公开(公告)号：US10815426B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-27

申请号：US16326181

申请日：2017-08-10

Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Masanobu Mizusaki ,  Kiyoshi Minoura

IPC: C09K19/18 ,  H01Q3/44 ,  G02F1/1339 ,  H01Q13/22 ,  H01Q3/34 ,  G02F1/13 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  C09K19/54 ,  C09J5/00 ,  C09J181/02 ,  C09K19/56 ,  C09K19/04

Abstract: A liquid crystal cell according to the present invention includes a TFT board including a first dielectric substrate, TFTs supported by the first dielectric substrate, and patch electrodes, a slot board including a second dielectric substrate and a slot electrode having slots and supported by the second dielectric substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the TFT board and the slot board, which are positioned with the patch electrodes and the slot electrode facing each other, and a sealant disposed between the TFT board and the slot board and surrounding the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal compound containing an isothiocyanate group. The sealant includes an ene-thiol compound in which an ene compound and a thiol compound are bonded by using a radical.

公开(公告)号：US10802343B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-13

申请号：US15918093

申请日：2018-03-12

Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

Inventor： Nathan James Smith ,  Andrew Acreman ,  Hywel Hopkin ,  Kiyoshi Minoura ,  Koji Murata ,  Yuichi Kawahira ,  Akira Sakai ,  Jiyun Yu

IPC: G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/1337 ,  G02F1/1339 ,  G02F1/1333

Abstract: A liquid crystal device (LCD) is configured for minimizing unwanted internal ambient light reflections. The LCD includes a plurality of layers, the layers comprising from a viewing side: a first linear polariser; an external retarder that is made of a cyclic olefin polymer (COP) material or a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) material; a colour filter substrate; a colour filter layer; an internal reactive mesogen (RM) retarder alignment layer; an internal reactive mesogen (RM) retarder; a liquid crystal (LC) layer; and a second linear polarizer. The external retarder and the internal RM retarder are configured such that the optical properties (for example light polarization control function) of the external retarder and the internal retarder are matched to negate each other for light passing through the external retarder and the internal RM retarder. The LCD simultaneously maintains high image quality in both high and low ambient lighting conditions.

公开(公告)号：US10756409B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-25

申请号：US15767333

申请日：2016-10-06

Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Kiyoshi Minoura ,  Shigeyasu Mori ,  Makoto Nakazawa ,  Fumiki Nakano ,  Takatoshi Orui

IPC: H01P11/00 ,  H01Q13/22 ,  H01Q3/34 ,  H01Q3/44 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  H01Q21/00 ,  H01Q19/06 ,  H01Q21/06

Abstract: A scanning antenna including: a TFT substrate including a first dielectric substrate, a TFT, a gate bus line, a source bus line, and a patch electrode; a slot substrate including a second dielectric substrate and a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate; a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate; and a reflective conductive plate. The scanning antenna has a tiling structure in which a plurality of scanning antenna portions are bonded together, and each of the plurality of scanning antenna portions includes a TFT substrate portion and a slot substrate portion. The plurality of scanning portions include: a scanning antenna portion including, on a side to be bonded with an adjacent scanning antenna portion, a side which the TFT substrate portion protrudes beyond the slot substrate portion, and a scanning antenna portion including, on a side to be bonded with an adjacent scanning antenna portion, a side in which the slot substrate portion protrudes beyond the TFT substrate portion.

公开(公告)号：US10675788B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-09

申请号：US15525714

申请日：2015-11-06

Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha ,  GEOMATEC CO., LTD.

Inventor： Nobuaki Yamada ,  Kiyoshi Minoura ,  Miho Yamada ,  Hidekazu Hayashi ,  Takashi Satoh ,  Hiroyuki Sugawara

IPC: B29C33/38 ,  C25D11/12 ,  C25D11/24 ,  G02B1/118 ,  C25D11/00 ,  B29C39/26 ,  C23C28/00 ,  B29C39/14 ,  B29C33/42 ,  H04M1/02 ,  G02B1/10

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a mold, the mold having at its surface a plurality of recessed portions whose two-dimensional size is not less than 10 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a direction normal to the surface, the method including: (a) providing a mold base, (b) partially anodizing an aluminum alloy layer, thereby forming a porous alumina layer which has a plurality of minute recessed portions; and (c) after step (b), bringing the porous alumina layer into contact with a first etching solution, thereby enlarging the plurality of minute recessed portions of the porous alumina layer. Step (a) of providing the mold base includes (a1) providing a metal base, (a2) forming an aluminum alloy layer on the metal base, and (a3) forming a surface protection layer on the aluminum alloy layer. Step (a2) and step (a3) are performed in a same chamber.

公开(公告)号：US10656467B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-19

申请号：US16147386

申请日：2018-09-28

Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Masahiro Hasegawa ,  Koji Murata ,  Yuichi Kawahira ,  Takako Koide ,  Akira Sakai ,  Kiyoshi Minoura

IPC: G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  F21V8/00 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G02F1/13357

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal module being excellent in durability and manufacturing cost and exhibiting reduced variations in peak luminance that are caused depending on an azimuth angle during black display when the polar angle is large. The liquid crystal module includes: a liquid crystal panel including a first polarizer, a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, an in-cell retardation layer (λ/4 plate of nx>ny=nz), a second substrate, an out-cell retardation layer (λ/4 plate of nx>ny≥nz), and a second polarizer, from a back side toward an observation side; and a backlight. The backlight includes a first prism sheet including a first ridge line, and a second prism sheet provided on a back side from the first prism sheet and including a second ridge line orthogonal to the first ridge line. The first ridge line is parallel to an azimuth at which the liquid crystal panel has a maximized transmittance in an oblique direction during black display.

