JPH05277231A - Variable prize ball device of pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a variable prize ball device capable of stably guiding a predetermined number of shot balls into a desired passage. CONSTITUTION:When ball receiving members 28a, 28b are in an open state advantegeous to a player and a shot ball P1 is retained in a retaining portion 31 which retains one shot ball therein, the shot ball P1 retained is released into a predetermined passage therebelow when the ball receiving members 28a, 28b are changed from the open state to closed state. Therefore, one predetermined shot ball can surely and stably be guided into a predetermined passage therebelow.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a variable winning ball device having a ball receiving member which can be changed between a first state advantageous to a player and a second state disadvantageous to a player.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a variable winning ball device provided in a ball game machine, a pair of ball receiving members is changed between an upright state and a tilted state, and when a tilted ball receives a hit ball falling in a game area. There have been many proposals for guiding into the ball receiving member. In such a variable winning ball device, most of the hit balls received by the ball receiving member are guided to the same passage and treated as winning balls.

[0003]

By the way, in recent years, by combining a variable winning ball device and another winning ball device,
It has been proposed that the ball hitting the variable winning ball device is guided to the winning ball device, and in such a case, only a predetermined number of the ball hits in the variable winning ball device are won. If you want to guide to the device, you have to attach a detector for detecting the hit ball received in the variable winning ball device, the structure is complicated and the cost is high, and more accurate due to electrical failure. There was a case that the hit ball could not be detected. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a variable winning ball device that can stably guide a determined number of hit balls to a desired passage. ..

[0004]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, in the present invention, the first advantageous to the player is provided.
In the variable winning ball device having a ball receiving member that can be changed to the second state which is disadvantageous to the player, at least one hit ball is retained in the ball receiving member in the first state. A stop portion is formed to allow the ball hitting member retained in the stop portion to be discharged to a predetermined passage when the ball receiving member changes from the first state to the second state. It is what

[0005]

When the ball receiving member is in the first state, which is advantageous to the player, when the hitting ball is stopped at the stopping portion where at least one hitting ball is stopped, the stopped hitting ball Is discharged to a desired passage when the state changes from the first state to the second state, so that a fixed number of hit balls can be reliably and stably guided to a predetermined passage or another winning ball device. be able to.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, the configuration of the game board 1 of the ball game machine according to the embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. Figure 5
FIG. 3 is a front view showing a configuration of a game area 3 of the game board 1.
In FIG. 5, the inside of a partition rail 2 provided in a substantially circular shape of the game board 1 is configured as a game area 3, and a variable winning ball device that constitutes a main part of the present embodiment in the upper center of the game area 3. 25 are arranged, and the special winning device 50 is arranged so as to be continuous with the variable winning ball device 25. The plurality of special winning devices 50 (three) make up the variable display device 59.
Variable display devices 60a, 60b, 61 and variable winning ball device 7
2 including a pair of ball receiving members 73a and 73b, the display result of the variable display device 59 becomes a predetermined specific display result, and a hitting ball is guided to a specific area 65 described later to detect a specific winning ball. When the device 20 is turned on, a right generation game state, which is a kind of a specific game state, can be generated. The structure of the special winning device 50 will be described later in detail.

Further, in the game area 3, a plurality of winning holes 2
7, 28a, 28b, 4, 6, 7, 9 (the 9 is not a winning opening in the exact sense), 11a, 11b, 13a,
13b, windmill lamps 15a and 15b, and a windmill (no reference numeral), side lamps 16a and 16b, and an outlet 1.
9 and obstacle nails are arranged respectively. First, of the plurality of winning openings, winning openings 27 and winning openings 28a, 28b
Are arranged integrally with a mounting substrate 26 of a variable winning ball device 25, which will be described in detail later.
b constitutes tulip type ball receiving members 28a and 28b which are opened and closed by the solenoid 42, and the winning port 27 located in the upper position in the closed state prevents the hitting of the hit ball. By the way, the ball receiving members 28a, 28
b is when the ball hits or passes through the operation winning port 7 and the operation passing port 9 which will be described in detail later and the variable display devices 60a and 60b of the variable display device 59 have a predetermined specific display result. , Is opened for a predetermined time (for example, 6 seconds), and the winning balls received during the opening are guided to the special winning apparatus 50.

The winning opening 4 arranged below the special winning device 50 is called a starting winning opening 4 and has a starting winning ball detector 5 built therein. Then, when a ball hits the starting winning port 4 and the starting winning ball detector 5 is turned on during the above-mentioned right generation game state, the ball receiving device constituting the variable winning ball device 72 provided in the special winning device 50 is received. Member 73a,
73b is opened until a fixed time (for example, 9.8 seconds) elapses, or until a predetermined number (for example, 10) of winning balls are generated until the fixed time elapses.
When the ball hits the starting winning opening 4 while not in the right generation game state, it is treated as a simple winning.

