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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 |
| 7276336 | Methods of fabricating an addressable array of biopolymer probes A method of fabricating an addressable array of biopolymer probes on a substrate according to a target array pattern using a deposition apparatus, and a deposition apparatus which can execute the method and computer program products for the apparatus. The deposition... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7101508 | Chemical array fabrication errors A method of fabricating an addressable array of chemical probes at respective feature locations on a substrate surface. The method may use a deposition apparatus with a substrate unit which includes the substrate and with a drop deposition unit which includes a drop... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7045287 | Method for contacting fluid components with moieties on a surface An improved method is provided for conducting chemical or biochemical reactions on a substrate surface in which the reactions take place in an enclosed chamber between components of a fluid and molecular moieties present on an interior surface of the chamber, wherei... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6890760 | Array fabrication Methods, apparatus, and computer program, for use in fabricating a chemical array. The method may use an apparatus which includes a head system, a transport system, and a processor. The head system has multiple groups of drop dispensers which move in unison, each gr... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6875620 | Tiling process for constructing a chemical array A process of constructing an array of chemical moieties having the following steps: forming multiple discrete physical entities (tiles) from a substantially planar material having one or more species of chemical moiety attached thereto; and picking and placing the e... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6872359 | Pressure variation in array fabrication A method, apparatus and computer program product, for fabricating an array of biopolymers on a substrate. The method uses a biopolymer or biomonomer fluid and a drop dispenser having a chamber into which the fluid is loaded and an orifice communicating with the cham... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6864097 | Arrays and their reading A method of reading an array of moieties such as polynucleotides (for example, DNA) on at least a portion of a surface of a transparent slide which is opposite a first portion on the opposing surface, which array has been previously exposed to a sample. The method m... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6825929 | Simultaneously reading different regions of a chemical array A method of interrogating an addressable array having a plurality of different chemical features. The method may include simultaneously illuminating different regions of the array with light of different intensities (which, for example, can, but need not be, also of... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6689323 | Method and apparatus for liquid transfer Liquids are transferred from a plurality of wells or depots having openings arranged in a selected format to one or more receptacles, by displacing liquid contained in each well so that a convex meniscus swells from the opening, and contacting the recepta... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6656740 | Pressure variation in array fabrication A method, apparatus and computer program product, for fabricating an array of biopolymers on a substrate. The method uses a biopolymer or biomonomer fluid and a drop dispenser having a chamber into which the fluid is loaded and an orifice communicating wi... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6648853 | Septum A septum penetrable by a member and which maintains a seal following member penetration in an axial direction and withdrawal. The septum includes a first layer of resilient material having first and second opposed surfaces, and a second layer extending ac... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6613893 | Array fabrication A method, apparatus, and computer program, for fabricating multiple arrays arranged successively in a first direction on a substrate and each having multiple feature sets arranged successively in the first direction within the array. The method uses a hea... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6599693 | Array fabrication A method of fabricating an array with multiple sets of neighboring features. In the method, for each of multiple sets of neighboring features, at least one set of drops is deposited from a corresponding same pulse jet dispenser onto a substrate so as to f... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6592036 | Apparatus and method for scanning a surface Apparatus and method for scanning a surface. An optical system generates a light beam to illuminate a surface. A carrier supports the surface for reciprocating motion with respect to the light beam to form one axis of a raster. A propulsion system moves t... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6590689 | Background reduction apparatus and method for confocal fluorescence detection systems The system includes a confocal optical system to illuminate an object at an intended detection plane and to focus light from the object onto a pinhole. An opaque obstacle is disposed within the confocal optical system, the obstacle selected to suppress li... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6589739 | Biopolymer array inspection A method of fabricating a biopolymer array, and an apparatus which can execute the method, droplets of fluid carrying the biopolymer or a biomonomer are deposited onto a front side of a transparent substrate. Light is directed through the substrate from t... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6587579 | Feature quality in array fabrication A method, and apparatus and computer program products for executing the method. The method includes obtaining a set of multiple images of a target feature location on an array of multiple features, each image of the set representing the target feature loc... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6533553 | Microfluidic pumping A microfluidic pumping apparatus and method using the apparatus. The apparatus may include a first pulse jet and working fluid in the pulse jet such that the first pulse jet, in response to activation by a set of electrical pulses, moves corresponding pul... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6513968 | Apparatus and method for mixing a film of fluid A method and apparatus is provided for mixing a film of fluid, particularly a film of chemical, biochemical, or biological fluids undergoing a reaction. The apparatus comprises a means for nucleating a bubble using a discrete heat source, such as a resist... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6465183 | Multidentate arrays A method of evaluating for the presence of a target polynucleotide in a sample, using an addressable array of multiple polynucleotide probes linked to a substrate. The sample is exposed to the array and a set of polynucleotide target probes, such that tar... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6461812 | Method and multiple reservoir apparatus for fabrication of biomolecular arrays Apparatus for delivering a plurality of different biological materials onto discrete locations on a receiving surface, as for example to fabricate an array of different biological material, includes a plurality of orifices in an orifice member, at least s... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6451998 | Capping and de-capping during oligonucleotide synthesis A method of capping a hydroxy group of a moiety, comprising coupling the moiety to a phosphor or phosphite derivative of a protected alcohol, so as to form the corresponding phosphate or phosphite between the hydroxy and phosphor or phosphite groups. The ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6446642 | Method and apparatus to clean an inkjet reagent deposition device A method is described for removing residue from a fluid deposited on the interior surface of an inkjet printhead after the printhead has contained or dispensed the fluid at least once. The method makes use of a reverse flushing technique optionally used i... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6444268 | Functionalization of substrate surfaces with silane mixtures Low surface energy functionalized surfaces on solid supports are provided by treating a solid support having hydrophilic moieties on its surface with a derivatizing composition containing a mixture of silanes. A first silane provides the desired reduction... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6420180 | Multiple pass deposition for chemical array fabrication A method, apparatus, and computer program products, for forming an addressable array on a substrate. In the method, for each of multiple addresses on the substrate, a reagent drop set is deposited during a cycle so as to attach a corresponding moiety for ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6406849 | Interrogating multi-featured arrays A method, apparatus for executing the method, and computer program products for use in such an apparatus. The method includes scanning an interrogating light across multiple sites on an array package including an addressable array of multiple features of ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6399394 | Testing multiple fluid samples with multiple biopolymer arrays A method of testing multiple fluid samples with multiple biopolymer arrays. A cover is assembled to a contiguous substrate carrying on a first side, multiple arrays each with multiple regions of biopolymers linked to the substrate, such that the cover and... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6372483 | Preparation of biopolymer arrays A method and apparatus for fabricating an array of biopolymers on a substrate using a biopolymer or biomonomer fluid, and using a fluid dispensing head. The head has at least one jet which can dispense droplets onto a substrate, the jet including a chambe... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6320196 | Multichannel high dynamic range scanner A method and apparatus for reducing the crosstalk between two or more dye channels in a multiple frequency laser induced fluorescence scanner in which two laser beams and associated optics are employed for focusing the two laser beams on a plurality of sp... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6296452 | Microfluidic pumping A microfluidic pumping apparatus and method using the apparatus. The apparatus may include a first pulse jet and working fluid in the pulse jet such that the first pulse jet, in response to activation by a set of electrical pulses, moves corresponding pul... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6149129 | Valve system having tapered sealing portions A probe and a valve, which may be used together in a valve assemblage, and a method of using them. The valve includes a valve body with a forward end having a forwardly tapering valve body opening defined by a valve seat; a valve seal positioned in the va... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6101000 | Photographic processing apparatus and method A method of processing photographic media carrying a plurality of images, and an apparatus which can execute the method. The media is scanned to obtain image signals corresponding to the images. Image characteristics are determined from scanned image sign... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5993201 | Enclosed frictionally ignited photographic flash lamp A photographic flash lamp having a closed, at least partially transparent capsule. A combustible material within an enclosed region of the capsule generates a flash upon ignition. Ignition is provided by a frictionally ignited composition within the enclo... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5991548 | Apparatus and methods for loading a photographic camera with a film specified by the camera Apparatus (10; 800) is disclosed for loading of film into a photographic camera (106), the camera including an external housing (320) having at least one movable closure (322, 324) which, in an open position of the closure, enables a discrete filmstrip (3... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5984544 | Paper core locator An elongated intercore for mounting hollow cores of various lengths for rotation. The intercore includes a plurality of stop members spaced along at least part of the length of the intercore, and which are urged resiliently radially outward between retrac... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5983036 | Non-photographic strip having a base layer similar to a photographic filmstrip and a magnetic recording layer A non-photographic strip includes a base layer similar in properties and characteristics to a base layer of a known photographic filmstrip and a magnetic recording layer over the base layer. A cartridge is sized and shaped to be received in a cartridge re... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5974272 | Parallax corrected image capture system A parallax corrected image capture system and method for capturing images using such an apparatus. The system has a first camera and a second camera, at least one of which has a variable focus objective lens the focus of which can be adjusted by a first d... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5969804 | Photographic printer with mechanism for placing contact print slide at paper print gate Apparatus is disclosed for placing a contact print slide (134) in a photographic printer (10) having a platen (54) for supporting a photographic paper (32) during exposure of an image (88, 90) onto the paper at a paper print gate (36) at the platen. The a... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5966199 | Index print An index print includes a recording sheet having positive images corresponding to respective images on an image recording medium and being right-side-up or up-side-down on the recording sheet. The index print further includes eye-readable means on the rec... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5966506 | Method for printing electronically sharpened images A method of printing an image with an electronically sharpened edge. The method uses an image writing medium to form an image on a substrate. The image is printed using a range of writing medium exposures greater than a standard range. The standard range ... | 10/12/1999 |
