Author: claimsbot

1. A high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus, comprising:
a portable casing;
a pair of side-by-side electrodes to be contacted with a skin of a user, disposed at a tip portion of the casing; and
a first power supply disposed in the casing, and to supply a high-frequency current between the pair of side-by-side electrodes.
2. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a heat sink disposed in the tip portion of the casing;
a Peltier element disposed on the heat sink and in the casing; and
a second power supply to supply a drive current to the Peltier element, wherein
the pair of side-by-side electrodes is disposed on the heat sink via the Peltier element.
3. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the pair of side-by-side electrodes is formed in a pair of concentric rings.
4. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the pair of side-by-side electrodes is formed in a pair of parallel electrodes.
5. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein the pair of side-by-side electrodes comprise a first electrode having a first diameter, and a second electrode having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter;
the cosmetic treatment apparatus further comprises a third electrode with an approximately columnar shape, having a third diameter smaller than the second diameter, and having a peripheral edge which is disposed to be side-by-side with the pair of side-by-side electrodes; and
the first power supply further supplies a current of a second frequency between the first and third electrodes, or between the second and third electrodes.
6. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:
an ultrasonic vibrator to vibrate the third electrode;
a third power supply to supply electric power to the ultrasonic vibrator; and
a vibration controller to control the supply of the electric power to the ultrasonic vibrator.
7. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising
a current sensor to detect a value of the high-frequency current flowing through the pair of side-by-side electrodes,
wherein the first power supply does not supply the high-frequency current to the pair of side-by-side electrodes or reduces power of the high-frequency current, when the value of the high-frequency current detected by the current sensor is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
8. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising
a contact sensor to detect contact between the pair of side-by-side electrodes and a skin surface of the user,
wherein the first power supply supplies the high-frequency current to the pair of side-by-side electrodes in response to the detection of the contact between the pair of side-by-side electrodes and the skin surface detected by the contact sensor.
9. The high-frequency cosmetic treatment apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising
a first and a second contact sensors to detect contact between the pair of side-by-side electrodes and a skin surface of the user,
wherein the first power supply changes power of the high-frequency current or the current of the second frequency in response to the detection of the contact of the skin surface detected by the first andor second contact sensor.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A bag having two generally parallel sheets forming main walls of the bag, closure strips fixed to respective ones of the sheets, and a cursor for actuating the closure strips for closing and opening purposes, the bag comprising, parallel to the closure strips, between said sheets, and level with a mouth of the bag, leakproofing structure in relief disposed on an inside of the closure strips, designed to provide sealing by forming a barrier between the sheets in a closed position of the bag, said leakproofing structure in relief being adapted to be urged towards a sealing position by the cursor when the cursor is moved towards a position for closing the bag, the leakproofing structure being made up of two beads secured respectively to inside surfaces of the two sheets, grooves located at the mouth of the bag, and also ribs projecting from inside surfaces of flanks of the cursor, which ribs penetrate respectively into said grooves.
2. A bag according to claim 1, wherein a tamperproofing web at the mouth shows whether or not the bag has been opened.
3. A bag according to claim 2, wherein the tamperproofing web forms a bellows that is folded towards an inside of the bag at the mouth and in continuity with support webs for the closure strips or the leakproofing structure.
4. A bag according to claim 2, wherein the tamperproofing web is formed by a bellows folded toward an inside of the bag at the mouth in continuity with the sheets constituting the bag.
5. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the bag is made from a single film that is folded over onto itself with a fold constituting a bottom of the bag.
6. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the bag is formed from a single film that is folded over onto itself with a fold being at the mouth of the bag.
7. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the two sheets are initially separate and are superposed during manufacture.
8. A bag according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the closure strips and the leakproofing structure is extruded together with the sheets constituting the bag.
9. A bag according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the closure strips and the leakproofing structure is initially formed on respective support webs that are fitted to the sheets at the mouth of the bag.
10. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the closure strips and the leakproofing structure are initially formed on common support webs that are secured to the sheets at the mouth of the bag.
11. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the closure strips are of a malefemale type and comprise at least one asymmetrical male or female closure strip.
12. A bag according to claim 11, wherein a height occupied by an element defining an inner lip of the female closure strip is less than a height occupied by an element defining an outer lip of the female closure strip.
13. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the closure strips include at least two pairs of complementary hooks defining widths in an assembled position that are different from one pair of hooks to the other.
14. A bag according to claim 13, wherein the two complementary hooks situated towards an inside of the bag define, in an assembled position, a width between inside faces of the sheets that is smaller than a width taken between the same faces of the sheets in a vicinity of the pair of complementary hooks situated towards an outside of the bag.
