JP2005071148A - Sales management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To calculate in real time a ratio between a transaction amount of new money and a transaction amount of old money in a mixed period of new money and old money.
A ballroom lending machine 2 transmits a sales signal indicating the sales amount from a relay terminal 3 to a management computer 4. The money changer 5 pays out the old banknote when the new banknote is inserted, and transmits usage amount data indicating the value of the inserted new banknote to the management computer 4. The management computer 4 tabulates and manages the sales data based on the sales signal from the daitama ball lending machine 2, and performs ratio calculation processing based on the sales data and the usage amount data from the money changer 5. In this ratio calculation process, the usage amount of the new banknotes indicated by the usage amount data and the usage amount of the old banknotes indicated by the sales data at the daitama ball lending machine 2 are each accumulated, and the accumulated usage value of the old banknotes is also accumulated. The ratio between the difference between the accumulated value of the new banknotes and the accumulated value of the new banknotes is calculated.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a sales management system for facilities in which a large number of service terminals that perform transactions according to the input value according to the input of money are installed, in particular, the initial period when new money is issued (new money and The present invention relates to a sales management system capable of calculating a ratio between a transaction amount in new currency and a transaction amount in old currency in a mixed period of old currency.

  Patent Document 1 includes a reading unit that reads the characteristics of an inserted banknote, a determination unit that determines the authenticity and characteristics of the banknote from the read characteristics, and a storage unit that stores banknotes that are determined to be true banknotes. In the transaction operation device that transacts with the transaction amount according to the amount of the banknote determined to be a true banknote, the number of transactions of the new banknote and the old banknote is counted by denomination in the mixed period of the old banknote and the new banknote A transaction operation device configured to be capable of being described is described.

On the other hand, in a facility such as a pachinko hall, for example, a number of interbank ball lending machines that release a predetermined number of pachinko balls in response to the insertion of bills (thousand-yen bills) are installed as service terminals. When a bill is issued, it is necessary to change the specifications of the interbank ball lending machine (exchange of built-in building validator (banknote identification device)) or update the interbank ball lending machine.
In this case, at the time of the previous issuance of new banknotes in Japan (at the time when banknotes in circulation as of 2003 were newly issued), one machine for each pachinko machine was used for each pachinko machine. Since installation was the mainstream, the amount of capital investment associated with the specification change or renewal of the machine for lending between machines was able to be kept to a relatively low amount. However, at present, it has become common to install a ball rental machine with a one-to-one correspondence with pachinko gaming machines, and the number of machines installed has doubled. For this reason, when a new banknote is issued, it is inevitable that the amount of capital investment accompanying this will increase greatly.

Therefore, as a means for coping with such circumstances, conventionally, the specification of the interbank ball lending machine for old banknotes is changed by installing in the pachinko hall a currency exchange machine that exchanges new banknotes for old banknotes. It is considered that the specifications of the lending machine are changed or updated at a stage where the switching to the new banknote has progressed to some extent.
JP 58-109992 A

  It is desirable to perform the specification change or update of the above-described interbank ball lending machine at a timing when the ratio of new banknotes actually used in the pachinko hall becomes larger than a certain level. However, conventionally, a device that can count the number of transactions of a new banknote and an old banknote as provided in Patent Document 1 is provided, but a new banknote that is actually used in a facility such as a pachinko hall An apparatus that can grasp the ratio of old banknotes in real time has not been realized. For this reason, when a new type banknote was issued, there existed a situation that the determination of the timing which switches many inter-bed ball lending machines to a new type banknote corresponding machine became difficult.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to be able to calculate in real time the ratio between the transaction amount in the new currency and the transaction amount in the old currency during the mixed period of the new currency and the old currency. It is to provide a sales management system.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a sales management system for a facility in which a number of service terminals that perform transactions according to the input value according to the input of money are installed. The money changer with the function of changing to old money that can be used at the service terminal, the amount of new money used at the money changer, and the amount of old money used at the service terminal are accumulated, respectively. It is configured to include a calculation means for calculating a ratio between the difference between the accumulated usage value and the accumulated usage value of the new money and the accumulated usage value of the new money.

