JPS60142874A - Pinball machine - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a launching device M't is provided above the gaming section, a detection means is provided below, and the launching device is actuated in connection with the detection of a ball by the detection means. Regarding pachinko machines.

Conventional pachinko machines are equipped with a ball launcher on the lower side of the game board, and the fired game balls are guided by a loop-shaped guide rail installed on the game board surface and rise, once reaching the upper part of the game section. After reaching the point, it flows down the inside of the game section while hitting the obstacle nails. Since such pachinko machines must launch balls against the force of gravity from the bottom to the top of the game board, the ball launcher must be large and have a strong repulsive force.

Furthermore, since a loop-shaped guide rail is provided on the game board surface, the four corners of the game board cannot be used as a game section.

The present invention has been proposed in view of the above, and has a firing device that shoots game balls from a supply means facing above the game part, and a detection means installed in a gutter extending from the circulatory system below the game part. To provide a pachinko machine in which the four corners of a game board can be effectively used as a game part by placing the game board in front of the player, and a firing device can be reliably operated in connection with the detection of a ball by a detection means. It is.

The present invention will be explained below based on embodiments shown in the drawings.

The first ball guide 3 has a loose arc shape on the one side, the first ball guides F and F on the left and right sides, and the third horizontal guide at the bottom! The game part 6 is surrounded by a number of obstacle nails (not shown) and a tribute device 7, and an outlet g is provided at the bottom of the game part 6.

The first ball guide 3 guides the game ball so that it can easily fall to the position that the player aims for, and also prevents one game ball from flying out of the game section. It is attached to the surface in an arc shape. A firing device and a supply means 10 are provided near one end of the first ball guide 3, and a firing chute is formed by tilting an L-shaped strip.
A collision rubber/2 is provided inside the other end of the ball guide 3 to bounce the game ball back toward the game section.

The launcher has a launch chute// as shown in Figure 2.
A game ball supplied with a firing position IEi /3K is fired by a firing rod 15 operated by a solenoid /4'. This solenoid /4' is connected to the coil /6 and the coil /4'.
Consisting of a core/7 to which 6 is attached, and a stator/l rotatably provided within the end of the core 17, when electricity is applied to the fill/6, a magnetic field is generated at the tip of the core 17, and the stator/l
rotates. The firing rod 15 is the rotation axis/I of the stator/I.
The upper part is attached to r' and rotates integrally with the stator/I, and is normally stopped against the stopper rubber 20 under the bias of the return spring l. And solenoid/
When F is excited, the firing rod 15 is f of the spring 19.
It rotates vigorously together with the stator/Ir against the force, and the resilient portion/3' at the tip enters the firing position/pK-. Launch rod/
When the firing part IP of S enters the firing position 13, the game ball supplied to the firing position -/3 is fired from the firing shoe) //force), flows down the gaming part 6, and is played. The firing rod /j that fired the game ball is pulled by the return spring /wo when the solenoid /4' is demagnetized, and the stopper rubber 20
Return to the position corresponding to .

A ball supply port 21 that communicates with the supply means 10 provided on the back side of the game board is opened above the firing position /3, and a game ball is sent from the ball supply port 21 to the firing position each time the firing rod 15 is operated. /
Supply to 3.

