Patents by Inventor Koichi Nagai

Koichi Nagai 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: 10040025
    Abstract: To provide a solvent separator for purifying an exhaust atmosphere efficiently in solvent removal from the exhaust atmosphere containing a vaporized solvent by the heating exhausted from an exhaust generator, so that the vaporized solvent does not slip through an electrode for collecting the solvent and is positively led to the electrode. An electrode is arranged in a first wall surface of a casing of a solvent separation unit having a circular cylindrical shape, thereby inducing a vaporized solvent in an exhaust atmosphere to the electrode by a fan and discharging the solvent to the outside of the separator with part of the peripheral exhaust atmosphere while attracting the solvent to the electrode by an electric field of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ujino, Terutsugu Segawa, Koichi Nagai
  • Patent number: 9971522
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller reads write data associated with a first write command from a host memory by a unit of a first size in response to the first write command from a host. The host memory is included in the host. In a case where the size of first data not yet read from the host memory out of the write data is less than a second size, in response to a second write command, the controller reads second data of the second size and writes the read second data into the nonvolatile memory. The second data includes the first data and third data included in write data associated with the second write command. After writing the second data into the nonvolatile memory, the controller transmits a notice for the first write command to the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukimasa Miyamoto, Koichi Nagai
  • Patent number: 9934825
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes, for example, a circuit board, a plurality of elements, a plurality of controllers, and a first signal line. The elements are provided on the circuit board. The elements each include a memory. The controllers each are configured to control read of data from the memory. The controllers each are configured to control write of data into the memory. A control signal is transmitted through the first signal line. The first signal line is used in common by the controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Matsumoto, Katsuya Murakami, Koichi Nagai
  • Patent number: 9911502
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data storage device includes a controller driven by a first power supply voltage, a nonvolatile memory controlled by the controller and driven by a second power supply voltage, and a switch element determining whether the second power supply voltage is applied to the nonvolatile memory. The controller is configured to turn off the switch element in a first mode and turn on the switch element in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Nagai, Katsuya Murakami, Shinji Honjo, Satoru Fukuchi, Akira Tanimoto, Isao Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20180011649
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, when a storage status of a first storage unit is recognized as a protected state, a control unit writes data to a second storage unit. When a read target address is recorded in a data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the second storage unit. When the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the first storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke HASHIMOTO, Koichi NAGAI, Takanori WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170348637
    Abstract: Provided is a solvent separation method and a solvent separation apparatus in which a vaporized solvent is collected at one internal side of a solvent separation unit by attracting the vaporized solvent based on electric field, while the vaporized solvent is prevented from coming into contact with electrodes, and the collected solvent is discharged from the solvent separation unit. Different electric fields are alternately applied to a pair of first electrodes and a pair of second electrodes present at predetermined locations inside a tetragonal tubular solvent separation unit to attract a vaporized solvent toward the second electrodes. Thus, the vaporized solvent is collected in a space between the second electrodes inside the solvent separation unit, and the collected solvent is discharged from the solvent separation unit, together with a portion of the exhaust atmosphere present around the collected solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: TOMOHIRO UJINO, KOICHI NAGAI, NAOFUMI HINO
  • Publication number: 20170341085
    Abstract: Provided is a solvent separation method and a solvent separation apparatus that make it possible to efficiently retrieve the thermal energy possessed by an exhaust atmosphere released in a solvent-removal step to suppress reductions in a temperature of the exhaust atmosphere. In the solvent separation method and the solvent separation apparatus, a vaporized solvent is removed from a gas while heat-exchange between the gas within a condensation part and the gas within a dust-collection part is conducted by using a heat exchange part that is placed between the condensation part that introduces the gas into a first direction and the dust-collection part that introduce the gas into a second direction opposite to the first direction the gas discharged from a downstream side of the condensation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: KOICHI NAGAI, MASANORI MINAMIO, TOSHIRO KANDA, MASAHIRO KAWATA, YASUYUKI TAKANO
  • Patent number: 9811277
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, when a storage status of a first storage unit is recognized as a protected state, a control unit writes data to a second storage unit. When a read target address is recorded in a data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the second storage unit. When the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the first storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hashimoto, Koichi Nagai, Takanori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9785384
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a controller comprises a write control unit that performs writing in a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and an area management unit that causes the write control unit to perform write processing until a spare area not storing valid data is not present in the nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and transmits an error to a host when the spare area is not present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koichi Nagai
  • Publication number: 20170278576