公开(公告)号：US10591767B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-17

申请号：US14811999

申请日：2015-07-29

Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

Inventor： Nathan James Smith ,  Hywel Hopkin ,  Kiyoshi Minoura ,  Akira Sakai ,  Benjamin John Broughton

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/1368 ,  G02F1/1343

Abstract: A display device in which ambient light reflections, for example, from IPS or FFS type displays are reduced by a circular polariser (e.g., linear polariser combined with external quarter waveplate) to make the light circular polarized, as it traverses the multiple reflective layers between the polariser and LC layer, and then an internal quarter waveplate converts the light back to linear polarisation before it enters the LC, so the display can operate as normal, while the circular polariser absorbs unwanted reflections of ambient light from within the display.

公开(公告)号：US10551678B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-04

申请号：US16141858

申请日：2018-09-25

Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Tsuyoshi Okazaki ,  Yuko Teraoka ,  Hiroshi Tsuchiya ,  Masanobu Mizusaki ,  Kiyoshi Minoura

IPC: G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13363 ,  G02F1/1337

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first polarizing plate; a first substrate; a first vertical alignment film; a liquid crystal layer; a second vertical alignment film; a second substrate; and a second polarizing plate, wherein a first retardation layer is disposed between the first polarizing plate and the liquid crystal layer and includes first and second areas having mutually different in-plane phase differences, a second retardation layer is disposed between the second polarizing plate and the liquid crystal layer and includes third and fourth areas having mutually different in-plane phase differences, the first and third areas overlap boundaries between at least four domains of liquid crystal molecules in a pixel region and have an in-plane phase difference in a predetermined range, and in-plane slow axes of the first and third areas and absorption axes of the first and second polarizing plates each have a predetermined azimuth.

公开(公告)号：US10375953B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-13

申请号：US15744555

申请日：2016-07-11

Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Inventor： Takahiro Nakahara ,  Miho Yamada ,  Kiyoshi Minoura ,  Ken Atsumo

IPC: A01N25/34 ,  B32B27/30 ,  B32B27/40 ,  B32B3/30 ,  C08J5/18 ,  C08L33/08 ,  C08L33/10 ,  C08L75/14 ,  A01N25/10 ,  C08G18/62 ,  C08G18/71 ,  C08L5/04 ,  C08F220/34 ,  C08L75/04

Abstract: A synthetic polymer film (34A) having a surface which has a plurality of raised portions (34Ap), (34Bp), wherein a two-dimensional size of the plurality of raised portions (34Ap), (34Bp) is in a range of more than 20 nm and less than 500 nm when viewed in a normal direction of the synthetic polymer film (34A), (34B), the surface having a microbicidal effect. The synthetic polymer film (34A), (34B) includes a urethane resin and a silicone oil, and the silicone oil has a HLB value of not less than 14 and not more than 18.

公开(公告)号：US10107574B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-23

申请号：US15502046

申请日：2015-07-10

Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

Inventor： Miho Yamada ,  Kiyoshi Minoura ,  Takahiro Nakahara ,  Kouji Kusumoto

IPC: F28F13/18 ,  F28F19/02 ,  A47J31/44 ,  C25D11/24 ,  C25D11/12 ,  B65D81/24

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a fin, the fin including a metal base and a porous anodized layer formed on the metal base. A surface of the porous anodized layer has a submicron-order uneven structure, the uneven structure including a plurality of recessed portions whose two-dimensional size viewed in a normal direction of the surface is more than 100 nm and less than 500 nm.

公开(公告)号：US10071175B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-11

申请号：US14897252

申请日：2015-03-12

Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

Inventor： Takahiro Nakahara ,  Miho Yamada ,  Kiyoshi Minoura ,  Seiji Takami

IPC: A61L2/02 ,  A61L9/16 ,  A61L2/232 ,  B01D63/14 ,  B01D69/02 ,  B01D69/04 ,  B01D71/06 ,  B01D57/02 ,  B01D29/31 ,  B01D39/16 ,  B01D46/00 ,  B29C35/08 ,  B29C59/04 ,  B01D69/06

CPC classification number: A61L2/02 ,  A61L2/022 ,  A61L2/232 ,  A61L9/16 ,  A61L2209/14 ,  B01D29/31 ,  B01D39/1692 ,  B01D46/0028 ,  B01D57/02 ,  B01D63/14 ,  B01D69/02 ,  B01D69/04 ,  B01D69/06 ,  B01D71/06 ,  B01D2279/65 ,  B01D2323/08 ,  B01D2323/42 ,  B01D2323/48 ,  B29C59/046 ,  B29C2035/0827

Abstract: A sterilization filter includes a synthetic polymer film, the synthetic polymer film having a surface which has a plurality of first raised portions, a two-dimensional size of the plurality of first raised portions being more than 20 nm and less than 500 μm when viewed in a normal direction. The synthetic polymer film is arranged in a predetermined shape. In the arrangement of the predetermined shape, an inclination of a normal to the surface varies depending on a position over the surface, and an inclination of a normal to a surface opposite to the surface varies depending on a position over the opposite surface. At least part of the surface is capable of coming into contact with a gas or liquid.