Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080318664 | Gaming Machine and Gaming Method Thereof - A gaming environment is described. If the predetermined condition is met and the free game is shifted, reels are changed to other reels to be used in the free game. Also, in the free game, reel display portion on which the WILD symbols are displayed on all of the symbol display portions, the reel display portion is held in following games. The WILD symbols are consecutively displayed with the predetermined number (which is greater or equal to the number of symbol display portions of one reel display portion) on the reels used in the free game. Therefore, the probability where WILD symbols fill on the all of the can be enhanced, one or more aspects of the invention can provide higher interest to the player. | 12-25-2008 |
20080318667 | Gaming Machine - A gaming environment is described. In a base game, if scatter symbols are displayed with a predetermined number and above, a game mode is shifted to a free game. In the free game, different reels are used between in a first reel display portion on which the scatter symbol was displayed and on in a second reel display portion on which the scatter symbol was not displayed. Also, expectation value of payout number can be changed without changing payout table. | 12-25-2008 |
20090005156 | Gaming Machine And Gaming Method Thereof - A gaming environment is described. If a predetermined condition is met, one of plural games is selected as a free game. Here, realizable winning combination and reel are different in each of selectable plural games. If the game is selected, symbols are variably displayed and stopped displayed using the reel corresponding to the selected game. And, if the combination of stopped displayed symbols is any of the winning combination corresponding to the selected game, the payout number corresponding to the realized winning combination is provided to a player. | 01-01-2009 |
20090054120 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Before execution of a current race, paddock images or training images of racehorses participating in the race are set, based on past race outcomes of the racehorses, so as to have positive impressions if past race outcomes are good and to have negative impressions if the past race outcomes are bad. The set paddock images or training images are displayed on a large-sized display or a main game display provided in a gaming terminal. | 02-26-2009 |
20090054121 | GAMING APPARATUS EXECUTING RACE BY A PLURALITY OF RACE OBJECTS, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine, comprising a controller programmed to execute the processing of:
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20090054122 | Gaming Machine With A Bonus Game Installed And Method Of Playing A Game - To players who executed BET on a race of a horse racing game that is a main game, a bonus game that starts and ends after the race is randomly generated. If a bonus game is generated, a bonus game image in which a plurality of choices W | 02-26-2009 |
20090054133 | GAMING APPARATUS EXECUTING RACE BY A PLURALITY OF RACE OBJECTS, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A gaming apparatus of the present invention comprises: an image display; a bet input device with which a bet on a race object that participates in a racing game in which a plurality of race objects contend with one another for winning can be inputted; and a controller, the controller programmed so as to execute the processing of (F) determining whether or not to offer a special award, and (G) displaying an enlarged view of at least a portion of an effect image to the image display, when it is determined in the processing (F) to offer the special award. | 02-26-2009 |
20090054137 | GAMING APPARATUS EXECUTING RACE BY A PLURALITY OF RACE OBJECTS, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A gaming apparatus of the present invention accepts a high-amount bet with an upper limit of bets being higher than an upper limit of bets for the normal bet, when game media in a prescribed amount or more have been betted as the normal bet; and offers an award based on the normal bet and a result of the race, and also offers an award based on the high-amount bet and the result of the race. | 02-26-2009 |
20090054160 | Multiplayer Gaming Machine - A gaming machine is provided, which includes a main display and a plurality of terminals in a playing area. The plurality of terminals is situated in front of the main display, and arranged along both sides of an aisle. A terminal includes a seat having a backrest, an opening, a seat enclosure, and a sub display. The opening is formed at one side of the terminal so as to allow the player to move between the aisle and the seat. The seat enclosure surrounds the seat except for the side having the opening. The sub display is provided at a forward portion relative to the terminal on the seat enclosure. The seat is rotatable in a range from a first position where the backrest faces the opening to a second position where the backrest faces the main display. | 02-26-2009 |
