Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition in powder form comprising probiotic bacteria and at least one iron source selected from ferrous citrate, ferric citrate, ferrous sulphate monohydrate and mixtures thereof. Ferrous citrate, ferric citrate, ferrous sulphate monohydrate and mixtures thereof advantageously do not cause significant inhibition or reduction in the viability of the bacteria and thus these iron sources are advantageously used to fortify a composition in powder form comprising probiotic bacteria.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition in powder form comprising probiotic bacteria and at least one iron source selected from ferrous citrate, ferric citrate, ferrous sulphate monohydrate and mixtures thereof. Ferrous citrate, ferric citrate, ferrous sulphate monohydrate and mixtures thereof advantageously do not cause significant inhibition or reduction in the viability of the bacteria and thus these iron sources are advantageously used to fortify a composition in powder form comprising probiotic bacteria.

Abstract: An induction heating device for a pressuriser of a pressurized water nuclear reactor, which pressuriser includes an enclosure having an inner wall made of magnetic material, the induction heating device including a heating module having a winding mounting, and a winding of conductive wire wound around the winding mounting, the winding generating a magnetic field when an alternating electric current passes therethrough; and a module mounting that engages with an attachment device configured to removably attach the heating module to the module mounting, the module mounting being configured to position the heating module outside of the inner wall of the enclosure of the pressuriser in a position that makes it possible to heat the inner wall of the pressuriser by magnetic induction when an electric current passes through the winding of the heating module.

Abstract: A device for scaling cut-out cardboard blanks (2, 2?) includes the high-speed (1.4V) ejection element (I) of a cutting machine and low-speed (V?) receiving element. The device is characterized in that it is provided with an intermediate adjusting module (II) whose at least blank-driving speed is adjustable and which is arranged between the ejection element (I) and the receiving element (III).

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a motor vehicle fender made of plastics material having a skin separating the inside and the outside of the fender, wherein the skin possesses a breakable zone suitable for opening when subjected to thrust from the inside towards the outside of the fender. The inside of the airbag housing is situated in register with the breakable zone.

Abstract: A motor vehicle part including an energy absorber for positioning between a bumper skin and a rigid structure secured to the body of the vehicle, the part being characterized in that it comprises an air inlet grille secured to the energy absorber, said grille being provided with fastener means for fastening to the bumper skin.

Abstract: A motor vehicle fender support comprising a lower portion for fixing to at least one rigid part of the structure of a vehicle, and an upper portion that is spaced apart from the lower portion and designed to support a top edge of a fender having an outside face that is visible from outside of the vehicle and an inside face that is opposite from the outside face, the support being shaped in such a manner as to hold the top edge of the fender at a distance from the rigid part of the vehicle structure that is closest to said edge. The support includes support areas each of which matches substantially the shape of the inside face of the fender in the vicinity of its top edge, the support areas being spaced apart from one another but together forming a support sheet.

Abstract: The motor vehicle fender support comprises a metal core with a top portion provided with fasteners for fastening to a fender. The top portion is provided with ribs arranged to stiffen it in the event of stress being directed in the transverse direction, and to buckle in the event of downwardly-directed impacts, when the fender support is mounted on the vehicle. The metal core also includes openings seeking to reduce its stiffness so as to satisfy predefined deceleration criteria. The fender support also comprises a rigid bottom portion designed to be fastened to the structure of the vehicle.

Abstract: The invention relates to an impact beam comprising a metal crosspiece and reinforcement ribs made of a plastics material and overmolded onto the metal crosspiece.

Abstract: The motor vehicle fender support comprises a metal core with a top portion provided with fasteners for fastening to a fender. The top portion is provided with ribs arranged to stiffen it in the event of stress being directed in the transverse direction, and to buckle in the event of downwardly-directed impacts, when the fender support is mounted on the vehicle. The metal core also includes openings seeking to reduce its stiffness so as to satisfy predefined deceleration criteria. The fender support also comprises a rigid bottom portion designed to be fastened to the structure of the vehicle.

