JP2005052530A - Game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game machine which is improved in appearance design characters by a simple manufacturing process. <P>SOLUTION: The front face of an externally recognizable game ball tray of this game machine is covered with a resin molded body 2 which has a structure where a plurality of resin layers 21, 22 are laminated in a thickness direction by two-color molding. The resin layers 21, 22 have transparency and are differently colored layers. The resin layer 21 is monotonously made thicker gradually from the upper end part toward the lower end part and the resin layer 22 is monotonously made thinner gradually from the upper end part toward the lower end part. A convex stereoscopic pattern 3 is drawn on a face 22a in contact with the resin layer 21. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a gaming machine, and relates to a gaming machine whose design is improved.

Conventionally, for example, in a pachinko gaming machine or the like, a pattern or the like is applied to a front frame, a glass frame, a ball tray or the like in order to improve the design. Conventionally, as shown in Patent Document 1, for example, the above-described front frame or the like with a pattern is manufactured by inserting a film, a sheet, or the like on which a pattern is printed into a mold and performing injection molding or the like. .
JP 10-216299 A

 However, the above conventional method has a problem that it cannot be easily manufactured because many steps are required for production, printing, trimming and the like of the film or sheet.

 Therefore, the present invention solves such problems, and an object thereof is to provide a gaming machine capable of improving the appearance design by a simple process.

 In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, the surface of a gaming machine main body (13) or a part attached to the gaming machine main body that can be visually recognized from the outside is formed of a resin molded body (2), and the resin molded body (2) And a structure in which a plurality of resin layers (21, 22) are stacked in the thickness direction, and at least the resin layer (21) other than the resin layer (22) located at the innermost position with respect to the surface is made translucent. In the resin layer, at least two of the resin layers (21, 22) are colored layers having different colors, and the thickness is changed in at least a part of at least one of the colored layers. Note that this thickness change gradually changes monotonously.

 In the present invention, since at least two of the stacked resin layers are colored layers having different colors, when the resin molded body is viewed from the front, colors obtained by mixing the colors of the colored layers are visually recognized. Then, by changing the thickness of at least a part of at least one of the colored layers, the ratio of the color to be mixed is changed in this part, so that a color different from the other part is visually recognized. According to the present invention, the appearance design of the gaming machine can be improved by a simple process without requiring a complicated process as in the past only by overlapping the resin layers. Note that a gradation pattern can be obtained if the change in thickness gradually changes monotonously.

 The resin molded body (2) can be molded by multicolor molding including two-color molding. Further, a concave or convex three-dimensional pattern (3) may be drawn on the contact surface (22a) of the colored layer (22) with the other resin layer (21). According to this, since the thickness of the colored layer is different from the surroundings in the three-dimensional pattern portion, the characters and the like represented by the three-dimensional pattern are visually recognized so that the design is further improved. It is preferable that the resin molded body (2) covers the surface of the ball tray (13).

 In addition, the code | symbol in the said parenthesis shows the correspondence with the specific means as described in embodiment mentioned later.

  According to the gaming machine of the present invention, the appearance designability can be achieved in a simple process without going through complicated processes such as injection molding by inserting a film, a sheet, or the like on which a pattern is printed in the mold as in the prior art. Can be improved.

  FIG. 1 shows a front view of a pachinko gaming machine 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this gaming machine 1, the front surface of the upper ball tray 13 which is a gaming machine main body is covered with a resin molded body 2 as described below. In addition, this resin molding 2 is the surface of components, such as other game machine main bodies, such as the front frame 11, the glass frame 12, and the lower ball tray 14, or the game board 15 which comprises a game machine main body. You may make it provide in.

