Abstract: A device is provided having a robotic arm for handling a wafer, the robotic arm including one or more encoders that provide encoder data identifying a position of one or more components of the robotic arm. The device also having a processor adapted to apply an extended Kalman Filter to the encoder data to estimate a position of the wafer.

Abstract: A semiconductor workpiece processing system having at least one processing apparatus for processing workpieces, a primary transport system, a secondary transport system and one or more interfaces between first transport system and second transport system. The primary and secondary transport systems each have one or more sections of substantially constant velocity and in queue sections communicating with the constant velocity sections.

Abstract: A method of determining a dynamic stability margin MSD of an aircraft includes calculating the longitudinal position XMP of a maneuver point MP to find the distance between the maneuver point and the position XCG of the aircraft center of gravity CG, as a function of the angular velocity ?O of an incidence oscillation of the aircraft. A device for determining the dynamic stability margin MSD or a position XMP of the maneuver point MP includes means or acquisition of data and or calculating a dynamic stability margin. The means receive data for generating, the aircraft mass m and pitch inertia Iyy; the flight speed V; the angular velocity ?O of the incidence oscillation at a flight point; a coefficient C*? representing Cz? of a “quasi-static” model of the aircraft. The aircraft flight control laws may be adapted according to the stability margin and to XMP.

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: An automated storage system for storing large quantities of samples in trays includes a storage compartment, a tray shuttle compartment abutting the storage compartment on one side and a plurality of independent modules on the other side. The modules perform processing of samples that are retrieved from the storage compartment by a tray shuttle, including extraction of selected samples from retrieved source trays and transfer of the selected samples into a separate, destination tray that can be further processed or removed from the system for use. The independent operation of the modules permits handling and processing to be performed simultaneously by different modules while the tray shuttle accesses additional samples within the storage compartment. In one embodiment, a vertical carousel is used to vertically align a desired tray with the tray shuttle, while the tray shuttle operates within a horizontal plane.

Abstract: A fastening device for at least one pair of window panes, especially aircraft windshield window panes, each having a window pane retainer equipped with a frame that is applied to the borders of receptacle openings for the window panes, wherein the frames have a pair of posts facing one another provided with matching profiles that can mate the aforementioned posts, one inside the other, in a fastening line of the window pane retainer on the common border to the openings that receive the pair of panes.

Abstract: An assembly of at least two concentric axisymmetric parts intended to work at least in tension, wherein at least one axisymmetric part is equipped with at least one dust removal groove, the groove being cut from a plain surface of the first axisymmetric part in contact with a plain surface of a concentric second axisymmetric part so as to open toward the plain surface of the second axisymmetric part, the groove being capable of collecting the dust that lies in the area of contact between the two axisymmetric parts.

Abstract: A hydraulic system includes at least one hydraulic circuit with at least one pump, one or more consumer equipment units, at least one HP discharge line comprising at least one bypass, the bypass being located between the pump and the units, at least one return line including at least one bypass, the bypass being located between a tank and the units. The hydraulic system further includes at least one closure element on the at least one HP line between the bypass and the units, and at least one nonreturn valve on the at least one return line between the bypass and the units. The closure element is placed automatically in the closed position when a break of the HP line is detected downstream of the closure element of the HP line.

Abstract: In accordance to an aspect of the disclosed embodiments, a substrate transport apparatus is provided. The substrate transport apparatus includes a frame defining a chamber, at least one stator module embedded at least partly into a peripheral wall of the chamber, the at least one stator module defining an axis of rotation. The substrate transport apparatus further includes at least one rotor substantially concentrically disposed relative to the at least one stator module about the axis of rotation, the at least one rotor being configured to interface with the at least one stator module and being suspended by a respective one of the at least one stator module substantially without contact within the chamber. The substrate transport apparatus further includes at least one substrate transport arm connected to the at least one rotor and having at least one end effector configured to hold at least one substrate.

Abstract: A turbojet for an aircraft includes an engine housed in a nacelle and a thermal exchanger that can be traversed by a hot fluid designed to be cooled by thermal exchange with a cold fluid external to the thermal exchanger. The thermal exchanger is disposed in an internal volume of the nacelle, between an internal wall of the nacelle and an external wall of the engine, in such a way as to present two thermal exchange surfaces in the flow of the air stream from the turbojet. The disclosed embodiments also relate to an aircraft equipped with such a jet turbine engine.

