Abstract: The disclosure generally describes a method for venting pressurized hydrogen gas from a device for simulating a refueling operation for a fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV).

Abstract: The present description concerns an antenna system comprising a transmitting or receiving antenna element (12), an array of parasitic antenna elements (14), individually associated with reconfigurable loads (15), one or a plurality of near-field antennas (32), and a circuit (18, 34) for setting the configuration of the array of parasitic antenna elements according to a radiation picked up by the near-field antenna(s) during a radio frequency transmission by the transmitting or receiving antenna element.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for mixing a gas-free liquid oxidant with a process liquid to form a homogeneous and gas-free mixture with minimized degassing. The mixing system comprises an injection device, integrating with a pipe through which a process liquid flows, configured and adapted to inject a gas-free liquid oxidant into the process liquid, and a mixer, fluidly connected to the pipe and the injection device, configured and adapted to mix the process liquid and the gas-free liquid oxidant therein to form a homogeneous and gas-free mixture of the process liquid and the gas-free liquid oxidant with minimal degassing. The method comprises the steps of a) injecting the gas-free liquid oxidant into the process liquid, and b) mixing the gas-free liquid oxidant and the process liquid to form the homogeneous and gas-free mixture. The gas-free liquid oxidant is ozone strong water.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an optoelectronic device comprising in a stack: one reflection polarizing filter, one phase-shifting element configured to add a ?/4 phase shift in polarization, one active region, one reflector, so that the light radiation rays reflected by the reflector and passing through the phase-shifting element exhibit a new polarization phase-shifted by ?/2 with respect to their initial polarization, the rays then being reflected anew by the polarizing filter in the direction of the active region.

Abstract: Laser emission device integrated into a substrate, comprising: a primary waveguide formed in the substrate and extending from a primary reflector; a plurality of secondary waveguides optically connected to the primary waveguide, and extending between a coupling end, optically connected to the primary waveguide, and a secondary reflector; the device being characterized in that each secondary waveguide comprises a gain medium, connected to a laser-pumping system and placed between the coupling end and the secondary reflector of said secondary waveguide so that the device forms as many Fabry-Pérot cavities as secondary waveguides; the device comprising an extractor, for extracting light from the device, at the resonant wavelength. FIG. 2.

Abstract: A gas separation device for use in combination with a liquid chromatography system is provided. The gas separation device includes a housing defining a fluid flow path between an outer surface and an inner surface. The fluid flow path includes an inlet portion, a diffuser portion, a recombination portion, and an outlet portion. Any gas bubbles contained within the fluid are trapped within the diffusor portion when fluid flow is in a forward direction. Fluid flow through the gas separation device is reversable so as to remove the trapped gas bubbles from within the gas separation device. In this operation state, the fluid is delivered from the gas separation device into the waste stream to ensure that gas bubbles leave the liquid chromatography system. The gas separation device may exhibit an air trapping effectiveness ratio (ATER) between 0.001 mb?1 and 0.51 mb?1 during forward direction fluid flow.

Abstract: A 3D microstructure is formed by hybrid bonding a top wafer on a bottom wafer, by a hybrid bond with metal bonding pads at the interface between the upper metallization level (HBM) of the respective interconnect structure of each of the wafers. These interconnect structures further include a horizontal interconnect level (MX) which is directly below the upper interconnect level (HBM). These pads are distributed horizontally substantially homogeneously and with a fine bonding pitch. Out of these pads, purely bonding pads are electrically insulated from any horizontal metallization element of the horizontal interconnect level (MX). Conversely, bonding and electrical connection pads are electrically coupled, without vias, to an underlying horizontal metallization element formed in the horizontal interconnect level (MX).

Abstract: A method for producing hydrogen using a feed stream comprising ammonia is provided. The method can include the steps of: heating the feed stream in a first heat exchanger to produce a heated feed stream, wherein the heated feed stream is at a temperature above 500° C.; introducing the heated feed stream into a first reaction zone under conditions effective for catalytically cracking the heated feed stream to produce a raw hydrogen stream, wherein the raw hydrogen stream comprises hydrogen and nitrogen; cooling the raw hydrogen stream by indirect heat exchange against a first cooling fluid to form a cooled hydrogen stream; and purifying the raw hydrogen stream to produce a hydrogen product stream and a tail gas, wherein the tail gas has a higher concentration of nitrogen as compared to the hydrogen product stream.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tank for storing liquefied gas, in particular liquefied hydrogen, the tank comprising a sealed shell that defines a storage space between a lower end and an upper end, the tank comprising a circuit that is fluidically connected to the storage space for filling with and/or drawing off fluid, characterized in that the tank comprises, in the storage space, a set of walls forming a trough that is located in the upper portion of the storage space and is open in the direction of the upper end of the storage space.

