JPH0422112B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to a pachinko machine equipped with a means for temporarily holding received batted balls.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, this type of pachinko machine has been equipped with various hit ball winning devices, and the hit ball winning device once accepts a hit ball, or the received hit ball is taken directly to the back of the game board as a winning ball. .

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Therefore, in the above-mentioned conventional pachinko machine, the time it takes for a batted ball to flow down on the game board and enter the batted ball winning device, or even if the batted ball hits the batted ball winning device, the winning batted ball does not occur. There was a problem in that the game could only be enjoyed while the water was flowing down.

Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned problems of the conventional device, and its purpose is to allow the holding means to freely set the falling style and time of the ball, and to combine it with the variable hit ball winning means. This provides an interesting pachinko machine that can further diversify game formats.

[Means for Solving the Problems] Therefore, the present invention is aimed at achieving the above object, and the contents thereof will be explained below using embodiments shown in the drawings.

The present invention is provided on the surface side of the game board 3, and has two states: a first state in which it does not accept or hardly accepts any batted balls flowing down the game board surface (for example, it does not accept any batted balls at all), and a second state in which it easily accepts batted balls. a variable batted ball winning means (for example, the batted ball winning device 7), and a first driving means (for example, an electric drive source 17, etc.) that drives the variable batted ball winning means 7 to convert the variable hit ball winning means 7 into the first state and the second state. ), a ball passage 24 that guides the batted ball received by the variable hit ball winning means 7, which has been converted into the second state by the first driving means 17, toward the back side of the game board 3, and a ball passage 24 facing the ball passage 24. 24 to prevent the ball from flowing down,
A holding means (for example, a stopper 25 ) and a second drive means (for example, an electric drive source 17
etc.).

[Operation] First, in the second state of the variable hit ball winning means 7, when a ball flowing down the game board is accepted by the variable hitting ball winning means 7, the ball is guided to the ball path 24.

At that time, if the holding means 25 is in the holding state,
The ball guided into the ball path 24 is prevented from flowing down and is retained in the ball path 24 portion. Therefore, the batted ball accepted by the variable batted ball winning means 7 is temporarily held in the ball path 24 portion.

Then, by the second driving means 17, the holding means 2
5 changes from the holding state to the releasing state, the batted ball held in the ball path 24 portion flows down through the ball path 24 and becomes, for example, a winning ball.

Incidentally, the state changes of the variable hit ball winning means 7 and the holding means 25 may be performed in conjunction with each other, or may be performed independently of each other.

[Example] The present invention will be described below based on an example shown in the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the pachinko machine 1 includes a game section 5 surrounded by guide rails 4 on the surface of a game board 3 provided so as to close the window section of a picture frame-like front frame 2 from the back side.
A number of obstacle nails (not shown) are planted in the game section 5, and a first state in which the balls flowing down the special prize opening 6 and the game board 3 are not accepted at all or are difficult to accept. and a batted ball winning device 7 as a fluctuating hit ball winning means that converts the ball into a second state in which the ball is easily accepted.

The batted ball winning device 7 has a case 10 with an open front on the back side of a substrate 9 having an opening 8, and has an eaves portion 11 protruding from the upper edge of the opening 8 on the surface of the substrate 9. A pair of left and right variable ball receiving members 12, 12 are provided on the left and right sides of the opening 8 to receive a batted ball.

According to the embodiment shown in the drawings, the variable ball receiving member 12 is a plate material resembling the wing of an airplane, and has a shallow longitudinal groove 13 on its surface, and grooves 13 are formed on the base plate 9 near the left and right edges of the opening 8, respectively. It is rotatably attached by a rotation shaft 14. The rotation shaft 14 is inserted into a cylindrical portion 15 formed on the side of the case 10.
It is connected to an electrical drive source 17 such as an electromagnetic solenoid via an interlocking member 16 attached to the rear end protruding from 5.

The interlocking member 16 shown in the embodiment of the drawings is connected to the rotation shaft 1
4; a pressing piece 19 extending laterally from the base 18; a scooping piece 20 extending from the base 18 at a position approximately 90 degrees displaced from the base 18; It consists of a pin 21 that protrudes backward from the middle of the raising piece 20, and the pin 21
and an electric drive source 17 are connected.

