Patents Assigned to Dragon, Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 7351143
    Abstract: A first symbol and a second symbol constituting a composition symbol “horse” are arranged on an inner reel and an outer reel respectively. When the outer reel is rotated and it is determined to display the composition symbol, the inner reels of first though third reel units are stopped so as to align the first symbols at a reference position, which is set relative to a central game line. After that, the outer reels of the first through third reel units are rotated and are stopped so as to align the second symbols on the central game line. When aligning the composition symbols “horse” on the central game line, the inner reel is rotated by a predetermined angle in forward and backward directions. This operation is carried out prescribed times to perform dynamic attraction in that pupil of the horse is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 7344442
    Abstract: A symbol display device is provided with a first reel unit, a second reel unit, and a third reel unit. Each of the first, the second, and the third reel unit is composed as a double reel structure with an inner reel and an outer reel. The inner reel and the outer reel are formed out of light-transmittable material and have translucent symbols arranged on their peripheries. A first light-emitting device is provided inside the inner reel to illuminate the symbols on the inner reel from behind of them and a second light-emitting device is provided between the inner reel and the outer reel to illuminate the symbols on the outer reel from behind of them. In order to illuminate the symbols on the outer reel, only the second light-emitting device is lit up, while the first light-emitting device is lit up in order to illuminate only the symbols on the inner reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: DRAGON Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 7311602
    Abstract: An inner reel is provided with an A-zone, a B-zone and a C-zone. Symbols of the inner reel are arranged in the respective zones. The A-zone to the C-zone are selectively displayed in accordance with a game condition. The A-zone is used in a normal game. The B-zone and the C-zone are used for deciding a sort of benefit to be afforded in a free game. Either of the B-zone or the C-zone is used in the free game. Using the B-zone brings the benefits in that winning provability is raised and in that odds are increased in case of winning. Using the C-zone brings the benefit in that a number of the free games are added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070267810
    Abstract: A game machine complex display apparatus is placed behind a transparent panel provided on a front face of a game machine. The game machine complex display apparatus has a display assembly with a plurality of display devices, a support frame for rotatably supporting the display assembly, and a support frame shift mechanism for moving the support frame forward and rearward. The support frame shift mechanism moves the support frame between a forward position close to the transparent panel and a rearward position away from the transparent panel, so that each display surface of the display devices can face the transparent panel at approximately the same distance when the display device is switched to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: DRAGON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20070178965
    Abstract: A second display section of a second display device is movable from an initial position to an end position. Upon starting the game, a first display device displays the symbols in motion and thereafter displays the stop symbols. Subsequently, the second display section displays the symbols in motion and displays the stop symbol. In some cases, the second display device moves. Even when there is no winning symbol combination, the player can win in accordance with the symbol combination of the first display device and the second display section. When the winning symbol combination appears after the second display section moves, the player wins the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: DRAGON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 7214132
    Abstract: A symbol display apparatus for game machine includes lined up plural reel units. Each reel unit has double reel structure composed of an outer reel and an inner reel. Inside the inner reel, backlights are disposed. Peripheries of the outer and inner reels are so colored lightly as to be semitransparent, so the outer and inner reels make an object disposed inside indistinct but transmit light. Inner symbols arranged on the periphery of the inner reel are printed with light color. When the inner and outer symbols are overlapped, the backlight emits white light. Color of the inner symbol illuminated with the white light does not affect adversely to appearance of the outer symbol. When the inner symbol is displayed through a transparent portion provided in the outer reel, the backlight emits light color of which is correspondent to the inner symbol for displaying the inner symbol emphatically and clearly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20060052155
