Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Publication number: 20080239725Abstract: An LED lighting apparatus includes an LED provided on a base, a rod-like light-guiding body having translucency that protrudes from the base, and a light reflector disposed in a vicinity of an upper end of the rod-like light-guiding body. Light from the LED is incident on a lower end of the rod-like light-guiding body, exits from the upper end via the rod-like light-guiding body, and is reflected by the light reflector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuro ISHIKURA, Yutaka FUJIYAMA
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Publication number: 20080239213Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate sandwiching a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a first polarizer disposed adjacent to the first substrate at a side opposite to a side of the first polarizer facing the liquid crystal layer, with a first gap between the first polarizer and the first substrate, a second polarizer disposed adjacent to the second substrate at a side opposite to a side of the second polarizer facing the liquid crystal layer, with a second gap between the second polarizer and the second substrate, wherein at least one of the first and second gaps includes therein a first retardation film having a positive optical anisotropy and a second retardation film having a negative optical anisotropy, such that the first retardation film is disposed closer to the liquid crystal layer with respect to the second retardation film.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsufumi Ohmuro, Yoshio Koike, Takahiro Sasaki, Hideaki Tsuda, Hideo Chida
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Publication number: 20080241995Abstract: An adhesive sheet for dicing and die bonding includes a base material and an adhesive layer releasably laminated on said base material, wherein said adhesive layer has a pressure sensitive adhering property at room temperature and a thermosetting property, the elastic modulus of the adhesive layer before thermosetting is 1.0×103 to 1.0×104 Pa, the melt viscosity at 120° C. of the adhesive layer before thermosetting is 100 to 200 Pa·s, and the time required for the melt viscosity to reach its minimum value is 60 sec or less when the adhesive layer before thermosetting is maintained at a constant temperature of 120° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2005Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Lintec CorporationInventors: Yasuki Fukui, Osamu Yamazaki, Naoya Saiki
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Publication number: 20080236882Abstract: The present invention provides a circuit board and a method for manufacturing the circuit board, the circuit board and method allowing a further shorter connection distance between electrodes of a semiconductor device, and also allowing a sufficient thickness of a solder pre-coat in a soldering process. The circuit board comprises bonding pads for being connected with bumps of a semiconductor element, which act as connection terminals, the bonding pads being arrayed in parallel lines on a surface of the circuit board, and, on the adjacent parallel lines, the bonding pads being positioned to form a zigzag pattern along the parallel lines longitudinally.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Atsushi Ono
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Publication number: 20080244397Abstract: A device includes a memory to store user interface information, a memory to store user interface information, and at least one processor configured to receive an imaging job, determine culture information associated with the imaging job, and present the user interface information according to culture information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA, INC.Inventor: Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch
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Publication number: 20080239427Abstract: A hologram recording and reconstructing apparatus includes a rotating mirror, a rectangular aperture and a medium drive unit, records interference fringes of a reference beam and a signal beam in a hologram recording medium and reconstructs the hologram recorded in the hologram recording medium. The rotating mirror changes the angle of incidence of the reference beam incident on the hologram recording medium such that multiple data is recorded in the same recording region of the hologram recording medium. The rectangular aperture blocks a reconstructed beam from a hologram adjacent to the hologram to be reconstructed. The medium drive unit drives the hologram recording medium such that the angle of incidence of the signal beam and the reference beam incident on the hologram recording medium is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kuniaki Okada, Yukiko Nagasaka
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Publication number: 20080237838Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor chips, and a circuit substrate having a substantially rectangular outer shape. The semiconductor device is an MCM having an MCM packaging structure in which the plurality of semiconductor chips are juxtaposed on the semiconductor chip mounting surface of the circuit substrate, and the semiconductor chip mounting surface is covered by a sealing resin along an outer edge of the circuit substrate so that the plurality of semiconductor chips are sealed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuo Tamaki
