Patents by Inventor Kazunori Otsuka

Kazunori Otsuka 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).

  • Publication number: 20160335854
    Abstract: An object is to provide a gaming machine capable of facilitating the enhancement of the player's interest in a repeat random determination. The controller 220 executes the following steps of (1a) to (1d): (1a) selecting one slot 202 through random determination; (1b) when a multiplier upgrade slot 202a (repeat random determination slot) is selected in the step (1a), executing the step (1a) again; (1c) increasing a wheel multiplier (roulette multiplier) when the multiplier upgrade slot 202a is selected in the step (1a), and increasing the wheel multiplier each time the multiplier upgrade slot 202a is selected; and (1d) when a payout slot is selected in the step (1a), a payout is determined in accordance with the wheel multiplier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kenta KITAMURA, Tatsuya TERANISHI, Kazunori OTSUKA, Akira OSAWA, Hiroatsu IKE, Yoshitomo SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160055704
    Abstract: The gaming machine includes a display device for displaying a game result by rearranging a plurality of symbols and a memory holding a color determination table for determining colors for symbol areas and a winning pattern identification table for identifying a winning pattern based on the colors of the symbol areas, and performs the processing of (1-1) determining colors for symbol areas of a specific kind of symbols in the plurality of symbols by lottery processing with reference to the color determination table held in the memory; (1-2) setting the colors determined in the processing of (1-1) for the symbol areas of the specific kind of symbols; and (1-3) identifying a winning pattern with reference to the winning pattern identification table based on the specific kind of symbols in the colors set in the processing of (1-2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Kenta KITAMURA, Hiroki SAITO, Kazunori OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20150087391
    Abstract: A gaming machine capable of realizing game patterns differing from one another in a bonus game is provided. A main CPU 222 selects by conducting a lottery one symbol determination table from a symbol determination table group having a plurality of symbol determination tables (the first to tenth symbol determination tables in a first embodiment, etc.) associated with a plurality of paylines and randomly determines symbols to be rearranged based on the selected one symbol determination table, the plurality of symbol determination tables having probabilities, with each of which a predetermined symbol combination is established on each of said plurality of paylines, is set to be higher than a predetermined probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Kenta KITAMURA, Taro KOBAYASHI, Susumu MIO, Kazunori OTSUKA, Kenji ENOKIDO, Tatsuya TERANISHI, Takaki NARITA
  • Patent number: 4535105
    Abstract: An aromatic polyamic acid solution composition useful as an electrically insulating varnish, comprises (1) an aromatic polyamic acid which is a polymerization product of (A) a tetracarboxylic acid component containing at least 80 molar % of the sum of (a) a first acid ingredient consisting of 3,3',4,4'-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride and (b) a second acid ingredient consisting of at least one member selected from the group consisting of pyromellitic dianhydride, and 3,3'4,4'-benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride, the molar ratio of the first acid ingredient to the second acid ingredient being in the range of from 30:70 to 75:25, with (B) an amine component consisting of at least one aromatic amine in a molar ratio of the tetracarboxylic acid component to the amine component of from 97:100 to 103:100, and which polymeric acid has a logarithmic viscosity number of from 0.1 to 1.5 determined in a concentration of 0.5 g/100 ml in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone at a temperature of 30.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1985
    Assignee: Ube Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Inaike, Shuji Yamamoto, Shunji Ohe, Kazunori Otsuka