Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9373844
    Abstract: A positive electrode active substance including a lithium-containing metal oxide represented by the following general formula (1): LiFe1-xMxP1-ySiyO4??(1) wherein M represents an element selected from Sn, Zr, Y, and Al; 0<x<1; and 0<y<1, wherein the lithium-containing metal oxide has a lattice constant and a half value width of a diffraction peak of a (011) plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Ohira, Motoaki Nishijima, Toshitsugu Sueki, Shougo Esaki, Isao Tanaka, Yukinori Koyama, Katsuhisa Tanaka, Koji Fujita, Shunsuke Murai
  • Patent number: 9372371
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel which is capable of providing a sufficiently high response speed and an excellent transmittance, and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates. The first substrate and the second substrate have electrodes. The electrodes of the second substrate include a pair of comb-shaped electrodes and a slit-formed electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takatomo Yoshioka, Iori Aoyama, Takao Imaoku, Yuichi Iyama, Kazuhiko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 9374486
    Abstract: A driving device is used in an image reading apparatus, and reciprocates a scanning unit for reading an image on an original. The driving device comprises a pull member, a driving pulley which transmits driving force to the pull member, a following pulley which applies tension to the pull member and a pulley holder having a pulley axis which holds the following pulley rotatably. Then, the pulley axis has a lock pawl capable of locking an upper end portion of the following pulley and canceling engagement with the following pulley by being tilted toward a side of an axial center by elastic deformation. Furthermore, the lock pawl is arranged at a side of a tension acting direction from the pull member to the following pulley except the farthest position from the driving pulley among positions in a circumferential direction of the pulley axis. It is possible to attach and detach the following pulley easily at a time of maintenance or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Imoto, Yasuhiro Suto, Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Nakanishi, Kazuhiro Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20160166529
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising cathespin K inhibitors and Vitamin D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Majid MAHJOUR, Decheng MA, Christina Marie BACCI, Julianne Margaret FARABAUGH, Justin MOSER, Lixia CAI, Stephen L. CONWAY
  • Publication number: 20160173244
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method in a base station for Channel State Information (CSI) process configuration and an associated base station. The method comprises: setting CSI process information for a User Equipment (UE) supporting three dimensional (3D) Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), the CSI process information including at least an index of a CSI Reference Signal Resource (CSI-RS-R) for a vertical direction of a 3D MIMO antenna array; and transmitting the set CSI process information to the UE. Also disclosed are a method in a UE for CSI feedback and an associated UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ming DING
  • Publication number: 20160173258
    Abstract: A communication system where a terminal apparatus (UE) communicates with a base station apparatus (BS) that configures a first cell. The UE acquires, from the BS, first information and second information, whereby the first information specifying a first number indicating a first subframe, the first subframe including a first resource element in which a first reference signal of the first cell is placed, the second information specifying a second number indicating a second subframe, the second subframe including a second resource element in which a second reference signal of a second cell other than the first cell is to be placed, and the second resource element being not used to transmit a signal of the first cell. The UE also demaps data, whereby, in the second subframe, the data is mapped on resource elements which do not include the second resource element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Shohei YAMADA, Wahoh OH
  • Publication number: 20160173234
    Abstract: Provided are a base station apparatus, a terminal device, and a transmission method which allow detection of a desired signal at high accuracy irrespective of whether an interference signal is an initially transmitted signal or a retransmitted signal. The base station apparatus notifies the terminal device of terminal information which is information about an interfering terminal device, and includes a terminal information generation unit that generates terminal information, and the terminal information generation unit therein generates the terminal information that varies depending on redundancy versions of an interference signal, and, even in a case where the interference signal has been transmitted by using a redundancy version with the large number of parity bits, the terminal device is able to perform appropriate suppression and cancellation of the interference, thus making it possible to improve throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryota YAMADA, Kozue YOKOMAKURA, Katsuya KATO, Hiromichi TOMEBA
