Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9328975
    Abstract: A drain structure for a corrugated fin-type heat exchanger, the corrugated fin-type heat exchanger being constituted by arranging a plurality of flat heat exchange tubes parallel to one another in a horizontal direction between a pair of opposing header pipes, and joining corrugated fins between the plurality of flat heat exchange tubes, the drain structure including a plurality of water flow passages for inducing water retained between the corrugated fins adjacent to an upper side and a lower side of each of the plurality of flat heat exchange tubes, the plurality of water flow passages being formed on an outer end surface of the each of the plurality of flat heat exchange tubes in a width direction thereof at a pitch along a longitudinal direction of the each of the plurality of flat heat exchange tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD., SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Furumaki, Takeshi Yoshida, Kazuhiko Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9331763
    Abstract: In a communication system in which a plurality base station apparatuses are arranged such that the entirety or part of cells of the plurality of base station apparatuses overlaps with one another, a master base station apparatus calculates transmission weighting coefficients of the base station apparatuses and reception weighting coefficients of mobile station apparatuses such that directions of equivalent channels of interference signals received by the mobile station apparatuses connected to the base station apparatuses become orthogonal to the reception weighting coefficients by which the mobile station apparatuses multiply their respective reception signals. The base station apparatuses transmit the reception weighting coefficients to the mobile station apparatuses connected thereto, and the mobile station apparatuses perform a reception process by multiplying their respective reception signals including the interference signals by the reception weighting coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Yoshimoto, Shinpei To, Ryota Yamada, Kozue Yokomakura, Katsuya Kato
  • Patent number: 9331207
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode; a gate insulating film over the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film in contact with the gate insulating film and including a channel formation region which overlaps with the gate electrode; a source electrode and a drain electrode over the oxide semiconductor film; and an oxide insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode. The source electrode and the drain electrode each include a first metal film having an end portion at the end of the channel formation region, a second metal film over the first metal film and containing copper, and a third metal film over the second metal film. The second metal film is formed on the inner side than the end portion of the first metal film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Naoya Sakamoto, Takahiro Sato, Shunsuke Koshioka, Takayuki Cho, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Takuya Matsuo, Hiroshi Matsukizono, Yosuke Kanzaki
  • Publication number: 20160118488
    Abstract: In a field effect transistor, a carbon concentration in a buffer layer at the side closer to a high resistance layer is not less than 0.8×1019/cm3 and not more than 1.0×1021/cm3, a carbon concentration in the high resistance layer at the side closer to the buffer layer is not less than 3.7×1018/cm3 and not more than 1.0×1021/cm3, and a carbon concentration in the high resistance layer at the side closer to the channel layer is not less than 1.4×1019/cm3 and not more than 1.0×1021/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuzo NAGAHISA, Shinichi HANDA
  • Publication number: 20160118544
    Abstract: A semiconductor light-emitting device having an electrode that can be manufactured by a simple method and is unlikely to deteriorate, and a method for forming the electrode are provided. The semiconductor light-emitting device according to the present invention has a semiconductor layered structure having a light-emitting layer that emits light by supplying electric power and an electrode formed on the semiconductor layered structure. The electrode has a reflection layer that reflects light exiting from the light-emitting layer, a barrier layer formed on the upper side and side surface of the reflection layer, and a pad layer formed only on the top surface of the barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohisa SATO, Jun MORI
  • Publication number: 20160117019
    Abstract: In a touch panel system (1) of the present invention, a stylus pen (3) produces output that indicates that a quantitative characteristic value is increased from the characteristic value of a previous output by using a waveform that corresponds to an (L+1)-th drive line (DLL+1) other than L numbers of drive lines (DL1 to DLL) and, meanwhile, produces output that indicates that the quantitative characteristic value is decreased from the characteristic value of the previous output by using a waveform that corresponds to an (L+2)-th drive line (DLL+2) other than the L numbers of drive lines (DL1 to DLL).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Michiaki TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20160116814
    Abstract: A modulation layer in a display device is made of a dispersion liquid including: a plurality of shape-anisotropic members that, by rotating or moving in accordance with changes in the magnitude of frequency of an applied voltage, change the area thereof projected onto substrates in a direction normal to the substrates; a dispersion medium; and a thickening agent. When shear stress applied to the dispersion liquid is high, the thickening agent reduces the viscosity of the dispersion liquid more than when shear stress is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoko TERANISHI, Eiji SATOH, Takuma TOMOTOSHI, Takahiro NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20160113274
    Abstract: A synthetic polymer film includes a surface which has a plurality of first raised portions, wherein a two-dimensional size of the plurality of first raised portions is in a range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film; and the surface has a microbicidal effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Miho YAMADA, Kiyoshi MINOURA, Takahiro NAKAHARA, Seiji TAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9323516
    Abstract: An electronic device system includes a connection device configured to store a plurality of types of boot data and an electronic device, wherein the electronic device includes a connection unit to which the connection device is connected, a selection unit configured to select boot data to be obtained from the connection device connected to the connection unit, an obtaining unit configured to obtain the boot data selected by the selection unit from the connection device, a storage unit configured to store the boot data obtained by the obtaining unit; and a boot processing unit configured to perform processing in relation to booting of the electronic device by using the boot data stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tatsuaki Amemura
  • Patent number: 9323181
