Abstract: A heat exchanger having a stack of multiple plates which are parallel to one another and to a longitudinal direction, and stacked spaced apart from one another so as to define, between one another, a first series of passages for the flow of at least a first fluid in an overall flow direction parallel to the longitudinal direction, each passage being delimited by closure bars disposed between the plates. A filtering device is arranged in at least one passage of the first series, the filtering device extending for the one part between two adjacent plates defining the passage and for the other part between two of the closure bars delimiting the passage, the filtering device having a metal sheet material chosen from among a metal fabric, a nonwoven of metal fibres, a sintered metal powder or sintered metal fibres, a metal foam, or a microperforated plate.

Abstract: A heat exchanger having a stack of multiple plates which are parallel to one another and to a longitudinal direction, and stacked spaced apart from one another so as to define, between one another, a first series of passages for the flow of at least a first fluid in an overall flow direction parallel to the longitudinal direction, each passage being delimited by closure bars disposed between the plates. A filtering device is arranged in at least one passage of the first series, the filtering device extending for the one part between two adjacent plates defining the passage and for the other part between two of the closure bars delimiting the passage, the filtering device having a metal sheet material chosen from among a metal fabric, a nonwoven of metal fibres, a sintered metal powder or sintered metal fibres, a metal foam, or a microperforated plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a brazed plate type heat exchanger comprising the following steps: a) stacking, with a clearance, a plurality of plates parallel to each other so as to define, between said plates, a plurality of passages suitable for the flow of at least one fluid, said passages being delimited by peripheral edges and at least one passage comprising at least one zone to be supported emerging towards the outside of the passage through at least one opening of a peripheral edge; b) arranging at least one support member in the zone to be supported; c) brazing the stack of plates comprising the support member; and d) removing the support member from the zone to be supported through the opening. According to the invention, the support member is deformable and, in step d), a traction force is exerted on the support member so as to cause a deformation in at least one part of the support member and a translation movement of the support member towards the outside of the passage.

Abstract: A method of determining a metric for evaluating an error probability of a data frame includes receiving, at a radio receiving device, the data frame encoded according to a coding method and transmitted through a radio communication channel by a radio transmitting device. The data frame includes a plurality of symbols. The method also includes performing a channel equalization of the data frame received at the radio receiving device to produce a channel equalized data frame, performing a symbol de-mapping of symbols in the channel equalized data frame to produce a de-mapped data frame, obtaining soft bits based on the de-mapped data frame and characteristics of the coding method, and calculating the metric from at least one moment, having an order strictly greater than one, of quantities that characterize an equivalent communication channel for the soft bits.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for transmitting symbols through at least a channel in a telecommunication system including at least one transmitter (10) provided with at least two transmitting antennas (Antt 1, Antt 2) and at least one receiver provided with at least one receiving antenna (Antr 1), the method includes an encoding step wherein a vector comprising symbols is multiplied by a coding matrix for producing coded symbols to be transmitted over the at least one communication channel established between the transmitter (10) and the receiver (20), wherein the coding matrix is calculated from an eigenvalue decomposition of a matrix obtained by calculating at least the Kronecker product of the identity matrix of size N, N being the time and/or the frequency dimension of the code and a matrix obtained from an estimated correlation matrix of the response of the channel. The invention concerns also the associated device and a method and device for decoding symbols.

Abstract: A method for decoding at least one signal transmitted by means of at least one antenna and received by means of at least one antenna, which method includes a symbol decoding step for producing at least one estimated symbol representative of at least one transmitted symbol carried by the received signal. The symbol decoding step is executed by a space-time decoder including a symbol decoder configured to produce an estimation of at least one symbol with respect to which estimation the transmitted symbol features a minimum mean square error. The minimum mean square error symbol decoder requires less operating computing power than other decoders currently used for decoding incoming symbols, like list sphere decoders.

Abstract: A method of optimizing the size of blocks of coded data intended to be subjected to an iterative decoding process, a maximum error rate of the iterative decoding process being fixed in advance, in which there are sought, among a plurality of block sizes (N/k) which are submultiples of the normal block size by an integer factor (k) greater than or equal to 1 and a plurality of integers giving the maximum number of iterations that can be effected by the said iterative decoding on a block, (1) a submultiple size, and (2) a maximum number of iterations such that they are compatible with the maximum error rate, and such that the mean number of iterations that will be applied by the iterative decoding process on a block of submultiple size is minimized.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for transmitting symbols through at least a channel in a telecommunication system including at least one transmitter (10) provided with at least two transmitting antennas (Antt 1, Antt 2) and at least one receiver provided with at least one receiving antenna (Antr 1), the method includes an encoding step wherein a vector comprising symbols is multiplied by a coding matrix for producing coded symbols to be transmitted over the at least one communication channel established between the transmitter (10) and the receiver (20), wherein the coding matrix is calculated from an eigenvalue decomposition of a matrix obtained by calculating at least the Kronecker product of the identity matrix of size N, N being the time and/or the frequency dimension of the code and a matrix obtained from an estimated correlation matrix of the response of the channel. The invention concerns also the associated device and a method and device for decoding symbols.

