Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9127681
    Abstract: A cross-flow fan includes a plurality of fan blades circumferentially spaced from each other. The fan blade has an inner edge portion on the radially inner side, and an outer edge portion on the radially outer side. A blade surface extends between the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion. The blade surface includes a pressure surface on the rotation direction side of the fan and a suction surface on the opposite side. In cross-section orthogonal to the rotation axis of the fan, the fan blade has a concave portions formed at the pressure surface and the suction surface. A plurality of concave portions are formed at pressure surface. Side fan provides excellent blowing capacity. Also disclosed are a molding die for use in production of the cross-flow fan, and a fluid feeder provided with the cross-flow fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaki Ohtsuka, Yukishige Shiraichi
  • Patent number: 9127038
    Abstract: The invention relates to kisspeptide-pentasaccharide conjugates having the general formula (I) wherein Z1 is Tyr or D-Tyr; Z3 is Trp, Hyp, Phe or Lys(R2); Z5 is Thr, Aib or Ala; Z7 is Gly or azaGly; Z8 is Leu; or Z7 and Z8 together represent; Z10 is Phe or Trp; n is 0 or 1; or R2, when present, represents a pentasaccharide derivative having the formula (II) wherein R is methyl or SO3X; X is a positively charged counterion; with the proviso that when R2 is present, R1 is H or (C1-6) alkylcarbonyl; R3 is H or (C1-3)alkyl; and L represents a pharmacologically inactive linker moiety having 10-50 atoms; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same as well as to the use of said kisspeptide-pentasaccharide conjugates in the treatment of female infertility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Marion Blomenrohr, Martin De Kort, Miranda Maria Cornelia Van Der Lee, Jeffry Abraham Jacobus Wisse
  • Publication number: 20150248777
    Abstract: A file information generation section generates a draw command for causing a computer to carry out a process for switching, in accordance with an instruction from a user, between a first display state in which, in a case where the user specifies a part of an original text, the original text and translation information corresponding to the part of the original text, which part is specified by the user, are displayed; and a second display state in which the original text and the translation information corresponding to the original text are displayed at all times. This allows a browsing user to generate an image file in which a display mode of a translated word can be easily switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohsuke Konishi, Akihito Yoshida, Hitoshi Hirohata
  • Publication number: 20150249518
    Abstract: A mobile station communicates with a base station controlling over a cell containing a plurality of sectors. The mobile station also receives, from a base station, data of synchronization channels which includes sector specific codes respectively corresponding to sector identification numbers for identifying the sectors. In addition, the mobile station performs synchronization detection with reference to the data of synchronization channels, where the data of the synchronization channels mapped to a plurality of predetermined symbols at intervals of a half period of a frame and a plurality of predetermined subcarriers are specific to respective sectors in the same cell and common among adjacent cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoichi SHITARA
  • Publication number: 20150249284
    Abstract: A first resin layer is provided with a step part formed in conformity with a shape of at least part of an electrically conductive pattern, and the first resin layer and a second resin layer closely adhere to each other in the step part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Akihiro Iriyama
  • Publication number: 20150248035
    Abstract: A display device is provided with an LED (17); a rectangular liquid crystal panel (11) that uses light from the LED (17) for display; a bezel (30); and a frame (60). The bezel (30) forms a rectangular frame following along the outer peripheral edges of the liquid crystal panel (11), and is configured such that a length thereof in a first direction is variable, or lengths thereof in a first direction and a second direction are variable. The frame (60) forms a rectangular frame following along the outer peripheral edges of the liquid crystal panel (11), and together with the bezel (30) clamps the outer peripheral edges of the liquid crystal panel (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kubo
  • Publication number: 20150248873
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a drive method thereof, capable of promptly making an afterimage, which is visually recognized at refresh time, visually unrecognizable and reducing power consumption during and after a shift to a target refresh rate. At pause drive time until a target refresh rate is reached, a refresh is performed in divided periods of a first refresh period for performing a refresh at least twice, and a second refresh period for performing a refresh while increasing the number of frames in a non-refresh period from a refresh rate at the end of the first refresh period until the refresh rate becomes the target refresh rate, and the second refresh period is finished when the refresh rate in the second refresh period reaches the target refresh rate, and the pause drive is continued at the target refresh rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Takuya Sone
  • Publication number: 20150249818
