Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Patent number: 8575713
    Abstract: A semiconductor device 700 includes a substrate and an optical sensor unit 700 formed on the substrate for sensing light and for generating a sensing signal, the optical sensor unit 700 including a first thin film diode 701A for detection of light in a first wavelength range, a second thin film diode 701B detecting light in a second wavelength range that contains wavelengths longer than the longest wavelength in the first wavelength range. The first thin film diode 701A and the second thin film diode 701B are connected in parallel to each other. The sensing signal is generated based on the output from one of the first thin film diode 701A and the second thin film diode 701B. By this means, the wavelength range that can be detected by the optical sensor unit can be expanded and the sensing sensitivity can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Makita, Masahiro Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8576362
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device suppresses generation of image sticking in AC mode. A liquid crystal display device comprises an alignment film arranged on at least one of a pair of substrates. The alignment film comprises a polymer containing a first constitutional unit and a second constitutional unit. The first constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules by photoirradiation. The second constitutional unit controls alignment of the liquid crystal molecules regardless of photoirradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Isamu Miyake, Koichi Miyachi, Yuko Teraoka
  • Patent number: 8576190
    Abstract: The gap between a first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate is greater in a terminal region in which a flexible printed circuit and anisotropic conductive films are inserted, than the gap between the first and second transparent substrates in a detection region. A guide portion which is used to guide an end of the flexible printed circuit at which the anisotropic conductive films are provided, into the gap between the first and second transparent substrates, is provided on the first or second transparent substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Sugihara
  • Patent number: 8572906
    Abstract: A solar cell module 1a is constituted from a main frame member 10a and a sub-frame member 20a that hold a solar cell panel 9. The main frame member 10a is constituted from a main outer wall 11, a main holding upper piece 12, a main holding lower piece 13, and a main bottom piece 16 and, also, the sub-frame member 20a is constituted from a sub-outer wall 21, a sub-holding upper piece 22, a sub-holding lower piece 23, a sub-base piece 24, a sub-inner wall 25, and a sub-bottom piece 26. Then, the main bottom piece 16 and the sub-bottom piece 26 are formed so as not to collide with each other, such that the projecting position heights of the pieces are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Moritaka Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130286314
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel 11 of the present invention is provided with: an array substrate 20; a common wiring line 31 that is formed on the array substrate 20; a first interlayer insulating layer 39 that is formed on the common wiring line 31 and has a first contact hole 39b; a contact electrode 42 that is formed on the first interlayer insulating layer 39, is connected to the common wiring line 31 through the first contact hole 39b, and has a step section 42b that is raised onto the edge of the first contact hole 39b; a second interlayer insulating layer 40 that is formed on the contact electrode 42 and has a second contact hole 40b over the first contact hole 39b; and an opposite electrode 32 that is formed on the second interlayer insulating layer 40 and is connected to the contact electrode 42 through the second contact hole 40b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Yoshida, Yasuyoshi Kaise, Masahiro Fujiwara, Hiroaki Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20130285966
    Abstract: A display apparatus (1) having a touch panel function has a display screen (21) and multiple touch sensors (10) to detect the contact position of a user to the display screen (21), and the touch sensor (10) has a first sensor group (11a) of which the sensitivity to detect the user instruction position to the display screen (21) is relatively low, and a second sensor group (11b) of which the sensitivity to detect the user instruction position to the display screen (21) is relatively high compared to the first sensor group (11a). Thus, a display apparatus is provided having a touch panel function preventing poorer user usability, and which reduces power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Kimura, Kohji Fujiwara, Akiko Miyazaki, Toshiharu Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20130286294
    Abstract: A backlight device 24 according to the present invention includes: LED substrates 30; LED light sources 28 placed on the surfaces of the LED substrates 30; a light guide plate 20 having light-receiving surfaces 20a on the side faces, the plate being placed such that the LED light sources 28 and the light-receiving surfaces 20a face each other; a chassis 22 having a bottom plate and a plurality of side walls 22b, 22c, 22d, and 22d standing upright from the bottom plate, the chassis being open on a top side opposite to the bottom plate and storing at least the LED light sources 28 and the light guide plate 20; and spacer members 34 for regulating the gaps between the side walls and the light guide plate 20, the spacer members being made of an elastic material. The LED substrates 30 are placed along the surfaces of the side walls, and the spacer members 34 are placed in the corners between the adjacent side walls 22b, 22c, 22d, and 22d.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuru Hosoki
  • Publication number: 20130287763
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating cancer by administering an IGF-1R specific antibody in combination with an anti-cancer agent exemplified by an Akt pathway inhibitor. The first and second amounts together comprise a therapeutically effective amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP.
