Abstract: A handling system in a machine for processing containers, including a plurality of support plates circulating in a closed circuit, each support plate including one or more housings, each housing being able to hold a container, a working portion, in which the support plates circulate in a horizontal position, with a first member for moving the support plates along a first axial direction, a rapid return portion, with a second moving member configured to move the support plates along an opposite axial direction, the support plates circulating in the return portion in a vertical return orientation, the handling system including rotation stations for pivoting the support plates.

Abstract: A handling system in a machine for processing containers, including a plurality of support plates circulating in a closed circuit, each support plate including one or more housings, each housing being able to hold a container, a first portion, in which the support plates circulate in a horizontal position along a first axial direction, a second portion, known as the return portion, with a second moving member configured to move the support plates in an opposite second axial direction X1B, the support plates circulating in the second portion in a vertical return orientation, the handling system including a holding pallet to selectively either unload the support plates from the second portion onto the holding pallet or for loading the support plates from the holding pallet into the second portion.

Abstract: A handling system in a machine for processing containers, including a plurality of support plates circulating in a closed circuit, each support plate including one or more housings, each housing being able to hold a container, a working portion, in which the support plates circulate in a horizontal position, with a first member for moving the support plates along a first axial direction, a rapid return portion, with a second moving member configured to move the support plates along an opposite axial direction, the support plates circulating in the return portion in a vertical return orientation, the handling system including rotation stations for pivoting the support plates.

Abstract: A handling system in a machine for processing containers, including a plurality of support plates circulating in a closed circuit, each support plate including one or more housings, each housing being able to hold a container, for example of the bottle type, a working portion, in which the support plates circulate in a generally horizontal position, with a first member for moving the support plates, wherein each of the support plates has a turning plate configured to be pivoted through 180° between a first position and a second position, with, in the first position, the container having its neck oriented upwards and, in the second position, the container having its neck oriented downwards.

Abstract: A handling system in a machine for processing containers, including a plurality of support plates circulating in a closed circuit, each support plate including one or more housings, each housing being able to hold a container, a first portion, in which the support plates circulate in a horizontal position along a first axial direction, a second portion, known as the return portion, with a second moving member configured to move the support plates in an opposite second axial direction X1B, the support plates circulating in the second portion in a vertical return orientation, the handling system including a holding pallet to selectively either unload the support plates from the second portion onto the holding pallet or for loading the support plates from the holding pallet into the second portion.

Abstract: In an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, a user interface (22) has a touch screen for displaying two bar-graphs (24) of pressures in the extracorporeal blood circuit. By touching a bar-graph three alpha-numeric values appear: a reference value (29), an upper safety interval (28) of the pressure, comprised between an upper limit value and the reference valve (29), and a lower interval value (30), comprised between the reference value and a lower limit value. The reference value is a measured pressure value. Four buttons also appear on the display for input of modifications to the upper interval and the lower interval. The setting of the total pressure safety interval is simple and immediate.

Abstract: In an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, a user interface (22) has a touch screen for displaying two bar-graphs (24) of pressures in the extracorporeal blood circuit. By touching a bar-graph three alpha-numeric values appear: a reference value (29), an upper safety interval (28) of the pressure, comprised between an upper limit value and the reference valve (29), and a lower interval value (30), comprised between the reference value and a lower limit value. The reference value is a measured pressure value. Four buttons also appear on the display for input of modifications to the upper interval and the lower interval. The setting of the total pressure safety interval is simple and immediate.

Abstract: A medical apparatus comprises a user interface (30) enabling setting of parameters and a control system (18) for defining on the user interface screen (31) an operating region (32), where working displays are displayed, and a navigation region (33), where navigation keys (35) are displayed; the navigation keys are organized in a multi-level hierarchical structure where each navigation key has a corresponding working display; the control system verifies selection of a key, displays the corresponding working display in the operating region and displays the following keys in the navigation region: the selected key (38), one or more son-keys (139) of the selected key, and one or more ancestor-keys (41). A method for setting the medical apparatus and a software program is also disclosed.

Abstract: An HgCdTe avalanche photodiode for use at ambient temperature comprises an Hg.sub.1-x Cd.sub.x Te crystal substrate in which x is chosen between substantially 0.35 and substantially 0.5, a PN junction is formed in the substrate with low concentrations in the vicinity of the junction, by impurity penetration from a polished and chemically etched surface and the P zone is illuminated. A guard band is provided around the PN junction. The dark current of the photodiode is less than 0.1 .ANG./cm2 at ambient temperature and the excess noise factor is less than 0.4. The photodiode of the invention is used for detecting signals transmitted along fluorated glass optical fibers, for example.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for preparing a crystalline ingot of Hg.sub.1-x.sbsb.o Cd.sub.x.sbsb.o Te. Before moving a heated solvent zone for progressively dissolving ingot sources and giving rise to a single ingot, an adaptation zone is created from a monocrystalline germ by heating and cooling the solvent in contact with the germ, the ingot obtained is monocrystalline. The method of the invention in particular reduces the manufacturing costs of components such as infrared detectors and avalanche diodes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas flowrate adjustment and limitation device for a liquefied-gas lighter of the type having at least one compressible element traversed by the gas, and means of compressing this element to a greater or lesser degree depending on the desired flowrate. This device is characterized by having a permeable disk 12, the periphery of which is in contact with a coaxial permeable crown 7, by the gas passage in disk 12 and crown 7 being substantially radial, and by essentially the total surface area of each of the outer surfaces of said disk 12 and said crown 7 being in contact with some element of the device or lighter.

Abstract: Process for preparing crystals of Hg.sub.1-x Cd.sub.x Te, in which ingots of HgTe and of CdTe are made to pass through a solvent zone, characterized in that it comprises the step of using as solvent a mixture of tellurium, of HgTe and of CdTe in proportions corresponding to thermodynamic balance.

Abstract: The device includes at least two diode arrays which contain some diodes which are defective. The defective diodes are compensated in that the respective diodes of the two arrays are aligned in pairs along the scanning direction, with each of the pairs containing at least one good diode. The device also comprises a programmed memory for controlling two switches and for accomplishing a winding or serpentine readout of the arrays. The device is well adapted for landscape scanning.

Abstract: Aluminum monoethyl-phosphite, useful for the protection of plants against fungal diseases, is manufactured in a continuous manner by first preparing a mixture of phosphite compounds, containing at least 70 mol % of diethyl phosphite, then saponifying and neutralizing such mixture with an inorganic base, at a temperature of 20.degree.-85.degree. C., at a pH of 4.0-8.5, and finally reacting the residual aqueous solution of alkaline metal monoethyl-phosphite, continuously withdrawn from the preceding operation, with an approximately stoichiometric amount of a water-soluble aluminum salt at 70.degree.-95.degree. C. and a pH of 3.0-4.5.