Patents Represented by Attorney Lexyoume IP Group, PLLC.
  • Patent number: 8172858
    Abstract: The described technology relates to a suture device for a surgical operation that makes it easy to suture a wound or an incision. A suture device for a surgical operation includes: a suture needle that is curved with a needle eye at one end to be threaded with a first suture, and swings at an incision; a holder that supplies a second suture, rotates in one direction, and stops, corresponding to the swing of the suture needle to weave the first suture and the second suture and suture the incision; a first rotary member that is connected to a first shaft of the suture needle; a second rotary member that is connected to a second shaft of the holder; and a third rotary member that is provided between the first rotary member and the second rotary member, and connected to a third shaft to transmit torque to the second rotary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Postech Academy-Industry Foundation
    Inventors: Hyun-Chul Park, Young-Ho Jang, Kyeng-Ho Hwang, Hun-Kee Lee
  • Patent number: 8172672
    Abstract: A server device uses cameras to capture the images of cards dealt to players and a dealer. The server device automatically judges the game win/lose result of the players and the dealer and the dividends of the players through image recognition based on the card images from the cameras. The server device reads information from the wireless IC tags provided on game chips to judge the dividends of the players. The server device compares between the two dividends of a player to judge whether or not the dividends are inconsistent. If the dividends are inconsistent, the server device notifies the dealer and a casino hotel manager that the dividends are inconsistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corproation
    Inventor: Toshimi Koyama
  • Patent number: 8172664
    Abstract: A slot machine of the present invention comprises: a symbol display device capable of rearranging a plurality of symbols, and a controller programmed to conduct processing of (A) executing a game in which, after game media in number equal to or less than a predetermined maximum number of BETs are bet, the plurality of symbols are rearranged by the symbol display device, and game media in number according to the arranged symbols or combinations are paid out; (B) shifting a mode from a non-insurance mode to an insurance mode on condition that a predetermined number of game media is inserted; (C) counting the number of games played after shifting to the insurance mode, in the insurance mode; (D) paying out a predetermined number of game media when the number of games counted in the processing (C) reaches a specific number; (E) clearing the number of games counted in the processing (C) and also shifting the mode from the insurance mode to the non-insurance mode, when a game ending condition which enables a player
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuo Okada
  • Patent number: 8172673
    Abstract: A return is reliably executed to a player who has paid a predetermined amount to a game machine. The timing of this return is determined by lottery, and its result is displayed on the game machine. This thrills the player with expectation of the return, thereby keeping the player long on the same game machine. As the result, it is avoidable that the player waiting for a prize for a long time loses enthusiasm for the game and keeps away from the hall (i.e., a reduction in the number of customers).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Okada
  • Patent number: 8167699
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes plural stations and a processor. Each station can determine a game result and execute a game independently. The processor accepts each station's entry to an event game when a predetermined condition is satisfied. An event game consists of a plural number of unit event games. When executing unit event games, the processor collects a game charge from a station whose entry to the event game has been accepted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Yukinori Inamura
  • Patent number: 8163071
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hollow fiber that includes a hollow positioned at the center of the hollow fiber, macropores positioned at adjacent to the hollow, and mesopores and picopores positioned at adjacent to macropores, and the picopores are three dimensionally connected to each other to form a three dimensional network structure. The hollow fiber includes a polymer derived from polyamic acid, and the polyamic acid includes a repeating unit obtained from aromatic diamine including at least one ortho-positioned functional group with respect to an amine group and dianhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University)
    Inventors: Young Moo Lee, Ho Bum Park, Sang Hoon Han, Chul Ho Jung
  • Patent number: 8157409
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light emitting means having a structure that can be used as a light emitting ornament in a sports ground or an event location, a fishing light for the long-line fishery, or light emitting means that can be formed to a specific shape by being continuously assembled with another light emitting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Centro Corporation
    Inventor: Woo-Kyung Sim
  • Patent number: 8152638
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a housing, which is playable by a plurality of players, that has a station provided for each individual player; an operation detection unit that detects an operation of a player present at each of the stations performing a bet operation through a bet image displayed on the image display unit; an image capturing unit, provided at the housing, that can capture images of a player present at each of the stations, and a determination unit that determines tampering or an error of a game by comparing image capturing information obtained by the image capturing unit with predetermined information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8156567
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a software installation system and a method for copy protection. The software installation system includes a support server in which first installation data for installing software is stored; a recording medium in which an RFID tag storing URL information of the support server is installed and second installation data for installing the software is recorded; a computer having a computer interface unit and a data reading unit reading the second installation data recorded in the recording medium; an RFID reader for reading the RFID tag installed in the recording medium; a portable information processing terminal including a wireless communication unit accessing the support server through wireless Internet, a terminal interface unit connected to the computer interface unit of the computer, and a terminal controller downloading the first installation data and controlling the computer through the terminal interface unit and the computer interface unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University
    Inventors: Dong Ryeol Shin, Kee Hyun Choi, Ho Jin Shin
  • Patent number: 8152626
    Abstract: A gaming system of the present invention comprises a plurality of gaming machines and a control device including a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) counting a part of a number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on number-of-game-media information received from the gaming machine, and (E) paying out the game media to the gaming machine as a transmission source of the number-of-game-media information being a basis of counting the number of game media counted in the processing (A) when a number of the gaming machines joining a game is less than a specific number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Arata Ajiro, Yoichi Kato, Kenta Sugano
  • Patent number: 8143296
