Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 9097403
    Abstract: A light source device includes a circuit board having a light-emitting element mounted on a one surface; a support body positioned on the other surface side of the circuit board for supporting the circuit board; a rivet having a head portion, which is positioned on a side of the one surface of the circuit board and cannot be inserted into a first through hole provided on the circuit board and the support body, and a shaft portion having a tip side stopped and held on the support body in a penetration via the first through hole; and a reflection sheet arranged on the one surface of the circuit board for reflecting light. The light source device provides a second through hole having a diameter larger or smaller than the diameter of the head portion at the position corresponding to the head portion on the reflection sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideto Takeuchi, Hiroshi Takahashi, Tatsuo Sugahara, Keita Ito, Toshiyuki Fujita, Yuuki Kawamura, Kenzo Toshiyuki, Kenichiro Ito, Kazuki Nakamichi, Tomoo Sasaki, Kenta Moribe, Mamoru Yahata
  • Patent number: 9095637
    Abstract: A casing, including an inlet through which air can flow in and outlets through which air can flow out, is internally provided with: an air passage through which the inlet and the outlets are connected to each other; and an ion generation device for discharging ions into the air passage. The casing has an inclined wind guide surface and an attachment surface that forms an acute angle with the wind guide surface. The inlet is provided in a region of the wind guide surface, the distance of which from the attachment surface is shorter, the first outlet is provided in a region of the wind guide surface, the distance of which from the attachment surface is longer, and the second outlet is provided in a region of the casing, extending to the attachment surface from an end of the wind guide surface at which the first outlet is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN CASH MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamamoto, Motoyuki Suzuki, Naoki Wada
  • Patent number: 9100924
    Abstract: Optimal transmit power control is performed on each of a periodic SRS and an aperiodic SRS. In a radio communication system in which a mobile station apparatus 1 transmits a first reference signal or a second reference signal to a base station apparatus 3, the base station apparatus 3 notifies the mobile station apparatus 1 of a first parameter used for setting of a transmit power for transmission of the first reference signal, and a second parameter used for setting of a transmit power for transmission of the second reference signal, and the mobile station apparatus 1 sets the transmit power for transmission of the first reference signal using the first parameter, while setting the transmit power for transmission of the second reference signal using the second parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoichi Suzuki, Wataru Ouchi, Daiichiro Nakashima
  • Patent number: 9096559
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel class of 4-carboxybenzylamino derivatives. The 4-carboxybenzylamino compounds can be used to treat cancer. The 4-carboxybenzylamino compounds can also inhibit histone deacetylase and are suitable for use in selectively inducing terminal differentiation, and arresting cell growth and/or apoptosis of neoplastic cells, thereby inhibiting proliferation of such cells. Thus, the compounds of the present invention are useful in treating a patient having a tumor characterized by proliferation of neoplastic cells. The compounds of the invention may also be useful in the prevention and treatment of TRX-mediated diseases, such as autoimmune, allergic and inflammatory diseases, and in the prevention and/or treatment of diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), such as neurodegenerative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Paul Harrington, Richard W. Heidebrecht, Jr., Solomon Kattar, Thomas A. Miller, Karin M. Otte, Phieng Siliphaivanh, Matthew G. Stanton, Paul Tempest, Kevin J. Wilson, David J. Witter
  • Patent number: 9099718
    Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMH) cathode battery is provided. The battery has a AxMn[Fe(CN)6]y.zH2O cathode, where the A cations are either alkali or alkaline-earth cations, such as sodium or potassium, where x is in the range of 1 to 2, where y is in the range of 0.5 to 1, and where z is in the range of 0 to 3.5. The AxMn[Fe(CN)6]y.zH2O has a rhombohedral crystal structure with Mn2+/3+ and Fe2+3+ having the same reduction/oxidation potential. The battery also has an electrolyte, and anode made of an A metal, an A composite, or a material that can host A atoms. The battery has a single plateau charging curve, where a single plateau charging curve is defined as a constant charging voltage slope between 15% and 85% battery charge capacity. Fabrication methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Hidayat Kisdarjono, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans
  • Patent number: 9096598
    Abstract: The instant invention provides compounds of formula I which are JAK inhibitors, and as such are useful for the treatment of JAK-mediated diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, COPD and cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: John W. Butcher, David Witter, Christopher Dinsmore, June Kim, John Hendrix, Raksha Archarya, Sean P. Ahearn, Joon Jung, Alexey Rivkin, Philip Jones
  • Patent number: 9099719
    Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMHCF) battery electrode is provided with a Fe(CN)6 additive. The electrode is made from AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles overlying a current collector, where the A cations are either alkali and alkaline-earth cations such as sodium (Na), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), or magnesium (Mg), and M is a transition metal. A Fe(CN)6 additive modifies the AxMyFez(CN)n.mH2O particles. The Fe(CN)6 additive may be ferrocyanide ([Fe(CN)6]4?) or ferricyanide ([Fe(CN)6]3?). Also provided are a related TMHCF battery with Fe(CN)6 additive, TMHCF fabrication process, and TMHCF battery fabrication process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans
  • Patent number: 9097921
    Abstract: An active matrix display device has: a first auxiliary wiring line (700); a second auxiliary wiring line (710) positioned outside of a plurality of second lead-out wiring lines (250) and a first driver circuit in a plan view; and an external auxiliary wiring line (790). Along each of a plurality of connecting wirings (900) are disconnected portions (91) inhibiting electrical connections between a plurality of transmission terminals and first common wiring lines (130). A plurality of intersections (901), where the first auxiliary wiring line (700) and the plurality of connecting wirings (900) intersect, are positioned more to the side of the plurality of transmission terminals than to the disconnected portions (91) in each of the plurality of connecting wiring lines (900).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao Ogasawara, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9096406
    Abstract: A sheet conveying device (30) includes a plurality of first conveyance rollers (31) and a plurality of second conveyance rollers (32). The sheet conveying device (30) includes stiffening rollers (34). The stiffening rollers (34) are disposed coaxially with at least one conveyance rollers (32) among the first and second conveyance rollers (31) and (32), and have diameters larger than diameters of the conveyance rollers (32). The stiffening rollers (34) includes first stiffening rollers (34a), which apply conveying forces to a sheet (P), and second stiffening rollers (34b), which apply smaller conveying forces to the sheet (P) than the conveying forces to the sheet (P) in the first stiffening rollers (34a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Kimura, Kohji Aoki, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Norichika Katsura
  • Patent number: 9097830
    Abstract: An illuminating device capable of stably illuminating an irradiated object such as a document while suppressing light loss with a simply structure is provided. An LED array and a reflective plate are disposed sandwiching a slit (St) through which light reflected by a document MS passes and a light-guiding member is disposed on the side of the LED array. The light-guiding member includes a direct emission unit disposed between an illumination range y centered on a document reading position and the LED array and an indirect emission unit disposed between the reflective plate and the LED array, a light incidence face of the direct emission unit and a light incidence face of the indirect emission unit are disposed at mutually different position around the LED array, and the LED array is disposed on a side of an interior angle formed by the light incidence faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Suto, Mitsuharu Yoshimoto, Tomohiko Okada, Hisashi Yamanaka, Shohichi Fukutome, Kenji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 9099586
    Abstract: To provide a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element in which a buffer layer provided between an n-type nitride semiconductor layer and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer has a first buffer layer expressed by an equation of Inx1Ga1-x1N (0<x1?1) and a second buffer layer expressed by an equation of Inx2Ga1-x2N (0?x2<1, x2<x1) alternately laminated, an In composition x1 of the first buffer layer is changed, and the In composition x1 of at least one layer of the first buffer layers is higher than an In composition of the active layer, and a method for producing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaya Ueda, Yoshihiro Ueta, Yuichi Sano, Toshiyuki Okumura
  • Patent number: 9099042
    Abstract: A high luminance display apparatus is provided. When a spectral radiance of a backlight at a time point of factory shipment is less than a spectral radiance of external light, a CPU generates a correction matrix for performing color correction so that color produced by external light, i.e., color produced by reflection light of external light by a half mirror conforms to color produced by only irradiation light of the backlight, transmits the generated correction matrix to a video image signal processing section as parameter information, and causes execution of color correction based on the parameter information. The CPU generates a correction matrix based on a spectral radiance of external light detected by a second spectral radiance sensor, a spectral radiance of the backlight detected at the time point of factory shipment, and spectral transmittance of a color filter as well as a color-matching function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Sugiyama, Taikoh Akashi
  • Patent number: 9100259
    Abstract: GI removers b102-nR remove a GI from received signals. FFT units b103-nR apply a time-to-frequency transform to the signals obtained in the GI removers b102-nR. Demapping units b104-nR separate from the obtained frequency-domain signals the received signals of resource elements in which data, a first pilot symbol, and a second pilot symbol were respectively transmitted. Path extractors b105-nR use the first pilot symbol to extract effective paths for estimation. Channel estimators b106-nR compute first CFR estimation values using the second pilot symbol, compute CIR estimation values by using path location information extracted by the path extractors and the first CFR estimation values, and then convert the CIR estimation values into second CFR estimation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuya Kato, Takashi Yoshimoto, Ryota Yamada, Kozue Yokomakura
