Gaming machine capable of bet of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of insurance pay

• US 8,096,870 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2007
• Issued: 01/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interblock DOO
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Inventors: Okada, Kazuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Peter DungBa
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hsu, Ryan
• Application Number:
  US11/940,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20080119262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,524 Days
• Field of Search: 463/16, 463/20, 463/25, 463/42, 273/138.1, 273/138.2, 273/143.R
• US Class Current: 463/20
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Abstract

A display displays a frame of image associated with a unit game, a counter to be reset under a prescribed condition increments a count value along with execution of the unit game, and a controller determines by an external input an upper limit of a number of bet pieces of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay in the unit game, pays out a prescribed number of pieces of monetary value for the play result of the unit game to be a special play result, accepts, within a range of the upper limit of the number of bet pieces, a bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay, and gives the insurance pay for the count value having reached a preset upper limit count value in the unit game having the bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay.

Claims

1. A gaming machine capable of a bet of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay, comprising:

a display configured to display an image associated with a unit game for determination of whether or not a play result for a payout is to be given;

a counter configured to be reset under a prescribed condition, and to increment a count value along with execution of the unit game;

an upper limit setting switch configured to set an upper limit of a number of bet pieces of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay in the unit game; and

a controller operable to;

(a) pay out a prescribed number of pieces of monetary value for the play result of the unit game to be a special play result;

(b) accept, within a range of the upper limit of the number of bet pieces, a bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay; and

(c) give the insurance pay for the count value having reached a preset upper limit count value in the unit game having the bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay.

2. A gaming machine capable of a bet of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay, comprising:

a display configured to display an image associated with a unit game for determination of whether or not a play result for a payout is to be given;

a counter configured to be reset under a prescribed condition, and to increment a count value along with execution of the unit game;

an upper limit setting switch configured to set an upper limit of a number of bet pieces of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay in the unit game; and

a controller operable to;

(a) pay out a prescribed number of pieces of monetary value for the play result of the unit game to be a special play result;

(b) make a setting operation of the upper limit by the upper limit setting switch effective under a condition of a special key operation;

(c) accept, within a range of the upper limit of the number of bet pieces, a bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay; and

(d) give the insurance pay for the count value having reached a preset upper limit count value in the unit game having the bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay.

3. A gaming machine capable of a bet of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay, comprising:

a display configured to display an image associated with a unit game for determination of whether or not a play result for a payout is to be given;

a counter configured to be reset under a prescribed condition, and to increment a count value along with execution of the unit game;

an upper limit setting switch operable by a player and configured to set an upper limit of a number of bet pieces of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay in the unit game; and

a controller operable to;

(a) pay out a prescribed number of pieces of monetary value for the play result of the unit game to be a special play result;

(b) accept, within a range of the upper limit of the number of bet pieces, a bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay; and

(c) give the insurance pay for the count value having reached a preset upper limit count value in the unit game having the bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay.

4. A gaming machine capable of a bet of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay, comprising:

a display configured to display an image associated with a unit game for determination of whether or not a play result for a payout is to be given;

a counter configured to be reset under a prescribed condition, and to increment a count value along with execution of the unit game;

and a controller operable to;

(a) pay out a prescribed number of pieces of monetary value for the play result of the unit game to be a special play result;

(b) accept a bet of an arbitrary number of pieces of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay;

(c) determine an upper count value at the counter depending on the number of bet pieces of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay; and

(d) give the insurance pay to pay out a number of pieces of monetary value depending on the number of bet pieces of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay for the count value having reached the upper limit count value in the unit game having the bet of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay.

5. The gaming machine capable of a bet of monetary value as a condition for acquisition of an insurance pay, as claimed in claim 4, wherein the controller is adapted to have the upper limit count value set greater, as the number of bet pieces of monetary value as the condition for acquisition of the insurance pay is greater.