Abstract: In the field of multiprocessor systems of the type including at least one processing module made up of processors which are connected to a main bus or several processing modules which communicate with each other via bus coupling modules, a bus deblocking system is provided in which, using a perfectly mastered process, progressive and iterative deblocking of a multibus system;subject to a general or overall blocked situation is achieved by allocating to a specific deblocking board a module blocking detection function and a bus release function for the module. The bus release function sends one single decongesting signal having the following effect on all the processors of the module: first, inhibition of the bus allocation system, the system employing simultaneous access request arbitration; and second, cancellation of the bus ownership signal.

Abstract: A turbomolecular pump comprising a stator and a rotor, said rotor comprising a central shaft and a bell-shaped active portion, said stator comprising an outer portion and an inner portion that penetrates into the cavity of said bell-shaped active portion, and that supports the stator portion of the drive motor, the shaft of said rotor supporting the rotor portion of said drive motor, wherein said central shaft and the bell-shaped active portion of the rotor are made in one piece, without any assembly being necessary, and of a non-magnetic material, said shaft being provided with a central bore which receives the rotor portion of said drive motor, which portion is constituted by a cylindrical permanent magnet.

Abstract: A cellular radiotelephone network including a connection unit having a conventional first No. 7 signalling point for providing conventional control of access to a parent exchange for subscribers connected to connection units by means of signalling messages in compliance with interface A as defined by a the Special Mobile Group (GSM) and a second No. 7 signalling point and No. 7 links to a signalling point of a service control point, where the links convey an "intelligent network interface" for enabling the control point to control connections established by one of the connection units between subscribers connected to that unit, or connections established directly to other connection units, or connections established to the public network without said connections requiring a link via the parent exchange of the units.

Abstract: A remote power feed device for electronic equipment comprises two branches in parallel of which a first branch includes in series as many sets of Zener diodes as there are functional systems to be powered. The other or second branch includes one or more Zener diodes. Only the Zener diodes of the first branch conduct in normal operation, i.e. in the absence of any overcurrent. The supply voltage or voltages of the various subsystems of the same functional system are the voltage(s) across a common Zener diode or common Zener diodes of a common set of Zener diodes of the first branch.

Abstract: A cell assembly device switches and assembles synchronous digital channels into asynchronous transfer mode cells supporting asynchronous logical channels. The cells are sent on asynchronous multiplex links, and the synchronous digital channels are conveyed by synchronous multiplex links organized into recurrent frames. Samples of each synchronous digital channel are represented by binary words placed in time slots occupying fixed positions in the frames.

Abstract: A receiver circuit for audio frequency modems, comprising an input module (11) for receiving and sampling an analog input signal representing digital data, an adaptive equalizer (12, 14, 15) having a transversal filter (12) with a plurality of complex multiplier coefficients ordered relative to a usually central highest norm coefficient to generate symbols at a given symbol rate from the sampled analog signal, and a timing recovery device comprising devices (12, 16, 18, 19) responsive to displacement of at least one of the coefficients, relative to said central position, to control an oscillator (20) supplying a timing signal.

Abstract: A tunable optical filter tuning device suitable for use in the receive part of an optical transmission system rejects some of the optical noise superimposed on a wanted optical signal. The device commands displacement of the characteristic of the optical filter along the wavelength axis and includes a tuning detector to detect the time at which this displacement can be stopped. The tuning detector includes an optical power detector receiving a signal from the optical filter and detects any modulation of a signal from the optical power detector. The displacement is stopped when the detector detects modulation of the signal from the optical power detector.

Abstract: A data processing machine comprises a plurality of elementary machines (SUPMS, DEP, ARR, . . . ) disposed in a plurality of levels (level 1, level 2, . . .), and an event presentation device (PTA) responding to the arrival of an event by identifying the lowest machine level that is active and by identifying the elementary machine that is active in this lowest active machine level to present the event to said active elementary machine.

Abstract: A synchronization device, in an asynchronous transfer mode digital telecommunication network terminal equipment consists of: a jitter filter for filtering transfer jitter introduced by a network of this kind and affecting the clock frequency at which the equipment receives data via the network and for slaving the frequency of a local clock signal supplied by a local clock internal to the equipment to the output signal of the filter; buffers (MTB1, MTB2) written with the data at the clock frequency at which data is received by the equipment; and read controllers (5, 5') for reading the buffers at the clock frequency of the output signal of the filter with a time-delay relative to writing determined in such a way as to minimize the risks associated with excessively low bit rates in the recovery of data after such reading during the reaction time of the filter without departing from a permissible margin for the data recovery time-delay.

Abstract: In a method for simultaneous transmission of two heterochronous binary signals in the form of a single binary signal on a common physical medium, the second binary signal is timed by a bit clock whose period is greater than the minimal duration allowed for a bit of the first signal. For constituting the single binary signal transmitted there is provision for inserting between transitions of the first binary input signal a brief binary level inverting pulse for each bit of the second input signal which corresponds to the same one of the two possible binary levels of the second signal. Each temporary polarity inversion pulse due to the second signal is placed outside a guard area on either side of transitions of the first signal.

