Abstract: An electronic device (10) provides user message notifications as to messages that were received when the user was not in possession of or in the vicinity of the electronic device. The electronic device includes a communications circuit (46) for receiving an incoming message, and an output device (30, 32, 50) for outputting a message notification associated with the incoming message. A sensor (20) detects a user and generates a detection signal when the user is detected. A controller (41, 42) is configured to receive the detection signal, and configured in response to the detection signal to generate the message notification for outputting by the output device. In one embodiment, a timer (36) counts a predetermined time after receipt of the incoming message. If a user input is not received within the predetermined time, the controller causes the electronic device to enter an away from phone (AFP) mode in which the sensor is activated.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has at least three cylinders and induction conduits opening into the lower portion of the cylinders or into the crankcase. The induction conduits are intended at least for combustion air, comprising at least one rotary disc valve rotatably driven by the crankshaft of the engine. The valve has the form of a disc whose rotation axis crosses or intersects the crankshaft of the engine and is arranged in a valve housing through which the induction conduits extend, said valve being designed to alternately open and close the passages of the induction conduits through the valve housing. Said valve housing has at least three induction conduit inlets and is driven at an rpm which is lower than the crankshaft rpm and has a number of sets of recesses corresponding to the rpm reduction for control of the induction.