Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9389447
    Abstract: This panel composite body 1 according to the present invention is provided with: a main panel 11 that has a large first substrate 111 and a small second substrate 112, the edge portion 111a of the large substrate 111 protruding further outwards than the edge portion 112a of the small substrate 112, and that has a polarizing plate 115 arranged on the outer surface 112c side of the second substrate so as to fit on the plate surface of the second substrate 112; a plate member 12 that, protruding further outwards than the edge portion 112a of the second substrate 112, sandwiches the polarizing plate 115 together with the second substrate 112; and an adhesive layer 21 that, bonding the main panel 11 and the plate member 12, is disposed between the polarizing plate 115 and the plate member 12 and, so as to cover the edge portion of the polarizing plate 115, between the second substrate 112 and the plate member 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Tsuchida, Nobuhiro Nakata, Masataka Ohyama
  • Patent number: 9388964
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination device capable of preventing a reflection sheet in the periphery of a light-emitting element from being raised while minimizing the instability in the fixture of a diffusion lens. The illumination device comprises a light-emitting element, a mounting substrate, a diffusion lens, and a reflection sheet having a through-hole. The diffusing lens includes a lens portion for diffusing light, and a fixed portion to be fixed to the mounting substrate. An engaging portion that sandwiches the reflection sheet between the engaging portion and the mounting substrate is formed in the fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Motoki Takase
  • Patent number: 9389218
    Abstract: A measuring device (10) includes an analysis unit (101) that holds a fluid pool (B) of blood or serum therein, an irradiation unit (105) that irradiates fluorescent substances contained in the fluid pool (B) with excitation light, and a light receiving unit (106) that receives fluorescence generated from the fluorescent substances. An amount of the fluorescent substances contained in the blood or the serum after artificial dialysis is estimated from the intensity of the fluorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikihiro Yamanaka, Keita Hara, Ryoji Nagai
  • Patent number: 9391275
    Abstract: A vapor deposition source (60), a plurality of control plates (80) and a vapor deposition mask (70) are disposed in this order. A substrate (10) is moved relative to the vapor deposition mask in a state in which the substrate and the vapor deposition mask are spaced apart at a fixed interval. Vapor deposition particles (91) discharged from a vapor deposition source opening (61) of the vapor deposition source pass through neighboring inter-control plate spaces (81) and mask openings (71) formed in the vapor deposition mask, and then adhere to the substrate to form a coating film (90). At least a part of the coating film is formed by the vapor deposition particles that have passed through two or more different inter-control plate spaces. It is thereby possible to form a coating film in which edge blur and variations in the thickness are suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Sonoda, Nobuhiro Hayashi, Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9390686
    Abstract: There is provided a display device capable of suppressing brightness change which can occur at the time of image update in intermission driving. A display control circuit (20) includes a frame memory (101), a coercive refreshing determination section (104), a refreshing circuit (105), and an undershoot circuit (106). The coercive refreshing determination section (104) outputs an active coercive refreshing signal and an active correction instruction signal upon determining that an image is updated. The refreshing circuit (105) receives the active coercive refreshing signal, and then outputs an active output control signal. The frame memory (101) receives the active output control signal, and then outputs an image data. The undershoot circuit (106) performs, if in reception of the active correction instruction signal, a correction by making a subtracting operation to the image data received from the frame memory (101), and then outputs corrected image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Akizumi Fujioka, Kazuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9391242
    Abstract: A surface mounted light emitting device having superior reliability with a focus on low cost producibility, in which a protective element can be formed without lowering the efficiency of light emission from a light emitting element, is provided. Since, for example, a printed resistance 16, as a protective element, is formed on at least the top surface side, the back surface side, or the inside of an insulating film 2 and, for example, the printed resistance 16, as a protective element, is formed on the rear surface side of the installation surface of a light emitting element 11, light emitted from the light emitting element 11 is not obstructed due to light blocking, light absorption or the like by, for example, the printed resistance 16, as a protective element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshio Hata, Yuhsuke Fujita, Kenichi Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 9391446
    Abstract: An electric power control section includes: a temperature detecting section for detecting temperatures of a battery; and an accumulation counter for accumulating numerical values assigned to the respective temperatures of the battery which have been detected by the temperature detecting section. The electric power control section reduces electric power supply to an LCD display section when an accumulated value obtained by the accumulation counter exceeds a preset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9390813
    Abstract: A unit circuit (11) includes: a transistor (T2) having its drain terminal to be supplied with a clock signal (CK) and its source terminal connected to an output terminal (OUT); a transistor (T9) which, when supplied with an active all-on control signal (AON), outputs an ON voltage to the output terminal (OUT), and which, when supplied with a nonactive all-on control signal (AONB), stops outputting the ON voltage; a transistor (T1) which supplies the ON voltage to a control terminal of the transistor (T2) in accordance with an input signal (IN); a transistor (T4) which, when supplied with the active all-on control signal (AON), supplies an OFF voltage to a control terminal of the transistor (T2). This makes it possible to provide a shift register of a simple structure that can prevent a malfunction from occurring after all-on operation, and to provide a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Etsuo Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9388394
    Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant C. difficile toxin A (TcdA) and toxin B (TcdB) and binary toxin A (CDTa) proteins comprising specifically defined mutations relative to the native toxin sequence that substantially reduce or eliminate toxicity. The invention also relates to vaccines and immunogenic compositions comprising these recombinant toxins, as well as combinations of these toxins with binary toxin B (CDTb), which are capable of providing protection against C. difficile infection and/or the effects thereof. The invention also relates to methods of inducing an immune response to C. difficile comprising administering the vaccines and immunogenic compositions described herein to a patient. The invention also encompasses methods of expressing recombinant C. difficile toxin A and toxin B and CDTa mutants and CDTb in recombinant expression systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Jon Henry Heinrichs, Jean-Luc Bodmer, Susan Lynn Secore, Aaron Rudy Goerke, Ivette Caro-Aguilar, Melanie S. Horton, Matthew Ryan Miezeiewski, Julie M. Skinner, Su Wang, Jinfu Xie, Rachel Flora Xoconostle, Julie K. Zorman
  • Patent number: 9391295
    Abstract: An organic EL display device is provided with: an organic EL element, which is formed on an insulating substrate, and which is provided between the insulating substrate and an insulating substrate; a sealing material, which is provided in a frame region, and which is sandwiched between the insulating substrate and the insulating substrate to bond the insulating substrates to each other; and a wall member, which is provided in the frame region by being adjacent to the outer face side of the sealing material, and which forms level differences in the sealing material so as to make the height of the outer face side of the sealing material small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Manabu Niboshi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Kosaka, Tomofumi Osaki
  • Patent number: 9388186
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to crystalline forms of MK-1775, an inhibitor of Weel kinase. Specifically, the instant invention relates to hemihydrates of MK-1775.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Rositza Petrova, Eric Sirota, Robert Wenslow
  • Patent number: 9389474
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel (10) includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern having rows and columns. A plurality of Cs bus lines (43c) as storage capacitor lines are routed in the row direction of the liquid crystal panel (10). A plurality of branch lines (310) are routed in the column direction across a pixel region (10a). The branch lines (310) are connected to the Cs bus lines (43c) so that control signals are sent to storage capacitors from the branch lines (310) through the Cs bus lines (43c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masae Kawabata, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Yuki Yamashita, Akihiro Shohraku
  • Patent number: 9389585
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a process unit, an exhaust path, and a positioning member movable between (i) a positioning position for positioning the process unit and (ii) a releasing position for releasing the process unit, the positioning member having an air path, the air path and the exhaust path being connected in a case where the positioning member is in the positioning position, and the air path and the exhaust path being disconnected in a case where the positioning member is in the releasing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideaki Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 9389575
    Abstract: This invention relates to an image forming apparatus for preventing defects in a cleaning blade, filming on a photoreceptor and image defects, and more particularly to an image forming apparatus comprising a toner comprising an external additive, a photoreceptor containing fluororesin particles in its surface layer, and a cleaning blade for cleaning a surface of the photoreceptor, wherein a primary particle diameter of the fluororesin particles is 2.6-7.5 times as large as a primary particle diameter of the external additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuya Korematsu
  • Patent number: 9390342
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for correcting artifacts in a camera-captured document image and, in particular, to methods, systems and apparatus for correcting perspective distortion in the camera-captured document image. Multiple rectification hypothesis may be generated and verified based on a plurality of geometric rectification quality measure values. In particular, a first rectification hypothesis may be associated with a first bounding quadrilateral determined by estimation of horizontal and vertical vanishing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard John Campbell
  • Patent number: 9389340
    Abstract: Disclosed are: an optical film which has a moth eye structure; a method for producing the optical film; and a method for controlling the optical characteristics of the optical film. An embodiment discloses an optical film having a moth eye structure that includes a plurality of projections, wherein the plurality of projections include a plurality of slanted projections that are inclined to a film surface and the plurality of slanted projections are inclined in a generally same direction when the film surface is viewed in plan. Also disclosed is a method for producing an optical film having a moth eye structure, including applying a physical force to the moth eye structure. Further specifically disclosed is a method for controlling the optical characteristics of an optical film having a moth eye structure that includes a plurality of projections, the method including applying a physical force to the moth eye structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takao Imaoku, Tokio Taguchi
  • Patent number: 9388823
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes a plurality of fan blades circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The fan blade has a front edge portion to which air flows in a rear edge portion from which air flows out, and a blade surface extending between the front and rear edge portions. The blade surface includes a pressure surface on the rotation direction side of the centrifugal fan and a suction surface arranged on the back side of the pressure surface. The fan blade has a cross-sectional shape with concave portions formed at the pressure surface and the suction surface. Such a fan has an excellent blowing capacity. A molding die for use in production of the centrifugal fan, and a fluid feeder provided with the centrifugal fan are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ohtsuka, Yukishige Shiraichi
  • Patent number: 9388179
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula AA and Formula AB: wherein “Heteroaryl-1”, RA1, RA2, RB1, and RC are defined herein, which novel compounds have properties for blocking Nav 1.7 ion channels found in peripheral and sympathetic neurons. Also described are pharmaceutical formulations comprising the compounds of Formulae AA and AB or their salts, and methods of treating neuropathic pain disorders using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Pero, Hannah D. G. F. Lehman, Mark E. Layton, Michael A. Rossi, Michael J. Kelly, III
  • Patent number: D761225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Philippe Poulin
  • Patent number: D761226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Philippe Poulin