EP0834162A1 - Münzbetätigtes spielgerät - Google Patents
Münzbetätigtes spielgerätInfo
- Publication number
- EP0834162A1 EP0834162A1 EP96918596A EP96918596A EP0834162A1 EP 0834162 A1 EP0834162 A1 EP 0834162A1 EP 96918596 A EP96918596 A EP 96918596A EP 96918596 A EP96918596 A EP 96918596A EP 0834162 A1 EP0834162 A1 EP 0834162A1
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- Prior art keywords
- game device
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Classifications
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
- G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
- G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
- G07F17/34—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines
Definitions
- the invention relates to a coin-operated gaming device with a symbol game device, the circulating bodies of which, in partial fields, display a game result after they have been stopped behind reading windows, optionally with at least one additional profit game device consisting of a plurality of profit-individually illuminated display elements, in which a Profit achieved in the symbol game device can be played out, and with a computer-controlled control unit for game sequence control.
- Game devices provided with a symbol game device generally have three circulating bodies, which can be designed as rollers, disks or drums. On the surface, which can be seen from the outside through the reading window, the circulating bodies carry profit symbols. The circulating bodies are shut down in a randomly controlled manner and after all the circulating bodies have come to a standstill, the symbols or symbol combinations displayed in the reading windows decide on profit or loss. Of course, light fields occupied by symbols can also be used instead of the circulating bodies. In different amounts, money and / or point and / or special game winnings are in prospect poses.
- actuating elements for the player on these entertainment devices, which usually act on the course of the individual circulating bodies.
- the player can start one or more circulation bodies, which gives the player a real influence on the game.
- the player can restart one of the circulating bodies within a certain period of time in order to give him the opportunity to achieve a more profitable symbol combination.
- stop buttons are provided for the other circulating bodies in order to give the player the opportunity to stop a rotating circulating body, which means that the player the impression is given of being able to influence the game and thus the combination of symbols resulting from the game.
- risk game devices which enable the player to increase the profit already achieved or a further win in the event of a risk of loss, or as play out devices which it Allow players to be trained to increase or decrease the profit already achieved without risk of complete loss.
- game devices are known in which a wheel or a disk, which is divided into partial fields with different values or non-profit symbols, is arranged horizontally or vertically rotatable on a base body.
- the wheel or the disk is set in rotation and brought to a standstill after it has run out.
- a marking attached to the wheel or the disk in a rotationally fixed manner then lies opposite a partial field which determines the profit, the amount of the profit or the non-profit.
- such a game device has no further circulating bodies, so that the incentive to play and the entertainment value are relatively low.
- a money-operated entertainment device is also known from WO 95/07519, in which a collecting container for valuables is provided in the front, the filling level of which can be seen from outside the entertainment device and in which the valuables are suddenly transferred to an output tray by opening the collecting container via a guide channel.
- the collecting container interacts with a symbol game device which is known from the game devices mentioned at the beginning.
- the collecting container is designed as a one-piece hollow body which only allows the states to be filled or unfilled and which itself cannot be set in rotation.
- the object is achieved in that at least one of the revolving bodies of the symbol game device and / or a separately provided revolving body with at least one viewable channel for receiving coins extending radially outward from its axis of rotation is provided which can be output via an output device when a certain result occurs in the symbol and / or additional prize game device.
- the circulation body is designed as a disc, roller or drum.
- the number of coins in the channel of the circulating body is predetermined in a computer-controlled manner or determined in a controlled manner.
- the coins can only be dispensed from the channel if the respective channel is in a downwardly open position directly above the dispenser.
- the dead weight of the coins is used to transfer them to the dispenser, which is usually located in the lower region of the gaming device.
- the total value of the coins located in the channel or channels of the circulating body preferably corresponds to the maximum profit or more achievable in a special game. This further increases the incentive to play.
- the values of the coins located in the channel or in the channels of the circulating body are of different values.
- the number of coin-receiving channels in the circulating body corresponds to a minority divisible by an integer from the number of subfields provided on the circulating body.
