Abstract: An electronic device includes a carrier substrate with an electronic IC chip mounted on top of the carrier substrate. An encapsulation block on top of the front face of the carrier substrate embeds the IC chip. The encapsulation block has a through-void for positioning and confinement that extends through the encapsulation block to the top of the carrier substrate. At least one electronic component is positioned within the through-void and mounted to the top of the carrier substrate. Solder bumps or pads are located within the through-void to electrically connect the at least one electronic component to the carrier substrate.

Abstract: A photonic system includes a first photonic circuit having a first face and a second photonic circuit having a second face. The first photonic circuit comprises first wave guides, and, for each first wave guide, a second wave guide covering the first wave guide, the second wave guides being in contact with the first face and placed between the first face and the second face, the first wave guides being located on the side of the first face opposite the second wave guides. The second photonic circuit comprises, for each second wave guide, a third wave guide covering the second wave guide. The first photonic circuit comprises first positioning devices projecting from the first face and the second photonic circuit comprises second positioning devices projecting from the second face, at least one of the first positioning devices abutting one of the second positioning devices in a first direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an interface comprising: a terminal for delivering a DC voltage; a comparator for delivering a first signal representative of a comparison of the DC voltage with a high threshold; a comparator for delivering a second signal representative of a comparison of the DC voltage with a low threshold; and a circuit configured to: deliver successive pairs of values of high and low thresholds for a time period after the DC voltage crosses a first value of the low threshold; modify successive pairs of values of the thresholds based on the first and second signals to determine values of thresholds surrounding the DC voltage; and determining a current value of the DC voltage based on the values of thresholds surrounding the DC voltage.

Abstract: An electrical connection wire connects an electrical connection pad of an electrical chip and an electrical connection pad of a carrier substrate to which the electronic chip is mounted. A dielectric layer surrounds at least the bonding wire. The dielectric layer may be a dielectric sheath or a hardened liquid dielectric material. A dielectric material may also cover at least a portion of the electrical chip and carrier substrate. A liquid electrically conductive material is deposited and hardened to form a local conductive shield surrounding the dielectric layer at the bonding wire.

Abstract: Provided are water treatment systems and methods of treating water. A water treatment system comprises a first wire coil wrapped around a water pipe at a first angle, wherein the first angle is less than 90°, as measured from a direction of water flow through the water pipe; a second wire coil wrapped around the water pipe at a second angle, wherein the second angle is more than 90°, as measured from the direction of water flow through the water pipe; and a controller configured to send a first electric current to the first wire coil to generate a first magnetic field and a second electric current to the second wire coil to generate a second magnetic field.

Abstract: An automatic dead zone time optimization system in a primary-side regulation flyback power supply continuous conduction mode (CCM), including a closed loop formed by a control system, including a single output digital to analog converter (DAC) midpoint sampling module, a digital control module, a current detection module, a dead zone time calculation module and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) driving module, and a controlled synchronous rectification primary-side regulation flyback converter. A primary-side current is sampled using a DAC Sampling mechanism to calculate a secondary-side average current, so as to obtain a primary-side average current and a secondary-side average current, in the case of CCM. A secondary-side current is input into the dead zone time calculation module to obtain a reasonable dead zone time; and the PWM driving module is jointly controlled by a primary-side regulation loop and the obtained dead zone time.

Abstract: An optoelectronic chip includes optical inputs having different passbands, a photonic circuit to be tested, and an optical coupling device configured to couple said inputs to the photonic circuit to be tested.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a presence availability discovery device comprising a series of computing devices, coupled via a network connector, to match connected worker(s) to a multimodal dialog initiated by an end user, comprising: a dialog identifier device, a context identifier device, a relevance classifier device, a connected worker identifier device, a connected worker router, a memory, and a controller. As a novel aspect, the connected worker identifier device parses a relevance discovery report created by the relevance classifier device to create a list of connected workers most responsive to the multimodal dialog and the end user, by correlating weighted intents against a list of connected workers, whereby the list of the one or more connected workers further comprises each of the one or more connected workers listed having an associated identifier, at least one availability marker, at least one skill, and at least one skill ranking.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a monomeric polypeptide including a single subunit comprising the active site of a [NiFe]-hydrogenase-like protein, said monomeric polypeptide having hydrogenase activity.