Abstract: A reaction mixture for producing a film-forming polycarbosilazane polymer comprises a first compound containing at least two unsaturated groups and a second compound containing at least two —SiH2— hydrosilyl functional groups, wherein the reaction mixture is capable of forming the film-forming polycarbosilazane polymer utilizing hydrosilylation of the first compound by the second compound. Also disclosed are methods of forming a silicon and carbon containing film on a substrate comprising the steps of producing a film-forming polycarbosilazane polymer by a polymerization of a reaction mixture of a first compound containing at least two unsaturated groups and a second compound containing at least two hydrosilyl functional groups, forming a solution containing the film-forming polycarbosilazane polymer, and contacting the solution with the substrate via a spin-on coating, spray coating, dip coating, or slit coating technique to form the silicon and carbon containing film on the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition, in particular a cosmetic or dermatological composition, in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising: at least one UV-screening agent; at least one polymer comprising monomer units of formulae (A) and (B): in which: R1, independently at each instance, is chosen from alkyl or alkenyl radicals, and at least 60% by weight of the R1 groups are radicals chosen from stearyl and behenyl radicals, the percentage by weight relating to the sum of all the R1 groups present in the polymer, and the weight ratio of the sum of all the hydroxyethyl acrylate units to the sum of all the acrylate units bearing the R1 group ranges from 1:30 to 1:1; and the sum of the total of units A and B is at least 95% by weight relative to the total weight of the polymer, the polymer having a number-average molecular weight Mn ranging from 2000 to 9000 g/mol; at least one C12-C24 fatty acid ester of a C2-C24 polyol; and at least one carboxylic or carboxylate anionic su

Abstract: An improved mounting block and bushing provides greater protection against accumulation of dirt, water and other contaminants that often result in cracking, abrasion and damage to heavy equipment. The assembly also permits removal and replacement of one or more seals that assist in the objectives described herein. The improved apparatus may be provided with a new piece of equipment, or may alternatively be provided to retrofit an existing piece of equipment.

Abstract: Quantum device formed from a substrate, the substrate being covered: with at least one semiconductor region forming a quantum dot, a detection structure with Coulomb blockade for detecting a state of charge of the quantum dot, said detection structure with Coulomb blockade including a detection island disposed above and facing the quantum dot and able to be coupled to the quantum dot by electrostatic coupling, said detection structure furthermore including at least one first tunnel junction between said detection island and a first gate block, the first gate block being juxtaposed with said detection island.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photodetector, including a SPAD type photodiode comprising, in a semiconductor substrate, a first doped region of a first conductivity type and a second doped region of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type so as to produce a PN junction; a quenching transistor comprising, in the substrate, a channel of the second conductivity type, a gate electrically isolated from the substrate by a dielectric layer, a third doped region of the first conductivity type flush with an upper face of the substrate. The dielectric layer is inserted between the gate and the first doped region, the channel is delimited by the first doped region and the third doped region.

Abstract: A system for light stimulation of a biological sample includes a light source adapted to emit an input light beam, and a closed chamber to receive at least one container in which the biological sample is placed. The system includes an optical device, and an optical guide connected on one side to the light source so as to receive the input light beam and on the other side to the optical device, the optical guide being arranged to guide the input light beam emitted by the light source as far as the optical device and to emit an output light beam. The optical device is configured to generate, from the output light beam, a parallel stimulating light beam, with a predetermined constant section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a melting device, comprising a melting space in which material can be melted and which is enclosed by at least a bottom wall and a side wall, the melting device further comprising at least one electric heater (E) and at least one submerged burner (F) disposed in the melting space to heat material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to coated cerium suboxide particles, to a process for preparing coated cerium oxide or suboxide particles by means of flame spray pyrolysis technology, to the cerium oxide particles resulting from such a process, to compositions comprising such particles and also to the uses thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for detecting and identifying a micro-organism contained in a sample comprising the steps consisting in (a) placing the sample, in a liquid culture medium, in the presence of at least one measurement electrode and a reference electrode and under conditions suitable for growth of the micro-organisms, (b) measuring, over time, the potential difference between said at least one measurement electrode and the reference electrode, (c) optionally computing the derivative of the potential difference based on the measurement performed in step (b) by way of which the profile of the derivative of the potential is obtained, and (d) detecting and identifying a micro-organism contained in said sample either based on the profile of the potential obtained in step b), or based on the profile obtained in step c). The present invention also relates to a system that capable of being implemented in this method.

Abstract: A process for detecting at least one amine-type compound, the compound being chosen from hydrazine, ethanolamine, and morpholine, the process includes using a reagents composition including a mixture of 4-(dimethylamino)cinnamaldehyde and polystyrenesulfonic acid. Also, a kit for preparing the reagents composition, the reagents composition itself, and the uses of the reagents composition.

Abstract: A polarimetric camera includes an optical system and an image sensor. The optical system (i) forms, on the image sensor, N images of a scene to be imaged, with N greater than or equal to 2, N being a number of polarization states, (ii) includes a polarization separator diverting the light beams coming from the scene according to the N polarization states, and (iii) has N exit pupils. The image sensor includes a plurality of detection pixels distributed in N subsets of pixels. Each subset is associated with an exit pupil and receives the incident light beams according to the polarization state of the associated exit pupil. The image sensor includes at least N angular filters, each angular filter transmitting, to a subset of pixels, the light beams coming from the associated exit pupil, and filtering the other light beams.