Abstract: A load compensating device, especially one for lifting appliances, includes a detector for detecting an overload or an underload and designed to cause actuation of the compensating device. The device comprises an actuator attached to one of ends of a rope or ropes that support the load for producing positive or negative displacement of the rope or ropes over a short distance compared with the length of the rope or ropes. The actuator is operated by a brushless electric motor connected to an infinitely variable-speed transmission. The transmission is connected to the detector.

Abstract: A load compensating device, especially one for lifting appliances, includes a detector for detecting an overload or an underload and designed to cause actuation of the compensating device. The device comprises an actuator attached to one of ends of a Grope or ropes+that support the load (11) eapableofor producing positive or negative displacement of the rope or ropes over a short distance compared with the length of the rope or ropes. The actuator is operated by brushless electric motor connected to an infinitely variable-speed transmission. The transmission is connected to the detector.

Abstract: A method for loading nuclear fuel assemblies inside a nuclear plant reactor core includes positioning at a second diagonal of a core plate, a triple guide module using an auxiliary mast of a loading machine or of a handling member designed therefor. Then, at least at each of the next diagonals of the core plate, positioning a guide module consisting of six consecutive guide tiles diagonally mounted so as to enable one to seven fuel assemblies to be installed one by one. Then, at an angle opposite to the initial angle for positioning the assemblies, positioning at the penultimate diagonal, the triple guide module, and two single-unit guide modules, so as to enable six fuel assemblies to be installed at the penultimate diagonal.

Abstract: A tool is provided for assisting the loading of nuclear fuel assemblies inside a reactor core. The assemblies have a prismatic shape and square cross-section, and are positioned on a plurality of adjacent locations, likewise with square cross-section, each comprising positioning blocks and orifices for circulating a liquid coolant and in particular water. The tool comprises an actuator which, in retracted positions, has a square requirement less than that of a fuel assembly. The actuator is provided with means for acting at the intermediate fuel assemblies and/or at the intermediate baffles of the reactor vessel of the location concerned at which it is being introduced. The actuator is provided with gripping means designed to cooperate with the grab of a handling mast enabling its insertion at the location concerned.

Abstract: A method and systems to evaluate the propagation delay within a semiconductor chip (305) that is embedded in an electronic system without requiring measurement apparatus and specific electrical contacts is disclosed. Since most of electronic systems use a microprocessor, the basic principle of the invention consists in using the microprocessor capabilities to measure the propagation delay of a chip embedded in such an electronic system. Thus, according to the invention, the microprocessor transmits an instruction to the semiconductor chip that performs propagation delay evaluation and then read the result in a dedicated memory register (415) of the chip. As a consequence, the chip does not require dedicated pins and measurement apparatus. In order to measure the propagation delay, the chip comprise a logic path (400) wherein propagation delay is created, then a rising edge detector (405) is used to analyze logic path signals, A counter (410) based on a system clock is used to measure propagation delay.

Abstract: A method and systems to evaluate the propagation delay within a semiconductor chip (305) that is embedded in an electronic system without requiring measure apparatus and specific electrical contacts is disclosed. Since most of electronic systems use a microprocessor, the basic principle of the invention consists in using the microprocessor capabilities to measure the propagation delay of a chip embedded in such an electronic system. Thus, according to the invention, the microprocessor transmits an instruction to the semiconductor chip that performs propagation delay evaluation and then read the result in a dedicated memory register (415) of the chip. As a consequence, the chip does not required dedicated pins and measure apparatus are not necessary. To measure the propagation delay, the chip comprise a logic path (400) wherein propagation delay is created, a rising edge detector (405) to analyze logic path signals and a counter (410) based on a system clock to measure propagation delay.

Abstract: Rear independent wheel suspension system for a motor vehicle of the drawn arm type, having a V-shaped housing (12) joining corresponding ends of the wheel arms (1, 2). The other ends of the wheel arms (1, 2) are joined to the stub axels. Two torsion bars (8, 11) are housed in the V-shaped housing (12). The torsion bars (8, 11) are joined in their middle by a shackle (10). The free ends of the torsion bars (8, 11) are joined to the body of the motor vehicle by elastic joints (7) and to the wheel arms (1, 2), respectively. The tip of the V-shaped housing (12) is situated approximately in the plane containing the wheel arms (1, 2), and the V-shaped housing (12) is oriented so that the plane containing the long axes (24) of the central ellipsis of inertia (20) of its various cross-sections meets the ground (26) along a line (25) passing at or near the point of contact of the rear wheels ( 3, 4) and the ground (26).