JPH09103572A - Pachinko game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recognize prescribed parts in the rear side of a game board with the eyes. SOLUTION: A base plate box 28 is fitted to the rear side of a game board 14 via a fitting member 26 and a fitting frame 34 so that the rear side of the game board, where a rotation drum type display and a winning ball guide cover are positioned, can be recognized with the eyes through openings formed in the fitting member 26 and the fitting frame 34 in the detached state of the base plate box 28.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ball game machine represented by a pachinko game machine, a coin game machine, an arrangement type pachinko game machine and the like. Related to ball and ball game machines.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In this type of ball-and-ball game machine, a generally known one is driven and controlled by, for example, a yam thing or a motor as an example of an electric game part which is opened and closed by a solenoid. In some cases, a variable display device or the like, which is an example of an electric game component, is provided so as to face a game board surface.

In the prior art, a board box for accommodating a control circuit board capable of controlling the electric game component is provided on the back side of the game board via a board box mounting member. On the back side of the gaming board, there are provided predetermined parts such as a winning ball guiding cover for guiding a winning ball guided to the back side of the gaming board to a predetermined place by winning a winning area and the above-mentioned electric game parts. The board box mounting member is provided so as to cover the back side of the game board.

[0004]

On the other hand, in this conventional ball-and-ball game machine, it has been general whether the board box mounting member is made of a metal material. For this reason, the predetermined components covered by the board box mounting member cannot be seen through, and when an abnormality or the like occurs on the back side of the game board, the abnormal state cannot be visually recognized.

The present invention has been conceived in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a ball game machine capable of visually recognizing the back side of the game board.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a ball game machine in which a game is played by hitting a ball into a game board, and an electric game component provided so as to face the game board. A storage box for storing a control circuit board capable of controlling the electric game component, comprising: a board box mounted on a back side of the game board via a board box mounting member; The member is provided so as to cover the back side of the game board, and a see-through portion through which the back side of the game board can be seen is formed on the board box mounting member with the board box removed.

[0007]

According to the present invention, a control circuit board provided so as to face an amusement board surface and capable of controlling electric game components is accommodated in a board box, and the board box is connected to the board box via a board box mounting member. It is attached to the back of the game board. The board box mounting member is provided so as to cover the back side of the game board, and the see-through portion formed on the board box mounting member allows the back side of the game board to be seen through with the board box removed. Become.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition,
In the following description of the embodiments, a pachinko game machine will be described as an example of a ball game machine to which the present invention is applied. However, the present invention is applicable to other ball game machines, for example, coin game machines and arrangement type pachinko machines. It should be pointed out that the same applies to gaming machines and the like.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine 10 to which one embodiment of the present invention is applied. Referring to FIG. 1, a pachinko gaming machine 10 has a rectangular frame-shaped front frame 12.
The front frame 12 has a game board 14
Is detachably mounted. At a substantially central portion of the game board 14, a rotary drum type display device 16 as an example of an electrically driven electric game component is provided. The rotating drum type display device 16 includes three rotating drums 18a, 18b,
When 18c is electrically driven and stopped, predetermined characters, symbols, patterns, etc. are variably displayed.
The rotating drum type display device 16 further includes a digital display 20 and other electric display members.

Below the rotary drum type display device 16, there is provided one variable winning prize ball device (so-called electric yakmono) 22, which is also an electric game component which is also electrically driven and controlled. The variable prize ball device 22 is driven by an electrically controlled solenoid (not shown) into an open state in which the open / close plate 24 is rotated forward, and a closed state in which the game board 14 is flush with the board surface. The device to be controlled.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the pachinko gaming machine 10 to which one embodiment of the present invention is applied. With reference to FIG. 2, the feature of this embodiment is that the drive side is electrically controlled on the back side of the game board 14 like the above-described rotary drum type display device 16 or variable winning ball device 22. The mounting member 26 is provided on the back side corresponding to the game component, for example, the rotary drum type display device 16, and the board box 28 is detachably mounted on the mounting member 26.

The configuration of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 shows the pachinko gaming machine 1
0 is a perspective view from the back side, showing a state in which the mechanism plate 30 is opened. FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the mounting structure of FIG. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the pachinko gaming machine 10 with the mechanism plate 30 closed, as viewed from the back side.

A prize ball guide cover 32 is provided substantially at the center of the back side of the game board 14, from which the main part of the rotary drum type display device 16 is exposed. Mounting member 2
Reference numeral 6 denotes a rectangular frame member formed so as to surround the rotary drum type display device 16, and is formed by, for example, bending an iron plate or an aluminum plate. The mounting member 26 is directly fixed to the back surface of the game board 14 with screws or the like. A mounting frame 3 is provided on the rear side of the mounting member 26 (rear side when the surface side of the pachinko gaming machine 10 is set to the front side).
4 is attached, and further on the rear side, a board box 2
8 is detachably mounted.

The attachment frame 34 is attached to the attachment member 26 with, for example, screws. As shown in FIG. 4, the mounting holes 36 formed on the left and right sides of the mounting frame 34 for inserting screws and the like are elongated holes extending in the front-rear direction of the pachinko gaming machine 10. This allows the mounting depth of the mounting frame 34 to be adjusted in accordance with the thickness in the front-rear direction of the rotary drum type display device 16 or the like that fits in the mounting member 26. Accordingly, even when the thickness of the rotary drum type display device 16 is large and a part thereof projects behind the mounting member 26, by adjusting the mounting position of the mounting frame 34, it is difficult to mount the board box 28 described later. do not become.

