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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Koichi Inoue, Yokohama Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 1/02 (2006.01); G01K 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01K 7/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a temperature estimation circuit includes a first oscillator, a second oscillator, an enable period setting unit, a first counter, a first memory, a second memory, and an operation unit. The operation unit executes a computation to calculate an operation temperature based on an operation-time count value that is outputted from the first counter during a normal operation, the first count value, and the second count value.