Abstract: A system is provided for managing services in a living place, including: a supervision system, an anticipative solving system, the anticipative solving system including a processing and memory system for: storing service type problem generators and powers and occupants' satisfaction-related transversal problem generator; collecting service type and related parameters for each service; generating instantiated constraint data for each service according to its type and an anticipative service type problem data based on the constraint data; generating global anticipative problem data; computing set-point data for each service based on the solved global anticipative problem; sending set-point data to the supervision system; and a reactive system adapted to adjust the set-point data computed by the anticipative system depending on the current state of each service.

Abstract: An electronic device with cooling of a heat dissipation source, by a liquid metals spreader, the device including at least one heat dissipation source, at least one spreader through which at least one liquid metal circulation channel passes forming a loop routed below a heat dissipation source, at least one heat sink, and at least one electromagnetic pump moving the liquid metal in the at least one channel such that the liquid metal absorbs heat dissipated by a heat dissipation source and transports the absorbed heat to be evacuated by the heat sink. Each spreader includes at least two plates made of an electrical insulating material located on each side of at least one bar made of deformable material.

Abstract: A method for processing cardiac signals includes accepting, from a sensor system, a set of one or more signals, the signals including components of a desired cardiac signal and components of a substantially periodic interfering signal. The method is applicable for extraction of desired fetal cardiac signals from signals with interference from the maternal cardiac signal. A periodicity of the interfering signal is determined, and one or more iterations of mitigating an effect of a component of the signals that exhibit periodicity at the determined periodicity of the interfering signal are performed. In some examples, the method further includes determining a periodicity of the desired cardiac signal, and performing one or more iterations of enhancing an effect of a component of the signals that exhibit periodicity at the determined periodicity of the desired cardiac signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a surface suitable for filtering a plurality of frequency bands, said surface including a set of separate identical basic conductive units (31) that are reproduced in a periodic arrangement on a dielectric substrate (10). The basic unit includes: a tripole consisting of three identical segments (12) that extend radially from a center (14); and two arms (32) that extend symmetrically from an intermediate point of each segment, said intermediate point being located at a common distance (Db) from the center (14) for each of the segments (12). The general directions of both arms form an angle of approximately 120° and define an arrowhead pointed toward the outside, wherein the arms (32) corresponding to two separate segments (12) do not intersect.

Abstract: The invention relates to a structure adapted for the formation of solar cells, comprising the following successive elements, namely: a sheet (1) of textured metal with crystal grains having an average size greater than 50 ?m, said sheet being adapted to form a rear face electrode of the cells; a diffusion barrier layer (2) having a thickness of between 0.2 and 2 ?m, made from an electrically conductive material with crystal grains having an average size greater than 50 ?m; and a doped multicrystalline silicon layer (3) having a thickness of between 30 and 100 ?m, with crystal grains having an average size greater than 50 to 100 ?m, in which the average diffusion length of the carriers is greater than 50 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention is a non-volatile memory cell containing at least two distinct memory zones, each formed in a resistivity-change material, the memory cell containing at least one heating element for each memory zone, each heating element having at least two ends, one of which is connected to a supply line and the other of which is brought into contact with the resistivity-change material, characterized in that the resistivity-change material is arranged in a single block common to each of the memory zones of the memory cell, so as to create distinct memory zones locally.

Abstract: A gradient sensor of a component of a magnetic field comprising at least one elementary sensor comprising a deformable mass (31) equipped with a permanent magnet (32) having a magnetization direction substantially colinear to the direction of the gradient of the component of the magnetic field to be acquired by the sensor. The deformable mass (31) is able to deform under the effect of a force exerted on the magnet by the gradient, the effect of this force being to shift it, by dragging the deformable mass (31), in a direction substantially colinear to the component of the magnetic field for which the sensor has to acquire the gradient. The deformable mass (31) is anchored to a fixed support device (33) in at least two anchoring points (36) substantially opposite relative to the mass (31). The elementary sensor also comprises measuring means (35, 35.1, 35.2, 35.3) of at least one electric variable translating deformation or stress of the deformable mass (31) engendered by the gradient.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for etching a structure (1) including at least one material (4) to be etched, said method consisting in: selecting at least one chemical species that can react with the material (4) to be etched; selecting at least one soluble compound that can release this chemical species; producing a solution (11) containing said compound; placing the structure (1) in a position such that the surface of the material to be etched is in the presence of the solution and additional bubbles of a gas; and producing high-frequency ultrasounds in the solution, at at least one frequency, capable of generating reactive cavitation bubbles such that the chemical species is generated in the presence of these additional bubbles and reacts with the material to be etched, thereby producing a soluble compound or a precipitate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for etching a structure (1) including at least one material (4) to be etched, said method consisting in: selecting at least one chemical species that can react with the material (4) to be etched; selecting at least one soluble compound that can release this chemical species; producing a solution (11) containing the compound and a powder of particles or solid grains (13) in suspension; placing the material to be etched in the presence of the solution; and producing high-frequency ultrasounds in the solution, at at least one frequency, capable of generating active cavitation bubbles such that the chemical species is generated and reacts with the material to be etched, thereby producing a soluble compound or a precipitate.

