Abstract: A docking control device includes a memory storing docking information including information on a docking position of a ship and information on an azimuth in which the ship is anchored at the docking position; and a processor, including hardware, performing control related to a docking operation of the ship on a basis of the docking information stored in the memory.

Abstract: A docking control device includes a memory storing docking information including information on a docking position of a ship and information on an azimuth in which the ship is anchored at the docking position; and a processor, including hardware, performing control related to a docking operation of the ship on a basis of the docking information stored in the memory.

Abstract: An injection timing measuring method and device require a reduced amount of time for calculation. A reference position signal is generated at a predetermined crank angle within the range of 30.degree. CA to 90.degree. CA prior to TDC. Crank angle signals from a crank angle sensor are used as main measuring increments to measure a period starting from generation of the reference position signal and ending upon generation of an injection signal by a lift sensor provided in an injection valve unit, and another period starting from generation of the reference position signal and ending upon generation of a TDC signal. The injection timing relative to the TDC is provided as a difference between the two periods. Each period is precisely measured by counting crank angle signals generated within the period and by determining the remaining duration from the last-counted signal to generation of the injection or TDC signal as a fraction of the crank angle signal interval.

Abstract: In an apparatus for driving a piezoelectric element used for closing and opening a valve member, a first-step voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element to move the valve element near to a valve seat, and thereafter, a second-step voltage higher than the first-step voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element to seat the valve element securely on the valve seat.

Abstract: A fuel injection control device comprising a fuel injector driven by a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element is charged with a electrons by using an LC resonant circuit, and the electrons charged in the piezoelectric element are discharged by using an LC resonant circuit. The piezoelectric element is driven before the regular injection is begun.

Abstract: A measuring apparatus of a volume of a fluid injected from an injection valve. A fluid having a volume V is injected from an injection valve into an injection chamber containing a fluid, same kind as that of the injected fluid, and having a predetermined pressure and volume. A back pressure chamber is formed separately in the injection chamber with a parting plate having an effective under-pressure area A and a bellow sealed and connected, at one end thereof, to the parting plate. In the back pressure chamber a non-contact displacement sensor having a thermal compensation device is disposed with a clearance from the parting plate and the bellow and the back pressure chamber is filled with another fluid having same pressure as that of fluid in the injection chamber. By the injection of the fluid into the injection chamber, the parting plate moves toward the non-contact displacement sensor by a distance S which is equal to V/A. Distance S is detected by the non-contact displacement sensor.

Abstract: A measuring device for measuring a fuel injection quantity comprising fuel volume sensing means including a fuel injection chamber connected to a fuel injection valve and receiving the fuel injection quantity therefrom, a back pressure chamber which faces the fuel injection chamber, bulkhead means located between the fuel injection chamber and the back pressure chamber as an intercept therebetween and responsive to the fuel injection quantity for generating a displacement, sensing means for sensing the displacement of the bulkhead means, pressure means for holding a pressure of the back pressure chamber to be of a constant value, fuel injection quantity computing means responsive to the sensing means for determining a fuel injection quantity, discharging means including fuel discharging means for discharging the injected fuel quantity from the fuel injection chamber to its exterior, discharging quantity computing means responsive to the fuel injection quantity computing means for computing a discharged quanti