Abstract: In a charging control device, a charging circuit charges a battery until an output voltage value of the battery reaches a full charge voltage value, and a processor calculates an integrated amount of expansion damage that is damage received by the battery due to expansion of the battery, the processor decreases the full charge voltage value when an expansion damage rate that is an increase rate of the integrated amount of the expansion damage in a predetermined period is equal to or greater than a threshold value, while the processor increases the full charge voltage value when the expansion damage rate is less than the threshold value.

Abstract: Engine measuring equipment for obtaining engine torque regarded as necessary for engine performance assessments for a short time period during a period when engine revolution is under a transient state is disclosed. The engine measuring equipment includes a central control unit for controlling throttle opening degrees due to revolution of the engine and load torque of the dynamometer; a detector connected to an output shaft of the engine, for detecting measurement data including at least revolution and shaft torque of the engine driven by controlling the central control unit; and a signal processing unit for measuring engine torque based on measurement data from the detector. The signal processing unit operates so as to calculate the engine torque based on time series data of the revolution and the shaft torque detected with the detector to measure engine torque from transient state data.

Abstract: Engine measuring equipment for obtaining engine torque regarded as necessary for engine performance assessments for a short time period during a period when engine revolution is under a transient state is disclosed. The engine measuring equipment includes a central control unit for controlling throttle opening degrees due to revolution of the engine and load torque of the dynamometer; a detector connected to an output shaft of the engine, for detecting measurement data including at least revolution and shaft torque of the engine driven by controlling the central control unit; and a signal processing unit for measuring engine torque based on measurement data from the detector. The signal processing unit operates so as to calculate the engine torque based on time series data of the revolution and the shaft torque detected with the detector to measure engine torque from transient state data.

Abstract: A spring chuck has a clamp member opening mechanism comprising a guide groove formed in a rotating shaft and inclined in one direction, a guide groove formed on a wall surface of a bar stopper and inclined in the other direction opposite to the one direction, a push member, a holding hole formed in the push member, and a ball held in the holding hole in the push member, one projection of which is engaged with the guide groove in the rotating shaft and the other projection of which is engaged with the guide groove in the bar stopper. When the push member is moved downward, the rotating shaft and the bar stopper are rotated in opposite directions, and the relative rotation between the rotating shaft and the bar stopper becomes a sum of rotational angles of the rotating shaft and the bar stopper. A displacement of an upper cover and the push member becomes small, so that the clamp member opening mechanism can be held in a head case.

Abstract: Disclosed is an A-D converter in which a voltage to be measured is subjected to first integration for a certain period of time; a reference voltage of the opposite polarity from the voltage to be measured is subjected to second integration until the integrated value obtained by the first integration returns to a predetermined value; measuring clock pulses are counted by a counter circuit in the period of the second integration; and the voltage to be measured is converted by the count value of the counter circuit into a digital value. In the A-D converter, there are provided a variable frequency divider and a memory having stored therein frequency dividing ratio determining signals for changing the frequency dividing ratio of the variable frequency divider.