  FIG. 2 shows a vertical cross section of the resin molded body 2 covering the front surface of the upper ball tray 13. The resin molded body 2 is a plate body whose upper and lower ends are bent along the front surface of the upper ball tray 13, and is configured by overlapping two resin layers 21 and 22 in the thickness direction. The resin layers 21 and 22 are both translucent in the present embodiment, and the resin layer 21 is colored blue and the resin layer 22 is colored red to form a colored layer. The thickness of the resin molded body 2 is substantially constant, the resin layer 22 is thicker at the upper end portion of the resin molded body 2 and the resin layer 21 is thinner correspondingly, and the resin layer 21 is thicker at the lower end portion and the resin layer correspondingly. 22 is thin. The resin layer 22 gradually decreases in thickness from the upper end to the lower end, and conversely, the resin layer 21 gradually increases in thickness from the upper end to the lower end.

  At an intermediate position in the up-down direction of the resin molded body 2, a part of the contact surface 22 a of the resin layer (colored layer) 22 with the resin layer 21 is protruded in a stepped shape (concave for the resin layer 21. A three-dimensional pattern 3 is drawn. In the present embodiment, the three-dimensional pattern 3 is a character pattern of “MRD” as shown in FIG. Such a resin molded body 2 is manufactured by two-color molding or insert molding. A white layer 23 is formed on the entire back surface of the resin molded body 2 (that is, the back surface of the resin layer 22) by painting or printing.

  In the above gaming machine, when the upper ball tray 13 is viewed from the front (FIG. 1), the light transmitted through the resin layers 21 and 22 of the resin molded body 2 is reflected by the white layer 23 and returns to the front. Since the upper end of the dish 13 passes through the relatively thick red resin layer 22, red as a whole is superior, while the lower end of the upper ball dish 13 passes through the relatively thick blue resin layer 21, so As blue wins. In the upper and lower intermediate portions where the resin layers 21 and 22 have substantially the same thickness, the same amount of red and blue are mixed to become purple. Since the thickness of the resin layers 21 and 22 is gradually changed monotonously as described above, the resin molded body 2 as a whole covering the front surface of the upper ball tray 13 changes from red to purple via red to purple from the upper end to the lower end. A gradation pattern is visible.

  In addition, since the thickness of the resin layer 22 is locally thick in the three-dimensional character pattern “MRD” formed by protruding part of the resin layer 22, the red color is better than the surroundings, and the gradation pattern A character with the word “MRD” is visible. In this way, the appearance design of the ball tray 13 and the gaming machine 1 provided with the ball tray 13 can be improved by a simple process such as two-color molding without going through the conventional troublesome process.

  In addition, the combination of the color of each resin layer 21 and 22 of the resin molding 2 is not restricted to the thing of this embodiment. Further, the resin layer 22 located on the back side of the resin molded body 2 may be colored and opaque, and in this case, it is not particularly necessary to form the white layer 23. Alternatively, one of the resin layers 21 and 22 may have a constant thickness and only the other thickness may be changed. Furthermore, the thickness of the resin layers 21 and 22 does not need to be changed monotonously, and may be changed in various modes including a steep change according to a desired pattern. The resin molded body 2 may have a structure in which a plurality of layers of three or more layers are stacked by multicolor molding, and in this case, it is not necessary to make all the colored layers. Of course, the surface of the integrated dish in which the upper ball dish and the lower ball dish are integrated may be covered with the resin molded body.

It is a front view of a gaming machine showing an embodiment of the present invention. It is a cross-sectional view of the up-down direction of the resin molding which covers a ball tray which shows one Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Game machine, 13 ... Ball tray, 2 ... Resin molding, 21, 22 ... Resin layer, 22a ... Contact surface, 3 ... Three-dimensional pattern.

Claims (4)

The surface of a gaming machine main body that can be visually recognized from the outside or a part that is attached to the gaming machine main body is formed of a resin molded body, and the resin molded body has a structure in which a plurality of resin layers are stacked in the thickness direction, and at least the surface The resin layer other than the resin layer located at the innermost side is a resin layer having translucency, and at least two of these resin layers are colored layers of different colors, and at least one of the colored layers, A gaming machine characterized in that the thickness is changed at least in part. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the resin molded body is molded by multicolor molding including two-color molding. The gaming machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a concave or convex three-dimensional pattern is drawn on a contact surface of the colored layer with another resin layer. The gaming machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the gaming machine main body is a ball tray.

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