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt that is stretched over a plurality of rollers to be circumferentially moved, a transfer roller, a transfer power supply, etc., and transfers a toner image formed on an image carrying member to a recording medium using the transfer belt. The image forming apparatus includes a transfer current control unit that measures a use situation of the transfer belt and controls a transfer current to be supplied to the transfer roller based on the use situation. Since re-transfer of a toner is prevented by controlling the transfer current that flows into the transfer roller based on the use situation of the transfer belt, it is possible to prevent, without extending preliminary operation time of the transfer belt, a poor image due to a contact trace that occurs on the transfer belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yudai Teramoto
  • Patent number: 9325873
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is configured to be capable of being remotely operated by a terminal device via a wireless communication line. The image processing apparatus is equipped with a body control unit, a LAN interface, and a body operation unit. The body operation unit is capable of displaying a plurality of operation keys and capable of receiving a touch operation with respect to each of the plurality of operation keys. The LAN interface is used in order to acquire a positional relationship between the terminal device and the image processing apparatus. The body control unit, when determining that the terminal device is located close to the image processing apparatus, disables a touch operation with respect to a specific operation key among the plurality of operation keys on the body operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takeshi Tani
  • Patent number: 9323447
    Abstract: An electronic whiteboard and a touch screen method for configuring and applying metadata tags on an electronic whiteboard allows user-defined and user-classified metadata tags to be configured and applied to objects “on the fly” through touch screen inputs on the electronic whiteboard, providing object tagging in electronic whiteboard sessions that is less cumbersome, less disruptive to creative flow and more precise than conventional methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: William John Vojak
  • Patent number: 9325651
    Abstract: An operation instruction detecting section detects an operation instruction from a message and specifies, as an instruction provider, a member who has posted the message. A report message displaying section causes a message, which (i) reports a result of an operation executed in accordance with the operation instruction and (ii) is explicitly directed to the instruction provider, to be displayed on a family message board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Sakuta, Takayuki Nagamatsu, Chie Hideishi, Yoshihisa Waki
  • Patent number: 9323087
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided with: an LED; a liquid crystal panel; a light guide plate having a light input surface; a chassis having a second bottom plate section; a frame; an LED substrate; a heat dissipating member, which is disposed such that the heat dissipating member can slide in the direction orthogonal to the light input surface, the heat dissipating member holding the LED substrate on one plate surface, and having a plate-like attaching section disposed on the second bottom plate section; a side plate section, which is disposed on the side opposite to the light input surface with the attaching section therebetween, the side plate section extending in a board-shape from the frame, and having a through hole; and an adjusting screw, which has a shaft shape, and which penetrates the side plate section through the through hole such that one end of the adjusting screw faces the attaching section, the adjusting screw being capable of bringing the one end closer to the light input surface
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 9324133
    Abstract: A system for determining a high resolution image includes receiving a low resolution image and determining a vector of a patch of the low resolution image based upon a low resolution dictionary. The system includes determining a high resolution patch based upon a high resolution dictionary and the vector and determining the high resolution image based upon the high resolution patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Anustup Kumar Choudhury, Christopher Andrew Segall, Petrus J. L. Van Beek
  • Patent number: 9325999
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Segall, Kiran Misra
  • Patent number: 9323370
    Abstract: An electrode sheet (2) is provided with an X pattern electrode part (12) in which X pattern electrodes (18) of X electrodes (17) multiply connected in the X direction are multiply arranged in the Y direction, and a Y pattern electrode part (22) in which Y pattern electrodes (28) of Y electrodes (27) multiply connected in the Y direction are multiply arranged in the X direction. In a planar view, the Y electrodes (27) are provided between the X electrodes (17), and multiple different electrode patterns are alternately arranged in one of the X direction, the Y direction, and a diagonal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takeshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 9325009
    Abstract: A cathodic active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the invention includes a lithium-containing transition metal phosphate containing Li and a transition metal. A transition metal site and P site of the lithium-containing transition metal phosphate are replaced by elements other than elements contained in the lithium-containing transition metal phosphate, and the quantity of P site is excessive with respect to a stoichiometric proportion of the lithium-containing transition metal phosphate. With this cathodic active material, a high-power and high-capacity secondary battery which is superior in safety and cost and has superior rate performance can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Kamimura, Motoaki Nishijima, Tomohisa Yoshie, Koji Ohira
  • Patent number: 9326248
    Abstract: There are provided a terminal device capable of reducing power consumption when a plurality of applications perform data communication, a communication method for the terminal device, a program executed by the terminal device, a storage medium having the program stored thereon, and a radio communication system including the terminal device. The terminal device includes: application running means for running a plurality of applications adapted to perform data communication; communication means for performing a procedure necessary for activating data communication to make a state transition to a communicable state, and performing data communication; and management means for controlling execution of subsequent data communication before a transition from the communicable state to another state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Nobusawa, Shiro Sugahara, Akira Ohshima
  • Patent number: 9325390
    Abstract: The present invention provides a precoding method for use in a wireless communications system. According to the precoding method of the present invention, a serving base station and cooperative communication base stations employ an identical precoding matrix so as to weight transmission signals and then transmit them. The weighting stands for multiplication of results of overall precoding or each layer precoding process by weight values at the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations. A user device corresponding to the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations receives a signal which is obtained by an operation in which the serving base station and the cooperative communication base stations perform an identical precoding process and additively combine results of overall precoding or each layer precoding process with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Renmao Liu, Yingyu Zhang, Lei Huang, Chen Chen, Guolin Sun