Here, briefly explaining the game contents in the right generation game state, as described above, the display result of the variable display device 59 becomes a predetermined display result and the hitting ball is guided to the specific area 65. Turn on the special prize ball detector 20
Then, it becomes a right generation game state (for control, it is said that a special device operates). Then, when the right generation game state is continued, when the hit ball wins the starting winning opening 4 and the starting winning ball detector 5 is turned ON, the ball receiving members 73a, 7
3b performs the opening operation described above. Then, such an opening operation is repeated every time a ball hits the starting winning port 4 as long as the right generation game state continues. However,
Continuation of the right generation game state, the display result of the variable display device 59 again becomes a predetermined display result during the right generation game state, the ball is guided to the specific area 65, and the specific winning ball detector 20 is turned on. Or when a predetermined number (for example, 16) of hit balls are won in the starting winning opening 4.

For the winning in the starting winning opening 4, up to "predetermined number-1" winning balls are stored and the ball receiving members 73a and 73b are opened based on the stored value. When the right generation state disappears and the opening operation at the time when the predetermined number is reached (even if the opening operation is 16 times or less) is completed, the subsequent opening operation is not performed. Therefore, it is desirable that the winning of the starting winning opening 4 and the opening operation of the ball receiving members 73a and 73b are alternately performed, but in the present embodiment, the ball receiving members 73a and 73b.
When the 3b is opened, the ball receiving members 73a, 73 in the opened state
Since b is designed to prevent the hitting ball from flowing down in the direction of the starting winning opening 4, winning into the starting winning opening 4 and the ball receiving member 73
It is highly possible that the opening operations of a and 73b are alternately performed.

One side of the above-mentioned starting winning port 4 (left side in the drawing)
The winning opening 7 arranged on the side is called an operation winning opening 7, and has a symbol operation detector 8 built therein. Then,
A ball hits the operation winning opening 7 and turns on the pattern operation detector 8.
When this is done, the variable display devices 60a and 60b of the variable display device 59 are started to change, and the display result is derived when a certain time has elapsed. An operation passage port 9 is arranged above the operation winning port 7 as having the same function as the operation winning port 7. The symbol operation detector 10 is also incorporated in the operation passage port 9, and when the symbol operation detector 10 is turned on, the variable display devices 60a, 60b are made to derive the display result. The operation passage 9
Is to release the passed hit balls to the game area 3 again, but this may be formed as a winning opening, or the operation winning opening 7 may be formed as a passing opening.

The winning openings 11a, 11b provided on the right and left sides corresponding to the upper part of the special winning apparatus 50 are called shoulder winning openings 11a, 11b, and shoulder lamps 12a, 12b are built therein. ing. The winning openings 13a, 13b provided on the left and right sides of the lower part of the special winning device 50 are
These are called sleeve winning openings 13a and 13b, and sleeve lamps 14a and 14b are built therein. It should be noted that the winning opening 6 arranged on the other side (right side in the drawing) of the starting winning opening 4
Is a normal winning opening 6 for simply hitting a ball.

Among the wind turbines provided in the game area 3, the wind turbines provided on the left and right sides of the variable winning ball device 25 are the wind turbine lamps 15 each having a built-in lamp for illuminating the wind turbine portion.
a, 15b, the shoulder lamp 12 described above.
a, 12b, sleeve ramps 14a, 14b, and game area 3
The side lamps 16a, 16b, etc. provided at both ends of the display are controlled to be displayed in a predetermined manner during the right-generating game state or the like. Although not shown, a rail decoration lamp 17 (only symbols are shown in FIG. 7) for decorating the outer periphery of the game area 3 as having the same function as those lamps,
A game effect lamp 18 (only symbols are shown in FIG. 7) that decorates the upper part of the ball game machine is also provided.

At the lowermost part of the game area 3, there is provided an out opening 19 for collecting out balls which have not been won in any of the winning openings or winning devices. On the other hand, on the back surface of the game board 1, detectors 20 and 21 for detecting the winning balls won in the specific area 65 of the special winning device 50 and the ball receiving members 73a and 73b forming the variable winning ball device 72 are provided. There is. That is, the specific winning ball detector 20 that detects the winning balls that have won in the specific area 65 and derives the signal of the occurrence and disappearance of the right-occurrence gaming state, and the winning balls that are received while the ball receiving members 73a and 73b are open. The prize-winning ball detector 21 for detecting in order to count is fixed to the back surface of the game board 1. Although not shown, the ball game machine is also provided with a speaker 22 (only the symbols are shown in FIG. 7) for producing a sound effect produced in accordance with the progress of the game, and the game board 1 described above. The front surface of the glass plate is covered with glass plates 23a and 23b (see FIG. 3).

Next, the operation winning port 7 and the operation passing port 9
The variable winning ball device 25 that opens for a predetermined time (for example, 6 seconds) when the hit ball is won or passed and the variable display devices 60a and 60b of the variable display device 59 have a predetermined specific display result. The configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. 1 is a front view of the variable winning ball device with the ball receiving member opened, FIG. 2 is a front view of the variable winning ball device with the ball receiving member closed, and FIG. 3 is a ball receiving device. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the variable winning ball device with the members opened, and FIG.
It is a cross-sectional view of the variable winning ball device with the ball receiving member closed.