  In this case, as in the invention described in claim 2, in addition to the function of exchanging new money into old money, the money change machine has a function of exchanging old money into new money. In a state where the service terminal that can use the old money and the service terminal that can use the new money are mixed, the amount of use of the new money and the old money in the money changer and the old money in the service terminal are calculated. And the difference between the accumulated value of the old money at the service terminal and the accumulated value of the new money at the money changer and the use of the old money at the money changer. The total value of the total amount of money, the difference between the cumulative value of the new money used at the service terminal and the cumulative value of the old money used at the money change machine, and the cumulative value of the new money used at the money change machine, Calculate the ratio to the total value of It can also be configured.

  Further, as in a third aspect of the invention, a configuration may be provided in which notification means for performing a notification operation when the ratio calculated by the calculation means exceeds a predetermined threshold value may be provided.

  According to the invention described in claim 1, when a facility user uses a service terminal that supports old-style money with new money, he / she exchanges the new-type money he / she owns with the old-style money using a currency exchange machine. The transaction according to the input value is performed by inserting the old money obtained by the above into the service terminal. In this case, the calculation means accumulates the amount of new money used in the money changer and the amount of old money used in the service terminal, and the difference between the accumulated value of old money and the accumulated value of new money ( In other words, the ratio of old money assumed to have been brought in from outside and used in the facility) and the cumulative amount of new money used (that is, equivalent to the value of new money used in the facility) Will be calculated.

  Therefore, it becomes possible to calculate in real time the ratio between the transaction amount in the new currency and the transaction amount in the old currency during the mixed period of the new currency and the old currency. For this reason, the facility side can accurately recognize the usage rate of the new money in the facility based on the ratio calculated in this way, so the specification change or update timing of the service terminal accompanying the issuance of the new money (service terminal) Can be determined easily and appropriately based on the usage rate of the new money recognized as described above.

  Note that not all the new money exchanged at the money changer is put into the service terminal, so the difference between the accumulated value of old money and the accumulated value of new money is brought directly from the outside. Although it does not correspond to the value of old money that is assumed to be used within the facility, such errors will appear on average in the daily ratio calculation results, for example. There is no fear of adversely affecting the perception of the usage rate.

  According to the invention described in claim 2, when only a part of the service terminals in the facility are switched to the specification corresponding to the new money (when the service terminal corresponding to the old money and the service terminal corresponding to the new money are mixed) When the facility user uses the service terminal for new money using old money, he / she exchanges the old money he / she owns for the new money with the money changer and uses the new money obtained as a result. By putting it in the service terminal, a transaction corresponding to the input price is performed. In addition, when a facility user uses a service terminal that supports old-style money with new money, he / she exchanges the new money he / she owns with the old-style money at the money changer, and services the old money obtained thereby. By putting it in the terminal, a transaction corresponding to the input price is performed.

  In this way, in a state where service terminals that can use old money and service terminals that can use new money are mixed, the computing means uses each amount of new money and old money in a money changer and old money in service terminals. Cumulative amounts of money and new money are accumulated, and the difference between the accumulated value of old money at service terminals and the accumulated value of new money at money changers and the accumulated value of old money at money changers. Value (ie, equivalent to the value of old money that is assumed to have been brought from outside and used inside the facility), the accumulated amount of new money used at the service terminal, and the old money at the money changer The ratio of the difference between the accumulated value of the used amount and the total value of the accumulated amount of the new money used in the money changer (that is, equivalent to the value of the new money used in the facility) is calculated.

  Therefore, even if only a part of the service terminals in the facility are switched to the specifications corresponding to the new money, the ratio between the transaction amount with the new money and the transaction money with the old money can be calculated in real time. Become. For this reason, since the facility can accurately recognize the usage rate of new money in the facility based on the ratio calculated in this way, the specification change or update timing determination of the remaining old money compatible service terminals can be made. It becomes possible to carry out easily and appropriately based on the usage rate of the new money recognized as described above.

  According to the third aspect of the invention, when the ratio calculated by the calculation means, that is, the usage rate of new money in the facility exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the notification means notifies that fact. Therefore, there is no possibility of missing the service terminal specification change or update timing associated with the issuance of new money.

Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a sales management system for pachinko halls will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, the system configuration according to the present embodiment shows an initial state when a new banknote is issued.
FIG. 2 schematically shows the configuration of the entire system. In FIG. 2, a plurality of pachinko gaming machines 1 and inter-ball ball lending machines 2 (corresponding to service terminals) are installed adjacent to each other in the pachinko hall. A relay terminal 3 having an information display function and a calling lamp function is installed in the upper part of each gaming machine 1, and this relay terminal 3 includes a corresponding pachinko gaming machine 1, a ballroom lending machine 2, and a management computer. 4 (corresponding to the calculation means) is configured to relay data communication.

  In the pachinko hall, a plurality of money changers 5 (corresponding to money changers, only one is shown) are installed so as to be able to communicate with the management computer 4. As schematically shown in FIG. 3, the money changer 5 includes a bill insertion slot 5a, a bill discharge slot 5b, an insertion amount display portion 5c, and a denomination selection button 5d, and a new bill is inserted. When the denomination selection operation is performed by the denomination selection button 5d, the old banknote of the selected denomination is discharged, which is equivalent to the value of the inserted new banknote.

In FIG. 1, the electrical configuration of the system is shown by a combination of functional blocks (however, with regard to the pachinko gaming machine 1, the ball lending machine 2, the relay terminal 3, and the currency exchange machine 5 provided in large numbers) (Only one unit is shown).
In FIG. 1, a pachinko gaming machine 1 includes a control circuit 1a including a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, an input / output interface (I / O), various sensor groups 1b including a safe ball sensor, an out ball sensor, and the like. 1c, which is provided with other accessory devices (not shown), and is configured to output known management signals such as an out ball signal, a safe ball signal, a winning signal, and a special prize signal to the relay terminal 3.

  The stand ball lending machine 2 has a configuration in which, for example, only a thousand yen bill can be used. A control circuit 2a including a CPU, ROM, RAM, input / output interface (I / O), etc., a player who is a facility user Bill validator 2b for determining the authenticity of bills (old thousand-yen bills) inserted, pachinko ball release mechanism 2c for releasing the number of pachinko balls corresponding to the amount of money (thousands of yen), and other attached devices (Fig. And a sales signal indicating the sales amount is output to the relay terminal 3.

The relay terminal 3 includes a control circuit 3a including a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, an input / output interface (I / O), and the like, an out ball signal, a safe ball signal, and a winning signal output from the corresponding pachinko gaming machine 1. , A management signal such as a special prize signal, and a sales signal output from the daitama ball lending machine 2 are transmitted to the management computer 4.
The money changer 5 was inserted into the bill insertion slot 5a and the control circuit 5e including the CPU, ROM, RAM, input / output interface (I / O), etc., in addition to the insertion amount display portion 5c and the denomination selection button 5d. A bill validator 5f for determining the authenticity of a bill (old thousand yen bill), a bill dispensing device 5g for ejecting a new bill from the bill discharge port 5b, etc. In addition, usage amount data indicating the value of the inserted new banknote is transmitted to the management computer 4.

Based on various signals transmitted from the relay terminal 3, the management computer 4 is a well-known data management function for summarizing and managing the performance data indicating the operating state of the pachinko gaming machine 1 and the sales data at the daitama ball lending machine 2. In addition, the ratio calculation processing related to the gist of the present invention is performed on the basis of the sales data in the inter-ball ball lending machine 2 and the usage amount data from the money changer 5.
In this ratio calculation process, the usage amount N (exchange amount) of the new banknote indicated by the usage amount data from the money changer 5 and the usage amount T (sales amount) of the old banknote indicated by the sales data at the interbank ball lending machine 2 ). Further, the difference between the accumulated value of the old banknotes ΣT and the accumulated value of the new banknotes ΣN (= ΣT−ΣN, that is, brought in from the outside and used in the interbank ball lending machine 2. Equivalent to the transaction volume of the old banknote assumed) and the total amount of money used for the new banknote ΣN (that is, the transaction volume of the new banknote in the money changer 5).

  The management computer 4 outputs the result of the ratio calculation process as form data in a format as shown in Table 1 below.

