JPH1176543A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which constitutes a member for stopping falling down of prize balls when a prize ball processing unit is dismantled at a low cost and a few number of parts and hardly generates troubles. SOLUTION: A flexible falling down controlling member 144 is provided by molding integrally it with a base frame body 112 as a member for stopping falling down of a safe ball from a prize ball collecting conduit 133 when a safe unit 111 is dismantled from a fitting part 141 of the base frame body 112 and the falling down controlling member 144 is released from a pressure caused by the frame body of the safe unit 11 and is made to return (namely, automatic displacement) in the removing direction of the safe unit 111 to controll falling down of the safe ball from the falling down end part 133a of the prize collecting conduit 133. In is possible thereby to use a few parts, to simplify the shape and to decrease cost.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gaming machine for playing a pachinko game, and more particularly, to a base frame having a series of ball discharging mechanisms for discharging a required number of prize balls based on a winning ball to a prize device. And a game machine provided with a back mechanism panel.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a ballistic game machine such as a pachinko game machine (hereinafter referred to as a game machine) has a prize ball processing unit (a prize ball discharging device), and the prize ball processing unit has a prize ball processing unit. The winning balls (safe balls) that have won the device are collected via a winning ball collecting gutter, and the winning balls can be discharged to one destination with the discharging operation of the ball discharging device. The winning ball processing unit is installed on the back mechanism panel together with the winning ball collecting gutter, and the solenoids and sensors of the winning ball processing unit cannot be denied, so it can be easily replaced by unitizing the winning ball processing unit. Is desirable.

[0003] In this connection, a technique for detaching the winning ball processing unit from the back mechanism panel is known, but when the winning ball processing unit is easily removed, a winning ball from the winning ball collecting gutter is obtained. The ball is spilled out and ejects a winning ball that is precious for the player. In order to prevent this, if the employee of the game store receives the winning ball by hand, the burden on the employee increases. The applicant of the present application
A technique for preventing this is disclosed in JP-A-5-337235. In this technique, a member for stopping the flow of the winning ball when the winning ball processing unit is removed is provided as a ball stopper near the outlet of the safe ball channel of the base frame.

[0004]

However, the prior art disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-337235 has the following problems. (B) Although there is a member (ball stopper member) for stopping the flow of the winning ball when the winning ball processing unit is removed, since this member is separate from the back mechanism board, a problem of assembling is required. There was a point. Therefore, the cost may be increased. (B) In the conventional technique, the number of parts is large, and the shapes of the parts are complicated, so that there is a possibility that the cost is increased. In particular, there was a possibility that the cost of the mold for forming the parts would increase. (C) Since the ball stopper has a structure in which a spring is fitted to a resin member, there is a possibility that a failure may easily occur.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a gaming machine in which a member for stopping the flow of a winning ball when the winning ball processing unit is removed can be configured with low cost and a small number of parts, and in which a failure is unlikely to occur. The purpose is.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the gaming machine according to the first aspect of the present invention comprises a series of ball discharging mechanisms for discharging a required number of prize balls based on a prize ball to a prize device. A gaming machine provided with a back mechanism board formed on a base frame, wherein the base frame of the back mechanism board is formed of a synthetic resin member, and the winning prize balls are collected on the base frame. A ball collecting shelf and a winning ball collecting gutter for flowing the winning balls collected by the winning ball collecting shelf are formed, and a predetermined portion of the base frame in which the lower end portion of the winning ball collecting gutter is arranged has a prize. A prize ball processing unit having a frame provided with a flow control mechanism for controlling a prize ball flowing down a ball collecting gutter to one prize ball and a prize ball detector capable of detecting one prize ball to a detachable frame is detachably provided. And the lower end of the winning ball collecting gutter and the winning ball processing unit. At a place where the lower control mechanism entrance communicates, the base frame body is formed integrally with the base frame body and has flexibility in a direction in which the winning ball processing unit is attached and detached. The state in which the winning ball is allowed to flow down based on the pressing of a predetermined portion of the frame of the winning ball processing unit and the release operation of the winning ball processing unit release the pressing by the frame of the winning ball processing unit and return. A flow-down regulating member configured to be displaceable to a state in which the flow of the winning sphere is regulated based on the result is provided.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below as a pachinko game machine (a ball-and-ball game machine, hereinafter abbreviated as a game machine).
An example applied to the invention will be described with reference to the drawings. A. FIG. 1 is a front view of a gaming machine. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a gaming machine, and the gaming machine 1 is provided with a card-type ball lending machine (hereinafter simply referred to as a ball lending machine) 2 as a game medium lending device. A pachinko machine provided with a card-type ball rental machine 2 in addition to a gaming machine 1 is called a so-called CR machine (card reading machine). The ball lending machine 2 has a built-in card reader. The ball lending machine 2 has a front panel 3 formed with a card insertion slot 4 into which a prepaid card is inserted, and locks the front panel 3 (openable and closable structure). Key device 5 is provided.

