Patents by Inventor Jesus Franco Muñoz

Jesus Franco Muñoz 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: 9741192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-turning device with the ability to mix and identify balls located in a portable compartment with auxiliary control elements. The device is presented as a whole as a small portable stand-alone device with the ability to perform random drawings. The invention is therefore in the field of devices intended for games of chance and arcade games, such as lotteries, bingo, roulettes, board games, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Proindumar, S.L.
    Inventor: Jesus Franco Muñoz
  • Publication number: 20170178457
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multiplayer gaming machine, that is made up of the conventional structure of a type “B” machine, the invention wherein the machine incorporates a server connected to wireless communication means, such that the machine itself is capable of offering users to download an application into their mobile telephones or the like, in which, once users are registered in the system, they can access the game cycle taking place in the main physical machine and play from their own mobile devices, such that several users can play the game simultaneously in one and the same game cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Jesus FRANCO MUNOZ
  • Publication number: 20170132881
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a machine which, while completely autonomous, allows performing drawings in which the actual player can make certain that the drawing exclusively follows the laws of chance and that the result therefore is not pre-programmed according to a pre-established prize cycle. To that end, the machine is based on a physical drawing by means of at least one drum (2) containing balls (5), the machine having reading or identification means (8) for reading or identifying the resulting balls (5), such that, through a game interface and prior to the drawing, the player or players can place their bets. According to another one of the features of the machine, it has been envisaged that there can be multiple game interfaces, a main machine in which the drawing takes place, and a series of satellite machines (12) in which each player places their bets, being defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventor: Jesus FRANCO MUNOZ
  • Publication number: 20170021268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for facilitating the mixing of balls in drums of recreational games which is especially designed to improve the mixing of the balls (5) in a drum (3) of a recreational machine of chance. It consists of a horizontally long laminar part (1), in the form of a plate, provided at the ends thereof with means for attaching inside the drum (3) in an articulated or pivoting manner, according to the rotational shaft of said drum (3), said part (1) having an essentially rectangular configuration, the side edges of which have a convergence (6) so as to fit with the inner curvature of the drum (3), whereas the lower edge is provided with notches (7) which are suitable in terms of the shape and size thereof for allowing the balls (5) housed in the drum (3) to pass therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventor: Jesus FRANCO MUNOZ
  • Patent number: 9498702
    Abstract: The invention consists of eliminating the inner central shaft of the drum in order to allow a more homogenous mixing of the balls such that the chances of the balls being winning balls are not dependent on the position that they may occupy before the drum is rotated. To that end, the ball mixing blades (9) are integrally attached to the inner face of the structure of the drum. Not only does this structure allow mixing the balls better, but it also simplifies maintenance work on the device, in that it includes respective outer shafts (3) that are easily accessible without having to disassemble the drum in the event that the pin that links it with the mechanism for driving the rotation of the drum breaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignees: PROINDUMAR, S.L.
    Inventor: Jesus Franco Munoz
  • Publication number: 20150273319
    Abstract: The invention consists of eliminating the inner central shaft of the drum in order to allow a more homogenous mixing of the balls such that the chances of the balls being winning balls are not dependent on the position that they may occupy before the drum is rotated. To that end, the ball mixing blades (9) are integrally attached to the inner face of the structure of the drum. Not only does this structure allow mixing the balls better, but it also simplifies maintenance work on the device, in that it includes respective outer shafts (3) that are easily accessible without having to disassemble the drum in the event that the pin that links it with the mechanism for driving the rotation of the drum breaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventor: Jesus Franco Munoz
  • Publication number: 20150161839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-turning device with the ability to mix and identify balls located in a portable compartment with auxiliary control elements. The device is presented as a whole as a small portable stand-alone device with the ability to perform random drawings. The invention is therefore in the field of devices intended for games of chance and arcade games, such as lotteries, bingo, roulettes, board games, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Proindumar S.L.
    Inventor: Jesus Franco Muñoz
  • Publication number: 20090001663
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drawing mechanism with a variable regulation device for regulating the probabilities of winning. The mechanism, intended to be associated to two or more entertainment machines, all of them forming a type of game table or counter, is formed from a drum, in which a predetermined number of balls are arranged, which drum can be transparent or like a cage, for allowing in any case the player or players in question to see the balls contained therein, provided with fixing means for fixing it to the mentioned game table, with a horizontal rotating shaft arranged inside the drum and in which a drive mechanism is arranged which allows rotating the drum in either direction. Said drum equally has a protrusion in the shape of a protruding turret located on a plane of symmetry perpendicular to the rotating shaft, and with suitable dimensions for allowing the passage and housing therein of at least one of the balls. The balls never abandon the assembly formed by the drum and the turret.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: PROINDUMAR, S.L.
    Inventor: Jesus Franco Munoz
  • Patent number: 7306224
    Abstract: The support for a drive motor of image-bearing rollers in amusement machines constitutes an assembly allowing for its removal with regard to a general support (8) fixed to the machine, constituted of a base (1) on which the motor (2) is fixed, which has lugs (7) projecting from the base which are coupled in necks (9) arranged for that purpose on the general support, in combination with a laminar portion (12) of said base which is housed in a groove (11) arranged in the general support, said base locking to the general support by means of a tilting side arm (13) hinged to the general support, which establishes an electric contact by means of a pin connecter (4) arranged on the respective side of the base of the motor for the feed thereof, the base having in the upper part a removable handle (5) coupled by locking on said base for its gripping and removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Proindumar, S.L.
    Inventor: Jesús Franco Muñoz
  • Publication number: 20020060120
    Abstract: Especially designed as an opto-electronic sensor, as an addition to the classic electromechanical sensor available in games machine dispensers (2) awarding prizes in cash, consisting of a pair of bent plates (11) jointly fixed to the entrance door (6) of the machine door (7), specifically framing the slot (5) in the entrance door (6), for the transport of coins from the dispenser (2) to the applicable prize-collecting tray (6), so that the parallel branches of these plates (10-10′) support the photoemitter (15) and photoreceptor (16) respectively in this opto-electronic sensor, interconnected through orifices (17) in the plates themselves (10-10′) and in the orifices (18) that are operated at the front of the dispenser (2), framing the exit coin mouth (4), so that this luminous beam is interrupted during coin movement to apply the necessary detection and accounting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Applicant: Proindumar, S.L.
    Inventor: Jesus Franco Munoz
  • Patent number: 6257573
    Abstract: The board game (1), with the conventional pivots (2) determining the labyrinth-type course for the ball, is framed by a circumferential channel (5) in which there is a ring (8) provided with at least one lateral, internal opening (12) so that, upon the rotation of said ring (8) each housing (12) is placed, in sequence, opposite a lower opening (7) of the circumferential channel (5) in order to receive a ball (16) and opposite another upper opening (6) via which the ball returns, under gravity, to the game zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Proindumar, S.L.
    Inventors: Joaquin Franco Munoz, Jesus Franco Munoz
  • Patent number: D473899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Proindumar S.L.
    Inventors: Jesus Franco Muñoz, Joaquín Franco Muñoz
  • Patent number: D484548
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Proindumar, S.L.
    Inventors: Jesus Franco Muñoz, Joaquín Franco Muñoz
  • Patent number: D489417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Proindumar, S.L.
    Inventors: Jesus Franco Muñoz, Joaquín Franco Muñoz
  • Patent number: D492365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Proindumar, S.L.
    Inventors: Jesús Franco Muñoz, Joaquín Franco Muñoz