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20080319978 | HYBRID SYSTEM FOR NAMED ENTITY RESOLUTION - A method for named entity resolution includes parsing an input text string to identify a context in which an identified named entity of the input text string is used. The identified context is compared with at least one stored context in which the named entity in the stored context is associated with a class of named entity, the named entity class being selected from a plurality of classes, at least one of the plurality of classes corresponding to a metonymic use of a respective named entity. A named entity class is assigned to the identified named entity from the plurality of named entity classes, based on at least one of the identified context and the comparison. | 12-25-2008 |
20090204596 | SEMANTIC COMPATIBILITY CHECKING FOR AUTOMATIC CORRECTION AND DISCOVERY OF NAMED ENTITIES - A computer implemented system and method for processing text are disclosed. Partially processed text, in which named entities have been extracted by a standard named entity system, is processed to identify attributive relations between a named entity or proper noun and a corresponding attribute. A concept for the attribute is identified and, in the case of a named entity, compared with the named entity's context, enabling a confirmation or conflict between the two to be determined. In the case of a proper name, the attribute's context can be associated with the proper name, allowing the proper name to be recognized as a new named entity. | 08-13-2009 |
20100082331 | SEMANTICALLY-DRIVEN EXTRACTION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN NAMED ENTITIES - A system and method of developing rules for text processing enable retrieval of instances of named entities in a predetermined semantic relation (such as the DATE and PLACE of an EVENT) by extracting patterns from text strings in which attested examples of named entities satisfying the semantic relation occur. The patterns are generalized to form rules which can be added to the existing rules of a syntactic parser and subsequently applied to text to find candidate instances of other named entities in the predetermined semantic relation. | 04-01-2010 |
20100318398 | NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACE FOR COLLABORATIVE EVENT SCHEDULING - A collaborative event scheduling method and system are provided which allow participants and an event initiator to interact with a scheduler in a natural language form. Participants provide a respective availability announcement, which is processed to generate a representation of the user's availability within a time window specified for the event by the initiator. This includes extracting a temporal expression from the availability announcement, normalizing, if the temporal expression is determined to be referential, identifying an availability modality for each extracted temporal expression from a set of availability modalities. The generated representation is output for establishing a suitable time for the event within the time window based on the availability announcements of the participants. | 12-16-2010 |
20110099052 | AUTOMATIC CHECKING OF EXPECTATION-FULFILLMENT SCHEMES - A system, apparatus, method, and computer program product encoding the method are provided for expectation fulfillment evaluation. The system includes a natural language processing component that extracts sets of normalized tasks from an input expectation document and an input fulfillment document. A task list comparison component compares the two sets of tasks and identifies each match between a normalized task in the first set and a normalized task in the second set, each normalized task in the first set which has no matching task in the second set, and each normalized task in the second set which has no matching task in the first set. A report generator outputs a report based on the comparison. The report may further include one or more of statistics generated from the comparison, information on an opinion generated by opinion mining a third document, and as a list of the normalized tasks and an indication of whether the tasks were fulfilled, derived from analysis of temporal expression in the two documents. The system may be implemented as software in memory by an associated computer processor. | 04-28-2011 |
20110123967 | DIALOG SYSTEM FOR COMPREHENSION EVALUATION - An automated system, apparatus and method for evaluation of comprehension are disclosed. The method includes receiving an input text and natural language processing the text to identify dependencies between text elements in the input text. Grammar rules are applied to generate questions and associated answers from the processed text, at least some of the questions being based on the identified dependencies. A set of the generated questions is posed to a reader of the input text and the comprehension of the reader evaluated, based on the reader's responses to the questions posed. | 05-26-2011 |
