JPH04367683A - Pinball machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To freely take in and out a cable by forming a recessed part for leading the cable to the surface side from the reverse side of the lower game plate in a part of a sash bar member of the lower game plate. CONSTITUTION:In the lower game plate 20, a through-hole 34 for inserting through a cable 33 is pierced. This through-hole 34 widens the side being near the center of a pinball machine 1 in a tapered shape toward the surface side from the reverse side of the pinball machine 1. On the other hand, in a sash bar member 2Oc a recessed part 35 is formed so as to be connected to the through-hole 34. As shown apparently, although a front of the through-hole 34 in the case the recessed part 35 is not provided is length (a), the front of the through-hole 34 is widened to length (b) by providing the recessed part 35. Also, since one side of the through-hole 34 is formed in a tapered shape, the cable 33 can be drawn out easily to the outside of the pinball machine 1 by a gentle curve. Moreover, the recessed part can be formed in a tapered shape in the same way as the through-hole 34, and also, the recessed part 35 can be formed in the front side (the side for abutting on the front frame 4) of the sash bar member 20c.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improved structure for a pachinko machine.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventional general pachinko machines have a front frame that is hinged to the front of the square outer frame so that it can be opened and closed, and a synthetic resin frame that is fixed to the front frame so as to surround the window hole from the back side. It is composed of an inner frame, a game board removably fitted into the inner frame, and a mechanism plate that overlaps the back side of the game board and is provided with a ball tank, a prize ball release device, etc. A lower game board for providing a firing rail, a foul ball collection gutter, etc. is integrally formed in the middle frame at a position that supports the lower side of the game board. The mechanism board also overlaps and covers the back surface of this lower game board. By the way, in recent years, inter-machine ball rental machines that accept prepaid cards have been installed next to pachinko machines, and the input buttons and balance display of the inter-machine ball rental machines have been placed in a part of the upper ball tray of the pachinko machine. However, plans are underway to electrically connect the input buttons, etc. to the inter-machine ball rental machines using cables.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As mentioned above, in order to connect the input button and balance display section provided on the upper ball tray to the external inter-machine ball lending machine by cable, it is necessary to It is necessary to drill a through hole for the cable to pass through. However, since the back surface of the lower game board is covered with the mechanism board as described above, there is a problem in that it is not possible to secure enough space to make a through hole through which the connector at the end of the cable can pass.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and has a crosspiece member for maintaining the distance from the front frame, and is located below the game board. In a pachinko machine in which a lower game board that receives the lower side of the game board is fixed to the back side of the front frame via the crosspiece member, a part of the crosspiece member of the lower game board is attached from the back side of the lower game board. To provide a pachinko machine in which a recessed cutout for guiding a cable is formed on the front side.

[0005]

[Operation] If it is possible to make a small hole in a part of the back surface of the lower game board, by making the recessed part and the hole continuous as shown in FIGS. 6, 7, and 9, The opening of the through hole can be widened. Therefore, even cables with large connectors can be passed through easily. In addition, if most of the back surface of the lower game board is blocked by the mechanism board as shown by the dashed line in Figure 8, and there is not enough space to drill the above-mentioned through holes, the crosspiece member of the lower game board may be removed. A large recessed part is formed on the front side (the side that contacts the front frame), and the cable can be passed from the back side of the lower game board to the front side using the recessed part.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Examples of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Figure 1 is a front view of the Pachinko machine, Figure 2 is a back view of the Pachinko machine, Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the front frame opened and the mechanism plate further opened, and Figure 4 is the glass door frame and front plate opened. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a part of the Pachinko machine showing the state; FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the main part of the Pachinko machine as seen from the back side; FIG. 6 is a partially sectional plan view of the main part.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the pachinko machine 1 includes a front frame 4 which is hinged to the front of a square outer frame 2 with hinges 3, 3 so as to be openable and closable. A synthetic resin inner frame 6 fixed to surround the window hole 5 from the back side, and the inner frame 6
It consists of a game board 7 which is removably fitted into the game board 7, and a mechanism board 10 which overlaps the back side of the game board 7 and is provided with a ball tank 8, a prize ball release device 9, etc.

