Patents by Inventor Manabu Inoue

Manabu Inoue 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).

  • Semiconductor memory card, semiconductor memory control apparatus, and semiconductor memory control method
    Patent number: 7654466
    Abstract: A host information memory is provided in a semiconductor memory card and a data write start address and a data size supplied by an access unit are stored. A free physical area generation section determines whether or not to perform erasing of an invalid block of a nonvolatile memory when writing of data based on the data write start address and data size, and determines the number of blocks to be erased. When erasing, writing of data and erasing of invalid blocks are simultaneously performed with respect to different memory chips. Erase process of data, herewith, can be optimized and high speed access from the access unit to a semiconductor memory card can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuji Maeda, Shinji Inoue, Yoshiho Gotoh, Jun Ohara, Masahiro Nakanishi, Shoichi Tsujita, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Koichi Horiuchi, Manabu Inoue
  • SHOOTING TOY USED IN GAME FOR TWO OR MORE PLAYERS
    Publication number: 20100016085
    Abstract: A shooting toy used in a game for two or more players capable of allowing an opponent player to reliably receive an infrared ray signal even in an open air, e.g., under a scorching sun. The intensity of light included in a particular wavelength region around a toy is detected by an optical sensor 27. If the detected amount of light included in the particular wavelength region is large, an infrared ray signal generating section 31 increases the intensity of the infrared ray signal to be generated, whereas if the detected amount of light included in the particular wavelength region is small, the infrared signal generating section 31 decreases the intensity of the infrared ray signal to be generated. This prevents the infrared ray signal reception capability from being affected by the light included in the particular wavelength region around the toy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manabu Inoue
  • Nonvolatile memory device employing a write completion flag table
    Patent number: 7610435
    Abstract: A writing completion flag table that stores a writing completion flag corresponding to a predetermined storage, such as a cluster or a physical block, is stored in a non-volatile control memory. When completion of data writing into a predetermined storage is detected, a write completion flag is written in the corresponding address of the storage on the write completion flag table. Thus, it is possible to recognize that data has been written normally. Even when the flag indicating completion of writing into a page of the writing unit of the main storage memory cannot be written, it is possible to improve the writing reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Manabu Inoue
  • Bidirectional switch and method for driving the same
    Patent number: 7595680
    Abstract: A bidirectional switch includes a field-effect transistor having a first ohmic electrode, a second ohmic electrode and a gate electrode, and a control circuit for controlling between a conduction state and a cut-off state by applying a bias voltage to the gate electrode. The control circuit applies the bias voltage from the first ohmic electrode as a reference when a potential of the second ohmic electrode is higher than the potential of the first ohmic electrode, and applies the bias voltage from the second ohmic electrode as a reference when the potential of the second electrode is lower than the potential of the first ohmic electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuo Morita, Manabu Yanagihara, Hidetoshi Ishida, Yasuhiro Uemoto, Manabu Inoue
  • PDP DRIVING APPARATUS AND PLASMA DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20090237000
    Abstract: A PDP driving apparatus drives a plasma display panel (PDP) having sustain electrodes, scan electrodes, and address electrodes. The PDP driving apparatus includes a high side switch element and a low side switch element, those electrically coupled in series. A specific pulse voltage is applied from a junction point of the high side switch element and the low side switch element to at least sustain electrodes, scan electrodes, or address electrodes of the plasma display panel. At least one of the high side switch element and the low side switch element is a bidirectional switch element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manabu Inoue
  • MEMORY CONTROLLER, NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE, AND NONVOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20090210612
    Abstract: In rewriting processing of logical sectors, data of the transferred logical sectors are temporarily stored in a memory buffer. When the buffer memory has been full filled with data, the data is written into a flash memory. In rewriting processing for the flash memory including a writing unit (page) having a capacity larger than a minimum writing unit (sector) from outside, the number of executions of the evacuation processing can be reduced and the fast data rewriting can be performed. Thus, it is possible to rationalize the evacuation processing for old data caused in the rewriting in units of sectors and to improve the data rewriting speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Masayuki Toyama, Yutaka Nakamura, Yasushi Gohou, Masanori Matsuura, Manabu Inoue, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Shunichi Iwanari, Shinichi Tokumitsu
  • PROCESSING SOLUTION FOR FORMING HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM FREE, BLACK CONVERSION FILM ON ZINC OR ZINC ALLOY PLATING LAYERS, AND METHOD FOR FORMING HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM FREE, BLACK CONVERSION FILM ON ZINC OR ZINC ALLOY PLATING LAYERS
    Publication number: 20090178734
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a processing solution used for forming a hexavalent chromium free, black conversion film, which is applied onto the surface of zinc or zinc alloy plating layers, and which has corrosion resistance identical to or higher than that achieved by the conventional hexavalent chromium-containing conversion film. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a processing solution for forming a hexavalent chromium free, black conversion film on zinc or zinc alloy plating layers, the processing solution comprising: nitrate ions and trivalent chromium in a mole ratio (NO3?/Cr3+) of less than 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu INOUE, Ryo Nakajima, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Toyoji Watanabe, Fumie Watanabe, Yutaka Watanabe, Takeshi Watanabe, Kimitaka Watanabe
