Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Eiji Agatsuma

Kenji Matsumoto

Osamu Saito

Hideharu Takemoto

Eight storage battery cells 11.sub.1 to 11.sub.8 making up a storage battery cell group 2 can be connected selectively to a voltage-correcting storage battery 12 through nine cell change-over switches 13.sub.1 to 13.sub.9, four polarity-inverting switches 14.sub.1 to 14.sub.4 and a current-limiting resistor 15. When the voltages of two or more of the storage battery cells 11.sub.1 to 11.sub.8 are different, the voltages of each of the storage battery cells 11.sub.1 to 11.sub.8 can be equalized by then transferring the charge from a storage battery cell high in voltage to the voltage-correcting storage battery 12 and by transferring the charge of that voltage-correcting storage battery 12 to a storage battery cell low in voltage. As a result, the voltage difference due to the performance variations among the individual storage battery cells 11.sub.1 to 11.sub.8 can be obviated thereby to increase the working voltage range of the storage battery cell group 2 as a whole.

Storage battery voltage control apparatus

An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head having a plug insertion hole, an ignition plug inserted in the plug insertion hole and having an input terminal covered with a plug cap. An ignition system includes an ignition coil assembly having a primary coil, a secondary coil, and a core extending through the primary and secondary coils, the ignition coil assembly being disposed in the plug cap. The ignition system also includes magnets mounted on respective ends of the core, the magnets being oriented so as to produce magnetic fluxes in a direction opposite to magnetic fluxes generated by the primary coil. The ignition system also has a shield member of a magnetic material surrounding the ignition coil assembly, and an insulating member of an electrically nonconductive material interposed between the shield member and an inner wall surface of the plug insertion hole. The shield member is of a substantially cylindrical shape having an electrically nonconductive insulating region in a circumferential portion thereof.

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Eiji Agatsuma