A glass door frame 11 is attached to the upper half of the front frame 4, which occupies a little more than half of the window hole 5, so as to be openable and closable. Further, in the remaining lower half of the window hole 5, a front plate 14 is attached which can be opened and closed, and has an upper ball tray 12 on the front side and an automatic batted ball supply device 13 on the back side. The upper ball tray 12 is provided with an input button 16 for inputting a ball lending command or a prepaid card return command to the inter-stand ball lending machine 15, which will be described later, and a balance display section 17 for displaying the remaining amount of the prepaid card. There is. This input button 16 and remaining amount display section 17 are connected to the upper ball tray 1.
2 is connected to a connector 19 via a wiring board 18 (see FIG. 6). The connector 19 passes through the front plate 14 and faces the back side of the front plate 14.

The middle frame 6 is a crosspiece frame 6a, 6a, 6a for maintaining the distance between the front frame 4 and the game board 7 (substantially, the distance between the glass surface of the glass door frame 11 and the game board). It is a gate-shaped combination of A lower game board 20 is integrally molded under the left and right crosspiece frames 6a, 6a via a crosspiece member 20c. The lower game board 20 is fixed at a position where the lower side of the game board 7 is received by the crosspiece member 20c. The lower game board 20 has approximately the same thickness as the game board 7, and the front side and upper side of the synthetic resin part 20a, which is integrally structured with the middle frame 6, is covered with a metal plate 20b.
It is covered with A firing rail 21 and a foul ball collection gutter 22 are fixed to the front side of the lower game board 20. In addition, the crosspiece member 20c referred to in the present invention is the portion from the position where it contacts the front frame 4 to the lower game board 20 (in FIG. 6:
In addition to x), the width of y in FIG.
This concept also includes an area (length z in FIG. 6) extending to the back surface of the .

As shown in FIG. 2, the mechanism board 10 is a well-known device that incorporates parts related to prize ball release and parts related to prize ball processing. The prize ball release related parts are, from top to bottom, a ball tank 8, a lead-out gutter 23 that allows the pachinko balls in the ball tank 8 to flow down, a prize ball release device 9 that receives the supply of pachinko balls from the lead-out gutter 23, and a prize ball discharger 9 that receives the supply of pachinko balls from the lead-out gutter 23. A guide trough 25 leading to the upper spherical plate 12 and the lower spherical plate 24 provided on the lower side of the front frame 4.
and a ball removal gutter 26 for removing pachinko balls from the ball tank 8.
Consists of etc. On the other hand, winning ball processing related components include a winning ball collecting gutter 27 that collects winning balls, and a winning ball processing device 28 that receives winning balls from the winning ball collecting gutter 27 and outputs a winning signal. The prize ball discharging device 9 is a prize ball processing device 28.
The motor 9a is rotated in response to a winning signal from the player, and a predetermined number of pachinko balls are released. In addition, the prize ball release device 9 is
By controlling the rotation speed of the motor 9a, the number of pachinko balls (prize balls) to be released can be adjusted one by one. On the other hand, the entered prize ball processing related parts are divided into two systems in order to correspond to the winning ball receiver 29 which is set to be easy to win in FIG. 1 and the other winning ball receivers 30,
A prize ball discharging device 9 discharges, for example, 7 pachinko balls upon receiving a winning signal corresponding to a winning ball receiver 29 that is likely to win a prize, and 13 pachinko balls when receiving other winning signals.

The mechanism plate 10 is rotatably hinged to one side of the middle frame 6, and has a stopper 3 projecting from the middle frame 6.
1, 31... on the mechanism board 10 side, and are fixed to the back surfaces of the game board 7 and the lower game board 20 so as to overlap.

As shown in FIG. 6, the lower game board 20 is provided with a through hole 34 through which a cable 33 is inserted. The through hole 34 is formed by widening the side of the pachinko machine 1 near the center in a tapered shape from the back side toward the front side of the pachinko machine 1. On the other hand, the crosspiece member 20c has through holes 3
A concave notch 35 is formed so as to be continuous with 4. As is clear from FIG. 6, the frontage of the through hole 34 in the case where the recessed notch 35 is not provided is length a, whereas the frontage of the through hole 34 is length b due to the provision of the recessed notch 35. It is clear that it has spread to Further, by forming one side of the through hole 34 into a tapered shape as described above, the cable 33 can be drawn out of the Pachinko machine 1 with a gentle curve without any force.

