JPH10179896A - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To instantly and accurately calculate and display the number of gained balls, and record it on a card at the termination of a game to thereby make unnecessary a large and heavy ball container box. SOLUTION: This machine has a ball receiving part, and falling balls from a ball falling opening part of the ball receiving part are housed in a lower ball housing box 31. Balls entered in winning holes and out non-winning holes are housed in the lower ball housing box 31 through a recovery ball guide path. The balls entered in the winning holes are detected by a winning ball detection device 10 and a winning ball detection signal is generated. The balls passing the recovery ball guide path is detected by a recovery ball detection device 131 and a recovery ball detection signal is generated. The number of usable balls is read out from a card by a reading device. Balls in an upper ball housing box are supplied to the upper and down ball receiving parts by a winning ball supplying device, a ball returning device and a ball dispenser. An operation control device 21 calculates a remaining number of useable balls to displays it with a ball number display and records it on a card at the termination of a game with a recording device based on the number of useable balls from the reading device, the winning detection signal and the recovery ball signal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko machine in which a player launches a ball into a pachinko machine with a ball hitting device and puts the ball into a plurality of winning holes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a pachinko machine, a plurality of winning holes are provided inside a pachinko machine, and when a ball is hit into the win hole by a ball hitting device, the ball is provided below the surface of the pachinko machine. It is known to put out a predetermined number of balls in a given ball receiving portion. As this kind of pachinko machine, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open
What is described in 236767 is known.
This pachinko machine is a game machine island in which a plurality of game machines are juxtaposed, a game ball is lent by receiving cash or a card-shaped recording medium, and then the remaining amount and the game ball are received in response to a player's settlement instruction. This is a game ball lending payment device that pays out a card-shaped recording medium that records the number of balls held, and receives various cash or card-shaped recording media including high-value bills or receives a game ball held ball counting signal and inserts it. Increase or decrease the registered value of the remaining amount or the number of balls, and, according to the player's payout operation, a lending machine that pays out game balls within the range of the registered value and issues a card-shaped recording medium in which the registered value is registered. A game ball counting machine which is disposed adjacent to each game machine and transmits a ball counting result of thrown game balls to the rental machine as the ball counting signal. Machine captures game balls The fit of the inlet is made by arranging the front below each game machine. This pachinko machine can record the number of balls (number of usable balls) on a card. When exchanging the number of balls for a prize, the card can be taken to a prize exchange, so a large number of balls can be stored. It has the advantage that it is not necessary to carry the heavy large ball storage box that has been stored.

[0003]

However, in this conventional pachinko machine, the number of balls (number of usable balls) is obtained by taking the balls falling from the ball receiving portion into an inlet and counting them with a ball counting machine. Is displayed on the display device, so the actual number of balls is the sum of the number of balls displayed on the display device and the number of balls accommodated in the ball receiving portion. Since the player does not know the exact number of balls contained in the club, the exact number of balls possessed (the number of usable balls) is not immediately known during the game, and for this reason a short time (for example, several seconds to several minutes) However, there is a problem that the increase or decrease in the number of possessed balls (the number of usable balls) cannot be determined.

In this conventional pachinko machine,
At the end of the game, a high-speed ball counting machine for dropping and counting a large number of balls accommodated in the ball receiving portion is required, so that there is a problem that the pachinko machine becomes expensive.

[0005] Furthermore, in this conventional pachinko machine, there is a problem that a game can be played using a stolen ball.

A first object of the present invention is to eliminate the necessity of carrying a large and large ball storage box containing a large number of balls when exchanging the number of usable balls (the number of balls or the number of obtained balls) for a prize. Can immediately and accurately know the number of balls that can be used during a game, and for a short time (for example, several seconds to several minutes)
The present invention provides a pachinko machine that can increase or decrease the number of usable balls in a pachinko machine.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a low-cost pachinko machine.

[0008] A third object of the present invention is to provide a pachinko machine capable of preventing playing using a stolen ball.

[0009]

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, a first aspect of the present invention is to provide a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface, and a pachinko machine which is disposed substantially at the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine and has A game board in which a plurality of nails for changing the moving direction of the ball are protruded to form a plurality of winning holes, and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a predetermined distance is provided in front of the game board. A transparent plate arranged in front of the pachinko machine and defining a ball passing internal space through which balls pass in cooperation with the game board, and provided at a lower portion of the pachinko machine so as to be located below the game board. A ball hitting device that hits each ball, a ball hitting passage that guides a ball hit by the ball hitting device to an upper part of the ball passing internal space, and a ball that is detected when a ball enters the winning hole. Winning ball detection device that generates a winning ball detection signal And an upper ball storage box arranged on the backside upper part of the pachinko machine and capable of accommodating a large number of balls, and a ball placed on the back side of the pachinko machine and entering the winning hole and a ball entering the out hole. A collected ball guide passage for guiding the collected ball guide passage downward, a collected ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the collected ball guide passage and generating a collected ball detection signal, and a surface below the game board and at the surface of the pachinko machine And a ball drop-out port at the bottom of the ball-supply port, which has a ball-inlet at the top and a ball-bottom at the bottom at the bottom. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening, which receives and accumulates a ball supplied through the ball inlet portion, and discharges each ball from the hit ball supplying portion by its own weight, and the ball of the ball receiving portion. The ball drop port is movably arranged at the drop port and opens and closes The ball drop opening / closing member, which is a noble ball, is disposed on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine and is connected to the winning ball detecting device to receive the winning ball detection signal to use the ball of the upper ball housing box for winning. A prize ball supply device for supplying each possible ball number, and a ball supply provided below the prize ball supply device for receiving a ball from the prize ball supply device and guiding the ball downward to guide the ball to the ball entrance. A passage, a gold insertion portion provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying the authenticity and type of at least one of the coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion portion A gold discriminating device for generating a gold discriminating signal, and receiving the gold discriminating signal connected to the gold discriminating device, and receiving the gold discriminating signal, the number of available balls corresponding to the gold discriminating signal. Ball supply to supply to the department In a pachinko machine equipped with a device, a falling ball guide passage for guiding a ball dropped from the ball drop opening to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine, and a player provided around the pachinko machine for use by a player A card insertion unit that can record information on the number of usable balls that can be recorded, and that can insertably and removably insert a card having a usable ball number recording unit that can change the recorded information, A card insertion detection device disposed behind the card insertion portion for detecting the card and generating a card insertion detection signal; and a card insertion detection device disposed behind the card insertion portion for receiving a card insertion detection signal from the card insertion detection device. When the card inserted into the card insertion section is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance and placed at the reading / recording position, and when a card return signal is received, A card moving device for returning the card forward from the reading / recording position and projecting a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion, and detecting that the card is located near the reading / recording position and has reached the reading / recording position. A card arrival detection device that generates a card arrival detection signal, and a card that is located near the reading and recording position and is connected to the card arrival detection device and recorded on the card when the card arrival detection signal is received. An available ball number reading device for reading information on the number of available balls, a ball return switch provided on the periphery of the game board to generate a ball return instruction signal, and a ball return signal and a residual signal disposed on an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. When the number of available balls is received and the number of returned balls corresponding to the ball return signal is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining available balls, the returned balls are returned. Balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and when the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the number of remaining usable balls is A ball return device for returning from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, the winning ball detection device, the collected ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, An arithmetic and control unit connected to the ball return device, the ball return switch, and the gold identification device for calculating the number of remaining usable balls, and generating the ball return signal and the card return signal; A use end switch connected to the arithmetic and control unit for generating a use end signal for ending the use of the pachinko machine to be provided to the arithmetic and control unit, and disposed near the reading and recording position. And And when the information on the number of remaining usable balls is received from the arithmetic and control unit and received from the arithmetic and control unit, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on a card arranged at the reading and recording position. And an available ball number recording device that generates an available ball number recording end signal when the recording of this information is completed and gives the signal to the arithmetic control device, and the arithmetic control device which is disposed around the game board and And a ball number display device for displaying the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic control device, wherein the arithmetic control device reads the usable balls from the card by the usable ball number reading device. The number of remaining available balls is stored in the remaining available ball number storage unit as the number of remaining available balls, and when the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device, the number of lending balls corresponding to the gold identification signal is stored in the remaining available ball. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding to the number of remaining usable balls in the storage unit, and is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the winning ball detection signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls is stored. The remaining usable balls are calculated by adding the winning usable balls to the remaining usable balls, and the remaining usable balls are calculated and stored in the remaining usable balls storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of remaining usable balls in the number-of-balls storage section, and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage section. The number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball storage unit before receiving
When the above is the above, the ball return signal is generated, the ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage unit are provided to the ball return device, and when the use end signal is received, the remaining usable ball number is calculated. The information is provided to the usable ball number recording device, and when the usable ball number recording end signal is received, the card return signal is generated and provided to the card moving device.

