JP2000334132A - Pachinko machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To block the illegal invasion of a foreign matter (such as wire-shaped material) into the game area of a play panel set in a Pachinko machine. SOLUTION: In this Pachinko machine, an auxiliary play panel 20 vertically aligned with the play panel is provided at the lower part of a set surface area 13 of a set frame 12. An eaves-shaped part 45 extended forward and horizontally is formed from side to side along with the upper edge of this auxiliary play panel 20. This eaves-shaped part 45 partitions the front side of the auxiliary play panel 20 and the play panel set in the set surface area 13 of the set frame 12 and completely blocks the illegal action of making the foreign matter, which is invaded from an upper or lower ball tray to the front side of the auxiliary play panel, invade the game area of the play panel.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pachinko game machine which can be used for playing a game in a vertical state and develop a pachinko game in a game area of a game board set in the machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a game machine represented by a pachinko machine and an arrangement ball machine, a game ball in an upper ball plate is formed by a ball feeder and a hit ball launcher in cooperation with a launch rail in the machine. The game is played by sending one ball at a time to the launch site and launching it from the same site into a game area in the guide rail of the game board. Then, a prize ball corresponding to a prize-winning condition (for example, a safe ball) generated or established in the game area during the game is paid out from a prize ball payout section of the mechanism set board on the back side, and thereafter, from the main discharge path in the set board. It is preferentially fed into the upper ball tray via a supply port of the game auxiliary board inside the frame and a ball receiving cylinder on the back side of the upper ball tray. The surplus prize balls to be paid out after the upper ball tray becomes full are transferred to the lower ball via a sub-discharge path communicating with the lower ball plate side and a ball receiving container on the lower back side of the front frame. It is to be fed into the dish.

[0003] On the other hand, during a game with such a gaming machine, a non-gaming ball, which is more or less generally called a foul ball or a return ball, that is, a ball is launched one by one from a launch site, but the hitting force (launching force) Non-game balls that are not able to reach the game area properly due to lack of flight power and fall along the guide rails and try to return to the firing rail side of the game auxiliary board are irregular. Is always occurring. For this reason, in any pachinko machine, a return port located at the center of the upper part of the game assistance panel between the upper end of the firing rail and the lower end of the guide rail as a recovery path for foul balls.
(Also referred to as a foul port) is formed with an appropriate separation opening width, and the foul ball dropped into this return port is once passed through the ball collection port opened in the lower center of the game auxiliary board to the back side and is then returned to the lower ball plate. It can be returned to the dish and collected.

[0004]

By the way, in the above-mentioned gaming machine, the ball receiving cylinder of the upper bowl, which communicates with the supply port at an appropriate interval with reference to the return port, faces a position near the left side. In addition, the ball collection port is located almost directly below, and the inside of the lower ball plate is in communication with the ball collection port. For this reason, in the conventional game machine, there is an inherent problem that an illegal act is easily performed on the game area of the game board on the front side of the machine. That is, as a foreigner illegal intrusion operation using a rod-shaped foreign object (wire or the like), a gamer can manipulate the foreign object and insert the foreign object into the ball receiving cylinder from the inside of the upper ball dish while manipulating the foreign object. After passing through the front of the auxiliary board, it is extended into the return opening, or is inserted into the ball receiving container from the inside of the lower ball tray, and is then extended into the return opening after passing through the front of the game auxiliary board from the ball collection opening. . Regardless of the illegal operation from any of the ball dishes, the foreign matter that has entered the front side of the game auxiliary board reaches the game area by passing between the guide rail of the game board and the inner glass plate of the glass door. Then, by trying to illegally open the blades or the like of the target game component (for example, a tulip-type open / close winning device) with a foreign substance, it is intended to obtain a profit from an illegal game. Accordingly, there has been a need for a technique for suitably preventing such misconduct.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been newly proposed in order to preferably solve the above-mentioned problem, and is intended to prevent foreign substances (for example, linear materials) from entering into a game area of a game board set in the machine. It is an object of the present invention to provide a pachinko game machine capable of preventing intrusion.

[0006]

[Means for solving the problems] To overcome the above-mentioned problems,
In order to achieve the intended purpose, the pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention is provided with a set frame on the rear side of the opening area of the front frame assembled to the outer frame, and for the pachinko ball according to the set surface area of the set frame. A game board having a game area having a game area, the game board having a game auxiliary board which is vertically aligned with the game board below the set surface area of the set frame; An eaves-like portion which can prevent unauthorized entry of foreign matter into the game area of the game board set in the set surface area of the set frame is formed in front of a required portion along the upper edge of the set frame. .

