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.

Abstract: The oxygen detecting composition of the present invention comprises a layered silicate, a cationic surfactant, an organic colorant, a reducing agent, and optionally a basic substance. The oxygen detecting composition is suitable for indicating the presence or absence of oxygen or the degree of oxygen concentration by its reversible color change because of its high light resistance, high heat resistance, transparency and translucency.

Abstract: A process for producing modified thermoplastic resin by subjecting a thermoplastic resin to a modifying reaction in a molten state, comprising performing the modifying reaction using carbon dioxide as the reaction medium, wherein carbon dioxide is used in a proportion of 2-200 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin, whereby the efficiency and the uniformity of the reaction can be increased to a high extent while attaining considerable decrease in the remaining amount of the unreacted components in the resulting modified thermoplastic resin without having recourse to the use of an organic reaction solvent, so that the production can be realized easily at a low cost in an efficient manner.

Abstract: There is disclosed a car body having a shell body, having a pattern excellent in beautification at the outer surface portion, made by forming a shell body by cutting, shaping and combining a metal plate, covered with patterned plastic film, which is used at the main outer surface of the car body, or by forming a shell body by fitting up the car parts, made by cutting, shaping and combining a metal plate, covered with patterned plastic film, to a previously assembled main body.

Abstract: Symbol-image windows are arranged in matrix of three rows and five columns. Five game lines to be nominated are provided so as to horizontally and diagonally combine the symbol-image windows. Jackpot winning occurs when identical symbol images are displayed at one of three groups of the symbol-image windows. The first group is constituted of the first to third columns. The second group is constituted of the second to fourth columns. The third group is constituted of the third to fifth columns. When the identical symbol images are displayed at one of the five columns, sub-game winning occurs to award a sub game in which a symbol-image series is rotated again in the central symbol-image window. In another embodiment, ten game lines to be nominated are provided so as to vertically, horizontally and diagonally combine the symbol-image windows.

Abstract: Symbol displaying windows are arranged in matrix and are combined to set game lines including three horizontal lines, three vertical lines, and two diagonal lines. An operation panel is provided with line buttons and bet buttons. When a game is played, one of the line buttons is depressed first to nominate the game lines. Successively, one of the bet buttons is depressed to bet coins on the nominated game lines. After that, a symbol row is rotated in each symbol displaying window. A number of the game lines to be nominated and a number of coins to be betted thereon are optionally selected by a player. Each of the line buttons and the bet buttons contains an LED for showing whether the corresponding button is operative or not.

Abstract: A displaying device comprises an outer rotational member and an inner rotational member. The displaying device is incorporated with a game machine. The outer rotational member of the displaying device is rotated in a lateral direction of the game machine. The inner rotational member is rotated in a perpendicular direction of the game machine. The rotational members are rotated in the different directions with each other, and are respectively stopped. After the rotational members have been stopped, a game result is determined in accordance with a stop state of the rotational members. The outer rotational member represents a dividend of the game, and the inner rotational member represents whether the game is a win or loss.

Abstract: This invention provides a method for stably adding a predetermined amount of supercritical carbon dioxide at a fixed delivery rate into a forming machine and also a process for producing an expanded thermoplastic resin product by making use of the addition method. Carbon dioxide is charged from a liquefied carbon dioxide cylinder (1) into a predetermined amount deliverable pump (2) while allowing the carbon dioxide to remain in a liquefied state. When the carbon dioxide is pressurized and delivered by the predetermined amount deliverable pump (2), a delivery pressure of the carbon dioxide is controlled at an optional pressure within a range of from a critical pressure (7.4 MPa) of carbon dioxide to 40 MPa to deliver the carbon dioxide without any fluctuation of the amount of the delivery by setting up the pressure of a pressure control valve (3). The carbon dioxide is heated to a critical temperature (31° C.) of carbon dioxide or higher to convert it into supercritical carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A process is provided for the production of expanded olefinic thermoplastic elastomer product having good external appearance, flexibility and heat resistance. This process features using, as raw materials, a particular olefinic thermoplastic elastomer and carbon dioxide as a blowing agent.

Abstract: A video card game machine has a central processing unit for simulating a card game in accordance with a game control program and a display for displaying a plurality of playing cards. In a baccarat game, two playing cards are distributed to a banker and to a player. One of the four playing cards becomes a judgment card which is turned face down. Prior to displaying playing cards on the display, a game player predicts a winning competitor or a tie game and a bet state is entered from an operation panel to the central processing unit. The number of the judgment card leading to a hit of the prediction made by the game player, is displayed on the display and surrounded by a frame. After the win/tie conditions are displayed, the judgment card is faced. If it is possible to draw the third playing card, the frame is continuously displayed, whereas if the next playing card cannot be drawn and the game is terminated, the frame is flashed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the production of an injection-expansion molded, thermoplastic resin product. The process comprises a gas dissolving step, a cooling step, a metering and injection step, and an expansion controlling step. Specifically, a thermoplastic resin is molten in a continuous plasticator (1), supercritical carbon dioxide and/or nitrogen is added as a blowing agent, and the blowing agent and the thermoplastic resin are formed into a mutually-dissolved state. The resultant molten resin composition is cooled within the plasticator while maintaining a pressure equal to or higher than a critical pressure of the blowing agent. The thus-cooled molten resin composition is metered by an injector (7) and is filled in a mold (8). An internal pressure of the mold is lowered beyond the critical pressure of the blowing agent to produce cell nuclei, whereby the cell diameter is controlled. The blowing agent is maintained in a supercritical state up to the metering and injection step.

