Patents by Inventor Daisuke Nakamura

Daisuke Nakamura 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).

  • GAME MACHINE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPUTER AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USED THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20170011583
    Abstract: A game machine includes a display device that displays a game screen in which virtual reels formed by symbols are arranged so as to correspond one-to-one to cells as symbol stop positions. And, a game machine determines the symbol to stop in each cell through drawing, and controls a movement to change the symbol and a stop of the movement for each virtual reel based on a drawing result. Furthermore, a game machine determines a number of specific symbols that stop in the cells, and controls a movement of each virtual reel, which causes the specific symbols to appear in the cells, as one virtual reel group and a stop of the movement in units of virtual reel group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakamura, Hidetomo Yamashita, Hayato Mizue, Hiromitsu Negishi
  • Vessel propulsion apparatus and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9522720
    Abstract: A vessel propulsion apparatus includes a dog clutch that selectively engages either a front gear or a rear gear, an intermediate shaft rotatably supported by the front gear and by the rear gear and that rotates together with the dog clutch, a propeller shaft to which rotation of the intermediate shaft is transmitted, a lower case containing a drive gear and other elements, and a thrust transmitting member that receives a forward-direction thrust from the propeller shaft and that transmits the thrust to the lower case without transmitting the thrust to the intermediate shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakamura, Yoshihito Fukuoka
  • Game machine, method of controlling computer, and storage medium
    Patent number: 9524608
    Abstract: A game machine uses a lottery region having cell columns and symbol columns for providing a game opportunity, causes a special symbol column to appear in it, determines by lottery symbols of the special symbol column, causes the special symbol column containing the symbols obtained by a lottery result to appear and moves and stops the special symbol column so that the symbols of the special symbol column are arranged on the cells to be changed, and determines whether the symbols arranged in a cell group of a determination target form a prize winning pattern based on the symbols arranged by the special symbol column. Further, the game machine moves the special symbol column along each cell so that at least a direction crossing a movement direction of each symbol column is included as a movement direction of the special symbol column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • STEPPING MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE, COMPONENT MOUNTING MACHINE PROVIDED WITH STEPPING MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE, AND STEPPING MOTOR CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20160365812
    Abstract: A stepping motor control device is provided with a stopping position determination section and a drive control section. The stopping position determination section determines whether a mover stopping position during the holding state is a stabilized phase or a semistable phase. When it is determined that the mover stopping position is a semistable phase during the holding state by the stopping position determination section, and the control state of the stepping motor transitions from the holding state to the standby state in which the holding of the mover is released due to a trigger signal from a device or the holding state persisting for a fixed time, the drive control section changes the mover stopping position to one of the stabilized phases adjacent to the mover stopping position during the holding state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAMURA, Akira HARA, Satoshi OSAKI
  • PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATOR AND PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20160322953
    Abstract: A piezoelectric vibrator that includes a piezoelectric film with a pair of electrodes disposed on opposing sides of the piezoelectric film. Moreover, the vibrator includes first and second adjustment films with the first adjustment film covering the first surface of the piezoelectric film in a first region and the second adjustment film covering the first surface of the piezoelectric film in a second region that is different from the first region. Moreover, the second region of the piezoelectric film has a greater displacement than the first region when the piezoelectric vibrator vibrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: KEISUKE TAKEYAMA, Daisuke Nakamura, Eitaro Kameda, Hiroaki Kaida
  • MEMS DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160322954
    Abstract: A MEMS device that suppresses variations in a resistance value caused by contracting vibrations in a direction in which a holding portion extends. The MEMS device includes a frame, a rectangular plate that receives an input of a driving signal, and holding portions that anchor the rectangular plate to the frame. The frame and the rectangular plate are both rectangular in shape. The holding portions are provided extending toward the frame from central areas of the opposing sides of the rectangular plate, and anchor the rectangular plate to the frame. A resistive film is formed in a region that follows a straight line connecting the holding portions that anchor the rectangular plate to the frame and that corresponds to no more than half a maximum displacement from a vibration distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroaki KAIDA, Eitaro KAMEDA, Keisuke TAKEYAMA, Daisuke NAKAMURA
  • BICOMPATIBLE LIQUID AND METHOD FOR SCREENING SAME
    Publication number: 20160313303