In the figure, the variable winning sphere device 25 has a mounting board 26 mounted on the surface of the game board 1, and a socket type winning opening 27 is provided on the mounting board 26. A prize opening 33 is formed in the mounting substrate 26 below the prize opening 27, and a pair of ball receiving members 28a, 28b are rotatably supported by support shafts 29a, 29b on both sides of the prize opening 33. There is. These ball receiving members 28a, 28b
Can be changed between a tilted state shown in FIG. 1 (first state that is advantageous to the player) and an upright state shown in FIG. 2 (second state that is unfavorable to the player). In the state of, the tip of the ball receiving member 28a, 28b and the winning opening 27
The distance between and becomes smaller so that the ball cannot pass. Even in this state, an interval through which the hit balls may pass may be provided.

Further, the support shaft 29 of the ball receiving members 28a, 28b.
Below the a and 29b are holding pieces 30a and 30b that are curved toward the inside, and the ball receiving member 28
When the a and 28b are in the tilted first state, the portion surrounded by the two holding pieces 30a and 30b forms the stopping portion 31 that holds one hitting ball. To be precise, as shown in FIG. 3, the stopping portion 31 has the holding pieces 30a, 30b.
And the mounting substrate 26 at the lower edge of the winning opening 33. Further, the two holding pieces 30a, 30b are overlapped at their lower portions, and when the ball receiving members 28a, 28b change from the first state to the second state, the ball receiving members 28a, 28b,
The ball hitting the stop portion 31 is opened downward after the ball 28b cannot receive a new ball hitting.

By the way, engaging grooves 32a and 32b are formed inside the support shafts 29a and 29b of the ball receiving members 28a and 28b, and the engaging grooves 32a and 32b are fixed to the tips of the operating levers 34. The dowel pins 37a and 37b are loosely fitted. As shown in FIG. 3, the operating lever 34 is pivotally supported in the middle thereof by a support shaft 35 so as to be swingable.
An engaging portion 36 formed at the rear end of the actuating lever 34 is connected to a plunger of a solenoid 42 (see FIG. 5).
Then, when the solenoid 42 is turned on and the rear end of the operating lever 34 is pushed down, the engaging pins 37a, 37b push up the inside of the ball receiving members 28a, 28b and tilt the first.
In this state, when the solenoid 42 is turned off, the rear end of the operating lever 34 is pulled up and the ball receiving members 28a, 28a
The inside of b is pushed down to the second state of standing up.

The front surfaces of the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are
The decoration plate 38 covers the decoration plate 38, and the first projection 39 is provided on the top of the decoration plate 38 so as to project rearward. In addition, the mounting substrate 2 at the lower edge of the winning opening 33 that constitutes the stopping portion 31.
The second convex portion 40 is provided on the front portion 6 so as to project forward. As shown in FIG. 3, these convex portions 39 and 40 are formed in the first state where the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are tilted,
The first received hitting ball P1 is positioned on the side of the decorative plate 38 by the second convex portion 40, and the next received hitting ball P2.
When the ball is placed on the first hitting ball P1, it guides the hitting ball P2 to the rear of the winning opening 33 by the first convex portion 39, and guides it to the back surface of the game board 1 along the inclined guide trough 41. Is.

The variable winning ball device 2 configured as described above.
5, the solenoid 42 is turned on and the ball receiving member 28
With the a and 28b opened, the ball receiving members 28a and 28a,
The first batting ball P1 accepted by 28b is
The hit balls P2 that are stopped by the stop portions 31 formed by the holding pieces 30a and 30b and that are subsequently received by the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are all hit balls P that are stopped.
After being placed on 1, the inclined guide trough 41 flows down from the winning opening 33, is guided to the back surface of the game board 1, and is processed as a normal winning ball. On the other hand, after a certain period of time has passed, the solenoid 42 turns off.
When set to FF, the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are in an upright state. As a result, the holding pieces 30a and 30b are opened to the outside, and the hitting ball P1 retained in the retaining portion 31 is discharged downward and guided to the ball entrance 53 of the special winning apparatus 50. As described above, the ball receiving members 28a, 28
Since the holding pieces 30a and 30b of b are formed in an overlapping manner,
When the ball receiving members 28a, 28b change from the tilted first state to the upright second state, the ball receiving members 28a, 28b.
Even if there is a hit ball received at, the hit ball P1 is still staying at the stop portion 31 at that time. After that, the inclined guide gutter 41 flows down from the winning opening 33, is guided to the back surface of the game board 1, and is processed as a normal winning ball.

