Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 11364673
    Abstract: A synthetic polymer film whose surface has a plurality of raised or recessed portions, wherein a two-dimensional size of the plurality of raised or recessed portions is in a range of not less than 0.5 ?m and not more than 3 ?m when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film, the synthetic polymer film has a crosslink structure and contains an organic carboxylic acid, at the lapse of 5 minutes since placing a 200 ?L drop of water on the surface of the synthetic polymer film, a pH of an aqueous solution is less than 4, and an area equivalent circle diameter of the aqueous solution is not less than 20 mm, and at the lapse of 60 seconds since placing a drop of water on the surface of the synthetic polymer film, a static contact angle of the water drop with respect to the surface is less than 3°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Miho Yamada, Yasuhiro Shibai, Kiyoshi Minoura, Tokio Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11367965
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal panel of a scanning antenna including a transmission and/or reception region in which a plurality of antenna units are arrayed, and a non-transmission and/or reception region, the liquid crystal panel including: a TFT substrate provided with a first dielectric substrate, a TFT supported by the first dielectric substrate, a gate bus line, a source bus line, and a patch electrode; a slot substrate provided with a second dielectric substrate, and a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate and including a slot arranged so as to correspond to the patch electrode; a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate and including a plurality of liquid crystal regions; and a plurality of sealing portions that respectively surround the plurality of liquid crystal regions and bond the TFT substrate and the slot substrate together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Ohtake, Takatoshi Orui, Wataru Nakamura, Kiyoshi Minoura, Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 11366205
    Abstract: A selection circuit selects one of digital values respectively output from a TDC 1 and a TDC 2. A histogram generation circuit generates a histogram indicating a relationship between a bin number and a frequency by counting up the frequency of the bin number according to the digital value selected by the selection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ikuta, Takuma Hiramatsu, Takayuki Shimizu, Hideki Sato
  • Patent number: 11366540
    Abstract: A display device includes pixel electrodes, position detection electrodes, a signal supply section, main position detection lines disposed in the display area, and an auxiliary position detection line disposed outside the display area and routed around an area in which the main position detection lines are disposed. One end portions the main position detection lines are connected to the position detection electrodes and another end portions thereof are connected to the signal supply section and cross a space between the signal supply section and the display area. One end portion of the auxiliary position detection line is connected to the position detection electrode different from the position detection electrodes connected to the main position detection lines. Another end portion of the auxiliary position detection line is connected to the signal supply section. The auxiliary position detection line includes portions of conductive films included in different layers via insulating films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11366366
    Abstract: The active matrix substrate includes gate lines, data lines, photoelectric conversion elements provided in pixels bounded by the gate lines and the data lines and electrically connected to the data lines, and a bias line that is connected to the photoelectric conversion elements and supplies a bias voltage to the photoelectric conversion elements. The active matrix substrate also includes first protection circuits connected to the data lines, second protection circuits connected to the gate lines, and third protection circuits connected to the bias line. Each of the first protection circuits, second protection circuits, and third protection circuits includes at least one nonlinear element. A nonlinear element in each first protection circuit has a higher resistance than a nonlinear element in at least one of each second protection circuit and each third protection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 11364243
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the use of gene mutations, whose presence or absence are useful for predicting a patient's response to treatment with an anti-proliferative agent, in particular a WEE1 inhibitor. The presence or absence of a mutation to the TP53 gene, can be used to predict response to treatment with a WEE1 inhibitor in a patient presenting with a cancerous condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Marton, Yair Benita
  • Patent number: 11368085
    Abstract: A snubber circuit connected to a rectifying circuit including a reference potential node, an output potential node, and the snubber circuit comprises a snubber capacitor; a snubber diode; and a snubber resistor, wherein a negative electrode of the snubber capacitor is connected to the reference potential node, an anode of the snubber diode is connected to the switch node and a cathode of the snubber diode is connected to a positive electrode of the snubber capacitor, one end of the snubber resistor is connected to the positive electrode of the snubber capacitor, and another end of the snubber resistor is connected to the output potential node, and a reverse recovery time of the snubber diode is longer than a reverse recovery time of the rectifying element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Shiomi
  • Patent number: 11368973
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive a PDCCH including a DCI format used for scheduling of a PDSCH, and the PDSCH; and a transmitter configured to transmit a HARQ-ACK on a PUCCH, wherein an index of a downlink reference signal quasi co-located (QCLed) with an antenna port of a downlink reference signal associated with the PDSCH is given based on a control resource set in which the PDCCH is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoki Yoshimura, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Taewoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11368947
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a first Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) including a first downlink Bandwidth part Index Field (BIF) based on a PDCCH candidate of a first search space in a first serving cell and receive a second PDCCH including a second downlink BIF based on a PDCCH candidate in a second search space in the first serving cell, and a higher layer processing unit configured to activate any downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a first set of downlink BWPs in the first serving cell based on information indicated by the first downlink BIF and activate a downlink BWP of a second set of downlink BWPs in a second serving cell based on information indicated by the second downlink BIF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Taewoo Lee, Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Liqing Liu, Tomoki Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11367380
