Sony Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Takeshi Ishimoto

Daisuke Yoshioka

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Takumi Okaue

Hiroshi Kuno

Hideaki Okubo

Jun Tashiro

Koji Sakui

Toshiyuki Nishihara

Tatsuya Suzuki

Jun Sumino

Masahide Nakamura

Takuya Higuchi

Hiroshi Kawanobe

Katsushi Uchiyama

Kazuto Kamimura

Disclosed herein is a non-volatile memory, including: a memory cell array to be accessed with data including a data portion and a specific field as a unit of access; a buffer configured to hold the access-unit data read from the memory cell array or the access-unit data to be written to the memory cell array; and a control circuit configured to control access to the memory cell array in accordance with a specified address, a command, and data in the specific field of the access-unit data held in the buffer.

Non-volatile memory, controller controlling next access

A storage device includes: an input/output section connected to an electronic apparatus; a memory for storing data; a control section accessing the memory based on an instruction input from the electronic apparatus to the input/output section; and a communication section communicating with an external apparatus separate from the electronic apparatus, wherein the control section accesses a range in the memory specified by the electronic apparatus based on the instruction from the electronic apparatus and causes data associated with the accessed range to be transmitted and received between the communication section and the external apparatus.

Storage device having capability to transmit stored data to an external apparatus and receive data for storage from the external apparatus based on an instruction from a host apparatus, and data communication system using the same

A braking force control device for a vehicle comprises a controller that includes an automatic-brake selective-actuation section configured to compare a manual braking force created by a manual brake device with a required braking force for an automatic brake device and to selectively actuate the automatic brake device when the required braking force exceeds the manual braking force; a braking-force-difference time-rate-of-change calculation section configured to calculate a braking-force-difference time-rate-of-change corresponding to a rate of change per unit time in a difference, which difference is obtained by subtracting the required braking force from the manual braking force; and a required braking force control section configured to correct the required braking force to reduce the required braking force when selectively actuating the automatic brake device and to correct a reducing amount of the required braking force to decrease the reducing amount of the required braking force as the braking-force-difference time-rate-of-change increases.

Braking force control device for vehicles that corrects a reducing amount of required braking force

A storage device, enabling elimination of redundant write operations of non-selected data and enabling optimization of arrangement of pages to a state efficient for rewriting, having two flash memories which can be accessed in parallel, a page register for acquiring data in parallel from the flash memories and temporarily storing the same, and a control circuit having a built-in RAM in which is constructed an address conversion table for managing correspondence between logical addresses and physical addresses in units of data stored in parallel in the page register, wherein data is rewritten by updating of the address conversion table and additional writing into a storage medium.

Storage device

A peripheral device includes: an input/output block connected to a device subject to connection; a communication block configured to communicate with a device subject to communication; and a conversion block configured, if the device subject to communication is a storage device, to convert a storage access command output by the device subject to connection to the input/output block into a communication command that is transferred between the communication block and the device subject to communication, wherein the communication block transmits the communication command generated by the conversion block to the device subject to communication and transfers, with the device subject to communication, one of data that is written by the device subject to connection to the device subject to communication and data that is read from the device subject to communication.

Peripheral device and device connection system

A vehicle turning motion control apparatus includes a turning condition sensing section to sense a turning condition of the vehicle; and a vehicle deceleration control section to initiate a deceleration control to decelerate the vehicle when the turning condition exceeds a deceleration start threshold. The control apparatus further includes a running state sensing section configured to sense a running state of the vehicle, and a threshold setting section configured to set the deceleration start threshold in accordance with the running condition.

Vehicle turning motion control

A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and method of managing the same are provided. The nonvolatile semiconductor storage device includes a nonvolatile memory configured to be electrically rewritable; and a controller configured to control an access area of the nonvolatile memory on the basis of information associated with management of the nonvolatile memory. The controller partitions an area of the nonvolatile memory for management and numbers management information for managing data for each area and a map of the management information in an integrated manner to write the numbered management information and map to the nonvolatile memory, thereby determining whether the management information and the map are normal on the basis of the numbering.

Nonvolatile semiconductor storage device and method of managing the same

A nonvolatile semiconductor memory apparatus is disclosed which includes: a nonvolatile memory configured to be electrically rewritable; and a controller configured to control access to the nonvolatile memory based on information about access to the nonvolatile memory; wherein the controller selects one of a plurality of trade-offs between access reliability and performance and carries out access control in accordance with the selected trade-off.

Nonvolatile semiconductor memory apparatus and memory system

In turning control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, the vehicle through at least one of a deceleration action section and a brake mechanism is decelerated when a turning state of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition, an accelerator manipulated variable by a vehicle driver is detected, and the deceleration through the brake mechanism is limited and the deceleration through the deceleration action section is carried out, when the detected accelerator manipulated variable exceeds a predetermined value (&#x3b1;).

Vehicular turning control apparatus and method

A nonvolatile memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to manage the nonvolatile memory based on management information. The management information of the controller includes a basic table for collectively managing a plurality of blocks and differential information between the blocks. The controller is operable to manage the blocks collectively with the basic table and manage different portions of the blocks within the collected range using the differential information.

Nonvolatile memory system and management method for nonvolatile memory

A memory system including a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device includes: a nonvolatile memory unit that includes a first data area in which data is frequently rewritten and a second data area in which data is hardly rewritten; and a control unit. The control unit sequentially selects logical block addresses in the second data area in which data is hardly rewritten and updates physical block addresses at new rewriting destinations in the first data area in which data is frequently rewritten to physical block addresses corresponding to the logical block addresses selected.

Nonvolatile memory with active and passive wear leveling

A vehicle brake control apparatus controls an actual braking force of a vehicle to achieve a command braking force in accordance with a driver's demand braking force corresponding to a driver's braking operation, and a target braking force. A controller is configured to calculate a time rate of change of the target braking force; to calculate a time rate of change of the demand braking force; and to calculate the command braking force in the control mode in accordance with the time rate of change of the demand braking force and the time rate of change of the target braking force.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takeshi Ishimoto