Abstract: A mobile terminal having a multi-medial user interface, a controller and a memory is presented. The memory is adapted to store a plurality of profiles, each profile defining a respective behavior pattern of the multi-medial user interface and being definable by a user of the mobile terminal. The controller is adapted to provide a first control parameter representative of a desired profile as selected by the user. The controller is also adapted to provide a second control parameter representative of a contextual status of the mobile terminal. The controller is adapted to modify a behavior pattern of the multi-medial user interface depending on the first and second control parameters.

Abstract: A system for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis includes a data collection function that acquires time histories of selected variables for one or more of the components, a pre-processing function that calculates specified characteristics of the time histories, an analysis function for evaluating the characteristics to produce one or more hypotheses of a condition of the one or more components, and a reasoning function for determining the condition of the one or more components from the one or more hypotheses.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus has a substrate transport apparatus for transporting substrates, a sensor, and a control system. The processing apparatus is adapted to effect relative movement between the substrate and the sensor. The processing apparatus is further adapted to determine a position of the substrate by sensing the substrate with the sensor.

Abstract: A structural frame for a fuselage including a lower arched structure (1), a cross-piece (2), supporting a floor element (3) and a connecting lattice (4) between the lower arch (1) and the cross-piece (2), the connecting lattice (4) more particularly may comprise bars (4a, 4b) the ends of which are spliced to the cross-piece (2) and the lower arch (1).

Abstract: An access device includes means for receiving, via a wireless communication link, a key and validity information. The access device also includes wireless communication means for establishing a connection with another party, and for providing the key and validity information to that party. If the key and validity information are determined by the other party to be valid access is provided.

Abstract: The aspects of invention relates to determining a bit rate in a communication device, the communication device including a protocol stack for transferring information to a second communication device, the protocol stack including a protocol layer, the protocol layer providing a logical channel for transferring first information through the protocol layer. According to the method, the first information is transferred through the protocol layer via the logical channel and the bit rate in the logical channel is determined on the basis of second information obtainable from the protocol layer. The invention also relates to a method of determining a bit rate when the communication device is receiving information as well as corresponding transmitting and receiving communication devices.

Abstract: A system for opening and closing an aircraft landing-gear compartment is described. The landing-gear compartment includes a plurality of hatches mounted on a fairing of the aircraft and has main hatches with crosswise openings and at least one secondary hatch with a longitudinal opening.

Abstract: An aircraft fuselage including at least two sections kept assembled at a circumferential join, each section having at least one panel. The circumferential join includes at least one inner ring, situated on one face, called the inner face, of the fuselage. The inner ring has a width li, partially overlaps each of the two panels and is fixed to the two panels by fasteners. The fuselage also includes an outer ring, situated on one face, called the outer face, of the fuselage, opposite to the inner face. The outer ring has a width le, partially overlaps the two panels, and is fixed to the two panels and to the inner ring by some or all of the fasteners fixing the inner ring to the two panels.

Abstract: A modular seat system for a passenger compartment of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, with at least one seat which includes a seat unit with a seating element and a seat back, a seat frame with at least one pair of essentially vertical support elements, at whose upper end a bearing structure is arranged on which the seat unit rests, and a fixing structure in the floor of the passenger compartment with at least two longitudinal rails, which have a predetermined spacing from one another, for accommodating the lower ends of the support elements. In order to ensure a cost-effective and flexible fixing of standardized installation modules—in particular passenger seats—with different spacing of the mounting rails, there is provided a spacing device, which defines the spacing between the two support elements at their upper and/or lower end, so that the spacing of the support elements from one another is variable independently of the width of the seat unit.

Abstract: A device having a robotic arm within a robot chamber. The robotic arm includes an end effector adapted to handle a wafer. A linear array of charge-coupled devices are provided within the interior of the robot chamber, the linear array positioned to acquire image data from a measurement volume in one or more predetermined locations within the robot chamber.

Abstract: A novel simplified system for protecting a crawlspace against the entry of sub-soil water vapor and external ground water from the crawlspace walls and floor and for completely isolating the crawlspace from water vapor from the ground. The present system comprises applying over the floor of the crawlspace, generally a dirt floor but sometimes a poured concrete floor, a continuous durable embossed plastic drainage panel, and extending the drainage panel vertically-upwardly to cover and seal the interior peripheral foundation walls enclosing the crawlspace to an elevation at least slightly greater than the elevation of the ground in contact with the exterior surfaces of the peripheral walls and preferably to the tops of the peripheral walls. This encapsulates the dirt surface of the entire crawlspace against the penetration of external ground water or floor water and also sub-soil water and water vapor and provides a water drainage space beneath the drainage panel for the escape of water and vapor therefrom.