- the number of coins receiving channels in the circulating body half of the number of subfields provided on the circulating body.
- the partial fields provided with the game symbols and the partial fields provided with the coin-receiving channels are expediently arranged alternately in the circulating body.
- the channel or channels run continuously over the entire diameter of the circulating body, as a result of which the coins can slip through the channel or channels. It can preferably be provided that only a part of the number of coins in the continuous channel can be spent as a profit.
- the channel or channels are interrupted in the central area of the axis of rotation of the rotating body.
- the channel or the channels in the circulating body can be filled with coins by key or computer control as a profit after an output of the specific number of coins.
- the channel or the channel channels in the circulating body after a coin has been issued can only be refilled if the respective channel is in the refill position with an input device.
- the channel or the channels in the circulating body can be filled randomly or in a time-dependent manner.
- the circulation body is preferably emptied in such a way that the coins can be transferred suddenly from the respective channel by correspondingly opening the same via a guide channel into an output tray of the output device.
- each channel In order to prevent the coins from slipping out of the circulating body unintentionally, in particular if, according to the course of the game, no winnings are issued, the entry / exit opening of each channel is designed to be closable by means of a lock.
- the blocking of each channel is expediently connected to a motor-driven or electromagnetic drive.
- each channel for receiving coins of the same value has a rectangular cross section, the distance between the front wall and the rear wall of the channel being slightly larger than the thickness of the coins to be stored upright in the channel.
- each channel has a different value for receiving coins of different NEN rectangular cross-section, wherein the distance between the front wall and the rear wall of the channel is slightly larger than the thickness of the thickest coin, but less than twice the thickness of the thinnest coin.
- each channel for receiving coins has a cylindrical cross section, the diameter of the channel being slightly larger than the diameter of the largest coin.
- each channel can be filled with coins from at least one coin container that is individual to the coin value of a money processing unit.
- a removal device for the next coin from the stacking container, with which the coins can be transferred into the respective channel can be assigned to the stacking container that is specific to the coin value.
- the money processing unit can include an intermediate store for coins recognized as permissible, from which the coins can be transferred suddenly into the respective channel in the circulation body by correspondingly opening the same.
- the respective channel can be filled with coins from the stacking container via a transport device.
- the circulating body is designed as a jackpot device is.
- coins can preferably be accumulated in series in the jackpot device as winnings, which can be transferred to the output device when the jackpot win value is reached. In this way, the player can enjoy the jackpot emptying faster and more safely.
- a series profit store is expediently provided for this purpose for the jackpot device for collecting the profits in series.
- the coins can be dispensed from the jackpot device by refining up to the amount of the jackpot prize value.
- the topping up can be carried out by credit in a coin and / or a profit storage. If, for example, a profit is less than the total amount of coins that can be paid out by the jackpot facility and the coin store or the profit store is empty, the player must re-coin the difference to the total value of the jackpot facility , ie Throw more coins into the entertainment device and thus fill up the jackpot in order to suddenly get the total value from the circulating body of the jackpot device.
- jackpot device assumes that a winning amount exceeding the predetermined amount of coins can be transferred directly to the dispensing device or can be refilled into the circulating body. The latter can also be done through several additional amounts of coins respectively .
- the amount of profit which has been refilled into the circulating body and exceeds the predetermined amount of coins is transferred to the dispensing device together with the predetermined amount of coins.
- the circulating body is pre-filled with a predetermined number of coins and then a profit is displayed in a coin display in the further course of the game by means of plays or series games. If a predetermined amount of coins is then reached, this is transferred to the dispenser or the amount of coins going beyond that into the circulating body.
- a winning amount of coins is greater than the predetermined winning amount or, for example, also the predetermined filling level of the circulating body, then the circulating body is refilled to the higher winning amount and this is then transferred to the dispenser.
- a further advantageous embodiment consists in the fact that the coin wins achieved in the symbol game device or in the special game devices are accumulated in the jackpot device and can be transferred to the output device when the jackpot win value is reached, which means that the player in enjoy the jackpot.
