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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 |
| 20120129074 | FUEL CELL A fuel cell comprises a membrane electrode assembly including an electrolyte membrane and electrode layers arranged on each surface of the electrolyte membrane respectively, and first and second separators that are formed by processing a metal plate and are arranged so ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120126780 | RESISTANCE WELDING METHOD, RESISTANCE WELDER, AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EVALUATING RESISTANCE WELDING This invention aims to provide a resistance welding method capable of stabilizing quality or improving efficiency of resistance welding such as spot welding. This resistance welding method comprises a calculating step of calculating resistance ratio X of a second electr... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120125705 | VEHICLE A vehicle includes a PCU serving as a power control unit controlling the electric power for vehicle running, a battery storing the electric power for vehicle running, and an EHC serving as an electrically heated catalyst. The PCU includes a converter, an inverter, and a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109443 | CONTROL SYSTEM OF VEHICLE A hybrid vehicle (1) includes a battery (10-1), a motor-generator (32-2) operable to produce driving force using electric power of the battery (10-1), a charger (28) operable to charge the battery (10-1 | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120103312 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE An object of the present invention is to avoid an air-fuel ratio difference between cylinders upon recovery from a cylinder deactivation in a situation where some of a plurality of cylinders of an internal combustion engine capable of using a plurality of types of fuels... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083979 | VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRANSMISSION One control mode is selected from a plurality of control modes each setting a target value of a primary pulley revolution speed NIN and prioritized in a predetermined order. When the control mode is changed, the target value of the primary pulley revolution speed NIN is... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081045 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VOLTAGE CONVERSION DEVICE, VEHICLE INCORPORATING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VOLTAGE CONVERSION DEVICE In a voltage conversion device of a motor drive control device, switching-control is performed so as to enlarge an output allowable voltage range of the voltage conversion device restricted by a dead time in a switching operation for an upper arm and a lower arm perform... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072104 | ROUTE EVALUATION DEVICE Disclosed is a route evaluation device that enables traveling along a route in consideration of an operation of the driver of another vehicle, and can realize a safer traffic environment. A route evaluation device includes a route candidate generation section that gener... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072083 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE When initial drive control for an actuator driving a shift switch mechanism is completed, a P-ECU determines whether an IG signal is received. In the case where the P-ECU has not received the IG signal at the time when the initial drive control is completed, the P-ECU t... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070759 | FUEL CELL STACK A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of fuel cell modules. Each of the fuel cell modules has a first membrane electrode assembly and a second membrane electrode assembly respectively having an electrolyte membrane and being arranged, such that respective first electro... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068646 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR CONVERTER AND ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME A voltage control operation unit receives, from a subtraction unit, a value obtained by subtracting a detection value of a voltage from a voltage command value, and performs a control operation for setting the voltage to be equal to the voltage command value. The voltag... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068532 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS AND VEHICLE A relay that is electrically connected/disconnected to/from a battery in parallel with a smoothing capacitor on an inverter side with respect to a system main relay is provided. Thus, when the system is turned off, the battery and electrode buses are electrically discon... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120053819 | CONTROLLER FOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Heat generation amount PVκ(θ) is calculated with the use of cylinder pressure P(θ), detected by a cylinder pressure sensor, cylinder, volume V(θ), and specific heat ratio κ (steps 100 to 102). A crank angle θfix, at which the va... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053790 | SPRUNG MASS DAMPING CONTROL SYSTEM OF VEHICLE, AND VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH SAID SYSTEM A sprung mass damping control system of a vehicle, which suppresses sprung mass vibration generated in a vehicle body by adjusting a driving control amount of a drive source (the second motor-generator), includes a spring vibration control amount calculating device that... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120053769 | VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle, the vehicle provided with: a rotating electrical machine capable of inputting or outputting a torque with respect to an input shaft; and a transmission, which is disposed between the input shaft and an output shaft coupled ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052396 | ALL-SOLID BATTERY An all-solid battery includes: a positive electrode active material layer that includes a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode active material layer that includes a negative electrode active material; and a solid electrolyte layer that is formed betw... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120052382 | ALL-SOLID SECONDARY BATTERY WITH GRADED ELECTRODES In an all-solid secondary battery, in an electrode active material layer of at least one of positive and negative electrode bodies, a total content ratio, which is represented by a ratio of mass of an electrolyte contained in the electrode active material layer to mass ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049774 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VOLTAGE CONVERTER, VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VOLTAGE CONVERTER In a converter of a motor drive control device, one of a first switching element and a second switching element is selected in accordance with a current command value of a current flowing through a reactor. The converter is then controlled so that a drive command for th... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120049667 | COOLING STRUCTURE OF ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE A cooling structure includes a rotating electrical machine (1) that has a stator (3), the stator including plural split cores (4) annularly combined, and a shrink-fitted ring (5) mounted to the outer periphery of the plural split cores (4<... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047992 | FUEL PROPERTY DETERMINING APPARATUS A fuel property determining apparatus is provided that can reduce power consumption in energization of a fuel property sensor by efficiently determining a fuel property as determined by activating the fuel property sensor. Upon starting an ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047893 | ENGINE COOLING DEVICE The cooling device is provided with an ECU, a water pump, an engine, a water-cooled exhaust manifold, and a radiator. A first flow rate determination means that determines the flow rate of the cooling water allowed to flow through the water-cooled exhaust manifold based... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047881 | ELECTRIC HEATING CATALYST The present invention is intended to suppress a decrease in insulation resistance between electrodes and a case in an electric heating catalyst (EHC). An EHC (1) according to the present invention is provided with a heat generation element (3) that is ener... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046850 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE An apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine that can estimate a quantity of heat generated is provided. An arithmetic processing unit 20 can calculate PVκ variable according to a crank angle θ and dPV... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045705 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM A fuel cell system includes a first power generation module configured to have a power generation assembly including a catalyst, an anode-side non-power generation structure placed in contact with the power generation assembly, and a cathode-side non-power generation st... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120045572 | CARBON NANOTUBE PRODUCTION PROCESS AND CARBON NANOTUBE PRODUCTION APPARATUS A substrate 10 that selectively allows hydrogen to permeate therethrough is formed with a catalyst thin layer 20 on a first side 11 thereof and is heated in a furnace tube 110, which functions as a reactor, of a heating furnace 100 whi... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120043807 | CHARGING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE An electric power reception terminal is configured such that it can electrically be connected to an AC power supply. A charger is configured to convert AC power input from the electric power reception terminal to a prescribed DC voltage. A non-contact electric power rec... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120043172 | NON-CONTACT POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME A non-contact power receiving apparatus includes a power reception coil receiving, by electromagnetic resonance, the electric power transmitted from a power transmission coil; a rectifier rectifying the electric power received by the power reception coil; coil, a load r... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042845 | OIL DILUTION INHIBITING APPARATUS AND METHOD An oil dilution inhibiting apparatus is mounted on a vehicle provided with an engine in which alcohol fuel can be used, the oil dilution inhibiting apparatus provided with: an intake amount integrating device for integrating amount of an air sucked into the engine while... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120040259 | FUEL CELL SYSTEM A fuel cell system 1000 includes: a gas exhaust flow path M2, 252 extended in a stacking direction of laminates 10 and configured to have one end located inside a fuel cell stack 100 and the other end located outside the fuel cell stack 10... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039100 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER CONVERSION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE WITH THE SAME MOUNTED THEREON In a power conversion device of a vehicle, when a collision of a vehicle is detected, the voltage of a gate signal that drive a semiconductor switching element included in the power conversion device is decreased, and residual charge stored in a smoothing capacitor is d... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038538 | ANTENNA DEVICE An antenna device includes: a plurality of loop metal wires that form loops out of metal wires and that are radially arranged around a center line; a power feeding portion that feeds power to the loop metal wires or a power receiving portion that receives power from the... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038373 | APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING FUEL-CELL HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION AND FUEL CELL SYSTEM A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, an impedance measuring instrument, and a control device. The control device is connected to the impedance measuring instrument. The impedance measuring instrument measures the impedance of the fuel cell according to the AC impeda... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120037336 | VEHICLE HEAT MANAGEMENT DEVICE When there is an extremely low ambient temperature, an electronic control unit controls operation of a circulation path for coolant water in such a manner that, after starting of an engine, the coolant water is supplied from the engine first to a throttle valve and an E... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035834 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Disclosed is a control device that is used for an internal combustion engine and capable of periodically varying an air-fuel ratio while keeping torque generated by the internal combustion engine at a target torque. The control device can periodically vary a target air-... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035830 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A control device for an internal combustion engine according to the present embodiment, includes: cooling units 40L and 40R arranged on a path where a coolant is circulated, and cooling an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine with the coolant flow... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120035829 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE A control device for an internal combustion engine according to an embodiment includes: cooling units arranged on a path where a coolant is circulated, and cooling an exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine with the coolant flowing through the cooling units; a pum... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032521 | NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER FEEDING EQUIPMENT AND NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER FEEDING SYSTEM Electric power feeding equipment and an electric power receiving device include a primary self resonant coil and a secondary self resonant coil coil, respectively, resonating through an electromagnetic field to allow the electric power feeding equipment to feed the elec... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032482 | VEHICLE SEAT CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A vehicle seat control apparatus includes an adjusting device that adjusts a reclining angle of a seat back of a vehicle seat, and a control portion that controls the adjusting device. When adjusting the reclining angle, the control portion controls the adjusting device... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120031077 | PM SENSOR, PM AMOUNT SENSING DEVICE FOR EXHAUST GAS, AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE Provided is a PM sensor capable of sensing the amount of particulate matter, and a PM amount sensing device for exhaust gas. Also provided is an abnormality detection apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of sensing abnormality of a particulate f... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120029782 | BEHAVIOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR A COMBINATION VEHICLE There is provided a behavior control device for the prevention of a jackknife phenomenon of a combination vehicle including a tractor and a trailer pivotably coupled with the tractor, taking into account that the relative pivoting action of the trailer and tractor varie... | 02/02/2012 |