As described above, in the variable winning ball device 25 according to the present embodiment, when the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are in the tilted first state which is advantageous to the player, one ball is hit. When the hitting ball P1 is stopped at the stopped stopping portion 31, the hitting ball P1 is discharged downward when the tilted first hitting state P1 changes from the tilted first state to the upright second state. Therefore, it is possible to reliably and stably guide the determined one hitting ball P1 to the special winning apparatus 50. In other words, the variable winning ball device 25 in the present embodiment mechanically controls the induction of a predetermined number of hit balls to the special winning device 50 without using an electric detector, so that it is affected by noise or the like. It is possible to perform reliably and stably without receiving. Further, as in the present embodiment, by limiting the number of hit balls to be guided to the special winning device 50 that causes a special right occurrence game state to one, regardless of the skill of the player, the variable winning ball device 25. The probability of becoming the right generation game state when becomes the first state can be made substantially constant. Because a player with a high skill puts a large number of hit balls for a certain period of time into the variable winning ball device 25 and guides it to the special winning device 50, so that there is a high possibility that the right-generating game state is caused. On the other hand, a player with a low skill cannot insert a large number of balls into the variable winning ball device 25, and as a result, the probability of causing the right-occurring game state is low, but in the present embodiment, This is because there is only one ball hit to the special winning device 50 by one operation of the variable winning ball device 25, regardless of the skill.

In the above-described embodiment, the first hitting ball P1 that has been released from the stop state is allowed to pass downward as it is. However, when the stop ball 31 is released, the second winning award is given at the lower slot. The ball may be guided to a winning path different from the subsequent hitting ball P2. Also, the second and subsequent hitting balls P2 are led to the back surface of the game board 1 and processed as winning balls, but are released from the back surface of the game board 1 to the game area 3 of the game board 1 again. You can guide me.

Next, the structure of the special winning device 50 arranged in the center of the game area 3 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6 is a front view of the special winning device 50. In the figure, the special winning device 50 has a mounting substrate 51 mounted on the surface of the game board 1, and a variable display device 59 and a variable winning ball device 72 are integrally formed on the mounting substrate 51. By the way, the mounting substrate 51 is provided with a substantially circular enclosure 52 that includes the variable display device 59 and the specific region 65 therein, and the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are inserted into the upper portion of the enclosure 52. The ball entrance 53 for receiving the first ball is cut out.

A rotator 54 which is rotated by a drive motor 55 (only symbols are shown in FIG. 7) is arranged at the ball entrance 53 so as to face it. The rotating body 54 has a receiving portion that receives a hitting ball that enters from the ball entrance 53, and the ball received by the receiving portion falls downward at a half-turn position. Further, the rotating body 54 is rotationally driven at a constant cycle after the power is turned on, but when the symbol stop detector 57 described below is turned on, the cycle is controlled to be long. Further, a stop position detector 56 (only symbols are shown in FIG. 7) is provided in order to detect whether or not the receiving portion of the rotating body 54 is facing upward.

The hitting ball which is dropped downward by the rotation of the rotating body 54 is a pattern stop detector 5 in the dropping process.
Pass 7. When the symbol stop detector 57 is turned on, the variable display operation (hereinafter, referred to as fluctuation) of the variable display 61 which is always variably displayed in the variable display device 59 described below is stopped, and the display result is derived. When the display result of the variable display 61 is a predetermined specific display result, the induction solenoid 67 that drives the induction member 66 that opens and closes the specific region 65 is turned on for a predetermined time. The rotating body 54 and the symbol stop detector 57 are covered with a decorative plate 58 on their front surfaces.

A variable display device 59 is arranged below the symbol stop detector 57 and on the surface of the mounting substrate 51. The variable display device 59 is composed of a plurality of variable display devices 60a, 60b, 61, and the left and right variable display devices 60a, 60b are the symbol operation detectors 8, 10.
The variable display 61 at the center is controlled to be stopped based on the detection signal of the symbol stop detector 57.

Therefore, first, the left and right variable displays 60a,
The variable display units 60a and 60b will be described.
Is a 7-segment LED, the variable display 60a on the left side sequentially displays 9 types of numbers from 0 to 8, and the variable display 60b on the right side has 4 types of 3, 4, 7, and 8. The numbers are displayed in sequence. And the combination of the symbols when they are stopped (display result) is "3.3".
When the combination of “7.7” is obtained, it is determined that the specific display result is displayed, and the ball receiving member 28 is operated as described above.
Open a and 28b for a certain period of time. In addition, the probability that this specific display result is displayed is controlled so as to change. For example, in the normal game state, the specific display result is derived with a low probability of 1/100, and the odd numbered right occurrence game state. Is changed to a high probability of 1/10 at the end of, and is changed to a low probability due to the establishment of the right generation game state after the high probability. In addition, the determination of whether or not it is a win, and the determination of the symbol displayed on the variable display devices 60a and 60b at the time of stopping are determined by a random number determined in advance when the symbol operation detectors 8 and 10 are activated or when the variation is started. By extracting one value from Further, it may be determined whether or not the winning is achieved by determining the combination of the symbols actually displayed on the variable display devices 60a and 60b.

The central variable display 61 is also composed of 7-segment LEDs, and is designed to sequentially display the symbols "one", "F" and "two". Then, when the symbol at the time of the stop becomes “F”, it is determined that the specific display result is displayed, and the guiding member 66 described later is driven to open the specific region 65. On the other hand, when the symbol at the time of stop is a symbol other than “F”, it is determined that the symbol is off and the guiding member 6
6 does not operate and the specific area 65 is not opened.

