JPH0583274B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a ticket collection reader that serves as a settlement device in a card collection device that uses cards as a transaction medium between halls and guest rooms.

(Prior Art) Recently, various card collection devices using cards have been developed, and prevention of fraud is important in this type of pachinko machine. A card collection device that uses a card configured to magnetically record necessary data such as ball count data and fraud prevention code data on a magnetic ticket made by the manufacturer, and to print the same data to prevent fraud. has already been invented and applied for (Japanese Patent Application No. 140667, 1982).

Incidentally, a payment device for card system pachinko machines as described above has already been developed, but this device is difficult to apply to the applicant's system and is functionally insufficient. Ta.

(Object of the invention) The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and
The purpose is to provide an advantageous ticket collection/reading machine that can be applied to pachinko machines that magnetically record data such as number of balls and anti-fraud code data on magnetic tickets, and also print the same data. be.

(Configuration of the Invention) To achieve the above object, the present invention has the following configuration.

That is, it has a function of reading at least the anti-fraud code data and the number of balls data recorded in advance on the card and writing at least the number of balls data at the end of the game, and enables playing according to each data written on the card. and the number of balls according to the progress of the game based on the ball number data read from the card by the recording and reproducing device and the number of fired balls, the number of safe balls, and the number of foul balls during the game. a number-of-balls calculation means for calculating an increase/decrease in data and inputting data on the number of balls at the end of the game to the recording and reproducing device; and a number of balls at the end of the game input from the number-of-balls calculation means to the recording and reproducing device; A pachinko machine is provided with a printing means for printing data identical to the data on the card, and a pachinko machine that prints data on the number of balls at the end of the game printed on the card by the printing means and the data on the card by the recording and reproducing device. and a reading means having a function of comparing the number of balls at the end of the game written on the card and determining the suitability of the card based on the fraud prevention code written on the card, and the reading means A card collection device comprising: a display means for displaying ball count data at the end of a game; and a notification means for notifying the suitability of the card based on whether the ball count data compared by the reading means and the fraud prevention code match. This is a card collection device consisting of a reader.

(Embodiments) The present invention will be described below with reference to illustrated embodiments, but before that, an outline of the entire system will be explained.

First, in this system, a magnetic ticket 1 as a card as shown in FIG. 1A is used. That is, this magnetic ticket 1 is made of paper and has one surface as a magnetic recording surface 1a and the other surface as a print surface 1b printed by a thermal printer, which will be described later.
Ball number data and code data for fraud prevention are recorded on a and issued.

In FIG. 2, the system is roughly composed of a host computer 2, a ticket issuing machine 3 that functions as a ball lending machine, a pachinko machine 4, and a ticket collection reader 5 that serves as a card collection reader. From now on, I will explain these one by one, but the host computer 2 is used to centrally manage the entire system, and the existing transaction medium between the parlor and the customer is the pachinko ball itself. This is also used in some general pachinko machines, so a detailed explanation will be omitted here.

First, the ticket issuing machine 3 is connected to the host computer 2 via an adapter 3a, and has a microprocessor 8 having a program storage memory 6 and a data storage memory 7, as shown in FIG. 9 is a data bus.

Figures 4 and 5 are displayed on the front of the ticket issuing machine 3.
As shown in the figure, a sales indicator light 10, a ticket end indicator light 11, a coin input number display section 12, a ticket sales switch 13, and a coin return switch 14 are arranged as shown in the figure, and data are transmitted via an interface 15. It is connected to the bus 9, and is further provided with a coin input port 16, a coin return port 17, and a ticket takeout port 18. That is, ticket issuing machine 3
When the sales indicator light 10 is on, the magnetic ticket 1 can be sold, and when it is off, the magnetic ticket 1 cannot be sold. When the ticket end light 11 is lit, it indicates that there are few or no tickets remaining and it is no longer possible to sell them. The number of coins inserted is displayed on the coin input number display section 12, and after confirming the number of coins by looking at this display, when the ticket sales switch 13 is pressed, a magnetic ticket 1 is issued at the ticket outlet 18. It is a familiar thing.

A coin storage section is provided on the back side of the frame of the ticket issuing machine 3, and a coin selector 19 is connected to the coin slot 16.
A coin selector 19 selects whether the coins inserted are genuine or not, and the coins are sent to either the coin return slot 17 or the coin storage section 20. Although the ticket issuing machine 3 in this embodiment is described only for the case where the magnetic ticket 1 is issued based on the insertion of coins, the present invention is not limited to this, and the ticket issuing machine 3 is not limited to this. The magnetic ticket 1 may be issued based on combined input.

