Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 7485640Abstract: The present invention discloses a compound of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (I) wherein —U—V— represents —CH?CH—, or —CH2—CH2—, —N?CH— or —CH?N—; X1 represents hydrogen, halogen, C1-6 alkyl, trifluoromethyl or C1-6 alkoxy; X2 represents hydrogen or halogen; Y represents a chemical bond, an oxygen atom, or a —NH— or —OCH2— linkage; Z represents an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group; R1 represents hydrocarbon, a heterocyclic group, trifluoromethyl, —SO2Ra, —SO2NRaRb, —CORa, —CO2Ra or —CONRaRb; and Ra and Rb independently represent hydrogen, hydrocarbon or a heterocyclic group; pharmaceutical compositions comprising it; its use in methods of treatment; use of it in the manufacture of a medicament for treating and/or preventing anxiety; convulsions or a cognitive disorder; and methods of treatment using it.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme LimitedInventors: William Robert Carling, Jose Luis Castro Pineiro, Simon Charles Goodacre, David James Hallett, Leslie Joseph Street
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Patent number: 7486264Abstract: Data (gray scale levels of source driver output) of two lines are compared between an actually charged line and a pre-charged line for which actual charging and pre-charging are carried out, respectively, during the same horizontal period. Based on the result of comparison, a pre-charged period of the pre-charged line is adjusted by adjusting a pulse width of a gate driver output. In this way, the pre-charge period is reduced and thereby overcharge is avoided in pixels which are likely to be overcharged by the pre-charging.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Minoru Taguchi
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Patent number: 7485232Abstract: In a water treatment apparatus, microorganisms propagating on wood charcoal are activated by micro-nano bubbles contained in treatment water. Water treatment is carried out with the activated microorganisms propagated on the wood charcoal. Thereby, a stable treatment is achieved. Organic matters adsorbed by the wood charcoal are decomposed by the activated microorganisms propagated on the wood charcoal.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kazuyuki Yamasaki, Kazuyuki Sakata, Kazumi Chuhjoh
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Patent number: 7485924Abstract: In a lateral double-diffused field effect transistor of the present invention, a gate insulating film includes a first gate insulating film covering a source diffusion layer up to a region beyond the pattern of a body diffusion layer and a second gate insulating film having a film thickness larger than that of the first gate insulating film and covering a region closer to a drain diffusion layer than the region covered by the first gate insulating film. A boundary between the first gate insulating film and the second gate insulating film is composed of a straight portion parallel to a side of the pattern of the body diffusion layer and a corner portion surrounding an vertex of the pattern of the body diffusion layer from a distance. A distance between the vertex of the pattern of the body diffusion layer and the corner portion of the boundary is equal to or smaller than a distance between the side of the pattern of the body diffusion layer and the straight portion of the boundary.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiro Takimoto, Hiroki Nakamura, Toshihiko Fukushima
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Patent number: 7486942Abstract: In a receiver, a mixer portion provided in a front-end portion thereof is built with two mixers with different input/output linearity characteristics and different current consumption. According to the electric-field strength of a received signal, or manually, one of the mixers is chosen to operate so that, when the electric-field strength is in an ordinary range, the mixer with a better input/output linearity characteristic is chosen to operate with lower current consumption and, when the electric-field strength is in a high range, the mixer that, despite operating with higher current consumption, exhibits a still better input/output linearity characteristic is chosen. The receiver thus operates with lower current consumption and lower signal distortion.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shoji Sakurai
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Patent number: 7484730Abstract: Pyrazolo-quinazoline derivatives of formula (Ia) or (Ib) as defined in the specification, and pharmeceutically acceptable salts thereof, process for their preparation and pharmaceutical composition comprising them are disclosed; the compounds of the invention maybe useful in therapy, in the treatment of diseases associated with a disregulated protein kinase activity, like cancer.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihiko Seike, Hideshi Izumi, Yuhi Akagawa, Tatsuya Shinkawa
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Patent number: 7484726Abstract: A sheet feeding device is adapted to be placed beside a sheet processing apparatus by being lifted on a side close to the sheet processing apparatus for engagement with the sheet processing apparatus. The sheet feeding device includes a housing, casters, and an elastic member. The housing stores therein sheets to be supplied to the sheet processing apparatus. Provided for supporting the housing, the casters are mounted on a bottom portion of the housing and include a first caster and a second caster. The first caster is located close to the sheet processing apparatus so as to be movable upward and downward. The second caster is located far from the sheet processing apparatus. The elastic member applies a downward force to the first caster.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2006Date of Patent: February 3, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Susumu Hashimoto, Hidetoshi Kaneko, Toshiki Ohgita, Jinichi Nagata, Yoshitaka Matsumoto, Hideo Yoshikawa, Kouzou Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20090026620Abstract: In order to cut off, without causing any burr, a multilayer substrate having a metal layer on a front surface and a second metal layer on a back surface, a method for cutting the multilayer substrate is a method for cutting the multilayer substrate having a metal layer on the front surface and a backside electrode on the back surface, the method including the step of cutting the multilayer substrate into certain depth respectively from a metal layer side and from a backside electrode side, width of a notch on the metal layer side and width of a notch on the backside electrode side being different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kiyohisa OHTA