- FIG. 1 shows a front view of a gaming device according to the invention with a circulating body for the visible reception of coins
- FIG. 2 shows an alternative embodiment of the gaming device according to FIG. 1,
- FIG. 3 shows a further alternative embodiment of the gaming device according to FIG. 1,
- FIG. 4 shows a cross-sectional view through a channel in a circulating body along the line A-A according to FIG. 2,
- FIG. 5 shows a cross-sectional view through a channel in a circulating body in an alternative embodiment according to FIG. 4,
- FIG. 6 shows a circulating body of the gaming device according to FIG. 1 with an associated coin system of a money processing device.
- the different embodiments of the gaming device according to FIGS. 1 to 3 initially have the same structure in principle, which is described below.
- the housing 2 of the symbol game device 1 of the game device provided with a computer-controlled control unit for controlling the game flow and having the possibility of winning has on its front side 3 reading windows 4, behind which three rotated bodies 5 of the symbol game device 1 arranged next to one another and in the form of disks are pre-arranged are seen.
- a computer-controlled control unit for controlling the game flow and having the possibility of winning has on its front side 3 reading windows 4, behind which three rotated bodies 5 of the symbol game device 1 arranged next to one another and in the form of disks are pre-arranged are seen.
- revolving bodies designed in the form of drums or drums can also be used.
- the computer of the gaming device determines the entire course of the game, including the determination of winnings and the winnings spent.
- the control and computing functions are carried out in accordance with the programs of the computer, which can be adapted to all the required functions.
- the rotary bodies 5 are brought to a standstill after the start of the game at the beginning of the game during or at the end of the game by a random number generator assigned to the control unit in a plurality of possible latching positions.
- the rest positions are assigned symbols 6 on the circumference of the circulating bodies 5, which serve to display the game result in the reading windows 4. From the displayed symbols 6, the player can read the game result, in particular also whether a win has resulted from a combination of the displayed symbols 6 according to a profit plan explained on the front side 3.
- the gaming device There are several in the lower area of the gaming device Actuators 7, with which the symbols 6 displayed in the symbol game device 1 can be held or restarted. Furthermore, an output device 8 for achieved winnings is arranged on the front 3 of the gaming device. In the upper area of the gaming device there are a coin insertion slot 9, a token insertion slot 10, a banknote input slot 11 and a user card input slot 12 of a money processing device (not shown in more detail).
- a credit display 13 is arranged on the left-hand side below the symbol game device 1, the displayed credit of which can be called up in the dispensing tray 8 by actuating a return button 14 located next to the coin slot 9.
- the profit achieved in the symbol game device 1 can be computer or key-controlled, if necessary with the control unit being appropriately rededicated, ie for example a cash prize is converted into a certain number of special games , as an insert in an additional profit game device 16, which is designed as a risk game device with illuminable display elements 17.
- the embodiments according to FIGS. 2 and 3 can also include such an additional have winn game equipment. However, these embodiments were not shown in order to avoid repetitions. All of the embodiments according to FIGS. 1 to 3 can also comprise a play-out device instead of or in addition to the additional game device.
- the display elements 17 of the two risk game devices arranged on the right and left of the front 3 of the gaming device are each occupied differently in the lower area with increasing cash winnings and in the upper area in increasing order with the numbers of special game winnings.
- the risking of a profit received in the symbol game device 1, which was transferred to one of the risk game devices under the control of a keyboard or computer, takes place in that the next higher display element 17 in relation to the illuminated display element 17 indicating the profit Change with a total loss display element 18 associated with the relevant risk game device with the inscription "0" flashes.
- a corresponding risk button 19 is pressed, either the next higher profit is achieved or the bet used is lost. This profit can continue until the maximum profit is reached Special games to be continued.
- one of the circulation bodies 5 of the symbol game device 1 is designed as a circulation body 5a provided with channels 20.
