Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20100110270
    Abstract: In a camera module, the position of image pickup lenses at an end at infinity is defined by contact between a bottom surface of a lens barrel and a surface of a sensor cover. This makes it possible to realize a camera module having image pickup lenses positioned with a high degree of accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sekimoto, Yoshihito Ishizue, Shinji Kaioka
  • Publication number: 20100112998
    Abstract: A method for self-configuration of offset factors between two base stations in a wireless communications system is described. A first offset factor is sent to a first user equipment (UE) by a first base station. An offset factor is an indication of the reselection area around a home evolved nodeB (HeNB). A second offset factor is received from a second UE. The first offset factor is modified using the second offset factor. The modified first offset factor is sent to the first UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Sayantan Choudhury, Kenneth J. Park, Ahmad Khoshnevis
  • Publication number: 20100110663
    Abstract: A lighting device for a display device includes a light source and a chassis arranged to cover the light source. The chassis includes a base member made of resin material, and further includes a metallic skeleton frame provided on the base member. Thus, the lighting device for a display device having a simple construction capable of preventing or suppressing beat tones generated on a lamp housing member is provided without increasing the thickness of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shiyoshi Cho
  • Publication number: 20100110665
    Abstract: A lighting device for a display device includes a light source and a chassis arranged to cover the light source. The chassis includes an opening section located directly below a portion of or all of the light source. Thus, the lighting device for a display device, having a simple construction capable of preventing or suppressing beat tones generated on a lamp housing member, is provided without increasing the thickness of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shiyoshi Cho
  • Publication number: 20100110664
    Abstract: A lighting device 12 for a display device, according to the present invention, includes a light source 17 and a chassis 14 arranged to cover the light source 17. The chassis 14 is formed of a plate-like member 53 having a reticulated structure 55. Thus, the lighting device for a display device, capable of preventing or suppressing beat tones generated on a lamp housing member, is provided without increasing the thickness of the device and with a simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shiyoshi Cho
  • Publication number: 20100110667
    Abstract: A thin, lightweight illuminating device, in the form of a backlight unit, is capable of securing even brightness and improving light use efficiency. The backlight unit includes a light source including a plurality of light emitting diodes mounted on a mounting surface of a board, a diffusion plate which has a light introduction surface that faces the mounting surface of the board at a predetermined distance therefrom and diffuses the light emitted from the plurality of light emitting diodes, and a reflection sheet that is adhered to the mounting surface of the board. A light emission direction of the plurality of light emitting diodes is parallel or substantially parallel to the light introduction surface of the diffusion plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshiki Takata
  • Publication number: 20100110321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device which are used as, for example, a display unit of an electronic apparatus, and an object of the present invention is therefore to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display device and a liquid crystal display device capable of providing high transmittance, high luminance, and good display characteristics as well as a high production yield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshihisa TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20100109991
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an illuminator and a liquid crystal panel for performing displaying by using light which is emitted from the illuminator. The liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided therebetween. The liquid crystal layer is formed of a liquid crystal material which contains molecules having at least one of a carbon-carbon triple bond and a polycyclic group. The illuminator includes a light source causing primary generation of at least blue light, among other light which is used for displaying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koichi MIYACHI
  • Publication number: 20100110330
    Abstract: A backlight (illumination device) according to the present invention includes a plurality of light sources, and a light guiding body for causing light emitted from the light sources to be emitted from a light emitting surface. The light sources are provided inside the light guiding body, and emit light in directions which are substantially parallel to a light emitting surface of the light guiding body. At least two of the plurality of light sources emit the light in directions which are different from each other. More specifically, at least two of the plurality of light sources are provided so as to face each other, and provided so that one of the plurality of light sources emits light toward the other one of the plurality of light sources, and vice versa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhsaku Ajichi, Takeshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20100110513
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus with a preview function and a monochrome/color automatic detection function, capable of displaying a preview of original image data immediately next a detection result has been switched such as from color to monochrome, or monochrome to color, with a simple operation. On receipt of an operation of a next skip button by a user, a preview image display control portion refers to a detection result recording table and displays a preview of image data of a top page in an image data group (unit) that is next the image data being displayed for previewing currently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Fujita, Masanori Matsumoto, Syoichiro Yoshiura
  • Publication number: 20100110357
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device used as a display part of an electronic apparatus which exhibits high brightness and favorable display quality. The liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner; vertical-alignment type liquid crystal which is sealed between the pair of substrates; a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region including a sub pixel having a pixel electrode on one substrate and a sub pixel having a pixel electrode on one substrate, a slit formed between the pixel electrodes; and a singular point control part which includes projecting portions which are formed on end portions of the pixel electrodes on the slit-side and controls singular points of the liquid crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasutoshi Tasaka, Takahiro Sasaki, Yohei Nakanishi, Masakazu Shibasaki, Takashi Sasabayashi, Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Hideaki Tsuda, Kazuya Ueda
  • Patent number: 7710523
