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20080225231 | Device and Method for Measuring the Contrast of the Fringes in a Michelson Interferometer and System for Examination of the Eye Comprising Such a Device - The invention relates to a device, for measuring the contrast of fringes in a Michelson interferometer at full field, comprising a Wollaston prism for diverting two perpendicular incident polarisations into two different emergent directions, said diverting means being arranged within the interferometer as substitute for a single polariser. The device is of application to a Michelson interferometer used in an OCT tomographical system and comprising means for obtaining interferometric contrast without use of a modulation technique or synchronous detection methods. | 09-18-2008 |
20080231807 | High Resolution Laterial and Axial Tomography - An in-vivo high resolution lateral and axial tomography system of the retina, is provided, including a Michelson interferometer, generating a tomographical image by full field OCT interference with Z sweeping, adaptive optical correction apparatus, correcting the wave fronts coming from and going to the eye, including a reference source, a deformable mirror and wave surface analysis apparatus, detection apparatus producing an image from an interferometric measurement using the OCT principle and apparatus for focussing the wave surface analyser. The apparatus for focussing are embodied and controlled, synchronously with the Z sweeping to force the deformable mirror to adopt an additional curvature, such as to combine the input light source and detection apparatus at a given depth in the retina. | 09-25-2008 |
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20110274325 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING IMAGES ACQUIRED IN REAL TIME THROUGH A MEDICAL DEVICE - A method for processing images acquired in real time through a medical device, said images being loaded into a buffer, comprising the steps of: stopping the loading of the images into the buffer, processing loaded images using an incremental algorithm, displaying successively intermediate results of the processing, resuming the loading and stopping the processing based on an evaluation of said intermediate results. | 11-10-2011 |
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20110144408 | PROCESS FOR WASTE CONFINEMENT BY VITRIFICATION IN METAL CANS - Process for confinement of waste containing at least one chemical species to be confined, by in-can vitrification in a hot metal can into which waste and a vitrification additive are added, the waste and the vitrification additive are melted to obtain a glass melt which is then cooled, characterised in that at least one oxidising agent is also added into the metal can and in that the concentration of oxidising agent(s) expressed as oxide(s) in the glass melt is between 0.1 and 20% by mass, preferably 4 and 20% by mass, even more preferably 5 and 15% by mass, and even more preferably 10 and 13% by mass of the glass melt mass. | 06-16-2011 |
20110217485 | METHOD FOR COATING A METAL CRUCIBLE ELEMENT WITH A MIXTURE OF GLASS AND CERAMIC - Angular sectors of a cylindrical wall of a crucible for vitrification of waste, built in steel and subject to high temperatures, are coated with a mixture of mainly glass and ceramic, the coating being subject to a heat treatment comprising a step between 650° C. and 850° C. so as to perform surface melting of the mixture filling the open porosity, improving dielectric strength and the cohesion of the coating, but without producing any excessive thermal expansion or oxidation of the substrate which would lead to fast flaking of the coating. | 09-08-2011 |
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20100136309 | METHOD FOR MAKING A STRUCTURAL PART OF A COMPOSITE MATERIAL HAVING A CALIBRATED THICKNESS AND STRUCTURAL PART THUS OBTAINED - The disclosed embodiments offer a solution for controlling the thickness of a finished structural composite part when precise tolerances must be complied with for the quality of the assembly and in order to ease the assembly operations of this part. In order to implement the method according to the disclosed embodiments, an additional layer of plies made out of a non-structural composite material, called calibrating plies, is applied onto the structural plies of the structural part, at least in an area where the thickness must be maintained within close tolerances and, after the composite material has been cured, the calibrating plies are machined in order to obtain the thickness required for the finished part. The thickness of the calibrating plies applied is determined according to the possible thicknesses of structural plies, taking into account the manufacturing spreads so that the machining operation for the calibrating plies does not affect the structural plies. | 06-03-2010 |