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Publication number: 20080241672Abstract: To provide a secondary battery that is capable of shortening injecting time for injecting an electrolytic solution, and infiltrating the electrolytic solution uniformly, during a process for preparing the secondary battery. Also, to provide the secondary battery in which discordance of layers of positive-electrode plates, negative-electrode plates, and separators does not easily occur during a process for laminating them and the following process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hisayuki UTSUMI, Motoaki Nishijima, Shinsuke Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080240618Abstract: Feature vectors used in discrimination of images include information on feature blocks of images in an image-document retrieving apparatus of the present invention. Text areas of a page image document are combined to form rectangular images. On the basis of information on the rectangular images that are extracted, a geometric structure of the page is analyzed, the page image document is divided into plural blocks, and then a plurality of feature blocks describing features of the page document image are selected from the plural blocks. The feature vectors are constituted of information on the feature blocks thus selected. This makes it possible to provide an image-document retrieving apparatus and a method of retrieving image documents, by which retrieval of image documents containing mainly text and a graphic is improvable in accuracy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mang Chen, Bo Wu, Yadong Wu, Chen Xu
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Patent number: 7430144Abstract: A semiconductor storage device according to the present invention comprises one or more memory planes 8 comprising a plurality of memory blocks 9, and a block selection circuit for decoding an block address signal for selecting the memory block 9 from the memory plane 8 to select the memory block, generates a dummy block address for selecting a dummy block that is different from the selected block address and a defective block address of a defective block by a predetermined logical operation targeted for a specific partial bit in address bits of the selected block address when the defective block is contained in the memory plane. A bit line connected to the selected memory cell selected by the selected block address and a bit line in the dummy block are connected to differential input terminals of a sense amplifier circuit 9.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiko Watanabe, Yasumichi Mori
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Patent number: 7430024Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a thin film transistor disposed at the crossing point of a scanning signal line with a data signal line on the substrate, with a gate electrode of the transistor being connected to the scanning signal line, a source electrode thereof being connected to the data signal line and a drain electrode thereof being connected to an interconnection electrode, and a storage capacitor upper electrode disposed so as to oppose a storage capacitor wiring pattern at least via an insulating layer and connected to the interconnection electrode and a pixel electrode. The storage capacitor upper electrode includes at least three divided electrodes in the region opposing the storage capacitor wiring pattern.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshifumi Yagi, Toshihide Tsubata, Masanori Takeuchi, Yuhko Hisada
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Patent number: 7429778Abstract: There is provided a method for forming wiring or an electrode by coating a substrate with a composition comprising (A) a complex of an amine compound and a hydrogenated aluminum compound and (B) a titanium compound or a composition comprising the complex and (C) metal particles and subjecting the obtained coating film to heating and/or a light treatment. By the method, a film can be formed that uses a conductive film forming composition with which wiring and an electrode that can be suitably used for electronic devices can be formed easily and inexpensively.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignees: JSR Corporation, Sharp CorporationInventors: Michiko Yokoyama, legal representative, Naomi Shinoda, legal representative, Risa Yokoyama, legal representative, Isamu Yonekura, Takashi Satoh, Tamaki Wakasaki, Yasumasa Takeuchi, Masayuki Endo, Yasuaki Yokoyama
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Patent number: 7430103Abstract: A static electricity protective circuit for use in a high-frequency apparatus for protecting, against static electricity, an internal circuit connected to a signal terminal through which a high-frequency signal and a DC signal are superimposed and transmitted, comprises a high-frequency cut-off element having one end thereof connected to the signal terminal, and a Schottky barrier diode having a cathode thereof connected to other end of the high-frequency cut-off element and an anode thereof connected to ground, wherein the high-frequency cut-off element and the Schottky barrier diode cut off the high-frequency signal and the DC signal respectively and lead static electricity applied to the signal terminal to ground so as to protect the internal circuit against the static electricity.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2004Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masahiro Kato
