Patents by Inventor Makoto Niina

Makoto Niina 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: 10974143
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a memory that stores, characters in a game, a plurality of slots into which action reservations for the characters are to be registered, an action sequence for each of the slots, and effects, a display, a receiver that receives a request of an action reservation for a first character, and a processor that outputs, to the memory, the request when the processor determines the first character is in an active state in which the character is allowed to register the action reservation. The memory registers the first character in an earliest slot in the action sequence among the slots in which no other characters have been registered. The processor causes the first character to execute an action associated with the slot according to the action sequence. The effect associated with the first character is applied to the executed action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Taguchi, Akihiro Nakamura, Motonobu Shinotsuka, Toshifumi Imai, Yusuke Takiguchi, Naoko Maekawa, Seiki Saito, Makoto Niina, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama
  • Publication number: 20170340967
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a memory that stores, characters in a game, a plurality of slots into which action reservations for the characters are to be registered, an action sequence for each of the slots, and effects, a display, a receiver that receives a request of an action reservation for a first character, and a processor that outputs, to the memory, the request when the processor determines the first character is in an active state in which the character is allowed to register the action reservation. The memory registers the first character in an earliest slot in the action sequence among the slots in which no other characters have been registered. The processor causes the first character to execute an action associated with the slot according to the action sequence. The effect associated with the first character is applied to the executed action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Taguchi, Akihiro Nakamura, Motonobu Shinotsuka, Toshifumi Imai, Yusuke Takiguchi, Naiko Maekawa, Seiki Saito, Makoto Niina, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 5750958
    Abstract: A ceramic heater for a DC power source comprising an insulating ceramic sintered body, a heating resistor composed of at least two separate layers of heating resistor made of an inorganic conductive material, leads made of high-melting point metal wires and connected to each end of the layers, and electrodes made of an inorganic conductive material, each formed in a single layer or divided into a plurality of pieces and connected to the leads, the heating resistor, leads and electrodes being embedded in the ceramic sintered body.The present invention further includes six related inventions closely related with one another in regard to the above-mentioned ceramic heater and ceramic glow plugs embodied by using the ceramic heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Okuda, Hiroyuki Arima, Kyouji Uchiyama, Michio Ohno, Hiroaki Ohyama, Jun Fukuda, Makoto Niina