JPH0232910B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a stop control method for a pachinko machine, and in particular, to a pachinko machine that suppresses the error between the set number of stops and the number of balls actually released to a customer at the stop within a specified range. This relates to a stop control method.

Generally, in a pachinko machine, when the number of balls released (the number of balls released to the customer) minus the number of balls entered (the number of balls driven in by the customer) exceeds a preset number of balls, the game is called a stop. This prevents one player from acquiring pachinko balls in an uncontrolled manner.

By the way, it is desirable that the number of balls finally acquired by a player when the game is stopped is as equal as possible for all players. However, according to the conventional method, when a pachinko machine is in a state where the number of balls entered by the customer is greater than the number of balls put out when the customer starts playing, when the pachinko machine reaches the end of play, the customer actually The number of balls to be obtained is the set number of balls to be stopped, plus the difference between the number of balls entered at the start and the number of balls put out at the start, and depends on the state of the number of balls entered and number of balls put out at the start of the game. This will result in an error that greatly exceeds the set number of stops.

In other words, for example, in a pachinko machine where the number of balls set to hit is 3000, if one customer continues to use one pachinko machine from the beginning and reaches the end, the number of balls won by that customer is However, for example, if another customer uses a pachinko machine in which the previous customer has already hit 2,000 balls and reaches the end of the game, the customer who hit the end of the game will receive 5,000 balls. .

Such a situation is not desirable because the set number of withdrawals attempts to equalize the maximum number that each player can obtain.

The present invention determines whether or not a pachinko machine should stop using the actual number of balls released to the player, instead of determining the apparent difference in the number of balls between the number of balls put out and the number of balls entered as in the past. The objective is to provide a highly accurate stopping control method. Therefore, the pachinko machine stopping control method of the present invention includes means for calculating the number of balls played and the number of balls entered for each pachinko machine, a subtraction means for calculating the difference between the numbers of balls, and a subtraction means for calculating the difference between the numbers of balls. In a pachinko machine stopping control method that includes a means for stopping the pachinko machine by comparing the output result, the number of balls, with a preset stopping number, an arbitrary value can be set. In addition to providing a means for maintaining a settable difference ball constant, when the number of balls entered is greater than the number of balls output, and the number of balls exceeded the ball difference constant, the number of balls stopped is substantially the same as the number of balls stopped. A means is provided to determine the total number of balls set and the difference ball constant, and the number of balls that the pachinko machine operator finally obtains at the time of stopping is determined by the sum of the set number to stop and the difference ball constant. It is characterized by being within the range. This will be explained below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure,
1 is a pachinko machine, 2 is a ball output detector, 3 is an incoming ball detector, 4 is a total ball counter, 5 is a ball output buffer, 6
is the total ball counter, 7 is the ball buffer, 8 is the operation console, 9 is the first subtractor, 10 is the second subtractor, 11 is the difference ball detector, 12 is the stop setting number register, 13 is the difference ball 14 is a constant register, 14 is a determination circuit, 15 is a reset determination circuit, and 16 is a third subtracter.

The pachinko machine 1 connected to the control device is equipped with a ball detector 2 and an incoming ball detector 3. The outgoing ball detector 2 detects balls released to a customer, and the incoming ball detector 3 detects balls released to a customer. The balls hit are detected and signals are sent to the total ball counter 4 and total ball counter 6 of the control device, respectively. The total ball counter 4 and the total ball input counter 6 are configured to count all the balls released and received from the start of business, and the ball output detector 2 and the total number of input balls are counted regardless of the status of the pachinko machine 1 and the control device. Counting of signals from the ball detector 3 is not stopped.

At the start of business, the total ball counter 4
The value of the total ball counter 6 is set to zero, and the contents of the ball output buffer 5 and the ball input buffer are also set to zero. However, when a pachinko machine that has previously stopped and is in a stopped state is released from the stopped state by an external operation in response to a stop cancellation instruction from the console 8, for example, The contents of the total ball counter 4 and the total ball input counter 6 are transferred to the ball output buffer 5 and the input ball buffer 7, respectively.

