Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Multimedia broadcast and multicast service notification in long term evolution
    Patent number: 9008701
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems have various user equipment (UE) for reading multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) notifications via one or more paging indicators of a Paging Indication Channel (PICH). The paging indicators of the PICH functions as MBMS notification indicators, signaling the relevant UE to read the MBMS point-to-multipoint control channel (MCCH) for MBMS information, and thereby enabling the affected UE to configure themselves to receive the associated multimedia broadcast and/or multicast service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shugong Xu
  • Manufacturing method for light-emitting device comprising multi-step cured silicon resin
    Patent number: 9006006
    Abstract: A light-emitting device production method includes a positioning step of positioning, in a light-emitting element, a sealing member at least containing a silicone resin semi-cured at a room temperature (T0) by primary cross-linking and a fluorescent material, the silicone resin decreasing in viscosity reversibly in a temperature region between the room temperature (T0) and a temperature lower than a secondary cross-linking temperature (T1), and being totally cured non-reversibly in a temperature region equal to or higher than the secondary cross-linking temperature (T1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Konishi
  • Secure mobile printing method and system
    Patent number: 9007613
    Abstract: A secure mobile printing method and system allow a user to unlock remotely submitted print jobs without having to remember job identifiers and without imposing onerous barcoding requirements on printer firmware or requiring the user to scroll through a list of print jobs on a printer's front panel display screen. An exemplary method, performed on a mobile device, comprises initiating a print job, assigning a job identifier for the print job, selecting a printer for the print job, sending to the selected printer the print job and the job identifier whereby the print job is locked on the selected printer, imaging a printed printer identification code (PIC) on an exposed surface of the selected printer, resolving the printed PIC image to the job identifier, and sending to the selected printer the job identifier whereby the print job is unlocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: William John Vojak
  • Backlight device, display device, and television set
    Patent number: 9007545
    Abstract: A backlight device (20) is combined with a display device (10) that has a display panel (11), such as a liquid crystal panel. The backlight device includes a chassis (21), a light guide plate (22) and optical sheets (23) arranged on the rear surface of the display panel (11), and an LED package (24) that illuminates an edge face of the light guide plate. A light reflecting face formed of a material that has silver as a main component is provided in the LED package. An adsorbing material (30) that adsorbs gas such as halogen gas and hydrogen sulfide, which have characteristics that lower the reflectance of silver, is coated onto a substrate (25) on which the LED package is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Munetoshi Ueyama
  • Cathode active material, cathode and non-aqueous secondary battery
    Patent number: 9005810
    Abstract: A cathode active material having a composition represented by the following formula (1) LiMn1?xMxP1?ySiyO4??(1) wherein M is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Sn, Y and Al; x is within a range of 0<x?0.5; and y is within a range of 0<y?0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Ohira, Motoaki Nishijima
  • Substituted pyrimidines
    Patent number: 9006433
    Abstract: The present invention relates to substituted pyrimidines useful as HIF prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors to treat anemia and like conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Changyou Zhou, Wuxin Zou, Yuxia Hua, Qun Dang
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 9007552
    Abstract: A normally black liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer in which liquid crystal molecules are arranged vertically when no voltage is applied, and arranged horizontally by applying a voltage. In each of pixel regions in alignment films which are segmented in a grid by source lines and gate lines, is divided into two along a direction parallel to the source lines. The first alignment film includes a first region and a second region. The second alignment film includes a third region facing the first region and a fourth region facing the second region. In an adjacent pair of the pixel regions, pairs of the regions are adjacent to each other with corresponding one of the source lines interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takayuki Hayano, Masayuki Tsuji, Kohji Hayashi
  • Prolylcarboxypeptidase inhibitors
    Patent number: 9006268
    Abstract: Compounds of structural formula I are inhibitors of prolylcarboxypeptidase (PrCP). The compounds of the present invention are useful for the prevention and treatment of conditions related to the enzymatic activity of PrCP such as abnormal metabolism, including obesity; diabetes; metabolic syndrome; obesity related disorders; and diabetes related disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: John S. Debenham, Jinlong Jiang, Christina B. Madsen-Duggan, Dong-Ming Shen
  • Broadcast receiver apparatus
    Patent number: 9009276
    Abstract: A broadcast receiver capable of receiving correct channel information anytime, even if a network to which the broadcast receiver is connected changes to another one, includes a storage unit and a controller. The storage unit stores a network configuration information file and channel information. The controller controls units of the broadcast receiver. Each time the broadcast receiver is activated, the controller connects to a network, acquires a network configuration information file from the connected network without simultaneously acquiring channel information therefrom, and determines whether network-identifying information described in the acquired network configuration information file is different from network-identifying information the network configuration information file stored in the storage unit. If the network names differ, the controller erases the stored channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Toshinori Shimizu
  • Electrochemical catalysts for fuel cells
    Patent number: 9006133
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrochemical catalyst particles, including nanoparticles, which can be used membrane electrode assemblies and in fuel cells. In exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides electrochemical catalysts supported by various materials. Suitably the catalysts have an atomic ratio of oxygen to a metal in the nanoparticle of about 3 to about 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: OneD Material LLC, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yimin Zhu, Jay L. Goldman, Baixin Qian, Ionel C. Stefan, Mutsuko Komoda, Hirotaka Mizuhata, Takenori Onishi
  • Optical unit, fluorescence detection device, and fluorescence detection method
    Patent number: 9006687
    Abstract: A first lens configured to convert light from the objective lens into parallel light includes a concave lens part having a concave curved face in a center portion of a flat face, and a convex lens part having a convex curved face around a flat face. Further, the first lens includes first and second regions configured to diverge light through the flat face and the concave curved face and a third region configured to collect light through the convex curved face and the concave curved face. When the sample is on a sample table and sealed in a two-dimensional electrophoresis substrate, light totally reflected by a side surface of the objective lens enters the second region. In contrast, when the sample is directly on the sample table, the light enters the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukio Watanabe
