Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 11391504
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a first cooler; a freezer compartment an inside of which is cooled by circulation of cooled air subjected to heat exchange by the first cooler; and a refrigerator compartment cooled by direct-cooling, using a cooling plate, wherein the cooled air subjected to heat exchange by the first cooler is to be supplied to the refrigerator compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tohru Kawanami
  • Patent number: 11395422
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible display panel, and an accommodation section configured to house the flexible display panel and provided with at least one movable guide member being movable and a plurality of fixed guide members configured to support the flexible display panel, where a distance between the at least one movable guide member and the plurality of fixed guide members at a time of pull-out is different from that at a time of housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Suga, Yuki Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20220218812
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating patients by administering an immunogenic multivalent pneumococcal polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine which comprises a S. pneumoniae serotype 35B polysaccharide-protein conjugate, does not comprise a S. pneumoniae serotype 29 polysaccharide-protein conjugate, and provides protection against S. pneumoniae serotype 29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Jian He, Robin M. Kaufhold, Julie M. Skinner, Jinfu Xie
  • Publication number: 20220218676
    Abstract: The present invention provides certain substituted chromane, isochromane, and dihydroisobenzofuran compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein ring A is a moiety selected from: and ring B, n, R1, R2, R2A, R3, and R3A are as defined herein. The compounds of the invention are useful as mGluR2 inhibitors, or mGluR2 negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), and may be useful in methods of treating a patient for diseases or disorders in which the mGluR2-NAM receptor is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease, cognitive impairment, mild congnitive impairment, schizophrenia and other mood disorders, pain disorders and sleep disorders, by administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the invention, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Ashok Arasappan, Anthony S. Basile, Tjerk Johannes Helena Bueters, Michael F. Egan, Nancy Dohee Kim, Fiona Hamilton Marshall, Yuki Mukai, Arie Struyk, Jason Martin Uslaner
  • Publication number: 20220220117
    Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain 9-substituted amino triazolo quinazoline compounds of the structural Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein, ring A, R1 and R2 are as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other therapeutically active agents), and methods for their preparation and use, alone and in combination with other therapeutic agents, as antagonists of A2a and/or A2b receptors, and in the treatment of a variety of diseases, conditions, or disorders that are mediated, at least in part, by the adenosine A2a receptor and/or the adenosine A2b receptor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Larsen, Amjad Ali, Jared Cumming, Duane DeMong, Qiaolin Deng, Thomas H. Graham, Elisabeth Hennessy, Andrew J. Hoover, Ping Liu, Kun Liu, Umar Faruk Mansoor, Jianping Pan, Christopher W. Plummer, Aaron Sather, Uma Swaminathan, Huijun Wang, Yonglian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11383201
    Abstract: To reduce loss due to water evaporation and to efficiently release moisture from a moisture absorbing portion, in the humidity controller according to the present invention, a moisture absorbing portion (2) is formed to include at least two gel sections each with a different thermal conductivity and to release absorbed moisture from an exposed surface (31) that is a specific region exposed outside and that is disposed on the surface opposite to a heater (5) on the basis of heating by the heater (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuki Sakikawa, Hiroaki Okano
  • Patent number: 11388704
    Abstract: A terminal device (UE) includes a reception unit configured to monitor an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) on a Serving cell with frame structure type 3. In a case that the terminal device detects downlink control information (DCI) in a subframe, the terminal device assumes a configuration of OFDM symbols according to a field in the DCI in the subframe. The OFDM symbols are used for downlink transmission. A demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the EPDCCH is mapped in the subframe according to the configuration of the OFDM symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Naoki Kusashima, Shoichi Suzuki, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 11385488
    Abstract: A curved display panel including a display surface curving at least around a curve axis and displaying an image, the curved display panel includes a first substrate; a second substrate spaced apart from, and facing, the first substrate; a plurality of pixels provided to the first substrate, and arranged in a matrix inside the display surface; a light shield provided to the second substrate, extending in a curve direction of the display surface, and dividing the pixels adjacent to each other in an orthogonal-to-curve direction extending along the display surface and orthogonal to the curve direction; and an indicator provided to the second substrate, and serving as a position indicator of each of the pixels in the curve direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Chikama, Masamitsu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11388626
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in user equipment (UE), the UE operating in a carrier aggregation mode. The method comprises: receiving a Media Access Control (MAC) control element (CE) used for deactivating packet duplication; transmitting data from a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity to a Radio Link Control (RLC) entity; and transmitting, at a MAC entity, the data only by a cell or cell group associated with the RLC entity in a packet duplication activated state, or by a cell or cell group selected from a set of cells or cell groups pre-configured for the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Fangying Xiao, Shohei Yamada, Renmao Liu
  • Patent number: 11384169
    Abstract: A sealant composition with which a decrease in voltage holding rate is less likely to occur in a liquid crystal cell for a scanning antenna, the sealant composition according to the present invention includes a photo-radical polymerization initiator that generates a radical through application of light with a wavelength of 450 nm or greater and a polymerization component that contains a polymerizable functional group that is polymerizable using the radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Tadashi Ohtake
  • Patent number: 11387948
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus is configured to: receive a transport block in a primary cell in a subframe i; in a case that HARQ-ACK and a positive scheduling request are transmitted, select a third transmission method in a case that a subframe j in a secondary cell does not correspond to any of first prescribed subframes, and select a fourth transmission method in a case that the subframe j corresponds to any of the first prescribed subframes; and transmit the HARQ-ACK in a PUCCH resource for a scheduling request, wherein the subframe j is given based on at least (I) whether or not a first parameter for the primary cell is configured, (II) whether or not a first parameter for the secondary cell is configured, and (III) a search space in which a PDCCH for scheduling the transport block is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqing Liu, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Tomoki Yoshimura, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11388478
