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A menu structure in an information presentation device enables navigation in the menu structure. The information presentation device may include a sound generating unit, at least one first user input unit, and a control unit that provides selectable items in the menu structure. The items may be related to functions, applications or settings of the information presentation device. Each item may be associated with at least one dedicated sound. Upon detection of selection of a specific item via a user input unit, the presentation device may control the sound generating unit to generate the sound associated with the selected item.

The invention relates to a scintillator layer for a position-resolved X-ray detector, in which the perforations (D) arranged in a plate (P) and formed in the form of a grating are filled with polymers and phosphors (F) Filling.

A device (1) for obtaining multicrystalline silicon, including: at least one crucible (3) made of quartz for the silicon, removably housed in a cup-shaped graphite container (4); a fluid-tight casing (5), including a fixed bottom half-shell (6) and a vertically mobile top half-shell (7); a top induction coil (12), set facing, with interposition of a graphite plate (14), the crucible, a lateral induction coil (16), set around a side wall (17) of the graphite container, and a bottom induction coil (18), set facing a bottom wall (19) of the graphite container and vertically mobile for varying the distance (D) from the bottom wall; and means (20) for a. c. electrical supply of the induction coils separately from one another; at least the lateral induction coil (16) includes a plurality of plane turns (13a...13e) set on top of one another, and means (25) for selectively short-circuiting, supplying or not supplying the turns, all together or separately one or more at a time and for varying the frequency of supply thereof all together or separately one or more at a time.

The invention relates to an electronic circuit and method for testing a line (10). According to the invention the signal generator (20, 30) comprises a random bit series generating means for generating a spread spectrum test signal and the evaluating unit comprises means (60-90, 200-230) for calculating and evaluating the correlation function of the test signal and the reflected signal.

The object of the invention is an arrangement for adjusting the tautness of a traction member of an elevator, which arrangement comprises an elevator car (1) and a compensating weight (2), which are for their part connected to support the elevator car (1) by the aid of a suspension member (4), such as a rope or belt, and also a hoisting machine (3) provided with a traction sheave (3a), and one traction member (5), such as a belt, which is adapted to transmit the rotational movement of the traction sheave (3a) into movement of the elevator car (1) and of the compensating weight (2), and also atension control means (8), which is arranged to adjust the magnitude of the tension forces exerted on the suspension member (4) and on the traction member. The arrangement comprises a tensioning means(9) connected to the traction member (5), and the tension control means (8) is connected to that part of the- traction member (5) that is on the side of the compensating weight (2) with respect to the traction sheave (3a), and the tensioning means (9) is connected to that part of the traction member (5) that is on the side of the elevator car (1) with respect to the traction sheave (3a).

A device (1) for obtaining multicrystalline silicon, including: at least one crucible (3) made of quartz for the silicon, removably housed in a cup-shaped graphite container (4); a fluid- tight openable casing (5); a top induction coil (12), set facing, with interposition of a graphite plate (14), the crucible, a lateral induction coil (16), set around a side wall (17) of the graphite container, and a bottom induction coil (18), set facing a bottom wall (19) of the graphite container and vertically mobile for varying the distance (D) from the bottom wall; and first means (20) for a.c. electrical supply of the induction coils separately from one another, and second means (21) for supply of a coolant within respective hollow turns of the induction coils; the bottom induction coil includes four spiral windings (31-34), arranged alongside one another according to a chequered scheme in one and the same plane of lie, which is defined by an insulated supporting plate (35); electrical switching means (40) enable in use selective connection of the four windings (31-34) to one another according to different configurations.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a plurality of metal microstructures characterised in that said method includes the following steps: a) obtaining a conductive substrate or an insulating substrate covered with a conductive seeding layer; b) applying a layer of photosensitive resin to the conductive portion of the substrate surface; c) flattening the surface of the layer of photosensitive resin to a desired thickness and / or surface state; d) irradiating the layer of resin through a mask defining the contour of the desired microstructure; e) dissolving the non-polymerised areas of the photosensitive resin layer to expose the conductive surface of the substrate at parts; f) galvanically depositing at least one layer of a metal from said conductive layer such as to form a block that substantially reaches the top surface of the photosensitive resin; g) flattening the resin and the electroformed metal in order to make the resin and the electroformed blocks level and thus to form electroformed parts or microstructures; h) separating the resin layer and the electrodeposited layer from the substrate; and i) removing the layer of photosensitive resin from the structure obtained at the end of step g) in order to release the microstructures thus formed.

The invention is directed towards an information presenting device and a portable electronic device including such an information presenting device. The information presenting device (16) comprises a first information layer (18) having a first information presentation structure (20) of photo chromatic material changing appearance when irradiated by light (28) of a specific wavelength, a second information layer (22) having a second information presentation structure (24), and a first light source (26) illuminating the second information layer for presenting the second information presentation structure, wherein the first information layer is of a material that is transparent for light emanating at least from the first light source when the first layer is not exposed to light of said specific wavelength.

