JPH1043372A - Pinball machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To always have feeling of expectation to a play and to make interest high by providing an attracting means for attracting a falling ball, an attraction controlling means which changes the attracting means to condition of attraction and condition of non-attraction and a moving means for moving the attracting means. SOLUTION: In a pinball machine, a ball attracting member 25 is always moved left and right by a driving part and an electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25 is instantly made off when it is positioned just above a starting hole 22 but is made on in other time to attract a falling playing ball. The playing ball attracted by the electromagnet 28 easily enters into a starting hole 22 by making the electromagnet 28 off above the starting hole 22. Therefore, when the playing ball falls toward the neighborhood of the starting hole 22, there exists high possibility of being attracted by the ball attracting member 25 and when the playing ball is attracted, the playing ball enters easily into the starting hole 22. Therefore, it is possible to give always a player feeling of expectation of entering the playing ball into the starting hole 22.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ball-and-ball game machine such as a pachinko machine having at least a ball entrance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional ball game machine, a plurality of obstacle nails are arranged above a ball entrance, and the ball entry rate to the entrance is adjusted by adjusting the obstacle nails in advance. Was. However, in such a ball game machine, if the above-mentioned adjustment is made difficult to enter the ball, the state where it is difficult to enter the ball continues unless the adjustment is made again, and there is a possibility that the player's willingness to play the game may be lost. Had issues. As a ball game machine that solves the above-mentioned problem, it has a pair of blade members on the left and right sides of the entrance, opens each blade member by an electric drive source such as a solenoid, and accepts the falling game ball. A ball game machine provided with a winning ball device called a so-called electric tulip configured to facilitate the game is exemplified. In this winning ball device, predetermined conditions are satisfied, for example, a 7-segment LED
When "7" is displayed on the display, the wing member of the winning prize ball device is opened for a predetermined period of time to change the game ball so as to be easily accepted.

[0003]

However, in the conventional ball game machine, the blade member of the winning ball device is opened when a predetermined condition is satisfied. However, since the opening time is usually instantaneous, at that time, At present, it is impossible to effectively use the open state unless the game ball falls on the blade member. For this reason, it has been considered that the player may lose his expectation of entering the game ball by opening the winning ball device and may feel uncomfortable. In addition, there is a tendency for players to seek ballistic game machines with a high degree of interest that can always concentrate on games. The present invention has been made in order to solve these problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a ball game machine which has a high sense of expectation and always has an expectation for a game.

[0004]

In order to solve the above problems, a ball game machine according to the first aspect of the present invention comprises a game board,
A ball game machine arranged on the game board and including a ball entrance for receiving the dropped game ball, provided above the ball entrance, and capable of adsorbing the dropped game ball. The apparatus includes an adsorption unit, an adsorption control unit that changes the adsorption unit between an adsorption state and a non-adsorption state, and a moving unit that moves the adsorption unit. Further, a ball-ball game machine according to a second aspect is configured such that the suction control means includes an operation means for arbitrarily changing a suction state and a non-suction state of the suction member. Here, the suction means may be any means capable of sucking a game ball, and includes, for example, a means for sucking by a magnetic force, a suction force of air, or the like. The moving means may be configured using an electric drive source such as a motor or an electromagnetic solenoid, or may be configured to be driven mechanically by the weight of the game ball or the like.

[0005]

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a first embodiment of the present invention;
In the ball game machine described in the above, the suction means is moved above the entrance by the moving means, and when the suction control means sets the suction state, the suction ball can be sucked, and when the suction means is set to the non-suction state, the game means It acts to make the spheres impossible to adsorb. Specifically, when the sucking means is in the non-sucking state when the game ball is sucked by the sucking means, the game ball falls downward, but the falling position of the game ball differs depending on the moving position of the sucking means at that time. This makes it easier for the game ball to enter the ball entrance or to make it difficult to enter the ball.
Further, the ball-ball game machine according to claim 2 operates so that the suction means can be arbitrarily changed between the suction state and the non-suction state by operating the operation means. Thereby, the player can operate the operation means when the game ball is being sucked by the suction means, and aim to make the game ball enter the ball entrance.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A ball game machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 1, the ball game machine 1 is provided with a game board 2 and a game board 2
Is covered with double glasses 5a and 5b mounted on a glass frame 4 via a glass groove 3. This allows
A game area 6 is formed between the game board 2 and the inner glass 5a.