The supply means 10 supplies game balls in a storage tank 23 provided at the upper part of the back side of the game board 2 to the firing position 13 in correspondence with the game balls in the circulator n provided in the front of the pachinko machine. It is installed so as to face a stepped portion formed in the middle of the pitch extending from the storage tank 3 and connected to the ball supply port 2/. This supplying means 10 consists of a ball supplying rod 26 with one end pivoted, which lifts and transports game balls one by one by the operation of the ball supplying solenoid 2j, and a spring 27 which urges the ball supplying rod 2B downward. The ball supply solenoid 2 is electrically connected to a detection means 2tK for detecting one ball in the circulatory system 22, and is excited by a signal from the detection means 2r. When the ball supply solenoid 2 is demagnetized, the ball supply rod 26 is in a state of being lowered by the same force of the spring 27, and the inner lower surface of the pitcher and the upper surface of the lifting portion 26a of the ball supply rod are are almost the same height, so the first ball within pitch type 2tI is supply rod 2≦
It rests on the lifting section 26α and stops against the stop piece 29 at the stepped portion. Then, when the ball supply solenoid 25 is energized, the ball supply rod 26 moves up with the first game ball placed on the lifting section 26α. At this time, the side surface portion 2tb of the lifting portion 26α blocks the second and subsequent game balls in the ball type from flowing down. When the upper surface of the lifting part 26α rises and becomes at the same height as the stop piece 29, the game balls on the upper surface flow down according to the slope of the downstream part 2tl'' of the ball type, 2tI, and the ball supply port 2/
From there, it falls into the launch chute // and is supplied to launch position I#/3. When the ball supply solenoid 2S is relaxed, the ball supply rod 2B is lowered by the force of the spring 27, and one game ball is placed on the lifting portion 26α. In this way, the supply means 10 supplies one game ball stored in the storage tank 23 in advance to the firing position/3 each time the ball supply solenoid 2S is activated, but the number of balls in the circulation tray 22 Since inconvenience will occur if more or less is supplied, it is necessary to supply one game ball in the storage tank 23 in correspondence with one ball in the circulation tray 22. . Therefore, a ball feeding device 3/ and a detection means 21 are provided in the middle of the gutter 30 extending from the circulation tray 22, and the ball feeding device 3/ moves the circulation tray 22.
The inner ball is sent out to one ball, and the sent out ball is detected by means 2g.
supply means 1 so as to supply one game ball from storage tank n to the firing position /3 for each ball from circulation tray 22.
Activate 0.

As shown in FIG. 4, the ball feeding device 3/ is provided with a lifting portion 32α of a ball feeding rod 32 facing a stepped part in the middle of a gutter 30 extending from a circulation plate n, and the ball feeding rod 32 is pushed downward by the spring 33 and raised by the excitation of the ball feed solenoid 3LI. This ball feed solenoid 3ψ is synchronized with the pulse signal of the oscillator 36 that is activated when the firing operation section 35 on the front of the pachinko machine is operated. When the ball feed solenoid 3 is demagnetized, the ball feed rod 32 to which it is connected is energized.
is in a state of descending with spring 33 (= J force, %
Since the inner lower surface 30' of the ball 30 and the upper surface of the lifting part 32a of the ball feeding rod 32 are at almost the same height, the first ball in the gutter 30 rests on the lifting part 32α and hits the stop piece 37 of the stepped part. Hit it and stop. Then, when the ball feed solenoid 3 is energized, the ball feed rod 32 rises with the first ball placed thereon.

At this time, the side surface 32b of the lifting section 32α blocks the second and subsequent balls from flowing down. When the upper surface of the lifting portion 32α rises to the inner lower surface 30'' of the gutter 30 on the downstream side of the stop piece 37, the upper surface of the lifting portion 32α and the gutter 30 are moved to the lower surface of the gutter 30 on the downstream side of the stop piece 37.
Since the ball is inclined toward g, the balls placed on the lifting portion 32α flow down toward the downflow gutter 3g according to the inclination.

The detection means 2t provided on the downstream side of the ball feeding device 〆t3/ is
It detects each ball sent out and sends a signal, such as a light wake-up switch or a proximity switch. Note that this detection means 2g may also be a mechanical detection means in which an actuation plate is rotated by the ball sent out by the ball feeding device H3/, and the firing device W and the supply means 10 are actuated by the rotation of this actuation plate. good.

When you play a game with such a pachinko machine, the following happens.

When a player puts balls into the circulation tray n at the front of the pachinko machine, the balls are lined up in a line inside the gutter 30, and the first ball is sent to the lifting section 32α.
It rests on the stopper piece 37 and stops. When the player operates the firing operation 15+ (33) provided on the front of the pachinko machine, the start switch 39 turns to l.The firing operation section 35 has a mechanism that electrically turns on and off by external operation. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the start switch 39 is electrically connected to the oscillator 36 by making the operating protrusion 39' of the start switch 3 easily operable with a long operating lever. Start switch 3
9 is turned ON, the oscillator 36 emits a pulse signal. This pulse signal is amplified by the power control unit l/ to excite the solenoid /≠, and simultaneously amplified by the force amplification unit V2 to excite the ball feeding solenoid 3≠.