Therefore, the variable ball receiving member 12 is connected to the electric drive source 1
7 is not activated, the electric drive source 1
7, the return spring 17' urges the pin 21 downward, and due to the weight of the variable ball receiving member 12 itself, it stands still in an upright position with one end 12' hanging down, as shown in FIG. This is the first state in which the ball is not received. It should be noted that the variable ball receiving member 12 may not be completely upright, but may be held still in a slightly open state, and the first state may be set to a state in which it is difficult to receive a batted ball.

When the electric drive source 17 is activated, the pin 21 rises and rotates the interlocking member 16 approximately 90 degrees in the direction of arrow A in FIG. When the interlocking member 16 rotates, the variable ball receiving member 12 rotates integrally with the interlocking member 16, and as shown in FIG. It makes contact and stands still in the lateral direction, changing to a second state where it is easier to receive the batted ball.

Therefore, the electric drive source 17 and the like configured as described above drives the variable ball receiving member 12 to drive the batted ball winning device 7 as a variable batted ball winning means to mutually convert between the first state and the second state. Functions as a driving means.
The variable ball receiving member 12 is in contact with the protrusion 23 protruding from the base plate 9 in the first state, and is in contact with the nose 22' in the second state, so it always remains stationary at a predetermined position and the second In this state, the nose end 12' is tilted slightly downward.

The case 10 includes an upper surface portion 10a, left and right side portions 10b, 10b, a rear surface portion 10c, and a bottom surface portion 10d that slopes downwardly toward the front. A ball outlet 10e for discharging the ball is provided on the back side of the ball 3. In this embodiment, the airplane 22 is provided as a decorative member inside the case 10 with the nose 22' protruding forward from the opening 8, and the airplane 22 is provided at the left and right sides of the fuselage of the airplane 22 at the rear of the case 10. A shelf is formed that slopes downward toward the body, and ball passages 24, 24 are formed in the front-rear direction, each consisting of one side of the body and the left and right side surfaces 10b, 10b of the shelf.

In this embodiment, the ball passage 24 allows the batted ball received by the batted ball winning device 7, which has been converted into a second state in which the batted ball is easily received by the operation of the electric drive source 17, to flow down toward the back side of the game board 3. It has a length that can hold a plurality of batted balls at the same time, and has an entrance 24 at the sloping upper end of the shelf facing the opening 8.
a is located at substantially the same height as the inclined lower end of the variable ball receiving member 12 in the second state, that is, the nose end 12', and is connected to the groove portion 13. Note that the ball passage 24 is not limited to the one using the airplane 22 in the case 10, and can take various configurations.

At the inclined lower end of the shelf, which is the outlet 24b of the ball passage 24, there is provided a holding state and a ball passage 24, which prevent the ball from flowing down the ball passage 24 and temporarily hold the batted ball on the ball passage 24. Open and ball passage 24
Stopper 25 as a holding means that is converted into a release state that allows the ball held above to flow down.
to appear.

The stopper 25 is connected to the rear surface 10 of the case 10.
a base 25a that is loosely fitted to a left-right support shaft 26 supported on the back side of the base 25; a hook-shaped stopper piece 25b that extends forward from the base 25a; a leg piece 25c that extends downward from the base 25a; It consists of a horizontal receiving piece 25d formed at the lower end of the leg piece 25c. To attach this stopper 25 to the case 10, the stopper piece 25b is inserted from the back side into the through hole 27 formed in the rear surface 10c of the case 10, and the downward tip of the stopper piece 25b is inserted into the ball passage 27.
At the same time, the receiving piece 25d is made to face the interlocking member 16.

When the electric drive source 17 is not activated, the pressing piece 19 of the interlocking member 16 is positioned in the substantially horizontal direction due to the urging force of the return spring 17' as described above, so that the receiving piece 25d of the stopper 25 is It is pressed downward by the pressing piece 19 and descends. When the receiving piece 25d descends, the stopper 25 moves its tip upwards to the exit 2 of the ball passage 24, as shown in FIG.
Stand still with 4b open. That is, in the first state in which the variable ball receiving member 12 does not accept any batted balls or hardly accepts any batted balls, the stopper 25 opens the outlet 24b of the ball passage 24.

When the electric drive source 17 is activated, the interlocking member 16 rotates in the direction of arrow A in FIG. Scoop up 25d piece. When the receiving piece 25d is scooped up, the stopper 2
5 rotates about the support shaft 26 until it comes into contact with the regulating rod 28, and as shown in FIG. 7, the tip descends and blocks the outlet 24b of the ball passage 24 portion.