[0007]

The front side of the game auxiliary board and the game board set on the set frame are formed on the upper edge of the game auxiliary board in the set frame by an eave-shaped portion formed to extend in the left-right direction and extend horizontally forward. And are isolated. Therefore, for example, it is difficult for foreign matter that has entered the front side of the game auxiliary board from the upper or lower ball dish to further enter the game board side by the eaves-like portion, and the foreign matter enters the game area of the game board. Infiltration fraud is suitably prevented.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Next, a pachinko gaming machine according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings with reference to preferred embodiments. In the present embodiment, as a vertical gaming machine, a pachinko machine which is fixedly held at a predetermined vertically inclined rearward posture on an installation frame (island) in a game store and is used for a game is mainly shown.

(Schematic Description of Pachinko Machine) As shown schematically in FIG. 1 as a schematic diagram of the basic structure of the pachinko machine P of this embodiment, an opening front surface of a vertically long rectangular outer frame A forming an outer frame is provided. On the side, a vertical rectangular front frame B on which various game components are set is assembled so as to be capable of being opened and closed and attached and detached in a horizontal opening form by using a required opening / closing connection support portion and locking means. On the front side of the front frame B, a glass door C to be described later, which is a see-through protective window of the game board D, and an opening / closing plate fixedly equipped with an upper ball tray E are jointly provided by using a required opening / closing connection support portion. It is assembled and aligned so as to be openable and closable in a horizontal opening form. Also, the front frame B
Hitting operation unit G ₁ and the like in the lower sphere tray F and shot firing device G is mounted set to the lower, further front frame back in various spheres pathways and mechanisms set with a spherical processing and dispensing unit, etc. Release I and B ( 5 and 6) are set, thereby forming one pachinko machine. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the pachinko machine P of this embodiment has a game board front side detachable form, that is, the glass door C and the upper bowl E on the front side of the front frame B are opened (horizontal opening).
Then, the game board D is incorporated into or removed from the set holding frame 12 described below provided on the back side of the front frame B from the front side.

(Front Frame) As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the front frame B is formed by molding a synthetic resin as a whole. The front frame B is formed to have an outer size matching the front surface of the opening of the outer frame A. A frame 10 having a window frame opening (opening surface area) 11 having a front vertical rectangular shape inside and an inside thereof, and a game board integrally formed on the back side of the frame 10 and facing the inside of the front of the window frame opening 11. A set holding frame (set frame) 12 having a set opening (set surface area) 13 opened has an inner / outer double frame form integrally and continuously provided at the front and rear. In the frame body 10, an installation board 14 for installing the lower ball tray F and the hit ball launching portion G ₂ of the hit ball launching device G and the like is formed below the window frame opening 11, and is formed at the center thereof. The supply port 15 for the prize ball is opened, and the window frame 11
An installation portion 17 for installing the lightning decoration portion 16 is formed over the upper edge portion and the right edge portion. The window frame 1
Reference numeral 1 designates a set surface area and a doorway of the game board D which is put in and out (removed) from the front side, and an upper ball plate E (opening / closing plate) can be assembled and set in the lower opening surface area thereof. It has become. And the three peripheral edges of the front of the window frame opening 11
The upper surface and the left and right side edges are recessed to define a set surface area 18 in which the glass door C can be aligned and accommodated.

(Set holding frame) On the other hand, the set holding frame 1
In FIG. 2, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, a game auxiliary board (also referred to as a “game auxiliary frame portion”) 20 is integrally formed at a position inside the lower portion of the window frame opening 11 so as to match the upper ball tray E. The set port 13 is opened with reference to the upper edge of the game auxiliary board 20. At the four corners of the inner periphery of the set opening 13, slanted wall portions 27 formed at approximately 45 degrees are formed integrally with the set holding frame 12, and each of the slanted wall portions 27 has , Game board D set holding frame 12
Is provided with a rotary mounting device H for fixing the device. In addition, projections 19 for positioning with respect to the game board D are formed on the inner peripheral end face of the set opening 13.
Incidentally, the front frame B may be of a type constituted by the frame body 10 and may be a type in which a set holding frame 12 separately formed on the back side of the window frame opening 11 is aligned and fixed.