15. A bag according to claim 1, wherein the cursor is provided on an end with a rim directed towards an inside of the bag and positioned so as to be situated beyond the leakproofing structure.
16. A bag having two generally parallel sheets forming main walls of the bag, closure strips fixed to respective ones of the sheets, and a cursor for actuating the closure strips for closing and opening purposes, the bag comprising, parallel to the closure strips, between said sheets, and level, with a mouth of the bag, leakproofing structure in relief disposed on an inside of the closure strips, designed to provide sealing by forming a barrier between the sheets in a closed position of the bag, said leakproofing structure in relief being adapted to be urged towards a sealing position by the cursor when the cursor is moved towards a position for closing the bag, the leakproofing structure being made up of two beads secured respectively to inside surfaces of the two sheets, the cursor having side flanges, each of said side flanges being provided on an end with a rim directed towards an inside of the bag and positioned so as to be situated beyond the leakproofing structure, the cursor being also provided at the end of said rim with an additional flange directed toward a web of the cursor.
17. A bag according to claim 16, wherein portions of support films situated facing the closure strips and the leakproofing structure are of a thickness greater than a thickness of a remainder of a film constituting the bag.
18. A bag according to claim 17, wherein a local extra thickness of the sheets is obtained during extrusion of the film.
19. A bag according to claim 17, wherein a local extra thickness of the sheets results from support webs for one of the closure strips and the leakproofing structure is fixed thereto.
20. bag according to claim 16, wherein said leakproofing structure in relief is placed in register with flanks of the cursor.
21. A reclosable fastener comprising base webs with interlocking elements integrally attached thereto, said interlocking elements being opened and closed by a cursor mounted thereon and comprising integrally attached leakproof structure consisting of (a) two beads secured respectively to inside surfaces of the base webs, (b) grooves, and (c) ribs projecting from inside surfaces of flanks of the cursor, which ribs penetrate respectively into said grooves.
22. A reclosable fastener comprising base webs with interlocking elements integrally attached thereto, said interlocking elements being opened and closed by a cursor mounted thereon and comprising integrally attached leakproof structure consisting of two beads secured respectively to inside surfaces of the base webs, and the cursor including side flanges, each of said side flanges being provided with a rim directed towards an inside of the fastener and being also provided at the end of said rim with an additional flange directed toward a web of the cursor.

1. A system for implementing a tuner, said system comprising:
a Radio Frequency (RF) circuit;
a filter disposed in a signal path in said circuit;
a first negative resistance unit in communication with said filter adapted to cancel one or more resistive elements in said filter; and
a frequency measurement unit in communication with said filter, wherein said first negative resistance unit is adapted to cause said filter to act as an oscillator, and wherein said frequency measurement unit is adapted to measure oscillations of said filter and to generate a number indicative of a center frequency of said filter therefrom.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein said RF circuit is a tuner, and wherein said filter is an Intermediate Frequency (IF) filter.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein said filter is a first filter element, said system further comprising a second filter element cascaded from said first filter element and in communication with a second negative resistance unit, wherein said second negative resistance unit is adapted to cause said second filter element to act as an oscillator, and wherein said frequency measurement unit is adapted to measure oscillations of said second filter element and to generate a number indicative of a center frequency of said second filter element therefrom.
4. The system of claim 3 wherein said second filter element comprises an inductive capacitive portion and a capacitor in series with said inductive capacitive portion, thereby creating a zero in a transfer function of said second filter element.
5. The system of claim 4 wherein said second filter element includes an output terminal that is not in series with said series capacitor, said output terminal connected to said frequency measurement unit.
6. The system of claim 1 further including a control system in communication with said frequency measurement unit adapted to adjust a response of said filter based at least in part upon said calculated center frequency.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein said filter comprises an inductive capacitive portion and a capacitor in series with said inductive capacitive portion, thereby creating a zero in a transfer function of said filter, and wherein said frequency measurement unit includes logic circuitry adapted to count a number of oscillations of said filter during a measurement period and to generate a number indicative of said center frequency therefrom, accounting for an effect of said series capacitor.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein said negative resistance element comprises cross coupled transistors in communication with an amplitude control unit, said amplitude control unit adapted to maintain an amplitude of said negative resistance to cancel said resistive element.
9. The system of claim 1 further comprising:
a semiconductor chip with at least part of said RF circuit included thereon, and wherein said first negative resistance unit is disposed on said chip.
