JPH11244460A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To freely take a cable in and out even when the large part of the back surface of a lower part game plate is covered with a mechanism board by forming a recessed part by notching a part of a bridge member and leading the cable through the recessed part. SOLUTION: A Pachinko (Jaese pinball game machine 1 is composed by fixing the lower part game Pate 20 provided with the bridge member 20c for keeping a space with a front frme 4 and positioned on the lower side of a game plate for receiving the lower side of the game plate to the back side of the front frame 4 through the bridge member 20c. then, at a part of the bridge member 20c of the lower part game plate 20, a recessed part 35 for leading the cable 33 from the back side of the lower part game plate 20 to a front side is formed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional general pachinko machine comprises a front frame which is hinged to the front of a square frame-shaped outer frame so as to be openable and closable, and a synthetic resin fixed so as to surround a window hole of the front frame from the back side. , A game board removably fitted into the middle frame, a mechanism board superimposed on the back side of the game board and provided with a ball tank, a prize ball discharging device, and the like. A lower game board for providing a launch rail, a foul ball collection gutter, and the like is integrally formed on the middle frame at a position supporting the lower side of the game board. The mechanism board also overlaps and covers the back surface of the lower game board. By the way, in recent years, a prepaid card-compatible table ball rental machine is juxtaposed beside a pachinko machine, and an input button, a balance display portion, and the like of the table ball rental machine are arranged on a part of an upper ball plate of the pachinko machine. In addition, a concept of electrically connecting the input button and the like to the inter-table ball rental machine with a cable has been advanced.

[0003]

As described above, in order to connect the input button and the balance display unit provided on the upper ball dish to the external ball rental machine with a cable, the lower game board is required. It is necessary to make a through hole for cable insertion in the cable. However, since the mechanism board covers the back surface of the lower game board as described above, there is a problem that it is not possible to secure a space for forming a through hole sufficient for a connector at the end of the cable to pass.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem, and has a first game-related board provided on the front side of a gaming machine and a second game-related board provided on the back side thereof. A game machine provided with a game-related board, wherein the first game-related board is provided with at least an operation unit operated to issue a ball-lending instruction, and the operation unit is provided more than the second game-related board. The cable connector can be electrically connected to one end of the cable connector led to the back side, and a passage for using the cable connector is avoided from an incidental member of the second game-related board attached to the second game-related board. Formed at different positions. Here, it is preferable that the passage is formed at a position near an installation site of a ball-gear-related device connected to the other end of the cable connector.

[0005]

When the operation section provided on the first game-related board and operated to execute the ball lending instruction is electrically connected by a cable to guide the cable to the back side of the second game-related board, the second By using the passage formed in the game-related board, the connection operation can be easily performed even for a cable connector having a large connector at the end of the cable. Further, since the passage is formed so as to avoid the additional member attached to the second game-related board, it is possible to avoid the additional member being in the way of forming the passage or performing a special process on the additional member. . Further, when the passage is formed at a position close to the installation site of the ball-gear-related equipment connected to the other end of the cable connector, the wiring route of the cable connector guided through the passage is related to the ball-gear-related. It is possible to set the connection ratio with the device most rationally.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a front view of the pachinko machine, FIG. 2 is a rear view of the pachinko machine, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which a front frame is opened and a mechanism plate is further opened, and FIG. 4 is a view showing a glass door frame and a front plate opened. FIG. 5 is a partial perspective view of the pachinko machine showing a state, FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a main part viewed from the back side showing a part of the pachinko machine, and FIG. 6 is a partial cross-sectional plan view showing the main part.

As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the pachinko machine 1 has a front frame 4 hinged to the front of a rectangular frame-shaped outer frame 2 with hinges 3 and 3 so as to be openable and closable. A synthetic resin middle frame 6 fixed so as to surround the window hole 5 from the back side;
The game board 7 is detachably fitted into the game board 7, and the mechanism board 10 and the like are provided on the back side of the game board 7 and are provided with a ball tank 8, a prize ball discharging device 9, and the like.

A glass door frame 11 is attached to the upper half of the front frame 4 occupying more than half of the through hole 5 so as to be openable and closable.
In the lower half of the window hole 5, an upper ball tray 12 is provided on the front side.
A front plate 14 on which an automatic hitting ball feeder 13 is installed on the back side.
Is attached to open and close freely. The upper ball tray 12 is provided with an input button 16 for inputting a ball lending instruction and a return instruction for a prepaid card to a table ball lending machine 15 to be described later, and a balance display 17 for displaying the balance of the prepaid card. I have. The input button 16 and the balance display section 17 are connected to a connector 19 via a wiring board 18 (see FIG. 6) provided inside the upper bowl 12. The connector 19 passes through the front plate 14 and faces the back side of the front plate 14.