A second aspect of the present invention is a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change the moving direction of the ball on the surface. A plurality of prize holes are formed and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a play board is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate defining a ball passing internal space through which the ball passes, a ball hitting device provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board and for hitting one ball at a time; A hit ball passage that guides a ball launched by a hitting device to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space, and a winning ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the winning hole and generates a winning ball detection signal, It is located on the upper back side of the pachinko machine. An upper ball storage box capable of storing a ball, a collection ball guide passage disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and guiding the ball entering the winning hole and the ball entering the out hole downward, and collecting the collected ball. A ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the ball guide passage and generating a ball detection signal; and a ball entrance at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and on the surface of the pachinko machine. A ball feed port is provided at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device. A ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port, and the ball is supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for receiving and accumulating balls to be ejected one by one from the hitting ball supply port by its own weight, and the ball dropping portion disposed movably at the ball drop opening portion of the ball receiving portion. A ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening / closing a mouth; A prize ball supply device that is arranged on the backside upper side of the table and is connected to the prize ball detection device and supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball number when receiving the prize ball detection signal, A ball supply passage provided below the prize ball supply device, receiving the ball from the prize ball supply device, guiding the ball downward and guiding the ball to the ball entrance, and a coin provided around the pachinko machine. And a gold insertion unit for inserting at least one of the banknotes, and a gold identification device that generates a gold identification signal by identifying at least one authenticity and a type of a coin and a bill inserted into the gold insertion unit, A pachinko machine that is connected to the gold identification device and that supplies a ball having the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion when the gold identification signal is received. Machine, the ball A drop ball guide path for guiding a ball dropped from a drop port to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine, and information on the number of usable balls that are provided around the pachinko machine and can be used by a player. And a card insertion portion capable of inserting and removing a card having a usable ball number recording portion capable of changing recorded information, and a card disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion. A card insertion detection device for detecting a
The card inserted into the card insertion portion when it is arranged on the back side of the card insertion portion and receives a card insertion detection signal from the card insertion detection device is moved a predetermined distance inside the pachinko machine and arranged at the reading / recording position. A card moving device for returning the card from the reading / recording position when receiving a card return signal, and projecting a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion; and a card disposed near the reading / recording position. A card arrival detection device that detects that the card has reached the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal; and a card arrival detection signal that is arranged near the reading and recording position and is connected to the card arrival detection device. A number-of-usable-balls reading device that reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when the card is received, and a ball provided around the game board. A ball return switch for generating an instruction signal, and the number of balls returned when the first ball return signal is received, which is disposed on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine, from the upper ball storage box via the ball supply passage. Return to the ball receiver,
In addition, when receiving the second ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls, the number of remaining usable balls is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage. Device, the winning ball detecting device, the collected ball detecting device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball returning device, the ball returning switch, and the gold identifying device are connected to the remaining usable device. An arithmetic and control unit for calculating the number of balls and generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal; and a pachinko machine provided around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. An end-of-use switch for generating an end-of-use signal for ending the use of the apparatus and providing the end-of-use signal to the arithmetic and control unit; When the information of the number of remaining usable balls is received from the device, the information of the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading and recording position, and the card is usable when the recording of this information is completed. An available ball number recording device that generates a ball number recording end signal and provides it to the arithmetic and control unit; and a remaining number of balls from the arithmetic and control unit that is arranged around the play board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. A number-of-balls display device for displaying the number of available balls, wherein the arithmetic and control unit is capable of remaining using the number of available balls read from the card by the available ball number reading device as the remaining number of usable balls. The number of stored balls is stored in a ball number storage unit, and when the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device, the lending ball number corresponding to the gold identification signal is added to the remaining usable ball number of the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Remaining usable The number of balls is calculated and stored in the remaining available balls storage unit, and each time the winning ball detection signal is received, the number of winning available balls is added to the number of remaining available balls of the remaining available ball storage unit. The remaining available ball count is calculated and stored in the remaining available ball count storage unit, and every time the collected ball detection signal is received, 1 is subtracted from the remaining available ball count in the remaining available ball count storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and each time the ball return instruction signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls before the return ball number receives the ball return instruction signal When the number of remaining usable balls is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls in the storage unit, the first ball returning signal is generated and given to the ball returning device, and the returned ball number is the ball returning instruction signal. Of the remaining usable balls before receiving When the number of remaining usable balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the second ball returning signal is generated, and the second ball returning signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage section are provided to the ball returning device, and the use end is completed. When the signal is received, the information on the remaining usable ball number is given to the usable ball number recording device, and when the usable ball number recording end signal is received, the card return signal is generated to generate the card moving device. The feature is to give to.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails disposed at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine for changing the moving direction of the ball on the surface. A plurality of winning holes are formed, and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a play board is disposed in front of the pachinko machine at a predetermined interval in front of the play board and cooperates with the play board. A transparent plate defining a ball passing internal space through which the ball passes, a ball hitting device provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board and for hitting one ball at a time; A hit ball passage that guides a ball launched by a hitting device to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space, and a winning ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the winning hole and generates a winning ball detection signal, It is located on the upper back side of the pachinko machine. An upper ball storage box capable of storing a ball, a collection ball guide passage disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and guiding the ball entering the winning hole and the ball entering the out hole downward, and collecting the collected ball. A ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the ball guide passage and generating a ball detection signal; and a ball entrance at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and on the surface of the pachinko machine. A ball feed port is provided at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device. A ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port, and the ball is supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for receiving and accumulating balls to be ejected one by one from the hitting ball supply port by its own weight, and the ball dropping portion disposed movably at the ball drop opening portion of the ball receiving portion. A ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening / closing a mouth; A prize ball supply device that is arranged on the back side of the table and connected to the prize ball detection device and supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball number when receiving the prize ball detection signal, A ball supply passage provided below the prize ball supply device, receiving the ball from the prize ball supply device, guiding the ball downward and guiding the ball to the ball entrance, and a coin provided around the pachinko machine. And a gold insertion unit for inserting at least one of the banknotes, and a gold identification device that generates a gold identification signal by identifying at least one authenticity and a type of a coin and a bill inserted into the gold insertion unit, A pachinko machine that is connected to the gold identification device and that supplies a ball having the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion when the gold identification signal is received. Machine, A supply ball detection device that detects a ball supplied by the prize ball supply device and generates a supply ball detection signal, and a drop ball guide that guides a ball dropped from the ball drop opening portion to a lower rear side of the pachinko machine. A passage and an available ball number recording unit provided at the periphery of the pachinko machine that can record information on the number of available balls that can be used by a player and that can change the recorded information. A card insertion portion capable of removably inserting a card having a card insertion portion, a card insertion detection device arranged behind the card insertion portion to detect the card and generate a card insertion detection signal, and the card insertion portion The card inserted into the card insertion portion when receiving a card insertion detection signal from the card insertion detection device is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance, and the reading and recording position is set. A card moving device for arranging and returning the card from the reading and recording position when a card return signal is received so that a front portion of the card projects from the card insertion portion; and a card moving device arranged near the reading and recording position. A card arrival detection device for detecting that the card has reached the reading / recording position and generating a card arrival detection signal; and a card arrival detection device arranged near the reading / recording position and connected to the card arrival detection device. An available ball number reading device that reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when a signal is received, a ball return switch that is provided around the play board and generates a ball return instruction signal, The number of returned balls corresponding to the ball return signal when the ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls arranged on the backside upper portion of the pachinko machine are received. Back to the ball receiving part through the ball supply passage said back piece count of balls from the upper ball housing box if equal fewer or which,
And, when the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, a ball returning device for returning the balls of the remaining usable number of balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage. The number of remaining usable balls connected to the supplied ball detecting device, the collected ball detecting device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball returning device, the ball returning switch, and the gold identifying device. And an arithmetic and control unit for generating the ball return signal and the card return signal, and provided around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit to terminate the use of the pachinko machine. A use end switch for generating a use end signal to be given to the arithmetic and control unit; and a remaining use unit which is arranged near the reading and recording position and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. When the information on the number of noble balls is received, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading and recording position, and when the recording of this information is completed, an available ball number recording end signal is output. An available ball count recording device which is generated and provided to the arithmetic and control unit; and a remaining number of available balls from the arithmetic and control unit which is arranged around the game board and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit. A ball number display device, wherein the arithmetic and control unit stores the number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number. Then, when the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device, the number of lending balls corresponding to the gold identification signal is added to the number of remaining available balls in the remaining available ball number storage unit to determine the number of remaining available balls. Calculate The number of available balls is stored in the available number of balls storage unit, and the number of remaining available balls is calculated by adding 1 to the number of remaining available balls of the remaining available number of balls storage unit each time the supplied ball detection signal is received. The number of remaining available balls is stored in the available number of balls storage unit, and the number of remaining available balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of remaining available balls of the remaining available number of balls storage unit each time the collected ball detection signal is received. Each time the ball return instruction signal is stored in the ball number storage unit, the ball return signal indicates that the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is 1 or more. And gives the ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage unit to the ball return device, and upon receiving the use end signal, records the information of the remaining usable ball number in the usable ball number recording. The number of usable balls given to the device and When receiving a recording end signal, the card return signal is generated and given to the card moving device.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine for changing the moving direction of the ball on the surface. A plurality of prize holes are formed and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a play board is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate defining a ball-passing internal space through which the ball passes, a ball-hitting device provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board and for hitting one ball at a time; A hit ball passage that guides a ball launched by a hitting device to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space, and a winning ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the winning hole and generates a winning ball detection signal, It is located on the upper back side of the pachinko machine. An upper ball storage box capable of storing a ball, a collection ball guide passage disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and guiding the ball entering the winning hole and the ball entering the out hole downward, and collecting the collected ball. A ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the ball guide passage and generating a ball detection signal; and a ball entrance at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and on the surface of the pachinko machine. A ball feed port is provided at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device. A ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port, and the ball is supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for receiving and accumulating balls to be ejected one by one from the hitting ball supply port by its own weight, and the ball dropping portion disposed movably at the ball drop opening portion of the ball receiving portion. A ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening / closing a mouth; A prize ball supply device that is arranged on the back side of the table and connected to the prize ball detection device and supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball number when receiving the prize ball detection signal, A ball supply passage provided below the prize ball supply device, receiving the ball from the prize ball supply device, guiding the ball downward and guiding the ball to the ball entrance, and a coin provided around the pachinko machine. And a gold insertion unit for inserting at least one of the banknotes, and a gold identification device that generates a gold identification signal by identifying at least one authenticity and a type of a coin and a bill inserted into the gold insertion unit, A pachinko machine that is connected to the gold identification device and that supplies a ball having the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion when the gold identification signal is received. Machine, A supply ball detection device that detects a ball supplied by the prize ball supply device and generates a supply ball detection signal, and a drop ball guide that guides a ball dropped from the ball drop opening portion to a lower rear side of the pachinko machine. A passage and an available ball number recording unit provided at the periphery of the pachinko machine that can record information on the number of available balls that can be used by a player and that can change the recorded information. A card insertion portion capable of removably inserting a card having a card insertion portion, a card insertion detection device arranged behind the card insertion portion to detect the card and generate a card insertion detection signal, and the card insertion portion The card inserted into the card insertion portion when receiving a card insertion detection signal from the card insertion detection device is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance, and the reading and recording position is set. A card moving device for arranging and returning the card from the reading and recording position when a card return signal is received so that a front portion of the card projects from the card insertion portion; and a card moving device arranged near the reading and recording position. A card arrival detection device for detecting that the card has reached the reading / recording position and generating a card arrival detection signal; and a card arrival detection device arranged near the reading / recording position and connected to the card arrival detection device. An available ball number reading device that reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when a signal is received, a ball return switch that is provided around the play board and generates a ball return instruction signal, When the first ball return signal is received on the back side upper portion of the pachinko machine and the first ball return signal is received, the balls of the return ball number are transferred from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage. And when the second ball return signal and the information on the number of remaining usable balls are received, the balls of the remaining usable number of balls are returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage. Ball return device,
The supply ball detection device, the collection ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball return device, the ball return switch, and the remaining usable ball number connected to the gold identification device. An arithmetic and control unit for calculating and generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal; and use of a pachinko machine provided around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. A use end switch for generating a use end signal for terminating the operation and giving the signal to the arithmetic and control unit; and a remaining from the arithmetic and control unit which is disposed near the reading and recording position and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. When the information on the number of usable balls is received, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading and recording position, and the information is used when the recording of this information is completed. An available ball number recording device that generates a noble ball number recording end signal and supplies the signal to the arithmetic and control unit; and a remaining number of remaining balls from the arithmetic and control unit that are arranged around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. A ball number display device that displays the number of available balls, wherein the arithmetic and control unit has
When the usable ball number read from the card by the usable ball number reading device is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, when the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device. The number of lending balls corresponding to the gold identification signal is added to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the number of remaining usable balls, and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the supply ball detection signal is received, 1 is added to the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining usable ball number, and the calculated remaining usable ball number is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time a collected ball detection signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time a return instruction signal is received, the return ball Is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal, generates the first ball return signal and When the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball returning instruction signal, the second ball returning signal is generated. The second ball return signal and the information of the remaining available ball number storage unit are provided to the ball return device, and when the use end signal is received, the information of the remaining available ball number is recorded in the available ball number recording device. And receiving the usable ball count recording end signal, generating the card return signal and providing the card return signal to the card moving device.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine for changing the moving direction of the ball on the surface. A plurality of winning holes are formed, and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a play board is disposed in front of the pachinko machine at a predetermined interval in front of the play board and cooperates with the play board. A transparent plate defining a ball passing internal space through which the ball passes, a ball hitting device provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board and for hitting one ball at a time; A hit ball passage that guides a ball launched by a hitting device to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space, and a winning ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the winning hole and generates a winning ball detection signal, It is located on the upper back side of the pachinko machine. An upper ball storage box capable of storing a ball, a collection ball guide passage disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and guiding the ball entering the winning hole and the ball entering the out hole downward, and collecting the collected ball. A ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the ball guide passage and generating a ball detection signal; and a ball entrance at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and on the surface of the pachinko machine. A ball feed port is provided at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device. A ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port, and the ball is supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for receiving and accumulating balls to be ejected one by one from the hitting ball supply port by its own weight, and the ball dropping portion disposed movably at the ball drop opening portion of the ball receiving portion. A ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening / closing a mouth; A prize ball supply device that is arranged on the back side of the table and connected to the prize ball detection device and supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball number when receiving the prize ball detection signal, A ball supply passage provided below the prize ball supply device, receiving a ball from the prize ball supply device, guiding the ball downward, and guiding the ball to the ball entrance, and a coin provided around the pachinko machine. And a gold insertion unit for inserting at least one of the banknotes, and a gold identification device that generates a gold identification signal by identifying at least one authenticity and a type of a coin and a bill inserted into the gold insertion unit, A pachinko machine that is connected to the gold identification device and that supplies a ball having the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion when the gold identification signal is received. Machine, A ball detection device that detects a ball supplied by the ball supply device and generates a ball detection signal, and a falling ball guide passage that guides a ball dropped from the ball drop opening to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine. And a usable number of balls recording unit provided around the pachinko machine and capable of recording information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player, and capable of changing the recorded information. A card insertion unit into which a card can be removably inserted, a card insertion detection device arranged behind the card insertion unit to detect the card and generate a card insertion detection signal, and a back side of the card insertion unit The card inserted into the card insertion portion when a card insertion detection signal is received from the card insertion detection device is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance and arranged at the reading / recording position. And a card moving device for returning the card forward from the reading and recording position when receiving a card return signal and projecting a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion; A card arrival detection device that detects arrival at the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal; and a card arrival detection device that is arranged near the reading and recording position and is connected to the card arrival detection device and receives the card arrival detection signal. An available ball number reading device that reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when the card is returned, a ball return switch that is provided around the game board and generates a ball return instruction signal, and a pachinko machine. The number of returned balls corresponding to the ball return signal is smaller than the number of remaining usable balls when receiving the ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls arranged on the back side upper part. When the number of returned balls is equal to or more than the number of returned balls, the number of returned balls is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls. In this case, a ball return device for returning the remaining usable number of balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, the winning ball detection device, the collected ball detection device, and the card It is connected to a moving device, the available ball number reading device, the ball return device, the ball return switch, and the ball lending detection device, calculates the remaining available ball number, and outputs the ball return signal and the card return. An operation control device for generating a signal, and a use provided at a peripheral portion of the game board and connected to the operation control device to generate a use end signal for ending the use of the pachinko machine and to provide the operation control device with the signal. Exit switch And a card arranged near the reading and recording position and connected to the arithmetic and control unit and arranged at the reading and recording position when receiving the information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit. Information on the number of remaining available balls, and when the recording of this information is completed, an available ball number recording end signal is generated and given to the arithmetic and control unit. A ball number display device arranged at the periphery of the board and connected to the arithmetic control device to display the remaining usable ball number from the arithmetic control device, wherein the arithmetic control device The number of usable balls read by the usable ball number reading device is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the number of remaining usable balls, and the remaining number of usable balls is received each time a ball lending detection signal is received from the ball lending detection device. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding 1 to the number of remaining usable balls in the available ball number storage unit and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding the number of winning usable balls to the number of remaining usable balls in the number of usable balls storage unit, the remaining usable balls are calculated and stored in the remaining usable balls storage unit, and each time the collected ball detection signal is received. Subtracting 1 from the remaining available ball number in the remaining available ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining available ball number, storing the calculated remaining available ball number in the remaining available ball number storage unit, and receiving the ball return instruction signal each time The ball return signal is generated when the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is one or more, and the ball return signal and the remaining usable ball number storage unit are stored. Information is given to the ball return device, and the use is terminated. When the card number is received, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is provided to the usable ball number recording device, and when the usable ball number recording end signal is received, the card return signal is generated to generate the card moving device. The feature is to give to.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change the moving direction of the ball on the surface. A plurality of winning holes are formed, and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a play board is disposed in front of the pachinko machine at a predetermined interval in front of the play board and cooperates with the play board. A transparent plate defining a ball passing internal space through which the ball passes, a ball hitting device provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board and for hitting one ball at a time; A hit ball passage that guides a ball launched by a hitting device to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space, and a winning ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the winning hole and generates a winning ball detection signal, It is located on the upper back side of the pachinko machine. An upper ball storage box capable of storing a ball, a collection ball guide passage disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and guiding the ball entering the winning hole and the ball entering the out hole downward, and collecting the collected ball. A ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the ball guide passage and generating a ball detection signal; and a ball entrance at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and on the surface of the pachinko machine. A ball feed port is provided at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device. A ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port, and the ball is supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for receiving and accumulating balls to be ejected one by one from the hitting ball supply port by its own weight, and the ball dropping portion disposed movably at the ball drop opening portion of the ball receiving portion. A ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening / closing a mouth; A prize ball supply device that is arranged on the back side of the table and connected to the prize ball detection device and supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball number when receiving the prize ball detection signal, A ball supply passage provided below the prize ball supply device, receiving the ball from the prize ball supply device, guiding the ball downward and guiding the ball to the ball entrance, and a coin provided around the pachinko machine. And a gold insertion unit for inserting at least one of the banknotes, and a gold identification device that generates a gold identification signal by identifying at least one authenticity and a type of a coin and a bill inserted into the gold insertion unit, A pachinko machine that is connected to the gold identification device and that supplies a ball having the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion when the gold identification signal is received. Machine, A ball detection device that detects a ball supplied by the ball supply device and generates a ball detection signal, and a falling ball guide passage that guides a ball dropped from the ball drop opening to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine. And a usable number of balls recording unit provided around the pachinko machine and capable of recording information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player, and capable of changing the recorded information. A card insertion unit into which a card can be removably inserted, a card insertion detection device arranged behind the card insertion unit to detect the card and generate a card insertion detection signal, and a back side of the card insertion unit The card inserted into the card insertion portion when a card insertion detection signal is received from the card insertion detection device is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance and arranged at the reading / recording position. And a card moving device for returning the card forward from the reading and recording position when receiving a card return signal and projecting a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion; A card arrival detection device that detects arrival at the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal; and a card arrival detection device that is arranged near the reading and recording position and is connected to the card arrival detection device and receives the card arrival detection signal. An available ball number reading device that reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when the card is returned, a ball return switch that is provided around the game board and generates a ball return instruction signal, and a pachinko machine. When the first ball return signal is received on the rear upper portion, the number of balls returned is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, A ball return device for returning the balls of the remaining usable number of balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage when receiving the second ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls. Connected to the winning ball detecting device, the collected ball detecting device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball returning device, the ball returning switch, and the ball lending detecting device, and the remaining usable An arithmetic and control unit for calculating the number of balls and generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal; and a pachinko machine provided around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. An end-of-use switch for generating an end-of-use signal for terminating the use of the apparatus and providing the end-of-use signal to the arithmetic and control unit; When the information of the number of remaining usable balls is received from the device, the information of the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading and recording position, and the card is usable when the recording of this information is completed. An available ball number recording device that generates a ball number recording end signal and provides it to the arithmetic and control unit; and a remaining number of balls from the arithmetic and control unit that is arranged around the play board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. A number-of-balls display device for displaying the number of available balls, wherein the arithmetic and control unit is capable of remaining using the number of available balls read from the card by the available ball number reading device as the remaining number of usable balls. The remaining number of usable balls is calculated by adding 1 to the number of remaining usable balls of the remaining usable number of balls storage unit each time the received ball detection signal is stored in the number of balls storage unit. The remaining usable The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding the number of winning usable balls to the number of remaining usable balls of the remaining usable ball number storage unit each time the winning ball detection signal is stored. The number of remaining usable balls is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and the remaining usable ball number is calculated by subtracting 1 from the remaining usable ball number of the remaining usable ball number storage unit each time the collected ball detection signal is received. Each time the ball return instruction signal is stored in the available ball number storage unit, the return ball number is smaller than the remaining available ball number of the remaining available ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal or When the number of remaining usable balls is equal to the number of remaining usable balls, the first ball returning signal is generated and supplied to the ball returning device, and the number of remaining usable balls before the returning ball number receives the ball returning instruction signal is stored. If there are more than the remaining usable balls The second ball return signal is generated, and the second ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage section are provided to the ball return device. When the use end signal is received, the remaining usable ball is returned. The number information is provided to the usable ball number recording device, and when the usable ball number recording end signal is received, the card return signal is generated and provided to the card moving device.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails disposed at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine for changing the moving direction of the ball on the surface. A plurality of winning holes are formed, and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a play board is disposed in front of the pachinko machine at a predetermined interval in front of the play board and cooperates with the play board. A transparent plate defining a ball passing internal space through which the ball passes, a ball hitting device provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board and for hitting one ball at a time; A hit ball passage that guides a ball launched by a hitting device to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space, and a winning ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the winning hole and generates a winning ball detection signal, It is located on the upper back side of the pachinko machine. An upper ball storage box capable of storing a ball, a collection ball guide passage disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and guiding the ball entering the winning hole and the ball entering the out hole downward, and collecting the collected ball. A ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the ball guide passage and generating a ball detection signal; and a ball entrance at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and on the surface of the pachinko machine. A ball feed port is provided at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device. A ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port, and the ball is supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for receiving and accumulating balls to be ejected one by one from the hitting ball supply port by its own weight, and the ball dropping portion disposed movably at the ball drop opening portion of the ball receiving portion. A ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening / closing a mouth; A prize ball supply device that is arranged on the back side of the table and connected to the prize ball detection device and supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball number when receiving the prize ball detection signal, A ball supply passage provided below the prize ball supply device, receiving the ball from the prize ball supply device, guiding the ball downward and guiding the ball to the ball entrance, and a coin provided around the pachinko machine. And a gold insertion unit for inserting at least one of the banknotes, and a gold identification device that generates a gold identification signal by identifying at least one authenticity and a type of a coin and a bill inserted into the gold insertion unit, A pachinko machine that is connected to the gold identification device and that supplies a ball having the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion when the gold identification signal is received. Machine, A ball detection device that detects a ball supplied by a ball supply device and generates a ball detection signal, and a supply ball detection that detects a ball supplied by the winning ball supply device and generates a supply ball detection signal A device, a falling ball guide passage that guides a ball dropped from the ball falling port to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine,
It is possible to record information on the number of available balls that can be used by a player provided around the pachinko machine,
And, a card insertion portion capable of inserting and removing a card having a usable ball number recording portion capable of changing recorded information, and a card insertion portion which is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and detects the card. A card insertion detection device that generates a card insertion detection signal, and a card that is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and is inserted into the card insertion portion when a card insertion detection signal is received from the card insertion detection device. Card movement for moving the card inside by a predetermined distance and arranging the card at the reading / recording position, and when receiving a card return signal, returning the card from the reading / recording position to the front and projecting the front of the card from the card insertion portion. An apparatus and a card arrival detector that is located near the reading and recording position and detects that a card has reached the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal. And the number of usable balls which are arranged near the reading and recording position and which is connected to the card arrival detecting device and which reads information on the number of usable balls recorded on the card when receiving the card arrival detection signal. A reading device, a ball return switch provided on the periphery of the game board to generate a ball return instruction signal, and a ball return signal disposed on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine and receiving a ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls. When the number of returned balls corresponding to the ball return signal is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls, balls of the returned number of balls are transferred from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage. When the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the number of the remaining usable balls is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage. Dress Connected to the supply ball detection device, the collection ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball return device, the ball return switch, and the ball lending detection device, and the remaining usable An arithmetic and control unit for calculating the number of balls and generating the ball return signal and the card return signal; and a peripheral unit provided around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit to terminate use of the pachinko machine. A use end switch for generating a use end signal for providing to the arithmetic and control unit and the remaining usable ball disposed near the reading and recording position and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. When the information on the number of available balls is received, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading and recording position, and when the recording of this information is completed, the number of usable balls is recorded. A number-of-useable-balls recording device for generating a recording end signal and providing the same to the arithmetic and control unit; and a remaining usable ball from the arithmetic and control unit which is arranged around the play board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. A number-of-balls display device for displaying the number of balls, wherein the arithmetic and control unit uses the number of available balls read from the card by the available-ball number reading device as the number of remaining usable balls as the number of remaining usable balls. The remaining usable ball count is calculated by adding 1 to the remaining usable ball number of the remaining usable ball number storage unit each time the ball usable detection signal is stored in the storage unit. The number of available balls is stored in the available number of balls storage unit, and the number of remaining available balls is calculated by adding 1 to the number of remaining available balls of the remaining available number of balls storage unit each time the supply ball detection signal is received. Stored in the possible ball number storage unit, From the remaining usable piece count of the remaining usable ball number storage section every time receiving the serial collection ball detection signal 1
The remaining available ball count is calculated by calculating the remaining available ball count and stored in the remaining available ball count storage unit. Each time the ball return instruction signal is received, the remaining usable ball count storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is stored. The ball return signal is generated when the number of remaining usable balls is 1 or more, the ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage section are provided to the ball return device, and the use end signal is received. At the time of providing the information on the number of remaining usable balls to the usable ball number recording device, and generating the card return signal upon receiving the usable ball number recording end signal and providing the same to the card moving device. Features.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change the moving direction of the ball on the surface. A plurality of prize holes are formed and an out hole is formed at the bottom, and a play board is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate defining a ball passing internal space through which the ball passes, a ball hitting device provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board and for hitting one ball at a time; A hit ball passage that guides a ball launched by a hitting device to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space, and a winning ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the winning hole and generates a winning ball detection signal, It is located on the upper back side of the pachinko machine. An upper ball storage box capable of storing a ball, a collection ball guide passage disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and guiding the ball entering the winning hole and the ball entering the out hole downward, and collecting the collected ball. A ball detection device for detecting a ball passing through the ball guide passage and generating a ball detection signal; and a ball entrance at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and on the surface of the pachinko machine. A ball feed port is provided at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device. A ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port, and the ball is supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for receiving and accumulating balls to be ejected one by one from the hitting ball supply port by its own weight, and the ball dropping portion disposed movably at the ball drop opening portion of the ball receiving portion. A ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening / closing a mouth; A prize ball supply device that is arranged on the back side of the table and connected to the prize ball detection device and supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball number when receiving the prize ball detection signal, A ball supply passage provided below the prize ball supply device, receiving the ball from the prize ball supply device, guiding the ball downward and guiding the ball to the ball entrance, and a coin provided around the pachinko machine. And a gold insertion unit for inserting at least one of the banknotes, and a gold identification device that generates a gold identification signal by identifying at least one authenticity and a type of a coin and a bill inserted into the gold insertion unit, A pachinko machine that is connected to the gold identification device and that supplies a ball having the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion when the gold identification signal is received. Machine, A ball detection device that detects a ball supplied by a ball supply device and generates a ball detection signal, and a supply ball detection that detects a ball supplied by the winning ball supply device and generates a supply ball detection signal A device, a falling ball guide passage that guides a ball dropped from the ball falling port to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine,
It is possible to record information on the number of available balls that can be used by a player provided around the pachinko machine,
And, a card insertion portion capable of inserting and removing a card having a usable ball number recording portion capable of changing recorded information, and a card insertion portion which is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and detects the card. A card insertion detection device that generates a card insertion detection signal, and a card that is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and is inserted into the card insertion portion when a card insertion detection signal is received from the card insertion detection device. Card movement for moving the card inside by a predetermined distance and arranging the card at the reading / recording position, and when receiving a card return signal, returning the card from the reading / recording position to the front and projecting the front of the card from the card insertion portion. An apparatus and a card arrival detector that is located near the reading and recording position and detects that a card has reached the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal. And the number of usable balls which are arranged near the reading and recording position and which is connected to the card arrival detecting device and which reads information on the number of usable balls recorded on the card when receiving the card arrival detection signal. A reading device, a ball return switch provided on the periphery of the game board to generate a ball return instruction signal, and a ball of the number of return balls when a first ball return signal is disposed on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine and receives the first ball return signal. Is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and when the second ball return signal and the information on the remaining usable ball number are received, the balls of the remaining usable ball number are removed. A ball return device for returning the ball from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, the supply ball detection device, the recovery ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, Ball return device An arithmetic and control unit connected to the ball return switch and the lending detection device for calculating the number of remaining usable balls, and generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal; A use end switch which is provided around the game board and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and generates a use end signal for ending the use of the pachinko machine and gives the signal to the arithmetic and control unit; And information on the number of remaining usable balls on a card arranged at the reading and recording position when the information on the number of remaining usable balls is received from the arithmetic and control unit and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. And an available ball number recording device which generates an available ball number recording end signal when the recording of this information is completed and which is given to the arithmetic and control unit, and a peripheral portion of the game board. And a ball number display device connected to the arithmetic and control unit for displaying the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit, wherein the arithmetic and control unit reads the available ball number from the card The number of usable balls read by the device is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, and the remaining usable ball number storage unit is stored each time a ball lending detection signal is received from the ball lending detection device. The remaining usable ball number is calculated by adding 1 to the remaining usable ball number of the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding 1 to the number of remaining usable balls, stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and each time the collected ball detection signal is received, the remaining usable ball number storage unit remains. Subtract 1 from the number of available balls The number of remaining usable balls is calculated and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and every time the ball return instruction signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls before the return ball number receives the ball return instruction signal When the number of remaining usable balls in the storage unit is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls, the first ball returning signal is generated and provided to the ball returning device, and the returned ball number is the ball returning instruction signal. If the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the second ball return signal is generated to generate the second ball return signal and the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Is given to the ball returning device, and when the use end signal is received, the information on the remaining usable ball number is given to the usable ball number recording device, and the usable ball number recording end signal is received. Sometimes before the card return signal is generated Characterized in providing the card moving device.