- channels 20 are three Channels 20 are provided, which are arranged in the axis of rotation 21 of the revolving body 5a crossing evenly in the plane of the revolving body 5a over its entire diameter.
- These channels 20 serve to receive coins 22 of a certain or indefinite number and are visible from the outside.
- Each channel 20, for example a rectangular cross-section can preferably receive eight coins 22, so that each partial channel extending from the axis of rotation 21 of the rotating body 5a can receive a maximum of four coins 22.
- channels 20 of cylindrical cross-section in which the coins 22 lie one on top of the other, a much larger number of coins 22 can be provided. The filling of the channels 20 of the circulating body 5a will be described in more detail later.
- a controllable lock 23 is arranged in the housing 2 of the game device.
- This lock 23 is controlled by a motor-operated or electromechanical drive 24 via a corresponding actuating member 25.
- the drive 24 in turn is controlled by the computer-controlled control unit of the gaming device.
- Each channel 20 in the revolving body 5a has an input / output opening 26 on the outer circumference of the revolving body 5a, through which the coins 22 can be filled or dispensed depending on the position of the revolving body 5a.
- controllable lock 23 is only attached to the lowest area of the circulating body 5a and is provided for blocking each channel 20 of the circulating body 5a, at least the area of the circulating body 5a located in the gravitational area of the coins 22 is of an im Surround the housing 2 attached cover 31 to prevent the coins 22 from falling out of the heavy to prevent channels 20 lying within the force range of the coins 22.
- a controllable lock 23, which is actuated by a drive 24, can be arranged on the circulating body 5a even in the area of each input / output opening 26.
- a guiding channel 27 for the coins 22 is arranged below the controllable lock 23 arranged at the lowest area of the circulating body 5a, which leads into the dispensing device 8 designed as a dispensing tray.
- the coins 22 located in the corresponding channel 20 are transferred via the guide channel 27 into the output device 8, the controllable lock 23 is folded away and thus clears the way for the coins 22 into the dispensing device 8.
- the embodiments of the gaming device according to FIGS. 2 and 3 function in the same way.
- a separate circulation body 5a is provided in the central region of the front side 3 of the housing 2 of the game device.
- the revolving body 5a according to FIG. 2 has six of its rotational Axle 21 on radially outwardly extending channels 20 which are visible from the outside, but which are not continuous, as in the embodiment according to FIG.
- the channels 20 are interrupted in the central area of the axis of rotation 21 of the revolving body 5a, so that the six subchannels result.
- the circulating body 5a is divided into twelve subfields.
- Subfields 28a are formed between the channels 20 and are provided with further game symbols 6a.
- the other subfields 28b are formed by the channels 20 themselves.
- the game symbols 6a on the subfields 28a enable further game variants in cooperation with the symbol game device 1 or the additional win game device 16.
- the embodiment according to FIG. 3 comprises a variant of the game device in which the symbol game device 1 consists of three roller-shaped rotating bodies 5.
- a separate drum-shaped rotating body 5a is arranged in the central region of the front side 3 of the housing 2 of the game device.
- the direction of rotation of the rotating body 5a about its axis of rotation 21 is marked by the corresponding arrow.
- the circulating body 5a contains a single channel 20 which extends to almost the entire diameter in the plane of the circulating body 5a. Nevertheless, this channel 20 is closed at one end. If the input / output opening 26 of the channel 20 is in line with the guide channel 27, the coins 22 fall into the output device 8 and are output via this.
- a controllable lock in this variant of the gaming device according to the invention to be dispensed with.
- FIG. 4 shows a cross section through a channel 20 of the circulating body 5a along the line A-A according to FIG. 2.
- This channel 20 which is broken into two separate subchannels, has a rectangular cross section.
- the distance between the front wall 29 and the rear wall 30 of the channel 20 is slightly larger than the thickness of the coins 22 to be stored upright in the channel 20. If coins 22 with different values are used, the distance between the front wall 29 and the rear wall 30 is Channel 20 slightly larger than the thickness of the thickest coin 22, but smaller than twice the thickness of the thinnest coin 22, so that jamming of the coins 22 in the channel 20 can be avoided.
