Patents by Inventor Kusuo Matsumoto

Kusuo Matsumoto 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: 5755619
    Abstract: A bingo game machine, in which a plurality of randomly selected special signs are compared with signs on a bingo card and a winner of a game is decided in accordance with correspondence of the signs, includes: a display unit which displays a bingo card image including squares arranged in a matrix and allotted with different signs; and a changer which changes the sign in a predetermined square of the bingo card image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Konami Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kusuo Matsumoto, Shiro Majima
  • Patent number: 5639089
    Abstract: A bingo game machine in which signs on bingo cards are compared with a plurality of randomly selected specific signs to decide the winner of a game in accordance with the correspondence of the signs. The bingo game machine includes a chance device for randomly selecting the specific signs. The chance device includes a plurality of objects, and a vertically mounted roulette unit which rotates about a horizontal axis. The roulette unit has a catching portion including a plurality of containers arranged in the form of a circle on the rotating roulette unit. Each container is affixed with a specific sign, and each container is adapted for catching an object. A supply unit supplies objects to the top of the rotating roulette unit, the objects then fall to the lower portion of the rotating roulette unit. At the lower portion, the objects are caught by the containers, one object per container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Konami Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kusuo Matsumoto, Shiro Majima