[0017]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view showing a first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a pachinko machine according to the present invention includes a pachinko machine 1 having a concave portion on a surface portion thereof, and a game board 2 disposed substantially at the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine 1.
Is provided. A plurality of nails (not shown) for changing the moving direction of the ball are provided on the surface of the play board 2 and a plurality of winning holes 3a to 3i are formed on the surface thereof.
An out hole 4 is formed at the bottom. The winning hole 3i
Has a large area and can accommodate a plurality of balls at the same time. Winning holes 3a to 3 other than the winning hole 3i
h is a size that can accommodate one ball.

The play board 2 has a variable display device 5.
And a variable winning device 6. The variable display device 5 indicates that the playing state is a predetermined first playing state (special winning state), a second playing state (moving state), or a third playing state (out-of-line state). is there. As is well known, the variable display device 5 displays, for example, a plurality of numbers and pictures in three columns. When a ball enters a specific winning hole 3f, the plurality of numbers and pictures move in three rows. A moving state is displayed, and when the moving state is completed and the same number or picture is completed in three columns, the special winning state is displayed. When the number or picture is not completed, a deviation state is displayed. The variable display device 5 changes to the moving state when a ball enters a specific winning hole 3f when a predetermined condition is satisfied or when a special winning state is displayed after the special winning state is displayed. When displaying the special prize state, the variable display device 5 generates a special prize state signal indicating that the special prize state is established, and gives the special prize state signal to the variable prize apparatus 6.

The variable winning device 6 changes the difficulty of the winning state of the ball in accordance with the display state of the variable display device 5. For example, the variable winning device 6 includes an opening / closing plate 6a rotatably provided near the special winning hole 3i,
A plate opening / closing device (not shown) for rotating the opening / closing plate 6a is provided. This plate opening / closing device is connected to the variable display device 5 and receives a special winning state signal.

The variable prize device 6 opens and closes the open / close plate 6a only when the display state of the variable display device 5 is in the special prize state, that is, only when a special prize state signal is received from the variable display device 5. By rotating the opening / closing plate 6a forward or intermittently a plurality of times to open the prize hole 3i, the ball can be received with a high probability. When the display state is not the special prize state, that is, when the special prize state signal is not received from the variable display device 5, the variable prize apparatus 6 rotates the opening / closing plate 6a backward to close the prize hole 3i and win the ball. It is in a state where it cannot be inserted into the hole 3i.

A speaker 7 of a sound generator (not shown) is provided below the pachinko machine 1. This sound generator generates a sound effect when receiving a special winning state signal. A plurality of lamps (not shown) are provided at predetermined positions and around the play board 2. These lamps are turned on, for example, in a special winning state.

A transparent plate 8 is provided at the front of the pachinko machine 1 at a predetermined interval in front of the game board 2 so as to be openable and closable. The transparent plate 8 defines a ball passing internal space through which the ball passes in cooperation with the game board 2.

A ball hitting device 9 is provided below the pachinko machine 1 so as to be located below the game board 2. The ball hitting device 9 is for hitting balls one by one. A ball path 91 is formed in the pachinko machine 1 on the ball driving device 9. The ball path 91 guides the ball launched by the ball striking device 9 to an upper portion of the ball passing internal space. The boring device 9 is, for example, shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, an electric ball hitting handle 9a arranged on the front side of the pachinko machine 1 and an electric motor arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine 1 for hitting the ball by rotating the hitting handle 9a. It comprises an expression ball striking mechanism 9b (FIG. 2). In this electric ball striking mechanism 9b, a ball striking force is determined by the rotation angle of the ball striking handle 9a. As shown in FIG. 2, the electric balling mechanism 9b includes a motor 9c,
A beating cam 9d rotated by the rotating force of the motor 9c
And a ball 9e that is moved by the rotation of the ball cam 9d to hit the ball, and a spring 9f that urges the ball 9e in a predetermined direction. The boring device 9 may be constituted by another known device.

As shown in FIG. 2, winning ball detectors 10a to 10k are arranged on the back side of the game board 2 near the winning holes 3a to 3i, respectively. Each of the winning ball detectors 10a to 10k is configured by a light detector including a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The winning ball detectors 10a to 10k may be constituted by limit switches or micro switches. Winning ball detector 10
a to 10k are a prize-ball detecting device 1 which detects a ball and generates a prize-ball detection signal when the ball enters the prize holes 3a to 3i.
0.

As shown in FIG. 3, an upper ball storage box 11 is arranged on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine 1. The upper ball storage box 11 has an open upper surface and a large number of balls B.
Can be accommodated. The upper ball storage box 11 is fixed to the pachinko machine 1. In addition, the upper ball storage box 11
It may be supported by a support member (not shown). The upper ball storage box 11 has a ball outlet 11a for discharging a ball B at the bottom.
Are formed. The ball outlet portion 11a is provided with a ball outlet tube 12 for sending the ball B coming out from below.
A collection ball guide passage 13 is provided on the back side of the pachinko machine 1. The collected ball guide passage 13 guides the balls entering the winning holes 3a to 3i and the balls entering the out holes 4 downward.

The collection ball guide passage 13 is configured to drop balls one by one from the lower end. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, at the lower end of the collection ball guide passage 13,
A collection ball detection device 131 is provided. The recovered ball detection device 131 is configured by a light detector including a light emitting element and a light receiving element. Note that the collected ball detection device 131 may be configured by a limit switch, a micro switch, a proximity switch, or the like. The collected ball detection device 131 detects a ball passing through the collected ball guide passage 13 and generates a collected ball detection signal. When the collection ball guide passage 13 is configured to drop a plurality of balls at the same time, a plurality of balls are divided and passed one by one at the lower end or below the collection ball guide passage 13. Ball branch guide tubes, and the collected ball detection device 13 is provided at the lower end of each of these ball branch guide tubes.
1 may be arranged.

As shown in FIG. 1, a first ball receiving portion 14 having an upper opening is provided below the play board 2 so as to protrude from the surface of the pachinko machine 1. The first ball receiving portion 14 has a first ball entrance portion 14a at the top.
And a ball feed port (not shown) at the bottom of the ball feeder for discharging balls one by one in the direction of the ball hitting device 9. A first ball drop port is provided at the bottom of the ball feed port. (Not shown),
In addition, the ball supplied through the first ball inlet 14a is received and accumulated, and the balls are discharged one by one from the hit ball supply port by its own weight.

The first ball receiving portion 14 has a first
And the second stored ball amount detection device 16
Are arranged at predetermined intervals. The second stored ball amount detection device 16 is disposed above the first stored ball amount detection device 15. The first accommodated ball amount detection device 15 includes:
It detects that the number of balls accommodated in the first ball receiving portion 14 has reached an intermediate value within the range of approximately 50% to 90% of the number of accommodated balls, and generates an accommodated ball intermediate value detection signal. The second stored ball amount detection device 16 detects that the number of balls stored in the first ball receiving portion 14 has reached an upper limit value of approximately 100% of the number of balls that can be stored, and detects a stored ball upper limit value. Generate a signal. First
And the second stored ball amount detection device 16
Is composed of a photodetector or a limit switch each including a light emitting element and a light receiving element.