That is, when the electric drive source 17 operates to change the variable ball receiving member 12 to the substantially horizontal second state in which it is easy to receive a batted ball, the stopper 25 moves the variable ball receiving member 1
2 and blocks the outlet 24b of the ball passage 24. Further, when the variable ball receiving member 12 is converted to the second state, the groove portion 13 of the variable ball receiving member 12 is changed as described above.
and the ball passage 24 are connected.

Therefore, the ball received by the variable ball receiving member 12 rolls along the groove 13 toward the nose end 12', flows down from the entrance 24a of the shelf, flows into the ball passage 24, and finally reaches the ball passage 24. The previous hit ball comes into contact with the stopper 25 and stops within the ball path 24, and the ball is temporarily held on the ball path 24. The second and subsequent balls are connected to the ball passage 24 and the groove 1 of the variable ball receiving member 12.
3 and stay in a row in sequence.

When the electric drive source 17 is demagnetized with the ball being held in the ball passage 24 and the variable ball receiving member 12, the variable ball receiving member 12 moves in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 8 due to the bias of the return spring 17'. As shown, the nose end 12' is rotated back in the downward direction, so
A gap 29 is created between the end portion 12' and the nose 22', and the batted ball remaining on the variable ball receiving member 12 flows down through this gap 29 and is returned to the game board surface. Become.

At the same time, the variable ball receiving member 12 changes from the second state to the first state.
When the condition returns, the stopper 25 opens the outlet 24b and allows the ball to flow down the ball path 24. Therefore, the ball hit on the ball path 24 is directed to the open exit 2.
After sequentially flowing out from 4b, it passes through the gap between the inclined lower end of the ball passage 24 and the rear surface portion 10c of the case 10, and falls onto the bottom surface portion 10d. And the bottom part 10d
The hit ball that falls upward rolls forward due to the slope of the bottom surface 10d, flows out of the case 10 from the ball outlet 10e, and becomes a winning ball.

Therefore, the state change of the variable ball receiving member 12 and the stopper 25 of the batted ball winning device 7 is performed in conjunction with each other, and the electric drive source 17 etc. drives the stopper 25 as a holding means to change the state from the held state to the released state. It simultaneously functions as a second driving means for mutually converting the state and the state.

Incidentally, the first and second driving means may be made independent of each other, and the above-mentioned batted ball winning device 7 has a variable ball receiving member 12.
By appropriately setting the conditions for converting the stopper 25 from the first state to the second state, and by appropriately setting the conditions for converting the stopper 25 to the hold state and release state, the contents of the pachinko game can be further diversified. can be achieved.

For example, in the pachinko machine 1 shown in FIG. 1, the ball winning device 7 changes from the first state to the second state on the condition that the ball enters the special winning hole 6.

That is, when a batted ball enters the special winning hole 6, the ball detector 30, which is placed in the middle of the channel extending from the special winning hole 6, detects the hit ball and sends a special winning signal to the electric control device 31. Transmit.

When the electric control device 31 receives the special winning signal, it operates the electric drive source 17 for a predetermined period of time (for example, 18 seconds) to convert the batted ball winning device 7 from the first state to the second state.

When the batted ball winning device 7 changes to the second state, a large number of batted balls flow down onto the variable ball receiving member 12, so that the batted balls are held in the ball passage 24 portion and on the variable ball receiving member 12. Then, after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, the electric drive source 17 is demagnetized, so the batted balls held in the case 10 are taken into the back side of the game board 3 as winning balls, and the batted balls on the variable ball receiving member 12 are transferred onto the game board surface. be returned.

Furthermore, the pachinko machine 1 shown in FIG. 1 is provided with a specific winning hole 32 below the ball winning device 7, and
A variable winning device 33 is provided below the specific winning hole 32, and on the condition that the ball enters the specific winning hole 32, the variable winning device 33 is changed to a state where it is easy for the ball to enter.

As shown in FIG. 9, the variable winning device 33 has a door plate 35 pivotally attached to a horizontally long ball entrance 34 so as to be openable and closable.
A known variable winning device is used, such as a so-called attacker type winning device, which opens and closes the door plate 35 by driving a solenoid 36 to change the receiving state of a batted ball.

