JPH0525659Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] <Industrial field of application> This invention has an opening/closing door pivoted to the ball passage hole of the board that rotates by the weight of the ball, and an electrically driven door attached to the side of the ball passage hole. A ball hit by a pachinko machine in which a movable piece is pivotably attached to a movable piece that can be converted into a first state in which the ball is not guided toward the opening/closing door and a second state in which the ball is guided toward the opening/closing door by driving of a power source. This relates to a winning device.

<Conventional technology> A door plate is pivoted to the ball passage hole provided in the circuit board so that it can be opened and closed, and the door plate blocks the ball passage hole and prevents batted balls from hitting the prize, and the other is that the door plate is tilted forward to close the ball passage hole. For example, there is a winning device for a pachinko machine that opens the door plate and converts the hit ball received by the door plate into a state where it enters the winning hole through the ball passage hole, as described in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 57-24381.

<Problems to be Solved by the Invention> However, the above-described winning device merely changes the state of not accepting a batted ball and the state of easily accepting a batted ball depending on the state of the door plate, and is lacking in change.

<Means for solving the problem> The present invention was proposed in view of the above. A ball passage hole is provided in the board attached to the surface of the game board, and the ball is placed in the ball passage hole when the ball normally falls forward. Rotate the opening/closing door that can be converted into a first state in which the passage opening is opened and the batted ball is guided to the ball passage opening, and a second state in which the ball stands up due to the weight of the batted ball received in the first state and blocks the ball passage opening. A movable piece is mounted on the side of the ball passageway and can be converted into a first state in which the ball is not guided toward the opening/closing door and a second state in which the batted ball is guided toward the opening/closing door. It is rotatably mounted on a shaft, and the movable piece is connected to an electric drive source provided on the back side of the board.

<Function> Since the opening/closing door is normally tilted forward, it is possible to receive the falling batted ball and guide it to the ball passage opening, thereby making it possible to win a prize. When a batted ball enters the ball passage opening, the opening/closing door is rotated by the weight of the batted ball, and the opening/closing door is temporarily closed. Therefore, even if a batted ball flows down toward the ball passage hole in this state, the ball flows down in front of the ball passage hole and does not enter the ball passage hole. When the movable piece is stopped in the first state, only the batted ball that falls directly onto the opening/closing door enters the ball passageway, but when the movable piece changes to the second state by the operation of the electric drive source, the movable piece guides the batted ball towards the opening/closing door. Therefore, when converted to this state, the winning rate of batted balls increases rapidly.

However, since the opening/closing door rotates independently of the movable piece due to the weight of the ball that enters the ball passage opening, just because the movable piece has changed to the second state, the ball received by the movable piece does not necessarily reflect the ball. The winning rate of the batted ball varies greatly depending on the combination of the state of the opening/closing door and the state of the movable piece, rather than winning the ball through the passageway.

<Example> Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

A game board 1 shown in FIG. 1 is a so-called first type pachinko machine, and a game section 3 surrounded by a guide rail 2 is formed on the surface of the game board 1.
A center accessory 6 that integrates the auxiliary game device 4 and the ball winning device 5 according to the present invention is arranged approximately in the center of the center, and below the center accessory 6 is a first starting port 7 and a second starting port 8. , a third starting port 9 is provided. The center accessory 6 has a first window part 11a and a second window part 11b formed in the upper half of the board 10 to be attached to the surface of the game board 1, with the first window part 11a and the second window part 11b protruding from the surface of the board 10. A conversion display mechanism 12 is provided on the back side to constitute an auxiliary game device 4, and a board 10
A horizontally long ball passage hole 13 is provided in the lower half, and a horizontally long opening/closing door 14 is rotatably attached to the ball passage hole 13 by a support shaft 15. , 16 are rotatably mounted on shafts 17, 17 to constitute the batted ball winning device 5.

The conversion display mechanism 12 shown in the drawing includes a support disk 1
A plurality of display plates 19 with numbers, designs, etc. written between them are rotatably supported, and this support disk 18 is intermittently rotated by the drive of a motor 20 and an intermittent gear mechanism 21 to open the first window portion 11a. Numbers, patterns, etc. are displayed in high-speed conversion in the second window 11b, and the position of the stopped support disk 18 is detected by the stop position detector 2 of each unit.
2 and 22 for detection.