The game auxiliary board 20 has an out path 21 formed on the back side thereof, a prize ball supply port 22 opened on the upper left side of the front, and a speaker 25 on the left front side.
And a sound effect generating device 23 for generating a sound effect according to the content of the game.
Further, on the front right side, a firing rail 26 that is in flight communication with the guide rail 28 of the game board D is installed at an appropriate inclination, and a game ball from the upper bowl E can be seated at the firing position at the lower end (right end) thereof. , The hitting ball firing portion G in the hitting ball firing device G
_{The second} hitting rod 29 can be faced. Then, looking at both rails 26 and 28, as shown in FIG. 3, the upper end of the firing rail 26 and the lower end of the guide rail 28 are located at a lower position and an upper position close to the upper surface of the game auxiliary board 20, and They face each other with an appropriate difference in height and the size of the separated space, and this opening area is configured as a foul ball port (also referred to as a “return port”) 31 for foul balls. By the way, looking at the trajectory along the firing rail 26 as a reference, the lower end of the guide rail 28 is at the lower level,
The lower end is set to a height difference of approximately one ball.

At the center of the front surface of the game assisting panel 20, a socket 32 defined by a substantially L-shaped wall portion 33 for receiving a foul ball dropped into the foul ball port 31 is provided. A ball collecting port 34 for collecting foul balls and discharging the ball to the lower ball tray F is formed, and between the receiving port 32 and the ball collecting port 34, the guide preventing wall 3 is provided.
6 is a crank-shaped foul ball recovery path 35 formed by
Extends. The ball collection port 34 is formed on the back side of the game auxiliary board 20 and faces the upstream portion of a foul ball passageway 39 communicating with the supply port 15 (FIG. 5). 35, the foul ball that has passed through the ball collection port 34 is the foul ball exit path 39.
Through the lower ball tray F. In addition, the receiving port 3
2. A cover member 37 integrally formed in a required shape is provided on the front surface of the foul ball collection path 35 and the ball collection port 34.
(Front end) is assembled in contact with the
The foul ball collection path 35 and the ball collection port 34 are covered. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5, for example, a fraudulent person moves the lower ball tray F from the supply port 15,
A bar-shaped line on the front of the game auxiliary board 20 through the ball collection port 34
Even if the (wire-shaped) foreign matter W enters, the wall 3
3, the foreign matter W cannot enter the foul ball port 31 due to the guide preventing wall 36 and the cover member 37;
The game area 43 of the game board D through the foul ball opening 31
It is possible to prevent a fraudulent act of invading the foreign matter W into the device. The ball collection port 34 and the sound effect generator 23
A vertically extending partition wall 40 is formed between them.

(Eave-shaped portion) Further, at a portion along the upper edge of the game auxiliary board 20 (a portion along the lower edge of the set port 13), the front side of the left and right sides sandwiching the foul ball port 31 is provided. Is formed with an eaves-like portion 45 extending horizontally and substantially the same as the depth dimension of the front frame B, and has a front edge 45a.
Faces the front end of the window frame opening 11 in the front frame B. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, the eave-shaped portion 45 has a left eaves piece 46 formed on the left side of the foul ball opening 31 extending along the upper edge of the supply port 22. While the portion appropriately protrudes upward, the right eaves piece 47 formed on the right side of the foul ball opening 31 has a stepped shape in which the right half is appropriately lowered. And the left,
In the right eaves pieces 46 and 47, a required portion adjacent to the foul ball opening 31 continuously extends without a step with the lower edge portion of the set opening 13 in the set holding frame 12, and this portion is It functions as a receiving portion 48 for D. That is, these receiving portions 48, 48
As shown in FIG.
The lower part of the game board D can be temporarily received when the player enters and leaves the game board 3, thereby facilitating the attachment / detachment work of the game board D.

The eave-shaped portion 45 is provided at the window frame opening 1 of the front frame B.
1 and extend to the front end of the window frame opening 11 so that when the glass door C and the upper bowl E are closed to the front frame B, the eaves-shaped portion 45 front edge 45
a closely adheres to the back side of the glass door C or the upper ball tray E,
The set side 13 of the front side of the game auxiliary board 20 and the set frame 12
It becomes completely isolated from the side. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 6, after a fraudulent person inserts, for example, a bar-shaped (wire-shaped) foreign matter W from inside the upper bowl D into the ball receptacle 42, Even if the front surface of the game auxiliary panel 20 is intruded through the space between the end and the front surface of the game auxiliary panel 20, the eaves-like portion 45 extends left and right along the upper edge of the game auxiliary panel 20. At the same time, the wall portion 33 extends to the upper edge of the game auxiliary board 20, so that the foreign matter W can be suitably prevented from entering the game area 43 of the game board D. On the other hand, a foreign matter W that has entered the front of the game assisting panel 20 from the lower ball tray F through the supply port 15, the foul ball passageway 39, and the ball collection port 33 is brought into the sound effect generator 23 side or the firing rail. Even if the eaves-like portion 45 can invade the game auxiliary board 2 as shown in FIG.
0 along the upper edge and the wall 3
Since 3 extends to the upper edge of the game auxiliary board 20, it is possible to suitably prevent the foreign matter W from entering the game area 43 of the game board D in the same manner.