21 is the issuing machine main body, and this issuing machine main body 21
The magnetic ticket 1 is formed inside the magnetic ticket 1, and as shown in FIG.
Before its issuance, a continuous band-shaped ticket band 22
It is wound around the reel member 23. 24 is a swallowing port, and a conveying passage is formed between the swallowing port 24 and the ticket outlet 18;
A magnetic ticket 1 is manufactured in this conveyance path. The issuing machine main body 21 is provided with a swallowing motor 25 and a conveyance motor 26, and these motors 25 and 26 are connected to the data bus 9 via an interface 27.

A cutter 28 is located near the intake port 24 of the conveyance passage.
and a cutter solenoid 29 that drives this, the cutter solenoid 29 is connected to the data bus 9 via an interface 27,
Furthermore, a cut position detection sensor 30 is provided and connected to the data bus 9 via an interface 31. The cut position detection sensor 30 is located at the rear of the cutter 28 in the direction in which the cutter is swallowed by the swallowing motor 25, and when the continuous ticket band 22 is detected by the cut position detection sensor 30, the swallowing motor 25 is stopped. The cutter solenoid 29 is driven and the cutter 28 forms the magnetic ticket 1 into the shape of the magnetic ticket 1. After that, the transport motor 2, which can be rotated forward and backward, is driven.
6.

32 is a write head, 33 is a read head, and both of these heads 32 and 33 are connected to the DA converter 3.
4. Data bus 9 via interface 35
It is connected to the. In addition, the writing position detection sensor 3
6 and a reading position detection sensor 37 are provided at positions where the moving magnetic ticket 1 contacts the respective heads 32 and 33, and are connected to the data bus 9 via the interface 31. With this configuration, first, when the moving magnetic ticket 1 is detected by the write position detection sensor 36, while the detection signal is being output, the write head 32 writes code data for preventing fraud on the magnetic recording surface 1a. Ball number data is now written. After that, when the magnetic ticket 1 that is still moving is detected by the reading position detection sensor 37, the data recorded on the magnetic recording surface 1a is read by the read head 33 while the detection signal is being output. The MPU 8 sequentially temporarily stores this data in the data storage memory 7.
Note that a timing signal generator 38 is connected between the DA converter 34 and the transport motor 26, and timing control (synchronous control) of the operations of both heads 32 and 33 and the operation of the transport motor 26 is performed. It's becoming like that. Further, 39 is a rotation direction switch.

40 is a ball number setting device, 41 is a code data reader,
42 is a pulse generator, and these devices 40,
41 and 42 are interfaces 43 and 4, respectively.
4 and 45 to the data bus 9. The ball number setting device 40 sets the number of balls for each coin, that is, for each predetermined amount of money (for example, 25 for 100 yen).
When the sales switch 13 is pressed, the MPU 8 sets the value set by the number of coins setting device 40 and the number of coins inserted, that is, the amount of coins inserted, in the above-mentioned predetermined unit amount. The calculated data is multiplied by the divided quotient, and the calculated data is sent to the write head 32 as ball number data for writing. Code data reader 41
The code data from the ticket collection machine 5 is read and preset into the data storage memory of the MPU 8, and the MPU 8 is supposed to send this data to the write head 32 as code data for writing. .

The MPU 8 also functions as a comparison means here. That is, the data read by the read head 33 and the preset data are compared, and if the data match, the transport motor 26 is moved in the same direction (the sending direction in which the magnetic ticket 1 is sent out to the outlet 18). The drive is controlled in the same direction as the swallowing direction.)
The magnetic ticket 1 is sent out to the outlet 18. On the other hand, if the above data do not match, the rotating transport motor 26 is stopped, and then the rotating direction is reversed and the transport motor 26 is rotated again. It has become a driving force.

The takeout port 18 is provided with a takeout detection sensor 46, which is connected to the data bus 9 via the interface 31 and is for detecting the presence or absence of the magnetic ticket 1 at the takeout port 18. be. When the detection signal of this extraction detection sensor 46 is issued, the MPU 8 reads it and
First, the transport motor 26 is stopped, the calculated ball number data in the data storage memory 7 is sent to the pulse generator 42 and cleared along with other data, and the coin return solenoid 14 is powered on to generate a new coin. It is possible to insert coins.

