Patents by Inventor Shuichi Nakatome

Shuichi Nakatome 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).

  • Ball game apparatus with a plurality of different balls and winning pocket portions
    Patent number: 5634639
    Abstract: A ball game apparatus has a plurality of balls, a spiral rail for automatically delivering the balls, a field portion on which the balls delivered by the spiral rail can roll with a given degree of freedom, winning pocket portions and invalid pockets formed over the field portion for receiving a plurality of the balls in each of them, a CCD camera for counting the number of balls received in the winning pocket portions and a calculator for calculating a score from the number of balls counted by the CCD camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Namco Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tokito, Shuichi Nakatome, Yasufumi Tanabe, Toshitake Inagaki, Tatsuo Kawabuchi, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Kotaro Nakano, Yasuo Mori, Takaharu Aoki, Hideyuki Kaneko, Teruyoshi Takahashi, Shinya Niwa, Kiyoshi Minami, Manabu Matsuo