JPH0744965B2 - Display devices for pachinko machines - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a display device for a pachinko machine.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, when a specific winning opening is won in a pachinko machine, the design (numbers, letters, patterns, etc.) of the display device fluctuates, and when a specific combination is obtained at the time of stop, it becomes a big hit. , There is a so-called digital type. The display device incorporated in such a type is a part for displaying the number of winning prizes for the special winning opening, and a part for displaying the number of winning winnings that can change the above-mentioned symbols, in addition to the part for variably displaying the symbols as described above. Etc. are often provided. Such a series of displays is performed by an LED display panel, an LED lamp, etc. provided on the back side of the display, and their operations are controlled based on commands from the control device.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) In the above-described conventional display device, the substrate on which the LED display panel, the LED lamp, etc. are mounted and the connector for wiring and the like project as they are exposed, and the projecting location is also at a plurality of locations. Therefore, it is inconvenient to handle and may be damaged by hitting it during storage or transportation of the display device. As described above, the current situation is that no consideration has been given to protecting the substrate.

The present invention has been made in view of these points, and an object thereof is to provide a display device capable of preventing damage in advance.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a display device that variably displays a predetermined symbol on a display in association with winning a prize in a specific winning opening, in which a mounting board of the winning device is attached. A substrate on which a display device or the like is mounted is arranged on the back surface, and the back surface of the substrate is covered with a cover member.

(Operation) According to the present invention, the back surface of the substrate on which the display device or the like is mounted is covered with the cover member, and the back side of the display device is protected.
Further, in the state where the display device is attached to the game board, the display device is arranged substantially inside the winning ball collecting cover plate.

(Examples) Hereinafter, examples in which the present invention is embodied will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

First, a pachinko machine to which the display device of this example is applied will be described. In FIG. 3 showing the front of the pachinko machine, a metal frame 3, a glass 4, a glass door frame 5, a front plate 6 and the like are attached to the front frame 2 of the pachinko machine 1.
On the front side of the front plate 6, an upper plate 7 is attached for storing a prize ball and supplying a hit ball to a firing position. Further, below the front plate 6, an operation handle 8 and a lower plate 9 that stores the overflow of the balls stored in the upper plate 7 are attached.

The game board 10 is detachably attached to the front frame 2 from the back side thereof, and details of the attachment will be described later.

Various winning holes are arranged on the game board 10, of which
11-15 are normal winning openings, 16-18 are starting openings,
When winning here, the display device 19 starts variable display of symbols. If a predetermined combination is obtained when the vehicle is stopped after a certain period of time, the special winning opening 20 and the opening time and the like are controlled according to the combination. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 6b, when the display device 19 displays all "7" in the central portion, it becomes a big hit and the big winning opening 20 is passed for 30 seconds or 10 pieces. It is designed to open until a prize ball is generated.

In addition, a V winning opening 21 is provided in the central portion of the big winning opening 20, and when the player wins the V winning opening 21, the big winning opening 20 is again generated for 30 seconds or 10 winning balls. As long as a winning ball is won in the V winning opening 21, such an operation can be repeated up to 10 times. At the time of such a big hit, the number of winnings to the special winning opening 20 and the number of openings of the special winning opening 20 accompanying the winning to the V winning opening 21 are digitally displayed on the left and right of the upper part of the display device 19 as shown in FIG. 6c. It This will be described later.

Further, the game board 10 is provided with a plurality of lamps 22 to 27. Those that flash with the winning of the starting openings 16-18 (operation lamps 22, 24, 27), or those that flash when the jackpot (panic lamps 23, 25), and the V winning opening 2
Lighting control is performed in accordance with a preset combination, such as a blinking one (V lamp 26) with a winning of 1.

28 is an outlet.

On the back side of the game board 10, a winning ball collective protection plate 29 is detachably attached. The winning ball set protection plate 29 plays a role of accommodating and protecting electric wirings from various winning devices and decoration devices on the game board 10. However, winning ball set protection plate
29 is formed in a size that can cover each passage of the winning balls discharged from the various winning devices to the back side of the game board 10.

