Industrial Solutions

High-speed pachinco ball returning control, due to built-in ball dispenser first in the industry

Announcing the release of the bill validator,
in which pachinco ball dispenser is built

Suitable for the ball control systems between pachinco machines and automatic service equipment used in pachinco parlours


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March 23, 2006, Osaka, Japan-Panasonic Electronic Devices Co., Ltd. has succeeded in commercializing the bill validator in which pachinco ball dispenser is built first in the industry, which is used for the ball control systems including the ball dispensers between pachinco machines.

Product name/series name

Bill validator /EUC78 series

Sample price

30,000 yen/unit (built-in ball dispensers)

Mass production price

15,000 yen/unit (built-in ball dispensers)

Sample production

April 2006

Production start

August 2006

Production capacity

5,000 units/month (at September 2006)
The ball control systems between machines used in pachinco parlours are made up of a combination of a single-function unit including the bill validator and pachinco ball dispensers. As the ball control systems between machines have become more advanced functions and the rate of a consumption tax is changed, the ball control systems between machines have been increasingly required to be more compact by adding the ball dispensers by a single-ball unit in the market. To meet the market demand, Panasonic Electronic Devices Co., Ltd, has developed the bill validator in which ball dispenser is built first in the industry.
[Features]
  1. Built-in pachinco ball dispensers (*1) first in the industry realizes a compact unit and ball dispensers by a single-ball unit
    Dimensions: (Height) 139 mm (Width) 33 mm (Depth)154 mm
    (built-in ball dispensers)
    Volume: Approx. 20 % reduction compared with our current models (*2)
  2. Wide selection of products by a combination of various additional functions
    Comprised of the bamboo-fiber grown up fast and continuously reproduced, which is a natural material.
    * Bill validator as a main function, pachinco ball dispensers, extended bill-conveying units, escrow functions as additional functions
    (Our current models: Single-function unit)
    * Conformed to both serial interface and parallel interface protocols
  3. High-precision bill recognition technology realizes the bill validator of large denomination notes (new bills and current bills available)
    4-denomination bills and 7-kind bills available: a new and current thousand-yen bill, two thousand-yen bill, new and current five thousand-yen bill, new and current ten thousand-yen bill
(*1) Our investigation of the bill validator used in the ball control systems between machines as of March 23, 2006.
(*2) A combination of "an individual bill-validation unit "and "an individual ball dispenser"

[Applications]

Pachinko's ball control unit between pachinco machines, Automatic vending machines