20110225155 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUIDING ENTITY-BASED SEARCHING - A system and method are provided for refining a user's query. An entity index, generated from a corpus of text documents, is provided. The entity index includes a set of entity structures, each including a plurality of terms. Each of the terms of an entity structure is a feature of the same entity. Entity structures can be retrieved from the entity index which match at least a portion of the user's query. Clusters of the retrieved entity structures are identified which have at least one of their terms in common. A cluster hierarchy is generated from the identified clusters in which nodes of the hierarchy are defined by one or more of the terms of the retrieved entity structures. At least a portion of the cluster hierarchy is presented to the user for facilitating refinement of the user's query through user selection of a node which, when formulated as a search, retrieves one or more responsive documents from the corpus of documents. | 09-15-2011 |
20120035905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES IN TEXT - A system and method for processing text are disclosed. The method includes receiving text to be processed. A main language of the text is identified. At least one unknown sequence in the text is identified, each unknown sequence comprising at least one word that is unknown in the main language. For a secondary language, for each of the at least one unknown sequence, the method includes determining whether the unknown sequence includes a first word recognized in the secondary language and, if so, identifying a sequence of words in the secondary language which includes at least the first word. The identifying of the sequence of words in the secondary language includes applying an algorithm for determining whether the sequence of words in the secondary language is expandable beyond the first word to include adjacent words. The text is labeled based on the identified sequences of words in the secondary language. | 02-09-2012 |
20120035914 | System and method for handling multiple languages in text - A system and method for processing text are disclosed. The method includes receiving text to be processed. A main language of the text is identified. At least one unknown sequence in the text is identified, each unknown sequence comprising at least one word that is unknown in the main language. For a secondary language, for each of the at least one unknown sequence, the method includes determining whether the unknown sequence includes a first word recognized in the secondary language and, if so, identifying a sequence of words in the secondary language which includes at least the first word. The identifying of the sequence of words in the secondary language includes applying an algorithm for determining whether the sequence of words in the secondary language is expandable beyond the first word to include adjacent words. The text is labeled based on the identified sequences of words in the secondary language. | 02-09-2012 |
20120226707 | Linguistically enhanced email detector - A computer-implemented system and method are provided for warning a user of a missing attachment to an email. The method may include automatically recognizing a natural language of text of an email and selecting a keyword list from a plurality of keyword lists, based on the recognized natural language. Each keyword list is associated with a respective natural language and includes at least one keyword. At least one of the keyword lists includes a multi-sense keyword having a plurality of senses. A first of the plurality of senses is recognized as referring to an attachment and a second of the plurality of senses is recognized as not referring to an attachment. The text of the email is processed to identify an instance, where present, of a keyword that is in the selected keyword list and, for a keyword which is a multi-sense keyword, at least one sense-related rule is applied to a portion of the text which includes the instance of the multi-sense keyword. Based on the application of the at least one sense-related rule, where the email lacks an attachment, a notification is provided to the user. | 09-06-2012 |
20120245923 | CORPUS-BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING POLAR ADJECTIVES - A system, method, and computer program product for generating a polar vocabulary are provided. The method includes extracting textual content from each review in a corpus of reviews. Each of the reviews includes an author's rating, e.g., of a specific product or service to which the textual content relates. A set of frequent nouns is identified from the textual content of the reviews. Adjectival terms are extracted from the textual content of the reviews. Each adjectival term is associated in the textual content with one of the frequent nouns. A polar vocabulary including at least some of the extracted adjectival terms is generated. A polarity measure is associated with each adjectival term in the vocabulary which is based on the ratings of those reviews from which the adjectival term was extracted. | 09-27-2012 |
20120245924 | CUSTOMER REVIEW AUTHORING ASSISTANT - An authoring assistant includes a parser which automatically identifies opinion expressions in input text. The text may include an author's review of an item, such as a product or service. A computer-implemented opinion review component generates an analysis of the text, which is based on the identified opinion expressions. The opinion review component computes an effective opinion of the text as a function of a measure of polarity associated with the identified opinion expressions. A representation generator generates a representation of the analysis for display on an associated user interface. The representation of the analysis includes a representation of the effective opinion. In the case of a review, the authoring assistant may allow the author to modify the review to reduce incoherence with a rating of the item. | 09-27-2012 |