  In the example of Table 1, the total amount (= ΣT) of used amount T (= sales) of old banknotes is 4 million yen, and the total amount (= ΣN) of used amount N (= exchange amount) of new banknotes is 1,20,000 yen. The total sales volume of old banknotes that are assumed to have been collected and used from the outside by the above ratio calculation process is 29.98 million yen (= ΣT-ΣN). The proportion of the total amount is 74.5 (= {(ΣT−ΣN) ÷ ΣT} × 100)%, and the transaction amount of new banknotes is 25.5 (= (ΣN ÷ ΣT) × 100)% Therefore, the total transaction volume (= sales) is 4 million yen, of which the transaction volume with old banknotes is 29.98 million yen and the transaction volume with new banknotes is 10.2 million yen, the ratio of these transaction volumes is 74. 5: 25.5 is shown. In this case, when the form data is output from the management computer 4, data as shown in FIG. 4 in which the ratio between the transaction amount of the old banknote and the transaction amount of the new banknote is graphed is also output. It is good also as a structure.

  Therefore, according to the configuration of the present embodiment, on the pachinko hall side, the usage rate of the new banknotes in the pachinko hall can be accurately recognized in real time based on the ratio of the transaction volume of the old and new banknotes indicated by the form data. Use of new banknotes recognized as described above for the change of the specification or update timing of the interbank ball lending machine 2 associated with the issuance of new banknotes (timing to switch the interbank ball lending machine 2 to a state corresponding to the new banknote) It becomes possible to carry out easily and appropriately based on the ratio.

  In this case, not all the new banknotes paid out from the money changer 5 are used in the interbank ball lending machine 2, so the difference between the accumulated amount of money used for the old banknote ΣT and the accumulated amount of money used for the new banknote ΣN (ΣT−ΣN) does not correspond to the value of old banknotes that are assumed to have been brought in from the outside as they are and used in the interbank ball lending machine 2. However, since such an error appears on average in the daily ratio calculation result, for example, there is no possibility of adversely affecting the recognition of the usage ratio of new banknotes in the pachinko hall. In addition, the correction coefficient k which shows the ratio for which the old-type banknotes paid out from the money changer 5 is used in the interbank ball lending machine 2 is assumed in advance, and in the ratio calculation process, instead of calculating ΣT−ΣN. If ΣT−k · ΣN is calculated, the transaction amount of the old banknote can be corrected using the correction coefficient k, so that the reliability of the form data can be improved.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and can be modified or expanded as described below.
As a configuration in which notification means for performing a notification operation when the ratio calculated by the ratio calculation process in the management computer 4 (for example, the ratio of new banknotes occupying the total transaction amount) exceeds a predetermined threshold is provided. Also good. According to this configuration, when the usage rate of the new banknote in the pachinko hall exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the notification means notifies that effect, so that the ball between the issuance of the new banknote There is no possibility of missing the specification change or update timing of the rental machine 2.

  Moreover, it is good also as a structure which produces the data which classified the use condition of the new type banknote in the money-changing machine 5 according to money type. When it is set as such a structure, when performing the specification change or update of the daitama ball lending machine 2, it becomes possible to consider the money type which the said daitama ball lending machine 2 handles. For example, when it is determined that the usage rate of the 2,000 yen banknote is high based on the creation data, the 2,000 yen banknote can be handled when the specification change or update of the interbank ball lending machine 2 is performed. By switching, it is possible to reduce the frequency of players leaving the pachinko machine for exchanging 2,000 yen bills, so the pachinko machine can be expected to improve the operating rate of the pachinko machine, etc. It will be useful in managing.

  In the said Example, although it was set as the system structure which can use only a new type banknote in the change machine 5 for convenience of explanation, of course, it is good also as a structure which can exchange an old type banknote in the change machine 5. In other words, due to cost problems, when only a part of the interbank ball lending machine 2 is switched to one corresponding to the new banknote, the money changer 5 has a function to exchange the new banknote for the old banknote and the old banknote to the new banknote. In addition, the management computer 4 may be configured to perform a ratio calculation process as described below after having a configuration including both functions for exchanging money.

  In other words, in the ratio calculation process in this case, the usage amounts of the new banknote and the old banknote in the money changer 5 and the usage amounts of the old banknote and the new banknote in the interbank ball lending machine 2 are accumulated, respectively. The sum of the difference between the accumulated value of the old banknotes in the ball lending machine 2 and the accumulated value of the new banknotes in the money changer 5 and the accumulated value of the old banknotes in the money changer 5 The ratio between the accumulated value of the new banknotes in the ball lending machine 2 and the difference between the accumulated value of the old banknotes in the money changer 5 and the total value of the new banknotes in the money changer 5 calculate.