In the middle of the conveyance path, there is a ticket disposal section (not shown) which is formed so that the magnetic ticket 1 does not fall if it passes while moving in the sending direction, but falls if it passes while moving in the opposite direction. are formed, and magnetic tickets 1 that are moved in the opposite direction to the sending direction due to a mismatch as a result of data comparison by the MPU 8 are discarded as defective tickets. This ticket disposal section is provided with a disposal detection sensor 47 and is connected to the interface 3.
1 to the data bus 9. When the discarded ticket detection sensor 47 generates a detection signal, the MPU 8 stops the transport motor 26 and
The swallowing motor 26 is driven and the production of the magnetic ticket 1 is started again from the beginning.

Next, the pachinko machine 4 configured to play games using the magnetic ticket 1 issued by the above-described ticket issuing machine 3 will be explained.
The pachinko machine 4 is connected to the host computer 2 via an adapter 4a, and as shown in FIG. ) 50, and 51 is its data bus.

Further, in FIGS. 8 and 9, 52 is a frame of the pachinko machine 4, 53 is a door cover that covers the game board 53a, and the game board 53 has a plurality of safe holes 54, One out hole 55 is opened, and a guide rail 5 that guides balls fired by a ball hitting mallet (to be described later) into the game board 53 is provided.
6 is provided.

As shown in FIG. 9, a safe ball case 57 and an out ball case 58 are formed on the back side of the game board 53, and the exits of all the safe holes 54 face into the safe ball case 57, and the out holes The exit of 55 faces the inside of the out ball case 58.

59 is a safe ball passage introduced from the safe ball case 57, 60 is an out ball passage led out from the out ball case 58, and safe balls and out balls are sure to pass through each passage 59 and 60 separately. It's summery.

In FIG. 10 and FIG. 11, 61 is a firing rail, and the upper end of this firing rail 61 and the lower end of the guide rail 56 form the foul ball release part 6.
2 is formed, and this foul ball release part 62
Fowl ball passage 6 for the Fowl ball that fell on
3 is connected to the foul ball release part 62. 6
4 is a waiting ball gutter, 65 is a hitting ball circulation passage, and the outlet ends (lower ends) of the safe ball passage 59, out ball passage 60, and foul ball passage 63 are all connected to the hitting ball circulation passage 65, and the hitting ball circulation The lower end of the passage 65 is connected to the upper end of the waiting ball gutter 64 as an inlet. As a result, all the pachinko balls, including safe balls, out balls, and foul balls, are configured to concentrate in the standby ball gutter 64, and a certain amount of pachinko balls are circulated within the machine for use.

The lower end of the waiting ball gutter 64, which is the outlet, faces the vicinity of the lower end of the firing rail 61, and the ball feeding portion 67a of the ball feeding lever 67, which is rotatably driven around the shaft 66, is attached to this lower end. It's coming. This ball feeding lever 67 sequentially feeds the pachinko balls in the standby ball trough 64 one by one to the firing rail 61, and its movement is controlled in synchronization with the movement of a hitting mallet, which will be described later. Reference numeral 68 denotes a ball hammer, and the tip of this ball hammer 68 faces into the lower end firing portion of the firing rail 61. With this configuration, pachinko balls sent sequentially from the waiting ball gutter 64 are hit by the ball hammer 68 and fly into the game board 53 through the launch rail 61 and the guide rail 56. There is. 6
9 is an entrance from the waiting ball gutter 64 to the launch rail 61.

70 is a ball extraction device, and 71 and 72 are its ball extraction operation levers. These ball removal operation levers 71,
Reference numeral 72 is for extracting the pachinko balls in the standby ball trough 64 to the outside, and is provided on the back side of the table to prevent the balls from being removed illegally since it cannot be operated from the outside. Of these two ball extraction operation levers 71 and 72, the ball extraction operation lever 71 is used to take out one pachinko ball one by one with each operation, and the other ball extraction operation lever 72 is used to take out pachinko balls one by one with one operation. It is said to be used to take out multiple pachinko balls. The ball extraction operation lever 71 extends to the vicinity of the boundary between the pachinko balls in the waiting ball trough 64, and has a tapered tip. Further, an abutment operation portion 71a is provided in a protruding manner at the longitudinally intermediate portion of the ball removal operation lever 71. The ball removal operation lever 72 extends slightly below the abutting operation portion 71a of the ball removal operation lever 71, and its tip portion contacts a lever portion 73a of a crank member 73, which will be described later. 73 is a crank member, 74 is a slide bar, and the crank member 73 has a substantially doglegged shape and has two lever parts 73.
a and 73b, and is rotationally driven around a shaft 73c. A tight coil spring 75 is stretched between the lever portion 73b of the crank member 73 and the machine frame, and as a result, the crank member 73 is biased to rotate clockwise, and the lever portion 73a is turned into a ball. The extraction operation levers 71 and 72 are pushed up. The slide bar 74 is provided so as to be slidable in the lateral direction with respect to the machine frame, and is used to open and close a small extraction hole to be described later.The slide bar 74 is configured to be operated by a lever portion 73b of the crank member 73. . In this configuration, if the ball removal operation lever 71 is pressed and operated from the back side of the table,
The lever portion 73a of the crank member 73 is pushed by the contact operation portion 71a, and the crank member 73 is rotated counterclockwise against the force of the coil spring 75. is slid to the right in the figure to open the small ejection hole 76 and take out the pachinko balls. At this time, the tip of the ball removal operation lever 71 enters the boundary between the first ball and the second ball, and balls after the second ball are prevented from flowing out.
Furthermore, when the ball removal operation lever 72 is pushed and operated, the lever portion 73a of the crank member 73 is pushed by the tip thereof and the crank member 73 is rotated, and the slide bar 74 is slid by the lever portion 73b to play the pachinko machine. It is said that the balls flow out continuously.

