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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6585147 | Friction agitation joining method In a friction agitation joining method for joining two plate-shaped joining members butted against each other with a level difference formed at upper surface sides thereof by a joining tool having a probe rotatable about a rotation axis thereof, the butte... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6572721 | Method of manufacturing automotive sunshade panel According to the present invention, there is provided an automotive sunshade panel formed from a metallic hollow panel and having flanged edges and a two-dimensional curved surface or a three-dimensional curved surface formed at least partially of its cen... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6446715 | Flat heat exchange tubes A flat heat exchange tube comprises an upper wall, a lower wall, right and left side walls interconnecting right and left side edges of the upper and lower walls, and a plurality of reinforcing walls connected between the upper and lower walls, extending ... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6301115 | Heat sink devices for use in electronic devices A heat sink device for use in desktop electronic devices comprises a heat sink which can be firmly attached to a CPU assembly with extremely great strength. The holes to be formed in the CPU circuit board of the CPU assembly or the heat sink can be made a... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6241011 | Layered heat exchangers A layered heat exchanger for use as a motor vehicle air conditioner evaporator comprises pairs of generally rectangular adjacent plates, which are joined together in layers with the corresponding recesses of the plates in each pair opposed to each other t... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6239390 | Personal computer keyboard Provided is a personal computer keyboard in which base and reinforcement plates excellent in heat dissipativity and homogeneous in heat dissipation, and with a mechanical strength are incorporated. The keyboard includes a base plate 24 on which key caps K1 to ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6230407 | Method of checking whether noncondensable gases remain in heat pipe and process for producing heat pipe A heat pipe is produced by forming on a container an outwardly projecting tube portion having an interior in communication with the interior of the container for providing a gas retaining portion, injecting a working liquid into the container through an o... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6227432 | Friction agitation jointing method of metal workpieces A friction agitation jointing method of workpieces for subjecting the workpieces made of metals having deformation resistance or melting points different from each other to friction agitation jointing in which two of the workpieces are subjected to the fr... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6220343 | Connecting device for heat exchanger A connecting device for a heat exchanger which has a fluid circulating channel formed with an opening at one end thereof and an opening at the other end thereof, the openings being formed as juxtaposed in one side of the heat exchanger. The connecting dev... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6217251 | Joining structure for joining adjacent members A joining structure for joining adjacent members includes a first member and a second member. One end portion of the first member is joined to one end portion of the second member such that protruded portions formed on the one end portion of the first and... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6214135 | Entry board for drilling small holes, a method of making the same and a method for drilling small holes through a printed circuit board by using said entry board An entry board for drilling small holes having a front surface layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy to be disposed at the drilling inlet side and a back surface layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy to be disposed at the drilling outlet side. The b... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6196019 | Accumulator An accumulator includes a tank, a refrigerant inlet port provided at an upper portion of the tank, a refrigerant outlet port provided at the upper portion of the tank, a dryer unit disposed in the tank at an intermediate portion along a direction of heigh... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6170567 | Heat exchanger An oil cooler 11 comprises oil channel members 2A arranged one above another in parallel at a spacing and each composed of a pair of plates 20A, each of the plates 20A having a hole 21 at each of opposite ends thereof and a channel portion 22 between the ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6170738 | Aluminum brazing alloy for cold brazing and method for brazing low-melting aluminum material A first aluminum brazing alloy for cold brazing, comprises 70 to 90% by weight of zinc and 0.05 to 5% by weight of titanium with the balance consisting of aluminum and impurities. A second aluminum brazing alloy for cold brazing, comprises 30 to 70% by we... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6164368 | Heat sink for portable electronic devices A heat sink for use in a portable electronic device for disposing of the heat generated by an electronic component of the device, the heat sink comprising in its entirety a metal clad plate composed of two metal sheets and having a nonbonded portion in a ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6145587 | Evaporator An evaporator comprises front and rear header portions, and U-shaped flat tubular portions arranged in parallel and each connected at opposite ends thereof to the header portions. Each of the header portions is provided with a partition for blocking a ref... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6125539 | Process for producing vibration isolator A process for producing a vibration isolator. The process involves steps of forming an intermediate product including an axial member, an outside member having a cylinder-shaped portion and a rubber elastic member, and drawing the cylinder-shaped portion ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6123603 | Magnetic hard disc substrate and process for manufacturing the same A magnetic hard disc substrate made of an aluminum alloy for memory devices such as a computer must correspond to an improved structure in which the interval between a head and a medium is made narrower to attain high density recording. In order to preven... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6122929 | Accumulator A tank of an accumulator is divided into an upper room and lower room by a dryer unit. The upper room is divided into a right upper divided room located at a refrigerant inlet side and a left upper divided room located at a refrigerant outlet side by a se... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6115252 | Heat sink device for electronic devices A heat sink device for use in an electronic device for dissipating into the atmosphere outside a housing of the electronic device the heat generated by an electronic component disposed within the housing. The housing has a peripheral wall formed with a he... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6094818 | Process for producing vibration isolator A process for producing a vibration isolator includes the steps of preparing an axial member, an outside member, the outside member including a cylinder-shaped portion and a bracket having a hollow, and a cylinder-shaped rubber elastic member, and drawing... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6070428 | Stack type evaporator A stack type evaporator has a compact structure and a high cooling ability. A plurality of flat and plate-like tubular elements 1, each having a pair of formed plates 7, are stacked together in the lateral direction. Each tubular element 1 has two or more... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6038124 | Aluminum electrode foil for electrolytic capacitor and electrolytic capacitor using the foil An aluminum electrode foil for an electrolytic capacitor has a sponge-like etching layer formed on at least one of the surfaces thereof, and the sponge-like etching layer is reduced in a direction of thickness. The aluminum density of the reduced sponge-l... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6021846 | Duplex heat exchanger A duplex heat exchanger comprises unit heat exchangers which have a plurality of tubes arranged parallel with each other and comprise fins each interposed between two adjacent ones of such tubes, opposite ends of each tube being connected to a pair of hea... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6007058 | Mounting component for a cylindrical bushing and a mounting body The mounting component for a cylindrical bushing is comprised of a mounting portion for a bushing into which a cylindrical bushing can be fitted. The mounting portion for a bushing is a clamping-type mounting portion, comprised of a receptacle and a cover... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6006825 | Heat exchanger In a heat exchanger according to the present invention, a projecting edge portion integrally projects outward from an opening edge portion of a tank body, and a tank and a core plate are connected to each other in such a way that a claw portion of an edge... | 12/28/1999 |
| 6000467 | Multi-bored flat tube for use in a heat exchanger and heat exchanger including said tubes A multi-bored flat tube has outermost unit passages located at both ends of the tube and intermediate unit passages between the outermost unit passages. The outermost unit passage has a circular-based inner surface in cross-section, such as a circumferent... | 12/14/1999 |
| 6000886 | Entry board for drilling small holes, a method of making the same and a method for drilling small holes through a printed circuit board by using said entry board An entry board for drilling small holes having a front surface layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy to be disposed at the drilling inlet side and a back surface layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy to be disposed at the drilling outlet side. The b... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5975193 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger is made of a metal such as aluminum and for use in the air conditioning apparatuses such as the car coolers and the room air conditioners. A coolant inlet pipe (6) has an end which is forced into a pipe insertion bore (10) of a pipe joint... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5947365 | Process for producing flat heat exchange tubes A process for producing a flat heat exchange tube having opposed upper and lower walls and a plurality of reinforcing walls connected by brazing between the respective upper and lower walls for dividing the tube interior into parallel fluid passages. In o... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5937936 | Heat sink for portable electronic devices A heat sink for use in a portable electronic device for disposing of the heat generated by an electronic component of the device, the heat sink comprising in its entirety a metal clad plate composed of two metal sheets and having a nonbonded portion in a ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5934546 | Process for brazing die-cast aluminum material A process for brazing a die-cast aluminum material, wherein a die-cast aluminum material produced at a gate speed of 20 m/s or higher is used to be brazed at a brazing temperature of 500° C. or lower. Further, it is preferred that the die-cast aluminum m... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5931220 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger has a plurality of flat tubes which alternate with fins, and the tubes and the fins are disposed one on another. Both ends of each tube are connected to a pair of right-hand and left-hand headers, in fluid communication with them. The hea... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5931226 | Refrigerant tubes for heat exchangers A refrigerant tube for use in heat exchangers comprises a flat tube having parallel refrigerant passages in its interior and comprising upper and lower walls and a plurality of reinforcing walls connected between the upper and lower walls, the reinforcing... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5924320 | Device for unfolding a shaped metal article and a method for unfolding the same In a device and method for unfolding a shaped metal article having a longitudinal bent or curved portion, the shaped metal article is unfolded along the bent or curved portion. The device is provided with a vacuum-type absorbing means for absorbing at lea... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5902172 | Method of polishing memory disk substrate In a method of polishing a Ni--P plated aluminum alloy memory disk substrate, the present invention provides a polishing method which can efficiently form a good polished surface having slight polishing flaws, restrain the generation of a defect other tha... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5899263 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger has tubes inserted in headers easily to a given depth, and also has brackets which are readily attached to the headers. Each of the headers (3, 4) is divided into an inner half (5) and an outer half (6) facing the inner half in which aper... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5862976 | Brazeable aluminum alloy cast material and method of brazing the same Objects of the present invention are to provide a brazeable aluminum alloy cast material which can be manufactured brazeable products without lowering the productivity and the method of brazing a cast material. The cast material is composed of: 0.5-4.5% by wei... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5848545 | Extruded material for expansion working and method of expansion working An extruded material for expansion working comprising a main body having at least a plurality of straight portions and arcuate corner portions formed between the neighboring straight portions in cross section, and an imitation forming an annular polygon b... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5816127 | Continuous cutter for severing pieces of equal length from a coiled elongate article A continuous cutter for severing pieces of equal length from a coiled elongate article "T" includes a movable stand which carries a shiftable clamp. The cutter also includes a fixed clamp. The shiftable and fixed clamps are driven relatively to one anothe... | 10/06/1998 |