20100264272 | AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE INCLUDING STIFFENER EDGE JUNCTIONS - An aircraft structure including stiffened panels assembled at the junction, without continuity of the stiffeners. Multiple panels are used to form the fuselage, tail units and wings of an aircraft. These panels include stiffeners which are interrupted at each panel junction. However, the stresses experienced by the stiffeners must be transmitted despite these interruptions. Known solutions require the use of at least one additional part per stiffener and per interruption. In order to solve this problem, the disclosed embodiments include a doubler necessitating at most one additional part per panel junction area for all of the interrupted stiffeners in this area. | 10-21-2010 |
20110185555 | METHOD FOR THE ORBITAL ASSEMBLY OF AIRCRAFT SECTIONS MADE OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL - A method for assembling two structural elements, at least one of the two structural elements being tube-shaped and including a skin made of a fiber-reinforced composite material. The ability of the element to adapt to the shape and perimeter of a junction interface is improved by providing longitudinal grooves distributed on the circumference of the junction interface. The grooves are of a sufficient length to provide the junction interface with the flexibility to accommodate, through relative radial movement of each portion located between two grooves, differences in shape and perimeter among the junction interfaces of the two structural elements. | 08-04-2011 |
20130026292 | STIFF PANEL FOR AIRCRAFT, COMPRISING STIFFENERS WITH NOTCHED CORES - A stiffened panel includes a panel at least one of whose surfaces is equipped with stiffeners each of which includes a base that is pressed against the surface of panel, as well as a core that is oriented orthogonally relative to the base and whose first longitudinal edge is integral to the latter. | 01-31-2013 |
20130181092 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING TWO SECTIONS OF AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE - Device for assembling two aircraft fuselage sections each comprising a skin and longitudinal stiffeners, the device comprising fishplates fishing couples of mutually aligned longitudinal stiffeners belonging respectively to said sections, each fishplate comprising two fishplate pieces each comprising at least one longitudinal sole plate intended to be fixed to a longitudinal stiffener, and a transverse support head, and at least one demountable connecting member able to mutually clamp the respective support heads of said fishplate pieces to allow a transmission of longitudinal forces between these fishplate pieces. | 07-18-2013 |
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20110058809 | Thermally optimized microwave channel multiplexing device and signals repetition device comprising at least one such multiplexing device - A microwave channel multiplexing device comprises several elementary filters connected in parallel with a common output port by way of a transverse waveguide, each filter comprising a lower end fixed to a support common to all the filters and an upper end away from the support, an external peripheral wall, at least one internal cavity defining an internal channel, a signal input connected to the internal cavity and a signal output connected to the transverse waveguide. The multiplexing device furthermore comprises a conducto-radiative device coupled mechanically and thermally to at least two filters, the conducto-radiative device comprising at least one thermally conducting plate, and linked to the external peripheral walls of each of said at least two filters, the plate being fixed at the level of the upper end of the filters. The invention applies to the field of satellite telecommunications and more particularly to signals repetition devices aboard satellites. | 03-10-2011 |
20120056740 | Radiofrequency Circuit Embedded Onboard in a Satellite Comprising a Thermal Control System Based on an Alarm Signal Generated by the Reflection of Power - A radiofrequency circuit embedded onboard a satellite, data being transmitted on several channels by radiofrequency signals, includes a channel corresponding to a frequency band, and a succession of gains being able to be associated with a channel so as to generate the radiofrequency signal to be transmitted on the latter. The succession includes at least one variable-gain amplifier, the radiofrequency signals thus generated being multiplexed by a multiplexer composed of bandpass filters. The successions of gains comprise a power load arranged so as to dissipate the power of signals which is reflected by the filters of the multiplexer, said load including means for generating an alarm signal representative of the power level of the reflected signals, the alarm signal being used to control the gain of the variable-gain amplifier. The subject of the invention is also a power load. | 03-08-2012 |