20090069077 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming machine measures a lap time every time a leading horse passes a check point and sets a lap time in each of gaming terminals. When the lap time set for each gaming terminal matches the measured lap time, an award is provided to the matching gaming terminal. | 03-12-2009 |
20090075710 | GAMING APPARATUS EXECUTING RACE BY A PLURALITY OF RACE OBJECTS, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A gaming apparatus of the present invention comprises: an image display; an input device with which a plurality of players can input a bet on race objects that participate in a racing game in which a plurality of race objects contend with one another for winning; and a controller, the controller programmed so as to execute the processing of (A) proceeding with a racing game, and (B) displaying to the image display an image showing information based on bets inputted from the input device before the end of the racing game executed in the processing (A). | 03-19-2009 |
20090075734 | GAMING APPARATUS EXECUTING RACE BY A PLURALITY OF RACE OBJECTS, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A gaming apparatus and a game controlling method in which a plurality of game objects, including game objects belonging to a first group and game objects belonging to a second group, appear in a game, and during the game, based on game object data showing one selected game object belonging to the first group and game object data showing one selected game object belonging to the second group, a special game object data showing a special game object that is different from any of those game objects is determined. | 03-19-2009 |
20090098927 | Gaming Machine - In a bonus game, a slot machine associates a bonus reel band made up of condor symbols and feather symbols to reel display portions. Thereafter, the slot machine accepts a selection operation made by the player to select one pay line. The slot machine displays the symbols in a variable fashion and stopped fashion based on the bonus reel band. The slot machine determines the bonus contents such as award of a MAJOR JACKPOT in accordance with the number of condor symbols displayed on the selected pay line in a stopped fashion. Then, the slot machine awards to the player a bonus having the contents thus determined. | 04-16-2009 |
20090104970 | Gaming Machine - Before the start of a free game, a slot machine displays a selection screen on a variable display portion and accepts a selection made by the player with respect to the first choice image and the second choice image. The first special reel band or the second special reel band including a larger number of condor symbols than the normal reel band is associated by lottery to the first choice image and the second choice image. The main CPU changes the normal reel band associated to each reel display portion to a special reel band based on the selection made by the player. Then, the main CPU executes a free game using the special reel band that was changed. | 04-23-2009 |
20090233689 | Slot Machine - When a game mode is shifted from a base game to a free game, if a symbol of “APPLE” is rearranged in a symbol display frame | 09-17-2009 |
20100014206 | LIGHTNING ARRESTER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLING THE SAME - A pair of electrodes sandwiches a serial unit that includes a nonlinear voltage resistor block and a compression spring, which is coupled by a plurality of insulating rods. Each of the electrodes has a plurality of insulating-rod inserting holes and a plurality of fastening-member mounting holes each perpendicular to a corresponding insulating-rod inserting hole. Both ends of each of the insulating rods have a fastening-member through hole such that the insulating rods and the electrodes are fastened by inserting a plurality of fastening members through the fastening-member and mounting the fastening members on the fastening-member mounting holes. | 01-21-2010 |
20100087243 | SLOT MACHINE EXECUTING FREE GAME AND SLOT MACHINE THAT INCREASES THE NUMBER OF DISPLAYED SPECIAL SYMBOLS - According to a slot machine of the present invention, a first specific number of free games are executed when a first predetermined condition is established in a normal game. Further, a second specific number of free games are executed, when a second predetermined condition is established. Furthermore, when the first predetermined condition is established in the free game executed triggered by the establishment of the second predetermined condition, a third specific number of free games are further executed after the second specific number of free games are executed. Here, the third specific number is larger than the first specific number. | 04-08-2010 |
20100105466 | SLOT MACHINE EXECUTING FREE GAME AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to a slot machine of the present invention, a free game is executed when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In the free game, an amount of payout is determined based upon an amount of game media, which is obtained by dividing a total amount of the game media betted in the normal game by the number of BETs. Further, game media of the determined amount of payout are paid out. | 04-29-2010 |
20100120510 | GAMING MACHINE EXECUTING FREE GAME AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to a gaming machine | 05-13-2010 |