  According to such a configuration, when only a part of the interbank ball lending machine 2 in the pachinko hall is switched to the specification corresponding to the new banknote (the interbank ball lending machine 2 compatible with the old banknote and the base corresponding to the new banknote) If the player who is a facility user uses the old banknote for the new banknote, the old model that he / she owns is used. The banknotes are exchanged for new banknotes in the money changer 5, and the new banknotes obtained thereby are used in the interbank ball lending machine 2. In addition, when a player who possesses a new banknote uses the interbank ball lending machine 2 compatible with the old banknote, he / she exchanges the new banknote he / she owns with the old banknote in the money changer 5 and obtains it. The old banknotes that have been used will be used in the interbank ball lending machine 2.

  Thus, in the state where the interbank ball lending machine 2 that can use the old banknote and the interbank ball lender 2 that can use the new banknote are mixed, the management computer 4 uses the new banknote and the old banknote in the money changer 5. The total amount of money used and the amount of money used in the old banknote and the new banknote in the interbank ball lending machine 2 are accumulated, and the total amount of old banknotes used in the taima ball lending machine 2 and the new model in the money changer 5 Total value of the difference between the accumulated bill usage values and the accumulated bill usage value in the money changer 5 (that is, equivalent to the value of the old bills that are assumed to have been brought from outside and used in the pachinko hall) ), And the difference between the accumulated value of new banknotes at the interbank ball lending machine 2 and the accumulated value of old banknotes at the money changer 5 and the accumulated value of new banknotes at the money changer 5 Value (ie equivalent to the value of a new banknote used in a pachinko hall) The rate will be calculated.

  Accordingly, even when only a part of the interbank ball lending machine 2 is switched to the specification corresponding to the new banknote, the ratio between the transaction amount of the new banknote and the transaction amount of the old banknote can be calculated in real time. become. For this reason, on the pachinko hall side, the usage rate of new banknotes in the hall can be accurately recognized based on the ratio calculated in this way. The update timing can be determined easily and appropriately based on the usage rate of the new banknote recognized as described above.

Although it demonstrated in the example of the facility (pachinko hall) which installed the service terminal (Tama ball lending machine 2) which performs transaction according to the insertion of a banknote, the service which performs the transaction according to the input value according to the insertion of a coin The present invention may be applied to a facility where a terminal is installed. In this case, it is a matter of course that a coin changer is installed as a currency exchange machine.
As explained in the example applied to the sales management system for pachinko halls, it should be widely applicable to all sales management systems for facilities where a large number of service terminals that perform transactions according to the input value according to the input of banknotes are installed. Of course.

1 is an overall functional block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. Schematic overall configuration diagram Front view of money changer The figure which shows an example of the output contents of the management computer

Explanation of symbols

1 is a pachinko gaming machine, 2 is a ball rental machine (service terminal), 3 is a relay terminal, 4 is a management computer (calculation means), and 5 is a money changer.

Claims (3)

In a sales management system for facilities where a large number of service terminals that perform transactions according to the input value according to the input of money are installed,
A currency exchange machine having a function of exchanging new money into old money that can be used at the service terminal;
The amount of new money used in the money changer and the amount of old money used in the service terminal are accumulated, and the difference between the accumulated value of old money and the accumulated value of new money and the use of the new money A sales management system comprising a calculation means for calculating a ratio with the total amount. In addition to the function of exchanging new money into old money, the money change machine is configured to have a function of exchanging old money into new money,
In a state where a service terminal that can use old money and a service terminal that can use new money are mixed, the calculation means uses each amount of new money and old money in the money changer and old money in the service terminal. The total amount of money and new money used is accumulated, and the difference between the accumulated value of old money used at the service terminal and the accumulated value of new money used at the money changer and the amount of old money used at the money changer The difference between the total value of the used amount, the accumulated value of the new money at the service terminal, and the accumulated value of the old money at the exchange machine, and the accumulated value of the new money at the money changer The sales management system according to claim 1, wherein a ratio with the total value is calculated. 3. The sales management system according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit that performs a notification operation when the ratio calculated by the calculation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value.

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