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  • TARGETED DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC AGENTS WITH LYOPHILIZED MATRICES
    Publication number: 20120093801
    Abstract: Embodiments of surgical grafts, and methods, for the delivery of therapeutic agents to a target tissue via acellular matrices, are described. In some embodiments, nonviable matrices are successful in preventing or lessening adhesion formation by guiding tissue repair and remodeling, while also providing the target tissue with therapeutic agents that can act as repair and remodeling factors. An exemplary method to modulate flexor tendon healing and provide elimination or reduction of fibrotic adhesions involves loading a freeze-dried flexor digitorum longus allograft with recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) vectors for the targeted and transient expression of growth/differentiation factor 5 (GDF5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Telefonakiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Hani A. Awad, Edward M. Schwarz
  • METHOD FOR MAKING ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTIONS WITH CARBON NANOTUBES
    Publication number: 20120094479
    Abstract: A method for making electrical interconnections of carbon nanotubes, including a) depositing an ionic liquid including nanoparticles of at least one suspended electrically conducting material, covering at least one surface of an element configured to be used as a support for carbon nanotubes, b) forming a deposit of the nanoparticles at least against the surface of the element, c) removing the remaining ionic liquid, d) growing carbon nanotubes from the deposited nanoparticles, and further including between the c) removing the remaining ionic liquid and the d) growing carbon nanotubes, passivating the deposited nanoparticles not found against the surface of the element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Paul-Henri Haumesser, Jean-Marie Basset, Paul Campbell, Simon Deleonibus, Thibaut Gutel, Gilles Marchand, Catherine Santini
  • Method and Arrangement in Wireless Communications Network
    Publication number: 20120094670
    Abstract: A method in a wireless terminal (110) for sending a measurement report to a serving base station (130) before handover is provided. The wireless terminal (110) and the base station (130) are comprised in a cell in a wireless communications system. The wireless terminal (110) is arranged to use a standard size message or a reduced size message for sending a measurement report before a handover. The wireless terminal (110) obtains (601) information about the cell size and/or the system load. When the cell size exceeds a predetermined value or when the system load exceeds a predetermined value, the wireless terminal (110) sends (605) a measurement report to the base station (130), using the reduced size message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Konstantinos Dimou, Yu Yang
  • METHOD FOR CREATING A METAL CRYSTALLINE REGION, IN PARTICULAR IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20120094486
    Abstract: The method comprises affixing a thin sheet of crystal (8) onto metal (6) of same type as the sheet but amorphous or of small grain size, deposited in trenches of a substrate (1) to form interconnect lines for example. Annealing progressively imposes the crystalline structure of the sheet onto the lines. When the crystal (8) is removed, highly conductive crystalline lines are obtained since the grains thereof have been greatly enlarged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Cyril Cayron, Sylvain Maitrejean
  • CONGESTION-BASED TRAFFIC METERING
    Publication number: 20120092995
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention provides apparatuses and methods for communicating, from one network node to another network node, congestion information. Advantageously, the congestion information may be communicated at a per-packet level so that the node receiving the congestion information may meter the network usage of a user based, at least in part, upon the level of network congestion experienced by each packet sent or received by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Ake Arvidsson, Tord Westholm
  • Method for Determining the Viscosity of a Thin Film
    Publication number: 20120095705
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining the viscosity of thin films which exhibit a viscous behavior at a measurement temperature, notably for polymer resins above their glass transition temperature. A thin layer of material is formed on a substrate, a known geometrical pattern is impressed in the thin layer by molding or etching, the thin layer being in the solid state at the end of the impression step. The initial topography of the impressed pattern is measured over the entire length of the pattern along a determined direction, the film is baked at the measurement temperature Tm for a determined creep time tflu, and the resulting topography of the crept pattern is measured. Mathematical processing of the topography measurements is carried out in order to deduce a value of viscosity at the measurement temperature therefrom. The impressed pattern at the start is aperiodic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Altematives
    Inventors: Stefan Landis, Etienne Rognin
  • MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE FOR AMPLIFYING A VIBRATING MOVEMENT
    Publication number: 20120091828
    Abstract: An apparatus for amplifying a vibratory movement includes a micromechanical device having an interface for fixedly joining it to a vibrating member; a mass mounted to be mobile in at least one degree of freedom relative to the interface; a spring capable of exerting a return force between the mobile mass and the interface; an orientation-detecting member for detecting the orientation of the shift of the interface according to said degree of freedom; and a coupling member for coupling the mobile mass to the interface. The coupling member is configured to couple the mobile mass to the interface when an orientation of shift of the interface is opposite that of the mobile mass and to uncouple the mobile mass from the interface before a change in orientation of the interface and when the orientation of shift of the interface is identical to that of the mobile mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Ghislain Despesse
