JPH09155058A - Counting device and ball counting system for pachinko stand - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a counting device with which the number of balls is counted at every PACHINKO stand position for each PACHINKO stand to decrease excessive balls preserved in the respective PACHINKO stands. SOLUTION: This system is composed of a counting device 4 provided with an inserting port installed at the lower part of front surface of PACHINKO stand 2 so as to receive PACHINKO balls while having shutter to be freely opened and closed, having a counting means for counting the number of received balls and outputting a signal as a count signal and provided with an ejecting port for successively ejecting the counted PACHINKO balls, and a storage device 5 with which the count signal from the counting device 4 can be inputted, a storage medium can be accepted, the number of inputted count signals is counted and the number of balls can be written.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a counting device and a ball number counting system for a pachinko machine, and more specifically, a counting method capable of counting the number of balls produced by an athlete on the spot by mounting the machine at the position of the pachinko machine. The present invention relates to a device and a ball number counting system for pachinko machines.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a pachinko game, the number of balls produced by a player has been counted by a ball number counter installed at a prize counter or the like, which is different from the game on a pachinko machine. In other words, in recent years, the number of balls released per pachinko machine is large, and at the position of the pachinko machine, each competitor who is competing puts the balls in a large ball box and stores them, and then the competition on that pachinko machine After the end, or during the competition, leave the pachinko machine and go to a prize counter etc. with a ball number counter to count at once and store the counting result in a storage medium such as a magnetic card, or as a receipt It was printed. The pachinko balls were counted and then returned to the pachinko machine again.

[0003]

However, in the method of counting the number of balls put out by an athlete at a place different from a pachinko machine such as a prize counter as in the conventional technique, each athlete is in a pachinko competition. The number of balls actually working on the pachinko island or inside the pachinko machine is reduced because the balls are stored in ball boxes at each pachinko machine position, and the number of balls required for the entire pachinko stadium is The total number of balls actually working at and the number of balls stored by each player at the pachinko machine position are added, and extra balls that are not actually used and stored by each player at the pachinko machine position are also prepared. It had a problem that it was necessary. In particular, there is a problem that the number of balls that actually work is insufficient in a pachinko machine that has a large number of balls in recent years. or,
When there are a plurality of boxes, the boxes that must be moved are heavy, and it was difficult to move the boxes to the counting place.

Therefore, in view of these problems, the present invention provides a counting device and a ball number counting system for a pachinko machine in order to reduce extra balls stored in each pachinko machine, in order to reduce the number of extra balls stored in each pachinko machine. The task is to do.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems Therefore, the present invention provides

The pachinko machine is provided with an insertion opening having a shutter which can be opened and closed, and a counting means capable of counting the pachinko balls received from the insertion opening and outputting a signal as a count signal, which is already counted by the counting means. A counting device characterized by providing an outlet for sequentially ejecting pachinko balls, and an insertion port with a shutter that can be opened and closed installed at the lower part of the front of the pachinko table, counting the pachinko balls received from the insertion port and counting signals. As a counting device having a counting means capable of outputting a signal and having an outlet for sequentially discharging the pachinko balls counted by the counting means, a count signal from the counting device can be inputted, and a storage medium can be received. , A storage device capable of counting the input count signal and writing the counted number of balls into a storage medium. Nko stand for the ball counting system,

[0007] The above problem is solved by providing the above.
The operation is as follows. That is, the counting device is installed on the lower part of the front surface of the pachinko machine. The athlete inserts the storage medium into the storage device. Then, the insertion port of the counting device is opened, and the counting device is brought into a countable state. When the number of balls output from the storage device increases, the athlete places a ball box on the counting device and moves the balls received on the pachinko machine to the ball box. Further, when the number of balls in the ball box increases, the player moves the balls in the ball box to the counting device. Then, the balls are received from the insertion port of the counting device, move inside the counting device, and reach the counting means. The counting means counts the balls that sequentially pass and outputs a count signal. The ball that has finished counting moves further and is discharged from the discharge port. The ejected balls are returned to the pachinko machine as working balls. In the storage device, the count signal output from the counting means is input, the count signal is counted, and the count result is stored in the storage medium. The athlete removes the stored storage medium from the counting device. Then, the shutter of the counting device is closed and the counting is completed.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, FIG. 1 is a front view showing a state in which an embodiment of the present invention is attached to a position of a pachinko machine, FIG. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional explanatory view of FIG. An embodiment of the present invention will be described based on FIG. 3 which is a drawing and FIG. 4 which is a vertical central sectional view.