20130080152 | LINGUISTICALLY-ADAPTED STRUCTURAL QUERY ANNOTATION - A system and method for natural language processing of queries are provided. A lexicon includes text elements that are recognized as being a proper noun when capitalized. A natural language query includes a sequence of text elements including words. The query is processed. The processing includes a preprocessing step, in which part of speech features are assigned to the text elements in the query. This includes identifying, from a lexicon, a text element in the query which starts with a lowercase letter and assigning recapitalization information to the text element in the query, based on the lexicon. This information includes a part of speech feature of the capitalized form of the text element. Then parts of speech for the text elements in the query are disambiguated, which includes applying rules for recapitalizing text elements based on the recapitalization information. | 03-28-2013 |
20130096909 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUGGESTION MINING - A system and method for extraction of suggestions for improvement form a corpus of documents, such as customer reviews, are disclosed. A structured terminology provided or a topic includes a set of semantic classes, each including a set of terms. A thesaurus of terms relating to suggestions of improvement is provided. Text elements of text strings in the documents which are instances of terms in the structured terminology are labeled with the corresponding semantic class and text elements which are instances of terms in the thesaurus are also labeled. A set of patterns is applied to the labeled text strings to identify suggestions of improvement expressions. The patterns define syntactic relations between text elements, some of which are required to be instances of one of the terms in a particular semantic class or thesaurus. A set of suggestions for improvements is output based on the identified suggestions of improvement expressions. | 04-18-2013 |
20130218914 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM REVIEWERS' COMMENTS - A recommendation method includes receiving a user's review of an item that includes a textual comment. Deficient features of the reviewed item are identified from the text by applying a set of extraction patterns. Each pattern is satisfied when a term in the text, which is associated in a structured terminology with one of a predefined set of features, is in a syntactic relation with another term in the text, such as a polar adjective or expression of a wish or a lack. When such a pattern is satisfied, the corresponding feature is considered a deficient feature. Feature attributes of the reviewed item are compared with corresponding feature attributes of a set of items to identify any improved items whose attribute for the deficient feature is better than that for the reviewed item. The improved item or items can be recommended to the user or to others reading the review. | 08-22-2013 |
20140067369 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ACQUIRING USER RELATED INFORMATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES - Systems and methods for acquiring information associated with a user by using NLP techniques are disclosed. One or more phrases are classified in one or more categories at least partly on the basis of a period for which a product has been used by the user, the user's experience with the product, preferences of the user, or needs of the user by applying one or more natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The one or more phrases are extractable from an electronic publication at least partly on the basis of on a predefined set of verbs, a predefined set of domain-specific terms, and terms indicative of temporal information. One or more terms from the classified phrases are extracted, in which the one or more terms are indicative of the information about the user. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067370 | LEARNING OPINION-RELATED PATTERNS FOR CONTEXTUAL AND DOMAIN-DEPENDENT OPINION DETECTION - A method for extracting opinion-related patterns includes receiving a corpus of reviews, the reviews each including an explicit rating of a topic. The reviews are partitioned among a predefined plurality of classes, based on the ranking. Syntactic relations are identified in each review. The syntactic relations may each include an adjective and a noun. A set of patterns is generated, each of the patterns having at least one of the identified syntactic relations as an instance and the patterns clustered into a set of clusters based on a set of features. At least one of the features is based on occurrences, in the predefined classes, of the instances of the patterns. A polarity is assigned to ones of the clusters and propagated to patterns in the respective clusters. The polarity-labeled patterns can each be instantiated as a contextual rule for opinion mining. | 03-06-2014 |
