Patents by Inventor Masami AOCHI

Masami AOCHI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10489227
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory, a battery, a first processor, and a second processor. The first processor is configured to execute fault diagnosis on the battery by discharging energy stored in the battery. The second processor is configured to write data cached in the second memory into the first memory and reduce an upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when executing the fault diagnosis than the upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when not executing the fault diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Aochi, Yoshihisa Kojima, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180107536
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory, a battery, a first processor, and a second processor. The first processor is configured to execute fault diagnosis on the battery by discharging energy stored in the battery. The second processor is configured to write data cached in the second memory into the first memory and reduce an upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when executing the fault diagnosis than the upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when not executing the fault diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Aochi, Yoshihisa Kojima, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9891974
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory, a battery, a first processor, and a second processor. The first processor is configured to execute fault diagnosis on the battery by discharging energy stored in the battery. The second processor is configured to write data cached in the second memory into the first memory and reduce an upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when executing the fault diagnosis than the upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when not executing the fault diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masami Aochi, Yoshihisa Kojima, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9329994
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first memory, a second memory, a third memory, and a memory controller. The first memory includes a plurality of blocks. The second memory stores a first table having a plurality of first correspondences between a logical address and a physical address. The third memory has a higher processing speed than the second memory and stores a second table having second correspondences which are parts of the first correspondences. The memory controller determines whether data in a written block is first data to be copied, using the first table, not the second table. The memory controller copies the first data from the written block to a writable block to copy all data in a first state in the second block to the writable block. The memory controller sets all data in the written block to a second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masami Aochi, Yoshihisa Kojima
  • Publication number: 20160070329
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory, a battery, a first processor, and a second processor. The first processor is configured to execute fault diagnosis on the battery by discharging energy stored in the battery. The second processor is configured to write data cached in the second memory into the first memory and reduce an upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when executing the fault diagnosis than the upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when not executing the fault diagnosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masami AOCHI, Yoshihisa KOJIMA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150234740
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first memory, a second memory, a third memory, and a memory controller. The first memory includes a plurality of blocks. The second memory stores a first table having a plurality of first correspondences between a logical address and a physical address. The third memory has a higher processing speed than the second memory and stores a second table having second correspondences which are parts of the first correspondences. The memory controller determines whether data in a written block is first data to be copied, using the first table, not the second table. The memory controller copies the first data from the written block to a writable block to copy all data in a first state in the second block to the writable block. The memory controller sets all data in the written block to a second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masami AOCHI, Yoshihisa Kojima