Abstract: Printed circuit boards are wavesoldered by a method featuring the use of a plurality of elementary jets of molten solder to form a single flat soldering wave. Such a single flat wave is achieved by revolving those jets in an orbital motion such that the orbital motion is in a horizontal plane substantially parallel to the printed circuit board. Such a method allows the removal of air/gas bubbles during wavesoldering from any side of a component that is attached to a printed circuit board.

Abstract: Synchronization is provided between a mobile radio station and a base station in a digital radiomobile system TDMA where the base station transmits a timeslot containing a preset frequency sinusoid. The method samples (according to different embodiments) the baseband demodulated signals and measures the phase increases between two subsequent samplings. Increases are compared with an intermediate threshold value between 0.degree. and 180.degree. to construct a vector formed by a series of values, the current sum of which is calculated. The minimum value of this sum is then identified to approximately synchronize the mobile station with the timeslot containing the sinusoid. Afterwards, the frequency offset between the local oscillator frequency and the base station oscillator frequency is calculated and corrected in order to correctly identify the timeslot containing the preamble for fine synchronization. Then the decoding of the message containing the station and the frame data is performed.

Abstract: A basic element for the interconnection network of a fast packet switching node, where a synchronization is made at bit input stream level, the cell beginning is identified and a stream conversion from the serial form to a word parallel form is performed. Cells are thus transformed in a completely parallel form and in the same form they are cyclically discharged in the subsequent cell time in a memory, where cells are written and read in a shared way on the basis of instructions given by a control unit, thus performing the switching function. The control unit is essentially based on the use of a content-addressed associative memory, where a fraction of the routing header and a code indicating the time sequence on which the cells are stored. Memory outgoing cells are reconverted from a completely parallel form to a form having the length of one word and therefore in a completely serial form at a bitrate equal to the input one.

Abstract: In a radio mobile system in which the radio signals are received by at least two antenna, the signals are filtered, weighted and then combined before being sent to an equalizer. The weighting coefficients are calculated as a function of signals corresponding to the power level received by each antenna and signals which is represent the quality of reception of each antenna. Furthermore, an equalizer control signal is generated from the combination of signals, weighted by the weighting coefficients, corresponding to the time response of the transmission channel to a single impulse.

Abstract: The present invention is applicable for inverter-type power plants where the electric distribution line is used as stand-by unit. The present invention is composed of a ballast impedance and an electric mesh including an energizing circuit of a first section suitable for insulating a power plant from the distribution line; contacts of a second section which are monitored by a supervisory control circuit of the power plant; and an electric probe for making available a voltage or a current measurement when current flows through the distribution line.

Abstract: A tone generator for a telecommunication--especially telephone--system operating in the PAM/TDM mode comprises two complementary transistors with interconnected emitters joined to a "hot" conductor of a two-wire transmission path forming part of a trunk line between two groups of subscribers, the collectors of these transistors being connected through respective series resistors to a positive and a negative terminal of a DC source. These collectors are further coupled via respective shunt condensers to the "cold" conductor of the transmission path which is grounded through a low-ohmic further resistor.