Patents Assigned to Sharp
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Patent number: 8657410Abstract: A liquid discharging nozzle of the present invention includes (i) a liquid reservoir for reserving a discharging liquid and (ii) a discharging tube connected to a bottom part of the liquid reservoir. A water-repellent layer is provided on an inner surface of the discharging tube, on an inner surface of the discharging tube, and on an inner surface of the liquid reservoir, and is a fluorinated water-repellent layer. An aluminum oxide layer and a silicon oxide layer are used as foundation layers of the fluorinated water-repellent layer. The aluminum oxide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the fluorinated water-repellent layer, which are stacked together, have a combined thickness of not more than 25 nm. The fluorinated water-repellent layer alone has a thickness of 1 nm to 4 nm.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2012Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takahiro Nakahashi, Hiroyuki Hanato
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Patent number: 8658651Abstract: Disclosed are the ERK inhibitors of formula 1.0: (Formula (A1)), and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and solvates thereof. Q is a piperidine ring that can have a bridge or a fused ring. All other substitutents are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of treating cancer using the compounds of formula A1.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Hugh Y. Zhu, Jagdish A. Desai, Alan B. Cooper, Ronald J. Doll
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Patent number: 8659504Abstract: Provided is a display device for carrying out seamless display so that a sense of strangeness is not given to a viewer or the sense of strangeness is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kentarou Imamura, Shigeto Yoshida
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Patent number: 8659726Abstract: Transflective-type and reflection type liquid crystal display devices having a high image quality are provided with a good production efficiency. A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is a liquid crystal display device which includes; a first substrate and a second substrate between which liquid crystal is interposed; a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the first substrate for applying a voltage for controlling an orientation of the liquid crystal; a transistor having an electrode which is electrically connected to the first electrode; a metal layer being formed on the first substrate and including a protrusion, a recess, or an aperture; and a reflective layer formed above the metal layer on the first substrate for reflecting incident light toward a display surface. The metal layer is made of a same material as that of a gate electrode of the transistor.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2007Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hajime Imai, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Hideki Kitagawa, Yoshihito Hara, Junya Shimada, Mitsunori Imade, Yoshiharu Kataoka
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Publication number: 20140051238Abstract: A first resist layer (46a) and a second resist layer (46b) that is thicker than the first resist layer (46a) are formed using a multi-gradient mask, a conductive film (44) is isotropically etched with both resist layers (46a, 46b) as masks, gate electrodes (34a, 34b) are formed narrower than the resist layers (46a, 46b) at locations corresponding to first and second semiconductor layers (31a, 31b), overhang portions (47) of the resist layers (46a, 46b) are configured at the sides of the gate electrodes (34a, 34b), then the entire first resist layer (46a) is removed and the second resist layer (46b) is thinned into a thin film; and an impurity is injected into the first semiconductor layer (31a) with the gate electrode (34b) as a mask, and into the second semiconductor layer (31b) with the second resist layer (46b) as a mask.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaki Saitoh
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Publication number: 20140048812Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Fumiki Nakano, Tadayoshi Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20140050982Abstract: A method is provided for synthesizing sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II). A Fe(CN)6 material is mixed with the first solution and either an anti-oxidant or a reducing agent. The Fe(CN)6 material may be either ferrocyanide ([Fe(CN)6]4?) or ferricyanide ([Fe(CN)6]3?). As a result, sodium iron(II)-hexacyanoferrate(II) (Na1+XFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O is formed, where X is less than or equal to 1, and where M is in a range between 0 and 7. In one aspect, the first solution including includes A ions, such as alkali metal ions, alkaline earth metal ions, or combinations thereof, resulting in the formation of Na1+XAYFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O, where Y is less than or equal to 1. Also provided are a Na1+XFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O battery and Na1+XFe[Fe(CN)6]Z.MH2O battery electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Sean Andrew Vail
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Publication number: 20140049742Abstract: Included are a first glass substrate (20) and a second glass substrate (30) facing each other, the peripheries of the substrates (20, 30) being superposed with each other, a display medium layer (25) between the substrates (20, 30) in a display area (D), a sealing member (26) for bonding the substrates (20, 30) together in a frame region (F) between the substrates (20, 30) and enclosing a display medium layer (25) between the substrates (20, 30), a flexible resin substrate layer (7) extending outward from between the frame region (F) of the first substrate (20) and the sealing member (26), and driving electronic components (41, 42) mounted on the resin substrate layer (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenji Misono