The opening/closing door 14 of the batted ball winning device 5 is the ball passage opening 13
It is a horizontally elongated plate member made of plastic supported by a support shaft 15 at the lower left and right ends of the opening edge, and the surface end located above the support shaft 15 has fan-shaped protruding pieces 23, 23 that serve as weights and stoppers. Forming and supporting shaft 15
A ball mounting portion 24 is extended below. As shown in FIG. 3, on the back side of the ball passage port 13 to which the opening/closing door 14 is pivoted, a recessed chamber 26 having a ball receiving gutter 25 at the bottom is formed, and a partition plate is formed inside the recessed chamber 26. Divided by 27, 27 and continuous winning hole 28 in the center
General winning holes 29, 29 are formed on the left and right sides, a photo sensor type continuous winning detector 30 is provided at the back of the continuous winning hole 28, and a ball counting detector 31 is provided in the ball receiving channel 25. As shown by the solid line in FIG.
Due to the weight action of 3, it falls forward and the ball passes through the hole 1.
The first step is to open the 3 and hit the falling ball.
stopped in the state. In this first state, the protruding pieces 23, 23 come into contact with the surface of the substrate 10 and function as a stopper, and the upper surface of the opening/closing door 14 is slightly inclined downward toward the ball passage opening 13. When the hit ball flows down onto the opening/closing door 14, the hit ball rolls due to the slope of the upper surface, passes through the ball passage hole 13, and enters either the continuous winning hole 28 or the general winning hole 29 in the recessed chamber 26. When the hit ball enters the continuous winning a prize opening 28, the continuous winning a prize detector 30 detects the hit ball and sends a signal to a control device (not shown). A batted ball that enters the continuation winning slot 28 or the general winning slot 29 is supported by the ball mounting portion 24 in the concave chamber 26, and the opening/closing door 14 rotates the ball mounting portion 24 in a downward direction due to the weight of the batted ball. move. The hit ball on the ball mounting portion 24 descends while contacting the wall surface 26' of the recessed chamber 26 while the opening/closing door 14 is rotating. When the opening/closing door 14 rotates sufficiently and stands up, it changes to the second state in which the ball passage opening 13 is closed, as shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. When the opening/closing door 14 changes to the second state, the batted ball flowing down in front of the ball passage opening 13 flows down as it is and does not enter the ball passage opening 13. Also,
When the opening/closing door 14 is sufficiently rotated to change to the second state, the ball on the ball mounting section 24 will be moved to the wall surface 2 of the recessed chamber 26.
At the same time, the ball falls off from the ball mounting section 24 and falls into the ball receiving gutter 25. Then, after this batted ball flows down the ball receiving gutter 25 and acts on the ball counting detector 31, it is processed as a winning ball. Ball placement part 2
4, the opening/closing door 14 will open the protruding piece 2.
It rotates back due to the action of the weights 3 and 23, and the first
return to the state.

In this way, the opening/closing door 14 normally stops in the first state where it receives the batted ball and enters the continuous winning slot 28 or the general winning slot 29, and when the batted ball enters the continuous winning slot 28 or the general winning slot 29, the batted ball enters the continuous winning slot 28 or the general winning slot 29. It is configured to rotate under its own weight and convert into the second state.

On the other hand, the movable pieces 16, 16 provided on the left and right sides of the ball passage hole 13 are connected to shafts 17, 17 that pass through the substrate 10.
It is rotatably supported by and communicates with a drive mechanism provided on the back side of the board 10. In the drive mechanism shown in FIG. 4, a plunger 33' of a solenoid 33 provided as an electric drive source is connected to the middle of a drive rod 32, one end of which is rotatably fixed, and one end is fixed to the rear end of a shaft 17. The tip of the drive rod 32 is connected to the other end of the arm piece 34. solenoid 33
In the demagnetized state, the arm piece 34 is stopped with the other end raised as shown by the solid line in FIG. 4 due to the bias of the spring 35. Therefore, the movable piece 16 stands still in the first state in which it stands up and does not receive the batted ball, as shown by the dashed line in FIG. 2. When the solenoid 33 is energized by power supply from the control device,
As shown in FIG. 4, since the drive rod 32 tilts around its fixed base end, the arm piece 34 rotates together with the shaft 17 in a direction in which the other end descends. Therefore, the left and right movable pieces 16, 16 rotate in the direction in which their upper ends are tilted outward as shown by solid lines in FIG.
4 to a second state that guides it towards 4. Then, when the solenoid 33 is demagnetized, the spring 3
5, the movable piece 16 rotates back and returns to the first state in which the ball is not guided to the opening/closing door 14.