A big hit lamp 7 is mounted on the upper portion of the glass frame 4 to turn on when a so-called big hit occurs. The glass frame 4 can be opened and closed around a hinge (not shown) mounted on the back surface of the left side by operating a key 8 provided on the right side. Glass frame 4
Below, is disposed an upper plate member 11 provided with an upper tray 10, and further below the upper plate member 11 is disposed a lower plate member 13 provided with a lower tray 12. The upper tray 10 and the lower tray 12 are respectively provided with an upper plate discharge port 14 and a lower plate discharge port 15 for discharging game balls from the ball game machine 1. Further, the upper plate member 11 is provided with a speaker surface 16 composed of a plurality of small slots, and a speaker (not shown) for generating a sound according to a game state is mounted on the back surface of the speaker surface 16. . The game balls are fired on the game board 2 by operating the operation handle 17 provided on the lower plate member 13.

The upper plate member 11 can be opened and closed by using a hinge (not shown) mounted on the rear surface of the left side as a shaft. Pressed down to prevent opening. Therefore, in order to open the upper plate member 11, it is necessary to open the glass frame 4 and release the lock (not shown) on the right rear side. The glass frame 4 and the upper plate member 11 are disposed in front of the front frame 18 via the respective hinges described above.
8 is fixed to the front.

A variable display device 20 capable of variably displaying a predetermined symbol is mounted in the upper central portion of the above-mentioned game board, and a large winning opening 21 called a so-called attacker is mounted below the variable display device 20. A starting opening 22 is provided between the variable display device 20 and the special winning opening 21, and obstacle nails 23 a and 23 b are respectively arranged near and immediately above both ends of the starting opening 22. A ball suction device 24 is disposed above the obstacle nails 23a and 23b of the game board 2, which will be described later in detail. Further, the gaming board 2 is provided with a prize port, an accessory, and the like (not shown), but a detailed description thereof is omitted.

In the ball game machine 1 of this embodiment, when a game ball enters the starting port 22, the symbol of the variable display device 20 changes, and when the stopped symbol becomes a predetermined mode, a special winning port. 21 are open to give the player a relatively large number of prize balls, but these are well-known techniques,
Description of the configuration is omitted.

Next, FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. The ball suction device 24 is roughly divided into a ball suction member 25 arranged on the front side of the game board 2 and a drive unit 26 arranged on the back side of the game board 2 and moving the ball suction member 25. The ball attracting member 25 has an electromagnet 28 buried in a fitting recess 27a formed in the center of a horizontally long base plate 27, and two lead wires (shown in FIG. Abbreviation) is connected. Each of the lead wires is led out to the back side of the ball suction member 25 through a through hole 27b formed through the center of the fitting recess 27a.

The driving section 26 includes a driving motor 31 having a rotating shaft 30, a disk-shaped cam 32 fixed to the rotating shaft 30 of the driving motor 31, and a back surface of the ball attracting member 25 engaged with the cam 32. And a link member 33 that is fixed to the link member. The front surface of the drive motor 31 has a shaft hole 34c penetrating through the center, and mounting portions 34a, 34 at both ends.
The mounting plate 34 provided with “b” is mounted. The mounting plate is provided with the rotation shaft 30 of the drive motor 31 in the shaft hole 34c.
Is fixed to the drive motor 31 in a state where it is inserted, and the tip of the drive motor 31 protrudes toward the front side of the mounting plate 34. Note that the shaft hole 34c is formed slightly larger than the diameter of the rotation shaft 30 and does not hinder the rotation of the rotation shaft 30.

