Patents by Inventor Masaki Kawabata

Masaki Kawabata 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).

  • Publication number: 20240085116
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided with a header that has a body section formed in a cylindrical shape and a divider that divides an internal space in the body section. In a state in which the body section and the divider are combined with each other, plate distal end portions of a pair of side plate portions of the divider do not protrude from a pair of respective insertion portions of the body section toward an outside of the body section. The plate distal end portions are deformed in such a state that walls of the plate distal end portions are spread out such that end faces of the plate distal end portions each form a V-shaped groove, and are in engagement with inner walls of the pair of respective insertion portions inside through holes defined by the pair of respective insertion portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Masashi NAKAMURA, Ryohei KAWABATA, Naoki CHIKU, Masaki OKADA
  • Patent number: 10115262
    Abstract: A rotating apparatus for a game system having a light-emitting device includes a rotating member that rotates on a fixing member, light-irradiated areas that are partitioned and formed in a circumferential direction of the rotating member, light sources annularly arranged in the fixing member that irradiate the light-irradiated areas with light, a light-blocking body that is formed in the rotating member so as to prevent the light, with which a specific light-irradiated area as a light irradiation target out of the light-irradiated areas is irradiated, from leaking into other light-irradiated areas and adjacent to the specific light-irradiated area, and a control unit that controls a timing of changing light intensity of the light sources, and the control unit turning on and off the light sources in synchronization with the rotation of the specific light-irradiated area as the light irradiation target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ashigaya, Manabu Ohmizu, Masaki Kawabata
  • Patent number: 10035062
    Abstract: A roulette lottery apparatus with a novel configuration causes a player not to lose interest. The roulette lottery apparatus 1 for a roulette game comprises: plural roulette bodies that have plural ball pockets into which lottery balls enter, the plurality of roulette bodies being held so as to be rotatable about a horizontal or tilted rotation axis in a state where a rotation plane of the ball pockets is raisable, each of the plurality of the roulette bodies having different diameters; a drive source that rotationally drives the roulette bodies; and ball guide members that guide the balls to enter into any ball pocket among the ball pockets while causing the balls to be in pendular movement. The plural roulette bodies are arranged in a stepped state in which the roulette bodies are displaced in an axis direction on the rotation center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Masaki Kawabata, Naoya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9861884
    Abstract: A rotating apparatus for a game system, comprising: an annular rail; a rotating member that rotates on the annular rail; and a drive source that causes the rotating member to rotate, wherein the rotating member comprises: plural moving objects that move along the annular rail; and a connecting body that is disposed between neighboring moving objects and that is rotatably connected to the moving objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Masaki Kawabata, Naoya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160263473
    Abstract: A rotating apparatus for a game system, comprising: an annular rail; a rotating member that rotates on the annular rail; and a drive source that causes the rotating member to rotate, wherein the rotating member comprises: plural moving objects that move along the annular rail; and a connecting body that is disposed between neighboring moving objects and that is rotatably connected to the moving objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Masaki KAWABATA, Naoya YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160260281
    Abstract: A rotating apparatus for a game system having a light-emitting device includes a rotating member that rotates on a fixing member, light-irradiated areas that are partitioned and formed in a circumferential direction of the rotating member, light sources annularly arranged in the fixing member that irradiate the light-irradiated areas with light, a light-blocking body that is formed in the rotating member so as to prevent the light, with which a specific light-irradiated area as a light irradiation target out of the light-irradiated areas is irradiated, from leaking into other light-irradiated areas and adjacent to the specific light-irradiated area, and a control unit that controls a timing of changing light intensity of the light sources, and the control unit turning on and off the light sources in synchronization with the rotation of the specific light-irradiated area as the light irradiation target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki Ashigaya, Manabu Ohmizu, Masaki Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20150321082
    Abstract: A roulette lottery apparatus with a novel configuration causes a player not to lose interest. The roulette lottery apparatus 1 for a roulette game comprises: plural roulette bodies that have plural ball pockets into which lottery balls enter, the plurality of roulette bodies being held so as to be rotatable about a horizontal or tilted rotation axis in a state where a rotation plane of the ball pockets is raisable, each of the plurality of the roulette bodies having different diameters; a drive source that rotationally drives the roulette bodies; and ball guide members that guide the balls to enter into any ball pocket among the ball pockets while causing the balls to be in pendular movement. The plural roulette bodies are arranged in a stepped state in which the roulette bodies are displaced in an axis direction on the rotation center line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Masaki Kawabata, Naoya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7313385
    Abstract: When gateway server 30 receives an email, which is addressed to mobile station 10, gateway server 30 transmits an email arrival notice to mobile station 10. When gateway server 30 receives an acknowledgement response (referred to as ‘Ack’ hereinafter) responding to the email arrival notice from mobile packet communication network 20, gateway server 30 evaluates the status of mobile station 10 on the basis of the type of Ack, and determines whether to transmit the email or not. Moreover, gateway server 30 modifies the time interval for retransmitting the email arrival notice to mobile station 10 according to the status of mobile station 10 when the transmission of the email arrival notice fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Yabe, Masaki Kawabata, Shoji Kashiwaba, Taichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7072642
    Abstract: A mobile station MS accesses a home page of an IP server W and receives HTML data. The mobile station MS then extracts URLs, telephone numbers, and/or electronic mail addresses marked by anchor tags in the obtained HTML data and stores them with titles in the flash memory of the mobile station MS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Yabe, Masaki Kawabata, Shoji Kashiwaba, Ai Nagai
  • Publication number: 20030134621
    Abstract: When gateway server 30 receives an email, which is addressed to mobile station 10, gateway server 30 transmits an email arrival notice to mobile station 10. When gateway server 30 receives an acknowledgement response (referred to as ‘Ack’ hereinafter) responding to the email arrival notice from mobile packet communication network 20, gateway server 30 evaluates the status of mobile station 10 on the basis of the type of Ack, and determines whether to transmit the email or not. Moreover, gateway server 30 modifies the time interval for retransmitting the email arrival notice to mobile station 10 according to the status of mobile station 10 when the transmission of the email arrival notice fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Yabe, Masaki Kawabata, Shoji Kashiwaba, Taichi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6514145
    Abstract: A height adjustable game machine having a structure that can be easily adapted to a stand-up-type and a sit-down-type depending on situations. Each of a game controller, a game operation panel and a monitor is set as a unit. A base unit 2 accommodating the controller 3, the game operation unit 5 and the monitor unit 9 are held between opposed columns 4 in this order from the bottom. As a result, the height of the machine can be altered merely by changing the length of the columns 4, and it is possible to structure the game machine as a stand-up-type for a standing player or a sit-down-type for a seated player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Masaki Kawabata, Kimio Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20020197981
    Abstract: Mobile station MS accesses a home page of IP server W and receives corresponding HTML data. Next, Mobile station MS extracts a URL, telephone number, or electronic mail address designated by an anchor tag in the obtained HTML data and stores them with a title in the flash memory of mobile station MS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Yabe, Masaki Kawabata, Shoji Kashiwaba, Ai Nagai
  • Patent number: D491613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignees: Sega Corporation, Namco Limited
    Inventor: Masaki Kawabata
  • Patent number: D597150
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Akitoshi Oikawa, Masaki Kawabata