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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120125698 | SEATING SENSOR The present invention relates to a seating sensor 100.the base table 10 includes a first part 11 provided with the sensor portion 1 and a second part 12 provided with the connector portion 2, and the second part 12 is arr... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105947 | AMPLIFICATION OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER AND RESONATOR USING THE SAME The invention provides an amplification optical fiber, which can output light with a good beam quality even when a higher-order mode is excited, and an optical fiber amplifier using the amplification optical fiber. An amplification optical ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120103679 | THROUGH WIRING SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF A through wiring substrate includes a substrate having a first face and a second face; and a through-wire formed by filling, or forming a film of, an electrically-conductive substance into a through-hole, which penetrates between the first face and the second face. The ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120103677 | THROUGH WIRING SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF A through wiring substrate includes a substrate including a first face and a second face, and a plurality of through-wires formed by filling, or forming a film of, an electrically-conductive substance in through-holes that penetrate between the first face and the second... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082416 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR, CONNECTOR ADAPTER, OPTICAL FIBER LINE, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM There are provided an optical connector having one or more protruding portions protruding and one or more recessed portions depressed relative to a reference plane corresponding to a reference face of a coupling of a standard optical connector in a connecting end face o... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120080297 | KEYBOARD APPARATUS A keyboard apparatus is provided which allows the brightness of illumination within keytops to be improved. Keyboard apparatus 1 comprises membrane board 50 having contact points 511 and 521, holding plate 20 holding keytops 10 ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120066849 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR CLEANING TOOL An optical connector cleaning tool which wipes to clean a joining end face of an optical connector by a feeding movement of a cleaning body. It includes a tool body which incorporates a feeding mechanism that supplies and takes up the cleaning body, and an insertion par... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120052213 | METHOD FOR RECOATING DOUBLE CLAD OPTICAL FIBER A method for recoating a double clad optical fiber having a core, a first cladding layer that surrounds the core, and a coating layer that covers the first cladding layer, in which the coating layer includes a second cladding layer that surrounds the first cladding laye... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044971 | POLARIZATION-MAINTAINING FIBER AND OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR USING SAME The polarization-maintaining fiber of the invention includes a core (1) made of germanium doped silica glass; a stress-applying part (3) made of boron doped silica glass; a cladding (2) made of pure silica glass; and a polyimide coating layer (4<... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044482 | MEASURING METHOD OF HOLE DIAMETER, HOLE POSITION, HOLE SURFACE ROUGHNESS, OR BENDING LOSS OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER, AND TEST METHOD OF OPTICAL LINE OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER A measuring method of a hole diameter of a holey optical fiber includes calculating an arithmetical mean value I(x) from two backscattering light intensities at a position x of two backscattering light waveforms of the holey optical fiber, in which the two backscatterin... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042696 | MEASURING METHOD OF LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF BENDING LOSS OF OPTICAL FIBER, MEASURING METHOD OF LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACTUAL BENDING LOSS VALUE OF OPTICAL FIBER, TEST METHOD OF OPTICAL LINE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CABLE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CORD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER A measuring method of a longitudinal distribution of bending loss of an optical fiber includes calculating an arithmetical mean value I(x) from two backscattering light intensities of two backscattering light at a position x obtained by bidirectional OTDR measurement of... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039789 | APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ALUMINUM NITRIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ALUMINUM NITRIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL, AND ALUMINUM NITRIDE SINGLE CRYSTAL Provided is a manufacturing device of an aluminum nitride single crystal including a crucible. An aluminum nitride raw material and a seed crystal are stored in an inner portion of the crucible. The seed crystal is placed so as to face the aluminum nitride raw material.... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039055 | DEVICE MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND DEVICE MOUNTING METHOD Provided is a device mounting structure that includes: a interposer substrate including a substrate and a plurality of through-hole interconnection; a first device including a plurality of electrodes arranged so as to face the first principal surface of the substrate; a... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036936 | PRESSURE SENSOR MODULE AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT A pressure sensor module includes a pressure sensor, a bump, and a laminated substrate. The pressure sensor includes a semiconductor substrate; a cavity; a pressure-sensitive element; and a conductive section. The cavity is disposed inside the semiconductor substrate su... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033923 | HOLEY SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING SAME Provided is a holey single-mode optical fiber including a core not having holes, and a clad having holes extending in a longitudinal direction, in which a refraction index of the core is larger than that of a portion of the clad other than the holes, a radius r1 02/09/2012 | |
| 20120033442 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND LIGHTING WINDOW A display apparatus includes a transparent light guide plate, a light source provided on at least one end surface of the light guide plate, and a mask provided on a front surface of the light guide plate. The light guide plate is formed of a plurality of reflecting and ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033205 | SENSOR HEAD AND OPTICAL SENSOR A sensor head for an optical pressure sensor according to the present invention includes: a light-emitting optical fiber for transmitting light emitted from a light source; a reflecting plate whose position relative to an end surface of the light-emitting optical fiber ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032691 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN HEADREST AND HEAD, METHOD FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN HEADREST AND HEAD, HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTING DEVICE, AND HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTING METHOD A headrest position adjusting device 100 includes a distance measuring device 10 and a drive motor unit 30. The distance measuring device 10 includes a plurality of sensing electrodes 11 to 15 and a detecting circuit 20. ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032488 | HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTING DEVICE AND HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTING METHOD To automatically adjust the position of a headrest accurately with a simple configuration while preventing an unnecessary movement of the headrest, a headrest position adjusting device 100 includes a capacitance sensor unit 10 and a drive motor unit 30.... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120031657 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE MOUNTING STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE MOUNTING METHOD An electronic device mounting structure including: a supporting member that includes a supporting substrate, and a through electrode that penetrates the supporting substrate from a first principal surface that is one principal surface of the supporting substrate to a se... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120025850 | DEVICE FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN HEADREST AND HEAD, METHOD FOR MEASURING DISTANCE BETWEEN HEADREST AND HEAD, HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTING DEVICE, AND HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTING METHOD A headrest position adjusting device 100 includes a distance measuring device 10 and a drive motor unit 30, and the distance measuring device 10 includes a plurality of sensing electrodes 11 to 15 and a detecting circuit 20 | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024568 | CABLE ASSEMBLY An object of the present invention is to provide a cable assembly excellent in water-tightness. A cable assembly 100 includes a plurality of cables 10 and a sealing part 30 holding the plurality of cables 10 side by side. In the cable assembl... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024012 | OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM MANUFACTURING METHOD An optical fiber preform manufacturing apparatus includes a booth, a reaction chamber disposed inside the booth, a target member disposed within the reaction chamber, a burner that deposits glass particles on the target member, a partition plate that partitions the inte... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110279891 | OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER An object of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber amplifier capable of suppressing oscillation of ASE. The optical fiber amplifier includes a second amplifier fiber 30 doped with a rare earth element; a second pumping source 26 that supplie... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120020632 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE AND LAYING METHOD THEREOF An optical fiber cable includes an elongated optical element portion having an optical fiber, a pair of tensile strength members and an outer jacket. The optical fiber is composed of one or more plastic coated optical fibers, tight-buffered optical fibers or optical rib... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020080 | SHEET SWITCH MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME A sheet switch module of the present invention includes: a light source; a light guide that guides light from the light source; a sheet switch disposed on the back side of the light guide in a thickness direction of the light guide; and a groove formed in the thickness ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110278043 | TRANSMISSION CABLE A transmission cable of the invention includes a twisted-pair signal wire; a plurality of signal wire pairs; and a power wire pair. The twisted-pair signal wire, the plurality of signal wire pairs, and the power wire pair are bundled together so that the twisted-pair si... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20120017384 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR CLEANING TOOL An optical connector cleaning tool according to the present invention includes a tool main body and an extension section that extends from the tool main body, wherein the tool main body includes a supply reel and a winding reel, which perform supply and take-up of the c... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110275243 | RF PLUG CONNECTOR, RF RECEPTACLE CONNECTOR, AND RF CONNECTOR Provided is an RF plug connector which includes: a conductive terminal portion; and an annular conductive coaxial portion that is arranged around the terminal portion, wherein a pair of conductive lead portions extending in the same direction is provided at the outer ci... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274404 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL FIBER A method for manufacturing an optical fiber in which a flow of a cooling gas within a cooling device is made to be an upward flow and the cooling gas is discharged to outside from an upper end of the cooling device by connecting the cooling device and a coating device i... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267798 | HARNESS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE WIRING AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE A harness for electronic device wiring of the present invention, wherein a portion covered by a jacket in a state where each of the electrical wires is bundled so as to be arranged in parallel with each other forms a flat cable part wound around a rotary shaft so that a... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265522 | OPTICAL FIBER MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL FIBER MANUFACTURING METHOD An optical fiber manufacturing apparatus including: a heating furnace in which an optical fiber is formed by melt-drawing an optical fiber preform; a sealing mechanism which is provided on an opening portion located at an upstream of the heating furnace and seals the he... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264332 | HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND HEADREST POSITION ADJUSTMENT METHOD To highly precisely adjust a position of a headrest automatically and to an appropriate condition with simple configuration, when the distance between the headrest and .a head is within a certain range, a detecting circuit of a headrest position adjustment device calcul... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110262085 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE AND RESIN COMPOSITION USED THEREFOR This optical fiber cable is provided with a covering resin including an outermost layer. The outermost layer is formed by a resin composition including: (a) a base resin prepared by adding at least one copolymer selected from an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and an e... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110262079 | OPTICAL FERRULE, OPTICAL FERRULE MOLDING DIE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FERRULE, AND FERRULE WITH OPTICAL FIBER An optical ferrule that holds an optical fiber, the optical ferrule having an ejector pin mark formed by an ejector pin during molding, the optical ferrule includes a ferrule body, ferrule body having an optical fiber insertion opening to be inserted with the optical fi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20120015180 | DECORATIVE MEMBER A decorative member includes a base material, a metal vapor-deposited film that is provided on the base material; and a light scattering transparent film that is provided on the metal vapor-deposited film, in which two or more types of fillers having light transmissive ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014653 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM AND OPTICAL FIBER Provided is a manufacturing method for an optical fiber preform of which the core is doped with a rare earth element. The method includes: depositing glass particles within a silica tube by the modified chemical vapor deposition method, the glass particles mainly consis... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010308 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF FOAMED ELECTRIC WIRE The present invention discloses a production method of a foamed electric wire, whereby a foamed electric wire is obtained via a foamed insulation layer formation step of forming a foamed insulation layer on a conductor, wherein the foamed insulation layer formation step... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110318701 | DENTAL PROBE A dental probe according to the invention is provided with a tip portion including a water flow path, an air flow path, a multi-lumen tube including a duct formed therein in which an optical fiber is inserted, and the optical fiber inserted in the duct. The optical fibe... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317959 | FERRULE AND FERRULE WITH OPTICAL FIBER Provided is a ferrule which includes a positioning mechanism configured to position an optical fiber having a predetermined outer diameter, and a recess configured for an adhesive to be disposed therein and having a first inner wall from which a front end of the optical... | 12/29/2011 |
