Abstract: An electrical connector, in particular for a medical device that is intended to be secured to the skin of a user, the connector comprising a base intended to be solidly connected to the device and a plug intended to be solidly connected to an electric conductor, wherein the plug comprises a connection means and the base comprises a plurality of connection means, each being adapted to engage with the connection means of the plug in order to establish a connection between the base and the plug comprising a base secured to the device and a plug configured to be secured to an electrical conductor, wherein the base includes a plurality of protuberances and the plug includes a cavity.

Abstract: An electrical connector, in particular for a medical device that is intended to be secured to the skin of a user, the connector comprising a base intended to be solidly connected to the device and a plug intended to be solidly connected to an electric conductor, wherein the plug comprises a connection means and the base comprises a plurality of connection means, each being adapted to engage with the connection means of the plug in order to establish a connection between the base and the plug comprising a base secured to the device and a plug configured to be secured to an electrical conductor, wherein the base includes a plurality of protuberances and the plug includes a cavity.

Abstract: An electrical connector, in particular for a medical device that is intended to be secured to the skin of a user, is disclosed. The connector includes a base for solidly connecting to the device and a plug for solidly connecting to an electric conductor. The plug includes a connection means and the base includes a plurality of connection means, each being adapted to engage with the connection means of the plug in order to establish a connection between the base and the plug.

Abstract: An electrical connector, in particular for a medical device that is intended to be secured to the skin of a user, is disclosed. The connector includes a base for solidly connecting to the device and a plug for solidly connecting to an electric conductor. The plug includes a connection means and the base includes a plurality of connection means, each being adapted to engage with the connection means of the plug in order to establish a connection between the base and the plug.

Abstract: An electrochromic device includes a stack successively including: a first current collector, an electrochromic electrode made of a material capable of reversibly inserting metal ions, an electrolyte, a second current collector, a reflective substrate contacting the first current collector or with the second current collector.

Abstract: An electrochromic device includes a stack successively including: a first current collector, an electrochromic electrode made of a material capable of reversibly inserting metal ions, an electrolyte, a second current collector, a reflective substrate contacting the first current collector or with the second current collector.

Abstract: The invention relates to an implantable energy source comprising at least one energy storage sub-system (171) constructed in the form of a stack of thin layers (175) on a substrate (176), characterised in that said energy storage sub-system has a plurality of through-openings (174) for allowing the development and the passage of blood vessels. Preferably, the energy source thereof has a thickness of less than, or equal to, 1 mm, over at least 80% of its surface.

Abstract: The fluid distribution device includes a first cavity at a first pressure and a second cavity at a second pressure lower than the first pressure. A partition separates the first cavity from the second cavity and a restricting valve is arranged between the first and second cavities. The partition includes a thermoelectric module having a hot side in thermal contact with the first cavity and a cold side in thermal contact with the second cavity.

Abstract: An element to interconnect at least two conductors of a microelectronic circuit is disclosed that includes an initial conductor, referred to as lower conductor; a dielectric layer situated on the initial conductor; a second conductor, referred to as upper conductor, on the dielectric layer; a cavity in the dielectric layer emerging, on the one hand, on the lower conductor and, on the other hand, on the upper conductor. The upper conductor forms a bridge above the lower conductor and the cavity forms, at a level where it emerges on the upper conductor, two vents on both sides of the latter.

Abstract: The fluid distribution device includes a first cavity at a first pressure and a second cavity at a second pressure lower than the first pressure. A partition separates the first cavity from the second cavity and a restricting valve is arranged between the first and second cavities. The partition includes a thermoelectric module having a hot side in thermal contact with the first cavity and a cold side in thermal contact with the second cavity.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an element designed to interconnect at least two conductors of a microelectronic circuit, including: an initial conductor (210), referred to as lower conductor; a dielectric layer (230) situated on said initial conductor; a second conductor (220), referred to as upper conductor, on said dielectric layer; a cavity (240) in the dielectric layer emerging, on the one hand, on the lower conductor and, on the other hand, on the upper conductor. The upper conductor (220) forms a bridge above the lower conductor (210) and the cavity (240) forms, at a level where it emerges on the upper conductor (243), two vents on both sides of the latter.

