To miniaturize a pachinko inter-machine device by building a pachinko ball counting part and a coin sorting device into the same casing.
This coin sorting device has a coin slot 16, a coin passage 17, a coin identifying sensor 18, an identification circuit, a coin gate 19, a coin sorting gate 20, a first coin exit 21, a second coin exit 22, a coin return hole 23, a pachinko ball entrance 24, a pachinko ball passage 25, a pachinko ball counting machine 26, a pachinko ball sensor 28, a pachinko ball exit 27, a control part, and a pachinko ball counting sensor 29. The device has a built-in pachinko ball counting part which rotates the pachinko ball counting machine 26 according to an output signal from the control part to release the pachinko balls in the downward direction and which then counts the released pachinko balls using the pachinko ball counting sensor 29 to release the pachinko balls from the pachinko ball exit 27.
OBATA TERUYUKI
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