1 is a ball number counting system for pachinko machines according to the present invention. 2 is a pachinko machine, and 3 is an inter-lens ball lending device installed between the pachinko machines. The pachinko machine 2 and the inter-lens ball lending device 3 are alternately and continuously installed. The inter-mountain ball lending device 3 is installed between the respective pachinko balls, and when the player inserts the storage medium W such as a card, the pachinko balls are lent to the competitors up to the number of the pachinko balls stored in the storage medium W. It is a device. The pachinko machine ball number counting system 1 is composed of a counting device 4 and a storage device 5, and the storage device 5 stores the number of balls counted by the counting device 4 in a storage medium W. It 6 is a ball box. In this embodiment, the storage medium W is a magnetic card used in the inter-lens ball lending device 3, and has stored a predetermined number of balls that can be borrowed in advance at a prize counter or the like.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the pachinko machine base 2 includes a table body 21, an upper plate 22, a ball receiving plate 23, and a handle 2.
4, a counter 25, and a discharge gutter 26. The pachinko machine 2 plays a game in which the pachinko balls put in the upper plate 22 are rotated in the table body 21 by rotating the handle 24, and the balls received by winning the prize are received by the ball receiving plate 23. An opening 27 is provided in the lower part of the ball receiving tray 23, and a tray shutter 28 that closes the opening 27 opens the balls in the ball receiving tray 23 by the player so that the ball is placed under the ball receiving tray 23 on the counter 25 side. Can be discharged to.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the counting device 4 is installed under the counter 25 below the front of the pachinko machine 2. Then, the counting device 4 has an insertion opening 4 that opens at the top.
1, and the insertion opening 41 can be opened and closed by a shutter 42 that is slid by driving a shutter driving motor 43. Reference numeral 44 is a discharge port. The discharge port 44, when attached to the counter 25, opens at the lower back surface of the counting device 4 as shown in FIG. 2, and can discharge pachinko balls into the discharge gutter 26. 45 is an alignment lane. The alignment lane 45 extends from the discharge port 44 to the lower part of the insertion port 41 and is fixed with a height difference so that the discharge port 44 side becomes low, and the width gradually increases from the insertion port 41 side end portion to the substantially middle portion a. It becomes narrower and slightly wider than one pachinko ball at the position of the middle part a. Then, the pachinko balls having the same width from the substantially middle portion a to the end portion on the side of the discharge port 44 and moved from the insertion opening 41 to the alignment lane 45 are aligned in the substantially middle portion to form one line and are inserted on the alignment lane 45. It is movable from the end on the side of the opening 41 toward the discharge opening 44. Reference numeral 46 denotes a counting means, which is connected to the storage device 5 so as to be capable of outputting a signal, is provided above the alignment lane 45 on the discharge port 44 side from the substantially middle portion a of the alignment lane 45, and has an optical sensor (not shown). ), And can send a count signal each time a pachinko ball passes under itself. In this embodiment, as the count signal, an electric signal of one pulse is used for every confirmation of passage of one pachinko ball, but light or the like may be used. Further, the counting device 4 starts its operation by inputting the operation start signal from the storage device 5, operates the shutter driving motor 43, moves the shutter 42, and opens the insertion opening 41.
Similarly, the operation is ended by inputting the operation end signal,
The shutter drive motor 43 is operated to operate the shutter 42.
Is moved to close the insertion port 41.

In this embodiment, the storage device 5 is housed and installed in the inter-lens ball lending device 3 so that the opening 51 for housing the storage medium W is located on the surface, and is connected to the counting device 4 so that signals can be input and output freely. To be done. The storage device 5 is the counting device 4
The count signal input from the device is counted, and the total number of counts is writable so as to be stored in the storage medium W and connected to the inter-mountain ball lending device 3 so that signals can be input / output. It is also used as an output device. Further, the storage device 5 can output an operation start signal to the counting device 4 so that the counting device 4 starts the operation when the storage medium W is inserted into the opening 51.
When the storage medium W is taken out from the device, an operation end signal can be output to the counting device 4 so as to end the operation. The ball box 6 has a box shape capable of accommodating pachinko balls, and has an opening 61 at a lower portion thereof, and the ball box 6 can be installed around the opening 61 so that the opening 61 corresponds to the insertion opening 41 of the counting device 2. The connection portion 62 is formed. Further, an opening / closing shutter 63 is provided at the opening 61 of the ball box 6, and the player can operate the lever 64 to open the opening 61 so that the pachinko balls in the ball box 6 can be sequentially dropped from the opening 61. is there.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. A competitor has started a competition on a predetermined pachinko machine 2. At this time, the storage medium W has already been inserted by the athlete into the opening 51 of the storage device 5 housed in the inter-lens ball lending device 3, and therefore the counting device 4 is instructed by the storage device 5 to start operation. The operation start signal has already been input and is in the operating state, and the shutter driving motor 43 is driven to move the shutter 42 and the insertion opening 41 is already in the open state. Also, the athlete has already placed the ball box 6 on the counting device 4. The number of balls stored in the storage medium W has already been recognized by the storage device 5 which also serves as an input / output device of the inter-lens ball lending device 3.