When the solenoid puffer is energized, the firing rod /S rotates and fires the game ball at the firing position 2/3, but at the first excitation, the game ball is not supplied to the firing position /3, so it just misses. Game balls are not fired. Then, when the ball feed solenoid 3≠ is energized, the ball feed rod 32 moves to the first ball 1.
The pieces are raised and sent toward the downflow gutter 31. Since the ball feed solenoid 3 is demagnetized after a certain period of time, the ball feed rod 32 is lowered by the spring 33 and waits to place the next ball. The detection means 2g detects the sent out ball and transmits a signal to the one-shot pulse generator 3. The one-shot pulse generator≠3 that received the signal excites the ball supply solenoid 25. When the ball supply solenoid 25 is energized, the ball supply rod 2 moves up by chopping the first ball into small pieces, and returns to the firing position 1.
Supply to 3. By the time the game ball is supplied to the firing position /3, as shown in Fig. 7, the next pulse signal is transmitted from the oscillator 3, so the solenoid l is energized and the firing rod 1 is energized.
5, and fire the supplied game ball at a launch position of 1i2/J. The fired game ball is launched into a shooting chute.
The player leaves the game area, hits an obstacle nail in the game area 6, and flows down, and in the process, the winning device [7 VC enters and wins, or the third
guide! and is discharged from the outlet r to the back side.

When the game ball reaches a large size, an R-input detector (not shown) provided on the back side of the game board detects it and activates the red ball ejecting device ri<zv. The straight ball discharge device ψ extends from the lower part of the storage tank 23 and is installed in the middle of the strict ball type 6 that is connected to the circulator 22 on the front of the pachinko machine, and is activated by a signal from the winning detector to keep the ball constant. A number of prize balls are discharged to the circulatory system 22.

The pachinko machine/ has a ball in its circulatory system n and repeats the above operations as long as the player operates the firing operation section 3S. Then, when the scheduled number of balls is completed and the ball is stopped, or there is a shortage of game balls in the storage tank 23, either the ball shortage detector Gua or Gua placed outside the ball batting machine or facing the contribution ball type 0 is activated. When a shortage of balls is detected, in order to interrupt the game, a stopping device Nψg provided in the middle of the gutter 30 is activated to stop sending out game balls, or the oscillator 3B is stopped to stop firing game balls. . If there is a shortage of game balls in the JK storage tank 23, a ball replenishing device installed above the row of pachinko machines operates to replenish game balls from the replenishment gutter O. Further, when the game is to be stopped midway, a ball removal lever provided in the middle of the gutter 30 is operated to discharge the balls in the circulation skin 2 to the saucer gutter.

The strength of firing the game ball can be adjusted by controlling the excitation strength of the solenoid/Hiroshi to 1.For example, as shown in FIG.
An adjustment dial λ outside the launch force regulator consisting of a variable resistor SL/2 and a variable resistor 53 is provided on the front of the cock machine, and by operating the launch force regulator SL/, the force control unit G/ turns on the solenoid/G. The firing force of the game ball can be adjusted by changing the excitation strength.

Further, the number of balls fired per unit time can be changed by operating a firing number adjuster provided on the front of the pachinko machine and adjusting the pulse signal from the oscillator 3 on a one-unit basis.

The firing device is not limited to one in which the firing rod is energized by a rotating solenoid, but may be any device that can be activated by operating the firing operation section. For example, a solenoid consisting of a coil and an iron core or an electric iF! A cam is provided on the output shaft of the machine, and the rotation of the cam tilts the firing rod which is biased by a spring, or a plurality of coils are provided around the ball guide, and the magnetic field is moved by the coils. Even if the device is a firing device that fires a ball at a distance, it does not impede the implementation of the present invention.

