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WO1999006969A1 - Ameliorations apportees aux distributeurs de pieces - Google Patents

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WO1999006969A1
WO1999006969A1 PCT/GB1998/002330 GB9802330W WO9906969A1 WO 1999006969 A1 WO1999006969 A1 WO 1999006969A1 GB 9802330 W GB9802330 W GB 9802330W WO 9906969 A1 WO9906969 A1 WO 9906969A1
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Adrian Francis Davies
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Jpm International Limited
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3244—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
    • G07F17/3248—Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F5/00—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks
    • G07F5/24—Coin-actuated mechanisms; Interlocks with change-giving

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  • This invention relates to coin payout apparatus and it is particularly concerned with such apparatus installed in gaming or amusement-with-prizes machines.
  • machines which can be played with only one type of coin, in which case all payouts are made in the same denomination, and all the machine has to do is to count the correct number out when a prize is won.
  • a coin payout system for gaming or amusement-with-prizes machines, the system comprising a hopper for receiving at least some of the input coins, these capable of being of more than one denomination, means responsive to the results of play to cause the hopper to release coins sequentially from its outlet when a win is achieved, means for identifying the released coins, and delivery means for passing coins to the total value of the win to a collection zone accessible to the player before the hopper outlet is shut while diverting back to the hopper coins not compatible with making up the winning total . While all coins fed into the machine should at first fall into the hopper, there could be a point where the hopper reaches overload, for example, if there has been a run without substantial prizes having been paid out. Arrangements can then be made to divert further input coins to a reserve receptacle.
  • the coins falling into the hopper are not detected, so that it is not known how much the hopper contains.
  • the hopper releases coins one by one and each is detected and its value ascertained before it passes out to the player. But as the total prize value is approached, there may be some coins which, if paid out, would overshoot the target. When these are detected, they are diverted back to the hopper, while only small value coins are passed. The payout is never reduced to a point so near the target that there is no coin that can reach it exactly.
  • the hopper system is provided with more intelligence and is made capable of working out for itself the best strategy for satisfying a particular win value. It is ascertained what coins, and how many of each, are in the hopper, and this can be done by monitoring both the input and output, the input of course including coins diverted back from the payout. The totals of all the various coins can be kept in memory, and when it comes to payout, although one type of coin may be more convenient for the player, if there are very few of them in the hopper, but plenty of others which could make up the required total, any such scarce coin will be diverted back if it is released. Thus, a reasonable reservoir of coins of all denominations is always kept in the hopper.
  • a hopper 1 receives coins of various denominations from a coin-slot mechanism 2 which can signal via line 3 to the machine control unit 4 how many plays to which a user is entitled, this corresponding to the number and value of the coins inserted.
  • an outlet control device 5 which is triggered into operation by the unit 4 when a win occurs to release coins one by one into a coin detector/discriminator 6. This identifies the type of coin released and signals the control unit 4, whose memory keeps track of how much is being paid out . Each coin then passes through a diverter 7 either to a pocket 8 where the player can collect his win or to a conveyor 9 which returns the coin back up and into the hopper 1.
  • This diverter 7 is normally in the mode in which coins pass to the pocket 8, but it is switched to the coin return mode when the control unit 4 (which knows the total win to be paid out) calculates that the last identified coin would make the payout exceed that total, or that it would be so close to it that there would be no coin or combination of coins of small enough denomination to reach it exactly. In that case the high value coin is diverted back to the hopper. If the next coin is also too high, that is returned also, and this continues until a sufficiently small value coin is released by the device 5. When the exact win has been paid out, the control unit 4 shuts down the outlet control device 5.
  • the amount of coins m the hopper, denomination by denomination is not recorded.
  • the hopper simply delivers coins when a win occurs, and what types of com are paid out is mostly random. However, this can lead to an imbalance, with the hopper having plenty of certain coins and very few of others. If the preferential payout of large value coins for large wins is programmed into the control unit, the hopper could lose all such coins and small coins might then be continuously diverted back to the hopper without the total win ever being paid out . It might be necessary to build a safety feature whereby, after a certain number of diversions, the diverter 7 will cease to send back coins.
  • the control unit 4 operates the diverter 7 to send that co back to the hopper 1. It will pass the detector/discriminator 10 on the way, so that an accurate count of coins m the hopper is maintained. Thus only coins m plentiful supply are paid out. However, if reaching the exact win total demands paying out one or two small value coins which are scarce, there will be an over-ride and these coins will be further depleted.
  • the detector/discriminator 10 could be discarded for the more sophisticated version by using the output of the coin-slot mechanism 2. However, the control unit 4 will then have to put into the equation giving the coin count in the hopper 1 each operation of the diverter 11 and what type of coin just passed by the mechanism 2 was assumed to have been diverted to the receptacle 12. Also, of course, the control unit would have to rely on the actuation of the diverter 7.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un distributeur de pièces pour une machine de jeux de hasard ou de paris à lots, comportant une trémie (1) unique dans laquelle les joueurs introduisent des pièces de différentes valeurs. Lorsqu'un joueur gagne, les pièces sont libérées de manière aléatoire mais transitent par un identificateur (6) permettant à une unité de commande (4) de faire le compte. Si vers la fin du paiement la valeur du lot est dépassée car de grosses pièces sont amenées, un déviateur (7) est actionné pour retourner ces pièces vers la trémie (1), et ne passent vers la poche de réception (8) que les pièces totalisant la valeur exacte du lot. Pour les paiements importants, les petites pièces peuvent être retournés par déviation au moins jusque vers la fin de l'opération. Un identificateur (10) de pièces disposé à l'entrée de la trémie (1) permet de contrôler continuellement son contenu, et de maintenir un nombre minimum des différentes pièces au moyen du déviateur (7).
PCT/GB1998/002330 1997-08-02 1998-08-03 Ameliorations apportees aux distributeurs de pieces WO1999006969A1 (fr)