Abstract: A motor vehicle fender having a skin separating the inside and the outside of the fender, wherein said skin possesses a breakable zone suitable for opening when subjected to thrust from the inside towards the outside of the fender.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling the integrity of hollow fibre filtration units and of detecting leaks through a wholly or partially ruptured fibre. The inventive method is characterised in that it consists in: —emitting a noise or audible signal using an emitter located on one side of the membranes of the filtration units; —detecting the noise or audible signal emerging from a ruptured fibre on the other side of the membranes, regardless of whether or not a fluid is passing through said fibre; —amplifying the signal-noise thus obtained; —and comparing the resulting amplified signal to a threshold noise level in the same frequency range.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for positioning a plate (3) on a roll (1), in particular a chopper or folding roll. Said device is characterized in that the roll is provided with magnetic fixing means maintaining the plate on the surface thereof, and two centring elements whereof at least one (9) is mobile and longitudinally spaced apart from the first, so as to cooperate with matching means maintaining the plate (3), the mobile centering element (9) being linked to control means (15) for displacing it along the transverse axis of the roll (1).

Abstract: A device for selecting cut paperboard blanks has two series of drive belts detining two paths tor the blanks, namely an upper path and a lower path each of which is defined between drive belts. The upper and lower paths diverge from each other in the device. A flap that is disposed where the paths diverge from each other is pivotally mounted about a downstream shaft and is capable of occupying two positions, namely, a lower position in which the blanks are fed to the upper path and an upper position in which the blanks are fed to the lower path. Each of the paths has an upstream portion from the flap and a downstream portion from the flap and each of the paths is more steeply inclined relative to the horizontal in one of its upstream and downstream portions than in the other of its upstream and downstream portions.

Abstract: An image processing method for automatic detection of regions of a predetermined type of cancer in an intensity image of a part of a human or animal body, includes, for a number of points of a part of said image, the determination of a set (referred to as a vector) of components formed by characteristic values derived from the intensity distribution around each point in said part of the image, and the use of a classification system for determining the probability of the point associated with said vector belonging to a region of said part of the image which corresponds to the predetermined type of cancer or to another region. An image processing device for carrying out such a method is utilized in conjunction with a digital medical imaging system.

Abstract: A supply device for a machine periodically working on a web of material in a stopped position, particularly a flat cutting press, comprising, upstream of the machine, a hollow suction cylinder over which the web passes before penetrating in the machine. A vacuum source is provided to create a depression and a valve is provided to cyclically vary the depression in the suction cylinder between a first, relatively high value, substantially during the phase of the cycle of the machine corresponding to the acceleration of the web, and a second, relatively low value, during the rest of the cycle.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a system and method for transmitting temporal data relating to the starting of a device placed in a missile launched from a carrier system. The command to fire the missile is transmitted to the missile from the carrier system by means of a firing control wire. The method consists in using the control wire to also transmit the temporal data to the device specifying when to start up the device after the missile has been launched.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device used to bend the end of the trajectory of a rocket in the desired plane without making costly and complicated servo-control mechanisms necessary. A cardan type assembly is formed by a section of the projectile and an internal frame, a gyrostat being mounted in the internal frame. The section carries the control instrument. The device can thus be used to keep the control instrument in a stable roll position throughout the trajectory. It is thus possible to bend the trajectory in a defined direction so as to attack targets from the top with high precision. The device can be adapted to infantry rockets, aeronautical rockets and in general, to short-range projectiles.

Abstract: Locking and unlocking device for cartridge-type tools used in a toolholder mounted on a machine tool ram comprises transmission apparatus (20) connected to control apparatus (24) and arranged to slide axially within a rotating block (23), said transmission apparatus carrying a pin (19) operable to selectively actuate any of several secondary plungers (12) slidably mounted in hydraulic cylinders (11) provided in the toolholder (3), said cylinders being connected via ducts (10) to hydraulic chambers (8) in the top of the toolholder, and said cartridge tools (6) being carried in hollows (5) therein.

Abstract: Irradiated nuclear fuels consisting primarily of plutonium compounds and/or uranium compounds such as oxides, carbides, nitrides are converted in accordance with the method to plutonium hexafluoride and/or uranium hexafluoride. In a first step, the compounds are contacted within a first zone of an enclosure with a gas mixture containing at least one fluorination reagent. In a second step, the remainder of the compounds which have not been converted to fluorides during the first step is contacted directly within a second zone of the enclosure with a bed which has been fluidized by means of a gas mixture containing at least one fluorination reagent.