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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 |
| 7264635 | Artificial knee joint An artificial knee joint including a femoral component to be attached to a femur and a tibial component to be attached to a tibia, wherein in the femur component a medial condyle thereof is thicker than a lateral condyle thereof; in the tibial component, a medial ar... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7245650 | CDMA communications system using multiple spreading sequences This invention provides techniques for a CDMA system having high spectrum efficiency with low transmit power. Each transmitter comprises means of selecting some core-sequences out of multiple sequences to make them convey plural data, means of producing an enveloped... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7219533 | Small hole diameter automatic measuring apparatus, small hole diameter measurement method, and shower plate manufacturing method A small hole diameter measuring apparatus including: a flow rate measurement section comprised of an automatic pressure control device which supplies a fluid to the inlet side of small holes in a plate while maintaining the outlet- and inlet-side pressures of the sm... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7064341 | Coated nanotube surface signal probe The coated nanotube surface signal probe constructed from a nanotube, a holder which holds the nanotube, a coating film fastening a base end portion of the nanotube to a surface of the holder by way of adhering the base end portion on the surface of holder in a rang... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7049258 | Microwave dielectric composite composition Various high quality microwave dielectric composite compositions are prepared by replacing a part of Ba, La or Ti with another element in a dielectric material represented by BanLa4Ti3+nO12+3n. A first embodiment thereof c... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7018466 | Process for producing a concrete and a mortar A concrete admixture or a mortar admixture which is obtained by mixing a silicate with an acid in the presence of water and then solidifying the mixture. It is preferable that the silicate is sodium silicate and the acid is a carboxylic acid. This admixture can impr... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7014830 | Method for mass-producing carbon nanocoils A method for manufacturing carbon nanocoils that uses a reactor, including the steps of: heating an interior of the reactor, causing a hydrocarbon gas to flow in the reactor, dispersing an indium/tin/iron-based catalyst in a form of particles in the hydrocarbon gas,... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013587 | Footwear wear exchangeable upper and sole portions Footwear characterized by comprising an upper portion (1), a shoe sole (2), and a fastener (3) that connects them, wherein a plurality of kinds of upper portions are exchangeably used by being connected by the fastener (3) with respect to... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6981727 | Diode-type nanotweezers and nanomanipulator device using the same Diode-type nanotweezers including a first arm and a second arm that project from a holder and are opened and closed by an electrostatic force so as to hold a nanosubstance. The first arm is formed by a gate nanotube fastened at its base end to the holder, and its ti... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6963600 | Adaptive interference-free spread-spectrum system employing binary code sequence sets with zero correlation zone properties A direct sequence spread spectrum system consisting of modulator and demodulator wherein the spreading sequence with zero correlation zone properties, and the despreading consists of multiplying the received signal with the same spreading sequence, followed by a low... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6955585 | Curved surface machining method and an apparatus thereof A curved surface machining method that performs finishing of the surface of a workpiece into a curved surface. The method includes the steps of: setting a workpiece in a rotating or stationary state in a water tank filled with an abrasive-containing solution into wh... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954422 | Comb-form spectrum communication systems using repeated complementary sequence modulation In comb-form spectrum communication systems using repeated complementary sequence modulation, a transmitting signal is constituted by assigning one set of N auto-complementary sequences to each user, where N is an integer equal to or higher than 2, and by transformi... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6905994 | Microwave dielectric composition and method for producing the same A first inventive microwave dielectric composition comprises a ceramic composition represented by AnR4Ti3+nO12+3n, where a is an alkaline earth metal element, R is a rare earth element and characterized in that a case sati... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6892432 | Nanotube cartridge and a method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a nanotube cartridge including the steps of: adhering numerous nanotubes to a surface of a holder, disposing a knife edge at an inclination to the surface of the holder so that the knife edge is raised with its tip end being in contact wit... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6839844 | Image encryption method and device A portion of an image is selected as an arbitrary rectangle indicated by diagonal coordinates, and this portion of an image is encrypted and embedded in the original rectangular image portion, thus accomplishing partial encryption of the image. This is done by an im... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6802549 | Nanotweezers and nanomanipulator To provide nanotweezers and a nanomanipulator which allow great miniaturization of the component and are capable of gripping various types of nano-substances such as insulators, semiconductors and conductors and of gripping nano-substances of various shapes. ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6791424 | Piezoelectric oscillator Piezo oscillators having a quick start-up circuit, which applies a start-up quickening voltage to the piezo resonator only for a predetermined length of time after the application of power supply voltage, added to a piezo oscillating circuit. The start-up time taken... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6789448 | Power ratchet wrench A power ratchet wrench including a yoke that is in sliding contact with opposing faces of a distal end bifurcated portion of the wrench housing, guide bushings fitted and fixed in the distal end bifurcated portion and inserted in the hole of the yoke to support the ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6787769 | Conductive probe for scanning microscope and machining method using the same A conductive probe for a scanning type microscope that captures the substance information of the surface of a specimen by the tip end of a conductive nanotube probe needle fastened to a cantilever, in which the conductive probe is constructed from a conductive film ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6777693 | Lithographic method using ultra-fine probe needle A lithographic method using an ultra-fine probe needle in which a base end of a nanotube is fastened to a holder with the tip end of the nanotube protruded from the holder. The tip end of the thus obtained nanotube probe needle is brought to contact a sample surface... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6777637 | Sharpening method of nanotubes A method for sharpening a nanotube including the steps of: connecting the base end portion of a nanotube to an electrode with the tip end portion of the nanotube protruded from the electrode; connecting the tip end portion of the nanotube to another electrode; apply... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6735046 | Nano-magnetic head and nano-magnetic head device using the same A nano-magnetic head for inputting and outputting magnetic signals with nano-region precision on a magnetic recording medium such as magnetic tapes, magnetic cards, magnetic disks, magnetic drums, etc. The nano-magnetic head uses a nanotube with its base end portion... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6730400 | Ultrafine composite metal particles and method for manufacturing same Ultrafine composite metal particles comprising a surfactant sheath and an organic compound sheath that surround a metal core in which metal atoms obtained by reduction precipitation from an organic metal compound have agglomerated, the particle diameter being 1 to 1... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6719602 | Nanotube length control method A nanotube length control method involving a nanotube and a discharge needle so that the nanotube with its base end portion fastened to a holder and its tip end portion caused to protrude is set so as for its tip end to face the tip end of the discharge needle. A vo... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6705154 | Cantilever for vertical scanning microscope and probe for vertical scan microscope A cantilever for a vertical scanning type microscope that obtains substance information of a surface of a specimen by a tip end of a nanotube probe needle fastened to the cantilever, in which the cantilever has a fixing region to which a base end portion of a nanotu... | 03/16/2004 |
| D569702 | Tube cutter | 05/27/2008 |
| 7334754 | Guide rails for conveying band-form members Guide rails for guiding a band-form member such as a film carrier tape in a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus. The guide rails include a pair of rail main bodies with a plurality of guide assemblies provided on the upper surfaces of the rail main bodies so that ... | 02/26/2008 |
| D558248 | Surveillance television camera | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309823 | String-bounding preventing structure for piano A plurality of strings are stretched over a frame, constituting an overall framework of a body of a piano, with their respective rear-end engaging rings engaged by corresponding pins provided on the frame. There is also provided a string-bounding preventing member t... | 12/18/2007 |
| D557159 | Globe for a warning lamp | 12/11/2007 |
| D556231 | Surveillance television camera | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301084 | Upright keyboard musical instrument An upright keyboard musical instrument has an open/close board attached to the top position of a case, wherein the lower surface of the open/close board is subjected to mirror surface finishing and is supported by a lid prop, which is rotatably arranged in proximity... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301086 | Tailpiece of a stringed musical instrument A tailpiece of, for instance, an electric guitar including a bridge main body attached to the guitar main body by two protruding stud screws so as to be moved and adjusted in the direction of the stretched strings. At both ends of the bridge main body, first and sec... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300191 | Vehicular lamp A vehicular lamp 1 including a lamp unit 2, in which a light-emitting diode 2a is used as the light source, and a cover member 4, which is provided between the lamp unit 2 and an outer lens 3 of the lamp and located n... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299966 | Initial ball forming method for wire bonding wire and wire bonding apparatus An initial ball forming method for wire bonding wire and wire bonding apparatus that uses: a capillary through which a wire is passed; a torch electrode made of a low-melting-point material that contains, for instance, tin; and a direct-current high voltage power su... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300544 | Sanitary paper It is intended to provide sanitary paper which is excellent in texture such as moistness and softness and scarcely causes skin irritation or blushing even if it is brought into contact with the skin frequently. Namely, sanitary paper having an oil absorbance specifi... | 11/27/2007 |
| D555994 | Saw blade | 11/27/2007 |
| D555612 | Monitor television | 11/20/2007 |
| D555691 | Surveillance television camera | 11/20/2007 |
