Abstract: Provided is a test system capable of stable torque control. A test system is provided with: an excitation torque command calculation unit which calculates an excitation torque command value; a shaft torque command calculation unit which defines a value obtained by adding up a base torque command value and the excitation torque command value as a torque command value; a controller which determines a first control input value such that a shaft torque detection value becomes the shaft torque command value; a feedforward input calculation unit which defines a value obtained by removing components equal to or less than a predetermined frequency from the shaft torque command value as a second control input value; and an addition unit which defines a value obtained by adding up the first and second control input values as a torque current command value.

Abstract: The present invention provides a drive-train testing system that is capable of generating a large drive torque without increasing the size of a motor that simulates an engine. The drive-train testing system inputs a drive torque, which is generated according to a torque command which contains an alternating-current component having an excitation frequency, to an input shaft of a workpiece in order to evaluate the performance of said workpiece. This system is equipped with a first motor, a second motor, a torque meter for detecting a torque which acts upon the shaft between the workpiece and the second motor, and a resonance suppression circuit that divides the torque command into a first torque command and a second torque command so as to suppress torsional resonance on the basis of a value detected by the torque meter.

Abstract: An engine testing apparatus is provided with a memory portion for storing a control command value obtained when the rotation speed of a dynamometer is changed by the control command value in accordance with the change of the engine rotation speed in a real vehicle in a period in which the engine behavior in a real vehicle is reproduced without connecting the dynamometer to an engine under test. The engine testing apparatus is provided with an output portion that supplies the control command value stored in the memory portion to the dynamometer with reference to an engine output signal showing the start of the reproducing period.

Abstract: It is a challenge to make it possible to produce a resonance suppression effect, and perform a stable control even in a case where a spring rigidity of a shaft significantly varies. The challenge is achieved as follows. In an engine bench system in which an engine 1 to be tested and a dynamometer 2 are coupled together by a coupling shaft 3, and a shaft torque control of the dynamometer is performed, a controller 5 includes: an integral element having an integral coefficient KI for a deviation (T12r?T12) between a shaft torque command T12r and a measured shaft torque T12; a differential element having a differential coefficient KD for the measured shaft torque T12; and a proportional element KP for the measured shaft torque T12. The controller 5 obtains a torque control signal T2 by subtracting the differential element and the proportional element from the integral element.

Abstract: It is a challenge to make it possible to produce a resonance suppression effect, and perform a stable control even in a case where a spring rigidity of a shaft significantly varies. The challenge is achieved as follows. In an engine bench system in which an engine 1 to be tested and a dynamometer 2 are coupled together by a coupling shaft 3, and a shaft torque control of the dynamometer is performed, a controller 5 includes: an integral element having an integral coefficient KI for a deviation (T12r?T12) between a shaft torque command T12r and a measured shaft torque T12; a differential element having a differential coefficient KD for the measured shaft torque T12; and a proportional element KP for the measured shaft torque T12. The controller 5 obtains a torque control signal T2 by subtracting the differential element and the proportional element from the integral element.

Abstract: An electric staking die that joins a joined material to a shaping material, wherein a bump is formed in the shaping material, the bump is inlaid in a hole made in the joined material and the electric staking die presses a shaping portion that is a portion exserting from the joined material as well as a part of the bump, have a recess on a pressing surface that presses said shaping portion of said shaping material wherein an open hole of said recess is larger than said hole made in said joined material, has been offered. The volume of the recess room is more than the volume of the shaping portion of the shaping material. The manufacturing facility comprises a supporting table, the electric staking die and a control means. A method to carry out the electrical staking operation using the electric staking die is presented as sufficient strength staking.

Abstract: A signal waveform analysis method includes: determining a trend component of an object signal by applying a zero-phase filter to the object signal; determining an oscillatory component of the object signal by removing the trend component from the object signal; determining a wavelet scalogram by performing a wavelet analysis on the oscillatory component; and determining an oscillation period of the object signal with which the wavelet scalogram indicates a maximum. The signal waveform analysis method is employed to evaluate vehicle dynamic characteristics.

Abstract: An electric staking die that joins a joined material to a shaping material, wherein a bump is formed in the shaping material, the bump is inlaid in a hole made in the joined material and the electric staking die presses a shaping portion that is a portion exserting from the joined material as well as a part of the bump, have a recess on a pressing surface that presses said shaping portion of said shaping material wherein an open hole of said recess is larger than said hole made in said joined material, has been offered. The volume of the recess room is more than the volume of the shaping portion of the shaping material. The manufacturing facility comprises a supporting table, the electric staking die and a control means. A method to carry out the electrical staking operation using the electric staking die is presented as sufficient strength staking.

Abstract: A signal waveform analysis method includes: determining a trend component of an object signal by applying a zero-phase filter to the object signal; determining an oscillatory component of the object signal by removing the trend component from the object signal; determining a wavelet scalogram by performing a wavelet analysis on the oscillatory component; and determining an oscillation period of the object signal with which the wavelet scalogram indicates a maximum. The signal waveform analysis method is employed to evaluate vehicle dynamic characteristics.