In the safe ball passage 59 and foul ball passage 63,
A safe ball detection sensor 77 and a foul ball detection sensor 78 are provided to detect balls passing through each passage 59, 63, and the lower end of the standby ball gutter 64 (the lower end of the firing rail 61 may be used) A shot ball detection sensor 79 is provided for detecting balls. These detection sensors 77, 78, and 79 are connected to the data bus 51 through an interface 80, and their detection signals are counted by the MPU 50, and the count values are sequentially stored in the data storage memory 49.
It is becoming more and more remembered. This results in
The MPU 50 increases or decreases the ball number data according to the progress of the game based on the ball number data read from the magnetic ticket 1 by the recording/reproducing device 95 and the number of fired balls, safe ball number, and foul ball number during the game. The numerical data can be calculated individually for each pachinko machine 4 without being sent online to the host computer 2.

A play handle 81 is provided at the bottom of the frame 52, and a stop solenoid 82 is provided at the back side of the frame 52.
is connected to the data bus 51 via the interface 83.
It is connected to the. Further, a window 53c is formed in the lower part of the door cover 53a, through which the balls in the waiting ball trough can be seen.

Reference numeral 84 indicates a stop lamp, and 85 a ball release status display lamp, which serves as a ball release status display device. Both the stop lamp 84 and the ball release status display lamp 85 are provided above the frame 52 and are connected to each other via an interface 83. It is connected to a data bus 51. The stop lamp 84 lights up when the number of balls put out by the pachinko machine 4 reaches the number of balls to stop, indicating that the game has stopped. The ball output status display lamp 85 displays the ball output status of the pachinko machine 4 in stages according to the number of balls put out, and consists of three lamps 85a, 85b, and 85c, and here displays in three stages. It is configured like this. For example, assume that the number of balls hit by the pachinko machine 4 is 4000. In this case, the number of balls released is
Lamp 85 as it becomes 1000, 2000, 3000 shots
A, 85b, and 85c are made to light up sequentially. According to this ball dispensing status display lamp 85, it is possible to easily grasp how many balls each machine is dispensing, similar to a general pachinko machine in which pachinko balls are displayed on the table.

Further, the ball dispensing status display device is not limited to an optical display such as the above-mentioned ball dispensing status display lamp 85. For example, it is also effective to use a buzzer or the like to generate a sound depending on the number of balls put out. The optical display may also be made to blink rather than simply turn on, and if a buzzer or the like is sounded in synchronization with this blinking, the effect of stimulating the player's desire to play can be obtained.

