JPS6340587A - Illumination apparatus game board surface in pinball machine - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to an electroluminescent decoration device for a game board surface in a pachinko machine using optical fibers.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, pachinko machines have either attached a colored resin decorative member to the game board surface and flashed a lamp inside it, or installed a lamp in a central winning device or a winning device such as a tulip. Measures have been taken to decorate with electric lights by incorporating them and lighting them up.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, ``In the conventional electric lighting decoration using two sets of pachinko machines, many lamps are used, which increases power consumption.'' 2. It is necessary to run complicated wiring, which increases the production cost. There are many problems that need to be improved. In addition, the above-mentioned lamp system does not provide a variety of light changes, and is monotonous and cannot provide a sufficient decorative effect.

On the other hand, recently, pachinko machines using optical fibers are being developed, as seen in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 59-1271577. However, this idea simply attempts to utilize the conventional light emitting method of optical fibers in which color filters are rotated by a motor, and lacks originality and cannot effectively appeal to players.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a device for electrically decorating the game board surface of a pachinko machine, which is simple and can give a strong image to the play slot, and which attracts interest.

[Means for solving the problems] The present invention arranges a color filter on the back side of the game board,
A light source is provided on the front side of the color filter, a light-receiving end face of the optical fiber is arranged on the rear face, and the light-emitting end face at the other end is positioned on the game board. The color filter is swung or rotated by the game balls flowing out onto the back side of the game board.

[Operation] The light from the light source passes through the color filter, enters the light-receiving end face of the optical fiber, and is emitted from the light-emitting end face located on the game board surface. A color changing pattern is obtained by swinging or rotating the color filter by the game balls that are guided to the back side of the game board and flow down.

[Example] The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a back view thereof. A pachinko machine 1 fires game balls onto a game board 4 along a rail 3 by operating a firing device 2. On the game board 4, there are multiple regular winning slots 5. Central prize winning device6. A winning device 7 such as a tulip is provided.

A mechanism plate 8 is rotatably mounted on the back side of the pachinko machine 1. The mechanism plate 8 forms an effective ball gathering portion 9 spaced apart from the game board 4 at a constant interval on an inner side facing the back surface of the game board 4. Further, a prize ball tank 10 is disposed on the outer surface of the mechanism plate 8. A guide gutter 12 for guiding prize balls to a prize ball case 11 is formed below the prize ball tank 10. Below the prize ball case 11 is a prize ball discharge gutter 14 for guiding the prize balls discharged from the prize ball case 11 to the prize ball tray 13 in front of the aircraft.
is formed.

An effective bed processing device 15 is disposed at the exit of the effective sphere gathering section 9.

5. The regular winning opening. Central prize winning device6. The winning game balls in the winning device 7 fall into the valid ball collecting section 9 as valid balls, and are led from the exit to the valid floor processing device 15, which sequentially discharges the valid balls one by one. At the same time, the prize ball case 11 is operated to eject a fixed number of prize balls.

3 to 6 are illustrative views for explaining the electric lighting decoration device of the present invention in relation to the winning device 7. FIG. As is well known, the winning device 7 has a pair of opening/closing wings 19, 1.9 on a shaft 1.8.
The ball is pivoted downward from the center so that it can stand up and tilt freely, and the ball entrance 1
The horizontal shaft 21 in the guide box 20 attached to the rear surface of the opening/closing wing 19. 1
The ball conductive plate 22 which causes the tilting movement of 9 is pivotally supported. and,
The game ball that enters the upright opening/closing wing 19°19 is placed on the ball guiding plate 2.
[2] The tilted opening/closing wing pieces were guided to the outlet opening 23 of the side wall of the guide box 20 and flowed out into the effective sphere gathering portion 9]9,1.
The game ball that enters the space between 9 and 9 is received by the bottom of the cover 24 and placed on the game board 4.
This is of a known structure in which the effective balls are made to flow out into the effective ball gathering portion 9 through the through hole 25 bored in the hole 25 .

A color filter 26 is disposed inside the effective sphere collection section 9 located below the prize entry device 7.

The color filter 26 integrally includes a semicircular transparent filter base material 27 made of polycarbonate, methacrylic plate, etc., and an inverted T-shaped movable plate 28 having ball receiving portions 28a and 28b on both sides of a central protruding plate. It is supported by a shaft 30 protruding from a device plate 29 attached to the back side of the game board 4 so as to be freely swingable left and right. The movable plate 28 is stabilized by shifting its center of gravity to the left in a downwardly tilted position to the left with its ball receiving portion 28a positioned below the outflow opening 23 of the winning device 7 as shown by the solid line in FIG. When the game ball is received in the ball receiving part 28a, its weight shifts the center of gravity to the right and stabilizes it in a downward tilting position to the right as shown by the chain line in FIG. position. 37.37 is a stopper below the movable plate 28 for supporting its tilted posture.

The transparent filter base material 27 is divided at the center and colored with different colors on the left and right sides. In this embodiment, for example, the left half is colored green and the right half is colored red. Any method can be selected for coloring the transparent filter base material 27, such as screen printing with transparent color ink or hand-painting a paint and pasting it on the colored transparent sheet 1.