  • Publication number: 20160174247
    Abstract: A base station device transmits common control information to a plurality of mobile station devices through a single ePDCCH message. Each mobile station device monitors a common search space in which these common control messages are sent and is capable of detecting them and recovering the information contained therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Alvaro RUIZ DELGADO, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Toshizo NOGAMI, Kimihiko IMAMURA, Naoki KUSASHIMA, Shoichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160174160
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling uplink power, comprising: determining, by a Main eNodeB (MeNB), configured maximum transmit power P_MeNB of a User Equipment (UE) in a Primary Cell (PCell) and configured maximum transmit power P_SeNB of the UE in a Secondary Cell (SCell); notifying, by the MeNB, P_SeNB to a Secondary eNodeB (SeNB) corresponding to the SCell; and notifying P_MeNB and P_SeNB to the UE. The present disclosure further provides corresponding base station and UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Xingya SHEN, Renmao LIU
  • Publication number: 20160171941
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device enabling display without reducing the resolution thereof with respect to an input video signal, and having a reduced number of scanning signal lines. Green first and third pixels (Gx1, Gy1), and a blue second pixel (B1) and a red fourth pixel (R1) are arranged in a Bayer array, the first pixel is connected to a first scanning signal line (Gn) and a first data signal line (Sm), and the second pixel is connected to the first scanning signal line (Gn) and the first data signal line (Sm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20160172396
    Abstract: Variation in threshold voltages in a device operation is reduced. An insulator layer which is disposed to be opposed to a channel region 41 of a MOS transistor and is formed to have a laminated structure of a silicon nitride film 83 and a silicon oxide film 83 and an inverted signal input unit which inputs a signal obtained by inverting an input signal inputted into a source region 43 of a MOS transistor into a channel region 41 are provided and the inverted signal input unit includes another gate electrode 82 which is formed on an extended portion of the channel region 41 of the gate electrode 81 in a manner to be adjacent to the gate electrode 81 of the MOS transistor and a CMOS circuit 80 which inverts an input signal inputted into the source region 43 of the MOS transistor in accordance with an input value of the input signal and inputs a signal obtained through inversion in the CMOS circuit 80 into another gate electrode 82.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryohichi MASUDA
  • Publication number: 20160166576
    Abstract: This invention relates to amidopyrazole compounds that are inhibitors of Interieukin receptor-associated kinases, in particular IRAK-4, and are useful in the treatment of cellular proliferative diseases. Speifically (5-methylpyridin-2-yl)-1 H-pyrazol-5-yl]pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide derivatives are disclosed for use in the method of treating inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Jongwon LIM, Michael D. ALTMAN
  • Publication number: 20160173175
    Abstract: Provided are a base station apparatus, a terminal apparatus, a wireless communication system, and an integrated circuit in which the terminal apparatus is able to appropriately combine signals received by a plurality of receive antennas in the wireless communication system for performing nonlinear MU-MIMO transmission. The base station apparatus of the invention has a plurality of antennas, is able to apply nonlinear precoding to data signals addressed to a plurality of terminal apparatuses, and spatially multiplexes and transmit the data signals, and based on the data signals and channel information between the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatuses, searches for a perturbation vector to be added to the data signals, and further calculates a covariance matrix of the signals obtained by adding the perturbation vector to the data signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromichi TOMEBA, Takashi ONODERA, Minoru KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20160170412
    Abstract: In order to realize an autonomous mobile device which is compact and inexpensive and which is capable of almost simultaneously detecting (i) an obstacle present ahead of the autonomous moving device and (ii) a difference in level of a floor surface, an autonomous mobile device (1) of the present invention is an autonomous mobile device (1) which moves while detecting (i) an obstacle present ahead of the autonomous mobile device (1) and (ii) a difference in level of a floor surface, including: a laser range finder (21) which measures a distance to an object present in a scan area by scanning the scan area while emitting a laser beam in parallel to the floor surface; and mirrors (22a, 22b) each of which is provided within the scan area scanned by the laser range finder (21) and each of which reflects part of the laser beam to the floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiro YAMAMOTO, Tohru KUGA
