Patents Assigned to Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
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Patent number: 11727765Abstract: A claw gaming machine may comprise a cabinet, a claw assembly, prize objects, and a shooter unit. The machine may be configured to: determine an outcome of a claw game; allow an input device to control the claw assembly; end the claw game when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome; cause the claw assembly to move and release the picked-up object away from the shooter unit when the claw assembly does pick-up a prize object and the determined outcome is a losing outcome, cause the claw assembly to drop the picked-up object on the shooter unit when the claw assembly picks-up the object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome; and cause a winning game presentation display when the claw assembly does not pick up a prize object and the determined outcome is a winning outcome.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Takaki Narita, Kenji Enokido, Hiroki Saito, Satoshi Joko, Go Miyamoto, Akira Shimizu, Hiromu Saigusa, Jyunichi Murakami, Satoshi Nakata, Masahiro Sugimoto
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Patent number: 11544993Abstract: An electronic table game (“ETG”) system in which a sequence of cards dealt by a common dealer is used to generate a real-time data stream of card identities communicated to a plurality of different player terminals, thereby allowing the different player terminals to provide different games utilizing the same card identities.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Kelvin Morin
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Patent number: 11423745Abstract: In one aspect, an improved gaming table, such as a craps table, is disclosed herein, which combines electronic displays and wagering interfaces with traditional craps tables having physical dice and allowing players to physically throw the dice.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Eric Persson, Kenji Enokido, Hiroki Munakata, Aaron Huang, Motoya Nakamura, Kenji Hamao
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Patent number: 11158157Abstract: In one aspect, an improved roulette gaming system is disclosed herein, which provides visual effects for a roulette wheel, a roulette ball, or both.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Yoichi Kato, Katsuhiro Kido
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Patent number: 11087586Abstract: In one aspect, an improved table game system is disclosed herein, which displays visual effects on a play surface. A game system comprising: a table top having a game play area, and a table support for supporting the table top, a dealer station, a display that covers at least a portion of the game play area, a projector assembly, the projector assembly including a projector and a projector mount that mounts the projector to the support frame at a mounting angle, and a processing system connected to the projector and the dealer station.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Hiromichi Ikeda, Yoshihiro Nagasaki, Katsuhiro Kido
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Patent number: 10417876Abstract: A gaming machine that is capable of providing information relevant to a winning combination to a player before spinning of a respective one of reels stops in a unit game is provided. When the player's operation is made, in the case where the predetermined symbol is displayed in the effect reel display region 410, symbol arrays of the effect reels are scrolled in an upward direction or in a downward direction and then the predetermined symbol is displayed at the to-be-stopped position, or alternatively, in the case where the predetermined symbol is not displayed, scrolling is controlled so that a symbol displayed immediately after the above situation is replaced with the predetermined symbol and then the predetermined symbol appears from an upper part of the effect reel display region 410, and stops at the to-be-stopped position.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Masumi Fujisawa, Hiroki Nakamura, Takeshi Narita, Hiromoto Yamauchi
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Patent number: 10395466Abstract: To facilitate and shorten the work of changing displayed content on the topper display device 211, a slot machine 1 includes: a gaming machine main body 5 configured to run a game; a topper display device 211 accommodating a display plate module 2117 for displaying a game related information, in such a manner that the display plate module 2117 is detachable from a side; a topper support mechanism 215 rotatably supports the topper display device 211 so that the topper display device 211 is capable of rotating in a horizontal direction on the gaming machine main body 5.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Jun Hirato, Hayato Matsunaga, Gou Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10354489Abstract: It is an object to provide a gaming machine configured to yield a rescue award according to the number of result determination areas on which the player has placed a bet, when games without any benefit are continued. To this end, a slot machine 1 executes a process of receiving a selection of ways bet through a control Panel 30, incrementing the game play count on a counter corresponding to the ways bet selected, upon start of the normal game, determining whether the game play count on the counter has reached the threshold game play count, and awarding the benefit when the game play count is determined as to have reached the threshold game play count.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Susumu Mio, Yuji Miyagawa, Takehisa Itagaki, Yukihiro Kawakami, Takeshi Narita, Yoichi Kato, Bungo Matsumura
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Patent number: 10290177Abstract: To facilitate visual confirmation of the displayed content on a topper display device T211, from a direction in which the displayed content is visible, a gaming machine comprises: a gaming machine main body configured to run a game; a topper display device T211, which is provided on the gaming machine main body and configured to display game related content; and an illumination mechanism T3 provided to the topper display device T211 and configured to emit illumination light to all four directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jun Hirato, Hayato Matsunaga, Gou Miyamoto
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Patent number: 10186118Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention stores a bet area on which a bet is placed through a gaming terminal and a game value placed as the bet, determines a resulting symbol from a plurality of symbols, rotates the wheel based on an operation of the lever in one of the plurality of gaming terminals, whose lever has been activated, stops the rotation of the wheel so that the pointer points at a symbol arrangement area with the resulting symbol, and awards a payout based on the resulting symbol and the odds set for the bet area in which the bet is placed through the gaming terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Katsuhiro Kido, Hiroki Munakata
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Patent number: 10134230Abstract: The present application provides a game playing information integration system which is capable of objectively performing selection and/or settings according to preference of a player, particularly fixed customers, and thereby capable of effectively introducing a gaming machine to invoke demands of players as users and managers of gaming facilities in a well-balanced manner from a result obtained by logically analyzing the gaming machine. (a) Game playing period at one time of each player in gaming machine unit, (b) change in balance over time of player in a game playing period, (c) operation time of the gaming machine unit, and (d) data relating to profit of a shop side by the gaming machine are generated, the degree of satisfaction of player is computed based on (a) and (b), and the degree of satisfaction of a shop side is computed based on (c) and (d).Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Kazuo Okada, Kengo Takeda
