Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Ball games
Patent
1995-01-09
1997-11-04
Chiu, Raleigh W.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Ball games
A63F 702
Patent
active
056830815
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a game machine comprising a rent ball dispensing unit for dispensing pachinko balls equivalent to an amount of money put into slot of the dispensing unit by a player, a game machine (especially a slot machine using a pachinko ball) using a pachinko ball as game medium insted of a medal and a controller for controlling the rent ball dispensing unit and the game machine collectively.
Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for dispensing pachinko balls with counting a prescribed number of pachinko balls so as to do automatically supplying pachinko balls to a game machine, dispensing prize balls from the game machine and dispensing rental balls from a rent ball dispensing unit.
BACKGROUND ART
In the prior art of the slot machine using patinko balls as game medium (hereinafter referred to as pachinko slot machine), at the bigining of the game, a game player puts coins into the slot of a rental ball dispenser provided in the side part of the pachinko slot machine, then a rental ball counter in the rental ball dispenser counts the pachinko balls equivalent to the amount of money throwing in the slot of the dispenser and the dispenser dispenses the counted pachinko balls, and then the player takes them in a ball tray mounted on a front part of the pachinko slot machine.
Recently a swingable pipe supplys pachinko balls from the rental ball dispenser to the ball tray of the pachinko slot machine, therefore pachinko balls can be supplied from the rental ball dispenser to the game machine. Furethermore a prize ball counter is mounnted within the game machine.
A regular number of pachinko balls are supplied in an upper tray mounted on the upper part of the back side of the game machine and they are dispensed as prize balls. Pachinko balls in a supplying gutter mounted on a game machine island are standed in a line in each shoot and when the upper tray of the game machine is empty, an empty signal is transmitted to a main computer and the pachinko balls are provided in the upper tray by a pipe means what is called bellows, under controlling of the main computer, via a supply ball counter mounted on a game machine island portion above the game machine. Pachinko balls in the upper tray are standed in a line and also provided to the prize ball counter of the game machine.
For the rental ball counter, pachinko balls in the supply gutter are standed in a line by the shoot and are sent to the counter via bellows which connect the shoot with the counter so pachinko balls are dispensed corresponding to the amount of the money put into a slot of the dispenser.
As a pachnko ball dispenser (what is to say ball counter), generally in said game machine and rent ball dispenser, for automatic supplying of pachinko balls to a game machine, dispensing prize balls from the game machine and dispensing pachinko balls from a rental ball dispenser, the apparatus disclosed in the Published Unexamined Utility Model Application of Provisional Publication No. Showa 61 (1986)-82678 is well known to the art. In this invention, a sprocket formed plural concave portions in its periphery, each concave portion catches one pachinko ball, is mounted rotatably so that concave portions may face an interior of a pachinko ball passage. In the passage, pachinko balls dropping with the gravity are catched separately with the concave portions and the sprocket is surely rotated by the pachinko ball. The pachinko balls are detected and counted by an optical sensor provided in a downstream part of the passage, and a prescribed number of the pachinko balls are dischareged from the lower portion of the passage by controlling rotation of the sprocket. Control of rotation of the sprocket is done by locking and unlocking the sprocket with a stopper.
Releasing the stopper, the pachinko balls fall down to the lower part of the passage with rotating the sprocket continuously and are dispensed from the lower portion. When the optical senser counts a prescribed number of the pachinko balls,
Kazunari Kawashima
Takatoshi Takemoto
Chiu Raleigh W.
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
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