Below the variable display device 59, there is provided a rotating body 62 for receiving the ball hitting the symbol stop detector 57. This rotating body 62 is rotationally driven by a drive motor 63 (only the reference numeral is shown in FIG. 7),
Normally, the concave portion for receiving the hitting ball faces upward, and after the detection signal of the symbol stop detector 57 is derived, the rotation is started with a slight delay, and the rotation is stopped after one rotation. A stop position detector 64 (only symbols are shown in FIG. 7) is provided to detect the stop position (the position where the concave portion faces upward). It should be noted that, while the rotating body 62 makes one rotation, the ball hitting the recess is naturally dropped downward.

Below the rotating body 62, there is formed a normal area 69 in which a hitting ball is normally won.
A specific area 65 is provided between the rotor 9 and the rotating body 62. The normal area 69 is formed in the lowermost part of the enclosure frame 52, and guides the hit balls received by the enclosure frame 52 in the lowermost part to the back surface of the game board 1 from the opening provided in the mounting substrate 51. It is composed.

Further, the specific region 65 is also formed as an opening opened at substantially the center of the mounting substrate 51. Therefore, in order to guide the hitting ball to the specific region 65, a guide member 66 is provided which is slidable in the front-back direction in a direction orthogonal to the surface of the mounting substrate 51. This guide member 66
In the normal state, when the tip end of the variable display 61 immerses in a position where it is flush with the mounting substrate 51 to close the specific area 65 and the variable display 61 displays the specific display result "F", the induction solenoid 67 is Is driven for a certain period of time, and the guide member 66 is projected forward. Therefore, when the variable display 61 displays the specific display result, the hit ball dropped from the rotating body 62 is received by the guide member 66 and is received in the specific area 6.
5 is won, and the specific winning ball detector 20 is turned on. On the other hand, when the variable display 61 does not display the specific display result, since the guide member 66 is retracted, the hit ball dropped from the rotating body 62 is guided to the normal area 69 therebelow and simply It is processed as a winning ball. It should be noted that the specific area forming projection piece 68 is provided on the mounting board 51 so that a hit ball dropped on the projecting guide member 66 does not spill to the left and right.
a and 68b are projected.

By the way, when the hitting ball is led to the specific area 65 and the specific winning ball detector 20 is turned on, as described above, the right-generating game state is generated or the right-generating game state is ended. However, in the case of causing a right-occurrence game state, the variable display 60
The a, 60b and / or the variable display 61 may be set to the right generation game state only when the regular game procedure in which the specific winning ball detector 20 is turned on after the specific display result is obtained. Or, even when the regular game procedure that only the specific winning ball detector 20 is turned on is not performed,
The right generation game state may be set. However, when only the specific winning ball detector 20 is turned on, an output for executing a predetermined process is derived from a basic control circuit 80 described later.

Indicators 70 and 71 composed of 7-segment LEDs are provided on both inner central sides of the surrounding frame 52 projecting from the mounting substrate 51. On the other hand (the left side in the drawing), the display 70 is called the number-of-opening display LED 70 and displays the number of times the ball receiving members 73a and 73b are opened during the generation of the right. The other (right side in the figure) display 71 is called a winning number display LED 71, and displays the number of winning balls received during one opening of the ball receiving members 73a, 73b based on the starting winning. Is.

The number-of-opening display LED 70 blinks and displays the number "6" when the right-occurrence game state is generated, and the number blinks sequentially each time the open state of the ball receiving members 73a and 73b is completed. Count down to "0"
Blinking, and each time the open state of the ball receiving members 73a and 73b ends, the number of the lighting state of "9" to "1" is counted down. In other words, the blinking state of the number displays the ones digit of the two-digit number,
The lighting state of the number is to display the ones digit of the one-digit number. Thereby, the remaining number of times of opening the ball receiving members 73a and 73b can be easily understood. Further, the winning number display LED 71 displays the number of winning balls received during one opening of the ball receiving members 73a and 73b in the right generation game state, but when not in the right generation game state, The number of winning or passing to the operation winning port 7 or the operation passing port 9 is stored and displayed within the range of four. Of course, the stored display numerical value is subtracted every time the variable displays 60a and 60b are variably displayed.

A pair of ball receiving members 73a, 73b forming the variable winning ball device 72 are provided on both sides of the lower portion of the mounting substrate 51. The ball receiving members 73a and 73b are open / close solenoids 74 connected via a well-known link member or the like.
It is driven to open and close by (only symbols are shown in FIG. 7). Then, when the opening / closing solenoid 74 is turned on, the ball receiving members 73a and 73b are opened, the ball hitting the gaming area 3 is received by the receiving frame 75, and the ball is taken into the winning opening 76 formed in the mounting substrate 51 to win the winning ball. The winning balls are detected by the winning ball detector 21 shown in FIG. In the present embodiment, the ball receiving members 73a and 73b forming the variable winning ball device 72 are provided integrally with the special winning device 50, but they are separately provided and the game board 1 is provided. It may be placed in. Similarly, the variable display device 59 may be configured and arranged separately from the special winning device 50.

