machine 1, the pattern A imitating the oval shape by the colorless and transparent ink layer 23 that is thickly printed with unevenness is seen three-dimensionally, Further, the yellow colored transparent ink layer 25 overlaps the silver mirror surface ink layer 24 through the transparent material 22 and the colorless transparent ink layer 23, so that the contrast becomes strong and the pattern A imitating a small size is three-dimensional like a small size. Realize a decorative expression that shines brightly with the expression.

  That is, as in the prior art, for example, the colorless transparent ink layer 23 is printed and formed by thick printing with irregularities formed with a colorless transparent ink on the back of the transparent material 22 in a pattern A, and further, On the colorless and transparent ink layer 23, a mirror surface ink layer 24 is printed and formed with a silver mirror surface ink in accordance with the oval shape, and further, a yellow color transparent ink is superimposed on the oval shape mirror surface ink layer 24 and the color transparent ink layer 25 is overlapped. When the gold oval gloss is expressed by printing, the reflective layer may become cloudy due to the mixture of the substance mixed in the mirror ink and the substance mixed in the colored transparent ink. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to always express a stable golden gloss.

  On the other hand, in this embodiment, the yellow colored transparent ink layer 25 is printed and formed in a form separated from the mirror ink layer 24 with the transparent material 22 and the colorless transparent ink layer 23 as a boundary. Since the phenomenon of color mixing does not occur, it is possible to always obtain a stable golden metallic decoration expression.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the following various modifications and changes can be made to the present embodiment without departing from the gist of the present invention.
The colorless and transparent ink layer 23 is omitted, and the mirror surface ink layer 24 is printed on the back surface of the transparent material 22 with the mirror image ink. The pattern A is printed on the surface of the transparent material 22 with the colored transparent ink. And the colored transparent ink layer 25 which overlaps with the mirror surface ink layer 24 is printed and formed through the transparent material 22. As a result, the colored transparent ink layer 25 and the specular ink layer 24 are printed and formed in a form separated with the transparent material 22 as a boundary, so that the phenomenon of mixing different colored substances does not occur. It is possible to realize a decorative expression of tone.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Game machine 2 Outer frame 3 Inner frame 4 Game board 41 Game area 42 Inner guide rail 43 Outer guide rail 5 Hinge 6 Glass frame 61 Glass plate 7 Upper saucer part 8 Lower saucer part 9 Launch handle 10L, 10R Speaker 11 Illumination device DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 12 Display apparatus 13 Decoration frame 131 Warp hole 14 Nail 15 Windmill 16 Stage 17 Start winning opening 18 Through chucker 19 Out opening 20 Transparent board 21 Decoration display body 22 Transparent material 22a Back surface 22b Surface 23 Colorless transparent ink layer 24 Mirror surface ink layer 25 Color Transparent ink layer A

Claims (1)

In a decorative display body that decorates a predetermined part of a gaming machine,
On the back of the transparent material, it has a colorless transparent ink layer,
On the colorless transparent ink layer, having a mirror ink layer,
A decorative display body having a colored transparent ink layer overlapping the mirror ink layer on a surface of the transparent material.

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