Next, as shown by the chain lines in FIGS. 1 and 2, a prepaid card compatible inter-machine ball rental machine 15 installed next to the pachinko machine 1 will be described. The inter-machine ball rental machine 15 has a card reader 36 built into a case body 37, which has a function of reading the amount data of a prepaid card and writing the amount data of the debited card. As mentioned above, since the input button 16 of the inter-machine ball rental machine 15 and the balance display section 17 of the prepaid card are provided on the upper ball tray 12, the cable 33 for electrically connecting these is connected to the lower game board 20. The connector 19 is drawn in through the through hole 34 and the recessed part 35, and further faces the back surface of the front plate 14.
Insert the connector 33a at the end of the cable 33 into the Note that the inter-machine ball rental machine 15 illustrated here does not have the function of directly discharging pachinko balls to the player unlike the conventional type.
In response to a rental ball command from the input button 16, the motor 9a of the prize ball discharging device 9 is operated to directly discharge pachinko balls, which are rental balls, into the upper ball tray 12.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above,
Of course, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the recessed portion 35 may have a tapered shape similar to the through hole 34. Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the recessed notch 35 may be formed on the front side of the crosspiece member 20c (the side that contacts the front frame 4). In this case, the lower game board 20
Since there is no need to provide a through hole 34 in the structure, it is possible to sufficiently cope with the case where the mechanism plate 10 becomes large and extends over the crosspiece member 20c as shown by the dashed line in the figure. Note that since the cable 33 is usually inserted or removed by opening the front frame 4 as shown in FIG.
Even if the gap between the opening and the outer frame 2 is narrow, there is no problem in inserting and removing the cable 33.

[0015] Furthermore, the applicant has already filed a patent application for a technology that facilitates the insertion and removal of the cable 33 by combining the through hole 34 of the lower game board 20 and the recessed part 10a provided in the mechanism board 10. However, that technique may be combined with the present invention as shown in FIG. Moreover, although the case where the concave notch 35 is formed in the crosspiece member 20c on the side of the lower game board 20 has been described so far, the same concave notch 35 can also be formed when the crosspiece member 20c is on the lower side of the lower game board 20. can be formed. Further, as shown in FIG. 10, the recessed part 35 may be provided at the lower corner of the lower game board 20 so as to extend over both the horizontal and lower crosspiece members 20c. Also,
Although the cable 33 that passes through the through hole 34 is drawn out from the inter-stand ball rental machine 15, there is no need to specifically limit the use of the cable 33. For example, a cable may be used to connect decorative lamps to the upper ball tray 12 and a control device attached to the pachinko machine 1, or a card reader may be attached to the upper ball tray 12. It may also be a cable built in the card reader for connecting a control device attached to the pachinko machine 1 and the card reader. In addition, the lower game board 20
In addition to the case where it is fixed to the front frame 4 as an integral part of the middle frame 6,
Only the lower game board 20 may be made independent and fixed to the lower side of the window hole 5.

[0016]

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, in the pachinko machine of the present invention, a part of the crosspiece member of the lower game board is cut out to form a recessed part,
Since the cable is guided using the recessed part, even if most of the back surface of the lower game board is blocked by the mechanism plate, the cable can be taken in and taken out without any inconvenience.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine.

FIG. 2 is a back view of the pachinko machine.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which the front frame is opened and the mechanism plate is further opened.

FIG. 4 is a partial perspective view of the pachinko machine showing a state in which the glass door frame and front plate are opened.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the main parts of a part of the pachinko machine seen from the back side.

FIG. 6 is a partially sectional plan view of the main part.

FIG. 7 is a partially sectional plan view of a main part showing another embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a partially sectional plan view of a main part showing another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a partially sectional plan view of a main part showing another embodiment.

FIG. 10 is an enlarged back view of the main parts of a pachinko machine showing another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1...Pachinko machine 4...Front frame 7…Game board 20…Lower game board 20c…piece member 33...Cable 35...Concave notch

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A lower game board, which has a crosspiece member for maintaining a distance from the front frame, and which is located below the game board and receives the lower side of the game board, is connected to the front via the crosspiece member. A pachinko machine fixed to the back side of a frame, characterized in that a recessed part for guiding a cable from the back side of the lower game board to the front side is formed in a part of the crosspiece member of the lower game board. Machine.