The gaming machine 1 has a frame-shaped front frame 11 (hereinafter, simply referred to as a front frame), a glass frame 12 made of resin for supporting glass, and a game area 1 which is detachably attached to the front frame 11. It has a game board 13 formed, a front display panel 14, and a front operation panel 15 below the front display panel 14. The frame-shaped front frame 11 is supported by a wooden frame 16 (see FIG. 2) on which the pachinko machine 1 is installed by an upper hinge 17 and a lower hinge 18 so as to be openable and closable. It is supported to be openable and closable. The glass frame 12 is locked by a key device 19 so as to be opened and closed.

One end of the front display panel 14 is openably and closably supported by the frame-shaped front frame 11 to form an upper plate 21 for receiving award balls, a ball lending button 22 operated when purchasing a ball, and a prepaid card. A card frequency display (card balance display) 23 for displaying the balance of the card, a card discharge button (return button) 24 operated when discharging the prepaid card,
In addition, an opening / closing lever 25 for opening and closing a passage connecting the balls of the upper plate 21 to a lower plate 32 to be described later is provided. The front operation panel 15 is provided with an ashtray 31 and a lower tray 32, and a ball pulling lever 33 for pulling the balls stored in the lower tray 32 outward and downward. On the right end side of the front operation panel 15, a firing operation knob 34 of the firing device is provided. The launch operation knob 34 is used to operate a launch device that launches one of the game balls arranged in a line at the launch position one by one into the game area on the front of the game board.

Here, the upper plate 21 is formed with a ball storage portion capable of storing game balls by opening the upper surface, protruding forward from the front side of the front display panel 14, and a lower portion of the upper plate 21. Are formed in a bulging shape extending to near the lower end of the front display panel 14. The lower plate 32 has a ball storage portion capable of storing game balls by opening the upper surface, and has a bulging shape protruding forward from the front side of the gaming machine 1 at a position relatively close to the upper plate 21. , And side wall members 35a and 35b are arranged on both sides of the lower plate 32. The upper plate 2 is brought into contact with the front display panel 14 in the lower portion of the upper plate 21 formed in a bulging shape.
1 from the vicinity of the contact point 1 to the front end of the upper plate 21, an inclined wall 36 is formed so as to be inclined so as to scrape the center bottom of the upper plate 21 symmetrically to the right and left. A large space above the plate 32 is ensured, so that the player can easily scrape the game balls of the lower plate 32 while keeping his / her eyes on the game board 13, and provide the lower plate 32 to a viewer at the rear of the gaming machine 1. It is possible to appeal the balls that have been stored in the area.

A speaker 60 for outputting a game sound or the like is embedded in the upper plate 21.
0 outputs sound information generated in the game control (the sound information is a concept including a game sound, a ball lending sound, a warning sound, and the like). The sound emission surface (cone) of the speaker 60 opens forward, and the sound emitted from the speaker 60 has a sound emission hole 6 formed at the bottom of the upper plate 21 formed in a bulging shape.
1 (for example, formed by a plurality of small holes) so as to be smoothly transmitted to the front side of the gaming machine 1. The inside of the upper plate 21 is hollow, and the speaker 60
Is guided to the sound emission hole 61 and emitted to the outside.

Next, the game board 13 is an area for judging out or safe while the shot game ball is dropped from above, and when the ball enters the winning opening and becomes effectively safe, a predetermined number of prizes are provided. The ball is discharged from the ball discharge device and supplied to the upper plate 21. Also, even if the ball is fired by operating the firing operation knob 34, when the ball becomes foul,
The pachinko ball returns to the firing position or is discharged to the lower plate 32. The game area on the game board 13 is a game area using pachinko balls, for example, a so-called “first game area”.
Belonging to the "species" or the "third"
Even if it belongs to the “species” or other models, it can have any configuration.
It uses a type that belongs to "species".