The contents of the total ball counter 4 and the ball buffer 5 are sent to the first subtractor 9. First subtractor 9
is the ball output balance 5 from the contents of the total ball counter 4.
By subtracting the contents of , calculate the number of balls released since the previous cancellation (if there has never been a cancellation, at the start of business). That is, the output of the first subtractor 9 is
It will look like this:

(Total ball counter) - (ball buffer) = Number of balls released between stops The contents of the total ball counter 6 and the ball buffer 7 are sent to the second subtractor 10 . 2nd subtractor 1
0 subtracts the content of the ball incoming buffer 7 from the content of the total ball incoming counter 6, and calculates the number of balls in since the previous stop was canceled (if there has never been a stop, at the start of business). calculate. That is, the output of the second subtractor 10 is as follows.

(Total balls received counter) - (Balls received buffer) = Number of balls received between stops The results obtained by the first subtractor 9 and the second subtractor 10 are sent to the difference ball detector 11 to detect the difference balls. The device 11 performs the following subtraction to detect the difference in the number of balls.

(Number of balls entering between stops) - (Number of balls coming out between stops) = Number of difference balls This difference number of balls is input to the judgment circuit 14, and the judgment circuit 14 determines the following according to the value of the difference number of balls. Performs termination determination processing. First, it is determined whether the difference in the number of balls is positive or negative. Then, when the difference number of balls is a negative value, its contents are compared with the contents of the stop setting number register 12. The discontinuation setting number register 12 stores and holds an arbitrary discontinuation setting number in advance, for example, by setting from the outside. As a result of the comparison, if the difference in the number of balls exceeds the set stop number, a stop signal is output to the pachinko machine 1, and the game is stopped. If the difference in the number of balls is within the set number of balls to stop, the stop signal is not output.

The reset determination circuit 14 first determines whether or not the difference number of balls detected by the difference ball detector 11 is a positive value, that is, whether the number of balls entered between stops is greater than the number of balls output between stops. judge. Then, when the number of difference balls is a positive value, the contents are stored in the difference ball constant register 13.
If the difference in number of balls is large, a difference ball reset signal is output. In the difference ball constant register 13, an arbitrary difference ball constant such as "300" or "500" is set in advance, for example. This ball difference constant can be set or changed to any value at any time during actual service, for example, by operating from the console 8 or the like.

The third subtractor 16 subtracts the difference ball constant, which is the content of the difference ball constant register 13, from the difference ball number, which is the output of the difference ball detector 11, and calculates the reset difference ball number as follows.

(Number of difference balls) - (Difference ball constant) = Number of reset difference balls And this reset difference number of balls is determined by comparing the number of difference balls in the reset judgment circuit 15 with the contents of the difference ball constant register 13. is determined to be large and a difference ball reset signal is output, feedback is provided to the incoming ball buffer 7,
The reset difference number of balls is added to the contents of the ball buffer 7 up to that point.

As described above, when the number of positive differential balls exceeds the predetermined value indicated by the differential ball constant, the excess amount is fed back to the input buffer 7, so that the number of positive differential balls is always maintained. This will keep it below a constant value.

The above results will be explained in comparison with the conventional method as follows. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an example of termination according to the conventional method, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an example of termination according to the present invention.

In FIG. 2, it is assumed that the set number of balls to be stopped a is 3000 balls. According to the conventional method, for example, if the previous customer continues to lose and the total difference in number of balls is b (for example, 5000 balls), and the pachinko parlor is in a positive position, a new customer replaces the pachinko parlor. If he continues to win after that and is finally stopped, the new customer will end up getting 8,000 balls, which will significantly exceed the set number of hits.