Numeral 86 is a winning display lamp, and this winning display lamp 86 lights up every time a pachinko ball flies into the safe hole 54 and wins a prize to display this winning. 87 is a speaker, and this speaker 8
7 is for generating an onomatopoeic sound when a pachinko ball wins. 88 is a ball number display, and this ball number display 88 numerically displays the number of balls held at the moment, and is connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 89, and the displayed value is a safe ball, a safe ball, Fowl ball and shot ball detection sensors 7
7, 78, and 79 to be input to the MPU 50. Furthermore, a safe ball pulser 89 and a fired ball pulser 90, which generate pulses for managing the stopping of each machine each time the safe ball detection sensor 77 and the fired ball detection sensor 79 generate a detection signal, interface with each other. 83 to the data bus 51, and the host computer 2 manages the stop based on these generated pulses, and when the stop occurs for each machine, the host computer 2 issues a stop request. It is designed to generate a pulse that means
A stop detector 91 is connected to the data bus 51 via a data bus 83, and receives a stop pulse from the host computer 2 and outputs it to the MPU 50. In addition to the above-mentioned rules for each machine, the stop is also for each customer, that is, when the maximum number of balls that a customer can take is exceeded, it is also called a stop, but this is managed by the MPU 50. be. 92 is the ball number setting device and interface 93
94 is a stop generation pulser connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 83. The ball number setting device 92 is used to set the maximum permissible value of the number of balls played by the customer and the number of balls played for one winning ball. By comparing the numbers, cancellations for each customer can be managed. When this stop occurs, a stop generation pulse is output from the stop generation pulser 94 to the host computer 2, and a display panel (not shown) of the host computer 2 indicates that a stop has occurred at that stand. It is starting to be displayed.

Reference numeral 95 denotes a recording/reproducing device, which is provided below the stand. As shown in FIG. 12, this recording/reproducing device 95 has a ticket entrance/exit 96 on its front side, and the magnetic ticket 1 is inserted through the ticket entrance/exit 96.
It is designed to insert . Inside this recording/reproducing device 95, there is a ticket entrance/exit 96.
A conveyance path (not shown) is formed with the starting end at .
7 and 98 are disposed, and the magnetic ticket 1 is configured to be held between rollers 97 and 98 in the conveyance path. 99 is a transport motor consisting of a pulse motor capable of forward and reverse rotation, 1
00 is an output roller fixed to the output shaft, a belt 101 is wound around the output roller 100 and the conveyance roller 98, and the conveyance roller 98
is driven by a transport motor 99. This transport motor 99 is connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 102, and also has a rotation direction switch 103 that switches its rotation direction.
is connected to the data bus 5 via the interface 102.
Connected to 1.

A read head 104 and a write head 105 are further disposed on the conveyance path of the recording/reproducing device 95, and the read head 104 reads ball number data, which is recorded on the magnetic recording surface 1a of the magnetic ticket 1.
The light head 105 is used to read data such as code data to prevent fraud, and on the other hand, the write head 105 stores the current number of balls data on the magnetic ticket 1 at the end of the game.
This is for recording the latest number of balls data on the magnetic recording surface 1a of the disc. 106 is a digital to analog level converter (hereinafter abbreviated as a DA converter), and this DA converter 106 is connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 107, and is connected to the read head 104 and the write head 1.
05 is connected to this DA converter 106. As a result, both heads 104 and 105
Data signals are exchanged with the MPU 50 via a DA converter 106. This allows the MPU 50 to input ball number data at the end of the game to the recording/reproducing device 95. Further, a timing signal generator 108 is connected between the DA converter 106 and the transport motor 99, and the timing signal generator 108 controls the recording/reproduction of the rotary heads 104 and 105 of the transport motor 99. It is assumed that synchronous control is performed.

109 is a printing machine, and this printing machine 109 is roughly composed of a thermal printer 110, a solenoid 111, a pressure roller 112, and a coil spring 113, and is connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 102. The thermal printer 110 and the solenoid 111 are fixed to a machine frame (not shown) across the conveyance path, and the pressure roller 112 is placed directly below the conveyance path. is being rolled up. The coil spring 113 is the plunger 111a of the solenoid 111.
and the thermal printer 110. With this configuration, when the power of the solenoid 111 is turned off, the printing machine 109
a comes into contact with the pressure roller 112, the pressure roller 112 is raised toward the thermal printer 110 by the spring force of the coil spring 113, and the printed surface 1b of the magnetic ticket 1 is placed on the pressure roller 112. The ball number data recorded on the magnetic recording surface 1a at the end of the game is displayed on the printed surface 1.
1.b is designed to be printed as shown in FIGS. 1B and 1C.

As a result, the player can directly visually recognize the number of balls data recorded on the magnetic ticket 1, so he can transfer the number of balls data displayed on the pachinko machine 4 to another pachinko machine 4 immediately before the end of the game. To completely eliminate the need for a player to copy the ball number data at the end of a game or to copy it to another for reference when exchanging prizes or prizes. Furthermore, when exchanging prizes, both the hall attendant and the player can visually recognize the ball count data at the end of the game directly from the card itself before it is attached to the card collection reader.