20100144421 | SLOT MACHINE HAVING A PLURALITY OF INPUT DEVICES AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine of the present invention is provided with a plurality of BET input devices with each of which a player can bet game media in a different amount. The number of times that a game is played is counted in association with the BET input device with which a BET has been inputted in that game. A predetermined profit is offered based on the number of times counted in association with the BET input device. | 06-10-2010 |
20100220423 | LIGHTNING ARRESTOR - A plurality of insulation supports are provided around a zinc oxide component, and the zinc oxide component and a plurality of insulation supports are integrally molded into an insulation casing. The insulation casing has corrugations on its outer surface. A thin-thickness portion is provided between the corrugations. The thin-thickness portion is provided between the insulation supports. | 09-02-2010 |
20100331073 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A slot machine | 12-30-2010 |
20110312405 | GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD THEREOF - A gaming environment is described. If the predetermined condition is met and the free game is shifted, reels are changed to other reels to be used in the free game. Also, in the free game, reel display portion on which the WILD symbols are displayed on all of the symbol display portions, the reel display portion is held in following games. The WILD symbols are consecutively displayed with the predetermined number (which is greater or equal to the number of symbol display portions of one reel display portion) on the reels used in the free game. Therefore, the probability where WILD symbols fill on the all of the can be enhanced, one or more aspects of the invention can provide higher interest to the player. | 12-22-2011 |
20120127622 | TANK-TYPE LIGHTNING ARRESTER - For a tank-type lighting arrester having varistors in a layered manner, it is an object to provide a lightning arrester having a shield in a simple shape, and in such a shape that achieves more uniform voltage distribution among the varistors than that in conventional techniques. In a lightning arrester according to the present invention, layered varistors are provided in a tank in which an insulating medium is filled, and a cylindrical shield is arranged therearound. To solve at least part of the above problems, in the lightning arrester according to the present invention, a plurality of holes are arranged on a side surface of the shield. | 05-24-2012 |
20120214574 | GAMING MACHINE EXECUTING FREE GAME AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to a gaming machine of the present invention, a specific number of free games are generated when three or more trigger symbols have been stop-displayed in a normal game. Further, when one or two trigger symbols have been stop-displayed in a free game, numeric values in number equivalent to the number of stop-displayed trigger symbols are selected, and then the number of times obtained by summing up the selected numeric values is added to the number of free games. | 08-23-2012 |
20130135783 | ARRESTER - Without providing mechanical processed portions on a plurality of insulating rods arranged around zinc oxide elements, tightening pieces are respectively attached on both end portions of the insulating rod by being tightened. The tightening piece is arranged while being sandwiched by an electrode and a mounting plate, and the electrode and the mounting plate are fastened by a bolt in an axial direction of the insulating rod. With this configuration, the tightening piece is solidly fixed to the electrode by an axial force of the bolt. | 05-30-2013 |
20130308242 | ARRESTER - To include a serial member, a pair of first electrodes sandwiching the serial member, a pair of second electrodes arranged on both outer sides of the first electrodes in a stacking direction, a plurality of insulating clamp members, and a wedge-shaped member tapered in the stacking direction. An annular member that presses the wedge-shaped member is provided on an axial-direction inner end surface of an outer circumferential edge of the second electrode, and the wedge-shaped member is pressed by the annular member by a leading edge portion of a bolt inserted from an axial-direction inner end surface of the annular member being tightened in the second electrode, thereby pressing an axial-direction outer surface of the insulating clamp member. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310136 | GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD - A gaming machine executes a normal mode game to rearrange symbols on the first display, based on at least one first table for determining symbols to be rearranged in the normal mode game, and triggers a chance mode game including a plurality of chance rounds when the rearranged symbols satisfies a first condition. The gaming machine closes the door when the chance mode game is triggered, and determining a chance type of the chance mode game. The gaming machine executes each chance round of the chance mode game to rearrange the symbols based on a second table for the determined chance type among a plurality of second tables, by controlling opening or closing of the door and displaying an object image on the display panel according to the determined chance type. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310138 | GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD - A gaming machine including a plurality of reels, a first driver, a rendering device, a second driver, and a controller is provided. Each of the reels spins and rearranges a plurality of symbols in a game, and the first driver drive the reels. The rendering device renders a visual effect in synchronization with an operation of the reels, and the second driver drives the rendering device. The controller controls the reels and the rendering device and synchronizes the operation of the reels and an operation of the rendering device. | 11-21-2013 |
