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Patent No. 6637829

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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Assignee: Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.


Location: Osaka, JP
No. of patents: 19

NumberTitleIssue Date
7447126Recording device, and related control method, computer program and system LSI
A recording device executes unattended recording after suspending dubbing when a preset recording time draws near during the dubbing, and saves dubbing-status information showing the suspension position of the dubbing. The recording device reads the dubbing status i...
11/04/2008
7446287Induction heating cooker with buoyancy reducing plate
An induction heating cooker has a top plate, a heating coil, an inverter circuit, a pot type discriminator, a non-magnetic-metal buoyancy reducing plate having a high electrical conductivity, an infrared sensor, a temperature calculator, and a controller. The pot ty...
11/04/2008
7391156Plasma display panel
A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other to provide a discharge space between the first substrate and the second substrate, a scan electrode and a sustain electrode both provided on the first substrate, a dielectric ...
06/24/2008
RE40256Communication system
At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point g...
04/22/2008
7328154Bubble splitting for compact acoustic modeling
An improved method is provided for constructing compact acoustic models for use in a speech recognizer. The method includes: partitioning speech data from a plurality of training speakers according to at least one speech related criteria (i.e., vocal tract length); ...
02/05/2008
7308052Radio transmitter apparatus and modulation scheme selecting method
A wireless transmission apparatus that can accurately select an optimal modulation scheme on a per block basis in a multi-carrier communication system in which block division of subcarriers and adaptive modulation are performed. In this wireless transmission apparat...
12/11/2007
7291919Interlayer dielectric film, and method for forming the same and interconnection
The interlayer dielectric film made of a three-dimensionally polymerized polymer is formed by polymerizing: first cross-linking molecules having three or more sets of functional groups in one molecule providing a three-dimensional structure; and a second cross-linki...
11/06/2007
7262836Apparatus for measuring biological information and method for measuring biological information
In order to solve the problem of a prior art biological attribute measuring device, i.e., measurement data is apt to vary because of unstable contact due to difficulty in controlling a thickness of a saliva layer and pain caused during the measurement, is provided a...
08/28/2007
7259931Slider design for high fly write immunity
An embodiment of a slider in accordance with the present invention for use in a hard disk drive having a rotatable disk can include a plurality of rails arranged across a surface of the slider such that an air bearing is formed when the slider is positioned over the...
08/21/2007
7233858Data providing service system
A data-providing service system of the present invention provides a user with data of an apparatus having a navigation function which outputs current position information. The data-providing service system provides a content provider such as restaurant, amusement, t...
06/19/2007
D542828LCD video projector
05/15/2007
D537052Rear projection television
02/20/2007
D529637Fluorescent lamp
10/03/2006
RE39278Method for determining motion compensation
A method for predicting motion compensation for determining of an input image based on a motion vector of the input image from this input image to a reference image which has been sampled at a first set time, and the method includes calculating a motion vector of th...
09/12/2006
D528089Digital video disc recorder
09/12/2006
D525214Information storage semiconductor element
07/18/2006
D525296Print head for an ink jet printer
07/18/2006
D520501Disk unit case
05/09/2006
D494600Disc cartridge
08/17/2004
 
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