A degradation judgment circuit for a secondary battery used in a main
apparatus includes a state data acquisition portion, an estimation
portion, and a judgment portion. The state data acquisition portion
acquires state data that shows the state of the secondary battery during
a period from when the secondary battery is connected to the main
apparatus to when the degradation of the secondary battery is judged. The
estimation portion estimates (a) an internal resistance value at the time
of judging degradation of the secondary battery or (b) a change in
internal resistance value at the time of judging degradation of the
secondary battery with respect to an initial internal resistance value at
the time of connecting the secondary battery to the main apparatus, based
on the state data. The judgment portion judges the degradation of the
secondary battery based on the result of the estimation by the estimation
portion.