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).

  • GAMING MACHINE, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A GAME, AND A PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160086427
    Abstract: To provide a gaming machine that can provide a novel game in which the game progression is varied, a method, and a program for providing a game. In the gaming machine 1, the symbol blocks B1 and B2 displayed in the block display region 66 move in the directions D1 and D2, which intersect in the direction of reel rotation, when moving in the symbol display region 60. That is, the symbol blocks B1 and B2 are added to the movement in the direction of reel rotation, and also move in a direction orthogonal to the direction of reel rotation. Therefore, compared to a case in which a symbol block moves in the direction of reel rotation, prediction by a player of the positions where the symbol blocks B1 and B2 are finally disposed is difficult.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • GAMING MACHINE, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING A GAME
    Publication number: 20160049038
    Abstract: To provide a gaming machine, method and program for providing a game that can achieve a game progression more rich in variation than a conventional gaming machine and provide a player with more entertainment value. Providing, on a reel of the gaming machine 1, a static symbol region that statically displays a symbol selected from a first symbol set, and a dynamic symbol region that, after displaying while varying symbols included in a second symbol set, stops the variation and indicates a predetermined symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • METHOD FOR MEASURING INDOXYL SULFURIC ACID
    Publication number: 20160032354
    Abstract: It is an object of this invention to provide a simple measurement method capable of detecting indoxyl sulfuric acid in a sample rapidly and at high sensitivity. By causing sulfatase and tetrazolium salt to act on indoxyl sulfuric acid in a sample to generate a formazan dye, and then calculating the generation amount of the formazan dye, indoxyl sulfuric acid in the sample can be measured more simply, more rapidly, and at higher sensitivity as compared with former methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Kenta Tatsumi, Daisuke Nakamura
  • Sensor
    Patent number: 9231119
    Abstract: A sensor includes a circuit board, a wiring connection layer, a sensor element, and a conductive post. The circuit board has a first electrode. The wiring connection layer has second and third electrodes. The second electrode is connected to the first electrode. The sensor element has a fourth electrode. The conductive post connects the third electrode electrically with the fourth electrode. This sensor can be driven efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Yoshiuchi, Takashi Imanaka, Takami Ishida, Satoshi Ohuchi, Hideo Ohkoshi, Katsuya Morinaka, Daisuke Nakamura, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • INJECTION DEVICE AND MOLDING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150352764
    Abstract: An injection device has an injection cylinder device which is connected to a plunger and a driving device which is capable of driving a plunger to move forward through the injection cylinder device. A cylinder part of the injection cylinder device has a front cylinder member which accommodates an injection piston so that it can slide in a front-back direction, is opened at the rear end, and is movable in the front-back direction. Further, the cylinder part has a back cylinder member which communicates with the rear end of the front cylinder member and is provided in a fixed manner. The driving device can drive the front cylinder member in the front-back direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAMURA, Makoto FUNABA, Toshiaki TOYOSHIMA, Yuji ABE, Saburo NODA
  • Gaming machine and methods of allowing a player to play gaming machines having synchronized symbols
    Patent number: 9208655
    Abstract: A gaming machine for providing a game to a player is described herein. The gaming machine includes a display device for displaying the game and a game controller. The game includes a plurality of reels having a predetermined number of elements, wherein each element has an associated symbol from a set of symbols and at least one reel has a run of consecutive elements. The game controller initiates an instance of the game, responsively displays the game on the display device, randomly determines an outcome of the game, and responsively spins and stops the reels to display the outcome. The outcome includes at least two reels having the same symbols being displayed in the same symbol positions. The game controller displays each one of the at least two reels having a run of consecutive elements, and populates the run of consecutive elements with an identical symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventors: Eiji Aida, Daisuke Nakamura, Osamu Yoshimi
  • INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC MONEY CHARGING METHOD
    Publication number: 20150347994
    Abstract: An exemplary information-processing system includes at least a receiving unit (11) that receives a charge of electronic money usable in a predetermined payment system, a game control unit (12) that makes a game processing executable in response to the receipt of the charge by the receiving unit (11), and a balance control unit (15) that adds an amount of the charge received by the receiving unit (11) to a balance, without decreasing the balance in response to execution of the game processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Daisuke NAKAMURA
  • GAMING MACHINE AND METHODS OF UPGRADING GAME SYMBOLS IN AN OUTCOME OF A GAME
    Publication number: 20150339882
    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: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Kazutaka Shiraishi, Daisuke Nakamura
  • GAME MACHINE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPUTER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20150325088
    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: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • CRANE OPERATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150307330
    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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: 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: 9147322
    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: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Shiraishi, Daisuke Nakamura
  • COMMUNICATION GAME SYSTEM, GAME APPARATUS, SERVER, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20150246282