    Abstract: Provided is a stereoscopic display device capable of achieving good stereoscopic images with a low level of crosstalk in a wide area. A stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel; a switching liquid crystal panel arranged to overlap the display panel; a control section that controls the display panel and the switching liquid crystal panel; and a position sensor that obtains position information about a viewer and supplies the same to the control section. The display panel includes first pixel lines and second pixel lines that are arranged alternately in a vertical direction. The control section switches between a plurality of display modes including a tracking three-dimensional display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiro Murao, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20150249069
    Abstract: Provided is a low cost and high resolution display device having light-emitting elements. An LED element is provided in a region between a first substrate and a second substrate, the region being an intersection region where a first electrode and a second electrode intersect each other in a plan view, and the LED element is provided with a first element electrode connected to the first electrode and provided on a bottom surface, and a second element electrode connected to a second electrode and provided on a top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Takayuki Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20150248856
    Abstract: A detection output circuit provided in a source driver compares a voltage detected by a resistor and a voltage of a driving signal using comparators drives a transistor, a capacitor and an operational amplifier using a ramp signal so that they are maintained at voltages corresponding to a current flowing through a data line, and performs feedback control so that the potential of the data line is a desired potential. With this simple configuration, a data line circuit can be achieved that is capable of eliminating variation in driving transistor characteristics and the like, while performing current protection at high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritaka Kishi, Masanori Ohara, Noboru Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20150246902
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) that are useful as hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5B polymerase inhibitors, the synthesis of such compounds, and the use of such compounds for inhibiting HCV NS5B polymerase activity, for treating or preventing HCV infections and for inhibiting HCV viral replication and/or viral production in a cell-based system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicants: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., MSD Italia S.R.L.
    Inventors: Casey C. McComas, Nigel J. Liverton, Joerg Habermann, Uwe Koch, Frank Narjes, Peng Li, Xuanjia Peng, Richard Soll, Hao Wu, Anandan Palani, Xing Dai, Hong Liu, Shuwen He, Qun Dang
  • Publication number: 20150248870
    Abstract: A television receiver segments a part of an image depending on image information received from a communication device and pixel information representing the number of pixels in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction of the image. The television receiver judges a size between the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction and that in the lateral direction in the pixel information, and when it is judged that the number of pixels in the longitudinal direction is larger than that in the lateral direction, displays two screens in which the segmented image and another image are juxtaposed on a display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Nagano, Tsutomu Takahashi, Atsushi Ohnuma, Kenichi Kimura, Hiroyuki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150247964
    Abstract: A light source includes: a light guide plate having one principal surface on which light scattering elements are provided; at least one first light source unit which causes light from a first end face of the light guide plate to enter the light guide plate; and at least one second light source unit which causes light from a second end face of the light guide plate to enter the light guide plate. When viewed along a mutually opposing direction in which the first end face and the second end face oppose each other, the first light source unit and the second light source unit are arranged with the light emitting areas shifted from each other, and the light scattering patterns formed by the light scattering elements includes a plurality of types of patterns arranged in accordance with the positions of the light emitting areas of the first light source unit and the second light source unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kentaro Kamada
  • Publication number: 20150248009
    Abstract: A light scanning device includes: a first semiconductor laser 44a that emits a light beam L1; a polygonal mirror 42 that deflects the light beam L1; a reflective mirror 64a that reflects the light beam L1 deflected by the polygonal mirror 42 and causes the light beam L1 to enter a photosensitive drum 13; and a BD sensor 72 that detects the light beam L1 deflected by the polygonal mirror 42. The light scanning device scans the photosensitive drum 13 with the light beam L1 and set scanning timing of the photosensitive drum 13 using the light beam L1 based on detection timing of the light beam L1 using the BD sensor 72. The BD sensor 72 is arranged in the position farther from the polygonal mirror 42 than the last reflective mirror 64a that reflects the light beam L1 immediately before entering the photosensitive drum 13 and arranged inside a scanning angle range ? of the light beam L1 corresponding to an effective scan area of the photosensitive drum 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Shirai
