JPH03155890A - Card issuing machine for ball rental machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent a game shop suffering heavy damage due to the forgery of a prepaid card for game, etc., and to contribute to the increment of sale in the game shop by issuing a card for ball rental machine in which an available pinball game shop is limited corresponding to the available frequency information of the prepaid card for game. CONSTITUTION:When the available prepaid card A is inserted to the card issuing machine 10, the truth/falsehood of the card is identified with a prepaid card processing part 14, and when it is the true card, remaining frequency is displayed. When a desired dedicated card and the number of it are designated referring to a displayed content and an execution switch is operated, a designated dedicated card D is issued, and also, the cooresponding number of frequency is deleted from the prepaid card A, which disables the use of the prepaid card A. An issued dedicated card H can be used in a ball rental machine 20 arranged at an island 1 in a pinball game shop when borrowing a pinball C.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a card issuing machine for a ball lending machine that issues cards for a ball lending machine in a pachinko game hall.

[Prior Art] In the pachinko industry, in addition to ball lending machines that use coins or banknotes to rent pachinko balls, there are also ball lending machines that use a ball lending machine card that can only be used at ball lending machines within the same store. Yes, pachinko balls can be rented according to the player's preference.

Recently, in addition to the above-mentioned ball rental machines, it has become possible to rent pachinko balls using a prepaid card purchased in advance, so that you can freely play at any pachinko gaming hall (hereinafter simply referred to as "gaming hall"). The introduction of a ball lending machine that uses a prepaid gaming card (hereinafter referred to as "common card 1") commonly used in the pachinko industry is being considered.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] However, in the pachinko industry, pachinko balls can be exchanged for various prizes depending on the player's playing results.
Even without actually playing a game, it is possible to simply borrow pachinko balls using a shared card and exchange them for desired prizes.

Therefore, for example, if each card is counterfeited and the borrowed pachinko balls are exchanged for prizes, the gaming parlor will suffer a great deal of damage.

In this case, if it is a card that can only be used within a limited number of gaming parlors, or a similar limited edition card, there is a low possibility that it will be counterfeited, but it is not possible to introduce a shared card for use in the pachinko industry that is not limited to a limited number of gaming parlors. If a counterfeit card is attempted, the possibility of counterfeiting increases because the counterfeit shared card can be used at any gaming facility, and the introduction of the common card becomes a source of great anxiety for gaming facilities.

Furthermore, from a management perspective at a gaming hall, a player who starts playing with a shared card may stop playing after borrowing only a portion of the amount of pachinko balls that can be borrowed using the shared card. There is a possibility that the players may end up leaving the game and then go to other game halls, resulting in a loss of players.

Furthermore, the shared card is read and rewritten by a dedicated card reader/writer specified by the issuing company of the shared card, and at the gaming hall, the dedicated card reader/writer and ball lending machine are connected. However, since the specifications of the dedicated card reader/writer are kept confidential by the issuer of the shared card, it is not possible to take immediate action in the event of a malfunction. Since most of the ball lending machines are installed in close proximity to pachinko machines, failure of the dedicated card reader/writer could lead to some pachinko machines becoming unusable, which would have a big impact on sales. There is a problem that it causes

The present invention prevents gaming parlors from suffering great damage due to counterfeiting of prepaid gaming cards when a prepaid card (common card) for use in the pachinko industry is introduced. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a card issuing machine for a ball lending machine that contributes to an increase in sales.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a card issuing machine for a ball lending machine that can issue pachinko cards that can be used in accordance with the usable number information of a prepaid card that can be used in an unspecified number of pachinko game parlors. To issue a card for a ball rental machine limited to game halls as a technical means.

[Operations and Effects of the Invention] In the present invention, a card for a ball rental machine that can be used at a limited number of pachinko game halls is provided according to the usable frequency information of a prepaid card for gaming that can be used at an unspecified number of game halls. Therefore, players must first exchange their prepaid card for playing at each pachinko parlor with a card for the ball lending machine at that gaming parlor, and each pachinko card can be issued using the ball lending machine card. Borrow pachinko balls from a rental machine and play the game.

Therefore, players borrow pachinko balls and play with a ball lending machine card that can only be used at that gaming parlor, which reduces the number of players who go to other gaming parlors. Since most of the available points will be spent on playing games at the gaming parlor, the sales of the gaming parlor will improve.

In addition, since card issuing machines for ball lending machines are normally installed in limited areas within the gaming hall, like currency exchange machines, by monitoring the usage status of card issuing machines for ball lending machines, Fraudulent acts such as forgery can be easily detected.

