Patents by Inventor Hiroki Nakahata

Hiroki Nakahata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5346398
    Abstract: A stationary game machine can responds to steering by a player to change the orientation of a dummy mover such a vehicle or the like, and also to translate the dummy mover in a direction crossing the dummy mover's path of movement at a speed corresponding to the changed orientation. The game machine can comprise a stationary vehicle used as the dummy mover and an endless belt representing a road as the path of movement.As the scenes on and in the road change in association with the movement of the endless belt, a steering wheel is rotated by the player to change the orientation of the vehicle and, at the same time, to translate the vehicle in the transverse direction. Tile translation of the vehicle is accomplished by a combination of a rotating shaft with a pressure roller contacting the rotating shaft, the cross-angle between the rotating shaft and the pressure roller being controlled to generate a thrust for translating the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Namco Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Nakahata, Yoshinori Satoh, Tatsuhisa Yabushita
  • Patent number: 5039094
    Abstract: A game machine includes a number of movable assemblies, a storing portion for storing the movable assemblies and a mechanism for reciprocating the movable assemblies between a home position inside the storing portion and a turning position outside the storing portion. Each of the movable assemblies is in the form of an animal and includes a pair of members simulating respective jaws of the animal. One of the jaw members is povitally supported relative to the other for simulating opening and closing a mouth of the animal and a mechanism applies a biasing force for pivoting the first mentioned jaw member away from the other jaw member thereby to simulate opening of the mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Namco, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Shukuo Ishikawa, Hiroki Nakahata, Masaki Koenuma, Yoshihiro Mieda