JPH0670815B2 - Card type pachinko ball rental machine - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a card-type pachinko ball lending machine for supplying a player with a predetermined number of pachinko balls according to data stored in an inserted card. is there.

(Prior Art) A conventional card-type pachinko ball lending machine of this type is, for example, a card reader that drives an inserted magnetic card to read data recorded on the card, and a control signal is input to the card reader. There is a card-type pachinko ball lending machine including a ball lending computer for outputting and a ball feeding device for supplying a predetermined number of pachinko balls according to a control signal output from the ball lending computer.

This card-type pachinko ball lending machine operates as follows.
That is, when a magnetic card is manually inserted into the card passage from the insertion port of the card reader, the motor of the card reader starts to rotate in the forward direction by the position signal according to the card position, and the magnetic card is conveyed to a predetermined reading position. To be done.
The data on the magnetic card is then read and output to the ball lending computer. The ball lending computer performs various processes on the input data, operates the ball feeding device to feed a predetermined number of pachinko balls when the data satisfies predetermined conditions, and then the motor. Is rotated in the forward direction to convey the magnetic card to a predetermined display position. Then, a ball used amount is displayed on the magnetic card, for example, a round hole is punched. After that, the magnetic card goes backward in the card passage by the motor rotated in the opposite direction by the ball lending computer and is returned to the insertion slot.
Such a series of operations is repeated a predetermined number of times until the remaining ball supplyable amount of the magnetic card becomes zero.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In the above-mentioned card-type pachinko ball lending machine, since the magnetic card is returned even when the remaining ball supply amount becomes zero, the player plays the used card. There is a problem in that it is discarded on the floor of the hall, etc., as a result of which the aesthetics of the play hall deteriorates and cleaning costs rise. On the other hand, although a card type golf ball lending machine having a collecting function has been realized, a card type pachinko ball lending machine capable of collecting used cards has not been proposed.

A first object of the present invention is to provide a card-type pachinko ball lending machine capable of collecting such used cards and eliminating the drawbacks of the conventional device. A second object of the present invention is that when a used card is collected, the used card can be held until the next magnetic card is inserted so that the player can collect the used card when collecting the card. It is also possible to deal with the case where the confirmation of the remaining supplyable amount of balls of the card is requested.

(Means for Solving Problems) The present invention relates to a data detecting means for detecting data stored in a card, a ball supplying means for supplying a predetermined number of pachinko balls based on the data, and a ball for the card. In a card type pachinko ball lending machine, which comprises a remaining amount display means for displaying the remaining supplyable amount, a perforation means for performing a perforation for displaying the remaining supplyable amount on the card when a pachinko ball is supplied,
After the pachinko balls are supplied, the card is returned if the remaining ball supplyable amount is not zero, and if it is zero, it is held in a predetermined holding position until the next card is inserted, and when the next card is inserted. Provided with a conveying means for conveying to the collecting device side and a reset means for returning the held card from the holding position in order to confirm the remaining ball supplyable amount by the perforation, ball supply It is designed to be able to collect cards with zero possible remaining amount.

(Operation) In the card-type pachinko ball lending machine of the present invention, the ball supply means supplies a predetermined number of pachinko balls based on the data detected by the data detection means and recorded on the card,
When the remaining amount display means displays the ball supplyable remaining amount of the card, the perforation means performs the perforation for displaying the ball supplyable remaining amount on the card when a pachinko ball is supplied, and the transporting means, After the pachinko ball supply, if the remaining ball supplyable amount is not zero, the card is returned, and in the case of zero, the card is held in the internal holding position until the next card is inserted, and the next card When the card is inserted, the card is conveyed so as to be ejected to the collection device side. Therefore, by returning the held card from the holding position by the reset means, the remaining ball supplyable amount can be confirmed by the punching. .

By configuring as described above, it becomes possible to collect the used magnetic card and confirm the remaining amount of the used magnetic card by the card type pachinko ball lending machine according to the present invention, thus improving the aesthetics of the play hall and reducing the cleaning cost. Since it is possible to check the collected magnetic cards, it is possible to avoid troubles with customers.

(Example) Below, the card type pachinko ball lending machine of this invention is demonstrated in detail using drawing.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. The card-type pachinko ball lending machine of the present invention includes a card reader unit 10 and a processing unit 30.

The card reader unit 10 includes position sensors 11 to 13 for detecting the position of a magnetic card, a magnetic head 14 for reading data from the magnetic card, and a motor 16 driven by a motor drive circuit 15.
And the rotation force of the motor 16 is applied to the roller 18 mounted on the shaft.
a, rollers 18b and 18c that convey magnetic cards that are transmitted via belts 17a and 17b, and rollers 18d, 18e, and 18f that are arranged to face these rollers and slidably support the magnetic cards, respectively. A timing circuit 20 for receiving a rotation speed pulse output from an encoder 19 connected to the motor 16 and outputting a timing signal to the motor drive circuit 15, and a card punch circuit 21 for driving a card puncher 22 for punching a card. And have. The actual positional relationship of the operating devices of the card reader section 10 is shown in FIG.