    Inventors: Sriram Sathyanarayanan, Christopher Winter, Andrew Bloecher, Erin Valentine
  • Publication number: 20130290901
    Abstract: In regards to the conventional technology for performing operational inputs by referring a GUI and by means of a touch sensor, there exists a problem in which the relationship of correspondence between on-screen locations of selection items on a GUI and touchpad locations cannot be accurately grasped. Moreover, cases in which a touch panel equipped with an information display function instead of a touch sensor is used cause problems in that the cost thereof or power consumed thereby can be relatively high, etc. In order to solve the problems described as above, the present invention provides a remote control that selects an icon on a GUI as a target of operation using a touch sensor, and which is characterized by a configuration that allows a user to easily identify the relationship of correspondence by brightening of a touch sensor on a touchpad corresponding to icon arrangement on a GUI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Yarita, Keiichiro Sato, Takamasa Shimizu, Jiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20130285005
    Abstract: A variable resistive element configured to reduce a forming voltage while reducing a variation in forming voltage among elements, a method for producing it, and a highly integrated nonvolatile semiconductor memory device provided with the variable resistive element are provided. The variable resistive element includes a resistance change layer (first metal oxide film) and a control layer (second metal oxide film) having contact with a first electrode sandwiched between the first electrode and a second electrode. The control layer includes a metal oxide film having a low work function (4.5 eV or less) and capable of extracting oxygen from the resistance change layer. The first electrode includes a metal having a low work function similar to the above metal, and a material having oxide formation free energy higher than that of an element included in the control layer, to prevent oxygen from being thermally diffused from the control layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukio Tamai
  • Publication number: 20130286929
    Abstract: In a communication system including a base station device and a relay station device, the base station device notifies the relay station device of the identifier of an MBSFN area and whether the subframe used by the service of the identifier of the MBSFN area should be set up in the MBSFN subframes, and, the relay station device, based on the identifier of the MBSFN area held thereby and the information on the subframe used by the service of the identifier of the MBSFN area, controls whether the subframe used by the service of the identifier of the MBSFN area, notified from the base station device, should be included in the MBSFN subframes thereof, based on a notice as to whether the subframe used by the service of the identifier of the MBSFN area is set up in the MBSFN subframes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidekazu Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20130285054
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a gate electrode (62) of a thin film transistor (10) and an oxygen supply layer (64), the gate electrode (62) and the oxygen supply layer (64) being formed on a substrate (60); a gate insulating layer (66) formed on the gate electrode (62) and the oxygen supply layer (64); an oxide semiconductor layer (68) of the thin film transistor (10), the oxide semiconductor layer (68) being formed on the gate insulating layer (66); and a source electrode (70S) and a drain electrode (70d) of the thin film transistor (10), the source electrode (70S) and the drain electrode (70d) being formed on the gate insulating layer (66) and the oxide semiconductor layer (68).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Moriguchi, Yohsuke Kanzaki, Yudai Takanishi, Takatsugu Kusumi, Hiroshi Matsukizono
  • Publication number: 20130286001
    Abstract: A display device in which low power consumption is realized without lowering an aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal capacitive element Clc is sandwiched between a pixel electrode 20 and an opposite electrode 80. The pixel electrode 20, one end of a first switch circuit 22, one end of a second switch circuit 23 and a first terminal of a second transistor T2 form an internal node N1. The other terminals of the first switch circuit 22 and the second switch circuit 23 are connected to a source line SL. The second switch circuit 23 is a series circuit composed of a first transistor T1 and a diode D1. A control terminal of the first transistor T1, a second terminal of the second transistor T2 and one end of a boost capacitive element Cbst form an output node N2. The other end of the boost capacitive element Cbst and the control terminal of the second transistor T2 are connected to a boost line BST and a reference line REF, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiki Nakano, Naoki Ueda, Yoshimitsu Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20130286340