Furthermore, when a card is inserted into a card collection reader for prize exchange, the reading means compares the number of balls data printed and magnetically written on the card at the end of the game using optical means and magnetic means, and also compares the number of balls data written on the card. After determining the suitability of the card based on the detected fraud prevention code, the notifying means notifies the suitability of the card based on whether or not the number of balls data compared by the reading means and the fraud prevention code match.

A ticket entry/exit detection sensor 115 is disposed at the ticket entrance/exit 96 and is connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 116 . This ticket entry/exit detection sensor 115 detects the presence or absence of the magnetic ticket 1 at the ticket entrance/exit 96, and its detection signal is mainly sent to the transport motor 99.
This is the basis for drive control. That is, when the inserted magnetic ticket 1 is detected by the ticket entry/exit detection sensor 115, the rotation direction switch 103 is controlled by the MPU 50 to change the direction of rotation of the magnetic ticket 1 from the ticket entrance/exit 96 to the conveyance path. It is set in the direction of moving toward the back (reading direction), and the power to the transport motor 99 is turned on. On the other hand, the magnetic ticket 1 is pulled out from the ticket entrance/exit 96, and the ticket entrance/exit detection sensor 115 detects that it has been pulled out.
When detected, the transport motor 9 is activated by the MPU 50.
9 is turned off and stopped.

A reading position detection sensor 117 is installed at a position where the magnetic ticket 1 contacts the read head 104 in the conveyance path.
is installed. This reading position detection sensor 11
7 is connected to the data bus 51 via the interface 116, and its detection signal is mainly
This is the basis of the MPU50's anti-tamper operation. That is,
When the magnetic ticket inserted and moving in the reading direction is detected by the reading position detection sensor 117, the MPU 50 enters a state of waiting for data to be read by the read head 104, and upon receiving this, the data is sequentially read. After storing the code data in the storage memory 49, the MPU 50 first compares the input code data with the preset code data. A fraud prevention code reader 118 that reads and presets code data from the ticket collection reader 5 is connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 119. It is said that By the way, as a result of the comparison, if both data match, it is determined that the input ball number data is greater than or equal to the maximum number of balls that the customer can wait for, and is zero, and this is OK. If so, send the input number of balls data to the number of balls display, display the contents (number of balls held by the customer), turn on the stop solenoid 82, and make it ready for play. If not, the magnetic ticket 1 is returned to the ticket entrance 96. Also, if the code data comparison results do not match, then
The magnetic ticket 1 is returned to the ticket entrance/exit 115.

The innermost part of the conveyance path is a place where the magnetic ticket 1 is kept, and a stop position detection sensor 118 is provided there. When detected by the sensor 118, the transport motor 99 is stopped and the object is left in place. and,
In the case of fraud, in the case that the number of balls held by the customer is zero, in the case that the game is cancelled, and in the case that the payment button described later is operated, the transport motor 99
The rotation direction is set to the recording direction by the MPU 50, and the power is turned on again. Incidentally, in the case where the number of balls held by the customer is zero or in the case where the ticket is fraudulent, a storage box or the like for discarding the ticket may be provided and the ticket may be discarded there. In this case, a discarded ticket detection sensor 119 is provided to detect whether or not the magnetic ticket 1 has been reliably discarded, and the transport motor 99 is stopped in response to the detection signal. A payment button 120 provided on the front side of the recording/reproducing device 95 is connected to the data bus 51 via an interface 116 .

A write position detection sensor 12 is located in the conveyance path at a position where the magnetic ticket 1 contacts the write head 105.
1 is provided. This writing position detection sensor 1
21 is connected to the data bus 51 via the interface 116, and its detection signal is
This is the basis of the MPU50 data recording operation. That is, when the magnetic ticket 1 moving in the recording direction is detected by the write position detection sensor 121, the MPU
50 reads the detection signal, and writes the write head 1 while correcting the ball count data and fraud prevention code data in the data storage memory 49 into the write format specified by the program.
05, and sequentially magnetically record it on the magnetic recording surface 1a of the magnetic ticket 1.

Next, the magnetic ticket 1 is detected by the reading position detection sensor 11.
7, the MPU 50 moves the magnetic ticket 1 in the reading direction and starts a reading operation, reads the data read by the read head, and stores it in the data storage memory 49.

When all data has been read, the MPU
50 temporarily stops the transport motor 99 and compares the data that was written with the data that has just been read. If the results do not match, the rotational direction of the transport motor 99 is switched and driven, the magnetic ticket 1 is returned to the position detected by the stop position detection sensor 119, and writing is started again. On the other hand, if they match, the transport motor 99 is rotated to move the magnetic ticket 1 toward the ticket entrance/exit 96. During this process, at a predetermined timing, the printing machine 109 prints in the form shown in FIG. 1B, and sends the ticket to the ticket entrance 96.

