Abstract: A method for manufacturing a raw blank of a tyre includes using a calender to produce a ply. The calender includes two rollers with a gap situated therebetween. A ply that includes a first rubber material is formed in the gap of the calender, with a bead of the first rubber material being formed upstream of the gap. The bead and the gap of the calender are fed with a second rubber material, different from the first rubber material, to form at least one insert in the ply.

Abstract: A layer that is airtight to inflation gases is formed of a composition that includes at least: a halogenated elastomer having a content of greater than or equal to 70 parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of elastomer (phr); a reinforcing filler; and a crosslinking system based on a metal oxide. The crosslinking system contains less than 0.5 phr of sulphur and may be free of sulphur. More particularly, the crosslinking system contains less than 0.1 phr of sulphur.

Abstract: Provided is a producing method for metal microparticles for which the particle diameter is controlled. At least two types of fluids to be processed are used, and at least one of those fluids to be processed is a metallic solution wherein a metal and/or metallic compound is dissolved in a solvent. Of the fluids to be processed other than the above, at least one is a reducing agent fluid that includes a reducing agent. The fluids to be processed are mixed in a thin film fluid created between at least two processing surfaces (1, 2) which are disposed to face each other and can be brought closer or separated, at least one face rotating relative to the other, and metal microparticles for which the particle diameter is controlled are precipitated out. At that time, the particle diameter of the metal microparticles is controlled by varying particular conditions for at least one of the metallic solution and the reducing agent fluid introduced between the processing surfaces (1, 2).

Abstract: A system comprising: an electronic circuit exhibiting, in operation, a value v of an operating physical quantity; a measurement device comprising: sensors embedded in the electronic circuit so as to provide raw measurements {Xm} sensitive to the value v of the operating physical quantity, and an output unit for providing useful measurements {X?n} on the basis of the raw measurements {Xm}; a distribution calculation device for determining a current distribution function F(x) associated with the useful measurements {X?n}; a memory wherein associations {Ak} are saved, each association Ak associating a model distribution function Fk(x) with a model value v*k of the operating physical quantity; and an estimation calculation device for determining an estimation {tilde over (v)} of the value v of the operating physical quantity on the basis of the current distribution function F(x) and at least a portion of the saved associations {Ak}.

Abstract: A shear layer for a shear band that is used in a tire is provided that has multiple cells or units having an auxetic configuration and that are constructed from aluminum or titanium alloys. The cells may have an angle of ?10°.

Abstract: An inflatable article such as a pneumatic tire provided with a puncture-resistant layer comprising, by way of a self-sealing composition, an elastomer composition comprising at least, as predominant elastomer, a thermoplastic styrene (TPS) elastomer, more than 200 phr of an extender oil and more than 20 phr of a hydrocarbon resin, the glass transition temperature of which is greater than 0° C. The puncture-resistant layer is advantageously combined with an airtight layer, for example based on butyl rubber, so as to form, in the pneumatic article, an airtight puncture-resistant laminate.

Abstract: Equipment for treating a matter to be treated more stably and uniformly between approaching/receding treatment planes in a treatment section where at least one plane can rotate relatively to the other plane. Treatment is performed by introducing a first fluid containing a matter to be treated between the treatment planes, introducing a second fluid containing the matter to be treated between the treatment planes from a channel independent from the channel which introduced the first fluid and communicating with the space between the treatment planes and then mixing and stirring them between the treatment planes. The outlet portion of the channel introducing the second fluid to the space between the treatment planes is provided with a plurality of split channels.

Abstract: A support for assembling a green tyre includes a baseplate with symmetry of revolution and members fixed to the baseplate. Each of the members includes: external elements mounted to be movable relative to one another; and a flexible strip attached to the elements of the member, such that the elements of the member are attached to one another via the flexible strip.

Abstract: A network communication method is provided, said network comprising first and second nodes. The method comprises: transmitting a message from the first node to the second node, wherein the message comprises a data content portion and an identifying portion, wherein said identifying portion includes a first unique identifier corresponding to a time source which controls a time value at the first node; receiving the transmitted message at the second node; comparing the first unique identifier to a second unique identifier, wherein said second unique identifier corresponds to a time source which controls a time value at the second node; and if the result of said comparison is positive, accepting the message for processing at the second node.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of one of the formulas I to XXI; a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one such compound; and the use of at least one such compound in preparing a drug to treat, in a subject, a genetic disease resulting from at least one splicing anomaly.

