Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic power converter suitable, in a first mode, for receiving electrical voltage and/or current magnitudes from a first device as input, for processing them using processing means capable of measuring said electrical magnitudes and servocontrolling said electrical magnitudes based on said measurements and constraints specific to a second device, and for providing the adapted voltage and/or current magnitudes to said second device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic power converter suitable, in a first mode, for receiving electrical voltage and/or current magnitudes from a first device as input, for processing them using processing means capable of measuring said electrical magnitudes and servocontrolling said electrical magnitudes based on said measurements and constraints specific to a second device, and for providing the adapted voltage and/or current magnitudes to said second device.

Abstract: A novel addressing scheme for an RF-ID system or LAN network is presented in which an interrogator(reader) addresses a set of transponders, each transponder in this set having a common addressing scheme, and the addressed transponders respond only upon the matching of their own address with the received addressing scheme. The addressing scheme comprises a fixed size sub-address and a variable size mask. For example, assuming that the transponder address is 32 bits, the implementation of the addressing scheme can choose 4 bits for the size of the sub-address and 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 bits for the size of the mask. By varying the addressing scheme according to the algorithm in FIG. 4, the reader will in time interrogate all the transponders individually, thus receiving their unique address and achieving the requested exhaustive inventory.

Abstract: A ring antenna (10) for resonant circuits for identifying metallic containers has an annular core (11) having at least one core surface (11a') corresponding to at least one surface of the container and made from ferrite. The core may be U-shaped, having a base portion and a first and second arm portions, or L-shaped, having a base portion and a first arm portion (11a). The antenna (10) also has a copper wire coil (12) wound around a first portion of the core; and an aluminum shield (13) affixed to the at least one core surface (11b') and separating the core from the surface of the container. Further, a interrogation system for identifying metallic containers includes the ring antenna (10) coupled to a resonant circuit (86) included in a transponder or a reader.