Next, the board box 2 with respect to the mounting frame 34
The mounting structure 8 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

The mounting frame 34 has a rectangular housing shape as shown in the figure, and has a window hole 38 formed on the back side thereof (the rear side when the front side of the pachinko game machine is the front side). ing. The window hole 38 is for passing wiring for electrical connection between the circuit board in the board box 28 and the rotary drum type display device 16 (see FIG. 4) and the like. At the top and bottom of the back of the mounting frame 34, regulating members 40a extending parallel to the longitudinal direction are provided.
40b are respectively fixed, and wider regulating members 42a and 42b are further fixed thereon. The regulating members 42a and 42b are, as shown in FIG.
It is fixed so as to protrude to the side opposite to each other than 40b. Therefore, the rail receiving gap for receiving the flanges 44a, 44b of the board box 28 described below is respectively provided by the mounting frame 34, the regulating member 40a, and the regulating member 42a, and by the mounting frame 34, the regulating member 40b, and the regulating member 42b. Are formed.

The upper and lower edges of the substrate box 28 are bent outward to form flanges 44a and 44b. The flanges 44a and 44b function as sliding rails, and are inserted into the rail receiving gap of the mounting frame 34 as described above. The distance D between the restricting members 40a and 40b is selected to be slightly larger than the distance d from the upper edge to the lower edge of the flanges 44a and 44b of the board box 28, and the restricting members 40a and 40b.
The thickness of 40b (the thickness in the front-back direction) is the same as that of the flanges 44a,
Of course, it is selected to be slightly larger than the thickness of 44b.

More specifically, the flange 4 of the board box 28 is inserted into the rail receiving gap formed by the mounting frame 34 and the regulating members 40a, 40b and 42a, 42b.
4a and 44b are inserted from the left side as shown by the arrow X, and the board box 28 is mounted on the mounting frame 34 by sliding the board box 28 in the direction of the arrow X. In this case, in order to define the mounting position of the board box 28, the right end of the rail receiving gap may be closed by a stopper or the like.

The flanges 44a and 44b and the regulating member 4
0a, 40b, 42a, and 42b for mounting the board box in a state where the board box is positioned with respect to the board box mounting member. By moving the board box to the positioning mounting position, the second connector is mounted on the board box. Positioning and mounting means configured to be at a position to be connected to the first connector is configured. A window hole 69 is also formed in the mounting member 26, and the window holes 69 and 38 allow the rear surface side of the game board where the rotary drum type display device 16 and the winning ball guide cover 32 are located with the substrate box 28 removed. It becomes possible to see through (see FIG. 4).

Returning to FIGS. 3 and 5, when the mechanism plate 30 is closed, the board box 28 mounted as described above passes through the escape hole 46 of the mechanism plate 30 and is located behind the pachinko gaming machine 10. Exposed to the side. That is, the mechanism plate 30
Does not directly contact the substrate box 28. Therefore,
By processing a large amount of pachinko balls, a mechanism plate 3 that is likely to be charged with static electricity generated by collision of the pachinko balls with each other.
From 0, the charged static electricity is hardly discharged to the substrate box 28.

The game board 14 is not provided on the mechanism board 30 but on the game board 14.
The substrate box 28 is directly and detachably mounted on the back side of the device via the mounting member 26 and the mounting frame 34, so that, particularly in the manufacturing stage, the electrically controlled game components such as the rotary drum type display device 16 are used. There is an advantage that an operation test or the like can be easily performed. That is, in the final process of the manufacturing stage or the like, when inspecting whether or not a game component such as the rotating drum type display device 16 performs a desired operation by an actual control circuit board, the control circuit board is built in. By mounting the substrate box 28, there is an advantage that the inspection can be easily performed.

In this embodiment, two members, the mounting member 26 and the mounting frame 34, are used as the substrate box mounting members, but they may be integrally formed.

In this embodiment, the substrate box 28 is exposed to the rear from the escape hole 46 of the mechanism plate 30. However, the portion corresponding to the escape hole 46 of the mechanism plate 30 is It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which the relief hole 46 is not formed.

Further, as shown in FIG.
A first connector 48 connected to a wiring connected to an electrically driven and controlled game component such as the rotary drum type display device 16;
And a second connector 50 connected to the first connector 48 is provided at the leading edge of the other board box 28 in the sliding direction, and the output side wiring of the circuit board 52 is connected to the second connector 50. Then, the connection between the connectors 48 and 50 can be completed simultaneously with the sliding of the board box 28, and the workability can be further improved.

[0025]

According to the present invention, when the board box is removed, the back side of the game board can be seen through the see-through portion formed on the board box mounting member. Even in the case where an error occurs, the abnormal state can be visually recognized, and the abnormality can be easily confirmed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko gaming machine to which an embodiment of the present invention has been applied.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the pachinko gaming machine to which the embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining the mounting structure according to the embodiment of the present invention, and is a perspective view seen from the back side with the mechanical plate of the pachinko gaming machine opened.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the mounting structure of FIG.

FIG. 5 shows a state in which the mechanism plate is closed in the pachinko gaming machine illustrating the mounting structure of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a mounting structure between a board box and a mounting frame.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 is a pachinko gaming machine, 14 is a game board, 16 is a rotating drum type display device, 26 is a mounting member, 28 is a board box,
30 is a mechanism plate, 34 is a mounting frame, 40a, 40b, 42a
, 42b are regulating members, and 44a, 44b are flanges.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A ball-and-ball game machine in which a game is played by hitting a ball into a game board surface, comprising: an electric game component provided so as to face the game board surface; A storage box for storing a controllable control circuit board, comprising: a board box mounted on the back side of the game board via a board box mounting member; wherein the board box mounting member is on the back side of the game board. A ball-and-ball game machine, wherein a see-through portion is formed on the board box mounting member so that the back side of the game board can be seen with the board box removed.