Here, the mounting method of the game board 10 will be described with reference to FIG. 4. A game board mounting frame 30 is fixed to the rear surface of the front frame 2, and the game board 10 is detachably mounted here. That is, pins 31a to 3 are provided at appropriate positions on the game board mounting frame 30.
1d is projected, and after inserting these into through holes 32a to 32d which are penetrated to the corresponding positions on the game board 10 side, they are attached to a mechanism plate 33 that is openably and closably supported on the back surface side of the game board 10. By engaging and fastening fixtures 34a to 34d (34d is not shown), the game board 10 and the mechanism plate 33 are fastened and fixed to the front frame 2 at the same time.

On the surface of the mechanism plate 33 facing the game board 10, a prize ball collecting concave portion 35 is recessed, and the prize ball collecting protection plate on the game board 10 side.
Twenty-nine are located here. That is, the recess 35 is formed smaller than the game board 10, but is formed larger than the winning ball set protection plate 29. Also,
The depth is set to be slightly deeper than the depth width of the winning ball aggregate protection plate 29. A window 36 is opened in the center of the winning ball collecting recess 35, and the window 36 is slightly smaller than the winning ball collecting protection plate 29.

Then, the lower edge of the winning ball collecting recessed portion 35 is inclined downward to form a winning ball collecting trough 37, and winning from various winning devices falling from the opening of the lower edge of the winning ball collecting protection plate 29. It plays the role of guiding the ball to the winning ball processor 38.

Although not shown, known devices for paying out a predetermined number of prize balls according to a prize are mounted on the back surface of the mechanism plate 33.

Next, the display device 19 will be described (see FIGS. 1 to 3 and 5). The display device 19 includes a casing 39, a mounting substrate 42, and a cover member 43 that sandwiches the mounting substrate 42 with the casing 39, and constitutes a display device unit as a whole.

A mounting board 44 for the game board 10 is provided on the front surface of the casing 39.
Is formed to project like a flange. Arms 45 extend from the shoulders in both the left and right directions, and windmills 46 are respectively provided at their ends and both corners below the mounting board 44.
a to 46d are installed. Further, a display window 47 is opened in a rectangular shape at the center of the mounting substrate 44. The lower center of the display window 47 is further formed as a recess communicating with it, and an assembling recess 52a for incorporating a lamp holder 56 in a memory number display unit 52 described later is formed. A transparent and colorless screen plate 48 made of synthetic resin is incorporated into the display window 47 from the back surface side. The screen plate 48 has a frame 59 of a predetermined height on the front surface side. By pressing 59 against the stopper edge 47a formed at the opening edge of the display window 47, the screen plate 48
Is incorporated in the display window 47 by the height of the frame 59 and retracted inward. Then, LED display panels 40a to 40d, which will be described later, are arranged in the back of the screen plate 48, and a color formed between the panels 40a to 40d and the screen plate 48 is approximately the same size as the screen plate 48. The plate 57 is interposed. In this example, three color plates 57 are provided for clearance adjustment. One of them is colorless and the other two are red. LED display panel 4
The colors attached to the symbols displayed on 0a to 40d are adjusted.

On the other hand, a memory number display section 52 is arranged in the built-in recess 52a, and the memory number display section 52 is attached to the lamp holder 56 made of a resin material having no light transmitting property and the mounting substrate 42. It is composed of four LED lamps 41a to 41d. These lamps 41a to 41d are respectively housed in four holes 56a to 56d penetrating in parallel with the standing wall portion of the lamp holder 56. Then, in order to display the number of holdings (up to 4 times) of the symbol variable processing associated with the winning of the starting openings 16 to 18, the lamps 41a to 4a corresponding to the number of times are held.
It is designed to light 1d.

A light shielding wall 49 is erected in the upper half area of the opening edge of the display window 47, and a lamp housing 50 is formed in the upper center thereof. The upper surface of the lamp housing 50 has a recessed shape that guides the pachinko ball that has fallen here to the winning opening 11 that opens at the top of the mounting substrate 44. On the back side of the winning opening 11, there is a guide piece 51 formed in an upward U-shape.
Is protruding.