The processing unit 30 is a ball lending computer 31 that performs arithmetic processing.
And the position sensors 11 to 1 connected to its input / output port 31a.
The position signal is input from 3 and the data is input from the magnetic head 14, and the input / output buffer 32 that outputs a control signal to the motor drive circuit 15, the timing circuit 20 and the card punch circuit 21 is connected to the input / output port 31b. Ball feeder 3
I / O buffer 33 for inputting and outputting control signals to and from 4,
The reset switch 35 connected to the input port 31c and outputting the reset signal to the input / output buffer 32, the reset circuit 36 connected to the reset port 31d, and the remaining amount data output from the output port 31e via the driver 37. A digital display 38 for displaying and a data address port 31f are connected to store and read data, such as RAM,
It has a memory 39 composed of a ROM. Further, the transmission / reception port 31g is connected to a separately provided host computer 41 that performs various data processing, for example, via a communication circuit 40 used for optical communication. In this embodiment, a card conveyor belt conveyor that is always driven to collect used cards discharged as described above intensively in a collection box is provided between card-type pachinko ball lending machines arranged back to back. It is provided separately. In this case, since the belt width is narrow, in order to prevent the ejected card from interfering with the ball lending machine on the opposite side of the ball lending machine, curved guide plates in opposite directions are provided near the exit of the ball lending machine. It guides to a predetermined discharge position.

The operation of the apparatus of this embodiment will be described below item by item with reference to the configuration diagram of FIG. 2 and the flowchart of FIG.

(A) Normal operation When the card type pachinko ball lending machine is turned on, each circuit is initialized (step 101). Next, the state of the reset switch 35 is searched (step 102), and if it is OFF, standby processing is performed (step 103). Then, it is determined whether or not the ball supply device 34 is capable of supplying a ball, based on whether or not the supply possible signal is output from the ball supply device 34 (step 104), and if there is no supplyable signal, error processing is performed. After (step 105), the process returns to step 102, and if there is, a magnetic card insertion waiting state is entered. That is, if the magnetic card is not inserted, the process returns to step 102. When the position sensor 11 is inserted and the position sensor 11 is turned on (step 106), the motor 16 rotates in the forward direction to operate the rollers 18a to 18f and convey the magnetic card. And at the same time, the steps described below
When the previously used magnetic card is held by the processing of 126 to 131, the magnetic card is discharged to the outside (collection device side) (step 107). Further, when the conveyance of the magnetic card is continued and the position sensors 12 and 13 are simultaneously turned on (step 108), the number of holes indicating the used amount of the card is counted by the position sensor 13 (step 10).
9). This operation is continued until the magnetic card is further conveyed and the positions where the position sensors 11 and 12 are simultaneously turned off are reached (step 110), and when the position is reached, the magnetic head 14 starts reading the data of the card. (Step 111). This reading operation is continued until the magnetic card is further conveyed to reach the position where the position sensors 12 and 13 are simultaneously turned off (step 112), and when the position is reached, the rotation of the motor 16 is stopped (step 11).
3). At this time, a data check of the read data is performed (step 114), and it is determined whether the data is normal (step 115). Note that the data includes, for example, the card issuance date and the card identification number, and in this example, the expiration date of the card is the same day. If it is determined that the data is not normal, the magnetic card is returned to the insertion slot (step 116) and then the process returns to step 102. When the data is determined to be normal, the host computer 41 separately provided via the communication circuit 40 is inquired about the remaining ball supplyable amount data (hereinafter referred to as remaining amount data) of the magnetic card (step 117), It is determined whether or not the remaining amount data is zero (step 118). If it is zero, the process proceeds to steps 126 to 131 described later, and if it is not zero, the ball supply device 34 operates according to the control signal of the ball lending computer 31 to pay out a predetermined number of pachinko balls (step 119). In this embodiment, the selling price of the magnetic card, that is, the ball supplyable amount is set to 1000 yen, and the ball supply amount for one time is set to 200 yen.
When the payout is completed, the ball lending computer 31 outputs a control signal, and the motor drive circuit 15 that receives the control signal outputs the control signal to the motor.
The magnetic card is conveyed in the forward direction by rotating 16 at a low speed in the forward direction (step 120). At the same time, the encoder 19 mounted on the motor 16 also rotates and outputs the count of the number of rotations pulse to the timing circuit 20 (step 121). In response to this, the timing circuit 20 determines whether or not the count of this rotation pulse matches the preset count of the position to be punched this time on the magnetic card (step 12).
2). If they do not match, go back to step 120,
Further, the magnetic card is continuously conveyed until the counts match, and when the counts match, the motor 16 is stopped by the motor drive circuit 15 which receives the control signal of the timing circuit 20, and the card puncher 22 driven by the card punch circuit 21
The magnetic card is punched to display the used amount (step 123). Here, the number obtained by adding 1 to the number of holes of the magnetic card counted in step 109 described above is subtracted from the maximum value of the number of possible ball supply (5 times in this example) (step 124),
It is determined whether the obtained result is zero (step 12
5) If not zero, return to step 116 and return the magnetic card. In the case of zero, that is, in the case of a used magnetic card, a control signal is output from the ball lending computer 31, and the motor drive circuit 15 receiving the control signal first causes the motor 16 to rotate in the reverse direction to detect the position of the magnetic card. 13 is ON
Is conveyed in the opposite direction (steps 126 and 127) and stopped (step 128), and after the positioning, the magnetic card is conveyed in the forward direction by rotating in the forward direction (step 12).
9). This transfer operation turns off the magnetic card and position sensor 13.
Is continued until the position is reached (step 130),
When that position is reached, the motor 16 stops after a lapse of a predetermined time (step 131) and holds the used card described above at a predetermined holding position inside the card reader unit 10. After that, the process returns to step 102 in that state, and the subsequent processes are repeated.