Furthermore, even if a failure occurs in the card reader/writer of a prepaid card for gaming, which imposes restrictions on mounting and repair, the pachinko machine is not directly connected to other ball lending machines installed in close proximity. , there will be no hindrance to sales in relation to individual pachinko gaming machines.

In addition, in this case, if a plurality of card issuing machines for ball lending machines of the present invention are installed, prepaid cards for gaming can be used, so that emergency situations can be overcome, and card readers for prepaid cards for gaming can be used. / Pachinko game machines that are difficult to play or cannot be played due to writer failure will not occur.

Therefore, the sales of the pachinko game parlor will not decrease.

[Example] Next, the present invention will be explained based on examples.

The ball lending machine card issuing machine (hereinafter referred to as "card issuing machine, 1") 10 shown in FIG. When renting pachinko balls, a special card is issued to be inserted into the ball rental machine 20. This card issuing machine 10 includes an operation part 11, a display part 12, a card issuing part 13, and a prepaid card processing The card issuing machine 10 has a functional section 14, and mainly issues special cards using prepaid cards.The card issuing machine 10 also has a bill processing section 15 and a ball lending section 16 as attached functions, and is used to issue special cards using prepaid cards. In addition to being able to issue special cards, you can also rent out pachinko balls for the fraction of the number of prepaid cards that cannot be issued with a special card.
It is comprehensively controlled by the control section 17.

Here, a prepaid card is a gaming card.
For example, it is a magnetic card sold by a predetermined card issuing company so that it can be used at any pachinko game hall in the country, and has a predetermined specification. Usage status is managed.

In addition, a special card is a magnetic card that can be used with multiple ball lending machines 20 installed with certain specifications in each pachinko game parlor, and is completely incompatible with the prepaid card mentioned above. It is.

However, even if it is a different pachinko game hall, the same ball rental 1
If 1!20 is installed, it can be used regardless of pachinko game parlor.

Each functional section of the card issuing machine 10 will be explained below, and the control contents by the control section 17 in each functional section will be explained.

The operation key part 11 is a part for specifying a desired special card depending on the prepaid card or banknote to be inserted, and includes a plurality of keys indicating the amount corresponding to the special card to be issued and the number of issued cards. numeric keys, etc.
It consists of an execution key for instructing card issuance and ball lending, and a main key for correcting operation details.

The display unit 12 displays the number of remaining points (
This part digitally displays the amount of money that can be used (usable amount), the type and number of designated special cards using 7 segments, and displays the denomination of the inserted banknotes and text to guide the user using lamps (e.g., light emitting diodes).

The card issuing unit 13 is a part that issues special cards designated for the ball lending machine 20 of a pachinko game parlor, and issues magnetic cards for 1,000 yen, 3,000 yen, and 5,000 yen, for example.

The prepaid card processing unit 14 includes a card transport unit 14a,
Magnetic card reader/writer section 14b, dedicated control section 14c
and a storage section 14d, which reads the frequency information of the prepaid card, rewrites the used frequency when the card is used, and stores the cumulative total of the used frequency, and is provided by the card management company. It consists of predetermined equipment.

The card transport section 14a receives a prepaid card inserted from an insertion slot (not shown) into the magnetic card reader/writer section 1.
At the same time, the rewritten prepaid card is returned to the insertion slot.

The magnetic card reader/writer section 14b reads the frequency information (usable amount) written on the transported prepaid card.
This is a reading and writing recording device that rewrites the frequency information of a prepaid card so as to read the frequency information of the prepaid card and delete the frequency information for the frequency that has already been used.

The dedicated control unit 14c mainly controls the magnetic card reader/writer unit 14b with respect to the prepaid card processing unit 14, and determines whether the inserted prepaid card is genuine or not based on the information written on the prepaid card. If it is genuine, the power information is accurately read out, and the power information is rewritten and deleted in accordance with the used power.

In addition, each time a prepaid card is used for issuing a special card or for lending balls, the usage frequency is accumulated,
The information is transferred to the storage section 14d to update the storage contents of the storage section 14d.

In addition, through telephone lines or dedicated communication lines,
The contents stored in the storage unit 14d are transmitted to the card management company that issued the prepaid card.

The storage unit 14d is a part that stores the usage frequency of the prepaid card that has been accumulated by the dedicated control unit 14c.The stored frequency information can be read out by an instruction from the outside, and the read frequency information is displayed on the display unit 12 or transmitted via a communication line, for example.

The banknote processing unit 15 is provided as an accessory function in order to exchange high-value banknotes such as 10,000 yen banknotes and 5,000 yen banknotes with a dedicated card, and is comprised of an identification device having a known identification function.