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is constituted of a TFT substrate and an opposing substrate which are arranged so as to be opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. In addition, in the liquid crystal layer, formed is a polymer into which a polymer component added to liquid crystal is polymerized, and which determines directions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt when voltage is applied. In the TFT substrate, formed are a sub picture element electrode directly connected to a TFT and a sub picture element electrode connected to the TFT through capacitive coupling. In each of these sub picture element electrodes, formed are slits extending in directions respectively at angles of 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees to the X axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Kunihiro Tashiro, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Jin Hirosawa, Norio Sugiura, Kengo Kanii, Shota Makimoto, Naoto Kondo, Isao Tsushima, Tomonori Tanose, Takashi Takagi, Tetsuya Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 7711448
    Abstract: A control command communicated between a print control section and a finisher control section are relayed by an inserter control section. The print control section and the finisher control section generate the control command without taking into account processing at an inserter, and the inserter control section judges the content of the control command upon receiving the control command sent from the print control section or the finisher control section, and converts the control command or adjusts output timing of the control command if the control command needs to take into account the processing at the inserter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuhji Fujii, Nobuyuki Ueda, Kenji Takahashi, Yuji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7709103
    Abstract: The present invention provides a nano particle phosphor with superior luminous characteristic formed using nitride semiconductor material, a method of manufacturing the phosphor with high production yield, and a light emitting device using the phosphor. The phosphor is formed of a columnar crystal having a diameter of at most 3 nm, a light emitting region and a light absorbing region are defined in the columnar crystal, and the light emitting region and the light absorbing region are adjacent to each other along a longitudinal direction of the columnar crystal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hajime Saito
  • Patent number: 7709769
    Abstract: In a steam cooker, a tray-shaped case (51) of a steam temperature-raising device (50) has a recessed part (51a) into which steam from a steam generator flows through steam supply ports (95A, 95B, 95C) provided in a first sidewall (91). The recessed part (51a) has a planar shape roughly symmetrical with respect to a center line (L) of a steam flow entering through the steam supply ports (95A, 95B, and 95C). First and second steam superheaters (52, 53) are placed in the recessed part (51a) of the tray-shaped case (51) so as to be symmetrical with respect to the center line (L). A spiral heat radiation fin (56) having a fin pitch of 10 mm or less is wound around the first steam superheater (52). The tray-shaped case (51) is placed on a ceiling panel of a heating chamber and at steam outlets with an opening of the recessed part (51a) directed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuzi Ando, Shinya Ueda, Kazuyuki Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: 7711012
    Abstract: The yield of a semiconductor device is improved which has a large-scale logic circuit or which has both a logic circuit and a memory. A basic circuit block is provided with an input/output circuit. A transmission line and a branch line connect the input/output circuits so that information can be exchanged through the input/output circuits between one basic circuit block and another basic circuit block. The memory in each basic circuit block or in each input/output circuit can be programmed from the outside to designate the destination of a signal. By thus changing the program in the memory, the transmission destination of a signal can be changed to give various functions efficiently with a limited circuit scale. Moreover, if a basic circuit block fails another basic circuit block substitutes for it to improve the yield drastically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwata, Tomohisa Okuno, Akihide Shibata, Seizo Kakimoto
  • Patent number: 7708269
    Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a stacking plate, a sheet stacker, and a damping member. The stacking plate is liftably supported in the sheet stacker and is adapted for sheets to be fed into a sheet processing apparatus to be stacked thereon. The sheet stacker is adapted to be movable between a housed position where the stacker is housed in a housing and an exposed position where the stacking plate is exposed outside of the housing. The damping member is adapted to exert on the sheet stacker a damping force according to moving speed of the sheet stacker, thereby limiting the moving speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Nakashima, Toyoaki Nanba
  • Patent number: 7711526
    Abstract: A transistor model for a simulator simulates a resistance between a source region and a drain region with a model equation which has terms representing resistance values corresponding respectively to areas of mutually different impurity concentrations below a gate section in simulating characteristics of a transistor. At least two of the terms each having a threshold parameter indicating a voltage at which a semiconductor element composed of the associated region and regions adjacent to that region changes from an ON state to an OFF state. The threshold parameters of the terms being specified independently from each other. Thus, the characteristics of a transistor having a set of areas of mutually different impurity concentrations below a gate section, inclusive of subthreshold regions which are difficult to evaluate through actual measurement, can be simulated to high accuracy while preserving a good fit with a capacitance model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Maeda, Tamotsu Sakai, Yasushi Kubota, Shigeki Imai, Kenshi Tada, Kenji Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 7709476
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds having the structure (I) useful as potassium channel inhibitors to treat cardiac arrhythmias, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Dinsmore, Jeffrey M. Bergman, Charles J. McIntyre, David A. Claremon
  • Patent number: 7709010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising virus-like particles (VLPs) of HPV, said VLPs adsorbed to an aluminum adjuvant, and an ISCOM-type adjuvant comprising a saponin, cholesterol, and a phospholipid. In preferred embodiments, the aluminum adjuvant comprises amorphous aluminum hydroxyphosphate sulfate. Another aspect of the invention provides multi-dose HPV vaccine formulations comprising HPV VLPs and an antimicrobial preservative selected from the group consisting of: m-cresol, phenol and benzyl alcohol. Also provided are methods of using the disclosed pharmaceutical compositions and formulations to induce an immune response against HPV in a human patient and to prevent HPV infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Janine T. Bryan, Michelle K. Brownlow, Li Shi, Danilo Casimiro, William L. McClements, Brian K. Meyer, Binghua Hu