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal alignment agent capable of preventing a decrease in voltage holding ratio (VHR), a liquid crystal display containing such a liquid crystal alignment agent, and a method for manufacturing such a liquid crystal display. Aspects of the present invention include a liquid crystal alignment agent containing at least one polymer selected from a polyamic acid and an imide polymer thereof and at least one difunctional monomer having an anthracene or phenanthrene structure, a liquid crystal display including an alignment film formed on at least one of an active substrate and a counter substrate using the above liquid crystal alignment agent, and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display including the steps of forming an active substrate and forming a counter substrate, at least one of which includes forming an alignment film on the active substrate or the counter substrate using the above liquid crystal alignment agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Youhei Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20130285104
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting device that has a high emission efficiency, excellent stability and temperature properties, and that generates light having a high color rendering property sufficient for practical use. This semiconductor light-emitting device (1) comprises a semiconductor light-emitting element (2) that emits blue light, a green phosphor (14) that absorbs the blue light and emits green light, and an orange phosphor (13) that absorbs the blue light and emits orange light, and is characterized in that the orange phosphor is an Eu-activated ?-SiAlON phosphor having an emission spectrum peak wavelength within a range of 595 to 620 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Yoshimura, Kohsei Takahashi, Hiroshi Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20130285974
    Abstract: A touch panel system can accurately detect a position of an indicator as distinguished from noise, an electronic information device, and an indicator position detecting method are provided. An indicator position detecting portion detects a position of an indicator, which is in contact with or close to a detecting surface P, based on either one of a first or a second capacitance signal. The first capacitance signal is obtained in a first driving mode in which a first drive signal is applied to first signal lines and a first sense signal appearing on second signal lines is applied to a sense signal processing portion. The second capacitance signal is obtained in a second driving mode in which a second drive signal is applied to the second signal lines, and a second sense signal appearing on the first signal lines is applied to the sense signal processing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tamiyo Nakabayashi, Shinichi Yoshida, Shunsuke Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20130285994
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a display control unit configured to cause the liquid crystal panel to display a right eye image and a left eye image in an alternating manner; and a polarity control unit configured to cause the polarity of the drive voltage for the liquid crystal panel to be reversed. The polarity control unit causes the polarity of the drive voltage to be reversed such that, in one cycle including a number of display frames for right and left eye images, the number being a multiple of 8, the combination of polarities for image display in one pair of display frames composed of right and left eye images is one of four combinations and a number of occurrences of each of the four combinations is equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Masuda
  • Publication number: 20130285038
    Abstract: On the TFT substrate (10), a vapor deposition layer is formed by use of a vapor deposition device (50) which includes (i) a vapor deposition source (85) having injection holes (86) and (ii) a vapor deposition mask (81) having openings (82) through which vapor deposition particles injected from the injection holes (86) are deposited so as to form the vapor deposition layer. The TFT substrate (10) has a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a pixel region (AG), and terminals of a plurality of wires (14), which are electrically connected with the plurality of pixels, are gathered outside a vapor deposition layer formation region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tohru Sonoda, Shinichi Kawato, Satoshi Inoue, Satoshi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130284233
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photovoltaic device 1 including a plurality of cluster power generation sections G (G11, G12, G21, and G22). Each cluster power generation section G includes unitary power generation sections D (D1, D2) connected in series via connection points CP12. The cluster power generation sections G each have at least a predetermined one of the connection points CP12 designated as a specific connection point SP12. The specific connection points SP12 are connected together to link the cluster power generation sections G.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohtaroh Kataoka, Kohichiroh Adachi, Masatomi Harada, Yoshjii Ohta, Hiroshi Iwata
  • Publication number: 20130286881
    Abstract: A Channel State Information (CSI) feedback method and a User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps of: determining a set of coordinated Base Stations (BSs) participating multi-BS coordination, the set of coordination BSs containing a serving BS and at least one non-serving BS; for each BS in the set of coordinated BSs: calculating a Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) for a channel between a UE and the BS based on a hypothetical BS coordination mode corresponding to the BS; and deriving a Channel Quality Index (CQI) corresponding to the calculated SINR and feeding back the derived CQI to the serving BS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ming Ding, Lei Huang, Zeng Yang, Renmao Liu