  • Patent number: 9098771
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining a skew angle associated with a document image. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a rotation vector may be estimated for at least one layer in a vertical-edge buffer and a horizontal-edge buffer. According to a second aspect of the present invention, a rotation vector may be estimated directly from the vertical-edge buffer and the horizontal-edge buffer using a fixed-sized, progressively constrained histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: John E. Dolan
  • Patent number: 9099409
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes an organic EL section including an organic layer held between a first electrode and a second electrode, one of the two electrodes serving as a reflective electrode, and the other serving as a translucent electrode; a blue pixel portion including a blue color filter configured to mainly transmit a light component in a blue wavelength region of light emitted from the organic EL section; a green pixel portion including a green color filter configured to mainly transmit a light component in a green wavelength region of the light emitted from the organic EL section; and a red pixel portion including a wavelength conversion layer configured to absorb at least one of the light component in the blue wavelength region and the light component in the green wavelength region of the light emitted from the organic EL section and emit light in a red wavelength region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Fujita
  • Patent number: 9100141
    Abstract: An efficient discontinuous reception operation is provided for a mobile station device in Advanced-EUTRA. In a mobile station device connected to a base station device using a plurality of component carriers, during discontinuous reception, one discontinuous reception parameter is applied to all the component carriers used by the mobile station device to thereby perform the operation of monitoring a control channel in all the component carriers, and when the control channel addressed to the mobile station device is received in one or more component carriers during a reception ON period, the reception ON period is extended in all the component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kato, Shohei Yamada, Daiichiro Nakashima, Katsunari Uemura
  • Publication number: 20150211118
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vapor deposition apparatus, comprising: a reactor for housing a target substrate on which a thin film is to be formed by vapor deposition; a shower head having: a gas inlet for introducing a gas; a gas distribution space for diffusing the gas; and a shower plate having a plurality of gas channels for supplying the gas from the gas distribution space into the reactor; and a gas outlet for externally discharging the gas from the reactor, the gas distribution space of the shower head having the shower plate as a bottom face thereof, the gas distribution space having a first space located relatively far from the gas outlet of the reactor and a second space located relatively close to the gas outlet of the reactor, the first space being formed so as to be taller than the second space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kanako Wakasa, Hidekazu Sakagami, Toshiki Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20150211709
    Abstract: A lighting device (100) includes: a surface light source (1); a first lens (L1) having a first focal point (F1), the first lens being provided on the light exit surface side of the surface light source; and a second lens (L2) having a second focal point (F2), the second lens being provided on a light exit surface side of the first lens, the surface light source, the first lens, and the second lens being configured such that a first virtual image (I1) is formed by the first lens and a second virtual image (I2) is formed by the second lens, wherein the first virtual image (I1) is formed between the second focal point (F2) and the first lens, and the second focal point (F2) is on a side opposite to the light source side relative to a predetermined focal position f?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicants: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tatsuo Uchida, Yoshito Suzuki, Tohru Kawakami, Takahiro Ishinabe, Katsunori Ehara, Yoshihiro Hashimoto, Toshiki Matsuoka, Kozo Nakamura, Yasuhisa Itoh, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Yutaka Ishii, David Montgomery
  • Publication number: 20150213757
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a controller, a data driver, and a DRAM which provides a gain correction memory and a threshold voltage correction memory. The data driver sends, to the controller, first and second measurement data Im corresponding to the first and second measuring data voltages Vm, respectively. The controller compares ideal characteristic data IO(P) with the first and second measurement data Im, and updates threshold voltage correction data Vt and gain correction data B2R based on the comparison results. The controller corrects video data Vm based on the threshold voltage correction data Vt and the gain correction data B2R. Thereby, both threshold voltage compensation and gain compensation of a drive transistor are performed with respect to each pixel circuit, while display is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Takahama, Yoshimitsu Yamauchi, Noboru Noguchi, Noritaka Kishi
  • Publication number: 20150215969
    Abstract: A mobile station apparatus detects a signature not reserved as a dedicated signature informed by a base station. In addition, the mobile station apparatus performs a random access using a randomly selected signature, in case of detecting a signature not reserved as a dedicated signature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shohei YAMADA, Yasuyuki KATO