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel thiazole-based compounds and T-type calcium channel inhibitors containing the compound. The T-type calcium channel inhibitor of the present invention is useful as a treating agent for disease associated with overexpression of T-type calcium channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hoh-Gyu Hahn, Dong-Yun Shin, Kee-Dal Nam
  • Patent number: 8143085
    Abstract: Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell. Specifically, the present invention provides a dye-sensitized solar cell which is designed to reduce the production cost, improve productivity and increase energy efficiency by using a carbon electrode as a counter electrode, and a manufacturing method thereof. The dye-sensitized solar cell according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a working electrode, a counter electrode, and an electrolytic layer separating the two electrodes, wherein the counter electrode comprises a carbon electrode formed on a first transparent substrate, wherein the carbon electrode is a conductive transparent carbon electrode. According to the present invention, it is possible to remarkably reduce the production cost by using a relatively low-cost material, i.e. carbon electrode, and improve the solar cell efficiency by preventing oxidation with the electrolytic layer owing to corrosion and oxidation resistance of the carbon electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation For Corporate Collaboration
    Inventors: Byung You Hong, Yong Seob Park, Sung Uk Lee, Mi Ju Park
  • Patent number: 8143322
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pump and pumping system for a microfluidic lab-on-a-chip, and a fabricating method thereof. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of fabricating a pump for microfluidic lab-on-a-chips, the method including: infiltrating PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) solution into a porous lump of water-soluble material; performing soft baking of the porous lump of water-soluble material containing the PDMS solution; and dissolving the porous lump of water-soluble material via water to obtain a porous PDMS structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignees: Postech Academy-Industry Foundation, Chung-Ang University Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Tai-Hun Kwon, Dong-Sung Kim, Kyoung-Je Cha
  • Patent number: 8145906
    Abstract: Provided is a binding update method in MIPv6 which includes: a first step of generating, with a mobile node, a HoTI (Home Test Init) message and transmitting the HoTI message to a corresponding node; a second step of generating a CoTI (Care of Test Init) message and transmitting the CoTI message to the corresponding node; a third step of generating, with the corresponding node, a HoT (Home of Test) message and transmitting the HoT message to the mobile node; a fourth step of generating a CoT (Care-of Test) message and transmitting the CoT message to the mobile node; a fifth step of generating, with the mobile node, a BU (Binding Update) message and transmitting the BU message to the corresponding node; and a sixth step of verifying, with the corresponding node, the BU message and transmitting a BA (Binding Ack) message to the mobile node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sungkyunkwan University Foundation for Corporate Collaboration
    Inventors: Hyoung Kee Choi, Se Hwa Song, Eun Young Lee, Yi Jin Im, In Hwan Kim, Yae Hoe Kim
  • Patent number: 8144917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dynamic type unit with a multiple magnetic field system, and more particularly, to a dynamic type unit including a magnet, a diaphragm and a moving coil such as a microphone or a speaker, wherein an auxiliary magnet is mounted around a main magnetic field formed by the magnet so as to form an auxiliary magnetic field to thereby correct a waveform of each individual distorted frequency generated from the microphone or the speaker, which results in realization of the best sound whose quality is closest to that of an original sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventors: Jang-Seok Won, Hui-Su Jang
  • Patent number: 8139617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mode-locker including a graphene and a laser pulse device. The mode-locker mode-locks a laser that propagates through a laser oscillation loop. The mode-locker includes: i) a core; ii) cladding that surrounds the core, wherein a groove is formed on a side of the cladding; and iii) a graphene layer that is located in the groove and is formed to be extended along a direction to be parallel to a transferring direction of the laser such that a laser pulse is formed by the interaction of the graphene and the field of the propagating laser mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventor: Yong-Won Song
  • Patent number: 8137184
    Abstract: A gaming system of the present invention comprises a plurality of gaming machines and a control device including a processor, wherein the processor is programmed to execute processing of (A) cumulatively counting a part of a number of betted game media as a cumulative value based on number-of-game-media information received from the gaming machine, and (E) paying out a fixed number of game media to the gaming machine determined based on a extracted random number, when a number of the gaming machines joining the game is less than a specific number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Arata Ajiro, Yoichi Kato, Kenta Sugano
  • Patent number: 8128471
    Abstract: In a racing game, a main controller 20 accepts bet from each of a plurality of terminal devices 30, during a bet accepting period. In a case where final odds, calculated after the expiration of the bet accepting period, is not greater than a predetermined threshold, the main controller 20 executes a recompense processing for bets on the final odds and disqualify the bets from an award, and, when a race is determined to be finished, provides an award by calculating payout for bets qualified for the award.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoaki Oomori
  • Patent number: 8127741
    Abstract: An ignition plug for an internal combustion engine is provided, which includes a pre-combustion chamber cell (150) and at least three exhaust nozzles (160, 170). The pre-combustion chamber cell (150) is disposed to surround a pair of electrodes (140b) in the lower portion of a main cell (110) and is formed in the inner portion where the electrodes (140) are contained. Meanwhile, a circular main exhaust nozzle (160) through which a fluid goes in and out is disposed in the central region of the pre-combustion chamber cell (150). The ignition plug enables the whole engine to have a quick combustion speed. As a result, a more reliable improvement of a combustion performance can be obtained. Also, a fuel-to-air ratio can be enhanced, and an exhaust gas reduction effect can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Inventors: In Tae Johng, Myung Seok Jie
  • Patent number: 8128484
    Abstract: A game system for playing a basic game, includes: slot machines which, when a combination of “BONUS” symbols stop in a winning line, transmit a signal for switching to a roulette game; a second game device, separate from the slot machines, which executes a second game; and a display for displaying an image corresponding to game status of the second game device. In cases in which the switching signal has been transmitted from any one of the slot machines, other slot machines enter a mode that allows the players at the other slot machines to participate in the second game. Furthermore, the game system includes a central controller which can communicate with the slot machines, the second game device, and the display, and which, upon reception of the switching signal from the slot machine, transmits a roulette game start signal to start the roulette game in the second game device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuo Okada