Abstract: An engine testing system has a speed control system which controls at least one of an engine speed and a dynamo speed. The control system comprises a mechanical transfer function which receives an engine torque and a dynamo torque and outputs an engine speed, the axial torque and a dynamo speed, an electric transfer function which receives a command dynamo torque and outputs the dynamo torque, and a speed controller which receives one of a command engine speed and a command dynamo speed and at least one of the engine speed and the dynamo speed, and outputs the command dynamo torque. A transfer function representative of the speed controller is designed using the structured singular value synthesis method so as to be adapted to the mechanical transfer function and the electric transfer function.

Abstract: An engine testing system has a torque control system which controls at least one of an axial torque and an engine load torque. The torque control system comprises a mechanical transfer function which receives an engine torque and a current and outputs an engine speed, the axial torque and a dynamo speed, an electric transfer function which receives a command current and outputs the current, and a torque controller which receives one of a command axial torque and a command engine load torque, and at least one of the engine speed, the dynamo speed, and the axial torque and outputs the command current. A transfer function representative of the torque controller is designed using the structured singular value synthesis method so as to be adapted to the mechanical transfer function and the electric transfer function.

Abstract: An engine testing system has a torque control system which controls at least one of an axial torque and an engine load torque. The torque control system comprises a mechanical transfer function which receives an engine torque and a current and outputs an engine speed, the axial torque and a dynamo speed, an electric transfer function which receives a command current and outputs the current, and a torque controller which receives one of a command axial torque and a command engine load torque, and at least one of the engine speed, the dynamo speed, and the axial torque and outputs the command current. A transfer function representative of the torque controller is designed using the structured singular value synthesis method so as to be adapted to the mechanical transfer function and the electric transfer function.

Abstract: An engine testing system has a speed control system which controls at least one of an engine speed and a dynamo speed. The control system comprises a mechanical transfer function which receives an engine torque and a dynamo torque and outputs an engine speed, the axial torque and a dynamo speed, an electric transfer function which receives a command dynamo torque and outputs the dynamo torque, and a speed controller which receives one of a command engine speed and a command dynamo speed and at least one of the engine speed and the dynamo speed, and outputs the command dynamo torque. A transfer function representative of the speed controller is designed using the structured singular value synthesis method so as to be adapted to the mechanical transfer function and the electric transfer function.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a printing mechanism for performing a plurality of printing operations, a controller for controlling the plurality of printing operations in accordance with a predetermined control program, and a memory connected to the controller for storing printing data. The controller comprises a memory management system for randomly dividing the memory into a plurality of memory blocks, for randomly and exchangeably assigning a usage to each of the memory blocks corresponding to a predetermined user application, and for storing printing data corresponding to a predetermined user application in each of the memory blocks. The memory management system permits many types of user-defined characters and/or graphics corresponding to a predetermined user application to be stored in a comparatively limited memory capacity resulting in an overall decrease in component cost for the printing apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for etching the inside of a tungsten CVD reaction room, in which tungsten deposited on the inside of the reaction room by a film-forming gas when a tungsten CVD reaction is conducted is removed by plasma, and which has the steps of: exhausting a remainder of the film-forming gas in the reaction room; and then supplying a high-frequency electric power into the reaction room while keeping a predetermined degree of vacuum in the reaction room and leading a mixing gas of sulfur hexafluoride and oxygen into the reaction room to generate the plasma.

Abstract: A process for treating a radioactive waste, includes drying a radioactive waste containing a radioactive substance(s) and a sodium compound(s), to convert it into a dried material, heating the dried material to convert it into a molten salt, and subjecting the molten salt to electrolysis using the salt as an anolyte and .beta.-alumina as a sodium ion-permeable membrane. This process can recover metallic sodium or sodium hydroxide, each of extremely low radioactivity from a radioactive waste containing a radioactive substance(s) and a sodium compound(s), at a high purity at a high current efficiency.

Abstract: A line thermal head has a head main body portion having an array of heating elements divided into a plurality of physical blocks. A head control portion divides each physical block into a plurality of division units of heating elements depending on a capacity specification of an external power source used for driving the line thermal head. The head control portion controls a printing drive operation of the heating elements. Printing data is time division transferred in accordance with the division units of heating elements, and each of the physical blocks is driven to effect printing in accordance with the time division transferring of the printing data. The size of the division units of printing elements can be set in accordance with the capacity specification of the external power source, to further reduce the size of the power source needed.

Abstract: Jet pumps and a feed water sparger are disposed in a reactor pressure vessel incorporating a core. A first feed water pipe supplies a portion of feed water to the jet pumps as their driving water. A second feed water pipe connected to the first feed water pipe supplies the remaining portion of the feed water to the feed water sparger. A first feed water heater is disposed in the first feed water pipe downstream of a connecting point of the first feed water pipe and the second feed water pipe. An amount of extracted steam introduced into the first feed water heater is controlled on the basis of a difference in the temperature between feed water flowing through the first feed water pipe and the feed water flowing through the second feed water pipe.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for continuously measuring the hydrogen concentration in argon gas containing hydrogen and other impurities. The argon gas containing impurities is continuously passed through a high temperature metal getter to thereby remove impurities other than hydrogen from the argon gas and produce a two-component mixture of gases consisting of argon and hydrogen. The two-component gas is then continuously introduced to a thermal conductivity detector and the hydrogen concentration can be determined from the detected thermal conductivity.