10. A method for measuring a frequency response of a filter in an RF circuit, said method comprising:
applying negative resistance to said filter, thereby causing said filter to become an oscillator, wherein said filter is in a signal path of said RF circuit;
operating said filter as an oscillator;
returning said filter to a signal filtering mode by ceasing applying said negative resistance;
measuring oscillations of said filter and correlating said measured oscillations to a filter center frequency; and
outputting a signal indicative of said filter center frequency.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein said RF circuit is a chip-based RF tuner, wherein said wherein said filter is disposed, at least in part, on said chip, and wherein said negative resistance is applied from a component on said chip.
12. The method of claim 10 wherein said filter is a first filter element, said RF circuit further comprising a second filter element cascaded from said first filter element, said method further comprising:
applying negative resistance to said second filter element, thereby causing said second filter element to act as an oscillator; and
measuring oscillations of said second filter element and correlating said measured oscillations to a second filter element center frequency.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein said second filter element comprises an inductive capacitive portion and a capacitor in series with said inductive capacitive portion, thereby creating a zero in a transfer function of said second filter element.
14. The method of claim 13 wherein said second filter element includes an output terminal that is not in series with said series capacitor, said output terminal connected to a frequency measurement unit.
15. The method of claim 10 wherein said applying negative resistance comprises:
controlling a gain element to produce a bias current to said filter, thereby maintaining said negative resistance at a magnitude that cancels a resistive element in said RF circuit.
16. The method of claim 10, wherein said filter comprises an inductive capacitive portion and a capacitor in series with said inductive capacitive portion, thereby creating a zero in a transfer function of said filter, and wherein said measuring oscillations of said filter comprises:
preloading a value into a cycle counter; and
incrementing said cycle counter with each oscillation of said filter, thereby compensating for an effect of said series capacitor.
17. The method of claim 10 further comprising:
adjusting a performance of said filter based upon said measuring.
18. The method of claim 10 wherein said output signal indicates a number of said oscillations in a defined time period.
19. A system for measuring a frequency response of a filter in a semiconductor chip-based tuner, wherein said filter is disposed, at least in part, on said chip, said system comprising:
means for applying negative resistance to said filter, thereby causing said filter to become an oscillator, wherein said filter is in a signal path of a semiconductor chip-based tuner;
means for measuring oscillations of said filter and correlating said measured oscillations to a filter center frequency; and
means for returning said filter to a signal filtering mode by ceasing applying said negative resistance.
20. The system of claim 19 further comprising:
means for maintaining said negative resistance at a magnitude that cancels a resistive element in said tuner.
21. The system of claim 19 wherein said filter comprises:
an inductive capacitive portion and a capacitor in series with said inductive capacitive portion, thereby creating a zero in a transfer function of said second filter element; and
an output not in series with said series capacitor, wherein said measuring means is in communication with said output.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A permissions provisioning module adapted to interact with a computer system, which comprises:
a plurality of resources, each resource being associated with an access control list (ACL) indicating permissions in respect of the resource;
memory storing system metadata including metadata associated with the resources or metadata associated with principals of the system or both;
an access control mechanism configured to selectively restrict principals’ access to a resource in accordance with its associated ACL, wherein the access control mechanism of the computer system operates outside direct influence of the ABAC policy; and
a processor configured to perform the functions of:
a policy evaluator configured to evaluate an access query against an attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy based on a collection of attribute values at least sufficient to evaluate against the ABAC policy, which is retrievable by the policy evaluator and includes access rules expressed in terms of attributes;
a data adapter configured to receive the system metadata and assign values to said attributes in the ABAC policy in accordance with the metadata, the attribute values being arranged resource-wise and principal-wise; and
a permissions calculator configured to query the policy evaluator on combinations of resources and principals using the attribute values assigned by the data adapter, and to supply resulting permission data to the data adapter,
wherein the data adapter is configured to arrange said permission data resource-wise, generate system-readable ACLs based thereon and supply the generated ACLs for deployment in the system.
2. The permissions provisioning module of claim 1, further comprising a scheduler, wherein the data adapter or the permissions calculator or both are controllable by the scheduler, said scheduler being operable to initiate a complete or partial provisioning of ACLs for all system resources.
3. The permissions provisioning module of claim 2, wherein the scheduler is event-driven.
4. The permissions provisioning module of claim 2, wherein the scheduler is calendar-driven.
5. The permissions provisioning module of claim 2, wherein the scheduler is operable to initiate incremental provisioning, which is restricted to such ACLs that are affected by a change in the system metadata or a change in the ABAC policy or both.
6. The permissions provisioning module of claim 1, wherein the data adapter is further configured to deploy the generated ACLs in the system.
7. The permissions provisioning module of claim 6, wherein the data adapter is further configured to:
receive current ACLs;
compare, for a given resource, a current ACL and a generated ACL; and
omit deployment of the generated ACL if it is equivalent to the current ACL.