A first ball drop opening / closing member 17 is disposed at the first ball drop opening of the first ball receiving portion 14 so as to be movable by a finger. The first ball drop port opening / closing member 17 can open and close the first ball drop port section. The first ball falling port portion is plural (for example, 5 to 10).
) Balls are formed in such a size that they can be dropped simultaneously.

As shown in FIG. 3, on the rear upper portion of the pachinko machine 1, a prize ball supply device 18 is disposed below the upper ball storage box 11 and the ball outlet tube 12. Between the prize ball supply device 18 and the first ball receiving portion 14, a common ball supply passage 19 for guiding the ball from the prize ball supply device 18 downward, And a first branch ball supply passage 20 for guiding the ball to the ball entrance 14a. The prize ball supply device 18 supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box 11 to the common ball supply passage 19 together with the number of prize usable balls (for example, five) when the prize ball detection device 10 detects a ball. .

As shown in FIG. 4, the winning ball supply device 18 includes a ball supply device 18a, a drive control device 18b,
It has a supply ball detection device 18c and a ball supply control device 18d. The drive control device 18b and the supply ball detection device 1
8c is connected to the ball supply control device 18d. The supply ball detection device 18c includes a photodetector including a light emitting element and a light receiving element, a limit switch, a proximity switch, and the like. This supply ball detection device 18c is a ball B supplied to the common ball supply passage 19 by the ball supply device 18a.
Is detected to generate a supply ball detection signal. The ball supply control device 18d is configured by a microcomputer. Each of the winning ball detectors 10a to 10k of the winning ball detecting device 10
Is connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21. The arithmetic and control unit 21 is configured by a microcomputer,
It is held on the back side of the pachinko machine 1 (FIGS. 2 and 3).

Each of the prize ball detectors 10a to 10k of the prize ball detector 10 is connected to a ball supply controller 18d via a prize usable ball number converter 22. The prize usable ball count converter 22 converts a prize usable ball number signal indicating the number of prize usable balls (for example, 5) each time a prize ball detection signal is received from the prize ball detectors 10a to 10k to control ball supply. To the device 18d.

The ball supply control device 18d first stores the number of prize usable balls corresponding to the first prize usable ball number signal in the prize usable ball number storage unit when receiving the first prize usable ball number signal. Next, each time a prize usable ball number signal is received, the corresponding number of prize usable balls is added to the number of usable balls in the prize usable ball storage section to calculate a new usable ball number. The number of remaining available balls is calculated by storing the number of available balls in the number-of-possible-balls storage unit and subtracting 1 from the number of available balls in the winning-use-available-ball storage unit each time the supplied ball detection signal of the supplied ball detection device 18c is received. Then, when the number of usable balls in the winning usable number storage unit becomes 0, the subtraction is stopped. The information on the number of balls that can be used for winning is stored in a storage device (not shown) of the ball supply control device 18d in advance.

The ball supply control device 18d generates a ball supply control signal when the number of usable balls in the winning usable ball storage section is not 0 and gives it to the drive control device 18b, and stores the number of winning usable balls. No ball supply control signal is generated when the number of available balls of the unit is zero.

The ball supply device 18a includes a ball drop guide passage tube 18e for passing balls from the upper ball storage box 11 in a line in a vertical direction, and a ball drop guide passage tube 18e having a plurality of teeth on an outer peripheral portion. The gear member 18f having one tooth inserted into the ball drop guide passage tube 18e through the opening at the side of the gear member 18f
A pin ring 18g coaxially integrated with the gear member 18f and having a plurality of pins formed radially; a lever member 18h arranged to be engageable with the pins; and a tip of the lever member 18h. A spring 18j for urging the portion 18i in the direction of the pin and an electromagnet 18k provided as a driving device for swinging the lever member 18h are provided. The electromagnet 18k is connected to the drive control device 18b.

A common shaft 18l of the gear member 18f and the pin ring 18g is rotatably supported by a support plate 18m. The lever member 18h is swingably supported by a support plate 18m. The electromagnet 18k is mounted on the support plate 1
It is fixed at 8 m. The actuator 18n of the electromagnet 18k can be engaged with the rear end of the lever member 18h.

The plurality of teeth of the gear member 18f are formed such that one ball B enters between adjacent teeth. When the gear member 18f cannot be rotated, the teeth inserted into the ball drop guide passage cylinder 18e stop the ball B thereon from falling.

The drive control device 18b applies a drive current to the electromagnet 18k during the time when the ball supply control signal is received from the ball supply control device 18d. This electromagnet 18
k indicates that the actuator 1
8n is moved to the lowermost position of the movable range, the tip 18i of the lever member 18h is disengaged from the pin of the pin ring 18g, and the ball B is rotated by its own weight to make the ball member 18f rotatable. To be able to fall.

The drive control device 18b does not supply a drive current to the electromagnet 18k during the time when the ball supply control signal from the ball supply control device 18d is not received. The electromagnet 18k moves the actuator 18n to the uppermost position of the movable range and presses and moves the rear end of the lever member 18h during a period in which the driving current is not received, thereby moving the lever member 18h.
Is engaged with the pin of the pin ring 18g so that the gear member 18f cannot be rotated. When the gear member 18f cannot rotate, the ball B is stopped from falling as described above.

The drive control device 18b and the ball supply control device 18d may be configured as described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-32694. That is, the drive control device 18b and the ball supply control device 18d stop the continuously falling balls just before the expected number of balls, and drop the remaining balls one by one. The supply device 18a may be controlled.

The ball supplying device 18a rotates the gear member 18f by a driving device (not shown) to drop the ball while the driving current is being received from the driving control device 18b. The rotation of the gear member 18f may be stopped at a time when the drive current is not received from the drive control device 18b. Further, a plurality of winning ball supply devices 18 may be arranged.

As shown in FIG. 1, the first ball receiving portion 1
In the lower position of 4, the second ball receiving portion 23 of the upper opening is provided so as to protrude from the surface of the pachinko machine 1. The second ball receiving portion 23 has a second ball entrance 23a at the top and a second ball dropping portion 23b (FIG. 6) at the bottom, and the second ball entrance 23a is provided with the second ball entrance 23a. The ball supplied through the tank is stored. As shown in FIG. 3, below the ball passage branch portion 24 which is a connection portion between the common ball supply passage 19 and the first branch ball supply passage 20, a ball to be supplied is inserted into the second ball inlet portion. A second branch ball supply passage 25 that guides the branch ball supply passage 23a is formed. A ball supply direction switching plate 26a of a ball supply direction switching device 26 is disposed in a ball passage branching portion 24 between the second branch ball supply passage 25 and the first branch ball supply passage 20. The ball supply direction switching device 26 includes a ball supply direction switching plate 26a movably disposed in the ball passage branching portion 24, a plate driving device 26b that moves the ball supply direction switching plate 26a, and a plate driving device. And a switching control device 26c for controlling the device 26b. As shown in FIG. 5, the switching control device 26c
Are connected to the stored ball amount detecting device 15 and the second stored ball amount detecting device 16 to receive the stored ball upper limit value detection signal and the stored ball intermediate value detection signal.

As shown in FIG. 3, the switching control device 26
c, from the start of use of the pachinko machine to the reception of the stored ball upper limit value detection signal, the ball drive direction switching plate 26a is moved to the second branch ball supply passage without supplying a drive signal to the plate driving device 26b. The ball from the common ball supply passage 19 is advanced to the first branch ball supply passage 20 at the ball passage branch portion 24 above the first ball supply passage 25. In addition, the switching control device 26c provides a driving signal to the plate driving device 26b during the ball direction switching time from when the received ball upper limit value detection signal is received to when the received ball intermediate value detection signal is received. The ball supply direction switching plate 26a is separated from the ball passage branching portion 24 to advance the ball from the common ball supply passage 19 toward the second branch ball supply passage 25. Further, the switching control device 2
6c is a ball supply direction switching plate 2 which is not provided with a driving signal to the plate driving device 26b during a time other than the ball direction switching time.
6a is positioned in the ball passage branching portion 24, and the ball from the common ball supply passage 19 is advanced in the direction of the first branch ball supply passage 20.

That is, the ball supply direction switching device 26
The ball from the common ball supply passage 19 is supplied to the second branch ball supply passage 25 only for the ball direction switching time from the time when the received ball upper limit value detection signal is received to the time when the received ball intermediate value detection signal is received. The ball from the common ball supply passage 19 is advanced in the direction of the first branch ball supply passage 20 at times other than the ball direction switching time.

As shown in FIG. 1, a first falling ball guide passage 27 is provided below the first ball drop opening of the first ball receiving portion 14 of the pachinko machine 1. The first falling ball guide passage 27 guides a ball dropped from the first ball falling port to the second ball receiving section 23 via a second ball entrance 23a. The first ball drop opening is opened and closed by the first ball drop opening / closing member 17. As shown in FIG. 6, the second ball receiving port 23b is formed at the bottom of the second ball receiving section 23. The second ball drop opening 23b is formed in a size that allows a plurality of (for example, 20) balls to be dropped simultaneously. In the second ball drop opening 23b, a second ball drop opening and closing member 28 is arranged so as to be movable by finger. The second ball drop opening 23b is opened and closed by the second ball drop opening and closing member 28. The second ball drop opening / closing member 28 may not be provided.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 6, a second ball guide passage 2 is provided below the second ball drop port 23b.
9 are arranged. This second falling ball guide passage 29
Guides the ball B dropped from the second ball drop port 23b to the lower rear portion of the pachinko machine 1. Note that the second falling ball guide passage 29 may be configured to extend from the second ball falling port portion 23b to below the lower end of the pachinko machine 1 and enter the back side of the pachinko machine 1. In this case, it is not necessary to form a hole for inserting the second falling ball guide passage 29 into the pachinko machine 1. Further, the second ball falling port 23b
The second falling ball guide passages 29 may be arranged at predetermined intervals below the space, and a ball reservoir (not shown) having a large upper surface opening may be arranged between them. This bowl is
The ball that falls from the second ball drop port 23b of the second ball receiving section 23 is received and accumulated. The ball drop port provided at the bottom and the ball drop port can be moved by fingers. And a ball drop opening / closing member capable of opening and closing the ball drop opening. When the ball drop opening / closing member is moved to open the ball drop opening of the ball drop box, the ball of the ball drop box drops from the ball drop drop and the second drop ball guide passage 29 It is configured to enter.

As shown in FIG. 3, a lower ball storage box 31 is disposed on the lower rear side of the pachinko machine 1. The lower ball storage box 31 is open at the upper surface and the rear side surface, and stores the balls falling from the second falling ball guide passage 29 and the collected ball guide passage 13. Lower ball storage box 31
Is fixed to the pachinko machine 1. Note that the lower ball storage box 31 may be supported by a support member (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 3, a ball return device 32 is disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine 1. The ball return device 32 moves the balls of the lower ball storage box 31 to the upper ball storage box 11 and returns them. The ball return device 32
For example, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the lower ball storage box 31 is disposed from the lower ball storage box 31 to the upper ball storage box 11. An endless transport belt 32a vertically arranged to be positioned, a plurality of transport pockets 32b rotatably provided outside the transport belt 32a at predetermined intervals, and the upper ball storage box. 11 and a drive roller 32c on which the transport belt 32a is mounted and which moves the transport belt 32a in a predetermined direction (the direction of arrow A). A guide roller 32d on which a belt 32a is set and which guides the transport belt 32a.
And a motor 32e for rotating the drive roller 32c.
And a motor control device 32f for controlling the motor 32e.
Consists of The transport pocket 32b has a ball accommodation hole 32h having a ball entrance 32g on the outer surface thereof, and is rotatably connected to the transport belt 32a by a connector 32i provided at the center.

When the transport belt 32a moves in the direction of arrow A, the transport pocket 32b integral therewith also moves in the direction of arrow A. A plurality of balls B inside the lower ball storage box 31
Is lifted by its own weight into the ball receiving hole 32h through the ball entrance 32g of the transport pocket 32b located at the opening on the side surface of the lower ball receiving box 31. When the moving direction is changed downward, the ball B inside the transport pocket 32b falls by its own weight and is stored in the upper ball storage box 11.

At the bottom of the lower ball storage box 31, a stored ball detection device 33 for detecting a ball B stored in the lower ball storage box 31 and generating a stored ball detection signal is disposed. The stored ball detection device 33 includes a limit switch or a photodetector including a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The stored ball detection device 33 is connected to a motor stop signal generation device 34. The motor stop signal generator 34 is connected to the motor controller 32f.
The motor stop signal generator 34 generates a motor stop signal when the stored ball detector 33 does not detect a ball for a predetermined time (for example, 20 to 30 seconds) or more and rotates the drive roller 32c. This is given to the control device 32f. When the motor control device 32f receives the motor stop signal, the drive roller 32c
The operation of the motor 32e for rotating the motor is stopped. Further, the stored ball detection device 33 includes a motor control device 32f.
Is connected to the motor control device 3
2f. The motor control device 32f drives the motor 32e during a time period from when the received ball detection signal is received to when the motor stop signal is received.

As shown in FIG. 1, a card insertion portion 35 is provided around the pachinko machine 1. The word “card” is written on the peripheral surface of the pachinko machine 1 near the card insertion part 35. The card C can be removably inserted into the card insertion section 35. The card C can record information on the number of available balls, which is the number of balls that can be hit by the player with the ball hitting device 9 (that is, the number of balls that can be used by the player). Further, it has a usable ball number recording section Ca that can change the recorded information. The usable ball number recording section Ca of the card C is composed of a magnetic recording medium that can record information by, for example, a magnetic field of an electromagnet and can change the recorded information. The usable ball count recording section Ca of the card C is formed of an optical recording medium capable of recording information with a light beam such as a laser beam or an infrared ray and changing the recorded information. Alternatively, an integrated circuit capable of recording information with an electric signal and changing the recorded information may be used. When the usable ball number recording section Ca of the card C is formed of an optical recording medium or an integrated circuit, a corresponding information reading and recording device is required. On the surface of the card C, symbols and characters indicating the insertion direction and the upper and lower positions are printed. A card insertion display device 36 is provided near the card insertion unit 35 around the pachinko machine 1. The word “insert” is written on the surface of the pachinko machine 1 near the card insertion display device 36.

As shown in FIG. 9, the card insertion section 35
A card moving device 37 is disposed on the back side of the card. The card moving device 37 moves the card C to be inserted into the card insertion section 35 by a predetermined distance to the inside (back side) of the pachinko machine 1 and arranges it at the reading / recording position. The card C is returned to the front from the reading and recording position, and the front portion of the card C is projected from the card insertion section 35.

For example, the card moving device 37 is arranged along the inserting direction of the card C, and carries two pairs of carrying rollers 37a and 37b for carrying the card C, and rotates the carrying rollers 37a and 37b forward and backward. Motor 37 for
c, a motor control device 37d for controlling the rotation of the motor 37c, a transmission device (not shown) for transmitting the rotational force of the motor 37c to the transport rollers 37a and 37b, and a card transported by the transport rollers 37b. Card stopper member 37e for stopping C at the reading and recording position
And a card guide member (not shown) for guiding the card C
It is composed of Each pair of transport rollers 37a,
37b are elastically pressed by elastic members (not shown).

On the back side of the card insertion section 35, a card insertion detection device 38 is arranged near the card insertion section 35. The card insertion detecting device 38 is configured by a light detector or a limit switch including a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The card insertion detection device 38 detects that the card C has been inserted into the card insertion section 35 and generates a card insertion detection signal. The card insertion detection device 38 is connected to the motor control device 37d, and supplies a card insertion detection signal to the motor control device 37d. Upon receiving the card insertion detection signal from the card insertion detection device 38, the motor control device 37d drives the motor 37c to rotate the conveyance rollers 37a and 37b in the normal direction, and conveys the card C in the direction of the card stopper 37e. Let it.

