Patents by Inventor Tetsuya Yokota
Tetsuya Yokota 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).
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Publication number: 20110201424Abstract: A slot machine has a frontward projecting portion which is projected frontward of the slot machine from a lower end of a main display provided in a cabinet. The frontward projecting portion has an armrest, a control panel, etc., each of which serves as a human contact portion which comes in contact with a part of a player's body. The lower end of a display surface of the main display is positioned lower than the human contact portions (armrest and control panel).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicants: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.Inventors: Kazuo Okada, Masaki Matsuno, Jun Hirato, Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20110001286Abstract: A roulette board, including a roulette wheel on which a plurality of symbols are arranged in a circumferential direction of the roulette wheel, a plurality of ball reception portions that are provided in a one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of symbols, the plurality of ball reception portions being configured to receive a ball that rolls on the roulette wheel, a banked passage that is endlessly provided along an outer circumference of the roulette wheel, and allows the ball to roll in a circumferential orbit, and a ball discharging mechanism that is provided with a ball discharging member and discharges the ball received in one of the plurality of ball reception portions from the one of the plurality of ball reception portions toward the banked passage by bringing the ball discharging member into contact with the ball.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Universal Entertainment CorporationInventor: Tetsuya Yokota
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Patent number: 7815187Abstract: A roulette board includes: a roulette wheel on which a plurality of symbols are arranged in a circumferential direction of the roulette wheel; a plurality of ball reception portions that are provided in a one-to-one correspondence with the symbols, the ball reception portions being configured to receive a ball that rolls on the roulette wheel; a banked passage that is endlessly provided along an outer circumference of the roulette wheel, and allows the ball to roll in a circumferential orbit; and a ball discharging mechanism that is provided with a ball discharging member and discharges the ball received in one of the ball reception portions toward the banked passage by bringing the ball discharging member into contact with the ball.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2006Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Universal Entertainment CorporationInventor: Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20100002839Abstract: Positioning images are created by a projection-image creating unit before imaging, and the positioning images are grouped and stored by a projection-image storage unit for each preset. When imaging is started, a positioning-information calculating unit calculates positioning parameters using the positioning images stored in the projection-image storage unit. An analysis-image-for-synthesis creating unit creates an analysis image using the positioning parameters, and an analysis-image synthesizing and displaying unit synthesizes the analysis image with a live image and displays a synthesized image. When an imaging direction of an X-ray angiography apparatus is changed, a positioning-information updating unit directly updates the positioning parameters based on an amount of change of the imaging direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSYTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya YOKOTA, Hitoshi YAMAGATA, Satoshi WAKAI
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Patent number: 7584510Abstract: This invention is to enable to provide a network service, flexibly and quickly. In an embodiment of the invention, a network platform is achieved by a service providing network. The network platform provides common functions such as authentication and authorization, billing, and client management, and individual functions such as session control for client terminals connected with the service providing network. The client terminal generates and registers a service program to utilize functions in the network platform via a network management interface SMI. Then, by executing the service program, a service request for a specific function is transmitted to the network platform through a service control interface SCI, and the execution result is received from the specific function in the network platform.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masafumi Katoh, Akihiro Inomata, Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20090048011Abstract: A gaming environment is described. A gaming machine has plural JACKPOTs. If JP symbols are displayed with a predetermined number or above, one of JACKPOT corresponding to the number of the displayed JP symbols will be provided to the player. Since the number of the displayed JP symbols explicitly corresponds to the JACKPOT to be provided, the player can easily under stand the JACKPOT to be provided based on the number of displayed JP symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Applicant: ARUZE CORP.Inventors: Yukinori INAMURA, Tetsuya YOKOTA, Yoichi KATO, Arata AJIRO
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Publication number: 20080318663Abstract: A gaming environment is described. If a first specific symbol (for example LION symbol 45A) and a second specific symbol (for example, MEAT symbol 45B) are adjacently displayed, the second specific symbol is changed to the first specific symbol. And then, if a combination of the displayed symbols is any of winning combinations, an award corresponding to realized winning combination is provided to a player.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: Aruze Corp.Inventors: Tetsuya YOKOTA, Arata AJIRO, Makoto MIYAWAKI, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Yoichi KATO
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Publication number: 20080220844Abstract: A roulette apparatus includes: a roulette wheel having a rolling region where a ball rolls; and a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball. The ball reception member includes: a plurality of reception portions that receives the ball in one of the reception portions; and a plurality of separation walls that separates the reception portions from one another, wherein the ball reception member is formed separately from the roulette wheel and removably attached to the roulette wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: ARUZE Corp.Inventors: Tetsuya Yokota, Katsuhiro Kido, Yoshitomo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20080207301Abstract: A roulette apparatus includes: a roulette wheel having a rolling region where a ball rolls; and a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball. The ball reception member includes: a plurality of reception portions that receives the ball in one of the reception portions; and a plurality of separation walls that separates the reception portions from one another, wherein the ball reception member is formed separately from the roulette wheel and removably attached to the roulette wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: ARUZE Corp.Inventors: Tetsuya Yokota, Katsuhiro Kido, Yoshitomo Sasaki
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Patent number: 7311305Abstract: A roulette device including: a roulette plate having a plurality of marks arranged thereon; a ball which rolls on the roulette plate; a plurality of ball receiving parts which are formed corresponding to the marks in a circumferential direction of the roulette plate to receive the ball; a bank passage which is provided on an outer periphery of the ball receiving parts of the roulette plate and on which the ball rolls along a circumferential orbit; a compressor which compresses air; and a first discharge hole which is provided in each ball receiving part and through which the air compressed by the compressor is discharged to the bank passage.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Aruze Corp.Inventors: Masaki Matsuno, Tetsuya Yokota, Yoshitomo Sasaki
