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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 |
| 7000722 | Operating device for a cruise control system of an automobile vehicle A device for the operating of an automative cruise control system for an automobile vehicle comprises means to separate the travel of the accelerator pedal into two parts. The depressing of the pedal in the first travel part engages the automotive cruise control sys... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993086 | High performance short-wave broadcasting transmitter optimized for digital broadcasting A short wave high efficiency radio broadcasting transmitter for digital transmissions. The transmitter includes a power tube in which the grid is excited by a variable phase signal through an excitation device and in which the anode is amplitude modulated by the out... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6852561 | Encapsulated surface acoustic wave component and method of collective fabrication The invention relates to a new type of encapsulated surface acoustic wave component and to a method for the batch production of such components. The component comprises a surface acoustic wave device on the surface of a substrate. The encapsulation package fu... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6850630 | Process for separating dynamic and static components of a sequence of images A process for the separation of static and dynamic components of a sequence of images separated in time and taken under the same conditions. The process includes recording a first intensity of a first pixel in at least one area in the sequence of images, recording s... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6809350 | Quantum well detector with layer for the storage of photo-excited electrons A quantum well made out of a the stack of layers of III-V semiconductor materials comprises, in addition to the quantum well, an electron storage layer separated from the quantum well by a transfer barrier layer. The barrier layer has a thickness that is greater tha... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6778669 | Quantum encryption device A quantum encryption device comprises a transmitter and a receiver between which an encrypted piece of information is transmitted. The transmitter comprises at least means to send a first packet of photons and an information photon to the receiver, the appearance of... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6738431 | Method for neutralizing a transmitter tube A process for neutralizing a tube of a high power digital radio broadcasting transmitter includes modulating two quadrature signals I(t), Q(t) at a transmission frequency (F0) by a modulator to control a grid of the tube which is configured to work at sat... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6738331 | Copy-protected optical disk and protection process for such disk The disclosure relates to an optical disk of the type including at least one spiral track on which information marks are written in sectors whose addresses are substantially sequential along the track, wherein said disk includes a copy protection zone (PZ) comprisin... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6738404 | Method for controlling a unipolar semiconductor laser A method of controlling a unipolar semiconductor laser in the 4-12 μm mid-infrared range. This is an optical control method, unlike a purely electrical, power control method which injects a relatively large flux of electrons. The optical control method may advantag... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6738091 | Digital camera and method of control using pre-set digital setting functions and options Disclosed are a digital display camera in a changing environment and an associated method of digital control. The method can be applied more particularly to digital cameras for endoscopy. It enables a user to access a very large number of parameters of settings whil... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6729001 | Method for making a sonoprobe A process for the fabrication of a multielement acoustic probe. A flexible circuit having conducting tracks on at least one of its sides is used. This circuit is joined to a plate of piezoelectric material having metallizations. Vias are produced through the flexibl... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6715121 | Simple and systematic process for constructing and coding LDPC codes A process for the construction of LDPC codes including N symbols, of which K are free, each code being defined by a check matrix A including M=N−K rows, N columns, and t nonzero symbols in each column. The method includes allocating the same number of nonzero symb... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6714782 | Method for the localizing of terrestrial mobile radio from an aircraft The disclosure relates to methods and devices for the real-time localization of terrestrial transmitters belonging to a TDMA type cellular radiocommunications network. The device comprises an antenna array, a multichannel receiver and a digital processor. The method... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6687667 | Method for quantizing speech coder parameters A method for encoding speech at a low bit rate. The method assembles parameters on N consecutive frames to form a super-frame. A vector quantization of transition frequencies of a voicing during each super-frame is made. Only the most frequent configurati... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6675923 | Operating device for a cruise control system of an automobile vehicle A device for the operating of an automative cruise control system for an automobile vehicle comprises means to separate the travel of the accelerator pedal into two parts. The depressing of the pedal in the first travel part engages the automative cruise ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6677892 | Process for the phase amplitude demodulation of a received radar signal and device implementing such a process The present invention relates to a process for the phase amplitude demodulation of a received radar signal and to an implementing device, the process consisting in sampling the intermediate frequency signal at a sampling frequency fe such that ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6658238 | Method for elaborating a transmission signal and transmitter with amplifying cells for implementing same Transmitter systems in which an output signal is obtained by the summation of signals with predetermined discreet levels given by several amplification cells. Given a signal to be sent with an amplitude A and a phase $c;0, a control circuit ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6631151 | Parametrical generation laser This semiconductor laser comprises at least two layers of optically non-linear material as well as a quantum well at least located within one of the layers of optically non-linear material. The thicknesses and optical indices of these two layers are such ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6627489 | Method of producing CMOS transistors and related devices A method for making CMOQ transistors and associated devices. The method is used to make transistors of a first type and a second type in CMOS technology in an active layer. The method etches regions of the active layer or making them inactive so as to def... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6627868 | Bi-functional optical detector including four optical detectors used to detect combination of two wavelengths A bi-functional optical detector including a first active photoconduction detection element configured to detect light within first and second wavelength ranges, a first diffraction grating associated with the first detection element and configured to cou... