JPH04312195A - Device for collecting waste can - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve waste can collection effect by writing a signal in a storage card based on the signal obtained at the time of throwing-in the waste can and executing play such as the matching of drawing patterns, etc. CONSTITUTION:A card reader 59 consisting of a card opening 57 for inserting the storage card, a lamp 58 indicating that the card is being inserted and a display equipment 56 displaying the contents of the card is provided at the right side of a waste can throw-in hole 102. A drawing pattern matching equipment 10 as a playing machine is arranged at the right side of the card reader 59. The drawing pattern matching equipment 10 is provided with display windows 10a-10c and the drawing patterns are fixed and displayed in the respective display windows after being permitted to successively become variable by means of a digital system by a specified algorism when a starting signal indicating that the waste can is thrown-in to the waste can throw-in hole 102 is received. When the drawing patterns fixed and displayed in the drawing pattern matching equipment 10 are coincident with previously set combination condition, the signal corresponding to the condition is written in the storage card when it is discharged.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an empty can collection device equipped with a card reader.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Empty can recovery devices have been provided in order to make effective use of resources. A sticker is affixed to the bottom of the empty can as a can eligible for deposit, and when the empty can is put into an empty can collection device, the empty can is sorted by material and collected, and a predetermined amount of money is paid for the empty can. Coins or lottery supplementary tickets are issued. This kind of system allows us to collect empty cans and make effective use of resources.

0003

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Although the above-mentioned empty can collection device issues auxiliary tickets, it is troublesome for the user to store and manage the auxiliary tickets as they may be lost. Furthermore, in order to increase the effectiveness of empty can collection, it is important that not only adults but also small children cooperate. Therefore, the empty can collection device needs to be designed to be more interesting to children than conventional empty can collection devices. Therefore, the present invention provides such an empty can recovery device.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] An empty can collection device according to claim 1 of the present invention includes a card reader for reading and writing a memory card, and writes a predetermined signal in the memory card based on a signal for inserting an empty can. The gist of this is that Further, the empty can collecting device according to claim 2 includes a card reader that reads and writes a memory card, and a gaming machine, starts the gaming machine based on a signal for inserting an empty can, and operates the gaming machine according to predetermined conditions. , the gist thereof is to write a predetermined signal into the storage card.

[0005]

In the empty can collecting device according to the first aspect of the present invention, when an empty can is inserted into the memory card inserted into the card hole, a predetermined signal corresponding to the empty can is written. Therefore, it is easy for the person putting in empty cans to manage the amount of empty cans put in. Also, claim 2
In the empty can collecting device mentioned above, when an empty can is inserted into a memory card inserted into a card hole, a gaming machine is activated based on the signal, and operates and stops according to a predetermined algorithm. At this time, a signal is written to the memory card according to conditions predetermined by the gaming machine. As described above, the memory card on which a predetermined signal is written is exchanged for a prize at a predetermined store or the like according to the written contents.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Examples of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of the empty can collection device. As shown in FIG. 1, an empty can inlet 102 is provided on the left side.
For example, when the lamp 103 installed at the top of the lamp is green, it indicates that the device can be loaded, and when it is red, it indicates that the device cannot be loaded. When the lamp 103 is green, there is a built-in device in which the empty cans that have been thrown in are sorted by material such as iron or aluminum inside the recovery device, and then crushed by a roll press or the like. That is, according to the empty can processing process shown in FIG.
Empty cans are sorted by material using a sorter using magnets, crushed by a press, and placed in a storage box. Incidentally, in the step, an empty can detector (not shown) is activated for the loaded empty can, and in claim 1, the control device stores information based on the signal as will be described in detail later. A predetermined signal is written on the card, and the storage card is ejected when empty cans are no longer inserted. On the other hand, in the second aspect of the present invention, the control device activates a gaming machine, which will be described in detail later, based on the signal.

On the right side of the empty can slot 102, there is a card reader 59 having a card hole 57 for inserting a memory card M, a lamp 58 for indicating that a card is inserted, and a display 56 for displaying the contents of the memory card M. The storage card M is provided with a strip-shaped magnetic medium or an I
It is printed on C memory or a predetermined code. FIG. 3 shows a conceptual diagram of the card reader 59. In this example, the card reader 59 is for a storage card M using a magnetic medium, and the storage card M is inserted and ejected immediately after the card hole 57 of the storage card M. A drive roller 50 is provided. Further, a pre-detector 52a (photocoupler in this example) that detects the presence or absence of the memory card M immediately before the drive roller 50 is provided.
A similar post-detector 52 for further stopping the storage card M
b is provided. Further, a head 53 for reading and writing the contents of the memory card M is installed at a position facing the drive roller 50.