20150120788 | CLASSIFICATION OF HASHTAGS IN MICRO-BLOGS - A method for processing micro-blogs includes, for each of a set of hashtags extracted from a collection of micro-blogs, decomposing the hashtag to generate a sequence of words and natural language processing the decomposed hashtag with rules configured for identifying syntactic dependencies and targets, such as proper names, in the dependencies. Opinion detection rules are applied to the detected dependencies which are configured for extracting opinion information from decomposed hashtags, such as a polarity based on presence of a polar term in a dependency. At least some of the hashtags in the set of hashtags are stored in a hashtag lexicon, the stored hashtags being associated with the extracted opinion information. A computer processor may perform the decomposing, natural language processing, applying opinion detection rules, and storing of the hashtags. | 04-30-2015 |
20150317568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE CARPOOLING IN A WORK CONTEXT - A computer implemented method of forming carpools. Lists of participants in a rideshare environment are maintained. The participants are members of a private group and have privileges based on membership. A location of a participant is automatically determined based on a location detection method. A driver from the list of participants is automatically identified based on a current location of the driver. The driver proposes a trip comprising an approximate start time, approximate start location, end location, and number of available seats. Requests for transportation are received from passengers who are participants on the list of participants. For each available seat, the requests for transportation are automatically matched with the trip based on the approximate start time, the approximate start location, or the end location. Only certain passengers are matched with certain drivers. The matching identifies proposed riders. A finalized start time and finalized start location are negotiated between the proposed riders and the driver. The driver publishes the finalized start time and finalized start location. The proposed riders are automatically notified of the finalized start time, and the finalized start location. | 11-05-2015 |
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20100083446 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE ORGANOSILICON COMPOUND COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE BASIC FUNCTION, AT LEAST ONE HYDROPHOBIC FILM-FORMING POLYMER, AT LEAST ONE PIGMENT AND AT LEAST ONE VOLATILE SOLVENT - The present disclosure relates to a cosmetic composition for treating keratin fibers, for example human keratin fibers such as the hair, comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one organosilicon compound chosen from silanes comprising one, two and three silicon atoms, wherein the at least one organosilicon compound also comprises at least one basic chemical function and at least one group chosen from hydroxyl and hydrolysable groups per molecule; at least one hydrophobic film-forming polymer; at least one pigment; and at least one volatile solvent. The present disclosure also relates to a process for treating keratin fibers, comprising applying to the keratin fibers the compositions according to the present disclosure. | 04-08-2010 |
20100154134 | COMPOSITION FOR DYEING KERATIN FIBERS, COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE POLYALKENE-BASED SUPRAMOLECULAR POLYMER, AT LEAST ONE PIGMENT AND AT LEAST ONE VOLATILE SOLVENT - The present disclosure relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibers, comprising at least one polyalkene-based supramolecular polymer, at least one pigment and at least one volatile solvent, wherein the weight ratio of the at least one supramolecular polymer to the at least one pigment has a value greater than 0.25, and also a process for dyeing keratin fibers using this composition. The present disclosure may make it possible to obtain, on the keratin fibers, colored coatings for keeping the hairs individualized while at the same time preserving the physical qualities of the fiber. | 06-24-2010 |
20110139171 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SILICONE COPOLYMER AND AT LEAST ONE LIQUID VOLATILE LINEAR ALKANE - Provided herein is a composition for treating keratin fibers that comprises at least one silicone copolymer based on at least one silicone resin and at least one fluid silicone, and at least one liquid volatile linear alkanes. Also provided herein is a method of treating keratin fibers, comprising applying the composition to the keratin fibers. | 06-16-2011 |
20120192887 | PROCESS FOR TREATING HAIR FIBERS USING POLYSILOXANE/POLYUREA - A process for treating hair fibers comprising: applying to the hair fibers at least one cosmetic composition comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one polysiloxane/polyurea block copolymer; and subsequently or simultaneously heating the hair fibers at a temperature ranging from 50 to 280° C. | 08-02-2012 |
20130142743 | COSMETIC PROCESS FOR MAKING-UP AND/OR CARING FOR THE SKIN AND/OR THE LIPS - A cosmetic process for making up and/or caring for skin and/or lips, includes the application to skin and/or lips of a cosmetic composition including, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least one supramolecular polymer and at least one hydrophobic film-forming polymer. Particular compositions may be used in the process. | 06-06-2013 |