  • METHOD FOR SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION BY DISUBSTITUTED ALKYNES
    Publication number: 20120095247
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of disubstituted alkynes for the functionalisation of the surface of a substrate consisting of a semi-conductor material, with molecules of interest. According to the invention, a compound of formula A-(E1)n1-F1 is used, wherein A is a linear or cyclic disubstituted alkyne, E1 is an alkyl chain and n2 is 0 or 1, and F1 is a reactive group that can react with the reactive group F2 of a compound of formula F2-(E2)n2-X wherein E2 is an alkyl chain and X is a group having properties of interest. The invention is especially applicable to the field of molecular biology or biotechnology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE AUTOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Guillaume Delapierre, Regis Barattin, Aude Bernardin, Isabelle Texier-Nogues
  • ACTUATOR DEVICE INCLUDING AN EXPANDABLE MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20120091212
    Abstract: An actuator device including: a case housing an expandable material, a moving part that can move in translation as a result of the expansion and/or contraction of the expandable material, and a heater to heat the expandable material. The device also includes: a position sensor which measures the current position of the aforementioned moving part; and a positioner to position the moving part, including a controller acting on the above-mentioned heater according to the current measured position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Bernard Guilhamat, Sebastien Dauve, Jonathan Fernandez, Florent Marquet
  • DEVICE FOR DETECTING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION WITH POLARIZED BOLOMETRIC DETECTOR, AND APPLICATION FOR INFRARED DETECTION
    Publication number: 20120091343
    Abstract: A device for detecting electromagnetic radiation, including pixels each detecting a radiation and providing an electric current representative of the detected radiation, a column to which the pixels are connected, and transmitting the electric currents provided by the pixels, and an electrical module, to which the transmission column is connected, processing the electric currents provided by the pixels. Each pixel includes a detection circuit including a bolometric detector connected in series to a voltage polarization device of the bolometric detector for adjusting the electric current supplied to the processing module by the transmission column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Gaelle Repellin, Gilles Chammings, Michael Tchagaspanian
  • Plate Heat Exchanger with Exchanging Structure Forming Several Channels in a Passage
    Publication number: 20120090354
    Abstract: A heat exchanger with brazed plates including a stack of parallel plates defining a plurality of generally flat fluid circulating passages, closure bars which delimit the passages and distributing means for distributing a fluid to each passage of a first series of passages and means for conveying another fluid to a second series of passages where at least one passage contains organized exchanging structures which form a plurality of channels in the width of the passage and also at least three channels in the height of the passage is provided. The invention is useful for air separation by cryogenic distillation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Frédéric Crayssac, Sophie Deschodt
  • ELECTROMECHANICAL RESONATOR WITH RESONANT ANCHOR
    Publication number: 20120092082
    Abstract: An electromechanical resonator produced on a substrate, and a method of producing thereof, including: a suspended structure produced at least partly from the substrate, configured to have a vibration imparted to it such that it resonates at least one natural resonance frequency of the suspended structure; an anchor structure to anchor the suspended structure, by at least one area of its periphery, to the remainder of the substrate, and dimensioned to resonate at the resonance frequency; a mechanism to excite the suspended structure, to cause it to vibrate at the resonance frequency; and a mechanism to detect the vibration frequency of the suspended structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Sebastien Hentz, Julien Arcamone
  • METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BUNDLE OF PLATES FOR A HEAT EXCHANGER
    Publication number: 20120090822
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a bundle of plates for a heat exchanger made up of a stack of plates. The method includes reducing by machining the initial thickness of each plate by making at least at the periphery of the plate, at least one connecting shoe having a height greater than the thickness of the machined plate, forming on the central portion of the plate, corrugations, to be superposed pairwise on the plates, connecting the shoes in contact with the plates of each pair through a weld bead, superposing the pairs of plates and connecting the shoes in contact with the pairs of plates through a sealed weld bead by arranging a superposition of open or closed ends for alternate inflow or outflow of said fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicants: ALFA LAVAL VICARB, AREVA NP, Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives, ALFA LAVAL PACKINOX
    Inventors: Gilles Francois, Gabriel Merle, Patrice Tochon, Franck Pra, Claude Roussel, Olivier Noel Baron, Pierre-Xavier Bussonnet, Alain Bourgeon
  • PACKAGING AND APPLICATOR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120093566