Abstract: The method for determining the state of charge of a battery includes measurement of an electric parameter of the battery during a charging or discharging phase of the battery followed by placing the battery in open circuit during a rest period. During the rest period, at least two values of the voltage at the battery terminals are measured. An indicator is then calculated according to the electric parameter and to values of the voltage measured during the rest period, and the state of charge corresponding to this indicator is then determined by means of a calibration curve representative of the variations of the indicator as a function of the state of charge of the battery.

Abstract: A method for pre-programming a matrix of phase-change memory cells, including a phase-change material positioned between two conducting electrodes and able to be reversely electrically modified so as to vary the resistivity of the memory cell. A dielectric layer is provided with the memory cell having an original resistive state at the end of the memory cell production process. A pre-programming of the matrix is executed prior to mounting a component containing the matrix on a support. A breakdown voltage is applied to a selection of memory cells so that, for each one of the selected cells, the layer of the dielectric material breaks down to bring the cell from the original resistive state to a second resistive state.

Abstract: A method for processing cardiac signals includes accepting, from a sensor system, a set of one or more signals, the signals including components of a desired cardiac signal and components of a substantially periodic interfering signal. The method is applicable for extraction of desired fetal cardiac signals from signals with interference from the maternal cardiac signal. A periodicity of the interfering signal is determined, and one or more iterations of mitigating an effect of a component of the signals that exhibit periodicity at the determined periodicity of the interfering signal are performed. In some examples, the method further includes determining a periodicity of the desired cardiac signal, and performing one or more iterations of enhancing an effect of a component of the signals that exhibit periodicity at the determined periodicity of the desired cardiac signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a membrane that includes a porous polymer material made of a polyimide with interconnected macropores and impregnated with protic ionic liquid conductors (CLIP), as well as to the method for manufacturing same and to the uses thereof. The membranes of the invention fulfil the need for membranes including CLIPs, which have good proton-conducting properties as well as good physical properties, in particular high thermal and mechanical stability, in addition to a wide range of electrochemical stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic actuation method according to which a magnetized mobile (4) is directed by means of at least one magnetic element (2, 2a, 2b) placed opposite said magnetized mobile, characterized in that the preferred direction (or easy axis) of magnetization is made to turn at every point of said element by applying at least one mechanical constraint to said magnetic element(s) (2, 2, 2b), causing anisotropy within said element and thus moving the magnetized mobile in a preferred linear direction or causing the same to rotate.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic chip, comprising: a semiconductor substrate (6) having an active area (8) formed by at least one P doped region and at least one N doped region which form one or more P-N junctions through which most of the useful current flows when said electronic chip is in a conductive state, and at least one channel (44) through which a heat transport coolant can flow, the channel(s) passing through at least said P or N doped region of the active area. Each channel (44) is rectilinear and passes through the substrate (6) in a direction which is collinear with a direction F to the nearest ±45°, where the direction F is perpendicular to the plane of the substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to processes for coating a surface with a crosslinked polyelectrolytes multilayer film incorporating a protein, preferably a growth factor type protein. The invention also relates to crosslinked polyelectrolytes multilayer films obtained by this process, and a coated surface obtained therefrom.

Abstract: A method for removing a part from a mold and to a machine for molding said part, the part made of a material having a glass-transition temperature and a melting temperature that is higher than the glass-transition temperature, and which is shaped in the cavity of a mold, includes at least two mold portions defining said shaping cavity therebetween. The mold is at a temperature between said glass-transition temperature and said melting temperature. The method comprises opening the mold by spacing apart said mold portions, locally spraying a cooling gas toward the part remaining in a portion of the mold using at least one nozzle, and, after a predetermined time period following the start of spraying the gas, ejecting the part from said portion of the mold, the time period being such that the part reaches a temperature that is lower than the glass-transition temperature thereof.

Abstract: Method for monitoring an electrochemical cell or a battery (1), in particular method for monitoring the first charging of an electrochemical cell or of a battery (1) of Li-ion type, comprising a step of acquiring data relating to acoustic emissions produced in the electrochemical cell or in the battery and, by using the data acquired, a step of detecting: the formation of a passivation film on an electrode of the electrochemical cell or of the battery; and/or the first storage of lithium in an electrode of the electrochemical cell or of the battery.

Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to a seat portion structure for a ground-based hydraulic turbine engine. The seat portion structure includes a base plate. A first bearing element is connected to the base plate and contacts the ground. At least three arms are connected to the base plate by a pivoting link. The arms are adapted for pivoting relative to the base plate between a first position, in which the arms are placed near each other, and a second position, in which the arms radially extend from the base plate. A second bearing element is connected to one end of each arm and contacts the ground. A positioning device is adapted for changing the distance between the end of at least one arm and the associated second element. The structure includes, for each arm, a device for locking the arm in the second position.

Abstract: A magnetic field vector sensor includes a substrate parallel to a plane, a support mobile relative to it and rotatable about a vertical rotation axis perpendicular to it, a magnetic field source generating a field having a moment in a non-perpendicular direction, the source being fixed to the support with no degree-of-freedom to exert torque on the support when a field to be measured is present, the field being non-collinear with the moment, a transducer to convert torque exerted on the support into a field amplitude of a component of the field along a measurement axis in the plane, wherein the source comprises a magnetostrictive permanent magnet for generating the field having a moment whose direction varies with stress on the magnet, and wherein the sensor further comprises a controllable device to reversibly modify the moment direction, and a stress generator to vary stress and hence moment direction.