Abstract: Scanning type device for detection of a photonic flux emitted by a scene containing at least one acquisition channel (V) comprising: several useful detectors (1) aligned with the scanning, each associated with a preamplifier (2), each receiving the same fraction of photonic flux from the scene and supplying information to the preamplifiers, a time delay integration device (4), integrating signals emitted by preamplifiers. The channel (V) cooperates with at least one calibration device (8) comprising: a calibration detector (9) on the input side of the useful detectors (1), receiving the fraction of photonic flux before the detectors (1), a device for generating a stimulus (11) from a fraction of the flux, and with at least one stimulus distribution device (13) for applying it to preamplifiers (2) before they have received the information from the associated useful detectors. Application particularly to imagery or to spectrometry.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photodetectors array that will be hybridized on a readout circuit (30) and realized from a wafer of semiconducting material (11). The wafer is divided into pixels (12), each pixel forming a photodetector, the pixels being separated from each other by separation means formed in the wafer and comprising a photogrid for photodetectors, each photodetector having a connection pad (18) to hybridize the photodetectors array to the readout circuit.

Abstract: An image sensor with matrix readout includes a matrix of elementary photodetectors (P) connected through at least a bus (Bpel) to a remote integrator (I) which converts the signal of each elementary photodetector into a voltage. Provided between the end of the bus and the input of the integrator is an impedance matching device (D) with low output capacitance, delivering at its output, during the time for converting photodetector signal, a variation of charge which corresponds to an affine function of the charge present at the input of said matching device, wherein this charge variation is determined by: ? t = 0 t = Tconv ? Iinj ? ( t ) · ? t = ? t = 0 t = Tconv ? I ? ? int ? ( t ) · ? t where Iinj is the instantaneous current of the bus, injected at the input of the impedance matching device, Iint is the instantaneous current at the input of the integrator and Tconv is the conversion time.

Abstract: An array of photodetectors intended to be hybridized on a readout circuit and fabricated from a wafer in semiconductor material. The wafer is divided into pixels, the pixels being separated from one another by walls formed crosswise over the entire thickness of the wafer, the hybridization surface having connection pads enabling hybridization of the photodetector array to the readout circuit.

Abstract: Device converts an analogue signal representing charges resulting from the photo-detection of electromagnetic radiation into a digital signal. Device includes (a) a number of photo-detectors connected in rows and columns through of buses, the photo-detectors in one column sharing the same column bus, itself connected to an output stage by through a row bus, and between each photo-detector and the column bus, (b) an integrator, to integrate the charges arriving from the photo-detector, (c) means for resetting the integrator, and (d) a comparator to compare the voltage Vp from the integrator with an internally predefined threshold voltage Vs, characterized in that it also includes a processing device, a clock, the clock controlling the processing device and the processing device receiving a binary value present at the output of the comparator at each signal from the clock.

Abstract: The invention concerns an array of photodetectors intended to be hybridised on a readout circuit and fabricated from a wafer in semiconductor material. The wafer is divided into pixels, the pixels being separated from one another by walls formed crosswise over the entire thickness of the wafer, the hybridisation surface having connection pads (18) enabling hybridisation of the photodetector array to the readout circuit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reader for an electromagnetic radiation detection element comprising: at least one integration capacitor (16) to integrate electrical charges output by the said detection element, an amplifier (18) with a high impedance terminal (20) connected to the integration capacitor (16) and a low impedance terminal connected to an output stage (22), and means (24, 27) of isolating the integration capacitor (16) from the detection element when the capacitor voltage exceeds a set value. According to the invention, the comparator means are connected to the low impedance terminal (50) of the amplifier (18). Application to sensors in matrices.

Abstract: An image sensor comprises a detector circuit (17) with detector diodes (3), which are reverse biased during image sensing. It is characterized in that the cathode voltage of the detector diodes is controlled by forward biasing detector circuit (17) diodes via the read circuit (20). The control diodes can be dedicated diodes or forward biased photodetector diodes. In the latter case, a picture is taken in several sequences.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photodetectors array that will be hybridized on a readout circuit (30) and realized from a wafer of semiconducting material (11). The wafer is divided into pixels (12), each pixel forming a photodetector, the pixels being separated from each other by separation means formed in the wafer and comprising a photogrid for photodetectors, each photodetector having a connection pad (18) to hybridize the photodetectors array to the readout circuit.