Abstract: There is accordingly provided a device for measuring a person's ventilation including oxygen consumption. The device includes a breathing conduit with at least one sensor sampling port. The device includes a dehumidification conduit extending from the sensor sampling port towards a sensor. The dehumidification conduit has a proximal end portion flush with the sensor sampling port. The dehumidification conduit has a longitudinal axis about which the proximal end portion thereof extends. The breathing conduit is shaped to promote a flow of air adjacent the sensor sampling port in one or more directions perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A self-aligning bearing support assembly for supporting a radial load rotary or linear bearing. The bearing support assembly has a main axis (A) and includes an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve at least partially received in the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve has an axially extending bore for supporting a rotary or linear bearing or for forming a bearing surface of a bearing. Three or more circumferentially separated chambers are formed between the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve. Each chamber is confined in all directions by walls of the assembly. A lump of a substantially incompressible material fills each of the at least three chambers with the chamber concerned substantially completely enclosing the lump.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an electronic device includes: an interrupt controller having an input for receiving a controller clock signal, and an output, the interrupt controller configured to deliver an output interrupt signal on the output when the controller clock signal is active, and a control circuit comprising, an input interface for receiving at least one interrupt signal from at least one item of equipment external to the device, a clock input for receiving an external clock signal, and a first controller connected to the input interface and to the clock input, the first controller configured to automatically generate the controller clock signal from the external clock signal from when the at least one interrupt signal is asserted until a delivery of a corresponding output interrupt signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises: a substrate; a well region provided in the substrate, having a second conductivity type; source regions having a first conductivity type; body tile regions having the second conductivity type, the source regions and the body tie regions being alternately arranged in a conductive channel width direction so as to form a first region extending along the conductive channel width direction, and a boundary where the edges of the source regions and the edges of the body tie regions are alternately arranged being formed on two sides of the first region; and a conductive auxiliary region having the first conductivity type, provided on at least one side of the first region, and directly contacting the boundary, a contact part comprising the edge of at least one source region on the boundary and the edge of at least one body tie region on the boundary.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a modular firearm frame adapter that aid in making compatible a slide associated with a first firearm and a frame associated with a second firearm. The compatibility is such that the slide associated with a first firearm and a magazine associated with a second firearm being able to function properly as a single integrated firearm. This system includes an adapter, and one or more adapter elements that aids allowing the modular firearm to function properly.

Abstract: Methods of manufacturing and implanting corneal inlays, such as small diameter corneal inlays, are provided. The methods include manufacturing an implant body to have a meniscus shape with a small diameter and an index of refraction, and implanting the implant body in a corneal bed of a cornea. The inlays cause a change in an anterior surface of the cornea after implantation due to the implant body.

Abstract: A method for synchronizing a first time domain with a second time domain of a system on chip includes a detection of at least one periodic trigger event generated in the first time domain, the second time domain or in a third time domain; acquisitions, made at the instants of the at least one trigger event, of the current timestamp values representative of the instantaneous states of the time domain(s) other than the trigger time domain; a comparison, made in the third time domain, between differential durations between current timestamp values which are respectively acquired successively; and a synchronization of the second time domain with the first time domain, on the basis of the comparison.

Abstract: A cap (10) for adding additives to a container. The base (12) is a round platform (20) with a vertical axis (18), a container attachment (30), a series of truncated sawteeth (60) extending around the perimeter (36), a through aperture (80) between the bottom and top surfaces, and a spike (84) extending from the aperture. A cylindrical tank (14) has sealed compartments (110) filled with additives arranged in a circle around the axis. A mechanism (16, 32) holds the base and tank together and biases the tank to the base. As the tank rotates, cogs (144) in the tank slide up the tooth ramps (64) to push the tank away from the platform until the cogs reach the tooth plateaus (66). The cogs pass the plateaus where the tank is pulled toward the platform and the spike punctures a seal covering an opening in the aligned compartment.

Abstract: A pixel includes a photodiode and first and second transistors, the first and second transistors being coupled in series. One of the first and second transistors is a P channel transistor and the other is an N channel transistor. An electronic device may include one or more of the pixels.

Abstract: Described are cementitious reagent materials produced from globally abundant inorganic feedstocks. Also described are methods for the manufacture of such cementitious reagent materials and forming the reagent materials as microspheroidal glassy particles. Also described are apparatuses, systems and methods for the thermochemical production of glassy cementitious reagents with spheroidal morphology. The apparatuses, systems and methods make use of an in-flight melting/quenching technology such that solid particles are flown in suspension, melted in suspension, and then quenched in suspension. The cementitious reagents can be used in concrete to substantially reduce the CO2 emission associated with cement production.