Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 11319295
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a compound of formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (Formula (I)). Also disclosed herein are uses of a compound disclosed herein in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising a compound disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein are uses of a composition in the potential treatment or prevention of an IDO-associated disease or disorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Catherine M. White, Meredeth Ann McGowan, Yongxin Han, Nunzio Sciammetta
  • Patent number: 11319298
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to heteroarylpiperidine ether compounds which are allosteric modulators of the M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor. The present invention is also directed to uses of the compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these compositions in the potential prevention or treatment of such diseases in which M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors are involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., MSD R&D (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianming Bao, Ronald Ferguson, Xiaolei Gao, Scott Harrison, Sandra L. Knowles, Michael Man-Chu Lo, Robert D. Mazzola, Jr., Jeffrey W. Shubert
  • Patent number: 11323021
    Abstract: A snubber circuit configured to be coupled to a switching circuit, comprises a snubber capacitor; a diode; and a coil, wherein the switching circuit includes an upper switch element coupled between a high potential node and a switch node, a lower switch element coupled between the switch node and a reference potential node, and a bypass capacitor coupled between the high potential node and the reference potential node, a positive electrode of the snubber capacitor is configured to be coupled to the high potential node, an anode of the diode is coupled to a negative electrode of the snubber capacitor, and a cathode of the diode is coupled to the switch node, and one end of the coil is coupled to the negative electrode of the snubber capacitor, and another end of the coil is coupled to the reference potential node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Shiomi
  • Patent number: 11323156
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus and a communication method are provided. The terminal apparatus communicates with a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver and a measurement unit. The receiver is configured to receive downlink signals and configuration information in a first component carrier and a second component carrier. The measurement unit is configured to calculate Channel State Information (CSI) of the first component carrier and the second component carrier. In a case that spatial Quasi-coloration (QCL) for reception parameters is configured between the first component carrier and the second component carrier in the configuration information, the CSI of the first component carrier and the CSI of the second component carrier are calculated with a same reception parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Namba, Ryota Yamada, Hiromichi Tomeba, Atsushi Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 11320178
    Abstract: The cooling device includes an electrocaloric portion including an electrocaloric effect material, a first thermal switch including a first actuator, and a second thermal switch including a second actuator, in which a thickness and a length of the first actuator and the second actuator are changed depending on an electric field to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Haseba, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 11320665
    Abstract: A device for manipulating the polarization of light which includes a first retarder-stack (Stack 1) that converts the polarization of input light from a first polarization basis vector (PBV1) to a second polarization basis vector (PBV2), a second retarder-stack (Stack 2) that returns the polarization of light from PBV2 to PBV1, and one or more optically functional layers between Stack 1 and Stack 2. Stack 1 has a plurality of layers, wherein the number of layers, retardation values, and orientations of layers in Stack 1 are selected to produce a PBV2 that is substantially spectrally-uniform over a prescribed range of wavelengths. PBV1 is a non-trivial eigen-polarization of combined Stack 1 and Stack 2. Stack 2 has a plurality of layers and Stack 2 is arranged in series with Stack 1. Alternatively, instead of two different stacks, a reflector may be used to produce a return pass through Stack 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: GARY SHARP INNOVATNONS, LLC
    Inventor: Gary D. Sharp
  • Patent number: 11322087
    Abstract: A pixel circuit for a display device may be operable in three phases, including an initialization phase, a combined threshold compensation and data programming phase, and an emission phase. The pixel circuit may include a drive transistor configured to control an amount of current from a first power supply to a light-emitting device during the emission phase depending upon a voltage applied to a gate of the drive transistor. The pixel circuit may also include a second transistor and a third transistor that are connected in series between the gate and a second terminal of the drive transistor and are configured to implement the three phases. The pixel circuit may also include two capacitors, with one capacitor connected between the gate of the drive transistor and a first node of the circuit, and another capacitor connected between the gate and a second node of the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Oliver James Beard, Tong Lu
  • Patent number: 11324059
    Abstract: The present application provides a method executed by user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving radio resource control (RRC) signaling, the RRC signaling comprising configuration information used for configuring, for the UE, a data radio bearer (DRB) supporting packet duplication; establishing a corresponding DRB according to the configuration information; and calculating transmittable data of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity for a logical channel corresponding to the established DRB. The present application also provides corresponding UE, a base station, and a corresponding method executed by a base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Fancying Xiao, Chongming Zhang, Renmao Liu, Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 11319180
    Abstract: A document feeder includes a document placing tray on which a document is placed; a document discharging tray on which a document discharged from a document discharging port in a discharging direction is stacked; and a light source that radiates light to the document discharging tray. The document discharging tray is disposed below the document placing tray. The document discharging tray has a protruding portion protruding upward from the surrounding area. The light source is disposed within a region having a width that is the same as a document having a maximum size in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Kuroda, Hironori Ogasawara, Hisashi Yamanaka, Toshiki Fukunishi
  • Patent number: 11319488
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an element substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the element substrate and the counter substrate, reflective electrodes placed on a surface of the element substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side, and a pair of alignment films each of which is placed on a corresponding one of a surface of the element substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side and a surface of the counter substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side. A liquid crystal composition contained in the liquid crystal layer contains a compound containing an alkoxy group. The alignment films contain a polymer including polyimide. The polyimide is derived from a polyamic acid and contains a side chain represented by Formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Tomonori Itoh, Takashi Satoh
  • Patent number: 11324025
