Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a raster transfer image sensor, the charge transport channels and the channel-bounding regions and the vertical anti-blooming channels are formed in a self-registering manner in that the channel-bounding regions are provided via a mask, and the intervening charge transport channels are provided in a maskless doping step. Since this doping is also carried out in the channel-bounding regions, a doping profile favorable for the photosensitivity is obtained in the channel-bounding regions with a maximum concentration at a distance from the surface.

Abstract: A high order multipole gradient field generating system in a magnetic resonant imaging apparatus comprises spaced quadrants of windings, the windings of each quadrant generating adjacent fields in each quadrant in opposing relation. The multipole system is located adjacent to a lower order conventional gradient field coil system to shield the region of interest from field aberrations, the multipole system generating a relatively strong local magnetic field adjacent to the coils of the gradient field coil system and a negligible change in field in the region of interest. The multipole system causes a frequency shift of the aberrations in the region of interest which are outside the detection frequency range such that the conventional gradient field system signal is substantially unaffected by the multipole system in the region of interest.

Abstract: A method of examining objects by ultrasonic echography, comprising a step for transmitting ultrasonic signals to the object to be scanned, and a step for receiving and processing echographic signals returend to the transducer elements by the object being examined, including focusing of the signals by application of an appropriate delay rule, and a revelant apparatus. The receiving and processing step includes a step for two-by-two correlation of the n signals available after focusing in the receiving mode in order to determine (n-1 ) focusing delay correction values, followed by a step for correcting, as a function of the (n-1) values, the focusing delays during the next activation and, in accordance with the invention, a step for correcting, as a function of the (n-1 ) values, focusing delays in the receiving mode during the same activation.

Abstract: A "correct page header received" (CPHR) flip-flop (3) is set by the page header of a required teletext page and reset by the next following page header, a "page end" flip-flop (15) generates a page end output (17) in response to the receipt of the next following page header, a "row received" flip-flop (11) detects at least one row of the required teletext page, a gate (14) inhibits the generation of an end of page output (21) for a predetermined period, typically corresponding to three field intervals, and an AND gate (18) further inhibits the generation of an end of page output (21) if there has been a subsequent detection of a further page header of the required teletext page within the predetermined period.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shaving apparatus which is characterized in that a laser beam (13) serves as the cutting means, and to a method of removing body hairs by means of such a shaving apparatus. The shaving apparatus comprises a shear plate (11) with an entry slot (24). The laser beam (13) is generated by a device (12), severs the hair in the proximity of the entry slot, and is preferably reflected from the shear plate and detected by a photo-cell (18). The shaving apparatus in accordance with the invention enables body hairs to be severed without irritating the skin.

Abstract: A cook-top (10) includes a plurality of heating elements (11a, 12a) which are activated by function controls. The heating elements are covered by a plate (15) which are fixedly connected to strain-guage modules (30) which detect the forces exerted on the plate as a result of loads placed on the heating elements. By computing the center of gravity of the forces, controls (70, 75, 76) identify a heating element whose load has varied and influence its electric power supply. The power supply may then be turned off, reduced or controlled. The function controls may be pressure-sensitive touch controls.

Abstract: A gate circuit includes an N-channel and a P-channel insulated gate field-effect transistor whose parallel-connected drain-source paths constitute an analog signal gate and a control circuit, connected to the respective gate electrodes, to turn on and/or turn off the two field-effect transistors. In order to handle signals whose voltage value is higher than the maximum permissible drain-source voltage in the on-state of the N-channel field-effect transistor, means are provided, for turning on the N-channel field-effect transistor at least at a drain-source voltage below a predetermined value. In an embodiment of the invention the means include delay means coupled to the control circuit for turning on the N-channel field-effect transistor with a delay relative to the P-channel field-effect transistor. In another embodiment of the invention the means include switching means arranged in series with the analog signal gate, for temporarily connecting the signal gate to at least one auxiliary voltage.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing tubes in which a mixture of powdered tube material and a liquid binder is introduced into a tubular mold with a geometry corresponding to the geometry of the tube to be formed. The tubular mold is rotated about its longitudinal axis. The powder-binder mixture deposits on the inner wall of the tubular mold. The powder and the liquid are introduced into the tubular mold separately.

Abstract: In a plasma generator for high-frequency supply of an induction coil containing a plasma of an aerosol with a substance to be analyzed, quarter-wave conductors of a quarter-wave resonant system are incorporated in the apparatus after having been divided and folded, which provides a significant saving in space. Added to the conductors are electric auxiliary circuitry for balancing the resonant system and for matching the frequency to a filled induction coil. The conduction coil is capable of up and down movement in a disturbance-free manner, the coil always being maintained at zero potential.

Abstract: An infrared detector comprises an envelope in which a detector element (3) is mounted on an end of a cold finger (1). A chemically-active getter (30) is present in the space between the cold finger (1) and the envelope window (7) and outer wall (2). In accordance with the present invention the getter comprises a porous layer (30) of chemically-active getter material deposited on an inside surface area of the outer wall (2) at a location separated from both the cold finger (1) and the window (7). The getter (30) can be activated (or re-activated) by heating through the portion of the outer wall (2) on which the getter material (30) is deposited, e.g. using a heater coil (50). Preferably the getter material (30) on the outer wall (2) extends around heat reflector, e.g. a reflective surface area of the cold finger (1). The cold finger (1) may be operated to cool the detector element (3) while heating the layer ( 30) to activate the getter.