Around the game area of the game board 13, a rail 4 having a function of guiding a fluttered ball to an upper portion of the game area or to a lower out ball inflow port 41 is provided.
2 are arranged. In addition, a special symbol display device 43 having a TV display is disposed substantially at the center of the game area. Under the special symbol display device 43, a starting winning opening 4 is provided.
4, and a variable winning device 45 serving as a special winning opening that changes from a first state in which game balls are not accepted to a second state in which game balls are easily accepted according to the operation result of the special symbol display device 43.

The special symbol display device 43 displays a special symbol (hereinafter referred to as a special symbol as appropriate) when a ball is won in the starting winning port 44.
Is changed, and when the symbol is in a specific profit state (for example, the big hit state: "777"),
The big hit game in which the variable winning device 45 is opened and the variable winning device 45 continues to be opened for a predetermined maximum cycle under the condition of so-called V winning is played.
The starting winning opening 44 and the variable winning device 45 (large winning opening) are provided with a ball detecting sensor (not shown) capable of detecting a winning ball, and a plurality of general winning devices having no ball detecting sensor are provided. ing. As a general prize device,
Natural winning prize opening 46 at the upper part of special symbol display device 43, general winning openings 47, 48 arranged on the left and right sides at substantially the same height as special symbol display device 43, left and right sides below special symbol display device 43 There are general winning openings 49, 50 arranged on the side.

At an appropriate position in the game area, a plurality of hitting direction changing members called windmills are rotatably provided, and the hitting direction changing members which can be turned on (or blink) and the turning direction (or blinking) are provided. There is a hitting direction changing member that does not. Further, a large number of obstacle nails (not shown) are planted in the game area, and side lamps 51 and 52 are provided in the game board 13. Side lamp 5
Reference numerals 1 and 52 are used to appropriately light or blink according to the content of the game to enhance the sense of reality of the game. On the other hand, gaming machine 1
At the top of the frame-shaped front frame 11 is provided a big hit indicator 53 that lights up (including a blinking state) at the time of a big hit, and lights up when a ball is supplied from the island equipment beside the big hit indicator 53. In addition, there are provided a supply lamp 54 which blinks when an error occurs and a prize ball lamp 55 which is turned on when the prize ball is discharged and the ball is lent.

B. Next, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a back mechanism of the gaming machine 1. In FIG. 2, as main components of the back mechanism in the gaming machine 1,
Storage tank (upper tank) 101, taxiway 102, terminal board (external terminal board) 103, odd sensor unit 104, discharge unit 105, discharge and emission control circuit 10
6. There is an accessory control circuit 107, an accessory relay board 108, a launch unit 109, a card unit connection board 110, a safe unit 111, and a base frame 112 of a back mechanism board.

The base frame 112 is formed from an integrally molded product made of synthetic resin, and is attached to a metal frame 113 fixed to the back of the front frame 11 of the gaming machine 1. Then, various unit components such as the storage tank 101, the taxiway 102, the terminal base 103,
Odd sensor unit 104, ejection unit 105, ejection / emission control circuit 106, card unit connection board 110,
A safe unit 111 and the like are attached (for example, fixed by a one-touch holding member), and these various unit components and the base frame 112 are collectively referred to as a back mechanism panel 114. A frame board (not shown) on which the game board 13 can be placed is provided below the metal frame 113, and the above-described firing unit 109 is mounted on the frame board at the end of the firing rail (on the firing position side). It is attached and fixed (for example, screwed). Here, the frame-shaped front frame 11, the glass frame 12, the front display panel 14, the front operation panel 15, the speaker 60,
Various unit components (for example, storage tank 101, taxiway 102, terminal board 103, odd sensor unit 1
04, the discharge unit 105, the discharge and emission control circuit 106,
Card unit connection board 110, safe unit 111
) And the base frame 112, etc., constitute a frame unit as a whole. Therefore, the gaming machine 1
Is a game board 13 (an accessory control circuit 10 arranged on the back side thereof).
7, the accessory relay base 108 and the like), a frame unit and a machine frame 16. The frame unit is supported on the machine frame 16 so as to be openable and closable, and the game board 13 is detachably fixed to the frame unit.

