Abstract: There is described an electrical cabinet for a traffic signaling system. The electrical cabinet generally has a housing; an input encoder, the input encoder having input ports receiving input signals carrying states associated with input devices of the traffic signaling system, a serial encoding circuit serially encoding the states of the input signals into a headerless signal, the headerless signal beginning with a first time slot and ending with a last time slot temporally spaced apart from the first time slot, the time slots carrying the states of the input signals, and an output port; and a traffic light controller having a serial decoding circuit receiving the headerless signal and serially decoding the headerless signal to retrieve the states of the input signals carried by the time slots of the headerless signal, the traffic light controller controlling the traffic signaling system based on the retrieved states.

Abstract: There is described an electrical cabinet for a traffic signaling system. The electrical cabinet generally has a housing; an input encoder, the input encoder having input ports receiving input signals carrying states associated with input devices of the traffic signaling system, a serial encoding circuit serially encoding the states of the input signals into a headerless signal, the headerless signal beginning with a first time slot and ending with a last time slot temporally spaced apart from the first time slot, the time slots carrying the states of the input signals, and an output port; and a traffic light controller having a serial decoding circuit receiving the headerless signal and serially decoding the headerless signal to retrieve the states of the input signals carried by the time slots of the headerless signal, the traffic light controller controlling the traffic signaling system based on the retrieved states.

Abstract: The electronic cabinet for enclosing electronic components generally has a housing having a base and a cover being connected to one another a plurality of lateral walls, one of the plurality of lateral walls having a first opening; a lateral perforated plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the first opening, the lateral perforated plate having a plurality of perforations; and a protector plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the lateral perforated plate to cover the plurality of perforations of the lateral perforated plate, the protector plate defining at least one air inlet between the protector plate and the lateral perforated plate.

Abstract: There is described an electrical cabinet for a traffic signaling system. The electrical cabinet generally having: a housing defining a cavity; an electrical interface in said cavity, the electrical interface having a port being connectable to the traffic signaling system and having an edge connector being connected to said port; and a traffic light controller having a corresponding edge connector being connectively received in said edge connector of said electrical interface and being maintained in position therein once received, said traffic light controller being configured for controlling the traffic signaling system via said electrical interface, said controlling including receiving, via said port, a plurality of input signals from the traffic signaling system and transmitting, via said port, a plurality of output signals to the traffic signaling system.

Abstract: The electronic cabinet for enclosing electronic components generally has a housing having a base and a cover being connected to one another a plurality of lateral walls, one of the plurality of lateral walls having a first opening; a lateral perforated plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the first opening, the lateral perforated plate having a plurality of perforations; and a protector plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the lateral perforated plate to cover the plurality of perforations of the lateral perforated plate, the protector plate defining at least one air inlet between the protector plate and the lateral perforated plate.

Abstract: The electronic cabinet for enclosing electronic components generally has a housing having a base and a cover being connected to one another a plurality of lateral walls, one of the plurality of lateral walls having a first opening; a lateral perforated plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the first opening, the lateral perforated plate having a plurality of perforations; and a protector plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the lateral perforated plate to cover the plurality of perforations of the lateral perforated plate, the protector plate defining at least one air inlet between the protector plate and the lateral perforated plate.

Abstract: The electronic cabinet for enclosing electronic components generally has a housing having a base and a cover being connected to one another a plurality of lateral walls, one of the plurality of lateral walls having a first opening; a lateral perforated plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the first opening, the lateral perforated plate having a plurality of perforations; and a protector plate being mounted to the housing and extending over the lateral perforated plate to cover the plurality of perforations of the lateral perforated plate, the protector plate defining at least one air inlet between the protector plate and the lateral perforated plate.

Abstract: A system for extracting a liquid by pressing a humid mass, the system including at least one extraction channel, while extraction channel being provided with at least one inlet allowing to feed the extraction channel with the humid mass to be treated; with walls provided with holes allowing the flow of the liquid contained in the humid mass being pressed, and with at least one outlet allowing the discharge of the dehydrated mass obtained by pressing in the extracting channel, wherein the outlet of the channel, positioned between the walls provided with holes and the exterior, is free of contraints or only includes weak constraints whose level is controlled as a function of physical parameters. This systems is suitable for the efficient continuous dewatering treatment of a feeding source with a composition, consistency and nature of the solid particles present in the feeding source susceptible to vary during the processing.

Abstract: A unit for pedestrian control of traffic lights operated by a traffic light controller, comprises a casing adapted to be mounted to a traffic light post, the casing having a bottom face carrying a window, and a photocell mounted in the casing for directing a beam through the window in a downward direction generally parallel to the post to which the casing is mounted. The photocell is responsive to the presence of a pedestrian's hand placed beneath the window in the beam. The photocell is adapted to be operatively connected to the traffic light controller to send a signal thereto when the presence of a pedestrian has been detected.

Abstract: A system for extracting a liquid by pressing a humid mass, said system comprising at least one extraction channel, which extraction channel being provided with at least one inlet allowing to feed the extraction channel with the humid mass to be treated; with walls provided with holes allowing the flow of the liquid contained in the humid mass being pressed; and with at least one outlet allowing the discharge of the dehydrated mass obtained by pressing in the extraction channel, wherein said system is characterized in that the outlet of said channel, positioned between the walls provided with holes and the exterior, is free of constraints or only comprises weak constraints whose level is controlled as a function of physical parameters. This system is suitable for the efficient continuous dewatering treatment of a feeding source with a composition, consistency and nature of the solid particles present in the feeding source susceptible to vary during the processing.

Abstract: A unit for pedestrian control of traffic lights operated by a traffic light controller, comprises a casing adapted to be mounted to a traffic light post, the casing having a bottom face carrying a window, and a photocell mounted in the casing for directing a beam through the window in a downward direction generally parallel to the post to which the casing is mounted. The photocell is responsive to the presence of a pedestrian's hand placed beneath the window in the beam. The photocell is adapted to be operatively connected to the traffic light controller to send a signal thereto when the presence of a pedestrian has been detected.

Abstract: In a routing method for efficiently routing the interconnections of a printed circuit board, the list of interconnections to be made is ordered to provide a work order for deriving routes. The circuit board is notionally divided into a grid of addressable cells. Then grid lines are considered in turn. A particular grid line may have a certain number (x) of cells that are full and so cannot be used for routing and other cells which are empty and so available for routing (capacity). If all interconnections to be made were made by direct spans then that particular grid line would have grid crossings occupying a certain number (y) of cells (occupancy). A MAOMIC (maximum occupancy-minimum capacity) product of that grid line is derived. When assigning routes, the routes of those interconnections which, if directly made, would cross the grid line of highest MAOMIC product are assigned first.

Abstract: In a routing method for efficiently routing interconnections of a printed circuit board, an ordered list of interconnections to be made is first developed, each interconnection consisting of a source and a target. The interconnection medium is notionally divided into cells and, in a flooding routine for deriving the route between a particular source and target, cells at a progressively increasing distance from the source are considered. The progressive flooding is performed under a preset control by associating a respective cost with each of a number of possible flooding directions. At any time, flooding occurs from that cell to which the accummulated cost of flooding from the source is a minimum. Eventually a target cell is reached and by tracing backpointer directions associated with the intervening cells, the least cost route is derived as a series of contiguous line segments having position, length and orientation.