A pin 32a protrudes near the extreme end of the front surface of the cam 32, and a shaft groove 32b is formed at the center of the back surface of the cam 32. The link member 33 includes a vertically long ring-shaped ring portion 33a and a moving protrusion 33b protruding near the center of the front of the ring portion 33a.
A wiring hole 33c is provided from the front of the ring portion 3b.
A wiring groove 33d is formed on the back surface of the left side of 3a.
The wiring hole 33c and the wiring groove 33d are connected. The rotating shaft 30 of the driving motor 31 is provided with a shaft groove 32 on the back surface of the cam 32.
The cam 32 is engaged with the link member 33 by inserting the pin 32a into the ring portion 33a of the link member 33.

The driving section 26 configured as described above causes the moving projection 33b of the link member 33 to be inserted into the moving hole 35 (see FIG. 4) formed through the game board 2 from the back side of the game board 2. The mounting portions 34a and 34b of the drive motor 31 are respectively fixed to the game board 2 with screws or the like and mounted on the back of the game board 2. At this time, the tip of the moving projection 33b protrudes from the front side of the game board 2 by about 1 to 2 mm. The center of the back surface of the ball suction member 25 is fixed to the distal end surface of the moving projection 33b protruding toward the front side of the game board 2. The moving hole 35 of the game board 2 is formed in a horizontally long shape, and the moving protrusion 33b is allowed to move only in the left and right directions. In this state,
The through hole 27b of the ball attracting member 25 is aligned with the wiring hole 33c of the link member 33, and each lead wire of the above-described electromagnet 28 passes through the wiring hole 33c and the wiring groove 33d of the link member 33 and a control board described later. 40. The drive motor 31 is also electrically connected to the control board 40 via a lead wire (not shown).

Next, the operation of the driving unit 26 and the ball suction member 25 will be described with reference to FIGS. When the power of the drive motor 31 is turned on, the rotating shaft 30 rotates,
At the same time, the cam 32 also rotates. The pin 32a rotates in a circle with the rotation of the cam 32. For example, assuming that the pin 32a of the cam 32 is located at the uppermost position and the link member 33 is vertically located at the center of the drive motor 31 as shown in FIG.
When the first rotation shaft 30 is rotated counterclockwise, the pin 32a rotates while pushing the link member 33 leftward, and the link member 3 is rotated.
3 is moved to the left. That is, as shown in FIG. 3 (b), the time when the pin 32a is located in the leftmost position is the limit of the link member 33 in the leftward direction. In addition, FIG.
When the rotation of the cam 32 is further continued from the state shown in (b), the pin 32a rotates while pushing the link member 33 rightward, and moves the ring member 33 rightward. That is,
As shown in FIG. 3C, the time point at which the pin 32a is positioned rightmost is the limit position of the rightward movement of the link member 33.

The ball attracting member 25 fixed to the moving projection 33b of the link member 33 is also moved right and left in accordance with the operation of the link member 33 described above, so that the link member 33 is moved to the position shown in FIG. In this case, as shown in FIG. 4A, the ball attracting member 25 is located at the upper center of the starting port 22, and the electromagnet 28 is located on a vertical line of the starting port 22. When the link member 33 is at the position shown in FIG. 3B described above, as shown in FIG.
The electromagnet 28 is located on the left side above the vertical line of the starting port 22. When the link member 33 is at the position shown in FIG. 4C, the ball attracting member 25 is located on the right side above the starting port 22 and the electromagnet 28 is positioned at the starting port 2.
2 on the right side of the vertical line. The link member 33
The movement of the moving projection 33b is restricted only to the left and right by the moving hole 35 of the game board 2, and therefore does not meander up and down. In addition, since each lead wire of the electromagnet 28 is connected to the control board 40 through the wiring hole 25b of the ball attracting member 25, the wiring hole 33c of the link member 33, and the wiring groove 33d, the length of the lead wire If some allowance is provided for the ball, the movement of the ball suction member 25 will not be hindered. The driving unit 26 includes a position detection sensor 41.
(See FIG. 5), and is electrically connected to the control board 40. When the electromagnet 28 of the ball adsorbing member 25 is turned on, the ball adsorbing device 24 configured as described above is in a state in which the dropped game ball can be adsorbed, and the electromagnet 28
Is turned off, the game balls cannot be sucked.