According to the method using the present invention, in the same case as shown in FIG. 2, the number of balls released at the time of stopping is always kept within the range of the difference ball constant from the set number of balls, as shown in FIG. 3. become. That is, for example, it is assumed that the set number of balls to be hit a is set in advance to be 3000 balls, and the difference ball constant c is set to be 500 balls. For example, let's assume that the previous customer continues to lose a total of 5,000 balls, as in the case shown in Figure 2. However, at the stage when the difference ball constant is exceeded, the excess amount is fed back, so that the amount exceeding the difference ball constant is not counted. Therefore, even if another customer continues to win at the same pachinko machine, the number of balls released until the negative difference in the number of balls reaches the set number of balls to stop, which is 3000 balls, will be 3,500 balls, and the number of balls released by the customer at the time of stopping is 3,500 balls. The maximum number of balls acquired will not exceed 3500 balls.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the reset difference number of balls is fed back to the incoming ball buffer 7 and added to the contents of the incoming ball buffer 7, but this is not necessarily the case. For example, Needless to say, it may be fed back to the ball output buffer 5 and subtracted from the contents of the ball output buffer 5.

As explained above, according to the present invention, it is possible to suppress the error between the set number of balls to be hit and the number of balls released to the customer at the time of actual hitting within a predetermined range, thereby improving the actual hitting accuracy. be able to. Therefore, the limited number of balls released in the entire pachinko parlor can be distributed equally to more machines without being biased towards some pachinko machines. Further, since the difference ball constant can be arbitrarily changed from an operation console or the like depending on the situation, more flexible and fine-grained stopping control is possible. For example, by setting a large ball difference constant for a customer who continues to lose,
It is possible to achieve an appropriate number of balls acquired in total. Also, when a player moves to another machine, the difference ball constant is set to "0" and then reset to a predetermined value, so that the number of losses of the previous player is transferred to the next player. You can also do things that will definitely prevent you from getting it.

Generally, for example, in a pachinko machine where the number of balls set to hit is 3000, a customer first hits 200 balls and loses, and then the same customer continues to win at the same pachinko machine and hits the ball, then that customer will win 3200 balls. It is normal to want to do so. However, if the ball difference constant is set to zero, it will not be possible to acquire more than 3000 balls under any circumstances, which may cause customer dissatisfaction. This problem can be solved by setting the difference ball constant to, for example, 500 balls, allowing the customer to obtain 3,200 balls. On the other hand, in this case, for example, even if one player continues to lose more than 500 balls in total at one pachinko machine, it is generally not the case that the player stays fixed on the same pachinko machine. It can be said that there is no need to guarantee the number of balls released over 3500 balls. The above is an example of setting the difference ball constant, and in this way, the difference ball constant allows adjustment to satisfy both the player and the pachinko parlor.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an example of termination according to the conventional method, and FIG. 3 is an illustration of an example of termination according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a pachinko machine, 2 is a ball detector, 3 is a ball detector, 4 is a total ball counter, 5 is a ball buffer, 6 is a total ball counter, 7 is a ball buffer,
8 is a console, 9 is a first subtractor, 10 is a second subtractor, 11 is a difference ball detector, 12 is a stop setting number register, 13 is a difference ball constant register, 14 is a judgment circuit,
15 represents a reset determination circuit, and 16 represents a third subtracter.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Means for counting the number of balls played and the number of balls entered for each pachinko machine, a subtraction means for calculating the difference between the numbers of balls, and a difference ball which is the output result of the subtraction means. In a pachinko machine stop control method, the pachinko machine has a means for stopping the pachinko machine by comparing the number with a preset stop setting number, and an arbitrary value can be set at any time by setting from the outside. In addition to providing a means for maintaining a differential ball constant that can be set to A means is provided for determining the total number of balls set to stop and the above ball difference constant, and the number of balls that the pachinko machine operator finally obtains at the time of stopping is determined by the sum of the set number of balls to stop and the ball difference constant. A stop control method for a pachinko machine, characterized in that the stopping control method is within the range of .