When a batted ball enters the specific winning hole 32, a ball detector (not shown) provided facing the channel extending from the specific winning hole 32 detects the ball, and the electric control device 3
Send a specific winning signal to 1.

When the electric control device 31 receives a specific winning signal, the electric control device 31 controls the solenoid 36 for a predetermined period of time (for example, 10 seconds).
is excited to convert the variable prize winning device 33 into a state where it is easy for a batted ball to enter.

Since the specific winning hole 32 is located immediately below the batted ball winning device 7, it is easy for the batted ball flowing down from the batted ball winning device 7 to win a prize.

In other words, when a batted ball that has remained on the variable ball receiving member 12 of the batted ball winning device 7 is released onto the game board again, the probability that the batted ball will enter the specific winning hole 32 is as follows: The probability that the hit ball will enter the specific winning hole 32 is higher than that of the hit ball.

Therefore, the player can expect to win a prize in the specific winning hole 32 when the batted balls accumulate on the variable ball receiving member 12 of the batted ball winning device 7.

Note that the interlocking means for interlocking the variable ball receiving member 12 and the stopper 25 is not limited to the combination of the interlocking member 16 and the receiving piece 25d shown in the above embodiment, and is not limited to a mechanical configuration. They may be electrically linked. For example, an electromagnetic solenoid for driving the variable ball receiving member and an electromagnetic solenoid for driving the stopper may be provided separately, and both electromagnetic solenoids may be electrically interlocked by an electric control device. Further, the variable ball receiving member 12 and the stopper 25 allow the ball received by the variable ball receiving member 12 that has been converted to the second state to pass through the ball path 24.
The flow of this inflowing batted ball is the stopper 2.
The variable ball receiving member 12 and the stopper 25 may have a relationship in which they operate separately based on mutually independent conditions.

On the other hand, when the stopper 25 opens the exit 24b, the ball on the ball path 24 is released from the exit 24b.
The ball passes through the gap between the inclined lower end of the ball passage 24 and the rear surface 10c of the case 10, falls onto the bottom surface 10d, rolls forward on the bottom surface 10d, and flows out of the case 10 from the ball outlet 10e. However, the ball passage 24 may be opened directly into the rear surface portion 10c of the case 10 to form a winning ball.

Further, the batted ball winning device 7 continues to play the second prize for a predetermined period of time.
The variable ball bearing member 12 is not limited to one that maintains the state.
The stopper 25 and the stopper 25 may be operated separately based on mutually independent conditions, and the conversion may be repeated a plurality of times (for example, 10 times) over a short period of time (for example, 3 seconds). Further, the present invention may be modified in any manner without departing from the scope of the claims.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, since the variable hit ball winning means and the holding means are connected and combined by the first driving means and the second driving means, the surface of the game board It is possible to change the winning mode and the holding mode of the batted balls flowing down, which not only makes it possible to further diversify the game format, but also by changing the number of winning batted balls held by the holding means, the game It is also possible to maintain an appropriate profit balance between players and game parlors, and it is possible to provide pachinko machines that are highly expandable and interesting.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a pachinko machine, Fig. 2 is a perspective view in the first state, Fig. 3 is a perspective view in the second state, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the pachinko machine in the second state. 5 is a cross-sectional view in the second state, FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the main parts in the first state, FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the main parts in the second state, and FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view in the second state. FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the main parts on the way back from the second state to the first state, and FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the variable prize winning device. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Pachinko machine, 3... Game board, 7... Hit ball winning device as variable hit ball winning means, 17... Electric drive source as first and second driving means, 24... Ball path, 2
5. Stoppa as a means of retention.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A pachinko machine including a game board, wherein the pachinko machine is provided with a first ball that is provided on the surface side of the game board and that does not accept at all or is difficult to accept batted balls flowing down the surface of the game board. a variable batted ball winning means that converts the state and a second state in which the ball is easily accepted; a first drive means that drives the variable batted ball winning means to mutually convert the state into the first state and the second state; and the first driving means. a ball passageway that guides the batted ball accepted by the variable batted ball prize means converted into the second state by the means toward the back side of the game board, and facing the ball passageway;
A holding state in which the ball is prevented from flowing down the ball path and the ball is temporarily held on the ball path, and a release state in which the ball path is opened and the ball held in the ball path is allowed to flow down. A pachinko machine comprising: a holding means that is converted; and a second drive means that converts the holding means into a holding state and a releasing state.