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display controller that displays, on the basis of a display schedule, content included in distribution data distributed from a content distribution apparatus. The display apparatus determines whether or not content that matches the replacement rule is included in the distribution data. When displaying content included in the distribution data on the basis of the display schedule, if it is determined that content that matches the replacement rule is included in the distribution data, the display apparatus replaces the content with the replacement content and displays the replacement content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuo Nishiura
  • Patent number: 11385419
    Abstract: A light receiving unit is disposed so as not to protrude from a lower side surface of a display apparatus. The light receiving unit receives infrared light. A light guide unit guides the infrared light to the light receiving unit. The light guide unit is mounted on the lower side surface of the display apparatus in a demountable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohji Miyauchi
  • Patent number: 11388842
    Abstract: An electric device includes an electric component mounted on a circuit board, a cabinet, a heat conducting member, and an elastic portion. The cabinet faces the circuit board. The heat conducting member has heat conductivity, a first contact portion that is in contact with the electric component, and at least one second contact portion that is in contact with the cabinet. The elastic portion has elasticity in a direction in which the circuit board and the cabinet face each other. The first contact portion and the second contact portion are separated from each other in the direction in which the circuit board and the cabinet face each other. The elastic portion applies an elastic force to at least one of the first contact portion and the second contact portion in a direction in which the first contact portion and the second contact portion are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Nagasawa, Kenta Kawashima, Masayuki Kihara, Masateru Ueki
  • Patent number: 11388369
    Abstract: A video device includes: a first video signal terminal to which a video signal cable for transmitting a video signal is detachably connected; a second video signal terminal which is of the same shape as that of the first video signal terminal, and to which the video signal cable is detachably connected; a detection unit which detects a predetermined state in the first video signal terminal and the second video signal terminal; a first video signal switch which connects the first video signal terminal to either an input unit or an output unit; a second video signal switch which connects the second video signal terminal to either the input unit or the output unit; and a control unit which controls a connection state of the first video signal switch and a connection state of the second video signal switch according to a detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 11386175
    Abstract: A content recommendation apparatus selects an application for executing a content, by referring to a view history corresponding to a prime time, selects, as recommendation contents in the prime time, more contents that are executed by the selected application than contents that are executed by an application other than the selected application, and outputs recommendation-content information about the selected recommendation contents. The content recommendation apparatus recommends a suitable content timely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Toshiroh Mukai
  • Patent number: 11387260
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a TFT substrate is a manufacturing method of a TFT substrate in which each of a source electrode and a drain electrode includes a lower source metal layer and an upper source metal layer. The manufacturing method of the TFT substrate includes the steps of: forming an upper source metal layer by etching an upper conductive film with the first resist layer as an etching mask; forming a lower source metal layer by etching a lower conductive film; removing the first resist layer and forming a second resist layer covering the upper source metal layer; and forming a source contact portion and a drain contact portion by etching a contact layer by dry etching with the second resist layer as an etching mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsunori Misaki
  • Patent number: 11382835
    Abstract: A multiple dose spoon device for scooping, retaining, and delivering to a patient a specific number of mini-tablets from a container, e.g., bottle, or bulk pile, of mini-tablets. The device comprises a top housing, a bottom housing, and one or two sliders movably positioned between top housing and bottom housing, said: a) top housing having a plurality of nests, and also having a handle with an open window and slider retention notches, and b) one or two sliders with slider tabs, having a plurality of sequential whole number markings equivalent to the plurality of nests, and a plurality minus 1 of tablet blocking ribs, wherein slider movement is regulated by the slider retention notches, and wherein the plurality of nests and the plurality of whole number markings are a same number. Alternatively, the top housing does not have slider retention notches, and the one or two sliders have slider retention notches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Merck, Sharp & Dohme LLC
    Inventors: Annaniy Berenshteyn, Mikhail Gotliboym, Christopher Granelli
  • Patent number: 11388624
    Abstract: In a case that a network (NW) applies a plurality of congestion controls, various kinds of congestion control identification information along with a back-off timer (Session Management (SM) timer) are notified such that a terminal apparatus (UE) can apply a congestion control expected by the NW. Alternatively, in a case that the UE receives an NW-initiated SM request with the back-off timer activated, the UE is allowed to identify an SM timer intended by the NW-initiated SM request. Alternatively, in a case that the UE receives the NW-initiated SM request with the back-off timer activated, the UE is allowed to modify the association of the activated back-off timer and the congestion control to be applied. Thus, a communication control method for the terminal to apply the congestion control expected by the NW in the congestion controls applied by the NW in 5G congestion control that applies a plurality of congestion controls is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Shuichiro Chiba, Masafumi Aramoto, Tsuyoshi Takakura
  • Patent number: 11386848
    Abstract: As a scanning line drive circuit of a display device, a shift register having a configuration in which a plurality of unit circuits are connected to each other in multiple stages is used. The unit circuits each include: a plurality of control transistors; an internal node connected to a terminal of one of the plurality of control transistors; and a depletion mode initialization transistor having a first conduction terminal connected directly or through a resistor to the internal node, a second conduction terminal, and a control terminal. One of a power supply voltage and a ground voltage is applied to the second conduction terminal, and the other voltage is applied to the control terminal. The initialization transistor is turned on in a power-off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Taya