Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 9320150Abstract: A display apparatus is provided with: a frame; a display panel, which is fixed to the frame; and a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards, which are disposed adjacent to each other, and each of which has one end side pressure bonded to the display panel, and the other end side bent to the frame side, which is the reverse side of the display panel. The display apparatus has adhesive areas wherein a surface of the display panel is adhered and fixed to the frame, the adhesive areas being in areas overlapping the flexible printed circuit boards. In regions among the flexible printed circuit boards adjacent to each other, non-adhesive areas where the surface of the display panel is not adhered and fixed to the frame are provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masaki Nakayama, Motoji Shiota, Takashi Matsui, Hiroki Miyazaki
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Patent number: 9318645Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light-emitting element includes a second light-emitting layer, a third barrier layer, and a first light-emitting layer from a side close to a p-type nitride semiconductor layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a plurality of first quantum well layers and a first barrier layer provided between the plurality of first quantum well layers. The second light-emitting layer includes a plurality of second quantum well layers and a second barrier layer provided between the plurality of second quantum well layers. The second quantum well layers include a multiple quantum well light-emitting layer thicker than the first quantum well layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko Tani, Tadashi Takeoka, Akihiro Kurisu, Tetsuya Hanamoto, Mathieu Senes
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Patent number: 9319538Abstract: A first image forming apparatus detects a malfunction generated in a functional unit thereof and determines a functional mode that cannot be executed. The first image forming apparatus transmits the functional mode that cannot be executed to a management apparatus. When obtaining the functional mode that cannot be executed, the management apparatus updates a functional mode table. The management apparatus increases a priority of the first image forming apparatus for a functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. Along with this, the management apparatus decreases a priority of a second image forming apparatus that normally operates for the functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. When receiving a job, the management apparatus refers to the updated functional mode table to allocate the job to one of the image forming apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshio Fukuda
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Patent number: 9316933Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer formed on a conductive substrate, wherein the photosensitive layer contains oxygen-containing fluorinated fine particles in a surface layer thereof, and the oxygen-containing fluorinated fine particles have an oxygen composition ratio of 0.9 to 3.0% by atom based on the whole composition of the fine particles according to an X-ray fluorescence composition analysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kotaro Fukushima, Kimiko Kumazawa, Koichi Toriyama, Takahiro Kurauchi, Tomoko Kanazawa, Chikako Iibachi, Rikiya Matsuo
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Patent number: 9320031Abstract: In a mobile station device capable of transmitting up to a predetermined number of transport blocks to a base station device on a single physical uplink shared channel, an object is to efficiently perform HARQ in case that the mobile station device receives an uplink grant that disables a part of uplink data. The mobile station device receives downlink control information transmitted by the base station device and used for scheduling the physical uplink shared channel. In case that the downlink control information indicates that a specific transport block is disabled, the mobile station device sets ACK for a HARQ process corresponding to the specific transport block.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Tatsushi Aiba
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Patent number: 9320033Abstract: A mobile station device and a base station device correctly communicate using E-PHICH. The mobile station device receives information indicating a subframe to be reserved for transmitting a HARQ feedback using an enhanced physical HARQ indicator channel, transmits a transport block by using a physical uplink shared channel, and if a time in which the HARQ feedback for the transmission of the transport block is received by using the enhanced physical HARQ indicator channel is a subframe excluding the subframe indicated by the information, when the HARQ feedback for the transmission of the transport block is received, the mobile station device sets a state variable managed by a HARQ process corresponding to the transport block to acknowledgement (ACK).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Daiichiro Nakashima
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Patent number: 9319621Abstract: A television receiver includes a reception section receiving television broadcast, and a display apparatus on which an image is displayed based on the television broadcast received by the reception section. The backlight chassis included in the display apparatus supports a light source unit emitting light for displaying an image and constitutes a part of an outer casing of the display apparatus. The backlight chassis has an integrally continuous circumferential wall formed of side walls vertically extending from the respective sides of the bottom wall of a rectangular shape. The circumferential wall surrounds the light source unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hideyuki Chikazawa
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Patent number: 9317010Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a printing paper transport path in which printing paper is transported; a secondary transfer unit and a fixing section both disposed on the printing paper transport path; an open/close cover that, when opened, exposes the printing paper transport path in a main body of the apparatus; a pressure roller, disposed in the fixing section, that presses the printing paper on a side thereof facing the open/close cover against the printing paper transport path; and cooling fans that cool down the pressure roller, wherein the secondary transfer unit and the cooling fans are attached to the open/close cover and disposed at such positions that the secondary transfer unit and the cooling fans move following overlapping paths when the open/close cover is opened/closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirokazu Nakamura, Kimihide Tsukamoto, Masaki Amemiya
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Patent number: 9318091Abstract: In an air conditioner, an air flow guide panel (20) and a speaker (21) are provided in a vicinity of an outlet (5). The air flow guide panel (20) is operable to form a duct-like outlet passage (10) in the vicinity of the outlet (5), and, in the duct-like outlet passage (10), a speaker (21) radiates a sound wave for canceling out operation noise including blower sound of a fan (7).Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasukata Takeda, Masaki Ohtsuka