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a biocompatible liquid that is more essential and practical, and a method for screening the same. The object is achieved by using, as the biocompatible liquid, a liquid having a Hansen solubility parameter (HSP) compatible to a cell to which the liquid is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Minoru HIRANO, Daisuke NAKAMURA, Riichiro OHTA
  • Game machine, and control method of controlling computer and computer program used therefor
    Patent number: 9478107
    Abstract: A game machine includes a display device that displays a game screen in which virtual reels formed by symbols are arranged so as to correspond one-to-one to cells as symbol stop positions. And, a game machine determines the symbol to stop in each cell through drawing, and controls a movement to change the symbol and a stop of the movement for each virtual reel based on a drawing result. Furthermore, a game machine determines a number of specific symbols that stop in the cells, and controls a movement of each virtual reel, which causes the specific symbols to appear in the cells, as one virtual reel group and a stop of the movement in units of virtual reel group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakamura, Hidetomo Yamashita, Hayato Mizue, Hiromitsu Negishi
  • GAME MACHINE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPUTER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20160307394
    Abstract: A game machine uses a lottery region containing the cells, provides a game opportunity that changes symbols on the cells by causing the symbols of a symbol group to appear on the portion of the cells, determines by lottery, at least a portion of the symbols which should constitute the symbol group, causes at least the portion of the symbols constituting the symbol group to appear in the lottery region based on a lottery result so as to change at least the portion of the symbols arranged on the cells by moving the symbol group including the symbol determined by the lottery result on a movement path containing two directions and stopping the symbol group so that at least the portion of the symbols of the symbol group is arranged on the cells, and determines a prize winning based on the symbols arranged on the cells by the symbol group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • GAME MACHINE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPUTER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20160275749
    Abstract: A game machine uses a lottery region having cell columns and symbol columns for providing a game opportunity, causes a special symbol column to appear in it, determines by lottery symbols of the special symbol column, causes the special symbol column containing the symbols obtained by a lottery result to appear and moves and stops the special symbol column so that the symbols of the special symbol column are arranged on the cells to be changed, and determines whether the symbols arranged in a cell group of a determination target form a prize winning pattern based on the symbols arranged by the special symbol column. Further, the game machine moves the special symbol column along each cell so that at least a direction crossing a movement direction of each symbol column is included as a movement direction of the special symbol column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • Vessel propulsion apparatus
    Patent number: 9422044
    Abstract: A vessel propulsion apparatus includes a drive shaft that is rotationally driven by a prime mover, a drive gear connected to the drive shaft, a front gear that engages the drive gear, a rear gear that engages the drive gear and that is disposed behind the front gear, a dog clutch that selectively engages one of the front gear and the rear gear, and an oil passage that passes through the inside of the front gear and that guides oil from a forward space in front of the front gear to a rearward space behind the front gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakamura, Yoshihito Fukuoka
  • Damper unit for vessel propulsion apparatus, propeller for vessel propulsion apparatus, and vessel propulsion apparatus
    Patent number: 9400029
    Abstract: A damper unit includes a first damper arranged to transmit a torque around a rotation axis transmitted from an input member side to an output member side, an intermediate member arranged to transmit a torque around the rotation axis transmitted from the first damper to the output member side, and a second damper arranged to transmit a torque around the rotation axis transmitted from the intermediate member to the output member side, wherein at least a portion of the second damper is disposed on a straight line that passes through the first damper and is parallel or substantially parallel to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakamura, Tiharu Masuda, Youhei Kuroki
  • Game machine, method of controlling computer, and storage medium
    Patent number: 9401076
    Abstract: A game machine uses a lottery region containing the cells, provides a game opportunity that changes symbols on the cells by causing the symbols of a symbol group to appear on the portion of the cells, determines by lottery, at least a portion of the symbols which should constitute the symbol group, causes at least the portion of the symbols constituting the symbol group to appear in the lottery region based on a lottery result so as to change at least the portion of the symbols arranged on the cells by moving the symbol group including the symbol determined by the lottery result on a movement path containing two directions and stopping the symbol group so that at least the portion of the symbols of the symbol group is arranged on the cells, and determines a prize winning based on the symbols arranged on the cells by the symbol group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • Image forming apparatus including reading unit to read back surface of print medium opposing belt member
    Patent number: 9358817