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20090094816 | Method for producing a structure having a perforated sealing strip and structure obtained - The structure comprises facing substrates bonded to one another by crushing a closed peripheral sealing strip delineating a closed cavity in which a microsystem is disposed between the substrates. Before crushing, the sealing strip comprises perforated patterns delineating a plurality of voids inside the strip. | 04-16-2009 |
20090200066 | BARE MICROELECTRONIC CHIP PROVIDED WITH A RECESS FORMING A HOUSING FOR A WIRE ELEMENT CONSTITUTING A FLEXIBLE MECHANICAL SUPPORT, FABRICATION PROCESS AND MICROSTRUCTURE - A microelectronic chip comprises two parallel main faces and side faces. At least one of the faces comprises a recess provided with at least one electrical connection element and forming a housing for a wire element. The wire element simultaneously constitutes both an electrical connection between the chip and the outside via said connection element and a flexible mechanical support for said chip. | 08-13-2009 |
20100136746 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SET OF CHIPS MECHANICALLY INTERCONNECTED BY MEANS OF A FLEXIBLE CONNECTION - The method relates to production of a set of chips mechanically interconnected by means of a flexible connection. The chips, integrated on a substrate, each comprise a receiving area. The chips of the set are connected in series in the receiving areas by a connecting element. The chips are then released, the connecting element forming a flexible connection. | 06-03-2010 |
20100245182 | Assembly of Radiofrequency Chips - The invention relates to the fabrication of radiofrequency transmission/reception devices. The invention makes provision for: the making of radiofrequency transmission/reception chips devoid of antennas; the connecting in series of the chips by at least two conducting wire elements whose respective lengths between two neighboring chips are chosen as a function of the transmission/reception frequency, each element contacting electrically at least one terminal of a chip and ensuring an at least temporary function of mechanical holding of the chips chainwise; and the cutting at regular intervals of the serial connection to form, for each chip, two strands of an antenna of the device. | 09-30-2010 |
20110001237 | ASSEMBLY OF A WIRE ELEMENT WITH A MICROELECTRONIC CHIP WITH A GROOVE COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE BUMP SECURING THE WIRE ELEMENT - The assembly comprises at least one microelectronic chip having two parallel main surfaces and lateral surfaces, at least one of the lateral faces comprising a longitudinal groove housing a wire element having an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the groove. The groove is delineated by at least two side walls. The wire element is secured to the chip at the level of a clamping area between at least one bump arranged on one of the side walls, and the side wall of the groove opposite said bump. The clamping area has a smaller height than the diameter of the wire element and a free area is arranged laterally to the bump along the longitudinal axis of the groove. The free area has a height, corresponding to the distance separating the two side walls, that is greater than the diameter of the wire element. | 01-06-2011 |
20110114377 | STACKED ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING SUCH AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - This invention relates to a stacked electronic device composed of stacked electronic components ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110117663 | USE OF A FABRIC COMPRISING A SPECIFIC MATERIAL FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OF A CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE - A method for using of a fabric comprising a material chosen from metals, metallic alloys, polymers, inorganic compounds and mixtures thereof, which material is capable of detecting the presence of a chemical substance, for the detection of said chemical substance. | 05-19-2011 |
20110143442 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF A CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE IN A LIQUID MEDIUM - The invention pertains to a method for determining the presence or absence of at least one chemical substance in a liquid medium, comprising a contacting step of said liquid medium with a device comprising at least one substrate coated, in whole or in part on at least one of its sides, with at least one layer comprising material able to be degraded fully or partly by said chemical substance, said material being chosen from among metals, metal alloys, metal oxides. | 06-16-2011 |
20110149540 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING AT LEAST ONE CHIP WITH A WIRE ELEMENT, ELECTRONIC CHIP WITH A DEFORMABLE LINK ELEMENT, FABRICATION METHOD OF A PLURALITY OF CHIPS, AND ASSEMBLY OF AT LEAST ONE CHIP WITH A WIRE ELEMENT - A first step of the method for assembling a wire element with an electronic chip comprises arranging the wire element in a groove of the chip delineated by a first element and a second element, joined by a link element comprising a plastically deformable material, and a second step then comprises clamping the first and second elements to deform the link element until the wire element is secured in the groove. | 06-23-2011 |