- FIG. 5 shows a channel 20 with a cylindrical cross section, the diameter of the channel 20 being slightly larger than the diameter of the largest coin 20.
- FIG. 6 shows a circulating body 5a according to the embodiment of the gaming device according to FIG. 1.
- the controllable lock 23 and the associated drive 24 are shown which lock the 23 an actuator 25 operated.
- the guide channel 27, which is connected to the dispenser 8 for the coins 22, is arranged below the controllable lock 23.
- the area of the circulating body 5a outside the lock 23, but in the gravitational area of the coins 22, is surrounded by a stationary cover 31. ben to prevent the coins 22 from falling out of the channel 20 of the circulating body 5a.
- a money processing unit 32 is provided, which is connected to a transport device 33 and an adjoining input device 34 for filling the channels 20 of the circulating body 5a with coins 22.
- the money processing unit 32 essentially consists of a stacking container 35 containing coins 22 and a removal device 36 arranged below the stacking container 35 for removing the next coin 22 from the stacking container 35. Furthermore, there is below the removal device 36 in the money processing unit 32 an adjustable diverter 37 is arranged which diverts counterfeit coins into a collecting container 38 located underneath, which may be connected to the dispensing device 8. Coins 22 recognized as permissible are transferred to an intermediate store 39 of the money processing unit, from which the coins 22 are suddenly transferred to the transport device 33 by correspondingly opening the intermediate store 39.
- the transport device 33 consists of an inlet channel 39, in which the coins 22 are passed to the input device 34.
- the coins 22 fall from the input device 34 through the input / output opening 26 into the respective channel 20 of the circulating body 5a, which is located at the end of the input device 34.
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| DE19522446 | 1995-06-21 | ||
| DE19522446A DE19522446A1 (de) | 1995-06-21 | 1995-06-21 | Münzbetätigtes Spielgerät |
| PCT/DE1996/001095 WO1997001158A1 (de) | 1995-06-21 | 1996-06-17 | Münzbetätigtes spielgerät |
Publications (2)
| Publication Number | Publication Date |
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| EP0834162A1 true EP0834162A1 (de) | 1998-04-08 |
| EP0834162B1 EP0834162B1 (de) | 1999-02-03 |
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| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| EP96918596A Expired - Lifetime EP0834162B1 (de) | 1995-06-21 | 1996-06-17 | Münzbetätigtes spielgerät |
Country Status (5)
| Country | Link |
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| EP (1) | EP0834162B1 (de) |
| AT (1) | ATE176543T1 (de) |
| DE (2) | DE19522446A1 (de) |
| ES (1) | ES2129267T3 (de) |
| WO (1) | WO1997001158A1 (de) |
Families Citing this family (1)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| EP0858059B1 (de) * | 1997-01-18 | 2003-04-02 | Nsm Aktiengesellschaft | Vereinzelungseinrichtung für Wertgegenstände für münzbetätigte Unterhaltungsgeräte |
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| ES2129136T3 (es) * | 1993-09-04 | 1999-06-01 | Nsm Ag | Aparato recreativo accionado mediante dinero. |
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- 1996-06-17 ES ES96918596T patent/ES2129267T3/es not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1996-06-17 AT AT96918596T patent/ATE176543T1/de not_active IP Right Cessation
- 1996-06-17 WO PCT/DE1996/001095 patent/WO1997001158A1/de not_active Ceased
- 1996-06-17 EP EP96918596A patent/EP0834162B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1996-06-17 DE DE59601276T patent/DE59601276D1/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
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| DE59601276D1 (de) | 1999-03-18 |
| WO1997001158A1 (de) | 1997-01-09 |
| ATE176543T1 (de) | 1999-02-15 |
| DE19522446A1 (de) | 1997-01-02 |
| ES2129267T3 (es) | 1999-06-01 |
| EP0834162B1 (de) | 1999-02-03 |
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