A slat 3 intended to be connected to other identical slats 3 to form a roller screen/shutter 2 comprises an outer wall 7 against which a decorative strip 6 is intended to be placed and mounting means 15,16. The mounting means comprise two longitudinal flanges 15 located level with the edges of the said outer wall 7 and at a distance from this outer wall 7 greater than the thickness of the decorati...

Two sheet steel plates (1,2) may be lap jointed by introducing a ribbon (10) of an epoxy glue on to the upper surface of the lower plate (1) before lapping and then making spot welds using a tool (4a,4b) which is able to exert peripheral pressure around a central laser beam (5) produced by a laser diode. The laser beam is also used to heat the glue in passing from spot to spot. Independent claims...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mandrel capable of electroforming an orifice plate with non-uniform thickness, and a method therefor. SOLUTION: This orifice plate has a thick boundary 32 surrounding a thin orifice area 34. The mandrel has a metal layer 4 on a substrate 6. The metal layer 4 has a first electroformed surface 18 which is electrically insulated from a second electroformed surface 1...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a building installed with light accumulating glass plates, capable of contributing to the safety in work and the prevention of crimes by performing air purification and sterilizing the inside of a building, and further at night, by lighting up the inside of the building. SOLUTION: The surface of the exterior side (A) of a glass plate (10), provided on the wall surf...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor device capable of realizing necessary functions at a cost of a minimum limit and suppressing a voltage drop in a semiconductor chip. SOLUTION: The semiconductor chip 1 is mounted on a circuit board by disposing an element forming surface 2 oppositely to the board 7 and mounting the surface 2 on the board by conductor bumps 4 dispersed in the overall...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microminiature laser assembly having a microminiature laser including reliability and accurate alignment and a concerned electro-optic component. SOLUTION: The microlaser assembly can include mechanical aligning members. For example, the microlaser assembly can include a first mechanical aligning member for aligning the microresonator and a beam guiding element, ...

The method includes a compression unit (2) for compressing the fuel, and an actuator (8) for the control valves (16,17) which control the injector needle (12). During the different injection phases or during the injection cycle, one or two of the control valves are controlled many times in a rhythmic manner by a piezoelectric actuator.;

Procédé d'injection de carburant à haute pression dans un ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a complete-flow-through-type pulse FT-NMR measuring method and a device for the same capable of observing a changing state or a state at a specific point in time in the progress of reaction as a state at a specific moment instead of average observation by NMR. SOLUTION: Samples to be measured S1 and S2 continuously supplied from a sample supplying system are suppli...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a compact and inexpensive object lens capable of recording/reproducing to/from two recording media mutually different in numerical aperture and wavelength in use with one lens without preparing a special aperture diaphragm by providing one side surface of the lens with a ring band part having a difference in height with the central part. SOLUTION: The ring band 14,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an ArF excimer laser device for exposure which is capable of long pulsation even if repeat frequency gets over 4 kHz, and a KrF excimer laser device for exposure which is capable of long pulsation even if the repeat frequency gets over 2 kHz, and a fluorine laser device. SOLUTION: This is an ArF or KrF excimer laser device for exposure or a fluorine laser device wh...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a modular, compact and widely-tunable laser system for efficiently generating a high peak ultrashort pulses. SOLUTION: System compactness is ensured by employing efficient fiber amplifiers, directly or indirectly pumped by diode lasers. Peak power handling capability of the fiber amplifiers is expanded by using optimizing pulse shapes as well as dispersively broade...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a more compact, economical fluorine module laser system which emits a beam around 157 nm having a power and a narrow band width necessary for application processing. SOLUTION: The molecular fluorine (F2) laser system comprises a seed oscillator and a power amplifier 14. The seed oscillator includes a laser tube including multiple electrodes therein which are connec...

A flow cell which can be used in the synthesis of DNA probes on an active surface of the substrate includes a base having a central window opening and a registration surface against which the substrate may be mounted. A gasket having a central opening defining an active area is mounted on the active surface of the substrate and has inlet and output extension openings which extend away from the cen...

Méthode d'estimation d'un canal descendant entre une station de base et un terminal mobile dans un système de télécommunication mobile, selon laquelle ladite station de base estime le canal montant entre ledit terminal mobile et ladite station de base, déduit des variations du canal montant celles du canal descendant et estime à un second instant ledit canal descendant à partir d'une estimation...

Method for manufacturing a bent curve element and a blank for manufacturing a bent curved metal element for an endless chain conveying track are disclosed. The bent curve element has a support flange intended to constitute a guide rail for a first side of chain elements forming part of the chain conveying track, and a web from which the first flange extends. The web is intended to provide torsiona...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To favorably emit SOX from NOX absorbent. SOLUTION: A first combustion in which a recirculation exhaust gas amount fed to a combustion chamber 5 is more than the recirculation exhaust gas amount where the soot generation rate becomes the peak and a second combustion in which the recirculation exhaust gas amount fed to a combustion chamber 5 is less than the recirculation exha...

A vaginal irrigation tube is defined by a tubular first body (4), which has a first end (6) connectable to a bottle (3) of vaginal detergent, and a second end (7) closed axially and having a number of first outlet holes (9) permitting outflow of the vaginal detergent; and by a tubular second body (13), which is positioned coaxial with and about the first body (4), has a number of second outlet hol...

Perfected cryptographic protocol making it possible to counter attacks based on the analysis of the current consumption during the execution of a DES or similar. According to the invention, a message (M) is processed by two entities (A and B) and the entity (B) subject to attack executes a chain of operations known as DES in which it is chosen to carry out a given operation (O1, O2, O3 . . . On) o...

The low current extension system (3,6) for an existing network has a low current plug (30). There is an existing network (4) with a high current entry plug (40), and a transformer (U1) with connections (101) with a low current output (63) connecting to the low current plug. A high current socket (11) connects to the high current plug.;

Système d'extension de réseau courant faible préexistant du...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a residual chlorine meter easy to calibrate and capable of providing a measurement result with good accuracy. SOLUTION: When a power supply is turned on in a state where a sensor part is in the air, an oxygen reduction voltage of -1 volt, for example, is impressed between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode (step S1), a polaro-current corresponding to the co...