20130310148 | GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD - A gaming machine selects a control data corresponding to a type of a game result among a plurality of control data for controlling a door. Each control data includes at least one position data for determining a position of the door, and the at least one position data corresponds to at least one of a position data for fully closing the door, a position data for fully opening the door, or at least one position data for partially opening the door. The gaming machine selects a display data corresponding to the selected control data among a plurality of display data, displays on the display panel an image according to the selected display data, controls the door using at least one position data of the selected control data; and displays the game result on the first display. | 11-21-2013 |
20140153152 | ARRESTER - An arrester includes a stacked internal element, a pair of electrodes respectively arranged on both sides of the internal element in a stacking direction, a plurality of FRP rods arranged so as to surround the internal element each having a flat plate shape extending in the stacking direction and including protruding portions in a dumbbell shape with a width increasing from a center side to an end side in an axial direction at a constant inclination angle and then becoming a constant width thereafter, the FRP rods being fixed by the protruding portions respectively being fitted into electrode grooves respectively provided on the electrodes, and an outer cover formed of polymer material and integrally covering at least the internal element, the electrodes, and the FRP rods. | 06-05-2014 |
20140235321 | GAMING MACHINE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In a gaming machine, a symbol display device variably displays a plurality of symbols, and an input device inputs an instruction related to a game. A controller executes a normal game in which the symbol display device variably displays and then stop-displays symbols, triggers a bonus game when a plurality of specific symbols are stop-displayed in the normal game, selects any one of a plurality of options by an operation of the input device by a user in the bonus game, and awards a benefit according to the selected option. Further, when the selected option selected in the processing is a specific option, the controller selects another one of the plurality of options by the operation of the input device by the user, and awards a benefit according to the selected another option. | 08-21-2014 |
20140253788 | IMAGING DEVICE, MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - In an imaging device having a driving device using a stepping motor, improvement in recovery speed after a step out of the motor is realized. An imaging device having a driving device which carries out lens driving, diaphragm driving or pan-tilt-zoom driving with a stepping motor, includes: a motor driving unit which controls a current or voltage supplied to an exciting coil of the stepping motor; a system control unit which outputs a motor driving stop instruction to the motor driving unit; and a detection unit which detects a current or voltage flowing through the exciting coil after the stop instruction is outputted. The system control unit finds a direction of correction and an amount of correction to recover from a movement of a rotor due to a step out of the stepping motor, based on the current or voltage detected by the detection unit, and moves the stepping motor based on the direction of correction and the amount of correction. | 09-11-2014 |
20140342796 | GAMING MACHINE AND GAMING METHOD - A gaming machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a reel assembly including a plurality of reels that includes basic reels and an extra reel including a plurality of symbols; and a controller configured to: execute a first lottery with the basic reels in a game round; execute a second lottery to determine whether the extra reel spins in the game round; execute a third lottery to select one of the symbols on the extra reel when it is determined that the extra reel spins in the game round; control the basic reels to spin and stop in the game round; and control the extra reel to start spinning before the basic reels stop spinning in the game round. | 11-20-2014 |
20140349735 | Gaming Machine - Probability of prize occurrence is easily controlled without provision of a blank between symbols on a reel. A gaming machine | 11-27-2014 |