20110198735 | ASSEMBLY OF A MICROELECTRONIC CHIP HAVING A GROOVE WITH A WIRE ELEMENT IN THE FORM OF A STRAND, AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLY - Assembly of at least one microelectronic chip with a wire element, the chip comprising a groove for embedment of the wire element. The wire element is a strand with a longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the axis of the groove, comprising at least two electrically conducting wires covered with insulator. The chip comprises at least one electrically conducting bump in the groove, this bump being in electric contact with a stripped area of a single one of the electrically conducting wires of the strand. | 08-18-2011 |
20110287606 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING CHIP ELEMENTS PROVIDED WITH WIRE INSERTION GROOVES - The invention relates to a method for fabricating chip elements provided with a groove from devices formed on a wafer. The method comprises the steps consisting in, depositing a sacrificial film on the wafer so as to leave a central part of each device exposed and to cover an edge of the device at the level of which the groove is to be formed; applying a mold on the sacrificial film; injecting a hardenable material into the mold; hardening the hardenable material; dicing the wafer between the devices; and eliminating the sacrificial film. | 11-24-2011 |
20120064671 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CHIP ELEMENTS EQUIPPED WITH WIRE INSERTION GROOVES - The invention relates to a method for producing chip elements provided with a groove, comprising the following steps: on an interconnect substrate, providing a conductive track arranged to connect a contact area of an active surface of a chip to an area corresponding to a first wall of the groove; growing a contact bump by electrodeposition on the conductive track at the level of the area corresponding to the first wall of the groove; assembling the chip on the substrate via its active surface so that a side wall of the chip forms the bottom of the groove; machining the chip via its rear surface in parallel to the substrate while measuring the distance between the rear surface of the chip and the contact bump; stopping machining when the measured distance reaches a required value; and assembling by bonding a plate to the rear surface of the chip so as to form a second wall of the groove. | 03-15-2012 |
20120073128 | APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING CHIP DEVICES ON WIRES - An apparatus for assembling chip devices on a wire, each chip device comprising two substantially parallel lateral walls, and a groove in one of the lateral walls for receiving said wire. The apparatus includes a pinching device having two opposing surfaces, the distance between the opposing surfaces being substantially constant and substantially equal to the distance between the two lateral walls of a chip device. A wire feeder is adapted to continuously feed the wire in contact with one of the opposing surfaces of the pinching device. A chip device feeder is adapted to drive chip devices, one at a time, between the opposing surfaces, with their grooves turned towards the wire. The pinching device may comprise two cylindrical rollers having rotation axes substantially perpendicular to the wire, the opposing surfaces being formed by respective surfaces of the rollers. | 03-29-2012 |
20120298173 | PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL, METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING PLURALITY OF CELLS AND ASSEMBLY OF A PLURALITY OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS - The photovoltaic cell has a block that includes at least one semiconductor substrate in which is formed at least one photovoltaic junction that is connected to a first electrical contact element of a first pole and to a second electrical contact element of a second pole. The cell includes a first transparent cover that is placed on a first surface of the block and defines with the block of the cell a first recess groove of a first electrically conductive wire element. | 11-29-2012 |
20130033879 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING AT LEAST ONE CHIP USING A FABRIC, AND FABRIC INCLUDING A CHIP DEVICE - A method for assembling a device on two substantially parallel taut threads. The device includes an electronic chip and two substantially parallel grooves open on opposite sides of the device. The distance separating the grooves corresponds to the distance separating the threads. The device presents a penetrating shape along an axis perpendicular to the plane of the grooves, having a base at the level of the grooves and an apex of smaller size than the distance separating the threads. The method includes the steps consisting in placing the apex of the device between the two threads; in moving the device between the two threads resulting in the threads being separated from one another by the penetrating shape of the device; and in continuing movement of the device until the threads penetrate into the grooves reverting to their initial separation distance. | 02-07-2013 |