[0008] On the right side of the card reader 59, a symbol matching device 10 is provided as a gaming machine. This symbol matching device 10 can be configured by matching any number of symbols, but in this example, in order to match three symbols, the display window 10
a, 10b, and 10c, and upon receiving a start signal indicating that an empty can is inserted into the empty can input port 102, as will be described in detail later, a pattern (number, number, (pictures of animals and plants, etc.) are continuously varied digitally and then displayed in a fixed manner. When the symbols fixedly displayed on the symbol matcher 10 match a preset "combination" (condition), a signal is sent to the memory card M when emitting a signal corresponding to the condition. Write.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be explained in more detail with reference to FIG. 4 showing a control block diagram and FIG. 5 showing a control flow. The control device includes an empty can input detector (not shown), a card reader 59, and a pattern matcher 1.
0 are combined as shown in FIG. 4, and controlled according to the flow shown in FIG. The person who puts in the empty can inserts a predetermined memory card M into the card hole 57 of the card reader 59, which can be exchanged for prizes according to the contents written in the contract with a specific store or the like. When the detector 52 of the card reader 59 detects the memory card M, the head 53 reads the contents of the memory card M while driving the drive roller 50 and inserting the memory card M (dashed line shown in the figure). Incidentally, when the leading end of the memory card M is detected by the rear detector 53b, the front drive roller 50a is stopped. The read content N0 of the memory card M is displayed on the display 56, and a lamp 58 is turned on to notify that the memory card M is inserted. Further, a timer t is initialized (t=0) for determining whether or not an empty can is inserted even after a predetermined period of time has elapsed (step 1).

[0010] In the next step 2, it is determined whether or not an empty can has been put in, that is, whether the empty can detector is "ON" or not. If "Y" (YES), proceed to the next step 3; If the answer is "N" (NO), proceed to step 6. In step 3, each display window 10a, 10b, 10 of the symbol combiner 10
The pattern shown in c is continuously variable and fixedly displayed digitally. That is, a variable maintenance time is determined using a random number or the like, and a pattern to be shown after the elapse of that time is displayed in each display window 10a.
, 10b and 10c. Note that in the first aspect, the process of step 3 is not performed and the process proceeds to step 4. In step 4, whether the symbols shown in each of the display windows 10a, 10b, and 10c match a predetermined symbol (do they match the conditions)?
, and determines the number N to be added to the memory card M. For example, when the pattern in one display window matches a predetermined pattern, N is set to 2, when the patterns in two display windows match, N is set to 5, and when the patterns in all display windows match, N is set to 2. For example, N is set to 10 as "special", and on the other hand, when there is no match, N is set to 1 as "unfortunate". Also, for claim 1, the addition number N is 1 empty can.
For example, in the case of an iron can, it is determined to be 1, and in the case of an aluminum can, it is determined to be 2, depending on the material. The process then proceeds to the next step 5, in which the empty can input port 102 (not shown) is enabled to accept empty cans, and the timer t is set to 0, and the process returns to step 2 in order to determine whether or not the next empty can has been input. If no empty can has been inserted in step 2, the process advances to step 6, and in step 6, 1 is added to the timer t. Then, in step 7, it is determined whether an empty can has been put in within a predetermined time t0, and if it is within the predetermined time, the process proceeds to step 2. On the other hand, when the predetermined time has elapsed, it is determined that no empty cans have been inserted, and in step 8 the number N determined in step 4 is added to the memory card M. That is, write the value (N0+N). Then, the drive roller 50 is driven in the reverse direction to eject the storage card M, and the process ends. Further, when the memory card M is no longer detected by the front detector 52a, the drive roller 50 is stopped and the lamp 58 is turned off. Then, when the next storage card M is inserted, the steps 1 to 9 described above are repeated. As mentioned above, the game machine used in the empty can collection device is a pattern matching machine, but it moves sequentially with blinking signals, and after a predetermined period of time determined by random numbers, etc., it is stopped, and the machine is moved to the place where it stopped. On the other hand, it may be a so-called roulette game in which it is determined whether or not a "condition" is met. That is, any gaming machine may be used as long as it increases the points, etc. for the amount of empty cans input when a predetermined condition is met, and increases the amount of empty cans collected by writing on a memory card.

[0011]

[Effects of the Invention] According to the empty can collecting device of the present invention, compared to the conventional method in which coins or lottery auxiliary tickets of a fixed amount are issued for empty cans, it is easier for the person who throws in empty cans because the information is written on a memory card. Easy to manage the amount of empty cans input. Moreover, there is a possibility that the points etc. will further increase by playing a game such as "symbol matching". Therefore, collecting empty cans becomes more interesting and the amount of collected cans increases.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an empty can collection device.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual process diagram showing empty can processing.

FIG. 3 shows a conceptual diagram of a card reader.

FIG. 4 is a control block diagram of the empty can collection device.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flow executed by the control device.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Game machine (symbol matching machine) 57 Card hole 59 Card reader 102 Empty can inlet 103 Lamp M Memory card

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An empty can collection device comprising a card reader for reading and writing a storage card, and writing a predetermined signal to the storage card based on a signal for inserting an empty can. 2. A gaming machine comprising a card reader for reading and writing a memory card, the gaming machine being started based on a signal for inserting an empty can, and a predetermined value being written to the memory card according to predetermined conditions in the gaming machine. An empty can collection device characterized by writing a signal.