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  • Patent number: 8680489
    Abstract: An installation and method for etching at least one wafer coated with an etch-ready, blank photosensitive layer is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment, the wafer has thickness irregularities, wherein the wafer is arranged to be able to be submitted to irradiation-beam scanning, a sheet transparent to the radiation to which the photosensitive layer is sensitive covers the wafer, and a probe beam intended to reflect on the upper portion of the sheet perpendicularly to the irradiation beam spot on the photosensitive layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat à L'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Christophe Martinez, Pascal Boulitreau, Fabien Laulagnet
  • Patent number: 8682310
    Abstract: Localized areas within a cell of a cellular wireless communication network, wherein users experience high traffic loads or poor coverage, are automatically detected and positioned by a network-based monitoring and positioning method. The localized areas are detected by performing measurements (e.g., TAdv, AOA, and neighbor node measurements) on User Equipment (UE) indicating or recording a network capacity or coverage deficiency. The detected, localized area of deficient performance is then positioned (e.g., in latitude and longitude), such as by positioning one or more UE within the area. The deficient network capacity or coverage, the localized area in which it is concentrated, and the position of the localized area are then reported, with a recommendation to deploy a low-power serving node within the localized area (e.g., at or near the area reported position) to alleviate the capacity or coverage deficiency, while minimizing interference with communication services to other users within the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jari Vikberg, Tomas Nylander
  • Patent number: 8682282
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose a method in a communication device in a telecommunications network. The first communication device receives an emergency notification from a broadcasting unit indicating a cell associated to the first communication device wherein the emergency is to be notified to a user equipment. The first communication device determines a paging channel to be used to page and broadcast within the cell a notification indicating an emergency and orders the notification indicating an emergency to be transmitted on the paging channel. The first communication device determines a common control channel to be used to broadcast an emergency confirm message within the cell, and orders the emergency confirm message to be transmitted on the common control channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Sven Ekemark, Janne Peisa
  • Patent number: 8679432
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adsorber, including a reaction chamber, an adsorbent having adsorption properties enabling the at least partial removal of water from a gas stream including NOx and/or SOx, and a coating essentially consisting of a polymer material on at least a portion of the inner metal wall of the reaction chamber, said polymer being resistant to the acidic liquids at temperatures above 150° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Ivan Sanchez-Molinero, Serge Moreau
  • Patent number: 8680212
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite dyestuff, characterized in that it is in the form of microcapsules composed of a polymer matrix of crosslinked polyurethane, polyurea and/or polyurethane/polyurea type obtained by interfacial polycondensation, and of a pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Valérie Jeanne-Rose, Ivan Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 8681607
    Abstract: A network element implementing Multiprotocol Label Switching to automatically create an optimal deterministic back-up Label Switch Path (LSP) that is maximally disjointed from a primary LSP to provide a reliable back up to the primary LSP. The network element receives a request for a generation of an LSP, determines that the request for the generation of the LSP is for the back-up LSP, locates each link of the primary LSP in a traffic engineering database, modifies each link of the primary LSP to have a link cost significantly greater than an actual link cost to discourage use of each link of the primary LSP in the back-up LSP, executes a Constrained Shortest Path First algorithm to obtain the back-up LSP, wherein the back-up LSP has a maximum disjointedness from the primary LSP due to a modified cost of each link of the primary LSP, and returns the back-up LSP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Wenhu Lu, Sriganesh Kini
  • Patent number: 8679423
    Abstract: A microfluidic device, including a microfluidic network, including: a) two parallel plates each including one or more electrodes, b) at least one channel, arranged between the two plates, made from a material obtained by solidification or hardening of a material of a first fluid, and c) a mechanism varying a physical parameter of the material constituting walls of the channel so as to cause the material to pass at least from the liquid state to the solid state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Yves Fouillet
  • Patent number: 8678269
    Abstract: A method for joining, assembling, at least two parts made of silicon carbide-based materials by non-reactive brazing is provided. According to the method, the parts are contacted with a non-reactive brazing composition, the assembly formed by the parts and the brazing composition is heated to a brazing temperature sufficient to melt the brazing composition totally or at least partly, and the parts and brazing composition are cooled to that, after solidification of the brazing composition, a moderately refractory joint is formed; wherein the non-reactive brazing composition is an alloy comprising, in atomic percentages, 45% to 65% silicon, 28% to 45% nickel and 5% to 15% aluminum. A brazing composition as defined above is provided. A brazing paste, suspension comprising a powder of said brazing composition and an organic binder as well as a joint and assembly obtained the foregoing method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Valérie Chaumat, Jean-Francois Henne, Nadia Miloud-Ali
  • Patent number: 8681294
    Abstract: Displays having narrow viewing angles that can be fabricated using fabrication facilities geared toward wide angle displays are described. In one display, a narrow viewing angle optical film is placed between the LCD panel and the polarizers. The narrow viewing angel optical films have a vertically orientated optical axis and a positive birefringence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Hiap L. Ong & Kyoritsu Optronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiap L. Ong
  • Patent number: 8683424
    Abstract: Configuration requirements for an Availability Management Framework (AMF) configuration are generated from high level user requirements that specify a subset of properties of an AMF configuration. The user requirements are first mapped into entity prototypes defined in an extended Entity Types File (ETF) model. A computer system identifies additional entity prototypes and dependency thereof that support functionalities of the mapped entity prototypes under a set of grouping conditions. The computer system calculates the required number of component service instances (CSIs) and service instances (SIs) that satisfy the user requirements. The calculation is based on the subset of the properties specified by the user requirements and measurements associated with the entity prototypes in the extended ETF model. The computer system then forms configuration requirements including the required number of CSIs and SIs for generating the AMF configuration that satisfies the user requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Pietro Colombo, Pejman Salehi, Ferhat Khendek, Maria Toeroe, Ali Kanso