In addition to the above-described structure, the special winning device 50 has a decorative LED 7 (not shown) for enhancing a decorative effect.
7 (only symbols are shown in FIG. 7) are provided so as to face the surface of the mounting substrate 51.

The configuration of the game board 1 of the ball game machine including the variable winning ball device 25 and the special winning device 50 has been described above, but these game devices are controlled by the game control circuit shown in FIG. .. FIG. 7 is a circuit diagram showing a block configuration of the game control circuit, MPU, ROM, RA
It is controlled by a basic control circuit 80 including M and an input / output circuit. Then, the basic control circuit 80, through the detection circuit 81, the specific winning ball detector 20, the starting winning ball detector 5, the winning ball detector 21, the stop position detectors 56, 64, the symbol operation detectors 8, 10 , And a detection signal from the symbol stop detector 57 are input, and a chip select signal is given from the address decoding circuit 82 to the basic control circuit 80 and the detection circuit 81. Further, when the power is turned on, a reset signal is given from the initial reset circuit 83 to the basic control circuit 80, and a periodic reset signal is given from the periodic reset circuit 84 to the basic control circuit 80 every predetermined time.

On the other hand, the basic control circuit 80 gives control signals to the following devices and circuits. That is, an audio signal is given to the speaker 22 via the speaker control circuit 85, and the drive motors 55 and 63 are supplied via the motor drive circuit 86.
A drive signal is applied to. Further, through the LED control circuit 87, the variable indicators 60a, 60b, 61, the winning number display LED 71, the number-of-opening display LED 70, and the decoration LED.
The display control signal is given to 77, and the rail decoration lamp 17 and the windmill lamps 15 a, 15 a are supplied via the lamp control circuit 88.
b, side lamps 16a, 16b, game effect lamp 1
8, sleeve lamps 14a and 14b, and shoulder lamps 12a and 1
A display control signal is sent to 2b. Further, the solenoid 42 and the induction solenoid 6 are connected via the solenoid drive circuit 89.
7, and drive signals are given to the open / close solenoid 74.
Further, from the basic control circuit 80, a driving signal is given to a big hit information output circuit 90 which outputs a big hit signal (right generation signal in the case of the present embodiment) to the outside, and a specific information signal which is output to the outside is specified. A drive signal is given to the information output circuit 91. Electric power having various voltages is supplied from the power supply circuit 92 to the above-mentioned devices and circuits.

Next, of the operations controlled by the game control circuit described above, an example of operations related to the special winning apparatus 50 will be described with reference to the time chart of FIG. In FIG. 8, the rotating body 54 normally makes one rotation in a constant cycle time T1. Specifically, one rotation is performed at a cycle time T1 in which the waiting time T2 is added to the time for one rotation operation of the rotating body 54. In addition, the number of variable symbols in the variable display 61 (hereinafter, referred to as symbol 61), which is constantly variable during the cycle time T1, is 5 symbols.

By the way, the pattern operation detectors 8 and 10 are turned on.
Assuming a case where the variable display devices 60a and 60b derive the specific display result based on the above, and thereby the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are opened and the ball hitting operation continues twice,
The first hitting ball is caused to fall downward by the rotation of the rotating body 54, whereby the symbol stop detector 57 (indicated as a symbol stop SW in the figure) is turned on and the passage signal Q1 is derived. Then, when the passing signal Q1 is derived, the design 6
The variable display of 1 is stopped, and the stop symbol is displayed. In the illustrated embodiment, a "one" symbol that is not a specific display result is displayed. In addition, the rotating body 62 starts rotating slightly after the passage signal Q1 is derived, and rotates while holding the hit ball that has fallen from the rotating body 54 and received. in this case,
The fluctuation of the design 61 is stopped until the rotating body 62 is completely returned to the original state, and after the return, the fluctuation is started. Further, if the upper rotating body 54 rotates before the rotating body 62 returns to the original state, the succeeding ball is hit by the lower rotating body 62.
Since it cannot be placed on top, the upper rotating body 54
The rotation of is also stopped. That is, when the symbol stop detector 57 is turned on, the cycle time T3 of the rotating body 54 is T1.
The time required for the lower rotating body 62 to make one rotation is added to the time.

Since the specific display result is not displayed by the passing signal Q1 described above, the guiding member 66 (indicated as a specific area guiding device in the drawing) is not driven,
The ball hitting downward due to the rotation of the rotating body 62 is guided to the normal area 69 and processed as a winning ball.

On the other hand, after the previous hitting ball is processed as described above, the next hitting ball is dropped downward by the rotation of the rotating body 54, and the symbol stop detector 57 is turned on to derive the passage signal Q2. After that, it is placed on the rotating body 62 below. Further, when the symbol selected at the time of deriving the passage signal Q2 is “F” which is the specific display result, the guiding device 46 is immediately projected for a certain period of time. This fixed time is the symbol stop detector 57
The hitting ball that has passed through passes through the lower rotating body 62
A sufficient time is set before reaching.