Note that when a customer uses the same magnetic ticket 1 to play a game by changing machines, the new machine will operate based on the data written by the machine on which the game was played last time. For example, each time a customer changes machines, ball number data is recorded on the magnetic recording surface 1a of the magnetic ticket 1, and is also printed on the print surface 1b as shown in FIG. 1c. It is something. This printed value is used at the time of payment.

First, we will explain the ticket collection/reading machine 5 for conducting transactions using the magnetic ticket 1 with numerical values printed on the printed surface 1b as shown in FIGS. 1B and 1C after playing with the above system. Like the ticket issuing machine 3 and the pachinko machine 4, the ticket collection/reading machine 5 is also connected to the host computer 2 via an adapter 5a, and has a program storage memory 122 and a data storage memory 123 as shown in FIG. Microprocessor (hereinafter abbreviated as MPU) as a means of calculating the number of balls held
It is equipped with 124. 125 is its data bus.

The ticket collection reader 5 displays the date and time for fraud prevention.
Code setting device 12 for setting the code of store number, etc.
This code setting device 126 is connected to the data bus 125 via an interface 127, and is also connected to a code sender 128, from which the pachinko machine 4 and ticket issuer are connected. It is being output to machine 3.

The ticket collection reader 5 has a key switch 129, which is used to input the ball number data recorded on the printed surface 1b of the magnetic ticket 1, and is connected to the data bus via an interface 130. 125. The data entered by this will be sent to the MPU
124, the data is temporarily stored in the data storage memory 123.

By the way, the ticket collection/reading machine 5 is connected to the ticket issuing machine 3 and the recording/reproducing device 95 of the pachinko machine 4.
It has a mechanical configuration similar to that of the transport motor 131, and a pulse motor is used as the transport motor 131.
This transport motor 131 is connected to the interface 130
It is connected to data bus 125 via. A ticket insertion port is formed at the starting end of the transport path, and a ticket insertion detection sensor 132 is provided in the ticket insertion port, and is connected to the data bus 125 via an interface 133. This ticket insertion detection sensor 132
When the inserted magnetic ticket 1 is detected, the transport motor 131 is driven, and the magnetic ticket 1 is transported in the reading direction of a read head, which will be described later. In addition to the key switch 129, an optical reader 134 is also provided as means for presetting the ball number data printed on the print surface 1b of the magnetic ticket 1. This allows the MPU 124 to identify the data on the number of balls at the end of the game printed on the magnetic ticket 1 by the thermal printer 110, and the data on the number of balls at the end of the game printed on the magnetic ticket 1 and the data on the number of balls at the end of the game printed on the magnetic ticket 1. Then, the ball number data written on the magnetic ticket 1 can be compared.

135 is a read head, and the DA converter 13
6 and an interface 137 to the data bus 125 . Reference numeral 138 denotes a reading position detection sensor, which is provided in the conveyance path at a position where the magnetic ticket 1 moving in the reading direction contacts, and is connected to the data bus 125 via the interface 133. When the detection signal of the position detection sensor 138 is output, the MPU
124 is designed to sequentially store the data from the read head 135 into the data storage memory 123, and after this is completed, the power to the transport motor 131 is turned off. Note that a timing signal generator 139 is connected between the DA converter 136 and the transport motor 131, and in this ticket collection/reader 5, the reading operation of the read head 135 and the rotational operation of the transport motor 131 are synchronized. Synchronous control is now in place.

Reference numeral 140 indicates an error display lamp, and 141 indicates a match display lamp, which constitute a notification means and are connected to the data bus 125 via an interface 142.
40 and 141 are for displaying the results of data comparison by the MPU 124. That is, the error indicator lamp 140 lights up when the ball number data from the magnetic recording surface 1b of the magnetic ticket 1 and the key switch 129 or the optical reader 134 do not match as a result of the comparison. It is to be displayed. In addition, the match display lamp 14
1 lights up to notify that there is no error or fraud when both data match as a result of ball count data comparison and furthermore, the result of fraud prevention code data comparison is also OK.

Further, 143 is a ball number display, and 144 is a code display, which constitute display means, and these displays 143 and 144 display data read from the magnetic recording surface 1a of the magnetic ticket 1. , it is also possible to compare data using these. That is, the staff member only has to compare the numerical values and codes on the print surface 1b with the displays on both the displays 143 and 144. According to this method, the nature of errors and fraud can be immediately determined.