A light source 31 is provided on the device plate 29, facing the transparent filter base material 27 of the color filter 26, as shown in FIG.
is provided. A lamp or a light emitter can be used as the light source 31, and the lamp is preferably a halogen lamp with high brightness, for example. In addition, a through hole 32 is bored in the mechanism plate 8 at a position facing the light source 31 separated by a transparent filter base material 27.
The light-receiving end face of an optical fiber; 33, which is focused close to the light source 31, is attached to the mechanism plate 8 in which the through-hole 32 is formed, via a fixture 34. Then, the light emitting end surface of the optical fiber 33 is made to face inside the opening/closing wing piece 1.9.19 of the winning device 7.

The opening/closing wings 1.9.1.9 of the winning device 7 are formed into a hollow shape with an open rear surface, as shown in FIG. 6, and are made of transparent synthetic resin. Further, on the back side of the mounting plate 16, a cylindrical portion 35.3 is provided in communication with the hollow interior of the opening/closing wing piece 19.19.
5 is formed, and an optical fiber 33 is connected to the cylindrical portion 35.35.
The converging end portion of the split bushing 36 is inserted into the split bushing 36 to be fixedly held therein. Furthermore, when the color filter 26 is tilted downward to the left, the green colored portion of the transparent filter base material 27 faces the light source 31, and when the color filter 26 is tilted downward to the right, the red colored portion faces the light source 31. Their positional relationship is set so that they face each other.

Next, to explain the operation of this embodiment, when the opening/closing wings 19, 19 of the winning device W7 are upright and the color filter 26 is stable in a downward tilting position to the left, as shown in the solid line in FIG.
The light from the light source 31 passes through the green colored portion of the transparent filter base material 27 and enters the light-receiving end face of the optical fiber 33, and the light emitted from the light-emitting end face causes the opening/closing blade 1.9.1
9 is illuminated in green. Then, the erected opening/closing wing piece 1
9. When a game ball enters between
Flowing backwards above the opening and closing wing pieces 19. At the same time as the +9 is tilted, the ball rests on the ball receiver 28a1 of the movable plate 28, which is stable in a downward tilting position to the left from the outflow opening 23, and tilts it in the opposite direction as shown by the chain line in Figure 6 using the weight of the ball. to stabilize the position tilting downward to the right. As a result, the red-colored portion of the transparent filter base material 27 is tilted -7= to face the light source 31, and the opening/closing wing piece 19. +9 is illuminated in red.

In this state, when a game ball enters between the inclined opening/closing wings 19.19, the game ball is received by the bottom of the cover 24 while raising the opening/closing wings 19, 1.9, and descends from the through hole 25 to the right. Ball receiving portion 281 of movable plate 28 that is stable in an inclined position
)''-, and using the weight of the ball, restore it to the downward tilting position to the left as shown by the solid line in Figure 4. Then, the green colored portion of the transparent filter base material 27 illuminates the opening/closing wing pieces 19, 19 standing upright facing the light source 31 in green.

FIG. 7 shows another embodiment of the present invention, in which a color disk 39 having a plurality of blades 38 arranged radially from the center is used as a filter, and other configurations are shown in FIGS. 3 to 6. is almost the same. The color disc 39 is colored in a number of different colors in a radial section manner, and is connected to the through hole 2 of the winning device 7.
5 and all the game balls flowing out from the outflow opening 23 are removed by the blade 3.
8 and rotate to the right or left. This allows many color changes to be given to the flaps 19.19.

In addition, in the present invention, the color filter 26 and the light source 3
The installation position of No. 1 can be freely selected anywhere along the path of the game ball. Further, the light emitting end surface of the optical fiber 33 may be located at any position on the game board surface. In short, although the present invention has been described with reference to preferred embodiments, various modifications are possible, and the embodiments and drawings are illustrative and do not limit the invention.

As described in ``Effects of the Invention'' 2, according to the present invention, since the game board surface is decorated with electric lights using optical fibers, it is possible to present an elegant beauty that has not been seen before. In addition, since the game balls are designed to change colors in a variety of ways, they have the unique effect of attracting players' interest and significantly increasing the decorativeness of the game board surface.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine to which the present invention is applied, Figure 2 is a front view of a pachinko machine to which the present invention is applied;
The drawings are a back view of the pachinko machine shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device part of an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 4 is a front view explaining the invention in detail, and Fig. 5 is the wooden invention device. FIG. 6 is a partially sectional plan view of the winning device, and FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the device portion of another embodiment of the present invention. 4... Game board, 26... Color filter, 3
]...Light source, 33...Optical fiber. Patent applicant: Mashiro Shokai Co., Ltd. Figure 1 Figure 4 Figure 6 Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Claims] A color filter is placed on the back side of the game board, a light source is provided on the front side of the color filter, a light receiving end face of an optical fiber is placed on the back side, and the light emitting end face of the other end is placed on the game board, and the color filter is placed on the game board. 1. An electric light decoration device for a game board surface in a pachinko machine, characterized in that the game board is swung or rotated by game balls flowing onto the game board.