Therefore, the hitting ball which is dropped by the rotation of the lower rotating body 62 is guided by the guiding member 66 and guided to the specific area 65, which is indicated by the specific winning ball detector 20 (in the drawing, is indicated as the specific area SW). Is turned on to derive the right generation signal R1. As soon as the right generation signal R1 is derived, the special device operates to enter the right generation game state. Although the predetermined time T4 is set after the passage signal Q2 is derived,
When the right generation signal R1 does not exist within this predetermined time T4, it is determined that the right generation game state has not been entered by the regular game procedure, and a predetermined output, for example, an alarm output is derived and the game is interrupted. Do things like

In the above-described embodiment (hereinafter, referred to as the first embodiment), the variable winning ball device 25, which constitutes a main part of the embodiment, is provided above the special winning device 50 and is received by the variable winning ball device 25. Although one of the hit balls is discharged toward the special winning device 50, which is a predetermined passage, another hitting device, for example, the starting winning opening 4 as shown in FIG.
The game board 95 may be configured such that the variable winning ball device 25 is arranged above the starting winning port 4 so as to be discharged toward.

The structure of the game board 95 will be briefly described. The respective game devices in the game board 95 shown in FIG. 9 are almost the same as those in the first embodiment, but the difference is that first,
In appearance, the variable winning ball device 25 is not arranged above the special winning device 50, but is arranged above the starting winning opening 4,
Further, the operation winning openings 7a and 7b are arranged on the left and right of the starting winning opening 4, and the operation passing opening 9 is omitted. In addition, the functional difference is that the left and right variable displays 60a and 60b of the variable display device 59 of the special winning device 50 constantly fluctuate, and the hit ball enters the ball entrance 53 of the special winning device 50, and the symbol stops. When the detector 57 is operated, the fluctuations of the variable indicators 60a and 60b are stopped, and when the display result is predetermined, the guide member 66 is opened and the hitting ball is guided to the specific area 65, and the right generation game state. Becomes In this right generation game state, the ball hits the operation winning opening 7a, 7b and the symbol operation detector 8a, 8b
When turned on, the variable display 61 of the variable display device 59 starts changing, and stops changing after a fixed time (for example, 4 seconds) has elapsed. Then, when the display result at the time of stop becomes a predetermined display result of "F", the ball receiving members 28a, 28b of the variable winning ball device 25 are held for a predetermined time (for example, 6).
Seconds) open. In the variable winning ball device 25, as in the first embodiment, the first hitting ball is retained in the stopping portion 31, and the second and subsequent hitting balls are processed as winning prizes. Then, when the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are opened after a lapse of a certain period of time, the hitting balls retained in the retaining portion 31 are changed to the start winning opening 4
The start winning prize detector 5 is activated. When the start winning ball detector 5 is turned on, a ball receiving member 73a as a variable winning ball device 72 provided in the special winning device 50,
73b is opened until a fixed time elapses or a predetermined number of hit balls are won.

As described above, in the game contents for generating the right generation game state, by providing the variable winning ball device 25 according to the present embodiment on the upper part of the starting winning opening 4, the starting winning opening 4 is hit. Induction can be limited to one,
Moreover, by making the lead interval of the ball hitting substantially equal to the opening time of the variable winning ball device 72, the winning of the ball at the starting winning port and the opening of the variable winning ball device 72 can be performed alternately. It is possible to make maximum use of the number of times the variable winning ball device 72 is allowed to open in the generated game state.

In the above-described first embodiment and the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, the ball receiving member 28 is used as the variable winning ball device 25.
Among the ball hits received in a and 28b, all of the ball hits that are guided to the back surface of the game board 1 except the ball hit in the stop portion 31 are shown, but the variable winning ball device 1 shown in FIGS.
00, the game area 3 of the game board 1 without incorporating all the hit balls into the ball receiving member except the hitting balls.
It may be one that is made to repel. The configuration of the variable winning ball device 100 will be described below.

On the upper part of the mounting substrate 101 of the variable winning ball device 100, a winning opening 102 is provided in a protruding manner, and a pair of ball receiving members 103a, 103 are provided below the winning opening 102 at a predetermined interval.
3b is rotatably supported by supporting shafts 104a and 104b. The ball receiving members 103a and 103b have engagement grooves 108 formed inside the support shafts 104a and 104b.
The first state (see FIG. 10) that is released when the operating lever is swung by the solenoid (not shown) due to the engagement of the engaging pins 109a and 109b protruding from the tip of the operating lever (not shown). The state shown in FIG. 11) and the second state (state shown in FIG. 11) that is not released are changed.

By the way, the left and right shapes of the ball receiving members 103a and 103b are different. First, in the left side ball receiving member 103a, a holding piece 105 is projectingly provided on the lower inside thereof, and a retaining portion 106 is formed between the holding piece 105 and the ball receiving member 103a main body.
On the other hand, an obstacle protrusion 107 that projects toward the winning opening 102 is provided at the inner tip of the right side ball receiving member 103b in both the first state and the second state.