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel unit, a binary driver, and a timing generator. The display device is an active matrix display device configured to receive a data signal including image data and other data different from the image data. The pixel unit includes a memory configured to store the image data. The binary driver includes a first holding circuit configured to hold the image data and at least one second holding circuit configured to hold the other data. The timing generator is configured to generate a drive signal used for driving the binary driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidekazu Yamanaka, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shuji Nishi, Shige Furuta, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Yasushi Sasaki, Satoshi Fujii
  • Patent number: 11367859
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emissive layer between the first and second electrodes. The emissive layer comprises quantum dots that are capable of producing circularly polarized luminescence. The quantum dots are chiral structured perovskite quantum dots, each comprising a core having a chiral crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Iain Hamilton, Tim Michael Smeeton
  • Patent number: 11366357
    Abstract: The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer which is sandwiched between the pair of substrates and contains a liquid crystal material, and an alignment layer which is in contact with the liquid crystal layer. In this liquid crystal display device, at least one of the pair of substrates has a retardation layer on a side toward the liquid crystal layer, the alignment layer aligns a liquid crystal compound in the liquid crystal material, the retardation layer contains a polymer formed by polymerization of at least one monomer, and the at least one monomer includes a specific monomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 11366201
    Abstract: To provide a housing device in which an occurrence frequency of a water droplet dripping from a ceiling portion is reduced. A housing device includes a casing of which at least one surface serves as an opening surface, in which when viewed from the opening surface, in order to convey a liquid flowing from above the opening surface to the depth side, a ceiling surface of the casing is inclined to descend from a front side to a depth side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuro Kuroda
  • Patent number: 11367814
    Abstract: An LED light-source substrate includes a first bonding sheet covering the LED, a second bonding sheet formed on the first bonding sheet, and a reflective layer formed on the second bonding sheet to suppress light from the LED. The second bonding sheet is bonded peelably from the first bonding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Takeshi Masuda, Hirotoshi Yasunaga, Youzou Kyoukane
  • Patent number: 11366262
    Abstract: A lighting device includes light sources and a light guide plate. The light guide plate includes a base portion and a light collecting portion. The base portion includes a light entering surface and a light exiting surface. The light collecting portion protrudes from the light exiting surface. The light collecting portion includes light collecting sections elongated in a first direction parallel to a normal direction to the light entering surface and arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The light collecting sections perform linearity adjustment to rays of light so that the rays of light travel along the first direction. The light collecting sections include first light collecting regions and second light collecting regions. The second light collecting regions perform the linearity adjustment at a degree greater than a degree of the linearity adjustment by the first light collecting regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shugo Yagi, Yuuichi Kanbayashi, Satoshi Tsubooka
  • Patent number: 11368959
    Abstract: The present invention provides a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, and a communication method, which are capable of throughput improvement. A base station apparatus that communicates with a terminal apparatus, includes a higher layer processing unit that configures a CSI process that is a configuration relating to reporting of a channel state information (CSI), for the terminal apparatus for which a prescribed transmission mode is configured, in which the CSI process includes a configuration of a CSI reference signal and a configuration relating to two different code books.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Yamada, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Hiromichi Tomeba
  • Patent number: 11367844
    Abstract: Included are the steps of: forming a laminated body (7) by disposing a resin layer (12), an inorganic layer (3) having mean stress (Px) of 0 (zero) or having tensile stress, a TFT layer (4), an OLED element layer (5), and a sealing layer (6) in this order on an upper side of a supporting substrate (50); and separating the supporting substrate (50) from the laminated body (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsunori Tanaka, Shoji Okazaki, Yuki Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11367394
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a light-emitting element, a write transistor connected to a data signal line, and a drive transistor that controls a current that flows through the light-emitting element. The plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a first data signal line include adjacent sub-pixels that emit different colors of light, and each include the write transistor having a conduction terminal electrically connected to the first data signal line. The plurality of sub-pixels arranged along a second data signal line include adjacent sub-pixels that emit different colors of light, and each include the write transistor having a conduction terminal electrically connected to the second data signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shigetsugu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11360373
    Abstract: Illumination optical system (101) for outputting light to a projection lens, light source unit (102) for outputting light to illumination optical system (101), and dust-proof case (103) houses illumination optical system (101) and can be divided into two housings are provided, and the dust-proof case (103) has second positioning member (105-1), (105-2) provided on the outer surface of dust-proof case (103) and fitted to and first positioning member (104-1), (104-2) provided in light source unit (102), mounting seating surface (106) provided on the outer surface of the dust-proof case (103) for screwing light source unit (102), and pinching portion (107) for sandwiching a final optical member of light source unit (102) sandwiched between two housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Kawase
  • Patent number: 11363165
    Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a controller, a communicator that communicates with a management server, and an image former that forms an image. The communicator includes a first communicator and a second communicator. The controller transmits usage information of the image forming apparatus and state information of the image forming apparatus to the management server via the first communicator, and if an abnormality occurs in the first communicator, the controller transmits the usage information of the image forming apparatus or the state information of the image forming apparatus to the management server via the second communicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yohichi Kimura