20130074331 | METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING A CHIP IN A FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE - A substrate provided with an electrically conducting wire coated with an electrically insulating material is impregnated with a polymerizable material. A reception area for a chip is formed on a surface of the substrate by means of deformation. The housing area is stiffened using the polymerizable material. The chip is disposed in the reception area and an electrical connection area of the chip is connected electrically to the electrically conducting wire of the substrate. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077281 | CHIP ELEMENTS MOUNTED ON WIRES HAVING AN INCIPIENT BREAKING POINT - The invention relates to a chain including multiple microelectronic chip elements that are connected to a wire. The wire has notches that define preferred breaking points when the wire is subject to tensile stress. If the wire is conductive, the notches can be spread so that the length of the wire between a chip element and a notch is equal to the length of an antenna. | 03-28-2013 |
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20150131251 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBER FOR AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT COMPRISING AN END EQUIPPED WITH A CAVITY - This process for manufacturing an electrically conductive member for an electronic component comprises the following steps: providing a structure comprising at least one blind hole having a bottom and at least one internal lateral flank connected to said bottom via a base of said lateral flank; forming the member, this forming step comprising a step of growing an electrically conductive material in order to form at least one portion of the member in the blind hole, said growth being faster at the base of the lateral flank of the blind hole than on the rest of said lateral flank, said member when formed comprising a cavity arranged at that end of said member which is located opposite the bottom of the blind hole, said cavity being entirely or partially bordered by a rim. | 05-14-2015 |
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20150318409 | ASSEMBLY FOR HOUSING WIRE ELEMENTS - The assembly has a central block that includes a first main face, a second main face and side faces. The second main face is opposite to the first main face, and the side faces connect the first main face to the second main face. The assembly also includes a first cover arranged on the first main face. The first main face and a first external surface of the first cover form a first groove for housing a first wire element, and the first groove extends along an entire length of the first main face. The assembly further includes a second cover arranged on the second main face. The second main face and a second external surface of the second cover form a second groove for housing a second wire element, and the second groove extends along an entire length of the second main face. | 11-05-2015 |
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20100200556 | DEVICE FOR HEATING AN AIR FLOW - The invention relates to a device for heating an air flow, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a frame which extends substantially in a plane, at least one heating section, which is held on the frame and which can be traversed by a first, heatable partial air flow, with an electrical heating element, in particular PTC element, and with at least one flow resistance element which is arranged in the plane adjacent to the heating section and which is held on the frame and which can be traversed by a second, non-heatable partial air flow, wherein a flow means is provided on the device, by means of which flow means the two partial air flows are mixed downstream of the device. | 08-12-2010 |
20110091190 | HEATER PARTICULARLY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE HVAC SYSTEM - A motor vehicle HVAC unit includes a housing, preferably a fan, preferably a coolant evaporator for cooling air to be supplied to the vehicle interior, at least two electric resistance heaters for heating the air to be supplied to the vehicle interior and at least one delay circuit, preferably two delay circuits. The at least two electric resistance heaters are suppliable with electric current, and a device is provided for supplying current to at least one of the at least two electric resistance heaters with a time delay relative to another electric resistance heater, and during the turning on or supplying current to the electric resistance heaters a small maximum current peak requirement is to occur at low technical expenditures. | 04-21-2011 |
20130240503 | ELECTRIC HEATER - An electric heater is provided that includes at least two groups of heating elements which change their temperature by electrical power consumption, comprising a control unit with two switch arrangements such that the first switch arrangement includes at least two power switches for switching the at least two groups of heating elements in a High-side connection and such that the second power switch arrangement includes at least two switches for switching the at least two groups of heating elements in a Low-side connection. | 09-19-2013 |
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