Abstract: A wearable device for simulating wounds and injuries received during a trauma event includes a raiment and vest for covering the torso of a person. The raiment has an outer surface with a color and a texture comparable to human skin. Mounted on the outer surface is at least one wound simulator formed with an orifice that is in fluid communication with a fluid reservoir. Thus, the person can selectively expel a blood-like fluid from the reservoir, and through the wound simulator orifice, to simulate a trauma event. The vest includes an artificial rib cage and prosthetic internal organs juxtaposed with at least one wound simulator to simulate internal effects of a trauma event.

Abstract: A game apparatus and method for bag toss includes box sections connected end to end to form a cascading arrangement angled from a rear box section to a forward box section towards a playing position. Each box section includes a back plate and a peripheral sidewall projecting outwardly from a front side of the back plate. Each box section is connected with a sidewall of an adjacent box section in sequence. A leg section is attached to a bottom of the sidewall at the box section at one end opposite the section at a base. The leg section supports the game apparatus in an elevated angle inclined towards the forward box section. The method discloses a different scoring value for each box section dependent on the size of the box. The box sections may be nestable within one another for compact storage.

Abstract: A first locking mechanism is configured to block rotating the first and second holders by locking an operation component or by locking the first and second holders when the cap is not mounted on one of the first and second holders, and is configured to unlock rotating the first and second holders by being engaged with the cap when the cap is mounted on one of the first and second holders and when the cap is arranged to face upwardly towards a upper side. A second locking mechanism is configured to block rotating the first and second holders by locking the operation component or by locking the first and second holders when the cap is mounted on one of the first and second holders and when the cap is arranged to face downwardly to a lower side opposite to the upper side.

Abstract: A motorized aquatic toy having a body with an attached articulated tail formed of pivotally connected hollow tail segments that maintain directional stability when water is flowing through and around them and having forward offset pivot points with mechanical stops that force contiguous tail segments to pivot in sequence from fore to aft in response to yawing of the body to simulate a life-like pattern of movement with a high level of realism.

Abstract: An apparatus that simulates a respiratory system for characterizing particle delivery within lungs by an inhaler within lungs is shown and described. The respiratory system simulator comprises a simulated oral cavity to receive an aerosol, a simulated oropharynx cavity, a simulated lung airway system, and a breath simulator. The simulated oral cavity is configured to receive a flow of particles and direct the flow to the simulated oropharynx cavity. The simulated oropharynx cavity is configured to receive a flow from the simulated oral cavity and direct the flow to a simulated trachea cavity. The simulated trachea cavity directs the flow to the simulated lung airway system. The simulated lung airway system comprises a plurality of bronchial airway generations simulating bronchial airway generations of a lung or lungs. The respiratory system simulator may be maintained at or near humidity and temperature levels within a respiratory system.

Abstract: A card game includes a deck of cards used, for example, to play craps, poker, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a playing card, where a suit and a rank are printed on one surface of a card base sheet, a back pattern is printed on a back surface, an intermediate layer having a black layer or a color layer similar to black is provided on the card base sheet to make transmission of visible rays difficult, and ink containing no carbon is used for printing the suit and the rank. The intermediate layer is configured to prevent transmission of visible rays from the back surface. The suit and the rank printed with the ink containing no carbon are configured to transmit infrared rays. The intermediate layer and the suit and rank printed with the ink containing no carbon are configured such that it is difficult for both the visible rays and the infrared rays to distinguish the suit and the rank from the back surface.

Abstract: A table game system is provided capable of identifying shuffled playing cards used at the time of the occurrence of a problem in a card shoe apparatus, thereby enabling an investigation of the cause thereof or the taking of countermeasures therefor. A card shoe apparatus of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader that reads a barcode provided in a shuffled playing card set, thereby reading a shuffled card ID that uniquely identifies the shuffled playing card set. A sensor for detecting the opening/closing of the lid is provided under the lid to detect the opening/closing of the lid, thereby detecting replacement of the shuffled playing card set. A control unit further includes a function of storing security items in connection with a shuffled card ID.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, an apparatus may laser project a customized ordering of numbers onto a roulette wheel.

Abstract: A toy construction system comprising toy construction elements, comprising coupling means for releasably interconnecting the toy construction elements, one or more marker construction elements comprising such coupling means and each having a visual appearance recognizable by an image processing means, and a data processing system adapted to process a captured image of a toy construction model constructed from the toy construction elements to detect at least a presence of at least one of the marker construction elements within the captured image, and responsive to the detected marker construction element, generate a computer-generated image, wherein the marker construction element comprises a visually detectable feature and a movable element movable between a first and a second position, wherein the movable element, when positioned in the first position, causes the visually detectable feature to be visible and, when positioned in the second position, causes the visually detectable feature to be obstructed from

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a playing card, where a suit and a rank are printed on one surface of a card base sheet, a back pattern is printed on a back surface, an intermediate layer having a black layer or a color layer similar to black is provided on the card base sheet to make transmission of visible rays difficult, and ink containing no carbon is used for printing the suit and the rank. The intermediate layer is configured to prevent transmission of visible rays from the back surface. The suit and the rank printed with the ink containing no carbon are configured to transmit infrared rays. The intermediate layer and the suit and rank printed with the ink containing no carbon are configured such that it is difficult for both the visible rays and the infrared rays to distinguish the suit and the rank from the back surface.