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Publication number: 20140050190Abstract: A base station is capable of efficiently notifying a terminal of control information. The base station communicates with the terminal using a sub-frame including a plurality of resource block pairs. The base station sets a second control channel region in the terminal through RRC signaling that is higher-layer control information, the second control channel region being a region set differently from a first control channel region in which a first control channel is to be arranged. The base station transmits control information for the terminal by mapping the control information to a second control channel that is to be arranged in the second control channel region. The first control channel region is set in the sub-frame to be specific to the base station, and the second control channel region is set in the sub-frame to be specific to the terminal in units of the resource block pairs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima
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Publication number: 20140050187Abstract: A base station includes a precoding processor that conducts the same precoding process on a control channel and a reference signal, a controller that sets a plurality of regions including a region in which the reference signal is placed and a region in which the control channel is potentially placed. Different precoding processes are used among different regions. A transmit processor uses resources in a region to transmit the control channel and the reference signal. A mobile station device includes a controller that sets a region on the basis of announced information from the base station device, a propagation channel estimator that averages propagation channel variation estimation values from a plurality of reference signals within the region, and a control channel detector that uses the averaged propagation channel estimation values to detect the control channel that includes control information addressed to the mobile station device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiichiro Nakshima, Kimihiko Imamura, Toshizo Nogami, Kazuyuki Shimezawa
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Publication number: 20140049714Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a TFT substrate (110) including a TFT (10), an interlayer insulating layer which covers the TFT (10), a pixel electrode (12) electrically connected to the TFT (10) via a contact hole (14) formed in the interlayer insulating layer, a storage capacitor bus line (6) and a storage capacitor electrode (8) connected to the storage capacitor bus line (6), and a storage capacitor counter electrode (16) having a light-shielding property electrically connected to the TFT (10) and the pixel electrode (12), the storage capacitor counter electrode (16) constituting a storage capacitor portion together with the storage capacitor electrode (8) with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device (100) also includes a counter substrate (120) including a counter electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masahiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20140053213Abstract: The monitor (10) of this invention includes: a wireless LAN module (12a); a content selecting section (11b) for selecting one of content sources; a video reception selecting section (11c) for (i) identifying a video transmitting apparatus connected to the selected one of the content sources and (ii) causing the wireless LAN module (12a) to receive a video signal from the identified video transmitting apparatus; and a content switching instructing section (11d) for instructing the identified video transmitting apparatus to transmit a video signal from the selected one of the content sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toru Ueda, Keiji Saka, Yohichi Eguchi, Ryosuke Ohmae, Seiji Imanishi, Takuya Kinoshita
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Publication number: 20140049533Abstract: A display module of the present invention includes: a plurality of source drivers (SDa); a plurality of memory sections (30a, 30b) respectively provided for the plurality of source drivers (SDa), each of the plurality of memory sections (30a, 30b) 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 (30a, 30b) is provided; and timing control means (33a) serving as sync control means for synchronizing the plurality of source drivers (SDa) to synchronously output video signals that the plurality of source drivers (SDa) output based on data respectively supplied from the plurality of memory sections (30a, 30b), so that the synchronized video signals are supplied to corresponding ones of the plurality of divided regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohji Saitoh, Asahi Yamato, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagai
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Publication number: 20140049711Abstract: The present liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate including a pixel electrode, a transistor, and first and second data signal lines; and a counter, the array substrate includes first and second sides which are adjacent to each other, a first terminal having shorter distance from the first side than distance from the second side in a plan view, and a second terminal having shorter distance from the second side than distance from the first side in a plan view are formed in the array substrate, the first data signal line is electrically connected to the first terminal, the second data signal line and the second terminal are electrically connected via a relay wiring formed in a layer different from the first and second data signal lines. According to the above configuration, the number of terminals for data signal lines can be increased without changing the size of the liquid crystal panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tamotsu Sakai