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Patent number: 9315475Abstract: The compounds encompassed by Formula I include compounds which are HIV protease inhibitors and other compounds which can be metabolized in vivo to HIV protease inhibitors. The compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of infection by HIV and the prophylaxis, treatment, or delay in the onset of AIDS. The compounds and their salts can be employed as ingredients in pharmaceutical compositions, optionally in combination with other antivirals, immunomodulators, antibiotics or vaccines.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP., MERCK CANADA INC.Inventors: Christian Beaulieu, David J. Bennett, Christopher J. Bungard, Ronald K. Chang, Sheldon Crane, Thomas J. Greshock, Li Hao, Kate Holloway, Jesse J. Manikowski, John A. McCauley, Daniel McKay, Carmela Molinaro, Oscar Miguel Moradei, Philippe G. Nantermet, Christian Nadeau, Satyanarayana Tummanapalli, William Shipe, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Vouy Linh Truong, Sivalenka Vijayasaradhi, Peter D. Williams, Catherine M. Wiscount
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Patent number: 9316946Abstract: There are provided a toner cartridge capable of suppressing generation of an aggregation or a lump of toner which may occur near a toner discharging port depending on toner keeping situation as well as capable of discharging a stable quantity of toner from the toner discharging port, and an image forming apparatus including the same. In a toner cartridge, a cover member is disposed so as to cover a part of an outer circumferential part of a spiral blade in an auger screw disposed inside a toner container. This cover member is able to move between a first position around the spiral blade and a second position, which is separated from the first position, on the opposite side to a toner discharging port across the spiral blade.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Toshihide Ohgoshi
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Patent number: 9319654Abstract: To provide a video data reproducing apparatus or the like, which includes: a flag reader 101 for reading out a flag that designates a playback style during special playback, from video data; decoders 102 and 103 for decoding two sets of video data; a synthesizer 106 for combining the decoded videos to output the result; and a manager 109 for controlling the operations of decoders 102, 103 and synthesizer 106 in accordance with the flag value, and which manages the playback style in the special playback during picture-in-picture playing in accordance with the flag value, to thereby realize the playback style of the picture-in-picture video during the special playback that reflects the distributor's intention.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shuichi Watanabe, Jiro Kiyama
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Patent number: 9315916Abstract: An electrode structure of the present invention includes: an aluminum electrode which is to be in contact with a surface of an aluminum base; a fixing member for fixing the aluminum electrode on the surface of the aluminum base; an elastic member provided between the fixing member and the aluminum base; a lead wire which is electrically connected to the aluminum electrode at least under a certain condition; and a cover member which is tightly closed with the lead wire penetrating through an opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidekazu Hayashi, Kiyoshi Minoura, Akinobu Isurugi
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Patent number: 9315518Abstract: The present invention is directed to imidazopyridin-2-one derivatives which are potentiators of metabotropic glutamate receptors, particularly the mGluR2 receptor, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction and diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which metabotropic glutamate receptors are involved.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Hannah D. Fiji, Michael J. Kelly, III, Jeffrey C. Kern, Mark E. Layton, Joseph E. Pero, Alexander J. Reif, Michael A. Rossi
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Patent number: 9315508Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substituted dihydropyrrolopyrazoles of structural Formula I which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-N enzyme and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as diabetes and particularly Type 2 diabetes. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase IV enzyme is involved.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Merck sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventor: Tesfaye Biftu
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Patent number: 9318513Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor device equipped with: a plurality of switching elements (T1, T2) that are connected in series; a first capacitance (Cs1) having one electrode connected to an end of the plurality of switching elements (T1, T2) and another electrode being connected to a first capacitance wiring line (CSL1); a second capacitance (Cs2) with one electrode connected to a node that connects two adjacent switching elements (T1, T2) among the plurality of switching elements, and another electrode being connected to a second capacitance wiring line (CSL2); and a light-shielding film that block light from being incident on at least one of the plurality of switching elements (T1, T2).Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2012Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiki Nakano, Tadayoshi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 9319909Abstract: A user equipment (UE) configured for radio link monitoring is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE monitors a radio link quality for a secondary cell (SCell). The UE also determines whether a physical layer problem is detected based on the radio link quality. If a physical layer problem is detected, the UE stops a time alignment timer (TAT) of the SCell or sets the time alignment timer (TAT) of the SCell as expired.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shohei Yamada
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Patent number: 9317893Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for fitting a mesh to an image of a document page and correcting a distortion in the image of the document page using the mesh. A rectangular-form mesh may be overlaid on a displayed document image. Corner points in the rectangular-form mesh may be moved to coincide with corner points of a document page in the displayed document image, and a corner-aligned mesh may be overlaid on the displayed document image. A cubic Bezier curve may be fit to the top edge of the document page, a cubic Bezier curve may be fit to the bottom edge of the document page and an edge-aligned mesh may be overlaid on the displayed image. An inverse projective transformation may be applied to the patches of the mesh to correct the distortion in the image of the document page.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Lawrence Shao-hsien Chen
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Publication number: 20160102847Abstract: An illumination device includes: a plurality of LED substrates having a rectangular plate shape, the plurality of LED substrates arranged in a row along a long side direction thereof, and each of the LED substrates having a plurality of LEDs on one surface thereof; and a heat-dissipating member abutting another surface of each of the LED substrates. A cutout portion is provided in each of the short sides, facing each other, of the LED substrates that are adjacent to each other. A fixing screw has a screw shaft that goes through the cutout portion from the mounting surface of the LED substrates and is fixed to the heat-dissipating member and a screw head that abuts the mounting surface of each of the LED substrates that are adjacent to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2014Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akira GOTOU
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Patent number: RE45983Abstract: A hypothetical reference decoder.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin Govind Deshpande