A card arrival detecting device 39 is arranged near the reading and recording position. The card arrival detection device 39 includes a photodetector or a limit switch including a light emitting element and a light receiving element. The card arrival detection device 39 detects that the card C has reached the reading / recording position, generates a card arrival detection signal, and gives the signal to the motor control device 37d. When the motor control device 37d receives the card arrival detection signal (when the card C comes into contact with the card stopper member 37e), it stops the transport rollers 37a and 37b and places the card C at the reading and recording position. Let it. The card insertion detection device 38 and the card arrival detection device 39 are connected to a card insertion display device 36 as shown in FIG. The card insertion display device 36 is turned on (lights up) only during the time from when the card C is received back to when the card C is returned and the card insertion detection signal is received.

Upon receiving the card return signal, the motor control device 37d drives the motor 37c to rotate the transport rollers 37a and 37b in the reverse direction to return the card C from the reading and recording position to the front of the card C. From the card insertion portion 35. The player can pull out the card C sandwiched between the transport rollers 37a by holding the front part of the card C protruding outside from the card insertion portion 35 by the player.

At the pachinko parlor, the employee may rent a card C in which the number of usable balls corresponding to the amount of money is recorded in the usable ball number recording section Ca to a player in exchange for coins or bills. Alternatively, in exchange for coins or bills inserted by the card lending machine, the card C in which the number of usable balls corresponding to the amount is recorded in the usable ball number recording section Ca may be lent to the player. Furthermore, in pachinko parlors,
The employee or the card lending machine may lend the card C in which 0 is recorded in the usable ball number recording section Ca to the player.

A usable ball number reading device 40 is arranged near the reading and recording position. The available ball number reading device 40 is connected to the card arrival detection device 39 and the arithmetic and control unit 21 and is recorded in the available ball number recording unit Ca of the card C when receiving the card arrival detection signal. Reads the information on the number of usable balls and calculates the arithmetic and control unit 2
Give to 1. A usable ball number recording device 41 is arranged near the reading and recording position. The usable ball number recording device 41 records the new usable ball number in the usable ball number recording section Ca of the card C at the end of use.

As shown in FIG. 1, a ball return switch 42 is provided around the pachinko machine 1. On the surface of the pachinko machine 1 near the ball return switch 42,
The character "ball return" is written. The ball return switch 42 is, as shown in FIG.
1 to generate a ball return instruction signal and supply it to the arithmetic and control unit 21. When receiving the ball return instruction signal, the arithmetic and control unit 21 performs a later-described calculation and generates a ball return signal in a predetermined case.

As shown in FIG. 3, a ball return device 43 is disposed between the upper ball storage box 11 and the ball outlet tube 12 and the common ball supply passage 19 on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine 1. The ball returning device 43 is connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21 as shown in FIGS. When the ball return device 43 receives the ball return signal and the information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit 21, the number of available balls corresponding to the ball return signal is the return ball number from the arithmetic and control unit 21. If the number of remaining usable balls is less than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls, the number of returned balls is transferred from the upper ball storage box 11 to the common supply ball guide passage 19.
Then, it is returned to the first ball receiving portion 14 or the second ball receiving portion 23 (FIG. 1) via the first or second supply ball guide passages 20 and 25 (FIG. 3). When the ball return device 43 receives the ball return signal and the information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit 21, and when the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit 21, The number of usable balls is transferred from the upper ball storage box 11 to the common supply ball guide passage 1.
9 and first or second supply ball guide passages 20, 25
Return to the first ball receiving portion 14 or the second ball receiving portion 23 (FIG. 1) via (FIG. 3).

For example, when the ball return device 43 receives the ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls, the number of returned balls that can be obtained for 500 yen is smaller than the number of remaining usable balls or the number of remaining usable balls. When the number of usable balls is equal to the number of usable balls, the balls are returned to the first ball receiving portion 14 or the second ball receiving portion 23 together with the number of balls returned so that the balls in the upper ball storage box 11 can be acquired for 500 yen. When the ball return device 43 receives the ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls, if the number of returned balls that can be obtained for 500 yen is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the remaining usable ball is used. The number of balls is returned to the first ball receiving portion 14 or the second ball receiving portion 23 (FIG. 1).

The ball return device 43 has the same configuration as the winning ball supply device 18. The ball return device 43 includes:
As shown in FIG. 10, the ball supply device 43a, the drive control device 43b, the return ball detection device 43c, the ball return control device 4
3d. The drive control device 43b and the return ball detection device 43c are connected to a ball return control device 43d. The ball return control device 43d is configured by a microcomputer, and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21. The return ball detection device 43c includes a photodetector including a light emitting element and a light receiving element, a limit switch, a proximity switch, and the like. The return ball detection device 43c detects the ball B supplied to the common ball supply passage 19 by the ball supply device 43a and generates a return ball detection signal.

Each time the ball return control device 43d receives a ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit 21, the ball return control device 43d compares the number of returned balls with the number of remaining usable balls, and Is smaller than or equal to the remaining available ball number, the returned ball number is stored in the returned ball number storage unit, and the returned ball number is detected from the ball number stored in the returned ball number storage unit. Each time a return ball detection signal is received from the device 43c, the number of remaining balls is calculated by subtracting 1 and recorded in the return ball number storage unit, and the number of balls in the return ball number storage unit becomes zero. Sometimes stop subtraction. When the ball return control device 43d receives the ball return signal and the information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit 21, if the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the ball return control device 43d returns the number of remaining usable balls. Each time the return ball detection signal from the return ball detection device 43c is received, the number of remaining balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of balls stored in the number storage unit. The number is recorded in the number storage section, and the subtraction is stopped when the number of balls in the return ball number storage section becomes zero. The information of the number of returned balls is stored in advance in a storage device (not shown) of the ball return control device 43d.

The ball return control device 43d generates a ball supply control signal when the number of balls in the return ball number storage section is not 0 and supplies it to the drive control device 43b. , No ball supply control signal is generated.

The ball supply device 43a includes a ball drop guide passage tube 43e for passing the balls B from the upper ball storage box 11 in a line in a vertical direction, and a ball drop guide passage tube having a plurality of teeth on an outer peripheral portion. A gear member 43f having one tooth inserted into the inside of the ball drop guide passage tube 43e through an opening at the side of 43e.
A pin ring 43g coaxially integrated with the gear member 43f and having a plurality of pins formed radially; a lever member 43h arranged to be engageable with the pins; and a tip of the lever member 43h. A spring 43j for urging the portion 43i in the direction of the pin and an electromagnet 43k provided as a driving device for swinging the lever member 43h are provided. This electromagnet 43k is connected to the drive control device 43b.

A common shaft 431 of the gear member 43f and the pin ring 43g is rotatably supported by a support plate 43m. The lever member 43h is swingably supported by a support plate 43m. The electromagnet 43k is connected to the support plate 4
It is fixed at 3 m. The actuator 43n of the electromagnet 43k can be engaged with the rear end of the lever member 43h.

The plurality of teeth of the gear member 43f are formed such that one ball B enters between adjacent teeth. When the gear member 43f is not rotatable, the teeth inserted into the ball drop guide passage cylinder 43e stop the drop of the ball B thereon.

The drive control device 43b supplies a drive current to the electromagnet 43k during the time when the ball supply control signal is received from the ball return control device 43d. This electromagnet 43
k indicates that the actuator 4
3n is moved to the lowermost position of the movable range to disengage the distal end 43i of the lever member 43h from the pin of the pin ring 43g, and the ball B is rotated by its own weight so that the ball B can rotate the gear member 43f. To be able to fall.

The drive control device 43b does not supply a drive current to the electromagnet 43k during the time when the ball supply control signal from the ball return control device 43d is not received. The electromagnet 43k moves the actuator 43n to the uppermost position of the movable range and presses and moves the rear end of the lever member 43h during a period in which the driving current is not received, thereby causing the lever member 43h to move.
Is engaged with the pin of the pin ring 43g so that the gear member 43f cannot rotate. When the gear member 43f cannot rotate, the ball B is stopped from falling as described above.

The drive control device 43b and the ball return control device 43d may be configured as described in JP-B-6-32694. That is, the drive control device 43b and the ball return control device 43d stop the falling balls continuously before the expected number of balls, and drop the remaining balls one by one. The supply device 43a may be controlled.

The ball supply device 43a rotates the gear member 43f with a driving device (not shown) to drop the ball while the driving current is being received from the drive control device 43b. The configuration may be such that the rotation of the gear member 43f is stopped during a time when no drive current is received from the drive control device 43b.

A plurality of ball return switches may be provided around the pachinko machine 1. In this case, the plurality of ball return switches are configured to generate ball return instruction signals having different numbers of ball return by the ball return device 43. For example, first and second ball return switches for returning the number of balls that can be acquired for 100 yen and 500 yen may be provided. In this case, the first ball return switch for returning the number of balls that can be obtained for 100 yen
When the ball return instruction signal is received, the signal is converted into a signal indicating the number of usable balls that can be used for 100 yen, and is given to the arithmetic and control unit 21. Also, when a second ball return instruction signal is received from a second ball return switch for returning the number of balls that can be acquired for 500 yen, a signal indicating the number of usable balls that can be used for 500 yen. And gives it to the arithmetic and control unit 21.

Note that a plurality of ball returning devices 43 may be arranged. In addition, the ball returning device 43 and the winning ball supply device 18 may not be configured separately from the winning ball supply device 18 and may be configured by the same device. When the ball return device 43 and the winning ball supply device 18 are configured by the same device, one of them may be operated with priority.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, around the pachinko machine 1, a coin insertion portion 44 for inserting coins such as a 500 yen coin and a 100 yen coin, and a 1000
A bill insertion portion 45 for inserting a bill in a circle is formed. The coin insertion section 44 and the bill insertion section 45 constitute a gold insertion section. The letters "coin" are written on the peripheral surface of the pachinko machine 1 near the coin insertion section 44. As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, characters “Bill” are written on the peripheral surface of the pachinko machine 1 near the bill insertion part 45. Near the coin insertion section 44 on the back side of the pachinko machine 1, a coin identification device 46 for identifying the authenticity and type of a coin inserted into the coin insertion section 44 is arranged. The coin identification device 46 generates a coin identification signal when coins are identified. In addition, a coin transfer device (not shown) is arranged near the coin insertion section 44 on the back side of the pachinko machine 1. This coin transfer device is connected to the coin identification device 46 and receives the coin identification signal. The coin transfer device transfers the coin inserted into the coin insertion unit 44 and waits at the identification position, and after the coin at the identification position is identified by the coin identification device 46, the 500-yen coin and the 100-yen coin Except for coins and fake
It is transferred to a coin storage box (not shown). The coin insertion part 4
When the coins inserted into the coin 4 are other than the 500-yen coin and the 100-yen coin or are fake, they are identified by the coin identification device 46 and sent to the return unit (not shown) by the coin transfer device. Will be returned. 2 and 3
As shown in the figure, near the bill insertion portion 45 on the back side of the pachinko machine 1, a bill identification device 47 for identifying the authenticity and the type of the bill inserted into the bill insertion portion 45.
Is arranged. The bill identification device 47 generates a bill identification signal when a bill is identified. In addition, near the bill insertion portion 45 on the back side of the pachinko machine 1,
A bill transfer device (not shown) is provided. This bill transfer device is connected to the bill identification device 47 and receives the bill identification signal. The bill transfer device includes a bill insertion unit 4
After the bills inserted in No. 5 are transported and made to stand by at the discrimination position, and after the bills at this discrimination position are discriminated by the bill discriminating device 47, bills other than 1000-yen bills and fake ones are removed. Transfer to box (not shown). When the banknotes inserted into the banknote insertion unit 45 are banknotes other than 1000-yen banknotes or fake ones, these are identified by the banknote identification device 47 and returned to the banknote insertion unit 45 by the banknote transfer device. You. The coin identification device 46
The bill identifying device 47 constitutes a gold identifying device 48 that generates a gold identifying signal when at least one of a coin and a bill is identified. In addition, around the pachinko machine 1, one of the coin insertion unit 44 and the bill insertion unit 45 is provided, and the coin identification device 4 is correspondingly provided.
6 and the bill identifying device 47 may be arranged.

As shown in FIG. 12, the winning ball detecting device 10, the collected ball detecting device 131, the card moving device 37, the usable ball number reading device 40, the ball returning switch 42, and the ball returning device 43 And the coin identification device 46
And the bill validator 47 are connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21. The arithmetic and control unit 21 calculates the number of remaining usable balls and stores it in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and generates the ball return signal and the card return signal. A use end switch 49 is provided around the play board 2.
(FIG. 1) is provided. This use end switch 49
Is written on the surface of the pachinko machine 1 near the end. The use end switch 49 is shown in FIG.
Are connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21 as shown in FIG. The use end switch 49 generates a use end signal for terminating the use of the pachinko machine by being pressed by the player, and gives the signal to the arithmetic and control unit 21.

The usable ball number recording device 41 is provided in FIG.
Is connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21 as shown in FIG. The available ball number recording device 41, when receiving the information on the remaining available ball number from the arithmetic and control unit 21, stores the information on the remaining available ball number in the remaining available ball number recording section Ca of the card C at the reading and recording position. Is recorded, and when the recording of this information is completed, an available ball number recording end signal is generated and given to the arithmetic and control unit 21. On the upper part of the game board 2 (the upper part of the periphery of the surface of the pachinko machine 1), a ball number display device 5 is provided.
0 (FIG. 1). This ball number display device 50
Is connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21 as shown in FIG. Ball number display device 5
On the surface of the pachinko machine 1 near “0”, a character “ball number” is written.

As shown in FIG. 3, the upper ball storage box 11
A ball lending supply device 51 is disposed between the ball outlet pipe 12 and the common ball supply guide passage 19. As shown in FIG. 11, the ball feeding apparatus 51 is provided with the arithmetic and control unit 2
1 and the coin identification device 46 and the bill identification device 47, and receives a coin identification signal and a bill identification signal from the coin identification device 46 and the bill identification device 47. When receiving the coin identification signal and the bill identification signal, the lending ball supply device 51 replaces the balls of the upper ball storage box 11 with the number of lending balls that is the number of usable balls corresponding to the coin identification signal and the bill identification signal. The first through the supply passage 19 and the first or second branch ball supply passages 20 and 25 (FIG. 3).
To the ball receiving portion 14 or the second ball receiving portion 23 (FIG. 1).

The ball feeding device 51 has the same structure as the ball returning device 43. That is, the ball lending supply device 51
Has a ball supply device 51a, a drive control device 51b, a ball lending detection device 51c, and a ball lending control device 51d, as shown in FIG. The drive control device 51b and the ball lending detection device 51c are connected to a ball lending control device 51d. The ball lending control device 51d is configured by a microcomputer. The ball lending detection device 51C includes a light detector including a light emitting element and a light receiving element, a limit switch, a proximity switch, and the like. The ball-lending detection device 51C detects the ball B supplied to the common ball supply passage 19 by the ball supply device 51a, and generates a ball-lending detection signal.

Each time the ball lending control device 51d receives the coin identification signal or the bill identification signal, the lending ball number, which is the number of usable balls corresponding to the coin identification signal or the bill identification signal, is stored in the lending ball number storage unit. Each time the lending ball detection signal of the lending ball detection device 51c is received, the number of remaining balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of balls stored in the number storage unit, and the remaining number of balls is calculated and stored in the lending ball number storage unit.
The subtraction is stopped when the number of balls in the number-of-lents storage unit becomes 0. The information on the number of lending balls is stored in the ball lending control device 5.
It is stored in advance in a storage device 1d (not shown).

The ball lending control unit 51d generates a ball supply control signal when the number of balls in the lending ball number storage unit is not 0 and gives it to the drive control unit 51b. , No ball supply control signal is generated.