    Abstract: A slot machine includes a reel assembly which has a transparent outer reel and a translucent inner reel disposed coaxially within the outer reel. The outer and inner reels are provided with first exterior surfaces on their periphery, and with second exterior surfaces on their side surfaces. The outer and inner reels are driven independently by a respective motor. In performing a first game, the side surfaces are horizontal so that first outer symbols and first inner symbols carried on each of the first exterior surfaces may be observable. In performing a second game, the side surfaces are perpendicular so that second outer symbols and second inner symbols carried on each of the second exterior surfaces may be observable. Symbol combinations are produced by synthesizing the symbols on the outer reel and the symbols on the inner reel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: DRAGON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6988731
    Abstract: Transparent blank symbols are disposed on each of first, second and third display parts respectively provided in first, second and third display plates. The player wins if the same symbols of the first to third display parts are arranged in line on any of winning lines when the first to third display plates stop rotating. When the blank symbols of the first to third display parts are arranged in line on any of winning lines, the reel mounting plate starts rotating until the sub reel reaches the position behind the blank symbols. Then, the sub reel rotates and stops to display move and stop of the symbols. The symbol on the sub reel is observable through transparent parts in the blank symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20050277460
    Abstract: A symbol display device is provided with a first reel unit, a second reel unit, and a third reel unit. Each of the first, the second, and the third reel unit is composed as a double reel structure with an inner reel and an outer reel. The inner reel and the outer reel are formed out of light-transmittable material and have translucent symbols arranged on their peripheries. A first light-emitting device is provided inside the inner reel to illuminate the symbols on the inner reel from behind of them and a second light-emitting device is provided between the inner reel and the outer reel to illuminate the symbols on the outer reel from behind of them. In order to illuminate the symbols on the outer reel, only the second light-emitting device is lit up, while the first light-emitting device is lit up in order to illuminate only the symbols on the inner reel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: DRAGON CO. , LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6942572
    Abstract: Fifteen reels are arranged in five lines and three columns. Plural kinds of symbols are drawn on each reel at a constant pitch, so that one symbol is observed through a display window. There are three type winnings, such as a line winning, which is completed when predetermined symbols are lined on the winning line, a block winning, which is completed when predetermined symbols are displayed from a group of display windows, and an ANY position winning, which is completed when a fixed number of predetermined symbols are displayed. When one of winnings is completed, the symbols constituting the winning is illuminated by a specific color allocated the winning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20050167911
    Abstract: A slot machine is provided with first, second and third reels having plural symbols, which include “7”, “star” and so forth, on the periphery thereof and driven to rotate by a stepping motor. After each reel stops rotating, win or loss is determined according to a symbol combination arranged on a movable winning line. The movable winning line is formed of a bar-like member. The moving mechanisms are respectively connected with opposite ends of the movable winning line to move the respective ends independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Applicant: DRAGON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6923441
    Abstract: Transparent blank symbols are provided in each of first, second and third display plates. The player wins if the same symbols of the first to third display plates are arranged in line on any of winning lines when the first to third display plates stop rotating. When the blank symbols of the first to third display plates are arranged in line on any of winning lines, the sub reel rotates to display the symbols in motion. Then, the sub reel stops its rotation to display the still symbol. The symbol on the sub reel is observable through transparent parts in the blank symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Dragon Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6905408
    Abstract: Behind a display window, plural of reel units are disposed. Each of the reel units has an outer reel and an inner reel that are coaxially and independently rotated. The inner reel carries plural inner symbols at a predetermined pitch. The outer reel carries outer symbols representing conditions of a second rotation of the inner reel. The plural inner reels stop rotating to complete a symbol combination. When the symbol combination for losing is completed, the outer reel is rotated and stopped. Then the second rotation of the inner reel starts rotating, which carries the inner symbol on which the outer symbol is disposed. In the second rotation, a rotational direction and a rotational speed is determined in accordance with a kind of the outer symbol. When the second rotation of the inner reel stops, another symbol combination is completed on the winning line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6893018
