Abstract: A cryogenic magnetic device includes a free layer having a free magnetisation and a magnetic anisotropy favouring the orientation of the free magnetisation according to a first orientation or a second orientation, the magnetic anisotropy being defined by an energy barrier separating the first orientation and the second orientation, the amplitude of the energy barrier being less than 6300 kB, the free layer having a Gilbert damping factor comprised between 0.02 and 0.4; a tunnel barrier extending in contact with the free layer; and a system configured to apply a voltage pulse through the tunnel barrier so as to reduce the amplitude of the energy barrier and switch the free magnetisation.

Abstract: A control method for controlling an actuator (11) connected to a load (50) for handling, the method comprising the steps of: detecting an intention to handle the load (50); applying an increasing command to the actuator (11) until detecting a movement of the actuator (11); storing the value reached by the command when a movement of the actuator (11) is detected; using the stored value reached by the command to determine an estimate of the opposing force exerted by the load (50) for handling; and controlling the actuator by means of a force servocontrol relationship using the estimate of the opposing force exerted by the load (50) for handling in order to establish the commands to be applied to the actuator (11). A cobot (1) arranged to perform the method.

Abstract: A device for manufacturing a lithium band including a rolling area including two rolling cylinders, a feed-in area including a device for feeding in the rolling area with a lithium band with a first thickness, a device for feeding in two films interposed between the lithium band with a first thickness and a rolling cylinder, and a storage area including a device for collecting a lithium band having a second thickness. The lithium band with a second thickness is tensioned and rolls ensure a separation of each film off the surface of one of the rolling cylinders in a separation area located beyond a horizontal plane passing through the axis of rotation of the rolling cylinder and located opposite to the other rolling cylinder.

Abstract: A nickel-titanium alloy with an average grain size of between 0.2 and 10 microns and a recoverable strain of greater than 9% is disclosed herein, in which the alloy is formed using a method which involves applying a shape set heat treatment to the nickel-titanium alloy. The heat treatment includes applying heat at a temperature between 225° C. and 350° C. for a period of time between 20 and 240 minutes.

Abstract: A component for detecting electromagnetic radiation includes a detection structure and a supply circuit for the detection structure. The detection structure includes a transistor associated with an absorbent element for detecting the rise in temperature of the absorbent element when electromagnetic radiation is absorbed. The supply circuit is configured to supply the detection structure in operation such that a channel zone of the structure has, at the location of one of its first and the second faces, a layer having carriers of a second type of conductivity opposite to a first type of conductivity of a source zone and of a drain zone of the transistor, the layer being referred to as blocking layer.

Abstract: An electroforming process for a resistive memory of a memory device including a memory controller, an encoder computing an inversion-invariant linear error correction code, and a write device connected directly to the encoder. An electroforming device performing electroforming through write operations to such a resistive memory and to a method for checking a write operation.

Abstract: Method for manufacturing a heat sink for liquid cooling system of a compute blade of a supercomputer, comprising in particular a friction-stir welding step of a base plate at a machined central rib and at a machined rim.

Abstract: Disclosed is a planetary gear transmission box, comprising a housing portion, a first planetary gear transmission stage, and a second planetary gear transmission stage, wherein the first planetary gear transmission stage comprises a first sun gear (3), a first planetary carrier (5), and a first ring gear; the second planetary gear transmission stage comprises a second sun gear, a second planetary carrier (7), and a second ring gear (6); the first sun gear (3) is connected to an external input element; the first planetary carrier (5) is connected to the second sun gear; the second planetary carrier (7) is connected to an output element; the transmission ratio of the gear transmission box is greater than 25; and the second planetary carrier (7) is directly supported on the housing portion. The locked rotor torque of the gear box is increased, such that the output rotational speed is reduced, and thus a bearing member at the output end can be omitted.

Abstract: A flexible cellular foam or fabric product is coated with a coating including highly thermally conductive nanomaterials. The highly thermally conductive nanomaterials may be carbon nanomaterials, metallic, or non-metallic solids. The carbon nanomaterials may include, but are not necessarily limited to, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets. The highly thermally conductive nanomaterials may include but are not limited to nano-sized solids that may include graphite flakes, for example. When coated on a surface of flexible foam, the presence of nanomaterials may impart greater thermal effusivity, greater thermal conductivity, and/or a combination of these improvements. The flexible foam product may be polyurethane foam, latex foam, polyether polyurethane foam, viscoelastic foam, high resilient foam, polyester polyurethane foam, foamed polyethylene, foamed polypropylene, expanded polystyrene, foamed silicone, melamine foam, among others.