  • Filter calculating device, transmitting device, receiving device, processor, and filter calculating method
    Patent number: 9008166
    Abstract: A filter calculating device includes a first equalization filter calculating section that generates at least a first conversion matrix and a first triangular matrix based on a channel state of a first channel; a first quasi-orthogonalization section that calculates a first unimodular matrix based on the first triangular matrix; and a second equalization filter calculating section that generates at least a second conversion matrix and a second triangular matrix based on a channel state of a second channel and the first unimodular matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakano, Hiromichi Tomeba, Takashi Onodera, Alvaro Ruiz Delgado
  • Board module and fabrication method thereof
    Patent number: 9007777
    Abstract: Affixed to a projection (111) of a glass substrate (110) included in a liquid crystal module (100) are a first ACF (150a), which has low surface tack strength but high connection reliability, and a second ACF (150b), which has high component attaching capability attributed to high surface tack strength. With these, an LSI chip (130), electronic components (150), etc., are mounted on the glass substrate (110), so that high-speed electronic component mounting can be achieved while ensuring connection reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Gen Nagaoka, Yasuhiro Hida, Hiroki Miyazaki
  • Power consumption display apparatus and power consumption display method
    Patent number: 9008980
    Abstract: A display is estimating every day working time of a worker involved in a load based on power consumption data in which electricity supplied to the load is measured in a certain period; calculating power consumption of the load during working time a day to calculate an average of the power consumption in a predetermined period; and calculating estimated daily power saving for every day based on a difference between maximum power during working time a day and power for each of the time, in which an index in which a proportion of the daily estimated power saving to a sum of the estimated electric saving and the power consumption serves as a parameter while a proportion of the power consumption a day to an average of the power consumption in a predetermined period serves as another parameter is displayed with the measured power consumption for each of the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaki Takakura
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 9007553
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device including a first substrate including a plurality of picture elements; a second substrate including a common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. The first substrate and the second substrate are arranged to be opposite to each other, and each of the plurality of picture elements has a plurality of elongated electrodes configured to apply voltages to the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the common electrode. The elongated electrodes within one of the plurality of picture elements extend in eight directions, and each of the plurality of picture elements is divided into eight regions based upon the eight directions. In each of the eight regions of one of the plurality of picture elements, two or more of the plurality of elongated electrodes extend along a corresponding one of the eight directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Kunihiro Tashiro, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Jin Hirosawa, Norio Sugiura, Kengo Kanii, Shota Makimoto, Naoto Kondo, Isao Tsushima, Tomonori Tanose, Takashi Takagi, Tetsuya Fujikawa
  • Liquid-crystal display device
    Patent number: 9007287
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention has a vertical scanning period in which the polarity of a display signal is positive and a vertical scanning period in which the polarity of a display signal is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masae Kitayama, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • FORMULATIONS OF ACADESINE
    Publication number: 20150099715
    Abstract: This invention provides a buffered solution comprising acadesine, as well as compositions, formulations and kits containing said solution. The solution, compositions, formulation, and kits can be used to prevent morbidity/mortality in a patient or to treat an ischaemic condition, a condition regulated by adenosine, or a condition associated with reduced blood flow to a tissue in a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Valentyn Antochshuk, Mohammed Shameem, Amadeep Singh Bhupender BHALLA
  • LIGHT SCANNING DEVICE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH THE SAME
    Publication number: 20150097909
    Abstract: A light scanning device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements for scanning a scan object with respective light beams emitted from the respective light-emitting elements. The light scanning device includes secured sections, a first substrate, and a second substrate. To the secured sections, the respective light-emitting elements are secured. The first substrate includes a first connector. Mounting positions of the respective light-emitting elements to the first substrate are displaceable. The respective light-emitting elements are coupled to the first substrate. The second substrate includes a second connector coupled to the first connector. The first substrate and the second substrate are secured to a first specified position and a second specified position, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Ueda, Takaharu Motoyama, Ryosuke Sasaki
  • IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING ENERGY SAVING MODE LEARNING FUNCTION AND CONTROLLER THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20150098103
    Abstract: An energy saving setting unit controls an image forming apparatus that makes a transition to a power saving state if a transition time passes without any prescribed operation in a normal state, and it includes: a unit for storing specific day information distinguishing a normal operation day and a specific day; an auto pattern updating unit determining the transition time in a normal operation day based on past operational status of the normal operation day of the image forming apparatus; a specific day pattern registering unit receiving and storing setting of the transition time of the specific day; and a switching unit, switching the state of conduction of the image forming apparatus using the transition time determined by the auto pattern updating unit and the stored transition time, on the normal operation day and on the specific day, respectively, based on the specific day information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukari EBI, Shinsaku TOHKI
  • Communication system using network base IP mobility protocol, control apparatus, router and communication method thereof
    Patent number: RE45465
    Abstract: There are provided a communication system, a control apparatus, a router, and communication method thereof, there are capable of eliminating loss in packets during a handover and effectively releasing a resource of a router in a network base IP mobility protocol in which a mobile mode is movable without mounting a special protocol. When an MN 1 as a mobile terminal is moved, a router at a movement destination, a mobile access gateway (MAG)b 3 that has received a router solicitation from the MN 1 sends a location registration to a control apparatus, a local mobility anchor (LMA) 4, and when the LMA 4 determines as a handover, the LMA 4 instructs a router at a movement source, an MAGa 2 or an MAGb 3 to transfer a buffer from the MAGa 2 to the MAGb 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Suguru Toyokawa, Masafumi Aramoto