Abstract: A slot machine has a first reel group and a second reel group. The second reel group is constituted of auxiliary reels, on a peripheral surface of which re-rotation symbols are arranged. The auxiliary reels are respectively provided so as to correspond to each reel constituting the first reel group. After all the reels of the first reel group have stopped, any of the reels thereof is re-rotated and stopped if the corresponding auxiliary reel stops the re-rotation symbol at a predetermined position. Thus, a symbol combination displayed by the first reel group is changed in accordance with the auxiliary reel. It is preferable that the re-rotation symbol represents a rotational direction and a rotational amount of the re-rotated reel of the first reel group.

Abstract: A dice game machine using a die in the shape of a regular hexahedron or dodecahedron. Each side of the die has a drawing of a symbol and is provided with a plurality of magnet pins having a pattern identifying the symbol on the opposite side. This die is accommodated in a rotatable cup having an upper portion, a lower portion, and a base opening. During the rotation of the cup, the die moves freely in the upper portion of the cup. When the rotation of the cup stops, the die falls into the lower portion of the cup in a predetermined posture. The die then has a bottom side in contact with a stage via the base opening. A plurality of Hall elements are disposed on the stage to detect corresponding magnet pins. A symbol identified by signals from the Hall elements is displayed on a display. Signals from a plurality of dice game machines are supplied to a computer which displays a combination of a plurality of symbols on the display.

Abstract: Eight character symbols, all of equal pitch, and two blank symbols are arranged on a reel in a rotational direction thereof. As to each of the eight character symbols, one stop position is set so as to stop the center of the character symbol at a winning line. As to each of the two blank symbols, three stop positions are set. One of the three stop positions is selected on the basis of a random number and the blank symbol is stopped at the selected stop position. Accordingly, although the number of equally spaced symbols is ten, fourteen stop positions are obtained. The reel is rotated by a step motor. The stop position is determined according to the number of drive pulses supplied to the step motor.

Abstract: A process for preparing an expanded product of a thermoplastic resin which includes a gas dissolving step of adding supercritical carbon dioxide and/or nitrogen as an blowing agent to a thermoplastic resin, and melting it in the thermoplastic resin, a cooling step of cooling the resulting molten resin composition under a pressure not less than a critical pressure of the blowing agent, a nuclei forming step of discharging the molten resin composition from a die to lower the pressure to a level not more than the critical pressure, and an expansion controlling step of cooling an expanded product of the thermoplastic resin to a level not more than a glass transition temperature or a crystallization temperature of the resin to control a cell diameter of the expanded product.

Abstract: An aqueous coating composition comprising a carboxyl-containing reaction product neutralized and dispersed in an aqueous medium, the reaction product being produced by the esterification reaction of a carboxyl-containing acrylic resin (A) and an epoxy resin (B), the acrylic resin (A) comprising a carboxyl-containing polymerizable unsaturated monomer (A) and another polymerizable unsaturated monomer (b) as a monomer component, the acid value of the acrylic resin (A) at a higher molecular weight region with respect to its weight average molecular weight being higher by at least 80 mg KOH/g than at a lower molecular weight region, and a process for preparing said aqueous coating composition. The coating composition is capable of forming a coating film excellent in fabrication property, corrosion resistance, water resistance, flavor-retaining ability, among others. As a consequence, even a thin film of the composition is uniform in thickness and is outstanding in resistance to cratering and sagging.

Abstract: A symbol display device for a gaming machine has a display window wherein any of a plurality of different symbols is stopped. An outer reel is rotatable behind the display window. The symbols are spaced peripherally about the outer reel. Each of the symbols is transparent with an opaque portion disposed inside and/or outside the transparent symbol. The peripheral face of the outer reel is opaque outside the transparent symbol. An inner reel is rotatable inside the outer reel. A plurality of different colored patterned portions are disposed in a peripheral series about the inner reel. Any of the patterned portions can be stopped in the display window. One of the patterned portions stopped in the display window becomes observable through the transparent portion when the transparent symbol is stopped in the display window, and is combined with the transparent symbol, to constitute a compound symbol. The inner and outer reels may instead be inner and outer endless belts.

Abstract: A bingo game machine which can carry out a series of operations including storing discrimination balls which are to be blown by an air blower into a closed vessel. The balls are blown about within the vessel with some balls falling onto a return surface to the storage area and some falling into a storage member. The balls falling into the storage member are detected and are the balls used to determine the winning balls for the bingo game. Once the balls have been received and detected, the game is over and the balls in the storage member are dropped into the storage area for the next game. A motor drives a screw rod in order to open a bottom of the storage member in order to release the balls that have fallen into the storage member. The motor moves the bottom back into place to close the bottom for the next game.

Abstract: A slot machine for playing games has a set of three normal reels, with symbols arranged on their peripheries. The normal reels are rotated in a normal game, and are stopped to determine a win, in accordance with a combination of symbols of the normal reels along a predetermined first winning line. A win is selected from a normal win and a specific win. A bonus game is triggered when the specific win is provided. There is at least one specific reel having symbols which are arranged on its periphery. The specific reel is rotated in the bonus game, and is stopped to determine the win, in accordance with a symbol on the specific reel at a predetermined winning position.

Abstract: A cylindrical medal pusher is eccentrically mounted on a rotary shaft. As the rotary shaft drives the medal pusher to eccentrically rotate it, a portion of the circumferential surface of the medal pusher remotest from the rotary shaft sequentially passes through play areas and pushes a medal on a play field toward the final edge of the play field so that the medal is moved to the area outside of a locus of the remotest portion. A medal thrown by player is pushed by the medal pusher to drop another medal placed on the play field from the final edge of the play field. The dropped medal is counted when it enters a drop hopper which pays out the same number of medals as the counted medals to the player. The partition plate protrudes above the play field and the front end facing the rotary shaft is always near at the circumferential surface of the medal pusher so that a medal is not permitted to transfer between different play areas.