    Abstract: Repeated transmission in a slot is efficiently performed with less control information. In a case that a parameter related to frequency hopping is configured to intra-slot hopping, a slot is divided into a first section and a second section and at least one demodulation reference signal is mapped to each of the first section and the second section. In a case that a parameter related to PUSCH repetition in a slot is enabled, a first section and a second section are generated according to a criterion identical to a criterion used in a case that information related to the frequency hopping is enabled, at least one demodulation reference signal is mapped to the first section and the second section, two PUSCHs generated from a same transport block are generated, and the two generated PUSCHs are mapped to the first section and the second section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Osamu Nakamura, Ryota Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220126542
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an optical film excellent in anti-fouling properties and scratch resistance as well as anti-reflection properties. The method includes the steps of: (1) applying a lower layer resin and an upper layer resin; (2) forming a resin layer having the uneven structure on a surface thereof by pressing a mold against the lower layer resin and the upper layer resin from the upper layer resin side in the state where the applied lower layer resin and upper layer resin are stacked; and (3) curing the resin layer, the lower layer resin containing at least one kind of first monomer that contains no fluorine atoms, the upper layer resin containing a fluorine-containing monomer and at least one kind of second monomer that contains no fluorine atoms, at least one of the first monomer and the second monomer containing a compatible monomer that is compatible with the fluorine-containing monomer and being dissolved in the lower layer resin and the upper layer resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidekazu HAYASHI, Tokio TAGUCHI, Atsushi NIINOH, Kenichiro NAKAMATSU, Yasuhiro SHIBAI
  • Patent number: 11317271
    Abstract: A system includes a subscription storage that stores an APN for identifying a home base station and the service class available for a UE as subscription information, in correspondence with a mobile terminal identifier for identifying UE; a positional information update request receiver for receiving a positional information update request of UE 70 from an MME; and a positional information response transmitter that extracts the available service class included in the positional information update request, from the subscription storage and transmits a positional information update response included with the extracted service class to MME. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a mobile communication system in which, for a plurality of services of a home base station, the owner of a home base station can set the access right for each of the services, and communication data is transferred based on the set access right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masafumi Aramoto, Hirokazu Naoe
  • Patent number: 11317460
    Abstract: Communication control for establishing a multi-access PDN connection is performed based on a response to a PDN connectivity establishment request from a terminal device. Communication control for transmitting and/or receiving user data using one or more default bearers for a multi-access PDN connection is performed. This provides a communication control method and the like along with a multi-access PDN connectivity establishment request from the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yudai Kawasaki, Masafumi Aramoto
  • Patent number: 11317435
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit, in one uplink BWP of one serving cell, a first PUSCH corresponding to a configured uplink grant, and a receiver configured to receive, in one downlink BWP of the one serving cell, downlink control information to be used to schedule a second PUSCH on a PDCCH, in which, in a case that a duration of the first PUSCH overlaps a duration of the second PUSCH in the one uplink BWP, a first uplink symbol of the first PUSCH is expected to not be earlier than a first (next) uplink symbol at which a CP begins after a predetermined period of time after a last symbol of the PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tomoki Yoshimura, Toshizo Nogami, Wataru Ouchi, Taewoo Lee, Huifa Lin
  • Patent number: 11312719
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: 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: 11316061
    Abstract: n-type amorphous semiconductor layers (4) and p-type amorphous semiconductor layers (5) are alternately disposed on the back surface of a semiconductor substrate (1) so as to be separated from each other at a desired interval paralleled with the direction of the surface of the semiconductor substrate (1). An electrode (6) is disposed on the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), and an electrode (7) is disposed on the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5). A protective film (8) includes an insulating film, and is disposed on a passivation film (3), the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5), and the electrodes (6, 7), so as to be in contact with the passivation film (3), the n-type amorphous semiconductor layer (4), the p-type amorphous semiconductor layer (5), and the electrodes (6, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamikawa, Masatomi Harada, Toshihiko Sakai, Tokuaki Kuniyoshi, Liumin Zou
  • Patent number: 11314136
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate is provided with a demultiplexer circuit. Each unit circuit of the demultiplexer circuit splits the display signal from a single signal output line to n source bus lines. Each unit circuit includes n branch lines and n switching TFTs. The demultiplexer circuit includes boost circuits configured to boost the voltage applied to the gate electrodes of the switching TFTs. Each boost circuit includes a set section that pre-charges a node connected to the gate electrode, a boost section that boosts the potential of the node pre-charged by the set section, and a reset section that resets the potential of the node. The demultiplexer circuit includes an equalizer circuit configured to perform charge sharing by electrically connecting a first node boosted by the boost section of a first boost circuit and a second node boosted by the boost section of a second boost circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kaoru Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11317141
    Abstract: A method and a receiver for receiving a recovery file format file from a provider comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a recovery data table including a RecoveryDataTable element; (b) receiving a contentID field of said RecoveryDataTable element describing a type of content identifier provided in a message having a cardinality of 0 . . . N; (c) receiving a svcInetUrl field of said RecoveryDataTable element describing service information; (d) receiving a URL-Value field of said svcInetUrl field describing URL to access Internet signaling files for said service information; (e) decoding elements of said file based upon said recovery data table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11316248
    Abstract: The scanning antenna includes a TFT substrate, a slot substrate including a slot electrode, a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate, and a reflective conductive plate. Each of the plurality of antenna units includes a TFT, a patch electrode electrically connected to the drain of the TFT, a slot formed in the slot electrode corresponding to the patch electrode, and a first region in which the patch electrode and the slot electrode overlap each other when viewed from the normal direction of the first dielectric substrate. A distance in the normal direction of the first dielectric substrate between the patch electrode and the slot electrode of the plurality of second antenna units is smaller than a distance in the normal direction of the first dielectric substrate between the patch electrode and the slot electrode of the plurality of first antenna units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunio Matsubara, Katsunori Misaki