The ball supply device 51a includes a ball drop guide passage tube 51e for passing balls from the upper ball storage box 11 in a line in the vertical direction, and a ball drop guide passage tube 51e having a plurality of teeth on an outer peripheral portion. A gear member 51f having one tooth inserted into the inside of the ball drop guide passage cylinder 51e through the opening on the side of the gear 51f
A pin ring 51g coaxially integrated with the gear member 51f and having a plurality of pins formed radially; a lever member 51h arranged to be engageable with the pins; and a tip of the lever member 51h. A spring 51j for urging the portion 51i in the direction of the pin, and an electromagnet 51k provided as a driving device for swinging the lever member 51h are provided. This electromagnet 51k is connected to the drive control device 51b.

A common shaft 51l of the gear member 51f and the pin ring 51g is rotatably supported by a support plate 51m. The lever member 51h is swingably supported by a support plate 51m. The electromagnet 51k is connected to the support plate 5
It is fixed at 1 m. The actuator 51n of the electromagnet 51k can be engaged with the rear end of the lever member 51h.

The plurality of teeth of the gear member 51f are formed such that one ball B enters between adjacent teeth. When the gear member 51f cannot rotate, the teeth inserted into the ball drop guide passage cylinder 51e stop the ball B thereon from falling.

The drive control device 51b supplies a drive current to the electromagnet 51k during the time when the ball supply control signal is received from the ball rental control device 51d. This electromagnet 51
k indicates that the actuator 5
1n is moved to the lowermost position of the movable range to disengage the tip end 51i of the lever member 51h from the pin of the pin ring 51g, and the ball B is rotated by its own weight so that the ball member 51f can rotate the gear member 51f. To be able to fall.

The drive control device 51b does not supply a drive current to the electromagnet 51k during the time when the ball supply control signal from the ball rental control device 51d is not received. The electromagnet 51k moves the actuator 51n to the uppermost position of the movable range and presses and moves the rear end of the lever member 51h during a period in which the driving current is not received, thereby moving the lever member 51h.
Is engaged with the pin of the pin ring 51g so that the gear member 51f cannot rotate. When the gear member 51f cannot rotate, the ball B is stopped from falling as described above.

The drive control device 51b and the ball lending control device 51d may be configured as described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-32694. That is, the drive control device 51b and the ball lending control device 51d stop the falling balls continuously before the expected number of balls, and drop the remaining balls one by one. The drop supply device 51a may be controlled.

The ball supplying device 51a rotates the gear member 51f with a driving device (not shown) to drop the ball while the driving current is being received from the driving control device 51b. The configuration may be such that the rotation of the gear member 51f is stopped during a time when no drive current is received from the drive control device 51b.

Also, a plurality of ball lending supply devices 51 may be arranged. In addition, at least two of the ball lending supply device 51, the ball return device 43, and the winning ball supply device 18 may be configured by the same device. The ball lending supply device 5
In the case where at least two of the ball return device 43, the ball return device 43, and the winning ball supply device 18 are constituted by the same device, the priorities of these operations may be determined in advance. The ball lending supply device 51 may be arranged in a peripheral portion on the front side of the pachinko machine 1 and configured to directly supply the balls to the first ball receiving portion 14.

The arithmetic and control unit 21 stores the number of usable balls read from the card C by the usable ball number reading device 40 in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, and When a coin identification signal or a bill identification signal is received from the identification device 46 or the bill identification device 47, the number of lending balls corresponding to the coin identification signal or the bill identification signal is determined by the remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding the number of remaining usable balls to the remaining usable ball storage unit, and the remaining usable ball number is stored each time the winning ball detection signal from the winning ball detection device 10 is received. The number of remaining useable balls is calculated by adding the number of winning useable balls to the number of remaining useable balls of the copy unit, and stored in the remaining usable ball count storage unit.
Each time the collected ball detection signal from 1 is received, 1 is subtracted from the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining usable ball number, and is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the ball return instruction signal is received from the ball return switch 42, the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is one or more. A return signal is generated to provide the ball return signal and information of the remaining usable ball number storage unit to the ball return device 43, and when the use end signal is received from the use end switch 49, the remaining usable ball number Is given to the usable ball number recording device 41, and when the usable ball number recording end signal is received from the usable ball number recording device 41, the card return signal is given to the card moving device 37.

After receiving the use end signal, the arithmetic and control unit 21 gives the information on the number of remaining usable balls to the usable ball number recording device 41, and then stores the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. The number of usable balls is set to 0. The information on the number of returned balls is stored in a storage device (not shown) of the arithmetic and control unit 21 in advance.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In the second embodiment of the present invention, the arithmetic and control unit 21 is configured to detect the supply ball detecting device 18c.
And the collected ball detecting device 131 and the card moving device 37
And the usable ball number reading device 40 and the ball return device 43
And the ball return switch 42, the gold identification device 48, and the use end switch 49, calculate the number of remaining usable balls, and generate the ball return signal and the card return signal. Specifically, the arithmetic and control unit 21
Stores the number of usable balls read from the card C by the usable ball number reading device 40 in the remaining usable ball number storage section as the remaining usable ball number, and stores the gold discriminating device 48 from the gold discriminating device. When the signal is received, the number of lending balls corresponding to the gold identification signal is added to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the number of remaining usable balls, and the number of remaining usable balls is stored. The remaining available ball count in the remaining available ball number storage unit is calculated by adding 1 to the remaining available ball number each time the supplied ball detection signal is received from the supplied ball detection device 18c. The remaining usable balls stored in the remaining usable balls storage unit, and each time the collected ball detection signal is received from the collected balls detection device 131, the remaining usable balls stored in the remaining usable balls storage unit are subtracted by 1 to obtain the remaining usable balls. Calculate the number and remain Each time the ball return instruction signal is received from the ball return switch 42, the number of remaining available balls in the remaining available ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is set to one. When the above is the case, the ball return signal is generated, the ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage section are given to the ball return device 43, and when the use end signal is received from the use end switch 49, The information on the number of remaining usable balls is provided to the usable ball number recording device 41, and the usable ball number recording device 4
When receiving the usable ball number recording end signal from 1, the card return signal is generated and given to the card moving device 37. In other configurations, the second embodiment of the present invention
This embodiment is the same as the first embodiment of the present invention.

Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. According to a third embodiment of the present invention, the arithmetic and control unit 21 is configured such that the winning ball detecting device 10, the collected ball detecting device 131, the card moving device 37, the usable ball number reading device 40, and the ball returning device. 43, the ball return switch 42, the use end switch 49, and the ball lending detecting device 51c, which calculate the number of remaining usable balls and generate the ball return signal and the card return signal. . Specifically, the arithmetic and control unit 2
1 is a device 40 for reading the number of usable balls from the card C.
Is stored in the remaining available ball number storage unit as the remaining available ball number, and the remaining available ball number storage unit is received each time a ball lending detection signal is received from the ball lending detection device 51c. The remaining usable ball number is calculated by adding 1 to the remaining usable ball number, and the remaining usable ball number is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding the number of winning usable balls to the number of remaining usable balls in the number of usable balls storage unit, and stored in the remaining usable balls storage unit. Each time the collected ball detection signal is received, 1 is subtracted from the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining usable ball number, and the calculated remaining usable ball number is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. From the ball return switch 42 to the ball Each time a ball return instruction signal is received, the ball return signal is generated when the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is 1 or more, and the ball return signal and the ball return signal are generated. The information of the remaining usable ball number storage unit is provided to the ball return device 43, and when the use end signal is received from the use end switch 49, the information of the remaining usable ball number is stored in the usable ball number recording device 41.
When receiving the usable ball number recording end signal from the usable ball number recording device 41, the card return signal is generated and given to the card moving device 37. In other configurations, the third embodiment of the present invention is:
This is the same as the first embodiment of the present invention.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. In a fourth embodiment of the present invention, the arithmetic and control unit 21 controls the supply ball detecting device 18c.
And the collected ball detecting device 131 and the card moving device 37
And the usable ball number reading device 40 and the ball return device 43
And the ball return switch 42 and the use end switch 49
And the number-of-returnable-balls detecting device 51c, and calculates the number of remaining usable balls, and generates the ball return signal and the card return signal. Specifically, the arithmetic and control unit 2
1 stores the number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device 40 in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, and the ball lending detection device 51c Each time a detection signal is received, 1 is added to the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining usable ball number, and the calculated remaining usable ball number is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the supply ball detection signal is received from the device 18c, 1 is added to the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining usable ball number and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the collected ball detection signal is received from the collected ball detection device 131, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Stored in the ball count storage unit, Each time the ball return instruction signal is received from the ball return switch 42, the ball return signal is generated when the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is 1 or more. Then, the ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage section are provided to the ball return device 43, and when the use end signal is received from the use end switch 49, the information of the remaining usable ball number is transmitted to the ball return device 43. The card return signal is generated and supplied to the card moving device 37 when receiving the usable ball number recording end signal from the usable ball number recording device 41. In other configurations, the fourth embodiment of the present invention is different from the first embodiment of the present invention.
It is the same as the form.

Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. The fifth embodiment of the present invention is the same as the first embodiment of the present invention, except that the ball cleaning device 5 is provided between the upper end portion of the ball return device 32 and the upper ball storage box 11.
2 are arranged. This ball cleaning device 52
The ball sent from the upper end of the ball return device 32 is cleaned and sent to the upper ball storage box 11.

For example, the ball cleaning device 52 has a
As described in Japanese Patent No. 3344, a ball position regulating member that regulates the position of a ball, an ultraviolet lamp that irradiates ultraviolet rays to the ball regulated by the ball position regulating member, and an ultraviolet light from the ultraviolet lamp It is composed of a cleaner and an adhering substance from the irradiated ball. The ball cleaning device 52 may be disposed between the lower end of the ball return device 32 and the lower ball storage box 31.

The ball cleaning device 52 includes a ball return device 32.
And may be configured integrally. Such a ball cleaning / restoring device is disclosed in, for example, JP-A-59-80276. A polishing machine for polishing balls by stirring while raising the abrasive, a separator for separating the balls and the abrasive polished by the polisher, and polishing the abrasive separated by the separator. Abrasive transport path to return to the material intake, and a cutting machine that cuts the surface layer of the abrasive in the middle part of the abrasive transport path,
It is configured to have a sorting machine for sorting abrasives and shavings shaved by the cutting machine, and a collector for collecting shavings sorted by the sorting machine.

Next, a sixth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIG. The sixth embodiment of the present invention is different from the above-mentioned embodiment of the present invention in that an alarm device 53 and a ball stopping device 54 connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21 are further provided. When the stolen ball is used, even after the remaining usable ball number of the arithmetic and control unit 21 becomes 0, the game is played using the ball of the ball number corresponding to the stolen ball number. Almost the number of remaining usable balls becomes a negative value. The alarm device 53 receives the information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit 21 and generates an alarm sound when the number of remaining usable balls becomes a negative value, or displays an alarm display. I do. The boring stop device 54 is connected to the boring device 9 and the arithmetic and control unit 21, receives information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit 21, and calculates the number of remaining usable balls. When the value becomes a negative value, the operation of the ball hitting device 9 is stopped. Therefore, according to the sixth embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to prevent playing using a stolen ball. For other configurations, the sixth embodiment of the present invention is the same as the above-described embodiment of the present invention.

In the above embodiment of the present invention,
The operation control device 21 does not compare the number of returned balls with the number of remaining usable balls in the ball return control device 43d of the ball return device 43.
In each of the ball return instruction signals, the number of returned balls is compared with the number of remaining available balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal, and the number of returned balls is smaller than the number of remaining balls. If the number of usable balls is less than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls, a first ball is returned instead of the ball return signal.
The ball return signal is generated and given to the ball return control device 43d,
When the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, a second ball return signal is generated in place of the ball returned signal to generate a second ball returned signal and the number of remaining usable balls. Information may be provided to the ball return control device 43d. In this case, when the first ball return signal is received, the ball return control device 43d stores the number of returned balls in the return ball number storage unit, and stores the second ball return signal and the remaining available ball number. When the information is received, the number of remaining usable balls may be stored in the return ball number storage unit. The configuration of the ball return device 43 other than this configuration is the same as that of the embodiment of the present invention.

That is, in this case, when the first ball return signal is received, the ball return device 43 transfers the number of returned balls from the upper ball storage box 11 to the common ball supply passage 19 and the first or second ball. When returning to the first ball receiving portion 14 or the second ball receiving portion 23 via the two branch ball supply passages 20 and 25, and receiving the second ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls. The remaining usable number of balls is transferred from the upper ball storage box 11 to the first ball receiver 14 or the second ball receiver via the common ball supply passage 19 and the first or second branch ball supply passages 20 and 25. Return to section 23.

In the above embodiment of the present invention,
When receiving the use end signal, a ball collection device (not shown) is provided which moves the first ball drop opening / closing member 17 of the first ball receiving portion 14 to open the first ball drop opening. You may.
In the embodiment of the present invention, the second ball receiving portion 23 may not be provided.

In the above embodiment of the present invention,
Information on the date of use is recorded on the card C, information on prohibition of use on pachinko machines other than the pachinko machine used is recorded, or the number of remaining usable balls recorded on the card C is given as a prize. Information that must be exchanged may be recorded. Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, the arithmetic and control unit 21 detects an increase or decrease in the number of remaining usable balls every predetermined time (for example, several tens of seconds or several minutes) (not shown). ), A ball number increase / decrease display device (not shown) may be connected to the ball number increase / decrease detection device, and the increase / decrease in the remaining usable ball number may be displayed by the ball number increase / decrease display device. . Further, in the above embodiment of the present invention, another large ball number display (not shown) for displaying the remaining usable ball number is connected to the arithmetic and control unit 21, and the ball number display is connected to the pachinko machine. The number of remaining usable balls may be displayed on the periphery of the surface of the base 1 and the number of remaining usable balls may be displayed every 1,000 or every thousands by this ball number display.

Further, when using the pachinko machine according to the embodiment of the present invention, in the pachinko parlor, the player asks the employee to exchange the remaining number of used balls recorded on the card C for a prize. When handing over the card C, the employee reads the number of remaining usable balls in the usable ball number recording section of the card C and prints it on printing paper.
The card C may be attached to a reading printer that sets the remaining usable ball number of the usable ball number recording unit to 0.

In the embodiment of the present invention, one pachinko machine excluding the ball return device 32 is used.
One ball return device (not shown) may be provided. The ball return device in this case is a lower ball storage box 3 of a plurality of pachinko machines.
Balls from 1 are collected in a ball collecting section via a ball collecting passage, and the balls in the ball collecting section are raised and stored in a ball storing section. Through the upper ball storage boxes 11 of a plurality of pachinko machines. In this case, one ball cleaning device is arranged in a ball passage from the lower ball storage box 31 to the upper ball storage box 11.

[0105]

The pachinko machine according to any one of the first to thirteenth aspects of the present invention calculates and displays the number of available balls (the number of possessed balls or the number of acquired balls) immediately and accurately during a game and uses it at the end of the game. Since the number of available balls can be recorded on the card, there is no need to carry a large large ball storage box containing a large number of balls when exchanging the number of usable balls for prizes, and the player can immediately and accurately Know the number of balls that can be used,
In addition, for this reason, the increase / decrease of the number of usable balls in a short time (several seconds to several minutes) can be understood.

The pachinko machines according to the first to thirteenth aspects of the present invention are inexpensive because a high-speed ball counter is not required.