Reference numeral 145 denotes a discard switch, which is connected to the data bus 125 via an interface 142. This discard switch 145 is operated when proceeding to the ticket discard process after the end of the prize exchange transaction. When the on signal is issued, the conveyance motor 131 which was in the stopped state
When the power is turned on, the magnetic ticket 1 is conveyed further to the back. A ticket punch device 146 and a disposal position detection sensor 147 are disposed in the middle of the conveyance path, and these are connected to the interface 130 and
133 to the data bus 125. When the moving magnetic ticket 1 is detected by the waste processing position detection sensor 147, the ticket punch device 146 is activated to punch a hole in the magnetic ticket 1 and drop it into a storage box, etc., thereby discarding the magnetic ticket 1. is becoming more and more common. A disposal detection sensor 148 is provided at the entrance of a disposal case such as a storage box to confirm that the magnetic ticket 1 has been disposed of reliably. The pulse generator 149 is connected to the data bus 125 via the interface 150, and the MPU 124 reads the detection signal from the discarded ticket detection sensor 148, turns off the power to the transport motor 131, and turns off the pulse generator 1.
After sending pulses such as the phase of the number of collected balls from 49 to the host computer 2 or other sales aggregation machine (not shown), the data storage memory 123 and the ball number display 14
3. The code display 144 etc. are cleared or reset to wait for the next ticket.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from what has been described above, according to the present invention, the data magnetically recorded on the magnetic ticket is displayed. In addition to checking the suitability of numerical data, the card is also checked optically, making it difficult for the card to be tampered with. In addition, since both the hall staff and players can visually recognize the ball count data at the end of play directly from the card itself before it is attached to the card collection/reader, prizes due to the above-mentioned miscopying and memory errors can be avoided. Troubles related to replacement are prevented from occurring.

Further, the holding ball number calculating means individually processes the ball number data during play for each pachinko machine without transmitting it online to the host computer. This reduces the calculation load and memory load on the host computer, thereby suppressing an increase in the software and hardware costs of the host computer.

In addition, the card collection reader notifies the suitability of the card using the notification means based on whether the number of balls compared by the reading means and the anti-fraud code match. Since the suitability of the card can be easily and quickly recognized by the notification means based on the magnetic data, the suitability of the card is checked in multiple stages using the magnetic data and visual inspection by the person in charge. Therefore, accurate prize exchange is possible, it is difficult to tamper with data on the card, and troubles during prize exchange due to the suitability of the card and data on the number of balls are reduced, and cards can be collected smoothly. I can do it.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1A to 1C are plan views showing the structure of the magnetic ticket according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a system block diagram of the pachinko machine according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the ticket issuing machine. , FIG. 4 is a front view of the pachinko machine, FIG. 5 is a side view showing the internal mechanical configuration, FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the main parts, FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the pachinko machine, and FIG. Fig. 8 is a front view showing its mechanical configuration, Fig. 9 is a rear view thereof, Fig. 10 is a partially enlarged front view, Fig. 11 is a partially enlarged plan view, and Fig. 12 is a schematic structure of the recording/reproducing device. 13 are block diagrams showing the electrical configuration of the ticket collection/reading machine. 1: Magnetic ticket, 1a: Magnetic recording surface, 1b:
Print surface, 3: Ticket issuing machine, 4: Pachinko machine, 5: Ticket collection reader, 135: Read head (reading means), {143: Number of balls display, 14
4: Code display} (display means).

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. It has a function of reading at least the anti-fraud code data and the number of balls data recorded in advance on the card and writing at least the number of balls data at the end of the game, and according to each data written on the card. a recording and reproducing device that enables the game to be played; and a game progressing based on the ball number data read from the card by the recording and reproducing device and the number of balls fired, the number of safe balls, and the number of foul balls during the game. A number-of-balls calculation means for calculating an increase or decrease in the number-of-balls data according to the number of balls and inputting the number-of-balls data at the end of the game to the recording and reproducing device; a pachinko machine equipped with a printing means for printing the number of balls per hour data on the card;
and comparing data on the number of balls at the end of the game printed on the card by the printing means with data on the number of balls at the end of the game written on the card by the recording/reproducing device, and writing the data on the card. A reading means having a function of determining suitability of the card based on a written anti-fraud code, a display means for displaying data on the number of balls at the end of the game compared by the reading means, 1. A card collection device comprising a card collection reader equipped with a notification means for notifying whether or not a card is appropriate based on the match between the number of balls data and the fraud prevention code that are compared.