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data storage device includes a controller driven by a first power supply voltage, a nonvolatile memory controlled by the controller and driven by a second power supply voltage, and a switch element determining whether the second power supply voltage is applied to the nonvolatile memory. The controller is configured to turn off the switch element in a first mode and turn on the switch element in a second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi NAGAI, Katsuya MURAKAMI, Shinji HONJO, Satoru FUKUCHI, Akira TANIMOTO, lsao OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170239670
    Abstract: Provided are a solvent separation method, a solvent separation apparatus, and a solvent separation system that make it possible to easily collect a solvent removed from an exhaust atmosphere and that sake it possible to easily carry out maintenance of exhaust gas pathways. An impeller placed in a storage space of a casing is rotated to introduce a gas including a volatilized solvent from an inlet of the casing into the storage space, and the volatilized solvent is cooled and devolatilized by a collection face that has been cooled so as to have a surface temperature lower than the temperature of the gas, to thereby separate the solvent from the gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: KOICHI NAGAI, MASANORI MINAMIO, TOSHIRO KANDA, YASUYUKI TAKANO, MASAHIRO KAWATA
  • Patent number: 9731299
    Abstract: An electrode is arranged on one wall surface of a flow path of an exhaust atmosphere in a solvent separating apparatus, an electric field is applied to vaporized solvent in the exhaust atmosphere so as to concentrate only the solvent in the exhaust atmosphere in the direction toward the electric field, and the solvent is discharged to the outside of the solvent separating apparatus together with a portion of the exhaust atmosphere in the periphery of the solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Terutsugu Segawa, Koichi Nagai, Naofumi Hino
  • Patent number: 9704593
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data storage device includes a controller driven by a first power supply voltage, a nonvolatile memory controlled by the controller and driven by a second power supply voltage, and a switch element determining whether the second power supply voltage is applied to the nonvolatile memory. The controller is configured to turn off the switch element in a first mode and turn on the switch element in a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koichi Nagai, Katsuya Murakami, Shinji Honjo, Satoru Fukuchi, Akira Tanimoto, Isao Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20170160968
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, when a storage status of a first storage unit is recognized as a protected state, a control unit writes data to a second storage unit. When a read target address is recorded in a data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the second storage unit. When the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the first storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: DAISUKE HASHIMOTO, Koichi NAGAI, Takanori WATANABE
  • Patent number: 9619170
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, when a storage status of a first storage unit is recognized as a protected state, a control unit writes data to a second storage unit. When a read target address is recorded in a data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the second storage unit. When the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the first storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Daisuke Hashimoto, Koichi Nagai, Takanori Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160310891
    Abstract: To provide a solvent separator for purifying an exhaust atmosphere efficiently in solvent removal from the exhaust atmosphere containing a vaporized solvent by the heating exhausted from an exhaust generator, so that the vaporized solvent does not slip through an electrode for collecting the solvent and is positively led to the electrode. An electrode is arranged in a first wall surface of a casing of a solvent separation unit having a circular cylindrical shape, thereby inducing a vaporized solvent in an exhaust atmosphere to the electrode by a fan and discharging the solvent to the outside of the separator with part of the peripheral exhaust atmosphere while attracting the solvent to the electrode by an electric field of the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: TOMOHIRO UJINO, TERUTSUGU SEGAWA, KOICHI NAGAI
  • Patent number: 9396137
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes, when power is supplied to a storage unit, counting of an elapsed time is started. If a command is input from a host device, and the elapsed time from input of a previous command to input of a current command is calculated based on time information clocked by the host device and on a counter value counted until the corresponding command is input. Matching of the time information is determined based on a temporal relation between the adding result of adding the calculated elapsed time to the time information included in the previous command and the time information included in the current command. When the mismatching is determined, data in the storage unit is invalidated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Nagai, Mitsunori Tadokoro, Teruji Yamakawa, Kazuo Nakashima
  • Publication number: 20160172016
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes, for example, a circuit board, a plurality of elements, a plurality of controllers, and a first signal line. The elements are provided on the circuit board. The elements each include a memory. The controllers each are configured to control read of data from the memory. The controllers each are configured to control write of data into the memory. A control signal is transmitted through the first signal line. The first signal line is used in common by the controllers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Manabu MATSUMOTO, Katsuya MURAKAMI, Koichi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20160154745
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a nonvolatile semiconductor memory; and a controller which controls the semiconductor memory. The controller includes: a first memory which stores a first key; a second memory which stores a second key; a first generator which generates a third key based on a random number; a second generator which generates a fourth key based on the first key and the third key; and an encryptor which encrypts the second key with the third key. The third key and the encrypted second key are stored in a host device enabled to access the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi NAGAI, Yuji Kashiwagi
  • Patent number: 9354818
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a data storing method includes saving data stored in a memory device to a host device and verifying validity or accuracy of the data saved in the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yaotung Kuo, Koichi Nagai, Shoji Sawamura, Nobuhiro Kondo