Abstract: In a device for performing measurements on at least partly transparent objects such as optical fibres a radiation beam is directed on the object. The radiation deflected by the object is imaged by means of a lens system (321, 322) on a radiation-sensitive detection system (330). As a result of refraction on interfaces between areas having a different refractive index (311, 312) in the object and between the object and the surroundings (315), dark or light bands corresponding to the projection of the interfaces are produced on the radiation-sensitive detection system (330). Thus measurements can be performed on the internal structure of the object.

Abstract: In a microprocessor system provided with a central processing unit with an internal address and data bus arrangement connected to the central processing unit and to an operation codes memory (ROM) the clock of an external serial bus is obtained from connection to the least significant bit wire of the internal address bus. The central processing unit is operated in such a way that the addresses carried by the address bus, during an operation of writing on the external serial bus, are regularly incremented by unity, producing in the least significant bit wire a sequence of alternating ONES and ZEROS. For this purpose, the operation codes memory contains, in the locations corresponding to the addresses present on the internal address bus during a write operation, operation codes intended to establish the value of the datum on a port of the central processing unit to which the data wire of the external serial bus is connected.

Abstract: A reactor (100) is provided which comprises an enclosure (1,2,3) which has along its longitudinal axis (4--4') a hot zone (1), a cold zone (2) and between the hot and the cold zone an intermediate zone (3) and which has at least one gas inlet tube (12,32). The reactor further comprises a heat-insulating plug (30) for being positioned in the intermediate zone (3) to prevent a gas-flow from the hot zone (1) to the cold zone (2) of the enclosure (1,2,3) and coupling means (13,102;33,36) for transmitting gas from the gas inlet tube (12;32) into the hot zone (1). The use of the heat insulating plug (30) prevents deposition of unwanted material on the walls of the cold zone (2) of the reactor.

Abstract: A reference generator includes a first, a second and an additional third current mirror for generating both a reference output current and a reference output voltage. As the reference output voltage only depends on the gate-source voltages of transistors which are fed with a constant current, the reference output voltage has a constant value and is substantially independent of the ambient temperature.

Abstract: Notably for MR spectroscopy it is important than an MR receiver for resonance signals has a large dynamic range in order to enable the reproduction of comparatively strong as well as comparatively to the weak signals in a spectrum. Therefore, the MR receiver should be linear to a high degree. Otherwise, for example in proton spectra metabolites are liable to be masked by peaks in tne spectrum which are caused by harmonic distortion and notably intermodulation distortion. An MR method is proposed for increasing the dynamic range of the MR receiver by software compensation of non-linearities in the MR receiver by means of a counter-distortion function.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for defining the positions of extrema of a correlation function includes a memory (1), an address control unit (3) and a correlator (2). The elaborate computations for defining correlation functions can be reduced by the circuit arrangement described. The correlation function is an example. Two functions are present in digital form. Their sampling values are stored in the addressable memory (1). The address control unit (3) generates addresses by which the functions stored in the memory (1) are read in a sub-sampled manner. With these sub-sampled functions the extrema and their positions are defined in a first step by the correlator (2) and the address control unit (3). Proximate to an extremum thus defined the variation of the correlation functions is examined more precisely in this proximity in a smaller sub-sampling ratio and the extremum in this proximity is redefined. This process can be repeated with an increasingly smaller sub-sampling ratio.

Abstract: A shaving unit for a shaver is provided comprising a shear plate and a cutting member, one of the cooperating surfaces being covered with a friction-reducing layer comprising carbon and metal in an atomic ratio between 50.1/49.9 and 99.9/0.1.

Abstract: An optical lithographic device having a machine frame (1) to which is fastened a lens system (11) having a vertical optical main axis (13). Below the lens system (11), a positioning device (35) is fastened on a support member (3) of the machine frame (1), by means of which device an object table (27) is displaceable relative to the lens system (11) over a guide surface (5) of the support member (3) extending perpendicular to the optical main axis (13).The device is provided with a force actuator system (67) fastened to a reference frame (83) and controlled by a feedforward control system (95). The force actuator system (67) exerts a compensatory force on the support member (3) with a direction opposite to a direction of a reaction force simultaneously exerted by the positioning device (35) on the support member (3), and with a value which is substantially equal to a value of the said reaction force.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement generates a preset number of output pulses each time between two consecutive input pulses, the distance between the input pulses being subject to variation. The output pulses should be approximately evenly distributed, which even distribution, however, cannot be maintained when the cycle of the input pulses changes. To achieve first and foremost that the total number of output pulses is reached as quickly as possible in the case of a change in the input pulse cycle, the circuit includes a first counter device, which supplies a measure for the cycle duration of the input pulses in relation to a clock pulse, and this measure is used as a preset value for the next cycle for a further counter, which counts down the preset value in period with the clock pulses.

Abstract: An optical scanning device comprises an optical system for imaging a part of the surface (10) to be scanned on the detection system (22-25; 122-125). The optical system comprises an objective system (43) and two cylindrical lenses (41, 42) and/or two systems of cylindrical mirrors (141a, 141b, 142a, 142b). In the direction in which the cylindrical lenses (41, 42) have their optical power, the objective system (43) functions as an imaging lens so that a light-intensive and spatial image of the surface is formed at the detection system (22-25). Due to the achieved large numerical aperture, the image formed can also be observed three-dimensionally so that information about the profile of the surface can be obtained by means of the scanning device.