Abstract: A self-sealing elastomer composition, in an inflatable article such as a pneumatic tire (1), such composition comprising, as predominant elastomer, a thermoplastic styrene (TPS) elastomer and an extender oil with a content of between 200 and 700 phe (parts per hundred parts of elastomer by weight). An airtight puncture-resistant laminate (10) that can be used in particular in said inflatable article (1), comprises a puncture-resistant first layer (10a) comprising said self-sealing composition and an airtight second layer (10b), for example based on butyl rubber. An inflatable article comprises such a self-sealing composition or such an airtight puncture-resistant laminate.

Abstract: An ultrasonic measurement device and method in which an ultrasonic transducer is acoustically coupled to an object to be measured by a resilient material contact layer. The transducer transmits a plurality of consecutive ultrasonic transmit signals into the object being measured, the transmit frequency of each of the plurality of transmit signals being distinct from the frequency of the other transmit signals of the plurality of transmit signals. Signal echoes of the transmitted signals are received, and based on the received signal echoes, at least one transmit frequency to be used for ultrasonic measurement of the object is selected.

Abstract: A location system for determining the position of a movable object (12) like a power wrench in a three dimensional space and comprising a number of stationary signal communication modules (15, 16 and 17) and a movable signal communication module (18) carried by the movable object (12), wherein the stationary signal communication modules (15, 16 and 17) are connected to an evaluation and calculation unit (24) which is arranged to determine the position of the movable object (12) in response to the signals delivered by the stationary signal communication modules (15, 16 and 17) and based on signals communicated between the movable signal communication module (18) and the stationary signal communication modules (15, 16 and 17). At least one (16) of the stationary signal communicating modules (15, 16 and 17) is displaceable between two or more positions (A,B) to enable signal communication contact with the movable signal communicating module (18) in normally screened off positions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for detecting a fungal contamination in an internal environment, to the use thereof and also to a method for detecting a fungal contamination in an internal environment using such a device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for synthetizing a compound of the following formula (I): wherein R is a methyl or ethyl group, n is 1 or 2, and X is a CH2 or CD2 group, from a compound of the following formula (II): wherein R and n are as defined above, and also relates to a method for assaying the compounds of the formula (I) using a corresponding deuterated derivative as an internal reference, as well as to the use of ketal derivatives of compounds of the formula (I) as a stable precursor, in particular in a flavoring composition.

Abstract: A method for controlling the temperature of a component is disclosed. The component is part of a drive configured to drive an electrical machine via an electrically conductive member. The method comprises determining a value of an attribute of the electrically conductive member; configuring a model to calculate the temperature of the component, the model being configured based on the determined value of the attribute of the electrically conductive member; using the model to calculate the temperature of the component; and if the calculated temperature of the component does not meet a predetermined temperature condition, issuing a command to control the operation of the drive such that the temperature of the component is changed to meet the predetermined temperature condition.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler comprising at least carbon black and an inorganic filler with an inorganic filler content of less than or equal to 50 parts by weight per hundred parts of elastomer, characterized in that the composition is obtained from a first masterbatch comprising at least one first diene elastomer and carbon black, and having a dispersion of the carbon black in the elastomeric matrix that has a Z value of greater than or equal to 90, added to which is the inorganic filler and at least one second elastomer, identical to or different from the first elastomer, and also to the process for preparing such a composition.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power conversion system comprising a transformer comprising first, second, and third inductive coupling elements, a first power supply arranged to provide a voltage across the first coupling element, a second power supply arranged to provide a voltage across the second coupling element, an output arranged to receive a voltage from the third coupling element. In use, the voltage across the first coupling element and the voltage across the second coupling element are arranged to induce a voltage in the third coupling element. The system also comprises a control arrangement arranged to independently control the operation of the first and second power supplies.

Abstract: Radial tire having: a crown surmounted by a tread provided with at least one radially outer elastomer layer intended to come into contact with the road when the tire is rolling; two non-stretchable beads, two sidewalls connecting the beads to the tread, a carcass reinforcement passing into the two sidewalls and anchored in the beads; a crown reinforcement or belt positioned circumferentially between the carcass reinforcement and the tread; a radially inner elastomer layer, (tread “sublayer”), having a formulation different from the formulation of the radially outer elastomer layer, and positioned between the radially outer layer and the belt, wherein the sublayer comprises a rubber composition having at least from 30 to 100 phr of a nitrile/butadiene rubber having a content of butadiene units of between 40% and 90% by weight and more than 30 phr of a reinforcing filler.