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Bertin & Cie

Claude F Ricard

Patrick MacLeod

Claude-Henri Chouard

A method and device for avoiding fraud on a Taximeter or Tachograph, by connecting an auxiliary generator between the censor and the Taximeter or Tachograph. The signal which is applied to the Taximeter or Tachograph is analyzed by sampling, in an anti-fraud action is triggered off if this analysis shows that this signal has undergone a regular amplitude modulation.

Method for avoiding fraud on a taximeter or tachograph

An electronic device, placed in an impregnable envelope and electrically connected between an electronic sensor and a taximeter or chronotachograph, tests at least one of the internal characteristics of the active dipole present between two output wires of the sensor or electrical characteristics of a signal present at its terminals. The test values are then compared with one or several reference values. An electronic anti-fraud action is triggered in the event of non-conformity between the test values and the reference values. One anti-fraud action includes preventing the functioning of the taximeter or chronotachograph.

Process and device for avoiding fraud on a taxi equipped with a

The present invention relates to a method and device for forming a wiring harness comprising a plurality of conductors with their ends either engaged to a conductor or remaining bare for later connection. The method and device results in each connector or group of bare ends of the wiring harness having a predetermined geographic position corresponding to a desired coupling position to enable the connector or group of bare ends to be engaged to equipment to be interconnected by the wiring harness. Each conductor of the final wiring harness follows a predetermined path inside the harness between its ends, such paths having common portions along which the conductors are bound together. The invention applies more particularly, although not exclusively, to the formation of wiring harnesses for connecting together numerous pieces of electric, electronic or other equipment required in automobiles, aircraft or other systems.

Method and device for forming wiring harnesses

The object of this invention is processes and devices for the automatic connection of conductor wire or optical fiber section ends to adapted component receptacles using clamps of various types and having specific uses. A device according to the invention comprises a conveyor (1) which feeds clamps to various end processing units. Loading unit (5) positions wire sections in a first type of clamp (2). Units (4), (20) modify the ends for purposes of their connection. Unit (21) interchanges the ends in clamps to arrange them in a preferential order for the connection which is subsequently performed by one or more units (32). The invention uses clamps adapted to a variety of operations, to hold a group of wires (72) or to hold components (34). An application is the automatic production of conductor wire bundles.

Process for the connection of conductor wire or optical fiber section

This invention relates to processes and devices for mechanically crimping terminals on conducting wires and for adjusting with precision the height of crimping. A device according to the invention is of the type in which a terminal is crimped on the end of a conducting wire by means of crimping tools which are fixed on the plates of a press. The mobile plate is displaced vertically thanks to two articulated connecting rods, horizontally displacing the point of articulation by means of a jack. To adjust the height of crimping, the upper articulation is placed on a slide block which is displaced vertically by means of a conical wedge which is displaced horizontally by means of a percussion tool into an opening having an inclined lower edge. One application of this invention is the mechanical crimping of terminals on wires in a work station equipping an automatic wiring machine.

Processes and devices for mechanically crimping terminals on conducting

In order to introduce data, and in particular charging data, into the memory of a taximeter, the taximeter is connected to an adaptor which is in turn connected to the I/O connector of a local terminal which is connected to a central computer over a telecommunications network. The adaptor includes a microprocessor which is programmed to recognize the nature of the packets of data received from the central computer, to transcode the data, and to transfer the data into the taximeter memory.

Method and apparatus for inserting data into electronic taximeters from

Apparatus for attaching terminals on conductor ends, being fixed between a stationary plate and a mobile plate of a fastening press. A plate which is fixed on the stationary plate and which comprises a passage and the means to feed into the passage a band bearing connected terminals fixed at right angles to the band. A carriage is provided which pivots 90.degree. around an axis. The mobile plate bears stamper supports which bear two tightening stampers and an arm which rests on a pressing plate carried by the movable carriage.

Method and apparatus for attaching band supported terminals on conductors

A device for mechanically engaging a wire terminal crimped to the end of a conductive wire into a slot in a housing, said wire being one of a set of wires and said device including a hollow rigid tube with a pointed tip at its front end constituted by flaps which are capable of moving apart, said tip being carried by a moving carriage.

Device for mechanically connecting terminals on a set of conductive

Electronic taximeter comprising a clock, a distance pick-up, a counter registering the number n1 of clock pulses delivered between two distance pulses, three registers R2, R3, R4 in which are recorded constant numbers n2, p2 and p1, a multiplier circuit, a selector circuit, a totalizing counter and a luminous display unit. Each taxi run is split into successive portions of equal length, and the fixed unit price p2 and the price n1.p1 variable with the speed are worked out for each portion, after what the highest of the two is selected and a total fare is displayed by adding up the partial prices.

Methods and taximeters for calculating a taxi fare

This anti-fraud system includes a process and devices for avoiding fraud on the price indicated by an electronic taximeter. The taximeter apparatus, which includes a luminous display unit and a computing unit, is supplied with d.c. voltage V by the vehicle battery. One particular fraud, made more difficult by this system, involves voluntary cut-off of the voltage supply to the meter. To execute this fraudulent maneuver the cabdriver firstly starts the meter, and records a price on the fare meter, with no passenger in the taxi. Secondly, before a customer is picked up, the operator cuts off the current supply to the meter, which extinguishes the fare display. Thus, as the customer enters the cab, it is not apparent that the meter has already been run-up to a non-zero value. To preclude this maneuver, the anti-fraud system has a first comparator which compares the voltage V with a reference voltage Vr and emits a constant voltage Vc if V&lt;Vr and a zero voltage if V&gt;Vr. Another comparison device compares the duration during which V remains lower than Vr with a reference time period duration. The computing unit and the display unit are returned to zero each time the reference time period duration is exceeded.

Taximeter system for avoiding operator fraud in the computation and

An equipment is described using n electrode sets implanted in the cochlea at n different locations for allowing the brain to identify n different frequencies. A receiver implant is coupled to the electrode sets through a selector and an external emitter is coupled to a single receiver coil of the implant by means of a single emitter coil. In the emitter the sound information signal is processed for forming n analysis signals of which the frequencies correspond to said n different frequencies and raster signals which are transmitted by modulating a high frequency a.c. signal. Each raster signal comprises at least n pulses of which the durations correspond to the energies to be transmitted to the n electrodes.

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Aix-en Provence, France

Claude F Ricard