Abstract: An apparatus including a controller, a workpiece transport in communication with the controller having a movable portion and a transport path, and a multi-dimensional position measurement device including at least one field generating platen attached to the movable portion and at least one sensor group positioned along the transport path and in communication with the controller, the field generating platen is configured for position measurement and propelling the movable portion, each sensor in the at least one sensor group is configured to provide but one output signal along a single axis corresponding to a sensed field generated by the at least one field generating platen and the controller is configured calculate a multi-dimensional position of the movable portion based on the but one output signal of at least one of the sensors in the at least one sensor group, the multi-dimensional position including a planar position and a gap measurement.

Abstract: A refill bottle that includes a refill and an enclosure having a body and a cap engaging through an attachment device. The cap has three parts, an external cap with an enveloping skirt, an internal cap provided with a locking mechanism, and an actuation ring able to move about the spout of the refill. The attachment device includes a fixed hook on the body and a pivoting hook on the internal cap, the pivoting hook being disposed on a lever of the first type that pivots about a hinge integrated in the molding, and the actuation ring acts by rotation of the end of the lever opposite to the hook. Application to cosmetics bottles.

Abstract: A line system for an aircraft, in particular an airplane, having multiple assemblies, in particular multiple fuselage sections of a fuselage cell and multiple wing shells, the line system including multiple lines for transmitting power and/or information, wherein the lines are integrated on and/or in a support layer, the support layer being situated on and/or in the shell-shaped assemblies.

Abstract: A process for transmitting data between at least one display screen in a cockpit and at least one remote client system includes at least one computer, in which the display screen displays a first request to send a message in a first communication protocol; this message is sent to the remote client system over a first link using a second communication protocol. A request to confirm a message is generated and displayed on the display screen via a communication interface designed to receive and generate messages in this first communication protocol and to receive and generate messages that can be received by the remote client system.

Abstract: A device for fixing a seat rail, designed to maintain passenger seats on a floor, wherein it includes a connecting bracket, secured to the floor and to the seat rail, the bracket being adapted to support the stresses perpendicular to the plane of the floor, and the stresses parallel to the plane of the floor. The bracket extends obliquely between the floor and the rail seat, a lower end of the bracket being secured to the floor and an upper end of the bracket being secured to the seat rail.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate essentially to a primary structure of an aircraft fuselage that has at least a first strut linked at one end to a crossbeam and at the other end to a reinforcing frame. A second strut has one end fastened to the structure below the end of the first strut, and another end linked to the first strut through an intermediate sliding linkage. A deformable member is linked to the struts so that in case of a crash, the compressive forces press against the second strut, so that the end of the second strut slides along the first strut so as to stretch the deformable member longitudinally to absorb the shock.

Abstract: A deployable wing structure for air-braking a satellite and which, once deployed, includes at least one wing structure element that forms a three-dimensional structure and includes at least two panels lying in secant planes and forming a dihedron.

Abstract: A device for handling a substantially circular wafer is provided. The device includes an interior accessible through a plurality of entrances, and a plurality of sensors consisting of two sensors for each one of the plurality of entrances, each sensor capable of detecting a presence of the substantially circular wafer, at a predetermined location within the interior, wherein the plurality of sensors are arranged so that at least two of the plurality of sensors detect the wafer for any position of the wafer entirely within the interior, wherein a first one of the two sensors is positioned to detect the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances, and a second one of the two sensors is positioned immediately outside a diameter of the wafer when the wafer has passed entirely into the interior through one of the plurality of entrances.

Abstract: There is provided a method for improving an allocation of resources, i.e., frequency and power, to terrestrial services and satellite services that use a same frequency band. The method includes determining a demand (DS) for a resource by users of a satellite system, determining a demand (DT) for the resource by users of a terrestrial system, and allocating the resource between the satellite system and the terrestrial system based on a ratio of DS to DT.

Abstract: To be able to transport and replace in an autonomous manner one of its failing propulsion engines, a plane includes: a fuselage; propulsion engines maintained above the fuselage; maintenance wells traversing the fuselage substantially vertically with respect to the engines in which the engines can be lifted or lowered; a cargo compartment including a floor arranged in the fuselage, where the height, length and width dimensions of the cargo compartment are compatible with the transport of an engine; the cargo compartment and the wells have a common separation wall including an exit whose dimensions allow the passage of an engine; and a lower hatch or ramp for closing the lower opening of the well includes a position in which the upper surface of the ramp is substantially horizontal and substantially in the extension of the floor of the cargo compartment.