Abstract: An active laser medium for emitting a light beam by laser effect includes an X—F2-doped crystal, wherein X is a chemical element from the alkaline-earth family and F is fluorine. The crystal is doped with trivalent ions including: a first category of optically active dopant ions, in which each dopant ion is an ion of a first rare earth; and a second category of optically inactive dopant ions, referred to as buffer ions, in which each dopant ion is an ion of a rare earth different from the first rare earth. The second category of dopant ions has at least ions of a second rare earth and ions of a third rare earth, different from one another. The invention provides an active laser medium that can be used to obtain both a desired emission spectrum shape and a high thermal conductivity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition, preferably a cosmetic or dermatological composition, comprising: i. at least one hydroxy acid chosen from ?-hydroxy acids, ?-hydroxy acids, and mixtures thereof; ii. at least one monoalkyl or dialkyl isosorbide, the alkyl group comprising from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; iii. at least one polyethylene glycol-polypropylene glycol ether of formula (I): CnH2n+1(OCH(CH3)CH2)x(OCH2CH2)yOH (I); iv. at least one first hydrogenated or non-hydrogenated, polyoxyethylenated plant oil and at least one second hydrogenated or non-hydrogenated, polyoxyethylenated plant oil; said first and second polyoxyethylenated plant oils being different from one another; v. a physiologically acceptable medium comprising at least water; vi. said composition having an acidic pH. The present invention also relates to a cosmetic treatment method comprising the application of said composition to keratin materials and also to the cosmetic use of said composition for caring for the skin.

Abstract: Filtering pullies with a hub adapted to be fixed to a rotating shaft, a crown mounted coaxially and rotationally free on the hub, at least one elastic group arranged circumferentially with respect to the hub and the crown and interposed, each, between a pair of first elements integral with the hub and between a pair of second elements integral with the crown are disclosed. The pulley has a dust protection lip carried integrally by said hub and configured to slide, in tight manner, with respect to an element integral with said crown. The dust protection lip is a labyrinthine sealing lip.

Abstract: A method comprises providing a digital image of a reference network, showing a first series of periodic patterns; defining a reference pattern from the patterns of the first series; providing a digital image of the network to be analyzed, showing a second series of periodic patterns; computing a correlation coefficient between each pattern of the second series and the reference pattern; classifying, in a first category, each pattern of the second series with a correlation coefficient, as an absolute value, that is less than a predetermined threshold; extracting a characteristic dimension for each pattern of the second series with a correlation coefficient, as an absolute value, that is greater than the predetermined threshold; computing an arithmetic mean and a standard deviation of the characteristic dimensions extracted in the extracting step; and classifying, in a second category, each pattern of the second series with a characteristic dimension that exhibits a deviation from the arithmetic mean that is gr

Abstract: A solid anhydrous composition for caring for and/or making up keratin materials comprises a) 2 wt. % or more of at least one hydrophilic moisturizer, relative to the total weight of the composition; b) at least one non-ionic surfactant selected from glyceryl fatty acid monoesters and polyglyceryl fatty acid esters; c) polyethylene wax; and e) at least one oil. A cosmetic process for caring for and/or making up keratin materials comprises applying the solid anhydrous composition according to the present invention to the keratin materials.

Abstract: A casing having at least one tubular wall extending in a longitudinal direction (L) between two longitudinal ends, and an inner face of which participates in delimiting a receptacle for the section of packing, the tubular wall participating in delimiting an input opening at one of its longitudinal ends, the casing comprising a base wall positioned at the longitudinal end opposite the input opening, the casing configured to be positioned horizontally during a process for installing a section of packing.

Abstract: A computing device obtains a first video recorded by a first camera (e.g., a rear-facing camera of a mobile computing device) having a first field of view in an illuminated environment and obtains a second video recorded by a second camera having a second field of view (e.g., a forward-facing camera of a mobile computing device) in the illuminated environment that differs from the first field of view. The second field of view is directed toward a face of a live subject. The computing device extracts lighting environment images from the first video and face images from the second video. The computing device processes the face images and the lighting environment images (e.g., using machine learning models) to obtain a plurality of determinations of skin tone of the face and combines the determinations of skin tone of the face to determine a combined determination of skin tone.

Abstract: In a process for separating a mixture containing hydrogen and carbon dioxide, the following steps are present: a) cooling of the mixture in a heat exchanger by sending the mixture to the heat exchanger, resulting in the partial condensation of the mixture into a liquid phase enriched in carbon dioxide and a gas phase depleted in carbon dioxide, a gaseous fluid which is heated in the heat exchanger by indirect heat exchange, b) separating the liquid phase from the gas phase in a separator vessel, c) heating of the gas phase originating from at least one of the separator vessels in the heat exchanger, d) sending of the at least one heated part from step c) to a membrane separation unit, generating a residue depleted in hydrogen and carbon dioxide and e) expansion of the at least one residue in a turbine producing an expanded fluid, f) the expanded fluid constituting the gaseous fluid of step a) which is heated in the heat exchanger by indirect heat exchange.

Abstract: A module (10) for a battery includes accumulators (20), a first flange (22A) including first through openings, the accumulators being secured in the first openings, first electrically-conductive plates (24A), each first plate being connected to the accumulators of a first accumulator assembly, a second flange (22B) including second through openings, the accumulators being secured in the second openings, second electrically-conductive plates (24B), each second plate being connected to the accumulators of a second accumulator assembly, and first, second, and third chambers partly delimited by the first and second flanges and containing a dielectric liquid, the first flange including first passages for the dielectric liquid between the first and second chambers and the second flange including second passages for the dielectric liquid between the second and third chambers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel pharmaceutical use of bromide, i.e. the treatment of autism spectral disorder (ASD).

Abstract: The salt-stable cosmetic composition is in the form of a low viscosity emulsion (oil in water) and is especially stable at high electrolyte contents and includes a salt-stable polymeric system comprising a polymer blend such that the salt-stable cosmetic composition resists phase separation, pilling and gellifying at high salt content, conferring a flowable, lightweight lotion-type texture.