Abstract: Provided is an electronic component, and particularly a film capacitor, comprising a working element comprising a dielectric and an encasement with the working element encased in said encasement wherein the encasement comprises a phase change material.

Abstract: A method for estimating damping characteristics of shock absorbers in an active or semi-active suspension involves providing a reference model of a nominal relation between a road severity index related to vertical acceleration values, and the mean driving current of the control valves of the shock absorbers, acquiring respective relative acceleration or speed data of at least the front wheels of the vehicle with respect to the vehicle body, determining a value of the road severity index starting from relative acceleration or speed data of the front wheels of the vehicle with respect to the vehicle body, acquiring values representative of the mean driving current of the control valve of each shock absorber, comparing acquired value of the mean driving current with an expected value of the nominal mean driving current determined as a function of the road severity index according to the reference model, and determining a degradation condition if the acquired value does not correspond to the expected value.

Abstract: A system includes a memory device having one or more planes and a first set of voltage regulators coupled to each plane of the one or more planes, where the first set of voltage regulators is shared by the one or more planes. The system includes a second set of voltage regulators coupled to a plane of the one or more planes configured to supply a respective voltage to one or more conductive lines responsive to a memory access operation request. The system includes a switch, at the plane of the one or more planes, coupled with a first voltage regulator of the first set of voltage regulators, a second voltage regulator of the second set of voltage regulators, and a first conductive line, the switch configured to selectively couple the second voltage regulator of the second set of voltage regulators to the first conductive line.

Abstract: A lining for items of clothing, footwear and accessories, including a fabric with a plurality of channels which are alternated with ribs, the channels at least partly have a differentiated width.

Abstract: A breathable item of clothing and a breathable insert for items of clothing, the item of clothing includes an external enclosure, the surface of which has at least one opening for evacuating perspiration in the vapor phase in an upper region of the item of clothing, a breathable external covering having a structure for the external retention of water, impurities or others, an internal layer to be directed toward the body of the user of the item of clothing, forming an interspace due to the spacing of the external covering from the body of the user, for the passage of perspiration in the vapor phase, produced by the body and channeled within the interspace, to the external covering. The external covering, structure for external retention of water, impurities or others, and the internal layer are placed in a breathable preassembled insert.

Abstract: A fabric structure includes a first layer, which is breathable and adapted to be directed toward the body of the user, a second layer, which has preferential passages for sweat in the vapor phase leading outward from the first layer, a third layer, which is breathable and arranged opposite the first layer, the second layer being between the first layer and the third layer. The first layer includes fibers of heat-conducting material.

Abstract: A vapor-permeable insert for item of clothing or accessory, including a collector element adapted to absorb solar radiation, a window element that is transparent to the solar radiation absorbed by the collector element, and an interspace formed between the window element and the collector element, the collector element and the window element being arranged at two opposite faces of the interspace.

Abstract: An item of clothing comprising an internal layer, made of vapor-permeable material, which faces the body of the user, an external layer, which is opposite with respect to the internal layer, a hybrid portion, which belongs at least partially to the internal layer and is located in the region of the collar of the item of clothing, and an interspace between the internal layer and the external layer. The item of clothing has at least one open region in the hybrid portion, the hybrid portion being at least partially not in contact with the body of the user.

Abstract: A vapor-permeable insert for an item of clothing and footwear, including at least one first layer provided with at least one blind opening, and at least one second layer, which has at least one temporarily deformable portion, which includes a material that is sensitive to humidity and/or temperature variations.

Abstract: A lining for items of clothing, footwear and accessories, including a fabric with a plurality of channels which are alternated with ribs, the channels at least partly have a differentiated width.

Abstract: A vapor-permeable insert for item of clothing or accessory, including a collector element adapted to absorb solar radiation, a window element that is transparent to the solar radiation absorbed by the collector element, and an interspace formed between the window element and the collector element, the collector element and the window element being arranged at two opposite faces of the interspace.

Abstract: A breathable item of clothing and a breathable insert for items of clothing, the item of clothing includes an external enclosure, the surface of which has at least one opening for evacuating perspiration in the vapor phase in an upper region of the item of clothing, a breathable external covering having a structure for the external retention of water, impurities or others, an internal layer to be directed toward the body of the user of the item of clothing, forming an interspace due to the spacing of the external covering from the body of the user, for the passage of perspiration in the vapor phase, produced by the body and channeled within the interspace, to the external covering. The external covering, structure for external retention of water, impurities or others, and the internal layer are placed in a breathable preassembled insert.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the generation of a DC signal at the output of a mixer, so that the DC signal is predictable, enabling a static offset compensation voltage to offset the DC signal. The apparatus comprises a mixer configured to receive a first and a second input signal, the mixer being such as to generate a first DC signal at the output of the mixer when the first and second input signals have the same frequency and a first relative phase, a phase detector for determining the relative phase of the first and second signals, and a phase modifier configured to modify the phase of the second signal relative to the first signal in dependence on the determination of the relative phase between the first and second signals such that the resulting DC signal at the output of the mixer is the first DC signal.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the generation of a DC signal at the output of a mixer, so that the DC signal is predictable, enabling a static offset compensation voltage to offset the DC signal. The apparatus comprises a mixer configured to receive a first and a second input signal, the mixer being such as to generate a first DC signal at the output of the mixer when the first and second input signal have the same frequency and a first relative phase, a phase detector for determining the relative phase of the first and second signals, and a phase modifier configured to modify the phase of the second signal relative to the first signal in dependence on the determination of the relative phase between the first and second signals such that the resulting DC signal at the output of the mixer is the first DC signal.

Abstract: An arrangement for controlling the gearbox of a motor vehicle includes a manually operable control lever and a linkage connecting the lever to a gearbox control shaft projecting from the gearbox casing. In order to prevent unintentional disengagement of a selected gear due to excessive vibrations of the control shaft as the vehicle travels over rough terrain, a damper is provided to damp axial displacements of the control shaft relative to the gearbox casing.