Abstract: An optical connection system for connecting customer premises networks to a switching center of a telecommunication network providing interactive and non-interactive services includes a switching center comprising central office termination equipments, a connection network, a control unit, an optical distribution network and customer premises networks. Non-interactive services are connected to the control central office termination equipment so that non-interactive service signals are sent to all customer premises networks on standby at the control central office termination equipment wavelength. These customer premises networks can therefore use these services without having to set up a call individually and so without having to busy a central office termination equipment for each customer premises network.

Abstract: A stack of parts, such as the stator disks of a turbomolecular pump, the parts being stacked alternately with spacers, includes a spacer having a knife-shaped deformable portion. When the stack is installed for the first time, the portion is compressed so as to take up the tolerances of the stack between abutment surfaces, e.g. delimited by a pump body and a corresponding casing. The invention applies in particular to turbomolecular pumps and aims to eliminate the operations of adjustment, re-machining, or matching that are usually required when installing a stator assembly.

Abstract: A database network management method ensures consistency of modifications to data in a network of databases comprising a relational database which constitutes a reference database and at least one further database accessible in real time. The data of the relational database is duplicated at least in part in the further databases accessible in real time.

Abstract: Two identical components assembled together constitute a guide rack for optical cables fixed at the bottom of a subrack fitted with circuit boards. Optical jumpers are guided between support members and guide members. Each optical cable is easily positioned pending connection with its terminal connector part resting between two support members. This avoids tangling of the optical jumpers and ensures that any of the cables connected to the front panel of any circuit board can be replaced by the cable put into the waiting position without risk of confusion.

Abstract: A device for assessing the transmission quality of an optical amplifier includes a coupler for sampling on the upstream side of the amplifier equipment relative to the direction of propagation of the optical signal to be amplified by the amplifier equipment part of the power of an optical signal propagating in the direction opposite to the propagation direction and corresponding to that part of the noise generated by the amplifier equipment transmitted in the direction opposite to the propagation direction. It also includes a coupler for sampling on the downstream side of the amplifier equipment relative to the propagation direction part of the power of an optical signal propagating in the propagation direction and corresponding to the optical signal after amplification by the amplifier equipment superimposed on that part of the noise generated by the amplifier equipment and transmitted in the propagation direction.

Abstract: A positive-displacement machine comprising a piston situated in a casing. The outline of the piston is hypertrochoidal, as is the outline of the hollow inside volume of the casing. The piston has n axes of symmetry, and the casing has n+1 axes of symmetry. The piston rotates inside the casing in orbital motion about the axis .DELTA.c of the casing. To obtain the rotation in orbital motion, firstly the piston is freely rotatably mounted on a crank pin that has its axis offset relative to the axis of a supporting shaft that is coaxial with the axis .DELTA.c of the casing, the shaft being rotated, and secondly the surface of the piston and the surface of the hollow inside volume of the casing are equipped with permanent magnets creating magnetic repulsion forces.

Abstract: A particular embodiment comprises:a semiconductor laser;a Mach-Zehnder type modulator;an analog adder for adding a modulation signal representing binary data with a DC bias voltage;a coupler for taking off a fraction of the modulated light signal;a photodiode;an amplifier;a bandpass filter tuned to a frequency equal to the binary data transmission rate;an amplifier;an amplitude detector;an amplifier; anda microprocessor associated with an analog-to-digital converter and with a digital-to-analog converter to modify the bias voltage so as to cause the amplitude of the spectrum line extracted by the filter and the amplitude detector to remain below a fixed threshold value. The invention is applicable to digital data transmissions.

Abstract: An automatically configurable optical connection system for connecting customer premises networks to a switching center of a telecommunication network includes an optical distribution network connecting all central office termination equipment optical senders to all customer premises network optical receivers and connecting all customer premises network optical senders to all central office termination equipment optical receivers. A control unit assigns a different wavelength to each customer premises network communicating at a given time, this wavelength representing an available central office termination equipment which is not the control central office termination equipment.

Abstract: This bidirectional transmission system, especially one using optical fiber, between a source terminal and a user terminal employing a single carrier for both transmission directions obtained from a source in the source terminal characterized in that it comprises for each transmission direction means for modulating one parameter of said carrier, this parameter being intensity for the two directions and subject in all cases to the condition that the modulation applied first for transmission in the downward direction from the source terminal to the user terminal the depth of modulation is sufficiently high to leave sufficient power for application of the second modulation to which that applied second can be applied for transmission in the upward direction from the user terminal to the source terminal.

Abstract: A system for re-establishing the transmission quality of a digital information transmission link including amplifier equipments in the event of failure of one or more amplifier equipments includes, associated with at least one of the amplifier equipments, a gain control device for varying the gain of the amplifier equipment in order to compensate for deterioration of the receive signal-to-noise ratio following failure of at least one other amplifier equipment. An error corrector coder at the send end of the link operates on the digital information to be transmitted and an error corrector decoder at the receive end of the link operates on the received digital information. The error corrector code used by the error corrector coder and decoder reduces or eliminate residual errors at the receiving end associated with residual deterioration of the receive signal-to-noise ratio not compensated by varying the gain.