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Patent number: 7429439Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor of excellent durability having high sensitivity and light responsiveness, not suffering from lowering of the electric characteristics by exposure to light, change of circumstance, or repetitive use, and excellent in the cleaning property and not suffering from lowering of the picture quality of formed images for a long times, in which an enamine compound represented by the general formula (1), for example, an enamine compound represented by the following structural formula (1-1) is incorporated in a photosensitive layer 14, and the surface energy (?) on the surface of the photosensitive layer 14 is set to 20.0 mN/m or more and 35.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2004Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Toriyama, Kotaro Fukushima, Takatsugu Obata, Takuya Arimura
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Patent number: 7430033Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal between substrates and alignment layers disposed on the inner surface sides of the substrates. The alignment layer is made from a material including polyamic acid containing a diamine component and polyimide containing a diamine component different from the diamine component of the polyamic acid. The alignment layer is subjected to alignment treatment by irradiation of light. UV light can be irradiated in the oblique direction onto the alignment layer through a mask having openings. A reflecting plate can be arranged between a UV light source and the mask. Also, bank structures having a thickness from 0.1 to 0.15 ?m can be provided on the alignment layer of the TFT substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideo Chida, Hidefumi Yoshida, Yasutoshi Tasaka
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Patent number: 7430381Abstract: The developing device according to the present invention includes a developing tank for containing two-component developer, a toner density sensor, and a toner cartridge. Further, the developing device according to the present invention includes a control section for inputting, to the toner density sensor, a control voltage (Vc) for correcting a sensor output. The control section sets the control voltage (Vc), by using a standard control voltage having been set so as to correspond to each of the stirring velocities, so that a sensor output (Vo) has a value within a range indicative of predetermined toner density. With the arrangement, it is possible to set the toner density sensor so that the toner density sensor operates in the most suitable manner so as to correspond to each of the stirring velocities, thereby realizing a developing device capable of detecting toner density with high accuracy.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2006Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kouichi Takenouchi, Mitsuru Tokuyama, Hiroo Naoi, Kiyofumi Morimoto
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Patent number: 7430404Abstract: A tuner circuit according to the invention includes two AGC control units supplying AGC voltages V1 and V2 to an AGC amplifier, respectively. When the AGC voltage V1 is higher the AGC voltage V2, a voltage on a cathode of a diode becomes high, and the diode 11 is turned off. When the AGC voltage V2 is higher than the AGC voltage V1, a voltage on an anode of the diode becomes high, and the diode 11 is tuned on. Therefore, in the case of an ordinary signal level, the AGC voltages establish a relationship of, and the AGC voltage V2 performs the control. When an excessively large disturbing signal is input, the AGC control unit controls the AGC amplifier to suppress deterioration of performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Oiwa
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Patent number: 7430601Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for coordination of interfering network devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Deepak Ayyagari, Wai-Chung Chan
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Patent number: 7430228Abstract: In an AlGaInP semiconductor laser device, at least a first conductivity type first cladding layer, an active layer and a second conductivity type second cladding layer are formed on a semiconductor substrate. The second cladding layer forms a stripe-shaped ridge on a side opposite from the substrate, and a first conductivity type current block layer is disposed on both sides of the ridge. The first conductivity type current block layer has a lattice mismatch rate of ?0.20% or more but not more than 0% relative to the semiconductor substrate. The lattice mismatch rate may be uniform within the current block layer. Alternatively, the lattice mismatch rate may increase continuously or stepwise with an increasing distance from a portion of the second conductivity type second cladding layer other than the ridge.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2004Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Nobuhiro Ohkubo
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Patent number: 7429942Abstract: A digital signal processor for handling, as a digital signal, data to be transmitted or received and a analog signal processor for handling the data as an analog signal are so arranged as to be spatially separate from each other, and a converter circuit which performs signal format conversion between the digital signal and the analog signal is provided on the analog signal processor side between the digital signal processor and the analog signal processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2006Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akiteru Deguchi