[0016]

Next, the operation of the pachinko gaming machine according to the present embodiment configured as described above will be described. In the pachinko machine P, in the manufacturing stage, the front frame B and the set holding frame 12 are integrally formed, and the wall portion 33 and the guide prevention wall 36 are provided substantially at the center of the front surface of the game auxiliary board 20 in the set holding frame 12. Is integrally molded,
An eave-shaped portion 45 is integrally formed on the upper end of the game auxiliary board 20. Then, the separately formed cover member 37 is attached to the game auxiliary board 20 with the receiving port 32, the foul ball collection path 35, and the ball collection port 34 covered.

The set opening 1 of the set holding frame 12
When the game board D is set on the front frame 3, the game board D is suitably attached to and detached from the set holding frame 12 with the glass door C and the upper bowl E attached to the front frame B both opened. I can do it. That is, in the built-in set of the game board D,
The operation state is shown in FIGS.
Is temporarily placed on the receiving portion 48 of the eave-shaped portion 45 in a vertically oriented state, and then the game board D is vertically oriented in the projected portion 19,1.
After being pushed along along 9 and housed in the set opening 13, it is locked and fixed by the mounting device H. In the removal of the game board D, the game board D is first pulled out to the front side of the set holding frame 12 under the condition that the lock by the attachment device H is released, and is once placed on the receiving portion 48 of the eave-shaped portion 45, and then received. The game board D, which has been slightly inclined forward, may be taken out and removed. Therefore, in the pachinko machine P of the present embodiment, it is possible to quickly and easily perform the attaching / detaching operation of the game board D which is a considerably heavy object.

The set opening 13 of the set holding frame 12
Is completed, the glass door C and the upper bowl E are closed to the front frame B. Thereby, the eave-shaped portion 45 is provided on the back surface of the glass door C or the upper bowl E.
The front edge 45a of the game auxiliary board 2
0 is completely isolated from the game area 43 of the game board D.

In such a pachinko machine P of this embodiment, the game is performed while the upper ball tray E is kept in the closed set state, and the pachinko game is placed in the upper ball tray E as a normal pachinko game. On the premise that pachinko balls have been injected (retained),
Ball feeding operation of a ball feeding device mounted on the upper ball tray E side,
In cooperation with the striking operation of the striking firing unit G ₂ in the hitting launching device G, the game ball is punched by hitting rod 29 after seating is fed to the firing portion of the firing rail 26 by one ball. Then, the launched game ball jumps from the launch rail 26 over the foul ball opening 31 and is guided by the guide rail 28 of the game board D.
Is flying into the game area 43, moving in each direction, and falling into the winning opening while falling,
Those finally collected in the out mouth without entering the winning opening are sorted out as out balls.

Also, for a game ball fired from the firing site but failed to reach the inside of the game area 43 due to insufficient hitting force or the like, a foul ball port 31 to a receiving port 3
2, the ball falls to the right of the ball collection port 34 through the foul ball collection path 35, and from the ball collection port 34, through the foul ball exit path 39 on the back side and the supply port 15, the lower ball plate F
Is collected in the dish.

By the way, in the pachinko machine P of this embodiment, a foreign matter W such as a wire or a band is transferred to the game area 43 of the game board D by using the ball collecting port 34 facing the lower ball tray F on the front side of the game machine. It is possible to preferably prevent intrusions that are intruded. That is, the foreigner W intrudes from the dish portion of the lower ball dish F through the supply port 15 from inside the dish portion of the lower ball dish F into the front side of the game assistance board 20 through the foul ball passageway 39 and the ball collection port 34, In the case where an attempt is made to enter the game area 43 of the game board D through the foul ball port 31, as described above and as shown in FIG.
The walls 33 and the guide prevention wall 36 are completely in contact with the wall 38 of the cover member 37, so that the foreign matter W can enter the foul ball port 31 side. Is absolutely impossible. Therefore, according to the pachinko machine P of the present embodiment, it is possible to completely prevent an illegal act of invading the foreign matter W intruded from the lower ball tray F into the game area 43 of the game board D through the foul ball opening 31.