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Publication number: 20090029280Abstract: A toner includes toner particles containing at least binder resin and colorant. The toner particles contain a large-sized toner particle group of particles and a small-sized toner particle group of particles having a volume average particle size smaller than that of the large-sized toner particle group. In the toner, a volume average particle size D50v is 4 ?m to 8 ?m at 50% in accumulated volume counted from a large particle-side in accumulated volume distribution of entire toner particles; a content of toner particles contained in a toner particle group having a volume average particle size of 7 ?m or more is 24% to 47% by volume based on the entire toner particles; and a content of toner particles contained in a toner particle group having a number average particle size of 5 ?m or less is 10% to 50% by number or less based on the entire toner particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshinori YAMAMOTO, Hiroshi ONDA, Yoshiaki AKAZAWA
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Publication number: 20090027428Abstract: The inkjet apparatus of the present invention includes an inkjet section, a determination section, an inkjet control section, and the like, and the inkjet section is movable in a main scanning direction Y and a sub scanning direction X relative to a medium. In case where a plurality of pixel print targets (2) (inkjet targets) are dotted on a substrate (4) serving as the medium, the determination section calculates a time Yt taken to move in the main scanning direction and a time Xt taken to move in the sub scanning direction and determines whether or not the time Xt is equal to or less than Yt, so as to select a next inkjet target or next inkjet target candidates. Further, the inkjet control section may determine whether the inkjet section is in a static state or not (whether the inkjet section oscillates or not). As a result, it is possible to eject ink to the inkjet target accurately.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Chiyoshi Yoshioka
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Publication number: 20090025970Abstract: A multilayer wiring board (1) of the present invention provided in a camera module has a sandwiched wiring layer (13) between opened wiring layers (11) having openings (12). The openings (12) formed in the opened wiring layers (11) form a through hole (12a) which penetrates the opened wiring layer (11) in the direction in which the opened wiring layers (11) are stacked on top of each other. The sandwiched wiring layer (13) overlaps at least part of the opening (12) of the opened wiring layer (11) and has a blocking section (13a) which blocks the through hole (12a). Therefore, it is possible to mitigate thermal stress applied to the multilayer wiring board, while maintaining the freedom of wiring design.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuyoshi Yanagisawa
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Publication number: 20090028437Abstract: Document data corresponding to each page included in a document is stored, and furthermore, feature data indicative of a feature of the document data and a document index indicating the document are associated with the document data. A document extracting apparatus obtains input document data, calculates feature data from the input document data, judges similarity between the input document data and the document data based on the feature data, obtains a document index associated with document data similar to the input document data, and extracts a plurality of pieces of document data associated with the document index. Thus, document data concerning the document including a page corresponding to the document data similar to the input document data is extracted for a plurality of pages.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hitoshi HIROHATA
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Publication number: 20090027722Abstract: In an image forming apparatus to which a user can login, a management unit that manages login information of a user, a storage unit that stores print data of a print job received from an external device, and a control unit are provided. When a print job is introduced from the external device while the control unit recognizes a state of a user being logged in the login management unit, the control unit temporarily stores the print data of the print job received from the external device in the storage unit and then when the control unit detects a logout with the termination of the login state in the login management unit, starts printing of the print job that is received from the external device and stored in the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kunihiko Tsujimoto