    Abstract: A game machine is provided with first, second and third reel rows, and each of the reel rows executes slot game independent from each other. The number of reel rows to be actuated is increased in proportion to the number of bet coins. When less than three coins are betted, a first privilege providing section is operated to judge whether the first winning is generated. The first and a second privilege providing sections are operated to judge whether the first winning and a second winning are generated when four coins are betted. Dividend coins are provided in the first winning and a free game in the second winning. A player may play slot game without betting a coin in the free game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6880826
    Abstract: A symbol display apparatus for game machine includes aligned plural reel units. Each of the reel units has double reel structure composed of an outer reel and an inner reel. Of two half symbols made by dividing a single complete symbol, one half symbol is disposed in a periphery of the inner reel, and the other half symbol is disposed in a periphery of the outer reel. When the corresponding half symbols disposed separately in the inner and outer reels stop together on the same winning line, a composite symbol is formed. The composite symbol is used as a hit symbol which makes up a winning symbol combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20050043084
    Abstract: A first, a second, and a third reel units consist of an inner and an outer reels respectively. A symbol “target” disposed in the outer reel forms a composite symbol by overlaying the symbol “target” on the symbol in the inner reel. The symbol “target” is related to win. When a normal game is started, the inner reel rotates in a normal direction, and the outer reel starts to rotate in the normal and a reverse directions in order to fluctuate the symbol “target” between an upper and an lower portions of a display window. Thereafter, the inner reel stops, and then the outer reel stops after a predetermined time. The player wins the game when the same symbols are aligned in a row in winning lines, or when the same composite symbol is displayed in the first, the second, and the third lines respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Applicant: DRAGON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20050043083
    Abstract: An inner reel is provided with an A-zone, a B-zone and a C-zone. Symbols of the inner reel are arranged in the respective zones. The A-zone to the C-zone are selectively displayed in accordance with a game condition. The A-zone is used in a normal game. The B-zone and the C-zone are used for deciding a sort of benefit to be afforded in a free game. Either of the B-zone or the C-zone is used in the free game. Using the B-zone brings the benefits in that winning provability is raised and in that odds are increased in case of winning. Using the C-zone brings the benefit in that a number of the free games are added.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Applicant: DRAGON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6855056
    Abstract: First-third light emission parts, wherein plural LEDs are disposed, are provided in front surface of a first display plate. Synchronized with the rotation of the first display plate, the LEDs in the light emission part light on and off to display symbols or images by utilizing afterimage effect. When the first display plate stops rotation, the first-third light emission parts are lighted on and off sequentially. When one of the first to third light emission parts is lighted on, an amount of dividend coins is determined by the numbers on a second display indicated by the lighted light emission part and a fixed indicator. Thus, the LEDs in the light emission part are used not only as image display device but as an indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Dragon, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Patent number: 6802507
    Abstract: A rotary reel unit for a game machine mounted to a frame through a support member fixedly provided in a vertical state, the rotary reel unit including a fixing member fixed to one of sidewalls of the support member, having a attachment base plate; a movable member provided at the attachment base plate, having a photograph sensor to an index provided to the rotary reel; the attachment base plate provided at least one engaging member; an engaged plate part of the movable member having a plurality of engaged plate parts provided continuously thereto on the base line L positioned at the same direction as a circumferential direction of the rotary reel; and the engaging member detached to the engaged plate parts in serial when the position of the photograph sensor is re-positioned by controlling the movable member so that the position of a sensor is enable correcting easily by a person who is not an expert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Dragon Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20040183251
    Abstract: Transparent blank symbols are disposed on each of first, second and third display parts respectively provided in first, second and third display plates. The player wins if the same symbols of the first to third display parts are arranged in line on any of winning lines when the first to third display plates stop rotating. When the blank symbols of the first to third display parts are arranged in line on any of winning lines, the reel mounting plate starts rotating until the sub reel reaches the position behind the blank symbols. Then, the sub reel rotates and stops to display move and stop of the symbols. The symbol on the sub reel is observable through transparent parts in the blank symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: DRAGON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haruo Inoue