In the same manner as described above, a foreigner W that has been intruded from the dish portion of the lower ball tray F through the supply port 15 by a dishonest person through the foul ball passageway 39 and the ball collection port 34 as described above. After entering the game area D of the game board D from the front left side (the sound effect generator 23 side) or the front right side of the auxiliary board 20 (the firing rail 26 side). In this case, as described above and as shown in FIG. 7, since the eaves-like portion 45 completely separates the game board D side, the foreign matter W enters the game area 43 side of the game board D. It is impossible at all. Therefore, according to the pachinko machine P of this embodiment, it is possible to completely prevent the foreign object W invading from the lower ball plate F from entering the game area 43 of the game board D from the front left side or the front right side of the game auxiliary board 20. Can be blocked.

[0023] Further, the wrongdoer can use the ball receiving cylinder 4 of the upper bowl E.
After the foreign matter W invaded from the front side of the game assisting panel 20 passes between the rear end of the ball receiving cylinder 42 and the front face of the game assisting panel 20, the foreign matter W When trying to enter the game area 43 of the game board D from the front left side, the eaves 45 completely separate the game board D side as described above and shown in FIG. It is impossible at all for foreign matter W to enter the game area 43 of the game board D. Therefore, according to the pachinko machine P of the present embodiment, the foreign matter W invaded from the upper
Game area D of gaming board D from the front left or front right
3 can be suitably prevented. It should be noted that the foreign matter W that has entered the front of the
Is attempted to enter the game area 43 of the game board D via the foul ball port 31, since the wall portion 33 completely isolates the foul ball port 31, the foul ball port 31 is used. Thus, it is impossible to cause the foreign matter W to enter the game area 43 of the game board D.

[0024]

As described above, according to the pachinko gaming machine of the present invention, the eaves-like portion formed forward along the upper edge of the game assisting panel is set on the front side and the set frame of the game assisting panel. Since the game board side is separated from the game board side, there is an advantage that it is possible to preferably prevent an illegal act of invading a foreign substance that has entered the front side of the game assistance board from the upper or lower ball dish into the game area of the game board. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view schematically showing a pachinko machine according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view schematically showing a front frame of the pachinko machine of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing an installation board of a frame and a game assistance board of a set holding frame.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a frame installation board and a game support board of a set holding frame in a state where a sound effect generator and a cover member are assembled.

FIG. 5: Foreign matter that has entered the front of the game auxiliary board from the lower ball tray side through the ball collection port into the foul ball port side by the receiving port, the foul ball recovery path, and the cover member that covers the ball recovery port. It is a longitudinal side view which shows the state which has prevented doing.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the game board, in which a foreign object that has entered the front surface of the game board through the ball receiving cylinder from the upper bowl plate side and extends horizontally from the upper edge portion of the game board; It is a vertical side view which shows the state which has prevented invasion to the game area side.

FIG. 7: An eave-like portion extending horizontally from the upper edge of the game assistance board prevents foreign matter that has entered from the upper or lower ball dish from entering the game area side of the game board. It is a longitudinal side view which shows roughly the state which performs.

FIG. 8 is a plan cross-sectional view showing a state in which the game board is set from the front side to the set opening of the set holding frame.

FIG. 9 is a side cross-sectional view showing a state where a game board is set from the front side into a set opening of a set holding frame.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Window frame (opening area) 12 Set holding frame (set frame) 13 Set mouth (set surface area) 20 Game auxiliary board 43 Game area 45 Eaves part A Outer frame B Front frame D Game board

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A set frame (12) is provided on the rear side of an opening area (11) of a front frame (B) assembled to an outer frame (A).
In a gaming machine in which a game board (D) having a game area (43) for pachinko balls is set detachably in accordance with the set area (13) of (2), the set area of the set frame (12) At the lower part of 13), a game auxiliary board (20) is provided which is vertically aligned with the game board (D), and a set frame is provided in front of a necessary portion along the upper edge of the game auxiliary board (20). The eaves-like portion (45) that can prevent illegal entry of foreign matter into the game area (43) of the game board (D) set in the set surface area (13) of (12) is formed facing forward. Pachinko machine. 2. The eave-shaped portion (4) in the set frame (12).
5) is formed horizontally in the left-right direction along the upper edge front side of the game auxiliary board (20) and has an opening area of the front frame (B).
The pachinko gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the pachinko gaming machine extends horizontally forward toward the inside.