Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9161924
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) as described herein, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more said compounds, and methods for using said compounds for treating or preventing a thromboses, embolisms, hypercoagulability or fibrotic changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Craig Boyle, William Greenlee, Samuel Chackalamannil, Claire Lankin
  • Patent number: 9164624
    Abstract: A light-receiving device 10 includes a plurality of light-receiving units 10A, 10B, and 10C, in which, in the element substrate 11A constituting the light-receiving unit 10A, the rear surface of a second terminal forming area 16Ac, upon which a connection pad PAc is formed, is bonded to the front surface of a cover glass 14B covering a plurality of light-receiving elements 12 constituting the light-receiving unit 10B, and in the element substrate 11C constituting the light-receiving unit 10C, the rear surface of a first terminal forming area 16Cb, upon which a connection pad PCb is formed, is bonded with the front surface of the cover glass 14B of the light-receiving unit 10B. As a result, an increase in manufacturing cost and a decrease in yield are mitigated so that it is possible to provide a light-receiving device upon which light-receiving elements are disposed continuously over a long distance at a high density, as well as an optical touch panel device provided with the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seishi Kosegawa, Takehiro Murao, Toshiyuki Yoshimizu
  • Patent number: 9164325
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal material having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy, at least one of the pair of substrates is provided with an alignment film for vertically aligning adjacent liquid crystal molecules, and a polymer layer formed on the alignment film for controlling the alignment of the adjacent liquid crystal molecules, the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of at least one monomer, the polymerization being initiated by radicals generated of the monomer upon absorption of light, the alignment film includes a polymer compound having a main chain that contains an imide structure, and the main chain has an imidization ratio of 50% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYO GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Youhei Nakanishi, Takeshi Noma, Yuichiro Yamada, Satoshi Enomoto, Yuki Hara, Hideo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9163810
    Abstract: A light emitting device has a lead frame which has a lead frame body and a plurality of bumper sections raised from the lead frame body. A rectangular case member with a hole is mounted to the lead frame. A light emitting element is placed in the hole of the case member, which is filled with a sealing resin that seals the light emitting element. The bumper sections are arranged on two opposite sides of the case member. Tip surfaces of the bumper sections are at a level higher than or equal to an upper end surface of the case member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaaki Katoh, Masaki Kondoh
  • Patent number: 9164301
    Abstract: An auxiliary wire, which can be connected to each of a plurality of data signal lines (Sn), is constituted by (i) a first auxiliary wire (17) provided so as to intersect the plurality of data signal lines (Sn) on a side where end parts of the respective plurality of data signal lines (Sn) are connected to a data signal line driving circuit (4) and (ii) a second auxiliary wire (18) provided so as to intersect the plurality of data signal lines (Sn) on a side of the other end parts of the respective plurality of data signal lines (Sn). Between the first auxiliary wire (17) and the second auxiliary wire (17), there are provided (i) a positive-polarity amplifier circuit (6) for receiving a positive data signal from the data signal line driving circuit (4) and (ii) a negative-polarity amplifier circuit (7) for receiving a negative data signal from the data signal line driving circuit (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Uehata, Kohji Saitoh, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Patent number: 9167469
    Abstract: A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is described. A measurement configuration is received from an evolved NodeB (eNB). The measurement configuration comprises a measurement object in a carrier frequency and the measurement object comprises a set of channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configurations. A measurement is performed based on a cell-specific reference signal (CRS). A measurement is performed based on a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based on the measurement configuration. A measurement report is generated in a radio resource control (RRC) layer. The measurement report is sent to the eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shohei Yamada
  • Patent number: 9164216
    Abstract: Provided is an illumination device for obtaining planar light having satisfactory uniformity and suppressed brightness irregularities. A backlight unit (illumination device) (20) comprises a light source and a light-guiding element (23) for guiding light from the light source. The light-guiding element (23) includes prisms (23q) formed in an end area (22b) on the light source side, and prisms (23i) formed in an area (a light-emitting area (22a)) on the side opposite the light source relative to the end area (22b). The prisms (23q) vary the propagation angle of light spreading in a direction intersecting the direction of light entry, more so than the prisms (23i).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuzo Yuki, Takeshi Ishida, Fumie Kunimasa
  • Patent number: 9164226
    Abstract: The illumination device 10 according to the present invention includes: a housing member 22 having a bottom plate 22a and a side wall 22b; a light guide plate 26 disposed on the inside of the side wall 22b in a manner so that a gap is formed between the side wall 22b and the side edge face 26b of the light guide plate 26; a light source unit having a light source 24 and a light source substrate 25 and disposed in the gap in a manner so that the substrate surface 25a faces the side edge face 26b; an optical sheet 23 disposed on the front surface 26a side of the light guide plate 26 and having an outer edge 23d protruding towards the light source substrate 25 from the side edge face 26b in a manner so as to cover and hide the bottom plate 22a at the section where the gap is; and a circulation hole X that pierces the light source substrate 25 or the housing member 22 in a manner such that the outside communicates with the air space S1 enclosed by the side edge face 26b, the substrate surface 25a, the bottom plat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshitake Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 9165516
    Abstract: A polarity of a POL outputted from a polarity inversion control section (9) is always identical between a scanning period and a pause period immediately subsequent to the scanning period, and is reversed every time switching from a pause period to a scanning period is carried out. This makes it possible to both carry out pause driving and prevent image sticking on a display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akizumi Fujioka, Kazuki Takahashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi, Yoshinori Shibata
  • Patent number: 9165517
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment a ripple, generated in an electric potential of data signal lines even in long-term reversal driving, is reduced and display quality is improved. In at least one example embodiment, the liquid crystal display apparatus of the present invention includes scanning signal lines and data signal lines, in which one scanning pulse is outputted to select one scanning signal line, each of the data signal lines receives data signals whose polarities are reversed per one vertical scanning period while in one horizontal scanning period, one of two data signal lines receives a data signal having a polarity and the other of the two data signal lines receives another data signal having another polarity, the two data signal lines being arranged adjacent to each other, scanning pulses are successively outputted in sets of two, and at a timing in which two scanning pulses fall, two scanning pulses rise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Kentaroh Irie
