Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9705130
    Abstract: An electrochemical battery is provided with an aluminum anode current collector and an antimony (Sb)-based electrochemically active material overlying the aluminum current collector. The Sb-based electrochemically active material may be pure antimony, Sb with other metal elements, or Sb with non-metal elements. For example, the Sb-based electrochemically active material may be one of the following: Sb binary or ternary alloys of sodium, silicon, tin, germanium, bismuth, selenium, tellurium, thallium, aluminum, gold, cadmium, mercury, cesium, gallium, titanium, lead, carbon, and combinations thereof. The aluminum current collector may additionally include a material such as magnesium, iron, nickel, titanium, and combinations thereof. In one aspect, the anode further composed of a coating interposed between the aluminum current collector and the Sb-based electrochemically active material. This coating may be a non-corrodible metal or a carbonaceous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Sean Vail, Yuhao Lu, Motoaki Nishijima
  • Patent number: 9701927
    Abstract: A cleaning solution is used, in a transparent antireflective structure that has, on one surface thereof, a plurality of convexities formed at a period equal to or shorter than wavelength in a visible light range, and that prevents, at the one surface, reflection of light entering the one surface, to clean a concavity defining a region between adjacent two of the plural convexities, the cleaning solution having a pH of 10.00 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyohko Matsuura, Yuhsuke Tsuda, Hidetsugu Matsukiyo, Yuka Utsumi, Akiyoshi Fujii, Takahiro Nakahara, Kiyoshi Minoura, Miho Yamada
  • Patent number: 9700172
    Abstract: A heating cooker includes a container for containing an object to be heated, a stirrer for stirring the object inside the container, and a stirring controller for controlling a stirring operation of the stirrer. In cooking the object under stirring by the stirrer, the stirring controller determines a state of the object from at least one of a cooking menu to be executed and a heating time, and controls at least one of a stirring speed, a stirring-operation timing and a stirring direction of the stirrer in accordance with the state of the object. Thus, the heating cooker can perform proper stirring suited to a mixed state and/or viscosity of ingredients during the cooking process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motoki Tanaka, Mao Yamada, Noriko Kurihara, Yuko Nakajima, Setsuko Kobashi
  • Publication number: 20170192549
    Abstract: Driving of a stylus pen is satisfactorily controlled even when the touch panel controller and the stylus pen are not connected through a wire. A touch panel (2) is driven by a touch panel controller (4), and is given with an input operation from a stylus pen (3) that is able to transmit and receive information to and from the touch panel controller (4) via wireless communication. The touch panel controller (4) includes a timing generator (14) that generates a synchronization signal to synchronize drive timing of the stylus pen (3) and drive timing of the touch panel (2) with each other, and an information signal generating unit (19) that generates an information signal representing a drive state of the touch panel (2). The information signal is transferred from the touch panel controller (4) to the stylus pen (3) subsequent to the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro KATAYAMA, Michiaki TAKEDA, Mamoru TAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20170192622
    Abstract: According to a method of the present invention for controlling display of a menu screen, content is displayed in a content display region located in a central part of a display screen in a size smaller than the display screen, and a plurality of icons are displayed in a circle around the content display region so that the plurality of icons sequentially move to a specific position in accordance with a user's selecting operation while moving around the content display region without overlapping the content display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kinya FUJIMOTO, Takashi UNOBE, Atsushi OGAWA, Hiroyuki NAGANUMA, Masayuki HIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20170188827
    Abstract: Provided is a measurement probe of which hygiene can be easily secured. The measurement probe (1) receives fluorescence emitted by radiation of excitation light to a fingertip (90). The measurement probe (1) includes: a radiating portion that radiates the excitation light; a light-receiving portion that receives the fluorescence; a sleeve (16) disposed at a front end portion of the radiating portion or the light-receiving portion; and a transparent quartz plate (15) disposed at a front end surface (14I) of the radiating portion or the light-receiving portion. The sleeve (16) is provided with an opening in which the quartz plate (15) is detachably mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mikihiro YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170195976
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that can efficiently assign transmitting power is provided. The terminal apparatus terminal apparatus that performs communication with a plurality of cells simultaneously includes a control signal processor that receives a control signal providing a notification indicating that at least one of the plurality of cells is to enter an off state in which data communication is not performed temporarily, and a transmitting power controller that, in a case where transmitting power of each of the plurality of connected cells is determined and in a case where a value of a total of the transmitting power needed for the plurality of cells is judged to exceed maximum transmitting power of the terminal apparatus, refers to content of the notification provided by the control signal and judges priority in assigning transmitting power to a channel and a signal that are transmitted in each of the plurality of connected cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jungo GOTO, Osamu NAKAMURA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA, Yasuhiro HAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170192612
    Abstract: A shape of a code identifying body as seen from a touch panel surface is more accurately detected not by correcting a ghost on a controller side of a touch-sensor system or distinguishing the ghost from a real touch by a sensor unit but by rectifying the ghost on the code identifying body side and increasing a detection signal. An identifying body 1 for a touch-sensor system includes a conductive pattern unit 2 in which a conductive pattern in a prescribed shape is arranged to be opposed to a screen of a touch panel of a touch-sensor system 4 and a virtual grounding circuit unit 3 that has an equivalent function to a ground circuit for the conductive pattern, is installed on a touch panel surface of the touch-sensor system 4 that enables a position input operation of an indicating body, and is used for user authentication and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideaki SHINYA
  • Publication number: 20170196133
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a driver, a glass substrate having a driver mounting section where the driver is mounted, an anisotropic conductive material that is interposed between the driver and driver mounting section so as to electrically connect both and that at least includes a binder made of a thermosetting resin and conductive particles in the binder, and a heat supply part provided on at least the driver mounting section of the glass substrate for supplying heat to the anisotropic conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiro YAMAGUCHI, Nobuhiro NAKATA, Yukinori MASUDA, Tomoki TAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20170195028
