Abstract: The management process of the invention is in particular intended for the temporal management of an ARINC 629 bus for avionics rigs, and it is characterized in that the rigs to which new information is not available or to which only inconsistent information is available are made to send substituted information (WS(2), WS(3)) furnished with characteristic identifications (S1, S2) at the send instants (TA) which are assigned thereto.

Abstract: A power supply for a plurality of electronic modules in a compartment. DC electric current is provided to a plurality of consumer electronic modules on the basis of a perturbed DC voltage exhibiting a wide voltage variation range. The supply device includes a primary supply module and a voltage preregulator able to step up or step down the DC voltage in order to provide the modules with a preregulated voltage exhibiting a small voltage variation range. Each module includes a voltage conversion device for providing the voltages adapted to the needs of the module.

Abstract: To obtain improved readability of a liquid crystal display screen under varied conditions of ambient luminosity, it is possible to increase the dynamic range of variation of the polarizing voltage. However, this leads to an increase in the electrical power consumption and to contrast reversal defects. To prevent this phenomenon, it is proposed not to modify the dynamic range of variation of polarizing voltage but to shift this range towards the lower voltages when the ambient luminosity increases or towards the higher voltages when the ambient luminosity diminishes. Thus, the white level is favored under high ambient luminosity and the black level is favored under low or normal luminosity.

Abstract: The invention concerns a planar transformer winding comprising primary and secondary coils with wire turns produced in the form of strip conductors formed on the surfaces of an insulting base and electrically connected with one another by means of conducting holes bored in the insulating base. The primary and secondary winding portions borne by one common surface of the insulating base are joined together by winding, along two distinct overlapping zones, spiral in shape, one of the zones joining side by side turns or portions of turns of the primary coil and the other zone joining together the turns or portions or turns of the secondary coil. Such an arrangement enables to obtain primary and secondary coils with a different number of turns on one single insulating base with two surfaces.

Abstract: A modular architecture for electronic equipment. Data-concentration modules, processing modules and display devices are interconnected by data-transmitters with sensors, measuring instruments and detectors. The data-concentration modules concentrate only the data which is not critical for the industrial process. This data is transmitted to other modules by a multi-receiver serial bus. The other modules directly receive the critical data which is routed by separate, respective serial digital links between, on the one hand, display devices and functions controlling the processes which are distributed in the process modules, and, on the other hand, sensors, measuring instruments and actuators.

Abstract: A process for testing an electronic equipment linked to a computer coupled to a data entry and display console with a screen, effecting an interface with an operator. The test includes a list of commands to be executed. The process displays a test chart on the screen, made up of groups of cells, a group being associated with a command. For at least one command, its group of cells includes a cell which is to be supplied with a label of the command, a cell which is to be supplied with an expected result of the command, a cell which is reserved for an actual result of the command, and a cell which is reserved for the result of a comparison between the actual result and the expected result. Further, the process displays, after the execution of the command, the actual result and the result of the comparison. Such a process may find particular application to tests of various modules of an aircraft whether they take place in the design, production, or exploitation phase.

Abstract: An input/output controller interacts with a central processing unit of a computer which communicates with peripheral electronic equipment. The link with the central processor unit is produced with an input serial line and at least one output serial line. It receives instructions of a first type from the central processing unit and instructions of at least a second kind which are stored in the memory external to the central processing unit. These are processed using a sequencer device which allocates time slots to the instructions according to their type. This device is especially useful in the field of avionics and flight management systems.

Abstract: A method for the reception and preprocessing of digital messages, with a view to their use by a handling processor. The method associates a tag identifying each message capable of being received with a descriptor of preprocessing operations to be applied to the message. The tag of certain messages is associated with a sequence of descriptors of instructions capable of being run. The descriptor is stored in a memory at an address calculated with the aid of the tag of the associated message. Upon reception of a message, the tag of the received message is read, the address of the descriptor is determined with the aid of the tag, the descriptor is read at the address thus calculated, and the instruction sequence associated with the tag of the message is run if the descriptor is of the instruction type.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical device for a system for presenting collimated images including an off-axis spherical mirror. The device has an additional aspherical mirror whose surface forms, in the plane of symmetry of the unfolded optical system, a curve whose radius of curvature is variable. The surface provides for correction of the image of a pupil of an eye given by the spherical mirror and the pupil image is rectified on the optical axis. The surface may be a paraboloid, an ellipsoid and it may exhibit symmetry of revolution.