The present invention provides a deinterleaver (10) for a wireless communication device that is simple and inexpensive to implement. In particular, a deinterleaver for deinterleaving a stream of data bits representing a plurality of symbols that have been interleaved using a multi-stage interleaving scheme is provided, the deinterleaver comprising preprocessing means (12) for ordering the data bits in the stream into pairs, such that the data bits in the pair are consecutive data bits from a symbol; at least one memory (16,18) for storing the paired bits, such that each pair of data bits is stored in a respective location in the memory; and a read and write address generator (20) for the at least one memory, the generator being adapted to determine the addresses in the at least one memorythat pairs of data bits are to be stored, and to determine the addresses in the at least one memory that pairs of data bits are to be read from.

A continuous rotary machine for filling capsules with pharmaceutical products is provided with at least one dosing wheel having a plurality of pockets each defined by a respective upper seat, which is suited to receive and hold a closing cap of a capsule and by a respective lower seat, which is suited to receive and hold a bottom of the capsule, and is provided with a measuring device to measure the weight of the bottom or of the bottom and of the pharmaceutical product contained in the lower seat itself; the upper seat being radially mobile between a forward position, in which the lower and the upper seats are vertically aligned with each other, and a retracted position, in which the lower and the upper seats are vertically staggered with respect to each other.

The invention relates to the technical field of display processing, in particular to a computer readable storage medium and a display stream compression decoding module and display interface interaction device applying the same, a computer program is stored in the medium, and the computer program can be executed by a processor of the display stream compression decoding module and the display interface interaction device. The DSC standard V1.1 specifies that bit stream compression has a fixed compression ratio while the number of slices of a complete image may be 1, 2 or 4. Slice number information is obtained through calculation of a coded and transmitted image parameter set, clock frequencies needed by all the modules are automatically distributed, the input and output time sequence of decoding is controlled, and the method has the advantage of being easy to operate. Data for displaying a serial interface is converted into a DSC bit stream on hardware, and a decoding algorithm in a VESA association DSC standard V1.1 is realized by using the hardware, so that the method is simple and cheap to implement on conventional hardware.

A wind power generator having a nacelle, which is mounted to an upper end of a support tower, supports in rotary manner a rotor, and is oriented around a rotation axis by an orienting device provided with at least one gearmotor. The gearmotor presents an output gear coupled with a crown gear fixed to the support tower and is hinged to the nacelle so as to rotate around a fulcrum axis, which is substantially parallel to the rotation axis under the thrust of an actuation device.

An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for removing particles which effectively eliminates particles in the vacuum container unit without degrading the rate of operation of the processing device, and is simple and inexpensive to embody. <??>The apparatus for removing particles in accordance with the present invention is for a processing device including a vacuum container unit having a plurality of chambers in which a predetermined process is performed on a wafer carried in by a conveyer unit in atmosphere. The apparatus comprises a charge neutralizing means for neutralizing charges generated on a surface of the wafer, the charge neutralizing means being mounted in a waiting-accommodation unit which constitutes a part of the conveyer unit, and a charging means for adsorbing particles in the vacuum container unit by electrostatic force, the charging means being mounted in the vacuum container unit.

The invention relates to a roping method and apparatus. In the method, the rope is arranged to be collected in a collecting container (21) and the rope (3b) to be collected is pushed into the collecting container (21) through a tubular guiding element (20) so that the collecting container (21) is caused to rotate about a rotational axle by the thrust of the rope (3b).

The invention concerns a method for determining the direction of longitudinal travel of a vehicle comprising a step (a) of collecting a first signal (Signal1), representative of a first driving parameter, such as the steering-wheel torque, and of which the sign of the value and / or the sign of the variations is not dependent on the direction of longitudinal travel of the vehicle, a step (b) of collecting a second signal (Signal2), representative of a second driving parameter separate from the first driving parameter, such as the yaw rate, and of which the sign of the value and / or the sign of the variations changes on the basis of the direction of longitudinal travel of the vehicle, then a step (c) of comparing signs during which the sign of the value, or of the variation, of the first signal (Signal1) is compared with the sign of the value, or of the variation, of the second signal (Signal2) in order to deduce therefrom the direction of longitudinal travel of the vehicle, depending on whether said signs are identical or, on the contrary, different.

The present invention relates to the field of display processing technology, and in particular to a computer-readable storage medium and a display stream compression decoding module and display interface interaction device using the medium. The medium stores a computer program, and the computer program can be displayed by the display stream compression decoding module. Executed by a processor of the device for interacting with the display interface. The DSC standard V1.1 stipulates that bit stream compression has a fixed compression ratio, and the number of slices of a complete image can be 1, 2 or 4. The number of slices is calculated by encoding and transmitting the image parameter set, and then the clock frequency required by each module is automatically allocated, and the input and output timing of decoding is controlled, which is easy to operate. On the hardware, the data of the display serial interface is converted into the bit stream of the DSC, and the decoding algorithm in the DSC standard V1.1 of the VESA Association is implemented by hardware, which makes it simple and cheap to implement on conventional hardware.