  • Patent number: 9165525
    Abstract: In an intermittent drive mode of a display device in which driving and pausing of the driving are repeated, an image identification section identifies an input image as a still image or a moving image. In a case where the moving image is identified, a drive/pause control section generates a drive/pause control signal with a period ratio in accordance with the moving image. A timing control section generates a driver control signal so that intermittent driving is carried out. Then, a source driver and a gate driver drives a display section so that the drive period and the pause period are repeated with a predetermined period ratio, so that the input image is displayed. The drive/pause control section sets a time ratio between the drive period and the pause period to be variable for each of the moving image and the still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Kohji Saitoh, Ken Inada, Kohzoh Takahashi, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Patent number: 9163791
    Abstract: In a light emitting device (10) includes a light source (11) which emits near-ultraviolet laser light and a fluorescent member (12) which includes a fluorescent body (13) that is excited by the light emitted from the light source (11) so as to emit light, the fluorescent member (12) includes a substrate (16) which is formed with a highly heat conductive member and a fluorescent body layer (14) in which particles (13d) of the fluorescent body (13) are deposited on the substrate (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Maemura, Yoshiyuki Takahira, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9164342
    Abstract: Provided is a circuit substrate which can integrate circuit elements without degrading wiring characteristics, and a display device including the circuit substrate. The circuit substrate of the present invention includes a transistor substrate (10) which is a support substrate (1) having a transistor (20) and an external connection terminal (50) mounted thereon, and an external member (60) attached on the transistor substrate (10). The external member (60) is connected physically and electrically to the external connection terminal (50) through a conductive member (3), and the transistor (20) and the external connection terminal (50) are arranged side by side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 9164347
    Abstract: A display device (100A) according to the present invention includes a first substrate (11), a second substrate (21) facing the first substrate (11), a first electrode (15) formed on the first substrate (11), a second electrode (25) formed on the second substrate (21), and an electrochromic layer (17) provided between the first electrode (15) and the second electrode (25) and containing an oxidation coloring-type dye and a reduction coloring-type dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Deguchi, Eiji Satoh, Akio Miyata
  • Patent number: 9167617
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a network comprising a primary station communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the method comprising the primary station communicating with a secondary station in a discontinuous mode; the secondary station transmitting to the primary station a control message based on the current status of the secondary station; the primary station changing a parameter of the discontinuous mode based on the control message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Koninklijke Philips N.V., Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Robert James Davies, Timothy James Moulsley, Milos Tesanovic
  • Patent number: 9164434
    Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing rotation member, a rotation drive portion that rotates the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet that cleans a circumferential surface of the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet roller that takes up or feeds out the cleaning web sheet, a swing cam rotationally driven by the rotation drive portion, a rotation transmission portion that transmits a rotation drive force to the cleaning web sheet roller, a one way clutch provided on an input shaft of the rotation transmission portion, and a swing lever connected to the one way clutch and biased so as to be brought into slide contact with the swing cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirokazu Nakamura, Masatsugu Ohishi, Noriko Inoue, Masaki Amemiya, Masaya Asakawa, Takashi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9165509
    Abstract: A display module includes a plurality of source drivers; a plurality of memory sections respectively provided for the plurality of source drivers, each of the plurality of memory sections being for storage of at least data of a video signal to be displayed on that one of a plurality of divided regions for which that one of the plurality of source drivers is provided, for which the memory section is provided; and a timing controller serving as a sync controller configured to synchronize the plurality of source drivers to synchronously output video signals that the plurality of source drivers output based on data respectively supplied from the plurality of memory sections, so that the synchronized video signals are supplied to corresponding ones of the plurality of divided regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Asahi Yamato, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Patent number: 9164326
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which image sticking seldom occurs. The liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal material having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy, at least one of the pair of substrates is provided with an alignment film for vertically aligning adjacent liquid crystal molecules, and a polymer layer formed on the alignment film for controlling the alignment of the adjacent liquid crystal molecules, and the polymer layer is formed by polymerization of at least one monomer, the polymerization being initiated by radicals generated of the monomer upon absorption of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYO GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Youhei Nakanishi, Takeshi Noma, Yuichiro Yamada, Satoshi Enomoto, Yuki Hara, Hideo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9166658
    Abstract: A wireless communication system in which a base station apparatus having a plurality of transmission antennas and one or more terminal apparatuses communicate with each other is provided with at least two methods of a first feedback method and a second feedback method regarding propagation path information at the time of reception. In accordance with a communication condition between the base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus, or the function of the terminal apparatus, the terminal apparatus performs feedback by one of the two methods of the first feedback method and the second feedback method. The base station apparatus performs spatial multiplexing transmission on the basis of the propagation path information that has been fed back. Thus, in a system in which CSI is fed back for MIMO transmission, desired transmission characteristics can be efficiently obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shimpei To, Takashi Onodera, Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba, Minoru Kubota, Kozue Hirata, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Patent number: 9165595
    Abstract: User convenience of data whose duplication is restricted and data created by utilizing the data is improved. An information recording device (10) is capable of recoding information onto an RE layer (22) of an optical disk (1), and includes a recording and replay control section (54) for recording, onto the RE layer (32), duplication-restricted information utilization information (32) created by utilizing duplication-restricted information (31) whose duplication onto a different optical disk is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takanobu Sato, Takashi Arimoto, Yoshihisa Adachi, Hirohisa Yamada