  • Patent number: 8679693
    Abstract: A fuel cell including a stack of electrochemical cells, a pair of end plates located at each end of the stack of cells, and a cooling system for cooling the cells. The cooling system includes a coolant fluid circulating in closed loop through the stack and in the end plates, such that the coolant fluid exchanges heat with the end plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Commissariat à l′énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventor: Jean Oriol
  • Publication number: 20140080484
    Abstract: Example embodiments are directed towards establishing a base station (401A) to base station (401B) interface for receiving and sending communications on the interface for providing bearer management functions for bearers associated with a user equipment (101) in multiple connectivity with at least two base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Angelo Centonza, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Niklas Johansson, Oumer Teyeb, Stefan Wagner, Pontus Wallentin
  • Publication number: 20140075747
    Abstract: Electro-mechanical connection component provided on one connection surface with conductive inserts intended to be inserted at ambient temperature into respective ductile conductive pads formed on a surface of another connection component for a face-to-face type hybridization. Each insert of the component includes: a hollow metal core formed of a bottom arranged on the connection surface and of a lateral wall protruding from said bottom, defining an internal surface of the insert, at least a portion of said internal surface being non-oxidized; and a metal layer substantially only covering the internal surface of the metal core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: François MARION
  • Publication number: 20140079041
    Abstract: The embodiments herein relate to a method in a transmitter (101) for transmitting at least a first data burst and a second data burst to a receiver (105) in a system (100) applying applies closed loop codebook-based precoding MIMO. The transmitter (101) comprises at least a first Tx antenna (107a) and a second Tx antenna (107b). The transmitter (101) transmits, to the receiver (105), at least the first data burst through the first Tx antenna (107a) and the second data burst through the second Tx antenna (107b). The first data burst comprises a first training sequence and the second data burst comprises a second training sequence when the first data burst and the second data burst are non-precoded. The first data burst comprises a third training sequence and the second data burst comprises a fourth training sequence when the first data burst and the second data burst are precoded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Eric Nordström, Henrik Sahlin, Mårten Sundberg
  • Publication number: 20140077764
    Abstract: Method for managing a battery comprising several accumulators that can be linked in series or in parallel, comprising a charging or discharging phase during which the accumulators are disposed in series, characterized in that it thereafter comprises a balancing phase comprising the placing of the accumulators in parallel, during which an electrical quantity Gmin representing the balancing of the accumulator that has attained the maximum voltage during the charging phase or minimum voltage during the discharging phase is measured or estimated, and during which an electrical quantity Gi representing the balancing of another accumulator i of the battery is also measured or estimated, and in that the state of health SOHi of this other accumulator i is computed on the basis of the two electrical quantities Gmin and Gi and on the basis of the knowledge of the performance of the accumulator i at the start of life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Commisariat a L'energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: David Brun-Buisson, Henri Zara
  • Publication number: 20140078504
    Abstract: A gas detector including: an assembly of two coaxial parabolic reflective caps having opposite concavities, and a wafer arranged in the focal plane of the two caps, at the center of this focal plane, comprising, back-to-back: a diverging light emitter directed towards the first cap and a light receiver directed towards the second cap, wherein the two caps are distant substantially by the sum of their focal distances plus the thickness of the wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Sergio Nicoletti, Pierre Barritault, Mickaël Brun
  • Publication number: 20140079970
    Abstract: A voltage measurement circuit including a current mirror having an input branch in series with a first resistive element between first and second nodes of application of said voltage, and having an output branch providing a current representative of said voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventors: Ghislain DESPESSE, Sylvain LECHAT SANJUAN
  • Publication number: 20140078881
    Abstract: Methods and devices for generating and receiving a training sequence in a radio communication network for a user sharing the same transmission slot with other users is provided where multiple users are multiplexed in the same time slot. A first, original, bit sequence, is repeated and a cyclic prefix and a cyclic postfix is added to the repeated bit sequence thereby forming the training sequence for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Miguel Lopez
  • Publication number: 20140078895
    Abstract: Computing working paths and recovery paths in a telecommunications network having nodes capable of supporting different recovery schemes, is based on traffic demands having an indication of a desired recovery service level, for that demand. A path computation is carried out to select a working path through the network for each of the traffic demands and to select which of the different recovery schemes to use according to the service level. The selected working paths and their associated recovery schemes are then set up in the network. By leaving the selection of the recovery scheme to the path computation stage, network resources can be used more efficiently, and operators can specify resiliency in terms of needs rather than in terms of the technology of the network. Thus operators can be insulated from the detailed knowledge of the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Paola Iovanna, Giulio Bottari, Fabio Ubaldi
  • Publication number: 20140078948
    Abstract: Methods and devices relating to Discontinuous reception (DRX) mode are disclosed. In some embodiments a radio network controller detects that a User Equipment operating in a Discontinuous reception mode has performed an uplink transmission on a Random Access Channel, RACH and sends a signal to a Node B that received the uplink transmission indicating to the Node B that the UE has performed said uplink transmission and is continuously monitoring downlink transmissions, where the signal includes information identifying the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (pulb)
    Inventors: Waikwok Kwong, Nianshan Shi