  • Publication number: 20150249962
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus configures a first group including at least one component carrier and a second group including at least one component carrier. The mobile station apparatus decodes a first physical downlink control channel on a first common search space in a first downlink component carrier and a second physical downlink control channel on a second common search space in a second downlink component carrier where first information transmitted on the first physical downlink control channel is applied to a first uplink component carrier within the first group, and where second information transmitted on the second physical downlink control channel is applied to a second uplink component carrier within the second group, and where the first downlink component carrier and the second downlink component carrier are indicated by a higher layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Shohei YAMADA, Katsunari UEMURA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20150248031
    Abstract: Provided is a light deflection device that is capable of forming a blazed-type diffraction grating while suppressing an increase in an electrode-applied voltage by using a horizontal electric field mode. A light deflection element is equipped with: a pair of glass substrates; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the pair of glass substrates; and a plurality of pattern electrodes arranged over a surface of the glass substrate on the side of the liquid crystal layer, with an interlayer insulation film therebetween. A driving circuit that applies voltages to the light deflection element generates electrode-applied voltages Vpixel so as to change an inter-electrode voltage VLC incrementally in the order of 0V, 3V, and 6V. The electrode-applied voltages Vpixel are a mixture of positive voltages and negative voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuuichi Kanbayashi, Naru Usukura, Yasuhiro Sugita
  • Publication number: 20150249797
    Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device capable of correcting a blackening phenomenon caused by intense light, with a small-scale circuit configuration. An AD converter 130 that performs sampling of an output voltage VS on a column signal line 111 includes a comparator 131 that compares the output voltage VS with a ramp-wave reference voltage during a sampling period; a judging circuit 132 that accepts as input an output from the comparator 131 and judges a voltage level of the output voltage VS; and a memory portion 133 that stores, as a digital value, a count value corresponding to the output voltage VS, based on an output from the judging circuit 132.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuya Yui, Kohzoh Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20150246917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) that are useful as hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5A inhibitors, the synthesis of such compounds, and the use of such compounds for inhibiting HCV NS5A activity, for treating or preventing HCV infections and for inhibiting HCV viral replication and/or viral production in a cell-based system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Craig A. Coburn, Steven W. Ludmerer, Kun Liu, Hao Wu, Richard Soll, Bin Zhong, Jian Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150249169
    Abstract: The photoelectric conversion element includes a semiconductor substrate, a first amorphous film of a first conductivity type disposed on an entire surface of one surface of the semiconductor substrate, a first conductive oxide layer disposed on the first amorphous film, a second amorphous film of the first conductivity type disposed on a part of the other surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second conductive oxide layer disposed on the second amorphous film, a third amorphous film of a second conductivity type disposed on the other part of the other surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a third conductive oxide layer disposed on the third amorphous film. Electric conductivity of the first conductive oxide layer is lower than electric conductivities of the second and the third conductive oxide layer. Transmittance of the first conductive oxide layer is higher than transmittances of the second and the third conductive oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiko Sakai, Kenji Kimoto, Naoki Koide, Yoshitaka Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20150249492
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus communicates with a base-station apparatus. The terminal apparatus reports partial precoder information that specifies at least one preferred candidate from among a plurality of candidates of precoders, where the partial precoder information is reported together with data from the terminal apparatus via a channel for use in data transmission. The partial precoder information is also rearranged with a same ordering for the data in a case that the partial precoder information is to be aperiodically reported. Further, the partial precoder information is rearranged with a different ordering from the ordering for the data in a case that the partial precoder information is to be periodically reported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshizo NOGAMI, Kazuyuki SHIMEZAWA, Tatsushi AIBA, Shoichi SUZUKI