    Abstract: A packaging and applicator device for applying a composition on the eyelashes and/or the eyebrows, that includes a container defining an inside space containing the composition and including a wiper member; and an applicator having a longitudinal axis and having an applicator member with a twisted-core brush carrying bristles, there being 5 to 55 bristles per turn, the diameter of the brush lying in the range 6/100 mm to 40/100 mm along at least a fraction of the applicator member, a plurality of bristles carried by this portion coming to within a distance of less than 1.5 mm from the inside surface of the container under the wiper member in a storage position or while the applicator is being withdrawn along the longitudinal axis of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: L'OREAL
    Inventor: Jean-Louis Gueret
  • MULTIPATH TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL PROXY
    Publication number: 20120093150
    Abstract: An edge router runs a Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) proxy to allow for a host that implements TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) to operate normally yet reap the benefits of an MPTCP connection. An upgrade of a TCPIP stack on the host is not necessary. The edge router demultiplexes packets received from the host over a TCP connection to an MPTCP connection and multiplexes packets sent to the host over an MPTCP connection to a TCP connection. As a result, higher throughput of packet communication can be realized, for example, for improved video support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
    Inventor: Sriganesh Kini
  • NOVEL SILANE COMPOUNDS HAVING A CYCLIC CARBON CHAIN INCLUDING AN ALKYNE FUNCTION FOR FUNCTIONALISING SOLID SUBSTRATES AND IMMOBILISING BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES ON SAID SUBSTRATES
    Publication number: 20120095203
    Abstract: The invention relates to a silane compound including a cycloalkyne functionality, to a method for functionalising a solid substrate, and to the solid substrate thus produced. The silane compound of the invention corresponds to the formula X-E-A-Z where X is a silyl group, E is an organic spacer group, A is a single bond or a —CONH—, —NHCO—, —OCH2CONH—, —NHCOCH2O—, —0— or —S— group, and Z is a cycloalkyne or heterocycloalkyne with at least 8 members. The invention is particularly suitable for use in the field of medicine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Ene Alt
    Inventors: Aude Bernardin, Guillaume Delapierre, Antoine Hoang, Isabelle Texier-Nogues
  • Method and Equipment for Removing Dissolved Oxygen from Grapes or Other Plant Products and for Maintaining Them in a Controlled Atmosphere in Mechanical Means for Harvesting, Transport and Storage
    Publication number: 20120093988
    Abstract: A method for removing dissolved oxygen from a plant product such as grapes or the like and for maintaining it in a controlled atmosphere when it is placed in mechanical means for harvesting, transport and storage, said means comprising a collection tank which receives the plant product which is present in a solid and a liquid state in this tank, said removal and controlled atmosphere being provided by using an inert gas, said tank having a lower portion or first part and a second upper part or portion into which the product is introduced when being placed in the tank. Provision is made for the use of said inert gas in an initial solid state, its subsequent sublimation and the interaction of the gas in gaseous state thus produced with said product inside the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour L'Etude Et L'Exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventor: Maurizio Frati
  • PACKAGING AND APPLICATOR DEVICE FOR AT LEAST ONE SOLID COSMETIC COMPOSITION
    Publication number: 20120093560
    Abstract: A packaging and applicator device for at least one solid cosmetic composition for application to the eyelashes, the eyebrows, or the hair includes a handle member, a stem connected to the handle member and an applicator member connected to the stem. The applicator member has a core secured to the stem, and applicator elements extending transversely to an axis of the stem from a base secured to the stem to an end opposite to said base, at least some of the applicator elements having their bases disposed inside a solid block of said composition, said block presenting an outer envelope extending part or all of the way around the axis, and situated, prior to first use of the device, between the bases and the opposite ends of the applicator elements, at a non-zero distance therefrom. The composition is dispersible while dry, with or without assistance from heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: L'OREAL
    Inventor: Stephane Arditty
  • DEVICE FOR MEASURING THE SPEED OF A FLUID FLOWING IN A PIPE
    Publication number: 20120090405
    Abstract: A device to measure speed of a fluid in a pipe. An adjustment and a surface finish are accomplished between a fluid bearing and a hollow tube coupled with a turbine, with friction minimized to a point that it is possible to measure speeds of less than one cm/s which have hitherto been unexplored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Ene Alt
    Inventors: Luc-Francois Gros-Daillon, Geraud Francois Cubizolles
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING AN IMAGE FOR AN IMAGE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20120092518
    Abstract: A device for compressing an image for an image sensor, including a module for analog decorrelation of an image for providing low-frequency coefficients and high-frequency coefficients from the image, an analog-digital coefficient converter, and a module for a differentiated analog amplification of the low-frequency coefficients and of the high-frequency coefficients, provided by the analog decorrelation module to provide modified coefficients to the converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENE ALT
    Inventors: Tristan Thabuis, Patrick Villard