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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4656474 | Process and apparatus for authenticating the signature of a signed message A process and a device for authenticating the signature of a signed message includes a nominal signature card (1a) coupled to a transmitting device 1 which sends signed messages. The card (1a) includes at least one memory (5) in which there are secretly p... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4611869 | Clamping device The invention relates to apparatus for clamping superimposed conductive elements (11, 13) disposed in aligned groups by means of a clip device (22, 23) such that an integrated circuit device may be removably connected to a printed circuit card with a pred... | 09/16/1986 |
| 4591945 | Device for protecting electronic circuits against electrostatic charges An insulative data carrier of the credit card type having a protective device that protects electronic circuits, such as integrated circuits (3a, 3b), incorporated therein against electrostatic charges, said electronic circuits being mounted on an auxilia... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4590555 | Apparatus for synchronizing and allocating processes among several processors of a data processing system Applicant processes to be performed on several processors in a data processing system are synchronized and allocated. The data processing system includes plural processors, each of which derives a control signal indicating that an event has occurred which... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4538321 | Apparatus for removing excess developer particles on the surface of a recording element The invention relates to a device that permits removal of excess developer particles on the surface of a recording element and comprises a suction conduit (22) having at one end a port (23) in the form of a slot and at its other end a cylindrical chamber ... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4511983 | Apparatus for controlling microinstructions stored in a data processing unit memory A controller for microinstructions grouped into microprogram segments, each of which defines a base of a microprogram segment which is to be executed, includes a bank of addressable base registers. Each register in the bank stores an indication of a base ... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4500293 | Apparatus for converting electric signals representing data into a group of raised dots constituting the image of said data The invention relates to an apparatus for converting electric signals representing data into a group of raised dots constituting the image of said data and comprises a magnetic recording medium (10) provided at its surface with hollow cells which, after b... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4495568 | Apparatus for the control and monitoring of power supply sources for data processing systems Apparatus is disclosed for controlling and monitoring a modular power supply system for supplying power to a data processing system and the like that includes a plurality of power sources allocated among a plurality of power supply subsystems in a predete... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4472771 | Device wherein a central sub-system of a data processing system is divided into several independent sub-units A central sub-system of a data processing system, including an operator console controlling a service processor, is divided into several sub-units, functioning separately from each other. The sub-units include processors that are connected together and to... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4471216 | System and process for identification of persons requesting access to particular facilities The user has a credit card incorporating electronic devices and/or circuits. The facility which is to be protected has an electronic device and/or circuit analogous to that of the credit card. The devices of the credit card and of the facility contain in ... | 09/11/1984 |
| 4456209 | Device for selectively securing an object to a shaft A magnetic tape reel is secured to a reel drive motor shaft by a device including a hub secured to the shaft, a plurality of shoes, and actuating means for thrusting the shoes against the reel and for releasing them from contact with the reel. The securin... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4456953 | Apparatus for and method of addressing data elements in a table having several entries A data byte element E located at position d in entry i of memory section Ma having reference entry TR is addressed. Memory section Ma is one section of a table in a data processory memory, such that each of the entries in section M | 06/26/1984 |
| 4455598 | Automatic device for compensation of AC polyphase power line voltage variations in AC-DC converters A circuit arrangement for the compensation of voltage variations of the electrical AC polyphase power line for an AC-DC converter (3). The invention comprises a first circuit (5) for determining the voltage variations at the input of each trigger rectifier (Th... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4450516 | Device for controlling the regulating facilities in an electric high-power AC-DC converter The invention relates to a device particularly adapted for use with the power supply of a computer for controlling the regulating facilities in an electric high-power AC-DC converter of the power supply. This control device (D) comprises a regulation (CC) cont... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4450535 | System and method for authorizing access to an article distribution or service acquisition machine A system and method for distribution of articles or services, especially adapted to be secure against use by unauthorized personel, receives first and second data carriers. Each data carrier includes a processor, data storage, and interfacing circuits. A ... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4449131 | Process and machine for magnetographic printing (III) The invention relates to a printing process, as well as to a machine which enables images in color to be produced on a print carrier. The machine which implements said process comprises magnetic heads (13-l, . . . 13-n) energized by impulses emitted by a sourc... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4449160 | Arrangement for holding a part attached to a support frame held against a rotatable member which is mounted within that support frame A part which is attached to a support frame is pressed against a rotatable member mounted within that support frame. An element having four degrees of freedom is mounted between the support and a point on the part. A biasing element is mounted between the... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4449130 | Process and machine for magnetographic printing (I) The invention relates to a printing process and machine which enables the production of two-color images on a print carrier. The machine which carries out this process consists of two applicators (40,42) placed one after the other to deposit two layers of... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4449133 | Process and machine for magnetographic printing (IV) The invention relates to a magnetographic printing process as well as to a machine which enables the production of images in two colors on a print carrier. The machine which carries out said process comprises magnetic heads (13-1 . . . , 13-n) energized b... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4447839 | Magnetoresistant transducer A magnetoresistant transducer for reading data present on the tracks of a multitrack magnetic carrier, comprises at least one magnetoresistant element perpendicular to the direction of travel of the data, and first and second magnetic screening means situ... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4445735 | Electrical connection device for high density contacts The invention provides an electrical connection device for connecting high density contacts of large scale integrated circuits (LSI) and serves to establish electrical connection between the contact areas (15) of the circuit network (14) on a substrate (1... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4443049 | Connector for portable objects such as credit cards A connector for a portable object particularly adapted for credit cards having an IC chip thereon comprises an element incorporating a chamber having an opening adapted to receive the portable object along a predetermined direction. Means for grasping the... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4442345 | Apparatus for and method of recycling recording carriers, such as credit cards, including non-volatile erasable memories for identification data A credit card includes a memory having first and second zones in which are respectively stored variable and fixed data. The data stored in the first zone includes first, second and third bit fields respectively representing a card serial number, a card in... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4441204 | Apparatus for recognition of stylized characters Character recognition apparatus for the recognition of stylized E13B characters are provided wherein the siganls resulting from the reading of a character by a reading head 17 are sampled to be treated by two different asemblies (EB1 and EB2) of operator-... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4439671 | Magnetoresistant transduction device for reading low density coded data A magnetoresistant transduction device for reading coded data comprises a plurality of magnetoresistances (MRI1 to MRI5), which are placed in alignment and spaced from a magnetization device (DAI) by means of a grid (GMI) of non-rema... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4423509 | Method of testing a logic system and a logic system for putting the method into practice A method for testing a logic system of the type having points not directly accessible from the exterior, and logic systems including means for carrying out the method. A particular logic state may for test purposes be applied (set) at a particular, normal... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4393470 | Method and device for the counting and management of asynchronous events emitted by peripheral devices in a data processing system Method and device for application, counting and management of asynchronous events emanating from peripheral devices connected to a data processing system. This method enables the system to check and regulate the number of events transmitted to the logic f... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4386383 | Magnetic transducer comprising a gap of variable larger dimension for reading and writing data present on a magnetic carrier Transducer intended for read/write functions on a magnetic data carrier wherein the data is contained within a plurality of tracks. The transducer includes a magnetic circuit formed by two pole pieces separated by a gap parallel to the carrier, having its... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4385352 | Addressing of operands within a segment utilizing segment descriptors A data processing system includes apparatus for addressing operands within a segment utilizing segment descriptors. The apparatus is responsive to instruction words executed by a first of a plurality of processes. An exemplary embodiment includes a first ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4383281 | Method and arrangement for magnetic digital recording with high frequency biasing with suppression of DC components in the recording signals The invention relates to the generation of a digital magnetic recording signal modulated in phase in correspondence with the transitions of the corresponding data signal. According to the invention, the D.C. component of the recording signal is suppressed... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4382279 | Single chip microprocessor with on-chip modifiable memory A microprocessor architecture which permits automatic programming of a non-volatile memory included on the same chip as a processing and control unit. The microprocessor includes a permanent memory such as an EPROM which can be electrically written word b... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4380784 | Magnetic transducer for reading and/or recording of data contained on a magnetic carrier Transducer intended for read and/or write functions on a magnetic data carrier wherein the data is contained within a plurality of tracks. The transducer includes a magnetic circuit formed by two pole pieces separated by a gap parallel to the carrier, hav... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4371744 | Substrate for interconnecting electronic integrated circuit components having a repair arrangement enabling modification of connections to a mounted chip device An interconnecting substrate according to the invention comprises an insulating base on which rests a set of alternating, superimposed conductive and insulating layers. Contacts are formed on the uppermost insulating layer which border at least one site o... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4366925 | Device for non-destructive desoldering and removal of a modular electronic component from a substrate A device for semi-automatic dismantling of a modular component which is soldered and attached to a substrate forming a printed circuit. The component to be dismantled is placed under a hot gas source while a force member applies a resilient thrust, the fo... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4367496 | Method and arrangement for magnetic digital recording with high frequency biasing The invention relates to a method and circuit arrangement for magnetic recording of a digital data signal composed of a set of transitions. A recording signal is formed by superposition on the data signal of a high frequency, constant amplitude, magnetic ... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4356548 | Process and data system using data extensions A data processing method of operation and system uses a processor, an addressable data memory, and an addressable data extension read-write memory. As a data word is written into and read out of the data memory, a data extension associated with the data w... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4355356 | Process and data system using data qualifiers The invention relates to data processing systems making use of an addressable memory. It proposes a process and system permitting qualifying terms to be associated with the data contained in the data memory by writing these qualifying terms at locations a... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4350940 | System for servocontrolling a separately excited DC motor A separately excited D.C. motor employs an analog servo control responsive to a speed control input signal that controls the derivation of a compensating signal for the motor back emf. The speed control and compensating signals are combined to control the... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4348684 | Device for removing excess pigment from the surface of the image carrier of a non-impact printing machine A device for removing excess powdered pigment deposited on and adhering to a surface has a chamber provided with air under pressure. The chamber has an orifice with parallel edges extending parallel to the surface with one edge set back from the other edg... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4345260 | Ink jet printer with carriage velocity compensation The invention relates to a recording or printing device utilizing a jet of liquid, which device comprises a carriage which may be displaced in a direction of movement parallel to the printing medium. This carriage carries a nozzle which discharges a jet o... | 08/17/1982 |