    Abstract: A communication game system includes a plurality of game apparatuses which are able to wirelessly communicate with each other. Each of the game apparatus registers identifying information of an opponent obtained by a short-distance wireless communication or by user's manual input in a friend list. Thereafter, the game apparatus connects to the Internet, and inquires whether it is possible to communicate with an opponent in the friend list over the network. If it is possible to communicate, the game apparatus obtains an address of the opponent to make a network communication. Even if a user makes a short distance wireless communication with a friend to exchange and register the identifying information or registers the friend by hand and then is parted from the friend, the user can safely communicate with the friend across the network without being exposed to unknown players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuya SASAKI, Yosuke HATAYAMA, Daisuke NAKAMURA, Yoshitaka SHIROTA, Masaru MITSUYOSHI, Yutaka TAKEHISA, Katsuya EGUCHI
  • Game machine, method of controlling computer, and storage medium
    Patent number: 9117333
    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: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • VESSEL PROPULSION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150225056
    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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAMURA, Yoshihito FUKUOKA
  • COMMUNICATION GAME SYSTEM, GAME APPARATUS, SERVER, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20150224405
    Abstract: A communication game system includes a plurality of game apparatuses which are able to wirelessly communicate with each other. Each of the game apparatus registers identifying information of an opponent obtained by a short-distance wireless communication or by user's manual input in a friend list. Thereafter, the game apparatus connects to the Internet, and inquires whether it is possible to communicate with an opponent in the friend list over the network. If it is possible to communicate, the game apparatus obtains an address of the opponent to make a network communication. Even if a user makes a short distance wireless communication with a friend to exchange and register the identifying information or registers the friend by hand and then is parted from the friend, the user can safely communicate with the friend across the network without being exposed to unknown players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuya SASAKI, Yosuke HATAYAMA, Daisuke NAKAMURA, Yoshitaka SHIROTA, Masaru MITSUYOSHI, Yutaka TAKEHISA, Katsuya EGUCHI
  • VESSEL PROPULSION APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150225054
    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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Daisuke NAKAMURA, Yoshihito FUKUOKA
  • COMMUNICATION GAME SYSTEM, GAME APPARATUS, SERVER, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM, AND GAME CONTROL METHOD
    Publication number: 20150224404
    Abstract: A communication game system includes a plurality of game apparatuses which are able to wirelessly communicate with each other. Each of the game apparatus registers identifying information of an opponent obtained by a short-distance wireless communication or by user's manual input in a friend list. Thereafter, the game apparatus connects to the Internet, and inquires whether it is possible to communicate with an opponent in the friend list over the network. If it is possible to communicate, the game apparatus obtains an address of the opponent to make a network communication. Even if a user makes a short distance wireless communication with a friend to exchange and register the identifying information or registers the friend by hand and then is parted from the friend, the user can safely communicate with the friend across the network without being exposed to unknown players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuya SASAKI, Yosuke HATAYAMA, Daisuke NAKAMURA, Yoshitaka SHIROTA, Masaru MITSUYOSHI, Yutaka TAKEHISA, Katsuya EGUCHI
  • Gaming machine and methods of allowing a player to play gaming machines having synchronized symbols
    Patent number: 9092949
    Abstract: A gaming machine for allowing a player to play a game is described herein. The gaming machine includes a display device and a game controller for displaying a game on the display device. The game includes a plurality of reels having a plurality of symbol positions and a plurality of game symbols displayed in each of the symbol positions in a predetermined order. The game controller allows a player to make a wager on the game and responsively displays the game on the display device. The game controller randomly determines an outcome of the game, responsively spins and stops the reels to display the outcome including at least two reels having the same symbols being displayed in the same symbol positions, and awards an award to the player as a function of the outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.
    Inventors: Eiji Aida, Daisuke Nakamura
  • Gaming machine
    Patent number: 9082266
    Abstract: A gaming machine has a symbol display region composed of cell columns, where cells are continuously disposed in each cell column. Symbols are displayed on each cell column in such a manner that one or more symbols correspond to one of the cells. The gaming machine comprises: a symbol movement control unit that makes each symbol column move along each cell column where a symbol is changed in turn according to an alignment order of the symbols, and makes each symbol column stop; a prize winning determination unit; and a dividend generation unit. The symbol movement control unit comprises: a symbol check unit that determines whether a symbol reaching a filtering position is a specific symbol; and a specific symbol control unit that generates a specific change different from a change to be generated according to the alignment order when the specific symbol reaches the filtering position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Daisuke Nakamura
  • Process for Producing Self-Assembling Peptide Derivatives
    Publication number: 20150175663
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a process capable of producing a self-assembling peptide derivative that is useful in the fields of regenerative medicine and surgery in large quantities and in an economical and efficient manner. In particular, provided is a production process employing a combination of (i) a step of convergently constructing a sequence with use of a common repeating unit consisting of a specific amino acid sequence and (ii) a step of first isolating the peptide derivative as a disulfuric acid salt, a tetramethanesulfonic acid salt or a tetra(trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) salt), and then subjecting the peptide salt to a salt exchange reaction to yield a tetrahydrochloric acid salt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Hidenori Yokoi, Yasuhiro Yokoyama, Keisuke Matsuyama, Kenichiro Yamamoto, Kinsei Anzai, Daisuke Nakamura, Toyohiro Nagano, Kazuya Kodama