The player opens the tray shutter 28 to move the balls from the opening 27 of the ball receiving tray 23 to the ball box 6 when the balls are accumulated in the ball receiving tray 23. Then, the output balls accumulated in the ball receiving tray 23 fall into the ball box 6 through the opening 27 and are stored in the ball box 6. In order for the counting device 4 to count the number of pachinko balls, the player moves the lever 64 of the ball box 6 to open the opening / closing shutter 63 and open the opening 61. Then, in the counting device 4, since the insertion port 41 is already in the open state, the pachinko balls fall from the opening 61 of the ball box 6 and sequentially fall into the insertion port 41 of the counting device 4. The pachinko balls that have fallen into the insertion slot 41 drop from the insertion slot 41 to the ball alignment lane 45 and are aligned while moving in the ball alignment lane 45 toward the discharge port 44, up to the position of the intermediate portion a of the ball alignment lane 45. Are aligned in a row. Further, the pachinko ball moves and eventually passes below the counting means 46. When passing, the counting means 46 outputs a count signal to the storage means 5 each time a pachinko ball passes. The pachinko balls counted by the counting means 46 move to the discharge port and are discharged to the discharge gutter 26 of the pachinko machine 2. The discharged pachinko balls have already been counted as balls to be paid out, and are returned to the pachinko machine 2 to be used as actual balls for competition. Storage means 5
Then, the count signal from the counting means 46 is input. Then, each time the count signal is input, the count signal is added to the number of balls already stored in the storage medium W inserted in the opening 51.

Eventually, there will be no balls in the ball box 6, and no pachinko balls will fall into the counting device 4. Then, the count signal is not output from the counting means 46 of the counting device 4, and the storage means 5 does not perform the addition. Then, if there is no input of a count signal set in advance in the storage means 5,
The total number of balls counted and added up to that point is stored in the storage medium W. When the balls are collected again in the ball tray 23, the player again moves the balls on the pachinko machine 1 to the ball box 6 as described above. When the balls are accumulated in the ball box 6, the open / close shutter 63 of the ball box 6 is opened again and the balls are dropped into the counting device 4 to be counted. Movement of pachinko balls,
The counting method is the same as above. At the end of the competition, the competitor removes the ball box 6 from the counting device 4, and
The storage medium W is taken out from the storage means 5. Then, in the storage means 5, since the result of counting by the count signal from the counting device 4 is already stored in the storage medium W, the number of pachinko balls stored in advance is stored in the storage medium W taken out. The number obtained by subtracting the number of balls lent by the lending device 3 and the number of payout balls counted by the counting device 4 and counted by the storage device 5 is stored. In this embodiment, the storage device 5 is installed in the inter-mountain ball lending device 3 and can be used as an input / output device of the inter-mountain ball lending device 3. It may be installed near the pachinko machine 2 other than 3, and in this case, it may be an input / output device for the storage medium W, which is independent of the input / output device of the inter-lens ball lending device 3. In this case, the storage device 5 is configured to read the number of balls stored in the storage medium W from the storage medium W.

Although a magnetic card is used as the storage medium W, an IC card having a storage element such as an LSI embedded therein, or a card having a magnetic tape on its surface may be used as the storage medium W, and the storage device 5 counts. It is only necessary that the embodiment can store the number of balls played in the storage medium. In that case, of course, the storage device 5 is also an input / output device according to the embodiment of each storage medium.

[0017]

[Effects of the Invention] Therefore, according to the present invention, the number of balls thrown by the player is counted each time by the counting device installed in the lower part of the front of the pachinko machine, without bringing them together to a prize counter or the like. It is possible for each player to reduce the number of non-actuated balls stored in the ball box at the position of the pachinko machine and reduce the number of balls required in the entire pachinko stadium. Also, it is not necessary to carry a heavy ball box to the counter installation position such as a prize counter.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a state in which an embodiment of the present invention is attached to a pachinko machine position.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view of a vertical section in the center of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective explanatory view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of a longitudinal center section of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 W Storage medium 1 Ball counting system for pachinko machine 2 Pachinko machine 21 main body 22 Upper plate 23 Ball receiving tray 24 Handle 25 Counter 26 Discharge gutter 26 27 Open 28 Saucet shutter 3 units Ball lending device 4 Counting device 41 Inserting port 42 Shutter 43 Motor for Driving Shutter 44 Discharge Port 45 Alignment Lane 46 Counting Means 5 Storage Device 51 Opening 6 Box Box 61 Opening 62 Connection Part 62 63 Opening / Closing Shutter 64 Lever

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An insertion opening provided at the lower part of the front of the pachinko machine, having an openable shutter, and having a counting means capable of counting the pachinko balls received from the insertion opening and outputting a signal as a count signal. A counting device, which is provided with an outlet for sequentially ejecting used pachinko balls. 2. A pachinko machine is provided at the lower part of the front surface of the pachinko machine with an insertion opening having a shutter that can be opened and closed, and has a counting means capable of counting the pachinko balls received from the insertion opening and outputting a signal as a count signal. A counting device that has a discharge port that sequentially discharges used pachinko balls, and a count signal from the counting device can be input,
A pachinko machine ball number counting system comprising: a storage device capable of receiving a storage medium, counting an input count signal, and writing the counted number of balls to the storage medium.