The storage tank 101 stores balls before being discharged beforehand. The shortage of the number of balls in the storage tank 101 is detected by a replenishment sensor (not shown). Is replenished. The sphere in the storage tank 101 is guided by the guiding path 102, and the discharge unit 10
5 (ball discharge device). Whether or not there is a ball for prize ball discharge or ball leasing discharge in the taxiway 102 is detected by the odd sensor unit 104. The terminal board 103 relays the input of AC power and the transmission and reception of signals with a hall computer (management device: not shown) of a game arcade, etc., and a relay section and a connector section (connects to a hall computer). ), And both are connected by a cable.

The discharge / ejection control circuit 106 is disposed on the frame unit side of the gaming machine 1 (here, the base frame 112), and performs various controls necessary for discharging and firing of a ball. The storage frame: a board that realizes the function of the discharge / emission control circuit 106 is stored in the storage frame body (see FIG. 3B described later). In this case, the front frame 11 which is a part of the frame unit
Is attached to one side of the machine frame 16 so as to be openable and closable, and one side of the machine frame 16 corresponds to a fulcrum that supports the front frame 11 so that it can be opened and closed. The other side of the front frame 11 corresponds to a free end side that opens and closes about a fulcrum as a rotation center, and the discharge / emission control circuit 106 is disposed on the free end side.

At the end of the case 171 of the discharge / emission control circuit 106, a holding member 172 (see FIG. 3C described later) is provided, and the holding member 172 is formed on the base frame 112 of the back mechanism panel 114. Pressing the engaging hole (not shown) with one touch causes the tip of the holding member 172 to spread out and not come off. In this way, the case 171 accommodating the substrate of the ejection / emission control circuit 106 is Base frame 11
Fixed to 2. On the other hand, when the holding member 172 is pulled by a predetermined force, the holding member 172 is disengaged from the engagement hole, and the case 171 of the ejection / emission control circuit 106 can be removed from the base frame 112.

The firing unit 109 is a mechanism for firing a ball. The card unit connection board 110 is for connecting the cable 122 extending from the card type ball lending machine 2 to the gaming machine 1, and is a mounting member (for example, a female connector) for receiving the connector 123 at the end of the cable 122. ). On the back side of the game board 13, a winning ball collecting member 131 is provided.
Is made of, for example, a transparent resin (such as ABS resin).
No. 3 has a function of guiding a safe ball (winning ball) entering each winning opening. The safe balls guided by the winning ball collecting member 131 are collected by the winning ball collecting shelf 132 below, and then guided to the safe unit 111 through the winning ball flowing down gutter 133. The winning ball collection shelf 132 is formed on the base frame 112 and is formed of a synthetic resin member. A winning ball collecting trough 133 for letting the winning balls collected by the winning ball collecting shelf 132 flow down is also formed on the base frame 112 and is formed of a synthetic resin member.

The lower end 133a of the winning ball collecting trough 133
A flow control mechanism (including a safe solenoid and a safe ball including a safe solenoid) is provided at a predetermined portion of the base frame 112 where the base frame 112 (see FIG. 3 (a)) is arranged to control the flow of one safe ball flowing down the prize ball collecting gutter 133. (A mechanism that discharges one safe ball) and a safe sensor 111a (winning ball detector) capable of detecting one safe ball in a frame body. It is provided detachably with respect to 112 (details will be described later with reference to FIG. 3). The safe unit 111 includes a safe sensor 111a that detects one safe ball, and detects one safe ball flowing down the prize ball downflow gutter 133 by the safe sensor 111a.
Each time a prize ball corresponding to a safe ball is discharged, one detected safe ball is discharged.

The accessory control circuit 107 is provided for the gaming board 1 of the gaming machine 1.
It is arranged on the three sides and performs various controls necessary for the operation of the accessory, and a board that realizes the function of the accessory control circuit 107 is stored in a predetermined case (storage frame). The accessory control circuit 107 is connected to the discharge / emission control circuit 106 and the like by a cable, and is also connected to the accessory relay base 108 via a flat cable. Also, the accessory control circuit 10
7 and the discharge / emission control circuit 106 are individually housed in a housing frame. The character relay base 108 is a character, a side lamp 51,
52, for relaying a cable connection between the variable winning device 45 and the like and the accessory control circuit 107, a relay board 108a, an external information terminal board for a game board (connector board)
108b and a relay board 108c, which are connected by a cable.

An overflow switch 124 is provided below the safe unit 111 and near the ball exit of the lower plate 32, and the overflow switch 124 is connected to the lower plate 3
When 2 is full, the system detects an excessive accumulation of balls. When the overflow switch 124 is turned on, the firing and ejection of the ball are stopped. The storage tank 101, the guideway 102, the irregular sensor unit 104, the discharge unit 105, the discharge and emission control circuit 106, the safe unit 111, and the overflow switch 124 constitute a ball discharge mechanism.