Abstract: An apparatus including a controller, a transport in communication with the controller having a movable portion and a transport path and a multi-dimensional position measurement device in communication with the controller, the multi-dimensional position measurement device including a plurality of transformers and at least one element attached to the movable portion, wherein the multi-dimensional position measurement device is configured so that a circuit is completed in at least one plurality of transformers as the at least one element passes proximate to the at least one of the plurality of transformers and the controller is configured to calculate a multi-dimensional position of the movable object based on an output of the at least one of the plurality of transformers, wherein the multi-dimensional position includes at least a gap between the movable portion and the plurality of transformers.

Abstract: These disclosed embodiments relates to a device for fixing a light-weight panel onto a support. Such device includes an insert including at least one flange, such insert being intended for receiving a fixing device of the bolt type. According to the disclosed embodiments, such flange has an outer surface including toothing elements and the device includes a part made of a ductile material including an opening for the passage of the fixing member. The toothing elements are intended for cooperating, upon fixing the panel onto the support, with the part made of a ductile material to allow such fixing without causing any deformation of the panel.

Abstract: A propulsive system for an aircraft including an auxiliary jet engine is integrated into a tail cone of a fuselage. A carrying structure of the jet engine is primarily formed with beams and frames or half-frames to which the auxiliary jet engine is fixed by lateral beams. The beams are interdependent of the frames and half-frames, and the beams are overhanging behind a frame behind which is fixed the engine. Each beam includes a lower half-beam and a higher half-beam, separated on at least a part of its length ahead from attachments of the jet engine to determine a space free of structure impediment for lateral air intakes.

Abstract: A method of determining and utilizing a maximum stabilization height of a moving airplane includes: determining a nominal total height at any point of the nominal path of the airplane, determining a total height of the airplane, determining a nominal maximum total height that the airplane is able to reach from its current position corresponding to a nominal total height and according to an optimum total height variation law, determining the maximum stabilization height corresponding to the nominal maximum total height that the airplane is able to reach, and determining whether to continue or to interrupt a landing procedure during the final flight phase of the airplane based on the determined maximum stabilization height.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an aircraft fuselage includes an internal framework surrounded by an external skin made of composite material, in which the internal framework at least partially constitutes a mould for manufacture and/or the support for the mould for the external skin made of composite material. The disclosed embodiments also relate to an aircraft fuselage produced using this method.

Abstract: An aircraft structure including stiffened panels assembled at the junction, without continuity of the stiffeners. Multiple panels are used to form the fuselage, tail units and wings of an aircraft. These panels include stiffeners which are interrupted at each panel junction. However, the stresses experienced by the stiffeners must be transmitted despite these interruptions. Known solutions require the use of at least one additional part per stiffener and per interruption. In order to solve this problem, the disclosed embodiments include a doubler necessitating at most one additional part per panel junction area for all of the interrupted stiffeners in this area.

Abstract: An aircraft in which it is possible to replace windshield panes of the mineral type with windshield panes of the organic type and vice versa, without the frame of the aircraft structure having to be modified. The pane is held in place on the frame by a window pane retainer specific to the pane. The frame has no through-holes opening to the outside of the aircraft for fastening the pane. The window pane retainer specific to a pane of the organic type has pins passing through the acrylic panes. The disclosed embodiments also relate to a method of replacing a pane of a first type with a pane of a second type.

Abstract: A device for managing a rest period, in flight, of a pilot in a cockpit of an airplane including parameter acquisition means, for acquiring one input parameter characteristic of a desired rest period by the pilot who wishes to have a rest, calculations means intended for calculating, from the current position of the airplane given by the airplane parameters, a future position of the airplane at the end of the desired rest period along a trajectory programmed from the input parameters and airplane parameters, means for displaying information on the rest period and or on the position of the airplane.

Abstract: A tool for machining composite material parts and a machining machine including such a tool. The tool has a substantially cylindrical main body. The main body includes a polishing part with a diameter D1, with a main axis and an abrasive part with a diameter D2, with D2 <D1, such abrasive part being centered on the main axis. The abrasive part includes, at its end at least one cutting element intended to enable penetrations of the tool into the composite material parts.