The middle frame 6 is a cross frame 6a, 6a, 6a for maintaining a space between the front frame 4 and the game board 7 (substantially, a space between the glass surface of the glass door frame 11 and the game board). Are combined in a gate shape. The lower game board 20 is integrally formed under the left and right cross frames 6a, 6a via a cross member 20c. The lower game board 20 is fixed to a position for receiving the lower side of the game board 7 by the crosspiece member 20c. Further, the lower game board 20 has substantially the same thickness as the game board 7, and the front and upper sides of the synthetic resin portion 20 a integrally formed with the middle frame 6 are metal plates 20 b.
It is covered with. A firing rail 21 and a foul ball collection gutter 22 are fixed to the front side of the lower game board 20. Note that the crosspiece member 20c according to the present invention is a portion from the position in contact with the front frame 4 to the lower game board 20 (in FIG. 6:
x), and of course, the width of y in FIG.
Is a concept including a region (length z in FIG. 6) extended to the back surface of FIG.

As shown in FIG. 2, the mechanism plate 10 is a well-known one in which a prize ball releasing-related component and a winning ball processing-related component are incorporated together. The prize ball discharge-related components are, in order from the top, a ball tank 8, a lead-out gutter 23 for flowing down the pachinko balls in the ball tank 8, a prize ball discharge device 9 receiving supply of pachinko balls from the lead-out gutter 23, and a prize ball. The upper ball tray 12
And a guide gutter 2 leading to a lower ball tray 24 provided below the front frame 4.
5 and a ball drain gutter 2 for pulling out the pachinko balls in the ball tank 8
6 mag. On the other hand, the winning ball processing-related components include a winning ball collecting gutter 27 for collecting winning balls, and a winning ball processing device 28 for receiving a winning ball from the winning ball collecting gutter 27 and outputting a winning signal. The prize ball discharging device 9 includes the prize ball processing device 2.
In response to the winning signal from the motor 8, the motor 9a is rotated to release a predetermined number of pachinko balls. The prize ball discharging device 9
The number of pachinko balls (prize balls) released by controlling the rotation speed of the motor 9a can be adjusted in units of one. On the other hand, the winning ball processing-related parts are divided into two systems so as to correspond to the winning ball receiver 29 set to be easy to win and the other winning ball receivers 30 in FIG. For example, seven pachinko balls are received upon receiving a winning signal corresponding to the winning ball receiver 29, and thirteen pachinko balls are received upon receiving other winning signals.
Releases.

The mechanism plate 10 is rotatably hinged to one side of the middle frame 6, and the stopper 3 protrudes from the middle frame 6.
The hooks 32, 32,... Of the mechanism plate 10 are hooked to 1, 31,... And are fixed on the back surfaces of the game board 7 and the lower game board 20 so as to overlap.

As shown in FIG. 6, a through hole 34 for inserting a cable 33 is formed in the lower game board 20. The through hole 34 is formed by expanding a side near the center of the pachinko machine 1 in a tapered shape from the back side to the front side of the pachinko machine 1. On the other hand, the through hole 3
The recessed portion 35 is formed so as to be continuous with the portion 4. As is apparent from FIG. 6, the width of the through hole 34 in the case where the concave notch 35 is not provided has a length a, whereas the width of the through hole 34 has the length b due to the provision of the concave notch 35. You can see that it has spread. In addition, since the one side of the through hole 34 is formed in a tapered shape as described above, the cable 33 can be easily pulled out of the pachinko machine 1 with a gentle curve.

Next, a prepaid card-compatible table-to-ball ball rental machine 15 arranged side by side with the pachinko machine 1 as shown by a chain line in FIGS. The inter-ball rental machine 15 has a card reader 36 having a function of reading the amount data of a prepaid card and writing the withdrawn amount data, built in a case body 37. As described above, since the input button 16 of the inter-ball game machine 15 and the balance display section 17 of the prepaid card are provided on the upper ball plate 12, the cable 33 for electrically connecting them is connected to the lower game board 20. Through the through hole 34 and the concave notch 35 of the connector 1
9 is inserted with the connector 33a at the tip of the cable 33.
It should be noted that the table ball rental machine 15 exemplified here does not have a function of directly releasing pachinko balls to a player unlike the conventional type,
In response to a ball-lending command from the input button 16, the motor 9 a of the prize-ball releasing device 9 is operated to directly release the pachinko ball to be lent to the upper ball tray 12.