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Patent number: 10074234Abstract: The present invention is to provide a casino table capable of adequately determining whether a dishonest act is committed on a card arranged on a casino table while reducing a maintenance cost, a personnel cost, etc., by using a normal card not containing the tag, etc. A game surface is imaged by an imaging device, the presence of the card placed on the game surface is detected from image data produced by an imaging signal issued from the imaging device, and trajectory data of the card placed on the game surface is produced.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Kazuki Emori, Hiroyuki Watanabe
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Patent number: 10049527Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a power source unit; a game control device; a reporting device; a first temperature sensor provided to the power source unit, which monitors whether the temperature of the power source unit is at or higher than a first threshold temperature; a second temperature sensor provided to the power source unit, which monitors whether the temperature of the power source unit is at or higher than a second threshold temperature higher than the first threshold temperature; and a power control device which performs an abnormal-situation process which causes the reporting device to inform the occurrence of an abnormal situation, when the temperature of the power source unit is at or higher than the first threshold temperature, and perform a power-supply stopping process which stops power supply to the devices, when the temperature of the power source unit is at or higher than the second threshold temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Keisuke Kawashima, Yoshitomo Sasaki, Tatsuhiko Tanimura, Masumi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9997008Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a reel having an outer circumferential surface on which symbols are lined up; a reel driving mechanism which rotates the reel to rearrange the symbols; a magnet which is provided in the reel driving mechanism to change an external magnetic field in accordance with the rotation of the reel; a magnetic force detecting mechanism which detects a magnetic force of the external magnetic field so as to output a magnetic force detection signal; a reel setting unit by which the magnetic force detection signal and arrangement positions of the symbols are associated with one another; and a reel drive control unit which controls the reel driving mechanism so that the symbols are rearranged in a predetermined arrangement based on the magnetic force detection signal and the arrangement positions of the symbols.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Tatsuhiko Tanimura, Noritoshi Kukita, Hiroatsu Ike, Yoshitomo Sasaki
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Patent number: 9965917Abstract: A slot machine displays on a display a unit game in which arranged symbols are rearranged. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the slot machine displays on the display a free game that is a special game. The slot machine also changes a game sound that has been emitted into a different game sound when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the free game.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Naoki Tsuchiya, Kohei Hashimoto, Hiroki Abe, Takanori Sakata
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Patent number: 9928684Abstract: The present application provides a game playing information integration system which is capable of objectively performing selection and/or settings according to preference of a player, particularly fixed customers, and thereby capable of effectively introducing a gaming machine to invoke demands of players as users and managers of gaming facilities in a well-balanced manner from a result obtained by logically analyzing the gaming machine. (a) Game playing period at one time of each player in gaming machine unit, (b) change in balance over time of player in a game playing period, (c) operation time of the gaming machine unit, and (d) data relating to profit of a shop side by the gaming machine are generated, the degree of satisfaction of player is computed based on (a) and (b), and the degree of satisfaction of a shop side is computed based on (c) and (d).Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Kazuo Okada, Kengo Takeda
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Patent number: 9898899Abstract: Probability of prize occurrence is easily controlled without provision of a blank between symbols on a reel. A gaming machine comprises: a lower image display panel configured to variably display a plurality of symbol arrays with a plurality of symbols including normal symbols and specific symbols more advantageous than the normal symbols, and then display a game result by rearranging the symbols in a symbol display region containing a matrix of cells; bet buttons capable of receiving a bet; and a controller configured to run a normal game which rearranges symbols on the symbol display device on condition that a bet is placed, the controller is configured to modify the symbols arrayed in the plurality of symbol arrays, so that the ratios of the specific symbols to the total number of the symbols in all the symbol arrays increases with an increase in the bet amount.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Keiichi Kojima, Hiroshi Takahashi, Tetsuya Yokota, Yukinori Inamura, Takeshi Narita, Yuji Miyagawa, Takuto Nakayama, Atsuya Takano, Erika Turchi, Toshihiko Honda, Keisuke Kajino
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Patent number: 9892598Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a gaming machine that offers wider applicability and more enjoyment. To this end, a slot machine 1 configured to run a normal game and a free game which develops from the normal game, includes a storage device storing a free game payout table and a normal game payout table, wherein a maximum payout obtainable in the normal game is higher than a maximum payout obtainable in the free game, and a chance of winning the maximum payout in the normal game is higher than a chance of winning the maximum payout in the free game.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Kenta Kitamura, Susumu Mio, Kazunori Ohtsuka
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Patent number: 9881463Abstract: Provided is a gaming machine which does not bore the player through reel actions until completion of rearrangement of symbols. Under the condition where predetermined symbols are aligned on a payline when the symbols of a first scroll line of at least one of a plurality of scroll lines are being scrolled and symbols on the remaining second scroll lines are stopped, the gaming machine changes scrolling motion of symbols of the first scroll line.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Masumi Fujisawa, Kenta Kitamura, Susumu Mio, Hidekazu Suzuki, Kazuo Okada
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Patent number: RE46738Abstract: Provided is a gaming machine having a cabinet. Between the back as a back face and the right side face of the sides of the cabinet, the gaming machine has a right end side, which is formed by cutting a plane parallel to the gravitational direction in a manner to join lines spaced at predetermined distances in the individual directions of the back and the right side face from a line of intersection, on which the back and the right side face intersect when extended. The gaming machine also has a left end side between the back and a left side face. Moreover, the right end side and the left end side are symmetric with respect to a plane dividing the cabinet equally to the right and left.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Yoshitomo Sasaki, Akira Shimizu, Katsuhiro Kido, Kenta Kitamura, Hideaki Kishi, Hiroatsu Ike