Abstract: A wheel for an escapement system including a hub intended to be mounted with a staff for rotation therewith, the staff being intended to be subjected to a mechanical torque, a felloe, at least two arms extending from the hub to the felloe, and a toothing formed by a plurality of teeth. The wheel for the escapement system includes at least one recess on at least one of the faces thereof, the recess extending from the felloe to the hub.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the activation of silent genes in microorganisms by co-cultivation of an inducer and a recipient microorganism. The inducer is selected from a chemical inducer, a microorganism inducer which is selected from a killed microorganism cell and/or inactivated culture medium in which said microorganism cell had been cultured and/or medium inducer. The present invention furthermore relates to a method for screening for an inducer and to a method of screening for a recipient microorganism by co-cultivation of an inducer and a recipient organism. The methods are useful for the detection of medicaments, such as antibiotics. The present invention further relates to media for culturing microorganisms comprising an inducer.

Abstract: An inertial sensor including at least one measurement beam and one active body formed of a proof body and of deformable plates, said active body being maintained in suspension inside of a tight enclosure via its plates, the measurement beam connecting a portion of the proof body to an internal wall of said enclosure, said measurement beam having a lower thickness than the proof body.

Abstract: A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device for measuring accelerations, angular rates, or for actuation comprises at least two substrates and at least one movable structure arranged in a cavity between the substrates. An electrically conducting frame surrounding the movable structure is arranged at an interface of the two substrates. The frame is electrically separated from the movable structure and connected by at least first and second electrically conducting connections to the first and second substrates, respectively. The frame may have a width of not more than 150 preferably not more than 50 ?m. The first connection is at an interface between the frame and the first substrate. The second connection is a layer applied at an outer periphery of the frame and a peripheral face of the second substrate. The structure keeps electrical fields and electromagnetic disturbances away from the sensor and may also be used for shielding micro-electronic circuits.

Abstract: hSLNAC1 polypeptides and polynucleotides and methods for producing such polypeptides by recombinant techniques are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing hSLNAC1 polypeptides and polynucleotides in the design of protocols for the treatment of certain diseases and diagnostic assays for such conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for measuring at least one physical parameter in a place in a patient's body to which a medical probe has access, comprising a medical probe (1) equipped with a sensor of said parameter and means for emitting an electrical signal that represents said parameter and that is received by the sensor, to a data processing device outside the patient's body.

Abstract: An integrated magneto-optical read and write head having a magnetic head set back from an optical head. The integrated magneto-optical head includes an optical subassembly having optical input for receiving optical radiation and an optical output positioned in an output plane. A magnetic subassembly includes a magnetic circuit having at least one polar part PPI placed in a plane perpendicular to the output plane, the polar part PPI exhibition a magnetic pole toward a recording medium. The magnetic pole is set back relative to the output plane of the optical output to reduce the difference between the magnetic coercive field below the optical output and the magnetic pole such that a larger range of magneto-optical materials may be employed in magneto-optical heads.

Abstract: Pole (P) is offset crosswise (Dt) relative to optical output plane (36) . Magnetic field (H) is increased in a relative way opposite optical output (SO) and the ratio of the fields opposite pole (P) and opposite optical output (SO) is decreased.

Abstract: Integrated monomode spatial optical filter and its method of embodiment. The optical filter of the invention for isolating one first optical mode and eliminating second stray optical modes consists of an optical microguide (4) borne by a substrate (2) and having along a plane parallel to the surface (P) of the substrate at least one curved portion (6) whose radius of curvature is such that the losses in the curve of the first and second modes are respectively negligible and extremely high and two light absorbers (8, 10) disposed within a given plane on both sides of the curved portion (6).

Abstract: An integrated optical device for measuring the refractive index of a fluid comprises a light guide formed on a substrate and having a guiding layer for carrying light beams, inserted between a lower layer and an upper layer having refractive indices below that of the guiding layer. The device includes an interaction measurement zone of the light guide for coming into contact with the fluid, the upper layer at the measurement zone having a thickness less than the penetration distance of the evanescent wave of the guided light beam. Outside the interaction zone, that upper layer has a thinckness greater than the penetration distance of the same evanescent beam. The device also has an interferometric optical system at least partly formed in the light guide and having a reference optical circuit and a measurement optical circuit including the measurement zone, for measuring the phase shift introduced by an effective index change of the guided mode due to the fluid.

Abstract: Each image point X.sub.ij of the matrix screen is defined by the intersection between a control row i having at least one electrode and a control column j having an even number of electrodes. In order to eliminate the coupling between the rows and columns, the voltage signals applied to the electrodes of the same control column cancel one another out in groups of two.