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device that communicates with a base station apparatus. The device includes: a higher layer processing unit that configures a discovery signal which includes cell-specific reference signals present in DwPTSs of all downlink subframes and all special subframes, a first synchronization signal present in a prescribed subframe, a second synchronization signal present in a first subframe, and one or more non-zero power CSI reference signals during a period of continuous subframes in a predetermined cell; and a reception unit that receives the discovery signal. A subframe offset between the second synchronization signal and the non-zero power CSI reference signal is independently configured for each of the non-zero power CSI reference signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Kimihiko IMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170189441
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for inhibiting expression of a gene of a subject comprising administering (1) a composition comprising R-(L)a-(G)b; wherein R is an oligonucleotide selected from the group consisting of DNA, RNA, siRNA, and microRNA; L is a linker and each occurrence of L is independently selected from Table 3; G is a targeting ligand and each occurrence of G is independently selected from Table 4; each of a and b is independently 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; and (2) a composition comprising (P)c-(L)d-(G)e; wherein P is a peptide and each occurrence of P is independently selected from Table 2; L is a linker and each occurrence of L is independently selected from Table 3; G is a targeting ligand and each occurrence of G is independently selected from Table 4; d is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; and each of c and e is independently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6. Compositions in (1) and (2) can be co-administered or sequentially administered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Steven L. Colletti, Thomas J. Tucker, David M. Tellers, Boyoung Kim, Rob Burke, Kathleen B. Calati, Matthew G. Stanton, Rubina G. Parmar, Jeffery G. Aaronson, Weimin Wang
  • Patent number: 9699480
    Abstract: A system for encoding and/or decoding a video bitstream that includes a base bitstream and enhancement bitstreams representative of a video sequence. The receiver receives a video parameter set and a video parameter set extension, where the video parameter set extension includes decoder picture buffer parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 9695198
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) where A is a heterocycle ring system and B is a heterocycle ring system or aryl ring system, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cameron James Smith, Edward Sherer, Louis-Charles Campeau, James Balkovec, William John Greenlee, Derun Li, Liangqin Guo, Tin-Yau Chan, Yi-Heng Chen, Yili Chen, Samuel Chackalamannil, John Qiang Tan, Tomokazu Hirabayashi, Mika Sekioka
  • Patent number: 9695197
    Abstract: The invention provides compounds with enhanced permeability for selectively inhibiting glycosidases, prodrugs of the compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds or prodrugs of the compounds. The invention also provides methods of treating diseases and disorders related to deficiency or overexpression of O-GlcNAcase, accumulation or deficiency of O-GlcNAc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: Alectos Therapeutics Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Ramesh Kaul, Ernest J. McEachern, David J. Vocadlo, Yuanxi Zhou, Qun Dang, Harold G. Selnick
  • Patent number: 9695196
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to an improved synthesis of cephalosporin antibiotic compounds such as ceftolozane, and compositions and methods of use thereof. Thiadiazolyl-oximinoacetic acid compounds such as TATD can be reacted to yield the activated thiadiazolyl-oximinoacetic acid methanesulfonate ester compounds useful in the manufacture of cephalosporin antibiotic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Kristos Adrian Moshos, Valdas Jurkauskas, Manuel Scanu, Michele Benotti
  • Patent number: 9699479
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. The terminal device that communicates with the base station device by using a plurality of aggregated cells recognizes that a serving cell is stopped in a first state, recognizes that the serving cell is started in a second state, and switches from the first state to the second state based on a received PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Patent number: 9698475
    Abstract: A first resin layer (11) is provided with a first through hole (12), a conductive pattern (31, 41, 51) extends from a first surface of the first resin layer (11) to a second surface of the first resin layer (11) through the first through hole (12), and a second resin layer (21) is provided with a first protrusion (22) which fills at least a portion of the first through hole (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomofumi Katayama
  • Patent number: 9698710
    Abstract: A solar energy utilization system includes a solar panel, a motor driven by an inverter circuit functioning as a motor drive circuit with power output by the solar panel, a solar output voltage monitor functioning as a monitor that monitors an input or an output of the solar panel and also functioning as a monitor that monitors an input or an output of the inverter circuit, and a controller. The controller has a control mode in which the inverter circuit is controlled such that an output voltage of the solar panel is maintained at a voltage higher than a maximum power point voltage. In this control mode, the controller performs the control such that a rotation speed of the motor is changed repeatedly at predetermined timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohtaroh Kataoka, Masaru Nomura, Takeshi Shiomi, Shuji Wakaiki, Akihide Shibata, Hiroshi Iwata
  • Patent number: 9699234
    Abstract: An electronic device for sending a message is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device determines whether a first picture is a Clean Random Access (CRA) picture. The electronic device also determines whether a leading picture is present if the first picture is a CRA picture. The electronic device further generates a message including a CRA discard flag and an initial CRA Coded Picture Buffer (CPB) removal delay parameter if a leading picture is present. The electronic device additionally sends the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 9699780
    Abstract: A base station device and a mobile station device efficiently communicate by using a flexible subframe. When a physical uplink shared channel and a sounding reference signal are not scheduled in a first flexible subframe, and at least the physical uplink shared channel is scheduled in a second flexible subframe immediately following the first flexible subframe, the mobile station device monitors a downlink grant which is used for scheduling the physical downlink shared channel in the first flexible subframe, and receives the physical downlink shared channel except for a last part in a time domain, in the first flexible subframe, based on the detected downlink grant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura, Katsunari Uemura