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Publication number: 20140049705Abstract: Detection accuracy is improved without reducing a driving frequency and an S/N ratio. Driving electrodes (DL(j?2) and DL(j?1)) of a driving electrode group (GDL(i)) overlap a driving electrode group GDL(i?1), and driving electrodes (DL(j+1) and DL(j+2)) thereof overlap a driving electrode group GDL(i+1). A first changeover terminal of a changeover switch (SW(i)) is connected to a wire to which a burst clock signal (BCK) is given, and a ground potential is given to a second changeover terminal thereof. A common terminal of the changeover switch (SW(i)) is connected to a driving electrode (DL(j)) located at a center of the driving electrode group (GDL(i)), is connected to the driving electrodes (DL(j?1) to DL(j?3)), respectively, via one to three resistive elements (Rd), and is connected to the driving electrodes (DL(j+1) to DL(j+3)), respectively, via one to three resistive elements (Rd).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Sugita, Kazutoshi Kida, Yuhji Yashiro, Shinji Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20140051205Abstract: To manufacture a thin film compound solar cell which can improve the adhesive property of electrodes even when being provided with a base material, and which prevents the base material from being separated. A cell main body configured by laminating a plurality of compound semiconductor layers is formed on a substrate. A rear surface electrode 7 is formed on the cell main body, and a rear surface film 8 as the base material is formed on the rear surface electrode 7. A reinforcing material 9 is attached on the rear surface film 8. The substrate is separated from the cell main body, and the cell main body is mesa-etched. A surface electrode 13 is formed on a contact layer 3 after the etching. The reinforcing material 9 is separated, and the surface electrode 13 is annealed. The formed thin film compound solar cell is separated into a plurality of solar cell elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomoya KODAMA
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Publication number: 20140050189Abstract: In a radio communication system in which a base station and a terminal communicate with each other, the base station is capable of efficiently notifying the terminal of control information. The base station sets monitoring of a second control channel in the terminal through RRC signaling that is higher-layer control information, the second control channel being transmitted using a second transmit port different from a first transmit port used for transmission of a first control channel. The base station transmits control information for the terminal by mapping the control information to the second control channel. The first transmit port is a transmit port used for transmission of a cell-specific reference signal that is a reference signal common within a cell, and the second transmit port is a transmit port used for transmission of a terminal-specific reference signal that is a reference signal specific to the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Toshizo Nogami, Kimihiko Imamura, Daiichiro Nakashima
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Publication number: 20140051740Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel substituted aminotetrahydropyrans of structural formula I which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV 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: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.Inventors: Tesfaye Biftu, Ann E. Weber
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Publication number: 20140049573Abstract: An image display device includes a color component ratio extracting unit that extracts a color component ratio for reproducing a target display color included in a target image as a light emission color component ratio candidate, a light emission color component ratio selecting unit that selects a light emission color component ratio (a color component ratio when LEDs of a plurality of colors included in an LED unit emit light) in each sub-frame period from among light emission color component ratio candidates extracted by the color component ratio extracting unit, and a pixel modulation degree calculating unit that obtains a light modulation degree of each pixel formation portion in each sub-frame period. One frame period is configured by a plurality of sub-frame periods in which mixed-color display is possible, and achromatic display is performed in at least one sub-frame period among the plurality of sub-frame periods.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoyuki Ishihara
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Patent number: 8651758Abstract: An exterior structure of an apparatus for covering the outside of an apparatus main body with a multiple number of panel elements uses shielding panels, heat-radiating panels and machine-interior anti-scatter panels as the multiple number of panel elements. The apparatus has a framework to which shielding panels, heat-radiating panels and machine-interior anti-scatter panels are appropriately arranged in combination to cover the apparatus in conformity with the functional configuration of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroyuki Nagao, Takashi Kikutani, Kazuhisa Yoneda, Yasushi Nakamura, Toshikazu Kitaura, Hidenobu Mandai