On the other hand, on the back surface of the mounting substrate 44, a rear peripheral wall 53 is erected in a frame shape over the entire area surrounding the display window 47 and the memory number display portion 52. The rear peripheral wall 53 is disposed below the guide piece 51 with a predetermined gap, and a pair of left and right lamps 54 (one side in FIG. 5) to be assembled in the lamp housing 50 by utilizing this gap. Lamp holding plate 55 to which is attached is attached.

The depth of the rear peripheral wall 53 from the rear surface of the color plate 57 to the opening edge of the rear peripheral wall 53 is substantially equal to or higher than the mounting height of the LED display panels 40a to 40f of the mounting substrate 42 described below. Is set slightly deeper (see Fig. 5).

The mounting substrate 42 is aligned with the rear peripheral wall 53 and fastened to the rear peripheral wall 53 with screws. As shown in FIG. 2, on the surface of the mounting substrate 42, the above-mentioned four LED lamps 41a to 41d are mounted in parallel at a position near the lower edge thereof, and a total of six LED displays are provided on the upper side thereof. Panels 40a-40f
However, they are arranged in three rows in the horizontal direction and in two rows in the vertical direction, and these are mounted together so as to be in close contact with each other.
In this way, the three LED display panels are normally arranged side by side, but in this example, the LED display panels are arranged in two upper and lower tiers, and the display area is expanded and continuous. It is the display area.
Then, these are housed inside the rear peripheral wall 53 as the mounting substrate 42 is attached to the casing 39 side.

The LED display panels 40a-40f in this example
Is used in which 8 × 8 LED chips are bonded on a substrate wired in a matrix.

On the other hand, on the back side of the mounting substrate 42, the LED display panels 40a to 40f or the LED lamps 41a for the memory number display section.
Connector 60 for ~ 41d is installed,
It is electrically connected to a control device composed of a microcomputer as shown in the figure.

The cover member 43 plays a role of protecting the mounting substrate 42, and an escape hole 61 is opened in a portion corresponding to the connector 60. Further, it has a side wall 62 on almost the entire circumference except for the portion corresponding to the guide piece 51, and is fastened to the casing 39 side with a screw while sandwiching the mounting substrate 42. In addition, in the upper center of the cover member 43, a contact plate 58 stands up with a width substantially equal to that of the guide piece 51, and on its inner surface, a discharge flow path that is continuous with the guide piece 51 and receives a pachinko ball from here and discharges it to the outside. 63 is formed obliquely downward.

When the display unit configured as described above is mounted on the game board 10, the connector 60 is partially exposed through a through hole (not shown) formed in the winning ball collective protection plate 29 and is connected to the outside. However, in order to prevent breakage of the connecting pins 60a, the tips of these pins 60a are substantially flush with the winning ball collecting protection plate 29 and are not exposed to the outside ( This point is not shown).

Next, the electrical configuration of the pachinko machine of this example will be briefly described with reference to FIG. 7. The control device performs digital arithmetic processing.
CPU64 and ROM65 that stores programs and fixed data
And a microcomputer whose main part is a RAM 66 for storing the results of arithmetic processing and the like. And RO
According to the program stored in M65, the signal from the winning detection switch 68, the special winning opening winning detection switch 69, the V winning detection switch 70 via the waveform shaping circuit 67, or the activation from the reset signal generating circuit 71 The signal from the switch 72 is input to the CPU 64 as input information, a predetermined symbol display for the LED display panels 40a to 40f, lighting of various lamps 22 to 27, and LED lamps 41a to 41 for displaying the number of stored data.
Controls lighting of d.