C. Detailed Configuration of Safe Unit Next, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of the safe unit 111, and FIG.
Base frame 11 including a portion where 11 is detachably attached
2 is a partially enlarged view, FIG. 3B is a perspective view of the safe unit 111, and FIG. 3C is a perspective view showing a case of the discharge / emission control circuit 106. In these figures, the base frame 11
A mounting portion 141 for detachably mounting the safe unit 111 is formed in a concave shape in 2, so that the safe unit 111 can be inserted into the concave mounting portion 141. Mounting part 1
41 is provided with a cylindrical holding member receiving portion 142, and the holding member receiving portion 142 has an engaging hole 142 a formed therein. In addition, the mounting portion 141 has a winning ball downflow gutter 13.
3 is open at the lower end 133a.
Reference numeral 33a communicates with a prize ball guide path 163 formed inside the safe unit 111 (see FIG. 4: the entrance 164 of the prize ball guide path 163 corresponds to the flow-down control mechanism entrance). On the other hand, the bottom of the mounting portion 141 has a winning ball discharge gutter 1
The entrance end 143a of 43 is open. Similarly, the entrance end 143a communicates with the winning ball guiding path 163 formed inside the safe unit 111. Therefore, the winning ball downflow gutter 133, the winning ball guide path 163 in the safe unit 111 and the winning ball discharge gutter 143 can communicate with each other, and the safe ball flows down in this order.

The attachment part 141 has a flow-down regulating member 144.
The flow-down regulating member 144 is provided at the lower end 133a of the winning ball collecting gutter 133 and the flow-down control mechanism entrance of the safe unit 111 (that is, the entrance of the winning ball guiding path formed inside the safe unit 111). Are arranged at a place where the communication is established. The flow-down regulating member 144 is the base frame 1
12 and is flexible in the direction in which the safe unit 111 is attached and detached. The base end is continuous with the base frame 112, and the tip is the lower end 133a of the winning ball collecting gutter 133.
It has an elongated shape that faces the. Then, the downflow regulating member 144 allows the safe sphere to flow down based on the pressing of a predetermined portion (rear surface portion) of the frame of the safe unit 111 by the insertion operation of the safe unit 111 (details will be described later). The safe unit 111 is configured to be displaceable to a state (a state shown in FIG. 3) in which the safe unit 111 is released from the pressing of the frame by the safe body 111 and the safe unit 111 is released to return to the state in which the safe ball is restricted from flowing down. I have. The flow control mechanism of the safe unit 111 is housed in a resin case, and the frame of the safe unit 111 refers to the case of the safe unit 111.

The base frame 112 is fixed to a metal frame 113 fixed to the back side of the front frame 11, and a downflow regulating member 144 is pressed against the metal frame 113 by a predetermined portion of the frame of the safe unit 111. Escape part 1
45 are formed. Also, the safe unit 111 is attached to the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112.
An escape hole 146 is formed to allow a part (for example, a convex portion) of the frame to escape when the frame is inserted. Furthermore, the base frame 1
12, a plurality of cleaning holes 147 for cleaning the winning ball collecting gutter 133 are formed. As described above, the outside of the safe unit 111 is covered with a case that houses the flow-down control mechanism. A holding member 151 is provided at a predetermined portion of the case, and a manually operated lever 152 is provided. The lever 152 allows the safe ball to flow down manually when the flow-down control mechanism of the safe unit 111 fails.

The safe unit 111 is shown in FIG.
As shown in the cross section in (b), it is divided into a front member 161 and a rear member 162, and these members 161 and 162 are separated.
Can be divided into two. And each of these members 1
A winning ball guideway 163 is formed by the baseballs 61 and 162, and the entrance of the winning ball guideway 163 serves as a winning ball entrance 164 formed in the base frame 112 and a downflow gutter 133 formed on the base frame 112.
The exit of the winning ball guideway 163 is the winning ball exit 16
5, and communicates with the winning ball discharge gutter 143 formed on the base frame 112. Winning Ball Taxiway 16
The game ball 3 is locked (restricted from falling) to one game ball and driven by a safe solenoid (not shown) to drop and discharge the locked one game ball (safe ball). A locking member 166 is provided, and the locking member 16 is provided.
Reference numeral 6 has a drop regulating piece 166a for regulating the drop of a ball T 'next to a ball (represented by T in FIG. 4) and a drop control piece 166b for dropping one locked game ball T. ing.