Abstract: A table game system is provided capable of identifying shuffled playing cards used at the time of the occurrence of a problem in a card shoe apparatus, thereby enabling an investigation of the cause thereof or the taking of countermeasures therefor. A card shoe apparatus of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader that reads a barcode provided in a shuffled playing card set, thereby reading a shuffled card ID that uniquely identifies the shuffled playing card set. A sensor for detecting the opening/closing of the lid is provided under the lid to detect the opening/closing of the lid, thereby detecting replacement of the shuffled playing card set. A control unit further includes a function of storing security items in connection with a shuffled card ID.

Abstract: Card-handling devices may include a card input mechanism and a temporary card storage area positioned to receive cards from the card input mechanism. The temporary card storage area may include storage compartments distributed longitudinally along a rack. A card output mechanism may be configured to eject cards from the temporary card storage area. A card size adjustment member may be attached to the rack and extending along a lateral side of each storage compartment. The card size adjustment member may be movable between a first lateral position in which the card size adjustment member defines a first width of each of the storage compartments and a second lateral position in which the card size adjustment member defines a second, different width of each of the storage compartments.

Abstract: A cornhole bag includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a filling. The bottom surface includes a first material and a second material with differing coefficients of friction in relation to a cornhole board. The top surface may also include a first material and a second material with differing coefficients of friction in relation to a cornhole board. Accordingly, the cornhole bag may be tossed toward a cornhole board such that the differing materials of the cornhole bag make contact with the cornhole board at different times.

Abstract: A card shuffler that moves cards one at a time to randomly designated single-card receptacle in a receiving or dealing rack, and a method for shuffling and for dealing cards.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described herein for controlling movement of a platform for rolling at least one dice in a gaming system. In one aspect, a method for controlling movement of a platform for rolling at least one dice in a gaming system is described. In one aspect, a method for controlling movement of a dice includes causing a platform holding at least one dice to move upward with a first force. The method may further include causing the platform to move downward a first distance or over a first period of time. The method may additionally include causing the platform to move upward with a second force, with a height that the dice moves upward being configured by selecting at least one of the first force, the first distance, the first period of time, or the second force.

Abstract: A playing card handling device comprises a card storing area that supports a stack of playing cards, the card storing area having a playing card support surface. A card removing system removes playing cards individually from the bottom of the stack. A pivoting arm is automatically moved by a motor between at least two positions, wherein in a first position the end of the arm opposite a pivot is disengaged from a playing card at the top of the stack and in a second position the end of the arm is engaged with a playing card at the top of the stack. A processor in the playing card handling device directs movement of the pivoting arm between at least the first and second positions when a predetermined number of cards is present in the card storing area. Methods of card handling include employing the use of such a pivotal arm.

Abstract: The present invention is a foldable playing-card case suitable for dealing cards. The case includes three portions, each having a base and a pair of opposing sidewalls extending perpendicular from each base. The base of the first portion has a slit sized to deal cards therethrough. The second portion has an angled wall connected to the base. The angled wall of the second portion is hingedly connected to the base of the first portion. The base of the third portion is hingedly connected to the base of the second portion and the base of the third portion is also connected to an angled wall. The case has two pairs of magnets, a pair of magnets on the opposing sidewalls of the first portion and the third portion. The pairs of magnets connect when the base of the first portion is rotated toward the angled wall of the third portion.

Abstract: A flying toy system capable of independently hovering at a programmable height and respond to the manipulations and/or actions of one or more users through their fingers or similar digit extensions, all while continuing an autonomous flight regime.

Abstract: A game device (1) is described, of the type which comprises a first moving part (2b), equipped with a plurality of numbered sectors or boxes (9), adapted to receive a ball (5), the first moving part (2b) rotating inside a second fixed part (2a), so that, by placing the ball (5) on a track (6) of the second fixed part (2a) and by launching it towards the first moving part (2b), the ball (5) ends its travel in one of the numbered boxes (9), thereby determining a winning number; the game device (1) has means adapted to determine at least one other stop position of the ball (5), inside the numbered boxes (9). A method is also described, for increasing the number of possible results which can be obtained with this game device (1).