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Patent number: 7215132Abstract: In an integrated circuit implemented on a circuit board, output lines of an output circuit that outputs a logic signal are connected to the circuit board by soldering of a leadless terminal that cannot be seen as being implemented. A fault diagnosing unit tests an output voltage of the leadless terminal with respect to the circuit board as being implemented to determine whether the output voltage is a normal voltage or an abnormal voltage.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2005Date of Patent: May 8, 2007Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20070001705Abstract: In an integrated circuit implemented on a circuit board, output lines of an output circuit that outputs a logic signal are connected to the circuit board by soldering of a leadless terminal that cannot be seen as being implemented. A fault diagnosing unit tests an output voltage of the leadless terminal with respect to the circuit board as being implemented to determine whether the output voltage is a normal voltage or an abnormal voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2005Publication date: January 4, 2007Inventor: Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20060287053Abstract: A roulette board includes: a roulette wheel on which a plurality of symbols are arranged in a circumferential direction of the roulette wheel; a plurality of ball reception portions that are provided in a one-to-one correspondence with the symbols, the ball reception portions being configured to receive a ball that rolls on the roulette wheel; a banked passage that is endlessly provided along an outer circumference of the roulette wheel, and allows the ball to roll in a circumferential orbit; and a ball discharging mechanism that is provided with a ball discharging member and discharges the ball received in one of the ball reception portions toward the banked passage by bringing the ball discharging member into contact with the ball.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2006Publication date: December 21, 2006Applicant: ARUZE CORPInventor: Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20060170154Abstract: A roulette device including: a roulette plate having a plurality of marks arranged thereon; a ball which rolls on the roulette plate; a plurality of ball receiving parts which are formed corresponding to the marks in a circumferential direction of the roulette plate to receive the ball; a bank passage which is provided on an outer periphery of the ball receiving parts of the roulette plate and on which the ball rolls along a circumferential orbit; a compressor which compresses air; and a first discharge hole which is provided in each ball receiving part and through which the air compressed by the compressor is discharged to the bank passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2005Publication date: August 3, 2006Applicant: ARUZE Corp.Inventors: Masaki Matsuno, Tetsuya Yokota, Yoshitomo Sasaki
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Publication number: 20060168220Abstract: This invention is to enable to provide a network service, flexibly and quickly. In an embodiment of the invention, a network platform is achieved by a service providing network. The network platform provides common functions such as authentication and authorization, billing, and client management, and individual functions such as session control for client terminals connected with the service providing network. The client terminal generates and registers a service program to utilize functions in the network platform via a network management interface SMI. When executing the service program, a service request for a specific function is transmitted via a service control interface SCI to the network platform, and the execution result is obtained from the specific function of the network platform. The execution entity and keeping entity of the service program are initially determined based on the detecting entity of a trigger and etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masafumi Katoh, Akihiro Inomata, Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20060130152Abstract: This invention is to enable to provide a network service, flexibly and quickly. In an embodiment of the invention, a network platform is achieved by a service providing network. The network platform provides common functions such as authentication and authorization, billing, and client management, and individual functions such as session control for client terminals connected with the service providing network. The client terminal generates and registers a service program to utilize functions in the network platform via a network management interface SMI. Then, by executing the service program, a service request for a specific function is transmitted to the network platform through a service control interface SCI, and the execution result is received from the specific function in the network platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2005Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Masafumi Katoh, Akihiro Inomata, Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20060055109Abstract: A roulette apparatus includes: a roulette wheel having a rolling region where a ball rolls; and a ball reception member provided contiguously to the rolling region to receive the ball. The ball reception member includes: a plurality of reception portions that receives the ball in one of the reception portions; and a plurality of separation walls that separates the reception portions from one another, wherein the ball reception member is formed separately from the roulette wheel and removably attached to the roulette wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2005Publication date: March 16, 2006Applicant: ARUZE Corp.Inventors: Tetsuya Yokota, Katsuhiro Kido, Yoshitomo Sasaki
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Patent number: 6962528Abstract: A game device for playing a game by inserting a game-playing medium into an insertion section includes a casing; a main door having a display section on which game elements are displayed and that can be freely opened and closed with respect to the casing; a front door releasably located below the main door and on a front face of the casing, attachment of the front door to the casing and release of the front door from the casing being locked by closing the main door and released by opening the main door.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2002Date of Patent: November 8, 2005Assignee: Aruze CorporationInventor: Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20050119054Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention includes a cabinet, a gaming unit required for playing a game housed in the cabinet, an open/close door capable of closing a housing part for the gaming unit, and operation units each including an operation part where a player performs operation required for playing the game. The open/close door is formed in a shape having a fixed end portion fixed to the cabinet and a plurality of free end portions not fixed to the cabinet, and the operation units are placed at positions where the operation units are capable of abutting on the free end portions of the open/close door.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Applicant: Aruze Corp.Inventors: Takashi Izawa, Tetsuya Yokota
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Publication number: 20020198035Abstract: According to the invention, a game device for playing a game by inserting a game-playing medium into an insertion section is equipped with: a casing; a main door having a display section on which the game is displayed and that can be freely opened and closed with respect to casing; a front door releasably provided below main door and on the front face of casing; wherein attachment/release of front door to casing is locked by closing main door and the locking is released by opening main door.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2002Publication date: December 26, 2002Applicant: Aruze CorporationInventor: Tetsuya Yokota