The drop control piece 166a and the drop control piece 166b
, So that the balls can be locked one by one and dropped. The safe solenoid is connected to the locking member 166 (a connection state in which the safe solenoid is operated), and only one ball in the safe unit 111 falls by one operation of the locking member 166. That is, by driving the safe solenoid based on a signal from the discharge / emission control circuit 106 to operate the locking member 166, the safe ball flowing down the winning ball downflow gutter 133 is discharged.
Each time a prize ball corresponding to a safe ball is ejected, one prize ball is won.
Discharge individual pieces. Discharge of safe ball is safe sensor 111
a, and the detection signal is output from the discharge / emission control circuit 10
6 is input. Whether or not there is a safe ball in the safe unit 111 is detected by a safe sensor 111a arranged on the winning ball guide path 163. When there are no more balls in the safe unit 111, the detection signal of the safe sensor 111a is turned off (no ball is present). When another ball (winning ball) remains in the safe unit 111, the above operation is repeated.

The holding member 151 provided in the safe unit 111 is provided by a holding member operating portion 151a operated by an employee with a finger and a holding member receiving portion 142 formed on the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112. The holding unit 151b has a structure in which the distal end side expands and does not come off when pressed into the mating hole 142a.
Holding member operation section 15 of holding member 151 provided in
By operating (pressing) 1a and pressing the holding member function part 151b into the engagement hole 142a of the holding member receiving part 142 formed in the mounting part 141 of the base frame 112, the tip of the holding member function part 151b is expanded. It changes to a shape that does not come off,
In this way, the safe unit 111 is
Can be fixed (inserted) to the mounting portion 141 with one touch. On the other hand, when the holding member operation part 151a is pulled by a predetermined force, the holding member function part 151b is disengaged from the engagement hole 142a of the holding member receiving part 142, and the safe unit 111 is also one-touch from the attachment part 141 of the base frame 112. It can be easily removed.

Returning to FIG. 3 again, as shown in FIG. 3 (c), the substrate of the discharge / emission control circuit 106 is housed in a resin case (housing frame) 171. The holding member 172 described above is provided. Also, a plurality of (for example, two)
Locking portions 173 and 174 are provided.
Lock holes 173a and 174a are formed in the holes 3 and 174, respectively. When the case 171 accommodating the substrate of the discharge / emission control circuit 106 is attached to the base frame 112, first, the locking holes 173 a and 174 a formed in the locking portions 173 and 174 of the case 171 are provided, as shown in FIG. As shown, the projection members (rotating shafts) 175, 1 protruding from the base frame 112.
76 respectively. As a result, the case 171 is freely rotatable about the projection members (rotation shafts) 175 and 176 as fulcrums. Next, the holding member 172 of the case 171 is pressed with one touch to the base frame 112 of the back mechanism board 114.
3A (see FIG. 3A), the tip of the holding member 172 spreads inside the engaging hole 177 and is held by the base frame 112. In this way, the case 1 in which the substrate of the ejection / emission control circuit 106 is stored
71 is fixed to the base frame 112. At this time, the base frame 1
12, a wiring locking member 178 is formed in a portion of the discharge / emission control circuit 106 where the case 171 is housed, and a cable 181 described later connected to the discharge / emission control circuit 106 is locked to the wiring locking member 178. You can do it.

When the case 171 is to be removed, the holding member 172 of the case 171 is engaged with the engagement hole 177 of the base frame 112.
From the base frame 112 to remove the upper end of the case 171 from the base frame 112. Then, the locking portions 173, 174 of the case 171 are removed.
The base frame 1 is inserted from each of the locking holes 173a and 174a formed in
Projecting members (rotating shafts) 175, 17 protruding from 12
Pull out 6 respectively. As a result, the case 171 containing the substrate of the discharge / emission control circuit 106 can be removed from the base frame 112.

The board 18 of the discharge / emission control circuit 106
3 (particularly, the lower portion) protrudes outside the case 171, and the protruding portion of the board 183 is connected to the connector 18 connected to the cable 181 from another circuit.
2, a connector receiving member (not shown because it is not covered with the connector 182 and is not shown, for example, a female pin member) is arranged. Although there are a plurality of cables, connectors, and connector receiving members from other circuits, the symbols are typically only 181 and 182 because they are complicated. In addition, the lower end of the case 171 (the lower end in FIG. 3B) is processed so as to cut a corner so as to have a gentle shape. Is the substrate 18
The operation of inserting (or unplugging) a connector connected to a cable from another circuit into the connector receiving member of No. 3 is facilitated (that is, a work space for a finger is secured).