Abstract: Multiple transport channels (405, 406, 407) are multiplexed and transmitted in a single physical channel. A code (TFCI) is added to the transport channel data flows to indicate which processing schemes, from a set of available schemes, are being employed and the resultant blocks are interleaved. The depth of the interleaving is set in dependence on the transmission time intervals associated with the schemes in the set of processing schemes.

Abstract: Locking device for a shielded sub-miniature connection assembly having two sub-miniature connectors with housings made of two molded thermoplastic half-shells, a high contact density miniature sub-assembly with a molded thermoplastic insulating body provided with contact cavities for the positioning and retention of contacts, wherein one of the housings includes on at least one of its faces a movable metal latch able to co-act with a slot made in at least one of the outside faces of the complementary housing.

Abstract: The subject of the disclosed embodiments is a method of optimizing stiffened panels under stress. In particular, the method makes it possible to determine the stress distribution in stiffened panels with postbuckling taken into account. The method proposed is a coupling between an overall, linear stress calculation approach, based on strength-of-materials results, and a local, nonlinear approach for the behavior of the stiffened panel. The disclosed embodiments fall within the field of aeronautical design, at the pilot study stage in the definition of a civil transport airplane of conventional architecture.

Abstract: The invention relates to the combining of mobile station properties. In addition the invention relates to the controlling in a desired manner of mobile station properties. The object of the invention is to give a mobile station a more stylish and youthful general appearance by enhancing the chances of the user to personalize his mobile station and by making the methods of communication between mobile stations more versatile. According to the invention it is possible to produce and present to the user various properties perceptible by the different senses, e.g. text, graphics, sound, vibration and/or illumination. These properties can be associated with each other to form effect entities. These effect entities can be transmitted to another mobile station during a conventional connection. In the receiving mobile station the effect entities are presented using different means of expression than the communication data proper.

Abstract: A sensing mechanism includes a magnetic source, a magnetic flux sensor, a sensor backing on which the magnetic source and flux sensor are mounted, and a ferromagnetic target, where the magnetic source, magnetic flux sensor, and ferromagnetic target are positioned to form a magnetic circuit from the magnetic source to the target, from the target to the sensor, and returning to the magnetic source through the sensor backing.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a device for reaming the intramedullary canal of a bone, including a body elongated along an axis roughly parallel to the longitudinal axis of the canal, with variable cross section, and of a shape that can cooperate with the inner wall of the intramedullary canal of the bone, characterized in that a helicoidal channel is formed on the body in order to receive a removable and disposable band provided with cutting elements. The present invention also concerns a mounting system for the band onto body of the device.

Abstract: A splice plate for stringers designed to connect two adjacent stringers at least three independent pieces, a connection rod being designed to be fixed by two opposite extremities to two adjacent stringers, and at least two connecting plates, each connecting plate being designed to be fixedly joined to a first extremity of one of the two stringers, and by a second extremity of a cross bar disposed between the two stringers. The disclosed embodiment also relate to a device for orbital fixation including at least one stringer splice plate splice bar.

Abstract: A mounting fixture for detachably fastening cover plates in an aircraft. For fixing, a retaining bracket fixed on the cover plate is snap-fitted onto a retaining pin fixed on a substructure of the fuselage cell. A first holder is fixed on the retaining pin for receiving at least one connecting element, and a second holder is displaceably fitted in a forked holder on the retaining bracket. The forked holder has a roughly U-shaped form with two upright arms each connected at their lower ends by a base plate. Two connecting elements are preferably each fixed in the holders. The connecting elements are formed as electrical and/or optical sockets and plugs each with cabling attached. By swiveling a contacting lever the second holder can be moved linearly to and fro in relation to the first holder and can be introduced and pushed at least in part into the first holder whereby the final electrical and/or optical contact is produced by means of the sockets and the plugs.

Abstract: A stiff panel (1) comprises a skin (2) and at least one stiffener (3) of composite material on said skin. Free surface (311) of web (31) of stiffener (3) on the stiff panel according to the invention comprises a deformable core (33) and a covering (34) which covers core (33) and joins said core with structural part (35) of web (31). The width of core (33) is equal to or greater than the width of structural part (35) of web (31) of stiffener (3), depending on the shock energy against which panel (1) must be protected.