In this embodiment, the front plate 14 is the first game-related plate of the present invention, the lower game plate 20 is the second game-related plate of the present invention, and the mechanism plate 10 is the auxiliary of the present invention. The input button 16 corresponds to the operation unit of the present invention, and the through-hole 34 and the concave notch 35 correspond to the passage of the present invention. Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the concave notch 35 may have the same tapered shape as the through hole 34. Further, as shown in FIG.
May be formed on the front side (the side in contact with the front frame 4) of the crosspiece member 20c. In this case, since it is not necessary to provide the through holes 34 in the lower game board 20, it is possible to sufficiently cope with a case where the mechanism board 10 is enlarged and protrudes onto the crosspiece member 20c as shown by a dashed line in FIG. It is to be noted that since the cable 33 is normally taken in and out by opening the front frame 4 as shown in FIG. 3, the opening of the recess 35 and the outer frame 2 are closed with the front frame 4 closed as shown in FIG. 8.
Even if the gap is narrow, there is no problem in taking the cable 33 in and out.

The present applicant has already filed a patent application for a technology that facilitates the insertion and removal of the cable 33 by combining the through hole 34 of the lower game board 20 and the concave notch 10a provided in the mechanism board 10. However, the technology may be combined with the present invention as shown in FIG. Although the case where the concave notch 35 is formed on the crosspiece member 20c beside the lower game board 20 has been described above, the same concave notch part 35 can be used even when the lower game board 20 has the crosspiece member 20c on the lower side. Can be formed. Also, as shown in FIG. 10, the concave notch 35 may be provided at the lower corner of the lower game board 20 so as to straddle both the lateral and lower cross members 20c. Also,
Although the cable 33 drawn through the table ball rental machine 15 is illustrated as the cable 33 passing through the through hole 34, the use of the cable 33 does not need to be particularly limited. For example, a decorative lamp may be provided on the upper ball tray 12 and a cable used to connect the lamp to a control device attached to the pachinko machine 1 may be used. A cable for connecting the card reader to a control device attached to the pachinko machine 1 and incorporated in the pachinko machine 1 may be used. In addition, lower game board 2
Reference numeral 0 denotes a case in which the lower game board 20 is independently fixed to the lower side of the window hole 5 instead of being fixed to the front frame 4 as an integral part of the middle frame 6.

[0016]

As described above, in the gaming machine of the present invention, the operating section provided for the first game-related board and operated for the ball lending instruction is electrically connected to the second gaming machine by the cable. When the cable is guided to the back side of the related board, by using the passage formed in the second game related board, the connection operation can be easily performed even for a cable connector having a large connector at the end of the cable. Further, the passage is a second passage.
Since it is formed so as to avoid the additional member attached to the game-related board, it is possible to avoid the inconvenience of the additional member in forming the passage and the trouble of specially processing the additional member.
As a result, it is possible to simplify the wiring work in a gaming machine that rents a ball by operating the operation unit while using a prepaid card or the like. Further, when the passage is formed at a position close to the installation site of the ball-gear-related equipment connected to the other end of the cable connector, the wiring route of the cable connector guided through the passage is related to the ball-gear-related. It can be set most rationally in connection with the device, and congestion of the cable connector can be prevented.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine.

FIG. 2 is a rear view of the pachinko machine.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state where a front frame is opened and a mechanism plate is further opened.

FIG. 4 is a partial perspective view of the pachinko machine showing a state where a glass door frame and a front plate are opened.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a main part of the pachinko machine as viewed from the back side, showing a part thereof.

FIG. 6 is a partial cross-sectional plan view of a main part.

FIG. 7 is a partial cross-sectional plan view of a main part showing another embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional plan view of a main part showing another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a partial cross-sectional plan view of a main part showing another embodiment.

FIG. 10 is an enlarged back view of a main part of a pachinko machine showing another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Pachinko machine as a game machine, 10 ... Mechanical board as an auxiliary member, 14 ... Front board as a first game-related board, 1
6 ... input buttons as operation unit, 20 ... lower game board as second game related board, 33, 33a ... cables and connectors as cable connectors, 34, 35 ... through holes and recesses as passages.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A game machine comprising a first game-related board arranged on the front side of a gaming machine and a second game-related board arranged on the back side thereof. Is provided with an operation unit operated at least to issue a ball lending instruction, and the operation unit can be electrically connected to one end of a cable connector guided to the back side of the second game-related board. A gaming machine in which a passage for use is formed at a position on the second game-related board that avoids an additional member attached to the second game-related board. 2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the passage is formed at a position near an installation site of a ball-gear-related device connected to the other end of the cable connector.