Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken

Koichi Tsubota

Takatoshi Takemoto

Hideyuki Kadomatsu

Etsurou Sasaki

Moriyuki Aoyama

Koji Yanagisawa

Masao Minagawa

Etsuro Sasaki

Gaming machine island and money changing system

A medal counting apparatus installed in a game parlor for counting medals which a game player has won, is disclosed. The medal counting apparatus comprises a counter for counting the medals, a medal supplying mechanism for receiving the medals to be dumped and for supplying them sequentially to the counter, a dump restraining unit for restraining the medals from being dumped into the medal supplying mechanism and a control unit for controlling operations of the medal supplying mechanism and the dump restraining unit. The medal supply control means puts the medal supplying mechanism into a stopped state when the dump restraining unit restrains the medals from being dumped and into an operation state when the dump restraining unit permits dumping of the medals. The control unit also instructs the dump restraining unit to close the receiving hopper when a medal dump restraining signal is input from the outside or the counter has not been used for a certain period of time. When there is a request to dump medals, the control unit then instructs the dump restraining, unit to open the receiving hopper.

Medal counter for counting medals used in game machine

A paper strip conveying apparatus provided along an objective conveying path, comprising an endless belt having its periphery in contact with one of the two faces of the paper strip and a plurality of pulleys provided along the conveying path so that their peripheries come in contact with the other face of the paper strip, between which a paper strip is pinched and conveyed. The object of the present invention is to shorten the length of the electric wire through which static electricity charged in a pulley flows out. In the present invention, both a pulley fixing board which supports the pulleys and a main body frame formed along the conveying path are formed of conductive material, and are electrically connected by a conductor.

Ground mechanism for a paper strip conveying mechanism

Paper strip transporting apparatus

A game machine island comprising ball lending machines each disposed between two adjoining game machines and ball lending machines of the same type arranged at the ends of the line of the game machines, respectively. A drive unit and a driven unit have introducing paths communicating with bank note discharging slots of the ball lending machines arranged at the ends of the island, respectively, for directly introducing bank notes discharged from the ball lending machines to the conveying belt. In the construction of the island, the installation and the wiring is carried out efficiently, and the workability of the installation can be enhanced, and the cost can be reduced.

Game machine island

The paper strip conveying apparatus includes a conveying roller which is provided in such a manner that the outer peripheral plane comes into contact with one surface of a paper strip, a roller drive mechanism which rotates the conveying roller and a paper strip biasing member which is provided in such a manner that the tip portion comes into contact with the other surface of the paper strip. A convex portion is formed circularly along the outer peripheral plane of the conveying roller. The paper strip biasing member has a concave portion into which the convex portion of the conveying roller fits without contact at the tip portion. When the paper strip is sandwiched between the conveying roller and the paper strip biasing member, since the convex portion of the conveying roller fits into the concave portion of the paper strip biasing member, the paper strip is forcedly flexed so as to be urged onto the convex portion of the conveying roller and conveyed by the rotation of the conveying roller. In the other cases, since the conveying roller and the paper strip biasing member do not come into contact with each other, the conveying roller does not receive any external force, which results in reduction of rotation load of the conveying roller.

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Tokyo, Japan

Koichi Tsubota