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GBGB9716326.5A GB9716326D0 (en) 1997-08-02 1997-08-02 Improvements relating to coin dispensing apparatus
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US6623357B2 (en) * 2001-06-26 2003-09-23 Igt Paper token and complementary coupon dispenser
EP1184821A3 (fr) * 2000-08-31 2004-01-28 IGT-UK Limited Machines d'amusement
EP1367544A3 (fr) * 2002-05-29 2004-05-12 Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd. Monnayeur
EP1777664A1 (fr) 2005-10-11 2007-04-25 Azkoyen Medios de Pago, S.A. Procédé de retour de pièces de monnaie
EP2315183A1 (fr) * 2009-10-22 2011-04-27 National Rejectors, Inc. GmbH Dispositif et procédé de distribution de pièces de monnaie à partir d'un dispositif de stockage de pièces
US8285425B2 (en) 2004-06-08 2012-10-09 Instituto Nacional De Tecnica Aeroespacial “Esteban Terradas” System and method for controlling an unarmed air vehicle
US8506378B2 (en) 2011-09-21 2013-08-13 Igt Gaming system, gaming device, and method providing advertising messages to players based on a determination of a positive winning gaming session
US8616960B2 (en) 2008-06-25 2013-12-31 Aristocrat Technologies Austrailia PTY Limited Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller
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GB2198274A (en) * 1986-12-03 1988-06-08 Entersword Limited Coin dispensers

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US3680566A (en) * 1969-09-22 1972-08-01 Micro Magnetic Ind Inc Bulk coin dispenser
DE3247019A1 (de) * 1982-12-18 1984-06-20 Paul 4992 Espelkamp Gauselmann Geldspielautomat mit muenzwertindividuellen muenzstapelrohren
GB2198274A (en) * 1986-12-03 1988-06-08 Entersword Limited Coin dispensers

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EP1184821A3 (fr) * 2000-08-31 2004-01-28 IGT-UK Limited Machines d'amusement
US6623357B2 (en) * 2001-06-26 2003-09-23 Igt Paper token and complementary coupon dispenser
EP1367544A3 (fr) * 2002-05-29 2004-05-12 Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd. Monnayeur
US6899214B2 (en) 2002-05-29 2005-05-31 Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd. Coin receiving and dispensing machine
US8285425B2 (en) 2004-06-08 2012-10-09 Instituto Nacional De Tecnica Aeroespacial “Esteban Terradas” System and method for controlling an unarmed air vehicle
ES2278522A1 (es) * 2005-10-11 2007-08-01 Azkoyen Medios De Pago, S.A Procedimiento de devolucion de monedas.
ES2278522B1 (es) * 2005-10-11 2008-07-16 Azkoyen Medios De Pago, S.A Procedimiento de devolucion de monedas.
US7426988B2 (en) 2005-10-11 2008-09-23 Azkoyen Medios De Pago S.A. Coin return process
EP1777664A1 (fr) 2005-10-11 2007-04-25 Azkoyen Medios de Pago, S.A. Procédé de retour de pièces de monnaie
US8616960B2 (en) 2008-06-25 2013-12-31 Aristocrat Technologies Austrailia PTY Limited Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller
EP2315183A1 (fr) * 2009-10-22 2011-04-27 National Rejectors, Inc. GmbH Dispositif et procédé de distribution de pièces de monnaie à partir d'un dispositif de stockage de pièces
US8506378B2 (en) 2011-09-21 2013-08-13 Igt Gaming system, gaming device, and method providing advertising messages to players based on a determination of a positive winning gaming session
US9064362B2 (en) 2013-01-11 2015-06-23 Asahi Seiko Co., Ltd. Disk sorting device

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