Further, the pachinko machine according to the invention described in claims 14 and 15 has the above-mentioned effect, and can prevent playing with a stolen ball.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic front view showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic rear view showing a main part of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway rear view showing another main part of the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a winning ball supply device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a ball supply direction switching device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged sectional view showing a second ball receiving portion and a second falling ball guide passage according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing a ball return device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a partially cutaway side view showing a main part of the ball return device of FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing a card moving device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of a ball returning device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram illustrating a configuration of a ball lending supply device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating a control device that controls the entire pachinko machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a main part according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing a main part according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a lock diagram showing a main part according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram showing a main part according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing a main part according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Pachinko stand 2 Game board 3a-3i Winning hole 4 Out hole 5 Variable display device 6 Variable winning device 7 Speaker 8 Transparent plate 9 Balling device 10 Winning ball detection device 11 Upper ball storage box 12 Ball exit passage 13 Collecting ball guide passage Reference Signs List 14 First ball receiving portion 15 First stored ball amount detecting device 16 Second stored ball amount detecting device 17 First ball drop opening / closing member 18 Winning ball supply device 18c Supply ball detection device 19 Common ball supply Passage 20 First branch ball supply passage 21 Arithmetic control unit 22 Winning available ball number converter 23 Second ball receiving unit 24 Ball passage branch unit 25 Second branch ball supply passage 26 Ball supply direction switching device 27 First Ball drop passage opening and closing member 28 second ball drop opening / closing member 29 second drop ball guide passage 31 lower ball storage box 32 ball return device 33 stored ball detection device 34 motor stop signal generation device 5 Card insertion unit 36 Card insertion display device 37 Card moving device 38 Card insertion detection device 39 Card arrival detection device 40 Usable ball number reading device 41 Usable ball number recording device 42 Ball return switch 43 Ball return device 44 Coin insertion unit 45 Bill insertion part 46 Coin identification device 47 Banknote identification device 48 Gold identification device 49 End of use switch 50 Number of balls display device 51 Ball lending supply device 51c Ball lending detection device 52 Ball cleaning device 53 Alarm device 54 Ball hitting stop device 131 Collected ball detection Equipment B Ball C Card