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Publication number: 20090025972Abstract: A camera module structure (100) of the present invention is arranged such that a heat-sensitive camera module (2) is joined to a printed wiring board (1) through solder joint sections (3). The printed wiring board (1) has through holes (11) formed therein and terminals (12) formed thereon so as to close front surface apertures which are formed by the through holes (11) in the mounting surface of the printed wiring board (1). The solder joint sections (3) are provided on the terminals (12), respectively. The solder joint sections (3) are formed by heating by light (heat rays) applied to the rear side of the printed wiring board (1) by way of the terminals (12) on the printed wiring board (1), so that heat is not transmitted to the camera module (2). Accordingly, the camera module structure (100) mounted on the printed wiring board (1) is realized without heat damage to the heat-sensitive camera module (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2006Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuitsu Nishida, Kazuo Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20090027839Abstract: A display device is arranged such that a voice device is laminated on a liquid crystal panel so as to be confined in a planar area of the liquid crystal panel, and a voice-system circuit block which drives the voice device is formed on the thin film substrate of the liquid crystal panel. A signal is inputted into the voice-system circuit block through an FPC which is connected to the thin film substrate and which inputs a video signal, and the signal processed at the voice-system circuit block is conducted through the FPC. A connecting terminal part is provided in a middle portion of the FPC and adhered to an FPC. One end of the FPC is connected to the voice device. In this way, a multifunctional display device can be achieved at low cost by efficiently using a limited space around the display element without sacrificing the advantages of a lightweight and thin-shaped flat display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuhiko MIYATA
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Publication number: 20090027528Abstract: A solid-state image capturing apparatus has a plurality of light receiving sections for performing photoelectric conversion on incident light to generate a signal charge, a charge transfer section provided along a light receiving section arranged in a column direction among the plurality of light receiving sections, for transferring signal charges generated in the light receiving section arranged in the column direction to a predetermined direction, and at least two layers of charge transfer electrodes provided on the charge transfer section via an insulation film, where a plane view width readable from the light receiving section is 50% to the whole edge of the edge of the light receiving section on the charge transfer section side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshimitsu Nakashima
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Publication number: 20090026457Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes base substrate, gate lines, data lines, thin-film transistors and pixel electrodes. The gate lines are formed on the base substrate. The data lines are formed over the gate lines. Each of the data lines crosses all of the gate lines with an insulating film interposed therebetween. The thin-film transistors are formed over the base substrate. Each of the thin-film transistors is associated with one of the gate lines and operates responsive to a signal on the associated gate line. Each of the pixel electrodes is associated with one of the data lines and one of the thin-film transistors and is electrically connectable to the associated data line by way of the associated thin-film transistor. Each of the pixel electrodes and the associated thin-film transistor are connected together by way of a conductive member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiro Okada, Yuichi Saito, Shinya Yamakawa, Atsushi Ban, Masaya Okamoto, Hiroyuki Ohgami
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Patent number: 7483009Abstract: The display device substrate according to the present invention is arranged so that: a source line is provided on an area on which a pixel electrode is not provided, and a gap is provided between the source line and the pixel electrode, and a black matrix (light shielding film) which covers a surface of the source line overlaps with the pixel electrode. Thus, it is possible to prevent parasitic capacitance (Csd) between the pixel electrode and the source line from becoming uneven in a display area, so that it is possible to reduce display unevenness of a liquid crystal display device using the present display device substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihide Tsubata, Morihide Ohsaki, Masanori Takeuchi
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Patent number: 7483663Abstract: In a fixing apparatus that an unfixed developer is fused and fixed by heating/pressurizing a recording medium on which an image of the unfixed developer is formed, a belt-shaped cleaning member is fed from a feeding roller, and the cleaning member is made to respectively contact a heating roller and a pressure roller by a pressure-contact roller, thereby cleaning that the heating roller and the pressure roller, respectively. When a winding roller takes up the cleaning member which has cleaned a roller surface, guide rollers are respectively provided between the pressure-contact roller and the winding roller, and between the feeding roller and the pressure-contact roller so as to contact the cleaning member.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Ide, Hiroaki Hori
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Patent number: 7482457Abstract: The present invention discloses a compound of formula (I): wherein: R1 is an aryl or heteroaryl ring; R2 is hydroxy, C1-6 alkoxy, C1-6 alkyl, amino, NR?R? or C1-6 alkyl-NR?R? where R? and R? are independently chosen from hydrogen and C1-4 alkyl and where R? and R?, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, form a saturated nitrogen-containing 3-7 membered heterocycle optionally containing a further nitrogen atom and optionally substituted by NR?R? as defined above or R2 is C1-6 alkoxy substituted by NR?R? as defined above; R3 is hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl; R4 is hydrogen, C1-8 alkyl, C2-8 alkenyl, C2-8 alkynyl, C3-8 cycloalkyl, aryl or aryl C1-6 alkyl; R5 is hydrogen, C1-8 alkyl, C2-8 alkenyl, C2-8 alkynyl, C3-8 cycloalkyl, aryl, aryl C1-6 alkyl or C1-6 alkoxycarbonyl; or R4 and R5, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, form a C3-C10 mono- or bicyclic saturated ring; X and Y are independently chosen from hydrogen, hydroxy, nitro, amino, cyano, CF3, halogen and C1-4 alkyl; oType: GrantFiled: February 3, 2004Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Merck Sharp & DohmeInventors: Mark Stuart Chambers, Philip Jones, Angus Murray MacLeod