Circuit intégré monolithique (1) incorporant un composant inductif (2), comprenant: - une couche de substrat semi-conducteur (2); - une couche de passivation (4) recouvrant la couche de substrat (2); - des plots de contact métalliques (5) connectés au substrat (2) et traversant la couche de passivation (4) pour affleurer sur la face supérieure (6) de la couche de passivation (4); caractérisé en ce...

A trim piece for attachment to a casket to provide both decoration and concealment of mounting hardware. The trim piece includes a frame member which is adapted to be fixedly secured to a portion of the casket. The frame member has a lip which defines an opening in the frame member. A cover member with at least two attachment tabs disposed on opposite edges of the cover member engages the lip of t...

A magnetoresistive element, comprising a crystal structure with a grain boundary formed at a misorientation angle, and a method of producing a crystal structure having colossal magnetoresistance, wherein a grain boundary is formed at a misorientation angle. The crystal structure comprises a substrate layer (12) and a CMR film layer (10) epitaxially grown thereon, the CMR film layer (10) having a p...

A magnetoresistive element, comprising a crystal structure with a grain boundary formed at a misorientation angle, and a method of producing a crystal structure having colossal magnetoresistance, wherein a grain boundary is formed at a misorientation angle. The crystal structure comprises a substrate layer (12) and a CMR film layer (10) epitaxially grown thereon, the CMR film layer (10) having a p...

A modular blind transport system for a window blind application. The complete system may be assembled form a relatively small number of individual modules to obtain working systems for a very wide range of applications, including especially a category of counterbalanced blinds wherein a relatively small external input force may be used to raise or lower the blind, and/or to open or close the blind...

A method is provided for transmitting multimedia-related information between a first device and a second device coupled to a packet-switched data transmission network, A first protocol stack (201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207) is defined for the first device and a second protocol stack (251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256) is defined for the second device. The protocol stacks consist of layers and serve ...

A pressure display assembly indicates the suction pressure on the outlet face of an air filter incorporated in an internal combustion engine. The assembly consists of a housing (1) enclosing a movable piston (16) which separates the low pressure zone from the ambient pressure. The novelty is that the piston moves a spring by snap-fitting action on an electrical contact following a defined redn. in...

L'invention concerne un dispositif de traitement de surface par impacts, comportant une surface vibrante (7) et au moins un projectile (11) apte à être projeté en direction de la surface à traiter par ladite surface vibrante. Il comporte des moyens de retenue (9) pour maintenir chaque projectile prisonnier du dispositif.; Device includes at least one 0.1-5 g projectile (11) able to be projected in...

A pneumatic tire having a sidewall rubber insert axially inward of at least one carcass ply. Such insert may, for example, be an apex extending radially outward from the bead core region of the tire into the tire sidewall. Alternatively, it may be positioned higher in the sidewall portion of the tire and away from the bead core. Such insert is a rubber composition containing a dispersion of an ult...

An optimized optoelectrical network element for optical transport networks. The telecommunication network element according to the present inventioncomprises WDM or DWDM terminals, network protection means and means providing wavelength interchange and is characterized in that said network protection means include at least one functional block, and said means providing wavelength interchange compr...

The radio reception apparatus of the present invention obtains a despread signal of the reception signal with a high spreading factor by carrying out a correlation calculation using codes with a relatively low spreading factor and then carrying out multiplications/additions, thereby eliminating the need for a large-scale correlation circuit (processing circuit) even when using a relatively high sp...

Direct firing a turbine with syngas or biogas has received a lot of attention since the oil shortages of the 1970's. Turbines are designed to run on high BTU fuels such as natural gas. Syngas is a low BTU fuel and previous attempts at using this energy for power generation on a small scale has been difficult. By designing a specialized combustion chamber for this low BTU gas ("syngas combustor"), ...

There is provided a method and apparatus for the ordered release of connections from a network entity in a signalling communications network upon the detection of the failure of a signalling link or a port corresponding to such connections. A priority indicator is associated with each of the connections. Each priority indicator is selected from a priority hierarchy having several priority levels w...

The contact surfaces of the wooden pieces are provided with a friction-increasing agent. An Independent claim is also included for a method of making the beam.

The reel flanges are formed by two discs (1, 2) joined together by equidistantly-spaced tabs (3, 4) punched out of the discs around the reel rotation axis to point inwards towards the opposite flange. The reel discs comprise a rigid, foldable material such as cardboard.

Heat treatment for drying and killing of parasites etc. of wood, including semi-manufactured wood products, or wrapped material, as bags and bales, is done with microwaves. Small units with low power demand are used. New electric installations or other measures for ensuring energy supply are usually not required. The method comprises mutual mobility between microwave generators (2) and the materia...