That is, each output port of the microcomputer is
Display device drive circuit 73, display device selection circuit 74, driver 75
Are connected. The display device drive circuit 73, the display device selection circuit 74, the LED display panel 40a ~ 40f,
The LED lamps 41a to 41d in the stored number display section 52 are connected. Then, in the display device 19 including the LED display panels 40a to 40f and the LED lamps 41a to 41d, based on the display data output from the microcomputer,
A predetermined display is made. Specifically,
As shown in Fig. 6a, the pattern (a number or a predetermined pattern) is always displayed on the display of the display device 19 in three digits, imitating the rotation of the drum of the throttle machine, and further above and below each digit, respectively. Half or lower half of the pattern is displayed. In addition, these symbols are starting port 16 ~
As the 18th prize is won, each digit scrolls vertically at an unreadable speed. The pattern displayed in this example is only 0 for the left digit in FIG. 6a.
Numbers up to 9 are displayed. In addition to the numbers 0-9 for the center and right-hand digits, there are five types of patterns with a wine glass (depending on the amount of wine put inside). This is displayed in five steps) is set. Then, after a predetermined time has elapsed, each of them is sequentially stopped, and if the display of the central portion in this case is the hit mode, the 6b
The jackpot display as shown in the figure is performed. In this case, a blinking display of "7" is displayed on all of the central portion for a predetermined time, and then the display is switched to the upper and lower two stages as shown in FIG. 6c. That is, in the example of the figure, the number on the left side of the upper part indicates the number of times the opening to the special winning opening 20 is continued by winning the V winning opening 21 (6c).
(In the example in the figure, it indicates that the current round is in the third round),
The number in the center is a blinking display of "7" which is a jackpot display, and the numbers on the right indicate the number of winnings at the special winning opening 20 (currently the fourth winning is shown). Then, the bottom row is set to display the characters "bonanza !, GO! GO!" While scrolling from right to left.

The driver 75 controls the opening / closing of the special winning opening 20 and the lighting operation of the various lamps 22 to 27 in response to a signal from the microcomputer. Further, the font used in this example is set so that it can be displayed in a normal state on the upper and lower two stages on the display.

In the pachinko machine of this example configured as described above, the mounting substrate 42 in the display device 19 is covered by the cover member 43, and since only a part of the connector 60 slightly projects, the projecting portion is Compared to a conventional one that covers a plurality of places, there is less risk of bumping, handling is easier, and damage to the display unit itself during storage, transportation, or assembly work is prevented. Further, since the mounting substrate 42 and the cover member 43 are within the range of the projected area of the mounting substrate 44 of the casing 39, the display device unit is mounted on the game board 10.
Since it can be installed from the front of the, the workability of assembly is also excellent.

Furthermore, even when the display device is assembled to the game board 10,
Since the tip of the pin 60a of the connector 60 is substantially flush with the winning ball collective protection plate 29 so as not to project outside, breakage of the pin 60a itself can be prevented. Therefore, it is possible to effectively protect the display device without intentionally forming a recess in the winning ball aggregate protection plate 29 to avoid interference.

In addition to these effects, this example uses an LED display panel 4
3 0a-40d in the horizontal direction, 2 in the vertical direction
It is arranged in columns. In other words, in the vertical direction, because the number of LEDs that are doubled as compared to the normal direction is arranged, the symbol display area has expanded to double the area as compared with the conventional one. Therefore, in the past, the number could only be expressed on the spot for each LED display panel, whereas in this example, the design can be scrolled vertically, which allows the throttle to rotate in the throttle machine. Display as shown (No.
As shown in FIG. 6a, the central part shows the whole design, and the upper part and the lower part show the upper half and the lower half, respectively). Further, even in the case of a big hit as shown in FIGS. 6a and 6b, the numbers and characters displayed on the display device 19 are displayed in two rows, one on top of the other. ing. further,
In this example, a commercially available 8 x 8 dot LED display panel was used, and the display area was expanded by combining 6 of these, so there is no need to specially prepare one large display panel. There is also.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the present invention, since the substrate on which the display device or the like is mounted is covered by the cover member, when the display device is transported / stored or assembled to the game board. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the substrate from being damaged by hitting or catching it on something.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a perspective view of the display device unit viewed from the back side, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view thereof, and FIG. 3 is a front view of a pachinko machine.
4 is an exploded perspective view of the pachinko machine from the back side with the game board removed, FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view showing a state in which a display device is attached to the game board, and FIGS. 6a to 6c are FIG. 7 is a front view showing the operation of the display device, and FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the pachinko machine. 1 …… Pachinko machine 19 …… Display device 40a-40d …… LED display panel 47 …… Display window

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display device for variably displaying a predetermined symbol on a display according to a winning of a specific winning opening, a substrate on which a display device or the like is mounted is arranged on the back surface of a mounting substrate of the winning device, and this substrate is also provided. A display device for a pachinko machine, wherein the back surface of the is covered with a cover member.