Abstract: An electronic circuit for monitoring electrical voltage where the electronic circuit includes a high threshold terminal and a low threshold terminal and is configured so as to enable a comparison between a high reference voltage and a low reference voltage with voltages detected on the respective terminals. The electronic circuit further includes configurations enabling the prescriptions of voltages at each terminal.

Abstract: The disclosed method uses the Wiener frequency filtering to suppress noise in noisy sound signals (u(t)). This method includes a preliminary step in which the sound signals (u(t)) to be noise-suppressed are digitized by sampling and subdivided into frames. The method then includes a first series of steps including the creation of a noise model on N frames, the estimating of the spectral density of the noise and of the energy of the noise model and the computing of a coefficient that reflects the statistical dispersion of the noise. It also includes a second series of steps including the computation of the spectral density of the signals to be noise-suppressed fore each frame. The coefficients of the Wiener filter are modified for each successively processed frame, by the parameters determined at the end of the two series of steps, so as to introduce an energy compensation and an adaptive overestimation of the noise.

Abstract: A process for the denoising of audio signals picked up in a noisy environment, for example in the cockpit of an aircraft or of another vehicle, and more precisely to the searching for a noise model in the audio signals. Input signals are digitized, and these signals are processed on the basis of a noise model, in principle with a view to eliminate as far as possible the noise corresponding to the model.

Abstract: A processor for executing several functions. The processor has access to an addressable space including memories for program and for data and input/output registers. The method of operation includes the allocation of a right of access to each function, the dividing of the addressable space and of partitions, each associated with the access right of a function, and the dividing of the time of use of the processor into cyclic time slices associated with the access right of a function. At the start of each new time slice, it is confirmed that the processor has terminated the execution of the previous function. The method further includes the activation of the tasks of the corresponding function. During each access by a processor to an addressable area, the access right of the current time slice is compared with that associated with the accessed are, with an error signal being transmitted in case of an inconsistency.

Abstract: A process for detecting the point of touching of a tactile surface. A high frequency signal is sequentially supplied to four corners of a plate having a capacitive surface. This is accomplished by supplying one diagonal with the others being idle. The output voltages are measured at the four corners for all the various possible positions of touching. Relations between voltages are established from these measurements obtained for each diagonal. During touching, the relations obtained are compared with those stored in order to locate the point of touching.

Abstract: Method of processing several computer-controlled technical applications. The applications are executed within the same computer working in successive work cycles by allotting thereto during the work cycles at least one time slot of a previously fixed duration. At the end of the time slot allotted to a technical application, a start interrupt is generated which is aimed at starting the execution of another technical application. Each technical application has allotted thereto at least one memory space slot for writing data. The memory space slot is write-inaccessible to the other technical applications so that a technical application which during execution possesses a given level of criticality does not disturb another application having a higher or equal level of criticality.

Abstract: An analog circuit for receiving satellite signals through an antenna. The circuit includes frequency transposition circuits and an analog/digital converter. Each frequency transposition circuit includes at least two frequency dividers of which due first is programmable so as to provide division ratios 140 and 143. The other divider provides one of the division ratios of 10 or 11. A third divider provides ratios of 3, 5, 7 or 8. These division ratios enable a single analog integrated circuit topography to allow a large number of possible applications including civil or military receivers operating on the GPS constellation or on the GLONASS constellation.

Abstract: A helmet with night vision system. The system includes an image generator, an optical mixing system for mixing the light rays output by the night vision system and the light rays output by the image generator and a fixed optical system downstream of the optical mixing system. All of the night vision system and the optical mixing system can be removed and a substitute optical system can be inserted for daytime vision. The substitute optical system has the same optical characteristics as the optical mixing system, but has a transmission coefficient higher than that of the optical mixing system. The substitute system is optimized for day vision while the mixing system is optimized for night vision. The helmet may be used for pilots of combat helicopters or airplanes.

Abstract: The invention relates to the in-flight refuelling of aircraft.

Abstract: A micro-accelerometer having three micromachined conducting-silicon plates bonded in superposition with the interposition of insulating layers. The central plate includes a subassembly sensitive to acceleration, and a peripheral frame electrically insulated from the subassembly and surrounding the subassembly. The peripheral frame forms a spacer between a lower plate and an upper plate from which it is also electrically insulated. The subassembly includes a base fixed on the lower plate and a cantilevered proof mass suspended from the base, an electrical connection being made between the lower plate and the base of the subassembly.

Abstract: A display device for a helmet-mounted visual system including an intensified image-taking device and a visor to combine the intensified images and an ambient scene before the pilot's eyes. The display device also includes an optical prism whose optical aberrations (image distortions, astigmatism) are capable of compensating for the aberrations created by the visor of the helmet, on the images given to the pilot.