  • Illumination and sleep evaluation system
    Publication number: 20090134819
    Abstract: An illumination system (1) includes a lighting device (3); a manipulation device (6) for a user to manipulate when the user intends to fall asleep; a control unit (2) for detecting a start time of measuring a sleep latency based on a manipulation time at which the manipulation device is manipulated, the sleep latency being a time period from a time at which the user intends to fall asleep to a time at which the user falls asleep; and a memory unit (14) for storing a reference time obtained based on the start time of measuring the sleep latency detected by the control unit. The control unit includes a lighting device control (15) subunit performing an illumination control to reduce the user's melatonin suppression from a preset timing before the reference time stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Noguchi, Manabu Inoue, Naohiro Toda
  • WAKE-UP APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20090116234
    Abstract: In a wake-up apparatus for waking up a sleeper by light stimulus, it wakes the sleeper comfortably without feeling glare. A lighting device has a first lighting unit at a position that a light emitting face cannot be observed directly by the sleeper, and a second lighting unit at a position that a light emitting face can be observed directly by the sleeper. A control device activates the lighting device a predetermined time before a preset wake-up time so as to vary illuminance of light emitted from the lighting device in an order of low illuminance, middle illuminance and high illuminance, to light only the first lighting unit in a low illuminance condition and a middle illuminance condition, and to light both of the first lighting unit and the second lighting unit in a high illuminance condition, and quickly varies from the middle illuminance condition to the high illuminance condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Masakazu Yamamoto
  • MEMORY CONTROLLER, NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE, NONVOLATILE MEMORY SYSTEM, AND DATA WRITING METHOD
    Publication number: 20090100290
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device comprises a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory includes the same memory cells striding over a plurality of pages. A page information instruction part has the page structure information of the nonvolatile memory. According to this information, a related page identification part identifies a page (related page) in which the data may change. The relation data stored in the related page are temporarily stored into a save memory before an error occurs, and if an error exists, these relation data are used to repair the data that have changed. By this method, in a memory device using a nonvolatile memory including the same memory cells striding over a plurality of pages, even if an error occurs during data writing, the error is repaired and the reliability can be ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Masayuki Toyama, Manabu Inoue, Hirofumi Nakagaki
  • COPPER PLATING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A GRAVURE CYLINDER
    Publication number: 20090095633
    Abstract: The present invention provides a copper plating method and apparatus for a gravure cylinder in which copper plating with more uniform thickness can be provided over a full length of a gravure cylinder without causing defects such as rashes and pits irrespective of a size of the gravure cylinder, concentration of a copper plating solution can be managed automatically, a consumption amount of an additive is reduced to make it possible to perform a plating treatment within a short period of time, a power supply cost is reduced, and handling is easy with excellent visibility. A gravure cylinder in a hollow cylindrical shape is held at both ends in a longitudinal direction. The gravure cylinder is accommodated in a plating bath filled with a copper plating solution. The gravure cylinder is energized so that the gravure cylinder functions as a cathode while being rotated at a predetermined speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: THINK LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Noriko Matsumoto
  • TREATMENT SOLUTION FOR FORMING OF BLACK TRIVALENT CHROMIUM CHEMICAL COATING ON ZINC OR ZINC ALLOY AND METHOD OF FORMING BLACK TRIVALENT CHROMIUM CHEMICAL COATING ON ZINC OR ZINC ALLOY
    Publication number: 20090050238
    Abstract: A treatment solution that is used to form a chemical coating of trivalent chromium free of hexavalent chromium having uniform black appearance and good corrosion resistance on the surface of zinc or zinc alloy and that attains prolongation of treatment bath lifetime; and a method of forming a black trivalent chromium chemical coating on the surface of zinc or zinc alloy. There is provided a treatment solution for forming of a black trivalent chromium chemical coating on zinc or zinc alloy, comprising trivalent chromium ions, a chelating agent capable of forming a water-soluble complex with trivalent chromium, zinc ions, a sulfur compound and phosphite ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Satoshi Yuasa
  • MEMORY CONTROLLER, NONVOLATILE STORAGE DEVICE, NONVOLATILE STORAGE SYSTEM, AND DATA WRITING METHOD
    Publication number: 20090055576
    Abstract: A nonvolatile storage device is provided with a nonvolatile main storage memory (114) whose erase size is larger than a cluster size, and a buffer (106), i.e. a nonvolatile auxiliary storage memory. At the time of writing data in the memory, the data is temporarily stored in the buffer (106), then, a plurality of data in the buffer (106) are collectively taken out to be stored in the main storage memory (114). Data in an original block is saved in a write block in the main storage memory. Thus, the data can be written in the main storage memory (114) at a high speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Yutaka Nakamura, Masayuki Toyama, Yasushi Goho, Syunichi Iwanari, Yoshihisa Kato, Manabu Inoue
  • NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE, METHOD OF WRITING DATA,AND METHOD OF READING OUT DATA