In addition, the firing operation section is not limited to what is shown in the drawings, but may be
It may be a push button or a remote control type device as long as it can perform a N-OFF operation. Further circulation Ill, 2. ! Is the ball inside a ball feeding device? 'f3/ is sent out one piece, and after being detected by the detection means 2g, it is lifted up by the ball return machine S6 and stored in the storage tank 23.
The particles may be stored once inside and then ejected into the gaming section 6 or discharged into the circulatory system 22 again as α spheres, or they may be sent directly to the lower part of the row of pachinko machines through the downflow gutter 3g, 7ill:1
It may be discharged into a collection gutter (not shown).

As explained above, according to the present invention, there is no need for loop-shaped guide rails, so the four corners of the game board can be used effectively. Therefore, it is possible to diversify the games by arranging more targets and checkers than before in the gaming section, and to create a pachinko machine with a wide variety of variations. Since the game ball is launched from above the game board, the firing force may be weaker than that of the conventional launcher that launches from the bottom of the game board.This allows the launcher to be smaller and consume less power. It is possible to achieve approximately M1.

Furthermore, since no foul balls are generated when the game balls are fired from above the game section, there is no need to provide a foul ball collecting gutter, which is essential in conventional pachinko machines, and the design of the pachinko machine is simplified. can be converted into In addition, the gutter extending from the circulation tray is provided with a detection means that activates the firing device in conjunction with the ball detection to fire the game balls, so that players cannot carry them by hand from the ball lending machine. The polished balls supplied from the supply means can be fired into the game part as game balls without firing the dirty balls in the circulating tray. Therefore, stains on the surface of the game board can be significantly reduced.

In addition, the gutter extending from the circulation pan is equipped with a ball feeding device that sends out the balls one by one, and a detection means that detects the balls from the device and activates the firing device, so that the balls introduced from the circulation pan...
The number of game balls actually played can be made to correspond exactly to the number of game balls actually played by the player.

Therefore, the player can play the game with peace of mind.

Furthermore, in the present invention, adult balls are placed in the circulation tray so that prize balls are discharged into the circulation tray, so the balls placed in the circulation tray and the game balls actually fired into the gaming section are separate. To enable players to play games continuously using prize balls without bothering the player.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a front view;
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the ball launcher, Figure 3 is a front view of the ball feeder, Figure 4 is a front view of the ball feeder, Figure 5 is a side view of the launcher, and Figure 6 is the front view of the ball feeder. A wiring diagram, FIG. 7 is a chart showing the timing of each part, and FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the launch force regulator. /... Pachinko machine, 2... Game board, 3. G, j...
・Ball guide, de...launch device r(, to...ball supply device jfl, w...circulation plate, 3...storage tank, review)
...Cost price, 2g...Detection means, 30...Gutter, 3/...
・・Ball feeding device 'ft, 3s... Launching operation section, Li2
...L (region side. Patent applicant: So. Co., Ltd.)

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A game part surrounded by a ball guide is formed on the surface of the game board, and above this game part there is a firing device that can successively fire game balls supplied from the supply means, and the above-mentioned A gutter extending from a circulatory system located below the gaming section and into which a player can put a ball has a detection device that activates the above-mentioned firing device in connection with the detection of a ball to cause the game ball to be ejected. A pachinko machine that is characterized by the fact that it has the means to do so. (2) A game part surrounded by ball guides is formed on the surface of the game board, and above this game part there is a firing device that can successively fire game balls supplied from the supply means, and the above-mentioned A prize ball gutter is installed in the circulator, which is located below the gaming section and allows players to put balls into it, from which prize balls are discharged when winning a prize.The gutter extending from the circulator is equipped with a system for ball detection. A pachinko machine characterized in that a detecting means for activating the above-mentioned ejecting device and ejecting game balls is provided. (3) A game part surrounded by ball guides is formed on the surface of the game board, and above this game part there is a firing device that can fire the game balls supplied from the supply means in the first round. A circulator into which the player can put balls is provided below the above-mentioned gaming section, and a gutter extending from the circulator is equipped with a ball feeding device i't for sending out balls one by one; Il + J
A pachinko machine characterized by having a detecting means for activating the above-mentioned firing device.