Next, a control board 40 for controlling the drive motor 31 of the drive section 26 and the electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25 will be described with reference to FIG. As shown in FIG. 5, when the power is turned on, the control board 40 turns on the drive motor 31 and turns on the electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25, and upon receiving a position detection signal from the position detection sensor 41, the control board 40 instantaneously turns on the electromagnet 28. (For about 0.5 seconds). The position detecting sensor 41 is configured such that the link member 33 of the drive unit 26 is positioned vertically to the center of the drive motor 31, that is, as shown in FIG.
It is configured to transmit a position detection signal to the control board 40 when the position 8 is located right above the starting port 22. Also,
The rotation speed of the drive motor 31 is controlled by the control board 40 so that the right and left one reciprocating movement of the ball suction member 25 is about 3 seconds.

In the first specific example of the ball game machine 1 configured as described above, the ball attracting member 25 is always driven by the driving unit 26.
The electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25 is momentarily turned off when it is located directly above the starting port 22, but is otherwise turned on and attracts the falling game ball. Can be done. The game ball attracted to the electromagnet 28 easily enters the starting port 22 by turning off the electromagnet 28 on the starting port 22.

According to the ball game machine 1 of the first specific example, if a game ball falls toward the vicinity of the starting port 22, there is a high possibility that the game ball will be sucked by the ball sucking member 25. If the ball is sucked, the game ball can easily enter the starting port 22. As a result, there is an extremely excellent effect that the player can always have a feeling of expectation that the game ball enters the starting port 22. In addition, by giving a thrill of whether the game ball is sucked by the ball sucking member 25 or the sucked game ball enters the starting port 22, there is also an effect that the interest is enhanced.

In the control board 40 of this embodiment,
The electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25 is controlled to be turned off when the ball attracting member 25 is moved to a predetermined position. However, the electromagnet 28 may be controlled to be turned on / off at random. Also, the drive unit 26 need not always be driven, and the drive may be changed.

A ball game machine according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG.
The ball-and-ball game machine 50 is provided with the game board 2, and the front surface of the game board 2 is covered with double glasses 5 a and 5 b mounted on the glass frame 4 via the glass groove 3. Thereby, the game area 6 is provided between the game board 2 and the inner glass 5a.
Is formed. In addition, the jackpot lamp 50, the upper plate member 11, the lower plate member 13, the speaker surface 16, the operation handle 17, and the like are provided in the ball-and-ball game machine 50. Mouth 22, obstacle nails 23a, 23
b, a ball suction device 24, a driving unit 26, and other prize ports and accessories (not shown) are provided. Since these are configured in the same manner as the ball game machine 1 of the first specific example, the same part numbers are assigned and description thereof is omitted.

As shown in FIG. 6 and FIG.
An operation button 51, which is a feature of this specific example, is provided near the left side of the upper plate member 11 and the operation button 51 is connected to a control board 52 described later. The operation button 51 is for the player to press the operation button 51 to arbitrarily turn off the electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25 instantaneously.

Next, the drive motor 31, the ball suction member 25, and the control board 52 for controlling the operation buttons 51 of the drive section 26 will be described with reference to FIG. Control board 5 as shown
2. When the power is turned on, the drive motor 31 is rotated and the electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25 is turned on.
When 1 is pressed, control is performed to turn off the electromagnet 28 instantaneously (about 0.5 seconds). For example, even if the state where the operation button 51 is pressed is continued, the electromagnet 51 is momentarily turned off.
After that, the electromagnet 25 is controlled not to be turned off unless the operation button 51 is pressed again after returning to the state where the operation button 51 is not pressed once. The rotation speed of the drive motor 31 is controlled by the control board 52 so that the right and left one reciprocating movement of the ball suction member 25 is about 3 seconds.