8. The permissions provisioning module of claim 1, wherein the data adapter accepts configuration data and assigns said attribute values in accordance with this, the configuration data being at least one of:
a mapping table relating resource metadata to resource attributes in the ABAC policy;
a mapping table relating principal metadata to subject attributes in the ABAC policy;
a mapping table relating such resource metadata that express functionalities of the resources to action attributes in the ABAC policy.
9. The permissions provisioning module of claim 1, wherein the permissions calculator is configured to query the policy evaluator on combinations of resources, principals and values of environment attributes.
10. The permissions provisioning module of claim 9, wherein the data adapter is configured to receive environment data relating to a current state of the computer system and assign values of environment attributes in the ABAC policy which it supplies to the permissions calculator.
11. The permissions provisioning module of claim 1, adapted to interact with a plurality of computer systems, each comprising:
a plurality of resources, each resource being associated with an access control list (ACL) indicating permissions in respect of the resource;
memory storing system metadata including metadata associated with the resources or metadata or both associated with principals of the system; and
an access control mechanism configured to selectively restrict principals’ access to a resource in accordance with its associated ACL,
the permissions provisioning module comprising:
the policy evaluator;
a plurality of data adapters, each configured to receive the system metadata from a system out of said plurality of computer systems and assign values to the attributes in the ABAC policy in accordance with the metadata, the attribute values being arranged resource-wise and principal-wise; and
the permissions calculator, which is communicatively connected to the policy evaluator and each data adapter, and configured to query the policy evaluator on combinations of resources and principals within each system out of said plurality of computer systems, and supply resulting permission data to the corresponding data adapter,
wherein a data adapter is configured, upon receipt of said permission data, to arrange the permission data resource-wise, generate system-readable ACLs based thereon and supply the generated ACLs for deployment in the corresponding system.
12. The permissions provisioning module of claim 1, configured to retrieve the ABAC policy from a site to which the computer system lacks direct access rights.
13. The permissions provisioning module of claim 1, wherein the resources in the computer system are one or more of the following:
devices, files, records, tables, processes, programs, networks, domains containing or receiving information.
14. A computer system, comprising:
a plurality of resources, each resource being associated with an ACL indicating permissions in respect of the resource;
memory storing system metadata including metadata associated with the resources or metadata associated with principals of the system or both; and
an access control mechanism configured to selectively restrict principals’ access to a resource in accordance with its associated ACL,
the computer system further comprising the permissions provisioning module of claim 1.
15. The computer system of claim 14, adapted to serve as one or more of the following:
a general-purpose file management system; a content management system, a financial system; a communications system; an industrial control system; an administrative system; an enterprise system; a simulations system; a computational system; an entertainment system, an educational system; a defence system.
16. A method of provisioning permissions in a computer system in accordance with an attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy, which includes access rules expressed in terms of attributes,
the computer system comprising:
a plurality of resources, each resource being associated with an access control list (ACL) indicating permissions held by principals of the system in respect of the resource; and
an access control mechanism configured to selectively restrict principals’ access to a resource in accordance with its associated ACL, wherein the access control mechanism of the computer system operates outside direct influence of the ABAC policy,
wherein the system is operable to supply system metadata including metadata associated with the resources or metadata or both associated with principals of the system,
the method comprising:
receiving the system metadata;
assigning values to said attributes in the ABAC policy in accordance with the metadata, the attribute values being arranged resource-wise and principal-wise;
querying the ABAC policy on combinations of resources and principals using the attribute values assigned by the data adapter, whereby permission data result;
arranging said permission data resource-wise and generating system-readable ACLs based thereon; and
supplying the generated ACLs for deployment in the system.
17. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium with computer-readable instructions to be executed by a permissions provisioning module adapted to interact with a computer system in accordance with an attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy, which includes access rules expressed in terms of attributes,
the computer system comprising:
a plurality of resources, each resource being associated with an access control list (ACL) indicating permissions held by principals of the system in respect of the resource; and
an access control mechanism configured to selectively restrict principals’ access to a resource in accordance with its associated ACL, wherein the access control mechanism of the computer system operates outside direct influence of the ABAC policy,
wherein the system is operable to supply system metadata including metadata associated with the resources or metadata associated with principals of the system or both,
the computer program product comprising instructions for:
receiving the system metadata;
assigning values to said attributes in the ABAC policy in accordance with the metadata, the attribute values being arranged resource-wise and principal-wise;
querying the ABAC policy on combinations of resources and principals using the attribute values assigned by the data adapter, whereby permission data result;
arranging said permission data resource-wise and generating system-readable ACLs based thereon; and
supplying the generated ACLs for deployment in the system.