Variable winning ball device 1 configured as described above
At 00 in the opened first state, as shown in FIG. 10, the hitting ball P flying from the right side is prevented from entering the inside by the obstacle protrusion 107 of the right side ball receiving member 103b. Repulsed to the outside. On the other hand, among the hitting balls flying from the left side, the hitting ball P1 received by the ball receiving member 103a is prevented from entering the inside by the holding piece 105, but is formed by the holding piece 105 and the ball receiving member 103a main body. The vehicle is stopped while being placed on the stopping portion 106.
After that, the hitting ball P2 flying from the left side is in the stop portion 1
It collides with the hitting ball P1 staying at 06 and is repelled to the outside. As described above, in the variable winning ball device 100, in the opened first state, all the hit balls are repelled to the outside, except for one hit ball retained in the stopping portion 106.

On the other hand, in the second state in which the ball is not released, as shown in FIG. 11, first, when changing from the first state to the second state, the hitting ball P1 stayed at the stay portion 106 is hit. Passes downward between the ball receiving members 103a and 103b. Therefore, it is possible to reliably and stably guide the determined number of hit balls to the predetermined passage.
By the way, in the second state, the hitting ball P flying from the right side is still prevented from entering the inside by the obstacle protrusion 107 of the right side ball receiving member 103b and is repelled to the outside. On the other hand, since the distance between the ball receiving member 103a and the winning opening 102 does not allow the ball P3 to pass through, the ball P3 flying from the left side is also not repelled to the inside and repelled to the outside.

Also in the variable winning ball device 100 described above, when the ball receiving members 103a and 103b are in the first state, at least one hit ball is stopped at the stop portion 106 where it is stopped. In this case, when the stopped hitting balls are taken in and passed through when the first state changes to the second state, a predetermined number of hitting balls can be reliably and stably provided in a predetermined number. Can lead to the passage. In the variable winning ball device 100 described above,
Although the ball passing through when the hitting ball P1 stopped in the stopping portion 106 is taken in is shown, the ball receiving members 103a and 103 are shown.
You may make it process as a winning ball by providing a socket between b. Further, the ball receiving member 103b on the right side, which does not receive a hit ball in any state, may be fixed. Further, also in the variable winning ball device 100, since a predetermined number of hit balls are mechanically controlled without using a prize ball detector, the hit balls are not affected by electrical noise. Can be reliably and stably guided to a predetermined passage.

The above two variable winning ball devices 2
In the examples 5 and 100, one hitting ball is retained in the stopping portions 31 and 106, but a plurality of hitting balls may be retained. Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the variable winning ball devices 25, 100, the special winning device 50 provided below them, and the starting winning opening 4 are separately configured and attached to the surface of the game board 1. Variable winning ball device 2
5, 100 and a winning ball device or the like arranged below may be integrally provided on one mounting substrate. Further, the pair of ball receiving members 28a and 28b which opens and closes to the left and right is shown, but it may slide left and right or open and close back and forth. Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, the one in which the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are driven to be opened and closed is shown to swing the actuating lever 34 by the solenoid 42, but the ball receiving members 28a and 28b are mechanically controlled to be opened and closed. Anything is fine. For example, based on the winning of the first hitting ball of the ball receiving member, the operating lever is rocked by the weight of the hitting ball to open the ball receiving member, the operating lever is locked by the lock member, and then the first After the hitting ball is stopped at the stopping portion, the locking state of the lock member is released by the second and subsequent hitting balls to close the ball receiving member and the winning prize ball that has been stopped is released. Good.

[0054]

As is apparent from the above description, in the present invention, at least one hitting ball is stopped when the ball receiving member is in the first state advantageous to the player. When the hitting balls are stopped at the stopping part, the stopped hitting balls are discharged to the desired passage when the state changes from the first state to the second state. In addition, it can be stably guided to a predetermined passage or another winning ball device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a variable winning ball device according to an embodiment in a first opened state.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the variable winning ball device in a closed second state.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the variable winning ball device in a first opened state.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the variable winning ball device in a closed second state.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing a configuration of a game area of a game board of a ball game machine to which a variable winning ball device is applied.

FIG. 6 is a front view of a special winning device arranged in a game area.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a game control circuit for controlling a game operation.

FIG. 8 is a time chart showing a game operation related to the special winning device.

FIG. 9 is a front view showing a configuration of a game area of a game board in which variable winning ball devices are arranged at different positions.

FIG. 10 is a front view of a variable winning ball device according to another embodiment in a first opened state.

FIG. 11 is a front view of the variable winning ball device in a closed second state.

[Explanation of symbols]

 25 variable winning ball device 28a, 28b ball receiving member 30a, 30b holding piece 31 stop portion 100 variable winning ball device 103a, 103b ball receiving member 105 holding piece 106 stopping portion

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A variable winning ball device having a ball receiving member capable of changing between a first state advantageous for a player and a second state disadvantageous for a player, wherein the ball receiving member has a first state. Forming a stop portion for holding at least one hitting ball in the state, and when the ball receiving member changes from the first state to the second state, A variable winning ball device for a ball game machine, characterized in that the ball is discharged into a predetermined passage.