Abstract: Detailed is a device for cleaning an immersed surface including a body and members for driving this body over the immersed surface, a filtration chamber which has a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet, a hydraulic circuit for the flow of liquid between the inlet and the outlet through a filtering device, a handle for operating the body which allows a user to carry it in order to immerse it in the liquid or remove it from the liquid, wherein the liquid outlet is arranged at a longitudinal end of the body, and wherein the operating handle is connected to the body at an opposing end so that, when the body is suspended by the operating handle, it tilts spontaneously under the effect of gravity into an emptying position in which the liquid outlet is located below the liquid inlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for in vitro diagnosis or prognosis of testicular cancer which comprises a step of detecting the presence or absence of at least one expression product from at least one nucleic acid sequence selected from the sequences identified in SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 6 or from the sequences which exhibit at least 99% identity with one of the sequences identified in SEQ ID NOS: 1 to 6, to isolated nucleic acid sequences and to the use thereof as a testicular cancer marker.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rolling apparatus for cleaning an immersed surface comprising a hollow body; rolling members; a filtration chamber which is provided in the hollow body; a motorized pumping device configured for generating a flow of liquid between a liquid inlet (9) and a liquid outlet which are connected, wherein it comprises a directional flux guide (91) which is mounted for rotation on a liquid outlet (10) about an axis of rotation and which has a shape configured for orientating the current of liquid which is discharged via this propulsion outlet (10) through this flux guide (91) so that it creates, by means of reaction, in the region of an outlet of the flux guide, forces whose resultant has a non-zero drive component of the apparatus parallel with the immersed surface; an actuator for rotatably driving said flux guide (91); and a unit for controlling said actuator for rotatably driving said flux guide (91).

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning a surface which is immersed in a liquid, comprising a hollow body, guiding members defining at least one axle, a filtration chamber, at least one electric motor, a pumping device which creates, in a normal cleaning direction through a filtering device, a liquid flux which is discharged via at least one main outlet, and at least one secondary liquid outlet arranged so as to orientate a current of liquid which is discharged in a backward direction via this secondary outlet so that this current creates a secondary hydraulic reaction force which generates a nosing-up torque of the apparatus by the hollow body being pivoted about the axle.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning a surface which is immersed in a liquid, comprising a hollow body, members which are integral with the hollow body and which come into contact with the immersed surface, a filtration chamber, at least one electric motor which is carried by the hollow body, and a control unit which is configured to control the motor. For at least one movement configuration of the apparatus, at least one non-steering non-driving rolling member in contact with the immersed surface is arranged relative to the instantaneous drive orientation so as to apply a gyration torque of the apparatus only due to such an arrangement.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning a surface which is immersed in a liquid comprising a hollow body, guiding members defining at least one axle, a filtration chamber, at least one electric drive motor, a control unit which is configured to control each drive motor in at least one direction at a speed selected from: at least a first speed at which the apparatus is in a first movement position in accordance with a first predetermined trajectory, at least a second more rapid speed at which the apparatus is in a second nosed-up movement position in accordance with a second predetermined trajectory which is different from said first trajectory.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning a surface which is immersed in a liquid, comprising a hollow body, guiding and driving members, a filtration chamber in the hollow body, at least one liquid inlet, at least one liquid outlet out of the hollow body, at least one axial pumping propeller, a single reversible electric motor whose drive shaft, in order to move it, is simultaneously mechanically connected to at least one motorized member and to each pumping propeller. In a first rotation direction of the drive shaft, each motorized member is driven in a forward direction, and each pumping propeller generates the flow of liquid in the normal direction ensuring the cleaning of the immersed surface. In a second rotation direction of the drive shaft, each motorized member is driven in a backward direction opposite the first direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaner apparatus for a submerged surface comprising a hollow body (1) and at least one liquid inlet (9) at the base (16) of said hollow body (1), characterized in that it comprises at least one accelerating protuberance (31) extending toward the submerged surface while maintaining a height of liquid, and extending, with respect to a forward travel direction of the apparatus, in front of an adjacent liquid inlet (9) while maintaining the passage cross section of said liquid inlet (9).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cleaning an immersed surface comprising a hollow body and members for driving this body over the immersed surface, a filtration chamber which has a liquid inlet (9) and a liquid outlet (10), a hydraulic circuit for the flow of liquid between the inlet (9) and the outlet (10) through a filtering device (11), a handle for operating the body which allows a user to carry it in order to immerse it in the liquid or remove it from the liquid, wherein the liquid outlet (10) is arranged at a longitudinal end of the body, and wherein the operating handle is connected to the body at an opposing end so that, when the body is suspended by the operating handle, it tilts spontaneously under the effect of gravity into an emptying position in which the liquid outlet (10) is located below the liquid inlet (9).

Abstract: The invention relates to a rolling device for cleaning an immersed surface, comprising at least one front drive rolling member (2) and a hydraulic circuit which has at least one liquid outlet (10) which is orientated towards the rear, and which is capable of creating a flow of liquid which is discharged from each rear outlet (10) in order to create a hydraulic reaction force, and which has a longitudinal component (Fe) for driving the device forwards which is not equal to zero and whose value is adapted to create a pressure torque for each front drive rolling member (2) on the immersed surface and, alone, to move the device forwards when it is immersed and when each front drive rolling member (2) is lifted from the immersed surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rolling cleaner apparatus for a submerged surface, comprising rolling drive members, at least one motor (20a, 20b) for driving at least one rolling drive member, a filtration chamber formed in the hollow body and having a liquid inlet into the hollow body, a liquid outlet from the hollow body, a hydraulic circuit for circulating liquid between the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet through a filtering device, a motorized pumping device (12) designed to generate a flow of liquid between each liquid inlet and each liquid outlet, characterized in that it comprises a control unit (90) designed to modulate the flow of liquid circulating between each liquid inlet and each liquid outlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cleaning an immersed surface comprising a hollow body and members for driving the body over the immersed surface, a filtration chamber which is provided in the hollow body and which has a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet, a hydraulic circuit for a flow of liquid between the inlet and the outlet through a filtering device, wherein the filtering device comprises an opening which is in communication with the liquid inlet and, for filtering and recovering debris, a space (55) which is delimited by filtering walls (56, 57, 58, 59) and which extends towards the liquid outlet, the space (55) having a regular cross-section which decreases from the opening towards the liquid outlet in order to form a convergent chamber for tangential filtration of the liquid.