(B) Manual confirmation operation In step 102 described above, open the pachinko machine,
Put your hand on the back side of the ball lending machine and manually set the reset switch 35.
When turned on, the motor drive circuit 15 which receives the control signal output from the ball lending computer 31 causes the motor 16 to rotate in the reverse direction and conveys the magnetic card in the reverse direction from the predetermined holding position described above (step 132). ). This carrying operation is continued until the magnetic card reaches the position where the position sensor 12 is OFF and the position sensor 11 is ON (step 133), and when it reaches that position, the motor 16 is stopped (step 13).
Four). If you take out the magnetic card manually here, the position sensor 11
Is turned off (step 135), and in that case, if it is confirmed by the punching that the remaining supplyable amount of balls of the magnetic card taken out is zero (step 136), if the magnetic card is reinserted, the process goes to step 106. Return and repeat the subsequent processing.

The invention is not limited to the examples described above, of course, numerous modifications can be made. For example, in this example, the remaining amount data of the magnetic card is inquired to the host computer 41 provided separately, but the remaining amount data is also recorded in the magnetic card and the ball lending computer 31 processes it. You can also Also, step 10 described above
It is also possible to utilize the number of holes in the used amount display counted in 9 to perform the ball supply process when the communication circuit 40 is not connected.

Furthermore, in this example, the explanation of the used card collection is recorded in the outer box of the card type pachinko ball lending machine, but instead, the purpose of collecting the used card is broadcast by voice in step 131, or a separate display device is used. It is also possible to provide a message to that effect. Further, as the card, a card other than the magnetic card, for example, an optical card can be used. In addition, this example can be applied to a card system other than a pachinko ball lending machine.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the card-type pachinko ball lending machine according to the present invention is capable of collecting a used magnetic card and confirming the remaining amount of the used magnetic card by configuring as described above. The aesthetics can be improved and the cleaning cost can be reduced. Further, since the reset means is provided so that the card to be collected can be returned, it is possible to avoid the risk of causing unnecessary trouble with the customer.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall construction of an embodiment of a card-type pachinko ball lending machine according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the actual arrangement of each component of the card reader section, and FIG. The figure is also a flowchart showing the operation. 10 …… Card reader, 11 to 13 …… Position sensor 14 …… Magnetic head, 15 …… Motor drive circuit 16 …… Motor, 17a, 17b …… Belt 18a to 18f …… Roller, 19 …… Encoder 20… ... Timing circuit, 21 ... Card punch circuit 22 ... Card puncher, 30 ... Processing unit 31 ... Ball lending computer 31a, 31b ... I / O port, 31c ... Input port 31d ... Reset port, 31e ... Output port 31f Data address port 31g Transmit / receive port 32,33 Input / output buffer 34 Ball supply device 35 Reset switch 36 Reset circuit 37 Driver 38 Digital display Container, 39 ... Memory 40 ... Communication circuit 41 ... Host computer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A data detection unit for detecting data recorded on a card, a ball supply unit for supplying a predetermined number of pachinko balls based on the data, and a remaining amount for displaying a ball supplyable remaining amount of the card. In a card-type pachinko ball lending machine comprising a display means, when a pachinko ball is supplied, a perforation means for performing a perforation for displaying the remaining ball supplyable amount on the card, and the card, the ball after the pachinko ball is supplied. If the remaining supplyable amount is not zero, it is returned. If the remaining supplyable amount is zero, it is held in the predetermined holding position until the next card is inserted, and is conveyed so that it is discharged to the collection device side when the next card is inserted. A card having a remaining ball supply remaining amount of zero is provided by providing a conveying means and a reset means for returning the held card from the holding position in order to confirm the remaining ball supplyable amount by the perforation. Times Card type pachinko ball lending machine, characterized in that the manner be.