The ball lending department 16 accepts a portion of the power of the prepaid card that is used at another pachinko game hall, and of the remaining power of the prepaid card, there is a fractional power of less than 1,000 yen, for example, a power equivalent to an amount of about 100 yen m. In this case, the pachinko balls of the fractional frequency bone are rented out only for the fractional frequency bone.

Next, the ball rental fi 20 in which pachinko balls are rented using a special card issued by the card issuing unit 13 will be briefly described.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the ball rental machine 20 is arranged above the pachinko game machine 40 in correspondence with each pachinko game 1140 on the island 1 in the pachinko game hall, and in front of it is arranged. A bill insertion slot 21 for inserting thousand yen bills, a coin insertion slot 22 for inserting 500 yen or 100 yen, a coin return slot 23 for returning defective coins, and a selection for selecting the amount of balls owed. Switches 24 and 25 and a card insertion slot 26 for inserting a special card issued by the card issuing machine 10 of this embodiment are provided, and pachinko balls are played according to the amount of money or the special card inserted. It is for rent.

As shown in FIG. 3, the ball lending machine 20 is centered around a control device 30, and includes a coin processing section 31, a banknote processing section 32, a card processing section 33, and a banknote processing section 32 corresponding to each insertion slot or slot.
Pachinko balls supplied from a connecting vibrator 35 consisting of a ball cutting section 34 and connected to a pachinko ball supply device (not shown) are supplied to a pachinko game machine 40 through a ball lending pipe 36. A money conveyance device 200 is provided that conveys the coins and banknotes inserted into the machine 20 to the coin recovery device 3 provided at the end of the island 1.

Hereinafter, the operation of the card issuing machine 10 of this embodiment and the processing operations performed by a player using the card issuing machine 10 will be explained with reference to FIG. 4.

When a player inserts a usable prepaid card A into the card issuing v&10, the alibi card processing unit 14 identifies whether or not it is genuine, and if it is genuine, the remaining card number is displayed.

Referring to the display contents, specify the desired special card and its number, and operate the execution switch.The specified special card B will be issued, and the frequency bone corresponding to the special card B issued accordingly will be issued. Prepaid card A
, and the prepaid card A becomes unusable.

Further, at this time, if the prepaid card A is once used at another game parlor and there is a fractional number of 100 yen remaining in the remaining number of points, the pachinko balls C are lent only for that number of fractional points.

The frequencies corresponding to the issued dedicated card B and the lent pachinko balls are calculated by adding up the usage frequencies up to that point, and are stored as a cumulative frequency value.

The stored cumulative frequency value is transmitted via the communication diagram &LD at predetermined times or at predetermined time intervals through communication with a predetermined card management company E, and the sales status (spending amount) at the pachinko game parlor is monitored. managed.

On the other hand, as described above, the issued dedicated card B can be used when renting pachinko balls C at the ball lending machine 20 located on the island 1 in the pachinko game hall.

As described above, according to the present invention, a prepaid card that can be used at an unspecified number of pachinko gaming parlors is once converted into a dedicated card that can be used only at a limited number of pachinko gaming parlors. All frequency bones are changed to the frequency of the special card used at that pachinko game parlor.

Therefore, it is possible to prevent sales from flowing out to other game parlors.

In addition, even if the magnetic card league/device for reading or deleting the frequency information etc. of prepaid cards malfunctions, it will not be directly connected to the ball lending machine installed near the pachinko machine. Therefore, there will be no hindrance to gaming, and therefore no hindrance to sales.

Furthermore, since card issuing machines are installed in limited locations, fraud can be easily detected by monitoring their usage.

In this embodiment, a prepaid card that can be used only in the pachinko industry has been described, but a prepaid card that can be used in other industries may also be used.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram of a card issuing machine for a ball lending machine showing an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 2 shows the installation of a ball lending machine for using a special card issued by the card issuing machine of this embodiment. Showing the condition 1 - Front view showing the island in the pachinko game hall, 3rd
The figure is a perspective view showing a ball lending machine and a pachinko game machine in this embodiment, and FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the operation of the card issuing machine and the role of each card in this embodiment. In the figure, 10... Card issuing machine for ball lending machines. Figure 1 10...Card issuing machine for ball lending machine Figure 4 Otte (usable) (unusable)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1) A ball lending machine card that can be used at a limited number of pachinko game halls is issued according to information on the usability of a prepaid card for gaming that can be used at an unspecified number of pachinko game halls. Card issuing machine for rental machines.