Next, a game in a pachinko machine equipped with the above-described center accessory 6 will be explained.

In the first state in which the movable pieces 16, 16 are upright, each movable piece 16 does not guide the batted ball toward the opening/closing door 14, and in this embodiment, the first window portion 11a and the second window portion 11b are connected to the base plate 10. These first and second window portions 11a and 11b protrude from the surface and function as armor portions.
Since the distance between the ball and the movable pieces 16, 16 is narrower than the ball diameter, the hit ball flowing down inside the gaming section 3 will not fall onto the opening/closing door 14. Therefore, in this state, the continuous winning hole 28 of the center accessory 6 and the general winning hole 2
There are no prizes for 9. When a batted ball enters one of the first, second, and third starting ports 7, 8, and 9, a ball detector provided at the starting port detects the ball and sends a signal to the control device, which outputs the signal. When received, the control device operates the motors 20, 20 of the auxiliary game device 4 to start the auxiliary game.

The auxiliary game is the first window section 11a and the second window section 11b.
``Jackpot'' when ``7'' and ``7'' are displayed.
It is set that the following award format will be established,
The player operates an external operation switch (not shown) so that the numbers "7" and "7" are displayed. In addition,
If the player does not operate the external operation switch, the motors 20, 20 are forcibly stopped when a predetermined time preset in the timer of the control device has elapsed, and the auxiliary game ends.

If the high-speed conversion display is stopped by the player's external operation or by the operation of the timer of the control device, and a display other than "7" or "7" is displayed in the first window section 11a and the second window section 11b. In this case, since the prize mode is not established, there is no change in the game, and both movable pieces 16, 16 maintain the first state.

On the other hand, when the numbers "7" and "7" are displayed on the first window section 11a and the second window section 11b due to the player's external operation or the operation of the timer of the control device,
The control device identifies a "jackpot" based on the signals from the stop position detectors 22, 22 of the conversion display mechanism 12,
A special game is started upon establishment of this "jackpot". The special game is the solenoid 3 of the center accessory 6.
3, 33 is excited and the movable pieces 16, 16 are converted to the second state until 30 seconds have elapsed or until the number of balls that have entered the center accessory 6 reaches 10.
It is set as a cycle, and if a hit ball enters the continuous winning hole 28 during this one cycle, it can be updated to the next cycle after the end of that cycle. Therefore, when the special game starts,
The player fires a batted ball aiming at the center accessory 6,
To allow as many batted balls as possible to pass through a ball passage hole 13 and to enter a continuous winning hole 28. The ball fired by the player passes through the movable piece 16 to the opening/closing door 1.
4, this batted ball passes through the ball passage hole 13 and enters the general winning hole 29 or continuous winning hole 28 in the concave chamber 26.
When the ball enters the ball, the opening/closing door 14 is rotated by the weight of the ball placed on the ball placement portion 24, and the state is changed to the second state. In addition, when the hit ball enters the continuous winning a prize opening 28, the continuous winning a prize detector 30 detects the hit ball and sends a signal to the control device. When the opening/closing door 14 changes to the second state in which the ball passage hole 13 is closed, the hit ball guided by the movable piece 16 passes in front of the closed ball passage hole 13 and flows down the game section 3 again. In this embodiment, since the first starting port 7 is arranged near the bottom of the ball passing port 13, there is a probability that a batted ball that is collected by the movable piece 16 and passes in front of the ball passing port 13 will enter the first starting port 7. is high. Therefore, even if the opening/closing door 14 changes to the second state, there are many chances of winning while the movable pieces 16, 16 are changing to the second state, and especially in this embodiment, this increases the chance of playing the auxiliary game. Increase significantly. In addition, the right to the auxiliary game that occurs when a batted ball enters the starting hole during a special game is stored in the control device and displayed to the player by a memory display 36 such as a light emitting diode on the surface of the substrate 10 of the center accessory 6. Visibly displayed. When the door 14 changes to the second state and the ball is removed from the ball placement portion 24, the door 14 returns to the first state. Further, each batted ball that has come off the ball placement section 24 is detected by a ball counting detector 31 while flowing down the ball receiving trough 25, and a signal is sent from the ball counting detector 31 to the control device. Therefore, the signals from this ball counting detector 31 are counted and the number of winning balls reaches 10, or the number of winning balls as described above is reached.
When 30 seconds have elapsed, the control device updates the cycle based on the signal from the above-mentioned continuous winning detector 30, and the movable pieces 16, 1 return to the first state.
6 is again converted to the second state and the transition is made to the second cycle. In this way, the cycle is updated on the condition that the hit ball enters the continuous winning hole 28, and this cycle is updated repeatedly up to a predetermined number of times, for example, 10 times. Even if a hit ball enters the continuous winning hole 28 in the last cycle, the cycle is not updated, and when the number of winning balls in the cycle reaches 10 or 30 seconds have elapsed, the special game ends.