In the ball game machine 50 of the present embodiment configured as described above, the ball suction member 25 is always driven by the driving unit 26.
, And the electromagnet 28 of the ball attracting member 25 is normally turned on. The electromagnet 28 is the operation button 5
Since the game ball is momentarily turned off by pressing 1, the game ball that has fallen and is attracted to the electromagnet 28 can be dropped to an arbitrary position (for example, on the starting port 22).

According to the ball game machine 50 of the second specific example, when the dropped game ball is attracted to the ball attracting member 25, the player operates the operation button 51 to bring the game ball into the starting port 22. It has an extremely excellent effect that it can be aimed to make the ball enter. This has the effect that the player can concentrate on the game and always enjoy the game.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the first and second specific examples, the present invention is not limited to such specific examples, and various modifications may be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. Needless to say, this can be implemented.

[0027]

As described in detail above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the suction means is moved by the moving means above the entrance of the ball, and the suction control means determines whether or not the suction state is maintained. Since the state is changed to the suction state, the game ball dropped and sucked by the suction means may always enter the ball.
As a result, the player can always have a feeling of expecting the game ball to enter the entrance, and an extremely excellent effect of improving the interest of the game can be achieved. In addition, according to the ball game machine of claim 2, the player
When the dropped game ball is adsorbed by the suction means, by operating the operation means, there is an excellent effect that the game ball can be dropped to the entrance and aimed at. This has the effect that the player can concentrate on the game and always enjoy the game.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a ball game machine of a first specific example.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing the ball suction device of the first specific example.

3A and 3B are schematic diagrams showing the operation of the driving unit of the first specific example, and FIG. 3A shows a state of a link member when a pin of a cam rotates in an uppermost direction, and FIG. FIG. 3 shows the state of the link member when the pin of the cam is rotated to the left most.
(C) is a front view showing the state of the link member when the pin of the cam has rotated to the right most.

4A and 4B are schematic diagrams showing the operation of the ball adsorbing member of the first specific example, and FIG. 4A shows a state where the electromagnet of the ball adsorbing member is located immediately above the starting port; 4) shows a state in which the electromagnet of the ball attracting member is located at the upper left of the starting port, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a front view showing a state in which the electromagnet of the ball attracting member is located to the upper right of the starting port.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing control of a control board according to the first specific example.

FIG. 6 is a front view showing a ball game machine of a second specific example.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing control of a control board according to a second specific example.

[Explanation of symbols]

1,50 ... ball game machine 2 ... game board 3
... Glass groove 4 ... Glass frame 5a, 5b ...
Glass 6: Gaming area 7: Big hit lamp 8: Key 10: Upper tray 11
... Upper plate member 12 ... Lower tray 13 ... Lower plate member 14
... Upper plate outlet 15 ... Lower plate outlet 16 ... Speaker surface 17 ... Operation handle 18 ... Front frame 20
... variable display device 21 ... big winning opening 22 ... starting port (ball entry port) 23a, 23b ... obstacle nail 24 ... ball suction device 25 ... ball suction member (suction means) 26: drive unit (moving means) 27: base plate 27a: fitting recess 27b: through hole 28: electromagnet 30
... Rotating shaft 31 ... Drive motor 32 ... Cam 32
a: Pin 32b: Shaft groove 33: Link member 33a: Ring part 33b: Moving convex part 3
3c: wiring hole 33d: wiring groove 34: mounting plate 34a, 34b: mounting part 34c: shaft hole 35: moving hole 40, 52: control board (suction control means) 41: position detection sensor 51c: operation button (operation means)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A ball game machine comprising: a game board; and a ball entry port arranged on the game board and receiving a dropped game ball, provided above the ball entry port, Suction means for allowing the game balls to be sucked, suction control means for changing the suction means between a suction state and a non-suction state, and moving means for moving the suction means. Ball game machine. 2. The suction control device according to claim 1, further comprising an operation device for arbitrarily changing a suction state and a non-suction state of the suction member.
The ball-and-ball game machine described in 1.