Abstract: A method for positioning substrates in a substrate processing apparatus having a substrate alignment device, a first substrate transport apparatus and a second substrate transport apparatus, includes calibrating the substrate alignment device with a motion of the first substrate transport apparatus, and calibrating a coordinate system of the second substrate transport apparatus with the substrate alignment device.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concern a processing method for a beverage destined for human or animal consumption with the aim of increasing the sweetness of said beverage, characterized in that a yeast preparation inerted by enzymatic and/or physical-chemical treatment containing a peptide sweetener with a molecular weight equal to 2.750+/?0.1 kDa is added to the beverage. The disclosed embodiments also concern such a sweetener compound.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems; apparatus and methods for tracking or locating a person that is lost or has an emergency. Personal locating apparatus is employed comprising a plurality of buttons, and/or a keypad and display, that define an on/off element, an OK element, a help element and a 911 emergency element, wherein the elements are used to select and deselect one of a predetermined number of operational modes. A global positioning system (GPS) receiver in the apparatus processes GPS signals received from GPS satellites to generate location data indicative of the location of the apparatus. A satellite transmitter is coupled to the processor that transmits the location data and a desired operational mode signal to a remotely located processing center via one or more communication satellites.

Abstract: A cockpit and an aircraft including such cockpit. The cockpit includes a front section of an aircraft. Such cockpit includes a pressure bulkhead sealing the section and a pressurization system for pressurizing such section.

Abstract: In order to conduct tests designed to determine the adherence properties of a coating on a substrate, a pull plate of a hardenable material is molded directly to the surface of a coating applied to a substrate. The pull plate geometry is determined by the mold cavity and is made of a material that adheres to the coating surface during the molding process. The pull plate therefore, is only used once, while the mold may be reused.

Abstract: A nacelle cowling for a turbojet, characterized in that it is provided with a fixed part and a mobile part, the mobile part being adapted to slide along the fixed part, from a closed position wherein the mobile part extends in the extension of the fixed part, up to an open position wherein the mobile part is at least partly superimposed to the fixed part. For example, the fixed part is located in the upper part of the cowling, the mobile part being located in the lower part of the cowling.

Abstract: A device and a method for assembling oriented objects, such as parts of a pipeline. The device includes means for rotational displacement about a rotational axis of a first and second base. The first base has a first main axis which is perpendicular to the rotational axis and includes first means for supporting objects that can be displaced in translation along the first main axis. The second base has a second main axis which is perpendicular to the rotational axis and includes second means for supporting objects and a revolving plate device for supporting and orienting one of the objects in an angular manner. The revolving plate device can be displaced in translation in relation to the second supporting means along the second main axis. Visualization means enable at least the rotational angle of the plate and the position of the second base to be visualised.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concerns a system for monitoring anemobaroclinometric parameters in an aircraft, including a primary detection circuit having at least one measurement channel. The measurement channel includes a device for measuring static air pressure, a device for measuring a side-slip angle of the aircraft, a device for measuring a dynamic pressure, a total air temperature and a angle of attack of the aircraft, and a data-processing device capable of determining anemobaroclinometric parameters from the measurements of static pressure, side-slip angle, dynamic pressure, total air temperature and angle of attack, a least one laser anemometer to measure at least one true airspeed parameter of the aircraft.

Abstract: A portable electronic device with a first panel and a second panel connected to the first panel. The connection allows the panels to pivot relative to one another between a folded position and an un-folded position. A lock automatically engages and locks the panels when the panels are brought in the folded position and disengages when the panels are displaced relative to one another sidewardly.

Abstract: A composite panel having a first skin forming the outer wall of the panel, known as the lower face (1), and a second skin forming part of the inner wall of the panel. The second skin is formed hollow such as to produce an inner reinforcing frame (2) in the form of a half-box structure (3) which, together with the first skin, forms box parts. The aforementioned frame is equipped with a rim (4a, 4b) for fixing to the first skin, a face known as the upper face (5) and connecting side walls (6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 6e, 7) between the rim (4a, 4b) and the upper face (5) the first and second skins forming a monolithic self-stiffened panel. The half-box frame (2) has perforated sections (8) which are defined by hollow beam sections forming the half-box frame (2).