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6625174 | Method for transmitting data packets on carrier frequency with linear variation and transmitter implementing this method A method for transmitting data packets having a heading followed by a data field. The data of the field is transmitted by groups of symbols. According to the OFDM technique, subcarriers modulated by the groups are generated. A frequency modulation of a ca... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6618449 | Receiver for a frequency-shift-keying, continuous-wave radar A receiver of a frequency-shift-keying, continuous-wave radar comprises at least sampling means taking real samples of the signals in each reception channel and extrapolation means, the extrapolation means producing fictitious samples synchronous with the... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6614852 | System for the estimation of the complex gain of a transmission channel A system for the estimation of the complex gain of a transmission channel is designed for parallel type modulators/demodulators that can be used in digital radio broadcasting. The system includes a given number N of sets of interpolators to estimate the g... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6606302 | Method for the control of flows within an ATM switch with distributed architecture A method for the control of flows particularly within an ATM switch transmission network with a distributed architecture. The method distributes a specified number n of shapers to each input line card, a specific shaper being dedicated to the VBRnrt (Vari... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6577561 | Anti-chipping recording disc, reading method and recording head An anti-piracy recording disk. The disk includes a main recording track which has interruptions or changes of turn. This gives rise to non-sequential reading and therefore to information which is difficult to access. The copying of such a disk by conventi... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6570460 | Voltage-tunable oscillator with dielectric resonator including a ferroelectric ceramic material A voltage-controlled oscillator including a dielectric resonator having a ferroelectric ceramic material placed between two metallized surfaces and biased by an electric field created by a difference in potential applied between the two surfaces as a func... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6560121 | Method for surface mounting of a microwave package on a printed circuit and package and printed circuit for implementing said method The surface mounting of a backset microwave package on a printed circuit. After the package has been accurately positioned against the printed circuit the connections are produced by soldering the conducting elements in direct contact. A chip is enclosed ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6559534 | Thermal capacity for electronic component operating in long pulses A thermal capacitor component which includes, on a substrate, a stack of different layers defined in the form of a mesa terminating at its upper part in an electrical contact layer, which layer is coated with an electrically and thermally conducting layer... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556105 | Surface wave device connected to a base with a conductive adhesive The invention relates to a surface wave device linked to a base by a conductive material which is anisotropic in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the surface wave device and of the base. This anisotropic conductive material provides for the mecha... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556354 | Optical adapter for mounting camera lenses on a video camera Optical adapter for adapting cine-camera objective to video camera, which includes spectral splitter of light into three spectral bands, and three receivers each associated with one spectral band, the three receivers having the same format, the distance b... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556570 | Method for translating an ATM switch cell header The invention relates to a process for translating an ATM cell header for the routing thereof on a transmission highway of a communication network via an ATM switch. The header of the cell includes a first field VPI and a second field VCI, the first field... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6546801 | Micro-machined mechanical structure and device incorporating the structure A mechanical structure (100) comprises a moving mass (3) suspended by beams (4, 5, 6, 7) from a fixed frame (2). The structure (100) comprises elongation means (23-26) mechanically connected to each of the beams (4, 5, 6, 7). The elongation means is desig... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6545548 | Fractional synthesizer comprising a phase jitter compensation The multiple fractional division frequency synthesizer includes a frequency generator, a voltage-controlled oscillator, a programmable variable N-divider, a phase comparator, an integration and filter circuit, a time window generator, a weighted current s... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6531699 | Heat detector with a limited angle of vision An uncooled thermal matrix detector having a given spectral sensitivity range and being formed from pixels which are thermally insulated from each other, each pixel including an absorbing element which is thermosensitive in the spectral sensitivity range.... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6529105 | Process and device for bonding two millimeter elements A device, and a method for making the same, for bonding two millimeter elements, which include a substrate having an upper face and a lower face, a conducting line on the upper face and oriented substantially perpendicular to an edge of the substrate, and... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6529473 | Device for ATM cell switching, with failure tolerance A device for ATM cell switching having failure tolerance. The device is divided into two types of equipment modules. The first type includes connecting modules while the second type includes two branching and managing modules, one operating in an active m... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6522051 | Multielement sound probe comprising a composite electrically conducting coating and method for making same The invention relates to a multielement acoustic probe comprising an acoustic support and an electrical circuit with conducting tracks connected to elementary piezoelectric transducers. In addition, the probe comprises a film of composite conducting material ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6498780 | Method for detecting upstream congestion in an ATM commutator with a switching system architecture and input memorization A process for detecting upstream congestion within an ATM switch. The switch includes several junctions linked together by a cross-connector. In each input junction, the number of incoming cells bound for a same specified output port of a junction are cou... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6496004 | Magnetic field sensor using magneto-resistance of ferromagnetic layers with parallel magnetic axes A magnetic detector which includes a first thin-layer element and a second thin-layer element made of magnetic material with magnetic anisotropy in the plane possessing, in this plane, two easy axes of magnetization. A coercive field of one of the first a... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6493315 | ATM switch for routing different cell types An ATM routing switch has a buffer circuit for holding cells located on queues at output ports, the buffer having a first reserve buffer capacity for cells of a first type requiring integrity of cell transmission and a first designation for use in determi... | 12/10/2002 |