    Publication number: 20090049229
    Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device (101) includes a plurality of physical blocks, each of which is provide with a nonvolatile memory (103), a logic/physical address conversion table, a temporary block and a temporary table. The nonvolatile memory (103) includes a plurality of pages which are predetermined writing units, respectively. The logical-physical address conversion table (106) stores correspondence information between logic addresses and physical addresses of data to be stored in the physical blocks. The temporary block is a physical block to store data that are smaller in size than those of the page. The temporary table (107) stores correspondence information between logic addresses and physical addresses with respect to data to be stored in the temporary block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Honda, Hirokazu So, Shigekazu Kogita, Masayuki Toyama, Seiji Nakamura, Masato Suto, Manabu Inoue
  • AQUEOUS TREATING SOLUTION FOR FORMING BLACK TRIVALENT-CHROMIUM CHEMICAL CONVERSION COATING ON ZINC OR ZINC ALLOY AND METHOD OF FORMING BLACK TRIVALENT-CHROMIUM CHEMICAL CONVERSION COATING
    Publication number: 20090020185
    Abstract: A treating solution for forming on a surface of either zinc or a zinc alloy a hexavalent-chromium-free trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating which has an even black appearance and satisfactory corrosion resistance. The treating solution has a long treating-bath life. Also provided is a method of forming a black trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating. The aqueous treating solution, which is for forming a black trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating on zinc or a zinc alloy, contains trivalent chromium ions, a phosphoric ester and/or phosphorous ester, and a sulfur compound. The method is a method of chemically treating zinc or a zinc alloy which comprises using the aqueous treating solution to chemically treat the zinc or zinc alloy at a solution temperature of 10-60° C., whereby a black trivalent-chromium chemical conversion coating is formed on the zinc or zinc alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Manabu Inoue
  • STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20090019194
    Abstract: When a control unit (160) in a storage device (100) detects that a write end command or a data amount to be written has been transmitted from a host device (110), the control unit (160) saves control information required for writing data in a control information save memory (142). The control unit (160) also saves data which has not been written in storage medium into a buffer save memory (152) from a data buffer (151) and releases the busy state for the host device (110). The control unit (160) writes the saved data into a storage medium (120). Even if the power is turned OFF before completion of write, write can be performed into the storage medium (120) by using the saved data when the power is turned ON next time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Toyama, Masahiro Nakanishi, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Manabu Inoue
  • Nonvolatile memory system, nonvolatile memory device, memory controller, access device, and method for controlling nonvolatile memory device
    Patent number: 7475185
    Abstract: When a file system control part 155A writes file data into a main memory 142, a file can be easily written continuously and the number of file copy can be decreased at updating a directory entry by writing the file data and a directory entry into different allocation units. In this manner, when using a nonvolatile memory in which physical block size as an erase unit is larger than cluster size, the write performance can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Shouichi Tsujita, Takuji Maeda, Shinji Inoue, Manabu Inoue, Masayuki Toyama, Keisuke Sakai
  • Plasma display panel driver and plasma display
    Patent number: 7471264
    Abstract: A reset pulse generating section applies the total of voltages of a positive voltage source and two constant-voltage sources from a high side ramp wave generating section to a high side scan switching device as the upper limit of a reset voltage pulse, and applies the ground potential from a low side ramp wave generating section to a low side scan switching device as the lower limit of the reset voltage pulse. A sustaining pulse generating section applies the upper and lower limits of a sustaining voltage pulse through a common sustaining pulse transmission path to the low side scan switching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Satoshi Ikeda, Yasuhiro Arai, Toshikazu Nagaki, Hideki Nakata, Jumpei Hashiguchi, Fumito Kusama
  • Memory Module, Memory Controller, Nonvolatile Storage, Nonvolatile Storage System, and Memory Read/Write Method
    Publication number: 20080307152
    Abstract: In a storage having a nonvolatile RAM of destructive read type, the number of restorations attributed to data read from the nonvolatile RAM is decreased, and the overall life of the storage is prolonged. In a storage having a nonvolatile RAM of destructive read type and a volatile RAM and holding the same data in the nonvolatile and volatile RAMs, data is read out of the volatile RAM in reading and data is written in both volatile and nonvolatile RAMs in writing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Manabu Inoue, Masayuki Toyama, Kunihiro Maki
  • Memory Controller, Nonvolatile Storage, Nonvolatile Storage System, and Memory Control Method
    Publication number: 20080250188
    Abstract: A physical area management table (105) and a pointer table (106) are stored in a nonvolatile auxiliary storage memory (107). When a logical-physical conversion table (108) is updated (restored) in a main storage memory (140), the restored area is determined in a re-arrangement way by the pointer table to avoid rewrite concentration on the main storage memory (140). Immediately after data is written in the main storage memory (140), the state of the physical block on the physical area management table (105) is updated. Consequently, even if power interruption occurs, it is possible to reliably judge if the data is valid or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nakanishi, Tomoaki Izumi, Tetsushi Kasahara, Kazuaki Tamura, Kiminori Matsuno, Manabu Inoue, Masayuki Toyama, Kunihiro Maki