  • Publication number: 20160173706
    Abstract: When an address is inputted through input means for inputting an address of a receiving end, an image transmission apparatus carries out an authentication process that determines whether or not the inputting person is a right authorized person. When it is determined that the corresponding operation is right through the authentication process, the image transmission apparatus transmits image data to the address of the receiving end thus inputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Syouichirou YOSHIURA, Yuji OKAMOTO, Katsuyoshi FUJIWARA, Naofumi UEDA
  • Patent number: 9366424
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a substrate having a front surface on which a light-emitting diode is mounted; and a case having a bottom plate that holds the substrate, wherein a driver circuit for driving the light-emitting diode is mounted on a rear surface of the substrate that is opposite to the front surface thereof, wherein an opening corresponding to a size of the light-emitting diode is formed in the bottom plate of the case, wherein the front surface of the substrate is fixed to a rear surface of the bottom plate of the case from outside of the case with the light-emitting diode fitted in the opening, and wherein a coating material with an emissivity of equal to or higher than 0.9 and equal to or lower than 1.0 is applied to an outer surface of four side walls of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kenji Takase
  • Patent number: 9365923
    Abstract: The vapor deposition device includes a plurality of vapor deposition masks whose lengths in Y axis and X axis directions are shorter than those of a film formation target substrate. Vapor deposition masks adjacent to each other in the Y axis direction is positionally displaced in the X axis direction. In an overlapping area in which mask opening group areas adjacent to each other in the Y axis direction overlap with each other in the X axis direction, opening lengths in the Y axis direction become shorter toward the outer side of each of the mask opening group areas in the plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Ochi, Shinichi Kawato, Yuhki Kobayashi, Manabu Niboshi, Satoshi Inoue, Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Masahiro Ichihara, Eiichi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9366915
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (100A) includes: a first substrate (2) and a second substrate (3), a liquid crystal layer (1) retained between the first substrate (2) and the second substrate (3), and plurality of pixels. The liquid crystal layer (1) has a first liquid crystal region (81) and a second liquid crystal region (82) provided outside the first liquid crystal region (81). The first liquid crystal region (81) is essentially composed of a nematic liquid crystal material alone, whereas the second liquid crystal region (82) has a plurality of liquid crystal subregions (11) containing a nematic liquid crystal material and polymer-containing walls (12) formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of liquid crystal subregions (11). The plurality of pixels include pixels accounting for the first liquid crystal region (81) and pixels accounting for the second liquid crystal region (82).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Akira Sakai, Yuichi Iyama, Akiko Miyazaki, Eiji Satoh, Yasushi Asaoka
  • Patent number: 9365589
    Abstract: In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain C2-ring-substituted iminothiazine compounds, including compounds Formula (I): (structurally represented) or a tautomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compounds and, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, X, ring A, RA, m, -L1-, and RL are as defined herein. The novel compounds of the invention are useful as BACE inhibitors and/or for the treatment and prevention of various pathologies related thereto. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination with one or more other active agents), and methods for their preparation and use, including for the possible treatment of Alzheimer's disease, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Jared N. Cumming, David Earl Kaelin, Jr., Jack D. Scott, Wen-Lian Wu, Duane A. Burnett
  • Patent number: 9368072
    Abstract: Control sections of displays 11 each determine control information Pi used when area-active driving is performed individually and transmit the control information Pi to a multi-display control section 12. The multi-display control section 12 determines control information Ps for the entire device on the basis of the received pieces of control information Pi and transmits the control information Ps to the control sections of the displays 11. All the displays 11 perform area-active driving on the basis of the same control information Ps. In this way, occurrence of a luminance difference or chromaticity difference among display screens of the displays 11 is prevented and the quality of a displayed image is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuya Otoi, Katsuteru Hashimoto