摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pinball game machine configured to quickly dispensing game balls. <P>SOLUTION: In the pinball game machine, a prize ball payout unit 40 includes: a unit case 41 having a standby passage 47 through which game balls received from an upstream ball reception port 44 pass, and a dispensing passage 48 for guiding the game balls to a downstream ball dispensing port 45 to pass through; a sprocket 70 having ball receiving recesses 75 each receiving a game ball, rotatably disposed between the standby passage 47 and the dispensing passage 48, and receiving the game balls in the standby passage 47 into the ball reception recesses 75 one by one to deliver the game balls to the dispensing passage 48; a dispensing motor 80 rotationally driving the sprocket 70; and a ball discharge mechanism 90 discharging the game balls in the standby passage 47 to the outside of the machine through a ball discharge passage 52 branched from the standby passage 47. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT</p> |