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a conveyance unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a print medium. The conveyance unit has a belt member to convey the print medium in a state in which an end of the print medium in a width direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the print medium is placed outside an end of the belt member in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuuzoh Obata, Makoto Kikura, Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Kazuyoshi Kondo, Gaku Hosono, Yoshinori Uchino, Norikazu Yanase, Daisuke Nakamura
  • Crane operation assistance system
    Patent number: 9352939
    Abstract: A crane operation assistance system includes: a scanning-type distance meter capable of measuring a distance and an angle between the distance meter and an object under a range of movement of a movable body that can hoist a container and move in a horizontal direction; and object height distribution data making means for making, based on the information measured by the distance meter, object height distribution data that is data indicating a distribution of heights of objects under the range of movement of the movable body. If a blind spot for the distance meter has occurred, the object height distribution data making means revises data of object heights in the zone of the blind spot based on data of an object height at a point that is farthest from the distance meter in a imaginary containers presence zone having an overlap with the zone of the blind spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Suzuki, Daisuke Nakamura, Kenji Kijima
  • Gaming machine and methods of upgrading game symbols in an outcome of a game
    Patent number: 9342950
    Abstract: A gaming machine and method allow a player to play a game. The game has an associated set of game symbols. The game symbols in the set of game symbols are arranged in a predetermined order from lowest to highest. A display device is configured to display a plurality of symbol regions arranged in a grid. The controller is configured to randomly select an initial outcome of the game. The initial outcome of the game includes an initial game symbol associated with each of the symbol regions. The controller detects a triggering condition associated with the initial outcome of the game and responsively replaces the initial game symbol in at least one predetermined symbol region with a replacement symbol to establish a secondary outcome of the game. The replacement symbol is determined as a function of the initial symbol and the predetermined order of the game symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Shiraishi, Daisuke Nakamura
  • Game machine, method of controlling computer, and storage medium
    Patent number: 9324215
    Abstract: A game machine uses a lottery region having cell columns and symbol columns for providing a game opportunity, causes a special symbol column to appear in it, determines by lottery symbols of the special symbol column, causes the special symbol column containing the symbols obtained by a lottery result to appear and moves and stops the special symbol column so that the symbols of the special symbol column are arranged on the cells to be changed, and determines whether the symbols arranged in a cell group of a determination target form a prize winning pattern based on the symbols arranged by the special symbol column. Further, the game machine moves the special symbol column along each cell so that at least a direction crossing a movement direction of each symbol column is included as a movement direction of the special symbol column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • CABLE HOLDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE CABLE HOLDER
    Publication number: 20160109038
    Abstract: A cable holder includes a plurality of cable holding portions and a stopper. The plurality of cable holding portions is arranged under an apparatus body of an apparatus that is connectable to another apparatus via a cable, the cable to fit in the plurality of cable holding portions. The stopper is disposed at the plurality of cable holding portions to hold the cable fitted in the plurality of cable holding portions. The plurality of cable holding portions includes outlets communicated with an outside of the cable holder and arranged at different positions from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Matsumoto, Daisuke Nakamura
  • High heat-resistant member, method for producing the same, graphite crucible and method for producing single crystal ingot
    Patent number: 9315921
    Abstract: A high heat-resistant member includes a graphite substrate including isotropic graphite and a carbide coating film including a carbide, such as tantalum carbide, and covering a surface of the graphite substrate, the carbide coating film having a randomly oriented isotropic grain structure in which crystallites having a size indexed by a full width at half maximum of a diffraction peak of an X-ray diffraction pattern of not more than 0.2° from (111) planes are accumulated at substantially random. The orientation of the carbide coating film is determined by whether degree of orientation (F) in any Miller plane calculated based on an XRD pattern using the Lotgering method is within a range from ?0.2 to 0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Daisuke Nakamura, Akitoshi Suzumura, Keisuke Shigetoh
  • GAMING MACHINE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING A GAME
    Publication number: 20160086428
    Abstract: To provide a gaming machine that can provide a new type of game that maintains or improves the interest of a player, and a method and program for providing a game. In the gaming machine 1, by removing symbols of a particular type and moving a following symbol, the ratio of symbols of types other than the particular type becomes higher in the symbol array formed on the display unit 27, and it is easier for the symbol array to configure a winning combination. Because the chance of winning is higher after the particular type of symbol is removed in this manner, it is possible to provide a new type of game where the interest of the player can be maintained or improved after the symbols are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura