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Stmicroelectronics Gmbh

Alberto Ferrari

Marco Tartagni

Saverio Pezzini

Paolo Marceca

Alessandro Pepi

A control device for a vehicle engine includes a memory unit for storing engine configuration parameters, a processing unit for sending control signals to the engine in accordance with the configuration parameters, and an input/output unit connectible to an external computer to modify the configuration parameters. The control device includes a first portion and a second portion of the memory unit, with each portion being alternately used in an active state for storing a current version of the configuration parameters or in an inactive state for the writing of a new version of the configuration parameters. The processing unit accesses the portion which is in the active state for reading, and the input/output unit accesses the portion which is in the inactive state for writing. An interconnection unit selectively switches one of the portions to the active state and the other of the portions to the inactive state.

Control device for a vehicle engine

A plurality N of capacitance sensing cells are arranged in a row/column array top to cooperate with a fingertip and produce an output signal that controls the movement of a cursor/pointer across a display screen. The output of each individual sensing cell is connected to the corresponding individual node of a resistor array that has N nodes arranged in a similar row/column array. A centroid output of the resistor nodes in row configuration provides an output signal for control of cursor movement in a row direction. A centroid output of the resistor nodes in column configuration provides an output signal for control of cursor movement in an orthogonal column direction. A mass signal output of the row/column resistor mode array provides a switch on/off signal.

Touchpad providing screen cursor/pointer movement control

In spraying equipment comprising a base, a tank mounted to the top of the base, and a manually operated pumping system transferring liquid from the tank to a compression chamber, the base, the seatings for the moving parts of the pumping system, and the ducts connecting the tank, pumping system and compression chamber are in a single block, and the pumping system comprises two identical piston pumps integral with the base, accommodated in respective recesses formed in the bottom of the tank at each side and operated in push-pull by a single hand lever hinged to the base; the compression chamber is insertable into the tank from above and secured to the base by its bottom end.

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Camposanto, Italy

Alberto Ferrari