Note that if the right to the auxiliary game is stored, the auxiliary game is started after the special game ends. In this auxiliary game, "7",
When the prize mode of "7" is established, the special game is started again. Further, the number of winning balls in a certain cycle is visually displayed on a winning ball number display 37 consisting of a light emitting diode or the like arranged below the memory display 36,
Cycle updates are also visually displayed on digital display 38.

Although the above-described embodiment of the batted ball winning device 5 is configured integrally with the auxiliary game device 4, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be configured as a separate and independent winning device 5. Of course. Further, the present invention is configured such that the ball can flow down onto the door 14 regardless of the state of the movable piece 16, and when the movable piece 16 is in the first state, the width of the door 14 is within the range of the width of the door 14. When the movable piece 16 changes to the second state, the ball is caught in a wide range including the width of the opening/closing door 14 plus the range of the left and right movable pieces 16, and the ball is received and won. You can.

<Effect of the invention> As explained above, according to the invention, not only the state of the movable piece is changed by the electric drive source, but also the state of the opening/closing door, which is changed by the weight of the ball, and the drive of the electric drive source are used to change the state of the movable piece. The ease of winning a prize in the ball passage hole changes in a complicated manner depending on the combination with the state of the movable piece to be changed. Therefore, it is possible to bring an unprecedented change to the pachinko game, and to further increase the interest of the game.

In addition, if the winning hole is placed near the bottom of the ball passing hole, even in the second state where the opening/closing door is upright and it is impossible to win the ball into the ball passing hole, the movable piece allows the collected balls to pass through the ball. It is possible to make it easier to enter the winning hole below the mouth, and even when combined with other winning holes, the game can be varied and the interest of the game can be increased.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a game board of a pachinko machine, Fig. 2 is a front view of a batted ball winning device, Fig. 3 is a sectional view, and Fig. 4 is a partial view. It is a cutaway rear view. In the figure, 1 is a game board, 3 is a game section, 4 is an auxiliary game device, 5 is a batted ball winning device, 6 is a center accessory,
7, 8, 9 are starting ports, 10 is a board, 12 is a conversion display mechanism, 13 is a ball passage port, 14 is an opening/closing door, 15 is a spindle, 16 is a movable piece, 24 is a ball mounting part, 25 is a ball Receiving channel, 26 is a concave chamber, 28 is a continuous prize opening, 29 is a general prize opening, 30 is a continuous prize detector, 31 is a ball counting detector, 32 is a drive rod, 33 is a solenoid, 3
4 is an arm piece, and 35 is a spring.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A ball passage hole is provided on the board attached to the surface of the game board, and this ball passage hole is equipped with a first ball that normally falls forward to open the ball passage hole and guide the batted ball to the ball passage hole.
An opening/closing door that can be changed between the first state and the second state in which it stands up due to the weight of the ball received in the first state and blocks the ball passage hole is rotatably attached to the side of the ball passage hole. A movable piece capable of converting between a first state in which the ball is not guided toward the opening/closing door and a second state in which the ball is guided toward the opening/closing door is rotatably attached to the backside of the board. A ball winning device for a pachinko machine that is connected to a provided electric drive source.