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[Claims] 1. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on a surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at a substantially central portion of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change a moving direction of a ball on the surface to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device that is connected to the prize ball detection device and that supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal. A ball supply passage provided below, which receives a ball from the prize ball supply device, guides the ball downward, and guides the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device, comprising: a ball-feeding device, a drop-ball guide passage for guiding a ball dropped from the ball-dropping port to a lower rear portion of the pachinko machine, and a player provided around the pachinko machine. Can record information on the number of usable balls that can be used, and can insert and remove a card having a usable ball number recording unit that can change the recorded information. A card insertion portion, a card insertion detection device disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion to detect the card and generate a card insertion detection signal, and a card insertion detection device disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion. When a card insertion detection signal is received, the card to be inserted into the card insertion portion is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance and placed at the reading and recording position, and when the card return signal is received, the card is read. A card moving device for returning from a recording position to the front and projecting a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion; and a card arrival detection device arranged near the reading and recording position and detecting that the card has reached the reading and recording position. A card arrival detection device for generating a signal; and a card arrival detection device disposed near the reading and recording position and connected to the card arrival detection device for receiving the card arrival detection signal. An available ball number reading device that reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when the card is returned, a ball return switch that is provided around the play board and generates a ball return instruction signal, and a pachinko machine. When the number of returned balls corresponding to the ball return signal is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls when receiving the ball return signal and the information of the number of remaining usable balls arranged on the upper portion on the back side, the number of returned balls is Balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and when the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the number of remaining usable balls is A ball return device for returning from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, the winning ball detection device, the collected ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, Ball return device Connected to said ball return switch and said gold identification device calculates the remaining usable piece count,
And an operation control device for generating the ball return signal and the card return signal, and a use end signal provided around the game board and connected to the operation control device to end use of the pachinko machine. A use end switch which is generated and provided to the arithmetic and control unit, and which is disposed near the reading and recording position and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and receives information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit; Sometimes, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on a card arranged at the reading and recording position, and when the recording of this information is completed, an available ball number recording end signal is generated to the arithmetic and control unit. A device for recording the number of usable balls to be given;
A ball number display device disposed around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit for displaying the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit, wherein the arithmetic and control unit includes the card The number of usable balls read by the usable ball number reading device from is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, and when the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device, The number of lending balls corresponding to the identification signal is added to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the number of remaining usable balls, and the remaining usable ball number is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time a ball detection signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls is added to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the number of remaining usable balls, and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. And the recovered ball detection signal Each time the number of remaining usable balls is subtracted from the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable balls storage unit, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated and stored in the remaining usable balls number storage unit, and the ball return instruction signal is received. The ball return signal is generated when the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is 1 or more for each ball return signal and the number of remaining usable balls. The information of the storage unit is provided to the ball returning device, and when the use end signal is received, the information of the remaining usable ball number is provided to the usable ball number recording device, and the usable ball number recording end signal is provided. A pachinko machine wherein the card return signal is generated upon receiving the card return signal and is provided to the card moving device. 2. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at a substantially central portion of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change a moving direction of the ball on the surface to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device for supplying the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal while being connected to the prize ball detection device. A ball supply passage that is provided below and receives a ball from the prize ball supply device and guides the ball downward to guide the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device, comprising: a ball-feeding device, a drop-ball guide passage for guiding a ball dropped from the ball-dropping port to a lower rear portion of the pachinko machine, and a player provided around the pachinko machine. Can record information on the number of usable balls that can be used, and can insert and remove a card having a usable ball number recording unit that can change the recorded information. A card insertion portion, a card insertion detection device disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion to detect the card and generate a card insertion detection signal, and a card insertion detection device disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion. When a card insertion detection signal is received, the card to be inserted into the card insertion portion is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance and placed at the reading and recording position, and when the card return signal is received, the card is read. A card moving device for returning from a recording position to the front and projecting a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion; and a card arrival detection device arranged near the reading and recording position and detecting that the card has reached the reading and recording position. A card arrival detection device for generating a signal; and a card arrival detection device disposed near the reading and recording position and connected to the card arrival detection device for receiving the card arrival detection signal. An available ball number reading device that reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when the card is returned, a ball return switch that is provided around the play board and generates a ball return instruction signal, and a pachinko machine. It is located on the upper back
When the ball return signal is received, the balls of the return ball number are returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and the second ball return signal and the number of remaining usable balls are returned. A ball return device that returns the balls of the remaining usable number of balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage when receiving the information, the winning ball detection device, and the collected ball detection device; The remaining number of usable balls is connected to the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball return device, the ball return switch, and the gold identification device, and
An arithmetic and control unit for generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal; and an operation control unit provided around the game board and connected to the operation control unit for ending use of the pachinko machine. A use end switch for generating a use end signal and providing the same to the arithmetic and control unit; and a use end switch disposed near the reading and recording position and connected to the arithmetic and control unit for determining the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit. When the information is received, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading and recording position, and
When the recording of this information is completed, an available ball number recording end signal is generated and provided to the arithmetic and control unit, and the available ball number recording device is connected to the peripheral unit of the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. And a ball number display device for displaying the remaining usable ball number from the arithmetic control device, wherein the arithmetic control device calculates the number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device. The remaining usable ball count is stored in the remaining usable ball count storage unit, and when the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device, the number of lending balls corresponding to the gold identification signal is stored in the remaining usable ball count storage unit. The remaining usable ball count is calculated by adding the remaining usable ball count to the remaining usable ball count storage unit. The remaining usable ball count storage unit stores the remaining usable ball count every time the winning ball detection signal is received. The number of usable balls The number of remaining available balls is calculated by adding the number of available balls, and stored in the remaining available balls storage unit. Each time the collected ball detection signal is received, the remaining use of the remaining available balls storage unit is performed. The remaining available ball count is calculated by subtracting 1 from the possible ball count and stored in the remaining available ball count storage unit, and each time the ball return instruction signal is received, the return ball count receives the ball return instruction signal. When the number of remaining usable balls is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls in the previous remaining usable ball storage section, the first ball return signal is generated and provided to the ball returning device, and the return is performed. If the number of balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal, the second ball return signal is generated to generate the second ball return signal and The information of the remaining usable number of balls storage unit is Information on the number of remaining usable balls to the usable ball number recording device when the use end signal is received, and the card return signal when the usable ball number recording end signal is received. Generating a pachinko machine and giving it to the card moving device. 3. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on a surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at a substantially central portion of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change a moving direction of the ball on the surface to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device for supplying the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal while being connected to the prize ball detection device. A ball supply passage that is provided below and receives a ball from the prize ball supply device and guides the ball downward to guide the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device, comprising: a ball-feeding device that detects a ball supplied by the winning ball-supplying device and generates a ball-detecting signal; A falling ball guide path that guides balls to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine, and information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player provided around the pachinko machine and recorded. Emotion And a card insertion portion that can removably insert a card having a usable ball number recording portion that can change the information, and a card insertion detection signal that is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and detects the card. And a card inserted in the card insertion portion when a card insertion detection signal is received from the card insertion detection device, which is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and which is inserted into the pachinko machine. A card moving device which moves the card back from the read / recording position to protrude a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion when the card is moved to the reading / recording position and receives a card return signal; A card arrival detection device that is arranged near the reading and recording position and detects that the card has reached the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal; A usable ball number reading device which is arranged near a recording position and is connected to the card arrival detecting device and reads information on the number of usable balls recorded on the card when receiving the card reaching detection signal; A ball return switch provided on the periphery of the game board to generate a ball return instruction signal, and a ball return signal disposed on the upper back side of the pachinko machine and corresponding to the ball return signal when receiving information on the ball return signal and the number of remaining usable balls. When the number of returned balls to be performed is less than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls, the number of returned balls is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and A ball returning device for returning the number of remaining usable balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage when the number of returned balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls; ball Discharge device, the collected ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball return device, the ball return switch, and connected to the gold identification device to calculate the remaining usable ball number, And an operation control device for generating the ball return signal and the card return signal, and a use end signal provided around the game board and connected to the operation control device to end use of the pachinko machine. A use end switch which is generated and provided to the arithmetic and control unit, and which is disposed near the reading and recording position and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and receives information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit; Sometimes, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on a card arranged at the reading and recording position, and when the recording of this information is completed, a usable ball number recording end signal is generated. An available ball count recording device to be provided to the arithmetic and control unit, and a number of balls arranged around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit for displaying the remaining usable ball count from the arithmetic and control unit. A display device, the arithmetic and control unit stores the number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, When the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device, the number of lending balls corresponding to the gold identification signal is added to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball storage unit to calculate the number of remaining usable balls. The remaining available ball count storage unit stores the remaining available ball count in the remaining available ball count storage unit every time the supplied ball detection signal is received.
The remaining usable ball count is calculated and stored in the remaining usable ball count storage unit, and every time the collected ball detection signal is received, 1 is calculated from the remaining usable ball count in the remaining usable ball count storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and each time the ball return instruction signal is received, the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is When the number of remaining usable balls is 1 or more, the ball return signal is generated, the ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage unit are provided to the ball return device, and when the use end signal is received. The information on the number of remaining usable balls is provided to the usable ball number recording device, and the card return signal is generated upon receiving the usable ball number recording end signal, and is provided to the card moving device. Pachinko machine. 4. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on a surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at a substantially central portion of the concave portion of the pachinko machine and projecting a plurality of nails on the surface to change a moving direction of the ball to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device for supplying the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal while being connected to the prize ball detection device. A ball supply passage that is provided below and receives a ball from the prize ball supply device and guides the ball downward to guide the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device, comprising: a ball-feeding device that detects a ball supplied by the winning ball-supplying device and generates a ball-detecting signal; A falling ball guide path that guides balls to the lower rear side of the pachinko machine, and information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player provided around the pachinko machine and recorded. Emotion And a card insertion portion that can removably insert a card having a usable ball number recording portion that can change the information, and a card insertion detection signal that is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and detects the card. And a card inserted in the card insertion portion when a card insertion detection signal is received from the card insertion detection device, which is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and which is inserted into the pachinko machine. A card moving device which moves the card back from the read / recording position to protrude a front portion of the card from the card insertion portion when the card is moved to the reading / recording position and receives a card return signal; A card arrival detection device that is arranged near the reading and recording position and detects that the card has reached the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal; A usable ball number reading device which is arranged near a recording position and is connected to the card arrival detecting device and reads information on the number of usable balls recorded on the card when receiving the card reaching detection signal; A ball return switch provided on the periphery of the game board to generate a ball return instruction signal; and a ball return switch disposed on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine for receiving the first ball return signal when receiving the first ball return signal. When the ball is returned from the box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and the second ball return signal and the information on the number of remaining usable balls are received, the remaining number of usable balls is returned to the upper ball storage box. A ball return device for returning the ball to the ball receiving portion from the ball supply passage, the supply ball detection device, the recovery ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball return device, Ball return sui And an arithmetic and control unit connected to the game discrimination device for calculating the number of remaining usable balls, and generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal. A use end switch which is provided on the periphery and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit, generates a use end signal for ending the use of the pachinko machine and gives the signal to the arithmetic and control unit, and is disposed near the reading and recording position. When the information of the number of remaining usable balls is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and receives the information of the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit, the information of the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on a card arranged at the reading and recording position, And an available ball number recording device that generates an available ball number recording end signal when the recording of this information is completed and gives the signal to the arithmetic and control unit; A ball number display device connected to an arithmetic control device for displaying the remaining usable ball number from the arithmetic control device, wherein the arithmetic control device is read from the card by the usable ball number reading device. The number of usable balls is stored in the remaining usable ball storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, and when the gold identification signal is received from the gold identification device, the number of lending balls corresponding to the gold identification signal is used as the remaining available ball. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding the number of remaining usable balls to the number of remaining usable balls in the available ball number storage unit, and is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding 1 to the number of remaining usable balls in the number storage unit, stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and each time the collected ball detection signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated. Number of remaining usable balls in storage unit The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by subtracting 1 and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the ball return instruction signal is received, the number of remaining balls before the ball return instruction signal is received is returned. If the number of available balls is smaller than or equal to the number of remaining available balls in the available ball storage section, the first ball return signal is generated and provided to the ball return device, and the number of returned balls is equal to the number of returned balls. If the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the second ball return signal is generated to generate the second
The ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage unit are provided to the ball return device, and when the use end signal is received, the information of the remaining usable ball number is provided to the usable ball number recording device, And a pachinko machine wherein the card return signal is generated and provided to the card moving device when the usable ball count recording end signal is received. 5. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on a surface thereof, and a plurality of nails which are arranged substantially at the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine and which are provided with a plurality of nails for changing the moving direction of the ball are formed on the surface to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device that is connected to the prize ball detection device and that supplies the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal. A ball supply passage provided below, which receives a ball from the prize ball supply device, guides the ball downward, and guides the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device comprising: a ball-feeding device that detects a ball supplied by the ball-feeding device and generates a ball-detection signal; and a ball that is dropped from the ball drop opening. And a falling ball guide path for guiding the pachinko machine to the lower rear side thereof, and information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player provided around the pachinko machine and recorded. Change information A card insertion section into which a card having a usable ball number recording section capable of being inserted can be removably inserted; and a card insertion detection signal is generated by detecting the card disposed behind the card insertion section and detecting the card. A card insertion detecting device, and a card which is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and which is inserted into the card insertion portion when receiving a card insertion detection signal from the card insertion detection device, is moved by a predetermined distance into the pachinko machine. A card moving device that, when receiving a card return signal, returns the card forward from the read / record position and projects the front of the card from the card insertion portion; A card arrival detection device that is located near the card and detects that the card has reached the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal; An available ball number reading device which is disposed near and is connected to the card arrival detection device and reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when receiving the card arrival detection signal; and A ball return switch provided on the periphery to generate a ball return instruction signal, and a return ball disposed on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine and corresponding to the ball return signal when receiving a ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls. When the number is less than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls, the number of returned balls is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and the number of returned balls. When the number of remaining usable balls is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, a ball return device that returns the balls of the remaining usable number of balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and the winning ball detecting device. The recovered ball detection device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball return device, the ball return switch, and the remaining lending ball number connected to the ball lending detection device to calculate the remaining usable ball number, and An arithmetic and control unit that generates the ball return signal and the card return signal; and a use end signal that is provided around the game board and that is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and that ends use of the pachinko machine. A use end switch to be provided to the arithmetic and control unit, and the switch is disposed near the reading and recording position and connected to the arithmetic and control unit when the information on the number of remaining usable balls is received from the arithmetic and control unit. The information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading and recording position, and when the recording of this information is completed, an available ball number recording end signal is generated and the An available ball count recording device to be provided to an arithmetic and control unit, and a ball number display device arranged around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit for displaying the remaining usable ball count from the arithmetic and control unit The arithmetic and control unit stores the number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number, and Each time a ball detection signal is received from the ball detection device, 1 is added to the remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining usable ball number, and the calculated remaining usable ball number is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the winning ball detection signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding the number of winning usable balls to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and the number of remaining usable balls is calculated. Stored in the storage unit, Each time a ball detection signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and the calculated number is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time an instruction signal is received, the ball return signal is generated when the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is 1 or more, and the ball return signal and the remaining The information of the available ball number storage unit is provided to the ball return device, and the information of the remaining available ball number is provided to the available ball number recording device when the use end signal is received, and the available ball number is provided. A pachinko machine wherein the card return signal is generated upon receiving a recording end signal and is provided to the card moving device. 6. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on a surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change a moving direction of the ball on the surface to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device for supplying the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal while being connected to the prize ball detection device. A ball supply passage that is provided below and receives a ball from the prize ball supply device and guides the ball downward to guide the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device comprising: a ball-feeding device that detects a ball supplied by the ball-feeding device and generates a ball-detection signal; and a ball that is dropped from the ball drop opening. And a falling ball guide path for guiding the pachinko machine to the lower rear side thereof, and information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player provided around the pachinko machine and recorded. Change information A card insertion section into which a card having a usable ball number recording section capable of being inserted can be removably inserted; and a card insertion detection signal is generated by detecting the card disposed behind the card insertion section and detecting the card. A card insertion detecting device, and a card which is disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion and which is inserted into the card insertion portion when receiving a card insertion detection signal from the card insertion detection device, is moved by a predetermined distance into the pachinko machine. A card moving device that, when receiving a card return signal, returns the card forward from the read / record position and projects the front of the card from the card insertion portion; A card arrival detection device that is located near the card and detects that the card has reached the reading and recording position and generates a card arrival detection signal; An available ball number reading device which is disposed near and is connected to the card arrival detection device and reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when receiving the card arrival detection signal; and A ball return switch that is provided in a peripheral portion and generates a ball return instruction signal; and a ball that has the number of returned balls that is disposed on an upper rear side of the pachinko machine and that receives the first ball return signal when the first ball return signal is received. When the ball is returned to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage and a second ball return signal and information on the number of remaining usable balls are received, the number of remaining usable balls is transferred from the upper ball storage box to the balls. A ball return device that returns the ball to the ball receiving portion via a supply passage; a winning ball detection device; a collection ball detection device; a card moving device; a usable ball number reading device; a ball return device; And before An arithmetic and control unit connected to a lending detecting device for calculating the number of remaining usable balls and generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal; and a peripheral portion of the game board A use end switch which is provided to the arithmetic and control unit, is connected to the arithmetic and control unit, generates a use end signal for ending the use of the pachinko machine, and gives it to the arithmetic and control unit, and is disposed near the reading and recording position. When the information of the number of remaining usable balls is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and receives the information of the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit, the information of the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on a card arranged at the reading and recording position, and An available ball count recording device which generates an available ball count recording end signal when the recording of this information is completed, and which is provided to the arithmetic and control unit; A ball number display device connected to the control device and displaying the remaining available ball number from the arithmetic control device, wherein the arithmetic control device
The number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage section as the remaining usable ball number, and each time a ball-lending detection signal is received from the ball-lending detecting device. Is added to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable balls storage unit to calculate the number of remaining usable balls, and stores the calculated number in the remaining usable balls storage unit. The number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding the number of winning usable balls to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and the calculated number of remaining usable balls is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time the number of remaining usable balls is received, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated by subtracting 1 from the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. The number of the returned balls is If the number of remaining usable balls is less than or equal to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the instruction signal, the first ball returning signal is generated to the ball returning device. If the number of returned balls is greater than the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal, the second ball return signal is generated to generate the second ball returned signal. Providing a ball return signal and information of the remaining usable ball number storage unit to the ball return device, providing the information of the remaining usable ball number to the usable ball number recording device when receiving the use end signal, and A pachinko machine which generates the card return signal upon receiving the usable ball count recording end signal and provides the card return signal to the card moving device. 7. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on a surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at a substantially central portion of the concave portion of the pachinko machine and projecting a plurality of nails on a surface thereof for changing a moving direction of the ball to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device for supplying the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal while being connected to the prize ball detection device. A ball supply passage that is provided below and receives a ball from the prize ball supply device and guides the ball downward to guide the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device comprising: a ball-feeding device that detects a ball supplied by the ball-feeding device and generates a ball-detection signal; A supply ball detection device that detects a ball and generates a supply ball detection signal; a drop ball guide passage that guides a ball dropped from the ball drop opening to a lower rear side of the pachinko machine; and a peripheral portion of the pachinko machine Provided in the play It is possible to record information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player, and to insert and remove a card having a usable ball number recording unit that can change the recorded information. A card insertion portion, a card insertion detection device disposed behind the card insertion portion for detecting the card and generating a card insertion detection signal, and a card insertion detection device disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion. When a card insertion detection signal is received, the card to be inserted into the card insertion portion is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance and placed at the reading and recording position, and when the card return signal is received, the card is read. A card moving device for returning from the recording position to the front and projecting the front part of the card from the card insertion part,
A card arrival detection device arranged near the reading and recording position and detecting that the card has reached the reading and recording position to generate a card arrival detection signal; and a card arrival detecting device arranged near the reading and recording position and An available ball number reading device that is connected to a detecting device and reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when receiving the card arrival detection signal, and a ball return instruction signal provided around the game board; A ball return switch that generates a ball return signal that is arranged on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine and a ball return signal corresponding to the ball return signal when receiving information on the number of remaining available balls is greater than the number of remaining available balls. If the number is equal to or smaller than the number of the returned balls, the number of the returned balls is returned from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, and the number of the returned balls remains. When the number of available balls is larger than the number of usable balls, a ball return device for returning the balls of the remaining usable number of balls from the upper ball storage box to the ball receiving portion via the ball supply passage, the supply ball detection device, and the collection The ball detecting device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball returning device, the ball returning switch, and the ball lending detecting device are connected to calculate the remaining usable ball number, and An arithmetic and control unit for generating a return signal and the card return signal, and a generation end signal for ending the use of the pachinko machine which is provided around the game board and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and ends the use of the pachinko machine. A use end switch to be given to the arithmetic and control unit, and a switch which is arranged near the reading and recording position and is connected to the arithmetic and control unit and receives information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit. The information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on the card arranged at the reading / recording position, and when the recording of this information is completed, an available ball number recording end signal is generated and given to the arithmetic and control unit. An available ball number recording device, and a ball number display device arranged around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control device to display the remaining available ball number from the arithmetic and control device, The arithmetic and control unit stores the number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device in the remaining usable ball number storage unit as the remaining usable ball number and stores the number of usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. Each time a ball detection signal is received, the number of remaining usable balls is calculated by adding 1 to the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit. When receiving a detection signal The remaining usable ball number in the remaining usable ball number storage unit is added with 1, the remaining usable ball number is calculated and stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and each time the collected ball detection signal is received. Subtracting 1 from the remaining available ball number in the remaining available ball number storage unit to calculate the remaining available ball number, storing the calculated remaining available ball number in the remaining available ball number storage unit, and receiving the ball return instruction signal each time The ball return signal is generated when the number of remaining usable balls in the remaining available ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal is 1 or more, and the ball return signal and the remaining usable ball number storage unit are stored. Information to the ball return device,
When the use end signal is received, the remaining available ball count information is given to the available ball count recording device, and the card return signal is generated when the usable ball count recording end signal is received. A pachinko machine characterized by giving it to a card moving device. 8. A pachinko machine having a concave portion on the surface thereof, and a plurality of nails arranged at substantially the center of the concave portion of the pachinko machine to change the moving direction of the ball on the surface to form a plurality of winning holes. And a game board having an out hole formed at the lowermost portion, and a ball through which a ball is disposed in front of the game board at a predetermined interval in front of the pachinko machine and cooperates with the game board. A transparent plate that defines a passing internal space, a balling device that is provided below the pachinko machine so as to be positioned below the game board, and launches one ball at a time, and a ball that is launched by the balling device. A hit ball passage that guides to the upper part of the ball passing internal space, a prize ball detecting device that detects a ball when the ball enters the prize hole and generates a prize ball detection signal, and an upper rear side of the pachinko machine. Can be arranged and accommodate a large number of balls An upper ball storage box, a collection ball guide passage which is arranged on the back side of the pachinko machine and guides the balls entering the prize hole and the balls entering the out hole downward, and balls passing through the collection ball guide passage. And a collected ball detection device for detecting a collected ball detection signal, and a ball entrance provided at the top of the pachinko machine at a position below the game board and at the top and having one ball at the bottom. It has a ball supply port for discharging the ball in the direction of the ball driving device, and has a ball drop port at the bottom of the ball supply port to receive and store balls supplied through the ball inlet. A ball receiving portion having an upper opening for discharging balls one by one from the hit ball supply port portion by its own weight, and the ball falling port portion of the ball receiving portion is movably disposed and can open and close the ball falling port portion. A ball drop opening / closing member and an upper side back side of the pachinko machine. And a prize ball supply device for supplying the balls of the upper ball storage box for each prize available ball when receiving the prize ball detection signal while being connected to the prize ball detection device. A ball supply passage that is provided below and receives a ball from the prize ball supply device and guides the ball downward to guide the ball to the ball entrance;
A gold insertion unit provided around the pachinko machine for inserting at least one of coins and bills, and identifying and authenticating at least one of the authenticity and type of coins and bills inserted into the gold insertion unit. A gold identification device for generating an identification signal, and when the gold identification signal is received and connected to the gold identification device, supplies the number of available balls corresponding to the gold identification signal to the ball receiving portion. A ball-feeding device comprising: a ball-feeding device that detects a ball supplied by the ball-feeding device and generates a ball-detection signal; A supply ball detection device that detects a ball and generates a supply ball detection signal; a drop ball guide passage that guides a ball dropped from the ball drop opening to a lower rear side of the pachinko machine; and a peripheral portion of the pachinko machine Provided in the play It is possible to record information on the number of usable balls that can be used by a player, and to insert and remove a card having a usable ball number recording unit that can change the recorded information. A card insertion portion, a card insertion detection device disposed behind the card insertion portion for detecting the card and generating a card insertion detection signal, and a card insertion detection device disposed on the back side of the card insertion portion. When a card insertion detection signal is received, the card to be inserted into the card insertion portion is moved to the inside of the pachinko machine by a predetermined distance and placed at the reading and recording position, and when the card return signal is received, the card is read. A card moving device for returning from the recording position to the front and projecting the front part of the card from the card insertion part,
A card arrival detection device arranged near the reading and recording position and detecting that the card has reached the reading and recording position to generate a card arrival detection signal; and a card arrival detecting device arranged near the reading and recording position and An available ball number reading device that is connected to a detecting device and reads information on the number of available balls recorded on the card when receiving the card arrival detection signal, and a ball return instruction signal provided around the game board; A ball return switch for generating a ball return number, wherein the ball is returned from the upper ball storage box via the ball supply passage when the first ball return signal is received and a ball return switch is disposed on the upper rear side of the pachinko machine. And when receiving the second ball return signal and the information on the number of remaining usable balls, the remaining number of usable balls is received from the upper ball storage box through the ball supply passage into the ball receiver. Connected to the ball returning device, the supply ball detecting device, the collected ball detecting device, the card moving device, the usable ball number reading device, the ball returning device, the ball returning switch, and the ball lending detecting device. An arithmetic and control unit for calculating the number of remaining usable balls and generating the first and second ball return signals and the card return signal; and A use end switch that is connected to the apparatus and generates a use end signal for ending use of the pachinko machine and that is provided to the arithmetic and control unit; and a use end switch that is arranged near the reading and recording position and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. Upon receiving the information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit, the information on the number of remaining usable balls is recorded on a card arranged at the reading and recording position, and An available ball number recording device that generates a usable ball number recording end signal when the recording is completed and gives the signal to the arithmetic and control unit; and an available ball number recording device arranged around the game board and connected to the arithmetic and control unit. A ball number display device for displaying the number of remaining usable balls from a control device, wherein the arithmetic and control unit calculates the number of usable balls read from the card by the usable ball number reading device in the remaining use number. The remaining usable ball count is stored in the remaining usable ball storage unit as a possible ball count, and each time a ball lending detection signal is received from the ball lending detection device, 1 is added to the remaining usable ball count in the remaining usable ball storage unit, and the remaining used ball count is increased. The number of available balls is calculated and stored in the remaining available balls storage unit, and each time the supplied ball detection signal is received, 1 is added to the remaining available balls number in the remaining available balls storage unit to allow the remaining available balls. Calculate the number of balls and The number of remaining usable balls is stored in the remaining usable ball number storage unit, and the remaining usable ball number is calculated by subtracting 1 from the remaining usable ball number of the remaining usable ball number storage unit each time the collected ball detection signal is received. Each time the ball return instruction signal is stored in the available ball number storage unit, the return ball number is smaller than the remaining available ball number of the remaining available ball number storage unit before receiving the ball return instruction signal or When the number of remaining usable balls is equal to the number of remaining usable balls, the first ball returning signal is generated and supplied to the ball returning device, and the number of remaining usable balls before the returning ball number receives the ball returning instruction signal is stored. If the number is larger than the number of remaining usable balls, the second ball return signal is generated and the second ball return signal and the information of the remaining usable ball number storage section are given to the ball returning device, Remains usable when receiving use end signal A pachinko machine for providing information on the number of balls to the usable ball number recording device, and generating the card return signal upon receiving the usable ball number recording end signal and providing the card return signal to the card moving device. . 9. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein at least two of the prize ball supply device, the ball return device and the lending ball supply device are constituted by the same device. Pachinko machine characterized by the fact that 10. The pachinko machine according to claim 7, wherein the prize ball supply device and the lending ball supply device are the same device, and the supply ball detection device and the supply ball detection device A pachinko machine characterized by comprising the same device as the ball lending detection device. 11. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein the ball is disposed between the ball receiving portion and the falling ball guide passage and drops from the ball drop opening of the ball receiving portion. It has a ball storage box with an upper opening that receives and stores
The ball storage box has a ball drop port provided at the bottom and a ball drop port opening / closing member movable to the ball drop port and capable of opening and closing the ball drop port. A pachinko machine characterized by the following. 12. The pachinko machine according to claim 1, wherein balls disposed on the back side of the pachinko machine and falling from the collection ball guide passage and the falling ball guide passage are provided in the upper ball storage box. A pachinko machine having a ball returning device for moving and returning. 13. The pachinko machine according to claim 12, further comprising ball cleaning means for cleaning balls in the ball path from the collection ball guide path and the falling ball guide path to the upper ball storage box. Pachinko machine characterized by the fact that 14. The pachinko machine according to any one of claims 1 to 13, further connected to the arithmetic and control unit, receiving information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit, and receiving the remaining use number. A pachinko machine having an alarm device for generating an alarm sound or displaying an alarm when the number of possible balls becomes a negative value. 15. The pachinko machine according to any one of claims 1 to 14, further connected to the arithmetic and control unit, receiving information on the number of remaining usable balls from the arithmetic and control unit, and further including the remaining use number. A pachinko machine having a ball hitting stop device for stopping the operation of the ball hitting device when the number of possible balls becomes a negative value.