In the above configuration, the discharge / emission control circuit 1
At 06, control on the frame unit side of the gaming machine 1, for example, control necessary for discharging or firing a ball, is performed.
At 07, the control necessary for the operation of the accessory arranged on the game board 13 side is performed. At this time, the safe balls entering each winning opening of the game board 13 are guided by the winning ball collecting member 131, then collected by the winning ball collecting shelf 132 below, pass through the winning ball flowing down gutter 133, and pass through the safe unit 111.
It is led to. In the safe unit 111, the safe sphere flowing down the prize ball downflow gutter 133 is the safe sensor 1
Each one of the safe balls is detected by 11a, and each time the prize ball corresponding to the safe ball is discharged, one of the detected safe balls is discharged. Below, the safe unit 11 for inspection etc.
An operation process for removing and attaching the device 1 will be described.

(A) Initial mounting of the safe unit 111 To mount the safe unit 111 on the base frame 112, an employee inserts the safe unit 111 into the recessed mounting portion 141 and pushes the holding member 151 to the holding member receiving portion 142. Take the procedure of engaging and fixing. That is, in the initial mounting without a game ball, the holding unit provided in the safe unit 111 is operated while the safe unit 111 is being inserted into the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112 (while performing the operation of being pushed in). The holding member operation part 151a of the member 151 is pushed, and the holding member function part 151b is pressed into the engagement hole 142a of the holding member receiving part 142 formed in the attachment part 141 of the base frame 112. Thereby, the holding member function part 15
The tip of 1b changes to a shape that expands and does not come off, and firmly engages with the holding member receiving portion 142. Thus, the safe unit 111 is attached to the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112.
Is fixed with one touch. At this time, a predetermined portion (rear surface portion) of the frame of the safe unit 111 presses the flexible flow-down regulating member 144 formed integrally with the base frame 112 by the insertion operation of the safe unit 111, and the flow-down regulation is performed. The member 144 is displaced, and the tip end is the winning ball collecting gutter 1
The state is such that the safe sphere can flow down from the lower end 133a of the flow 33. Therefore, the winning ball collecting gutter 133 of the base frame 112 → the winning ball guiding path 1 inside the safe unit 111
The passage of the safe ball can be communicated in the order of 63 → prize ball discharge gutter 143 (however, the fall of the safe ball T at the lowermost end is regulated by the fall control piece 166b).

(B) Removal of the Safe Unit 111 When removing the safe unit 111 from the base frame 112, an employee pulls the holding member operating portion 151a of the holding member 151 provided on the safe unit 111 with a predetermined force. As a result, the holding member function part 151b is disengaged from the engagement hole 142a of the holding member receiving part 142, and the safe unit 1
11 is pulled out from the mounting portion 141. Thereby, the safe unit 111 is attached to the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112.
Removed with one touch.

At this time, when the safe unit 111 is pulled out from the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112,
The flexible flow-down regulating member 144 integrally formed with the base frame 112 is displaced in the mounting / detaching direction of the safe unit 111. This is a displacement in which the flow-down regulating member 144 is released from being pressed by the frame of the safe unit 111 and returns in the direction in which the safe unit 111 is attached and detached.
When the flow-down regulating member 144 is displaced (returned), its tip moves to a position facing the lower end 133a of the winning ball collecting gutter 133, and enters a state of restricting the safe ball from flowing down from the lower end 133a. . Therefore, safe unit 1
11 is removed from the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112, the safe ball in the prize ball collecting gutter 133 is moved to the lower end portion 13
It is prevented from flowing down from 3a.

(C) Re-attachment of the safe unit 111 When the safe unit 111 is attached to the base frame 112 again from the state of (b), the employee attaches the attaching portion 141.
Then, the safe unit 111 is inserted into the storage unit 151, and the holding member 151 is pushed to be engaged with the holding member receiving portion 142. As a result, the rear surface of the frame of the safe unit 111 is
4 is pressed, and the flow-down regulating member 144 is displaced to allow the safe ball to flow down from the winning ball collecting gutter 133,
The safe unit 111 can process the safe sphere.

