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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 1996

Filed:

Apr. 07, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Katsuhiko Manabe, Machida, JP;

Hiroki Fukuoka, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518533 ; 36518511 ; 365200 ; 365 52 ; 36523003 ;
Abstract

A data writing operation of a memory card is performed from a first EEPROM chip. Writing commands are given every time data in a memory block unit are completely transferred. Each of four EEPROM chips is performing the writing operation when data of the four EEPROM chips are completely written to the memory card. A systematic side waits for the next data transfer in view of an RDY/BSY signal of the memory card. The data writing operation from the systematic side to each of the four EEPROM chips is sequentially changed by monitoring an RDY/BSY1 signal of the first EEPROM chip. In this construction of the memory card, data can be preferably written and read from the memory card at a high speed.


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