Abstract: A digital transmission method includes detecting a parameter of the transmission conditions, selecting a distribution of elementary coding step redundancies from a plurality of distributions of elementary coding step redundancies for which the global efficiency is equal to a target efficiency, performing a coding procedure including elementary coding steps with corresponding puncturing steps, and an interleaving step between the elementary coding steps, each of the elementary coding steps adding a redundancy by utilizing the distribution of elementary coding step redundancies, to a useful information to generate a coded information with a redundancy for a transmission, and performing a decoding procedure including elementary decoding steps, deinterleaving and depuncturing steps, and puncturing and interleaving steps corresponding to the elementary decoding steps to obtain an estimation of the useful information item.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of determining a metric for evaluating an error probability of a data frame transmitted by a first device to a second device through communication channels, a data frame comprising a plurality of symbols, wherein the metric is determined at least from at least one moment of an order strictly upper than one of quantities characterising the equivalent communication channels for the plurality of items of information obtained from symbols comprised in the data frame. The present invention concerns also the associated device.

Abstract: A digital transmission method with error correcting coding includes a coding procedure and a decoding procedure in order to correct transmission errors. The coding procedure includes a plurality of elementary coding steps operating in parallel or in series. The decoding procedure is iterative and includes, for each iteration, a plurality of elementary decoding steps which correspond to the plurality of elementary coding steps. Each elementary decoding step generates at least one weighted output information item. A characteristic quantity is generated directly from a set of weighted output information items generated by each elementary decoding step for processing a decoding sequence. A comparison step is adapted to compare the characteristic quantity with a threshold quantity determined by a threshold quantity determination step. An interrupt step interrupts the iterative decoding procedure at the elementary decoding step when the characteristic quantity reaches the threshold quantity.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for obtaining an error correcting code of a given first size (N), including a systematic information part of a given second size (K) and a redundancy part. A block turbo-code is first obtained from said systematic information part and from predetermined information elements provided at known locations, said block turbo-code consisting in a product of elementary systematic block codes, at least said predetermined information elements being removed from the obtained block turbo-code to produce a shortened block turbo-code. An additional error correcting code is derived from at least a portion of said shortened block turbo-code and said shortened block turbo-code is stuffed with stuffing elements so as to attain said given first size, said stuffing elements being information elements of said additional error correcting code.

Abstract: A digital transmission method of the error-correcting coding type which includes, before a step of transmitting on a channel, a coding procedure including at least one puncturing step, and, after the transmission step, a decoding procedure including at least one depuncturing step, the coding procedure, applying a given coding scheme, generating a coded information item representing, with a certain redundancy, the useful information item and the decoding procedure estimating said useful information item by correcting transmission errors. This digital transmission method also includes a step of observing the transmission conditions and a puncturing scheme selection step for selecting, according to the at least one parameter, an optimum performance puncturing scheme amongst a plurality of predetermined puncturing schemes, the overall efficiency of the coding step and the puncturing step being a constant efficiency.

Abstract: A method of optimizing the size of blocks of coded data, intended to be subjected to iterative decoding, the method comprising a first step of evaluating a resource (T) available for the decoding of a block of normal size (N) and a second step of seeking, amongst a plurality of block sizes (N/k) which are submultiples of the normal size by an integer factor (k) greater than or equal to 1 and requiring on average a number of iterations ({overscore (n)}iterations(k)) compatible with the said available resource, the one which makes it possible to obtain the lowest error rate at the output of the iterative decoding.

Abstract: A method of improving turboencoding by re-encoding erroneous information and subtracting their contribution at the input of the turboencoder. The subtraction of this contribution remedies the lack of convergence or convergence towards erroneous solutions observed in certain turbodecoding configurations. The method also applies to parallel concatenation turbodecoding, to serial concatenation turbodecoding, or to block turbodecoding. Different operations result according to the type of feedback envisaged.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for decoding at least one signal Sg1, Sg2 . . . SgN transmitted by means of at least one antenna and received by means of at least one antenna, which method includes a symbol decoding step for producing at least one estimated symbol representative of at least one transmitted symbol carried by the received signal.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for obtaining an error correcting code of a given first size (N), including a systematic information part of a given second size (K) and a redundancy part.

Abstract: The coding procedure comprises at least two elementary coding steps associated with respective puncturing steps and concatenated in series, an interleaving step occurring between two successive elementary coding steps. According to the invention, the method also comprises a transmission conditions observation step for determining at least one parameter characteristic of the transmission conditions, a redundancy distribution selection step (33; 43) for selecting, as a function of the said at least one parameter, one distribution of the said elementary coding step redundancies amongst a plurality of distributions of the said elementary coding step redundancies for which the said global efficiency is the same, and a coding procedure adaptation step (33) for adapting the said coding procedure as a function of the said selected redundancy distribution.

Abstract: Method of optimising the size of blocks of coded data, intended to be subjected to iterative decoding, the method comprising a first step evaluating a resource (T) available for the decoding of a block of normal size (N) and a second step seeking, amongst a plurality of block sizes (N/k) which are submultiples of the normal size by an integer factor (k) greater than or equal to 1 and requiring on average a number of iterations ({overscore (n)}iterations) compatible with the said available resource, the one which makes it possible to obtain the lowest error rate at the output of the iterative decoding.

Abstract: Method and device for optimising, under performance constraint, the size of blocks of coded data Method of optimising the size of blocks of coded data intended to be subjected to iterative decoding, a maximum error rate at the output of the iterative decoding being fixed in advance, in which there are sought, amongst a plurality of block sizes (N/k) which are submultiples of the normal block size by an integer factor (k) greater than or equal to 1 and a plurality of integers giving the maximum number of iterations (niteration(k)) which can be effected by the said iterative decoding on a block, a submultiple size and a maximum number of iterations such that they are compatible with the said maximum error rate and such that a mean number of iterations ({overscore (n)}iteration(k)) which would be effected by the iterative decoding on a block of submultiple size is as low as possible.