Mitsubishi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kiichiro Aga

Takeshi Yamawaki

Tokitaro Hoshijima

In apparatus for measuring the hardness of rubber of the type wherein a needle is urged against the surface of a rubber sample and the degree of penetration of the needle is measured there are provided a coil spring, a lever for causing the needle to compress the spring and a releasable latch for holding the spring in the compressed state. When the spring is released it urges the needle against the rubber sample under a prescribed speed and force. The displacement of the needle is detected by an electric transducer and its output signal is processed by an electric circuit including a peak detector and an analogue-digital converter for digitally displaying the displacement. When the spring is released a switch is operated to start the analogue-digital converter for determining the starting point of the time necessary to measure the displacement by using the time as a parameter.

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Machida, Japan

Kiichiro Aga