As described above, in the present embodiment, when the safe unit 111 is detached from the mounting portion 141 of the base frame 112, the member for stopping the safe ball from flowing down from the winning ball collecting gutter 133 (ball stopper in the prior art). As a member), a flow-down regulating member 144 is provided integrally with the base frame 112, and the flow-down regulating member 144 is automatically displaced to regulate the safe ball from flowing down from the lower end portion 133a of the winning ball collecting trough 133. Therefore, the following effects can be obtained. Flow control member 14
Since 4 is integrally formed with the base frame 112, unlike the related art, the work of assembling the flow-down regulating member 144 is not required, and the cost can be prevented from being increased. The conventional ball stopper has a large number of parts, and the shapes of the parts may be complicated and may increase the cost. In contrast, in the present embodiment, the flow-down regulating member 144 is attached to the base frame 11.
Since it has a simple configuration of being integrally molded with 2, the number of parts is small and the shape of the parts can be simple. Therefore, cost can be reduced. Further, since the shape of the component (here, the flow-down regulating member 144) is simple, the cost of the mold for forming the component can be reduced. Compared to a conventional ball stopper, a spring member is not used, and a flexible flow-down regulating member 144 is used, so that the configuration is simple and a failure can be less likely to occur.

The embodiment of the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications as described below are possible. The above embodiment is an example in which the present invention is applied to a first type ball game machine using a game ball, and the present invention is a ball game machine for playing a game using a pachinko ball, and a winning ball processing unit. Can be applied to any type (for example, an arrangement ball machine) as long as it is provided detachably.

[0041]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the winning ball processing unit (for example, the safe unit 111) is removed from the base frame, the winning ball (safe ball) flows down from the winning ball collecting gutter. A flow-down regulating member having flexibility is provided integrally with the base frame as a member for stopping the flow, and the flow-down regulating member is automatically displaced to regulate the flow of the winning ball from the lower end of the winning ball collecting gutter. Therefore, the following effects can be obtained. Since the flow-down regulating member is formed integrally with the base frame, unlike the conventional case, the work of assembling the flow-down regulating member is not required, and it is possible to prevent an increase in cost. The conventional ball stopper has a large number of parts, and the shape of each part is complicated, which may increase the cost.
On the other hand, in the present invention, since the flow-down regulating member has a simple configuration in which it is integrally formed with the base frame, the number of parts is small and the shape of the parts can be simple. Therefore,
Cost can be reduced. Further, since the shape of the component (that is, the flow-down regulating member) is simple, the cost of the mold for forming the component can be reduced. In the present invention, since a spring member is not used and a flow-down regulating member having flexibility is used as compared with the conventional ball stopper member,
The configuration is simple, and it is possible to prevent a failure from occurring.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a gaming machine according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a view showing a back mechanism of the gaming machine.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of a safe unit.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a safe unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Gaming machine 11 Frame-shaped front frame 13 Game board 105 Ejection unit (ball ejection device) 107 Accessory control circuit 111 Safe unit (winning ball processing unit) 111a Safe sensor 112 Base frame 114 Back mechanism board 131 Winning ball collecting member 133 Winning ball flow down gutter 133a Flow lower end 141 Mounting part 144 Flow down regulating member

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A gaming machine comprising a back mechanism panel formed on a base frame body with a series of ball discharging mechanisms for discharging a required number of prize balls based on a winning ball to a winning device, The base frame of the back mechanism panel is formed of a synthetic resin member, and a prize ball set for collecting the prize balls on the base frame, and a set of prize balls for flowing the prize balls collected by the set of prize balls. A flow-down control mechanism for controlling a flow of a prize ball flowing down the prize ball collecting gutter to a predetermined portion of the base frame in which a lower end portion of the prize ball collecting gutter is arranged; A prize ball processing unit in which a prize ball detector capable of detecting one ball addressed to the frame is detachably provided, and a lower end of the prize ball collecting gutter, At a location where the inlet of the flow-down control mechanism communicates, the inlet is formed integrally with the base frame. It has flexibility in the direction in which the prize ball processing unit is attached and detached, and when a predetermined portion of the frame of the prize ball processing unit is pressed by the insertion operation of the prize ball processing unit, the prize ball flows down. A flow-down regulation configured to be displaceable between an allowable state and a state of restricting the flow of the winning ball based on the release of the pressing of the winning ball processing unit by the frame of the winning ball processing unit due to the release operation of the winning ball processing unit. A gaming machine comprising a member.