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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 |
| 5097526 | Connector for two optical cables In a tension-proof connection for optical waveguide cables, a metal sleeve (4) containing several longitudinal slots (8) separated from each other is slid over the stripped length of the cable ends. Reinforcing fibers (3) are led out through the longitudi... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5094642 | Method of manufacturing a control subassembly for flat display devices For a flat display device, a control subassembly is needed which consists of two control plates (1;7) each formed by a layer of parallel conductors (2;8) which are isolated from each other. During the manufacture of the control subassembly, the first cont... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5091907 | Multiplexer and demultiplexer, particularly for information transmission networks with a synchronous hierarchy of the digital signals Information transmission networks with a synchronous hierarchy of digital signals, require that digital signals of the plesiochronous hierarchy are to be inserted into multiplex elements with prescribed pulse frames. The pulse frame is structured word by ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5079562 | Multiband antenna A multi-band antenna is adapted to receive signals in the AM/FM bands and to receive and transmit signals in a significantly higher frequency band such as that used for cellular telephone. An AM/FM band antenna is formed of a tubular rod, and a higher fre... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5071228 | Black-white liquid crystal display having an insulation layer for blocking the diffusion of sodium ions from the glass of the cell plate to the polyphenylene of the orientation layer A black-white liquid crystal display (10) contains a nematic liquid crystal with a twist of 270° between cell plates. The product of the liquid crystal layer thickness and anisotropy of the refractive index is about 0.38. A pretilt of about 15° is prese... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5072330 | Display device with battery cover having an integral stand An integral battery cover and adjustable stand for securing a battery and for providing a stand for a battery-powered display device comprises stand legs which, in one configuration, provide a stand such that the display device has a viewing angle of appr... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5070497 | Transmission network with switchable network nodes A transmission network nodes, including electronically controlled distributors so that, in the case of a failure of a path, a substitute path can be switched in very rapidly. Switching orders sent to the nodes from a controller include an unambiguous desi... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5069733 | Method of manufacturing the luminescent screen of a display device A method of manufacturing luminescent screens (2) for, e.g., color picture tubes is described. It uses a printing apparatus with heated printing blocks (3) and tampons (4). The printing inks (D) consist of a mixture of a hot-melt adhesive and the respecti... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5062572 | Spray shield For use with agricultural sprayers, a unique spray shield is disclosed. The shields are mounted in pairs along the wet spray boom fore and aft in approximately the same plane, thereby shielding the nozzles of the sprayer. The shields are elongate and each... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5062107 | Synchronizing circuit for reducing waiting-time jitter in a demultiplexer There are time-division multiplex communication systems in which digital signals which are asynchronous with the pulse frame and consist of successive blocks whose beginnings are marked with sync words are inserted into the pulse frame. The resulting jitt... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5060239 | Transfer strobe time delay selector and method for performing same A transfer strobe delay stage selector insures accurate transfer of data from high speed circuitry to low speed circuitry through use of a delay stage module comprising a plurality of delay stages, and an associated multiplexor for selecting one of the de... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5060229 | Serial transport frame format method A serial transport frame format is described which transfers data between two locations. The serial transport frame format comprises a fixed number of channels per frame, each channel having a predetermined size. One channel per frame contains frame synch... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5059918 | Procedure and apparatus for amplification of a burst signal A controllable amplifier, which has two symmetrical outputs, at which two output signals mirror-symmetrical with respect to each other are present, is used for amplification of a burst signal. To achieve the largest possible eye opening of the signals to ... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058106 | Flywheel circuit A system that provides a signal in an assigned time slot of a multi-time slot repetitive frame, the assigned time slot being determined by input data that changes only on occasion, includes a flywheel circuit for reducing the chance that intermittent erro... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5039196 | Optical fiber cable pulling eye A pulling eye assembly for optical fiber cables is formed of a housing having a gripping device for gripping the multiple strength members. The first embodiment uses longitudinally extending cavities which communicate with radially directed threaded set-s... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5039887 | Circuit arrangement for controlling the level of electrical signals For controlling the level of electrical signals a circuit arrangement is formed with two series connected amplifiers. A first amplifier containing a first variable resistor, operates at maximum amplification when a low input signal level is received. A se... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5040095 | Thermally controlled equipment cabinet A thermally controlled equipment cabinet for telephone systems has a gas-tight, sealed compartment for mounting sensitive active electronic components and has jacket 20 partially encompassing at least three sides of the sealed compartment. The sealed comp... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5037167 | Electrical and fiber optic cable control and management In order to protect electrical and fiber optic cables in a central telephone office terminal equipment frame, the cables are controlled and managed so as to be releasably retained in a service loop within a fiber management panel. The releasable retention... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5038373 | Process for determining whether a subscriber is the calling or the called party A process is disclosed for the transmission of data between subscribers of a public dial telephone system in which at least a telephone, a data modem having a tone transmitter and a tone receiver, and a data device are connected to the dial telephone syst... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5033067 | Variable shift register A variable length shift register is formed of a plurality of flip-flops arranged to form separate shift registers of different lengths. The shift registers are interconnected by multiplexers which connect either the input or the output of each shift regis... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5033044 | System for aligning transmission facility framing bits to the sonet H4 multiframe indicator byte A system for aligning framing bits from independent digital transmission facilities with framing of a higher transmission rate facility includes a RAM memory. Received framing bits from the independent digital transmission facilities are stored at RAM loc... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5031984 | Optical fiber electro-optical module An electro-optical module has at least threee ports, with at least one port having an active electro-optical device for connection to electrical circuitry and at least one port having an optical port for connection to an optical fiber link. A passive coup... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5031094 | Switch controller A switch controller for a dynamic switch responds to command from a using system to provide control signals to the dynamic switch which causes the switch to establish and breakdown paths between sources and destinations in the using system. The controller... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5030955 | Remote control transmitter A remote control transmitter includes a function selector device (17) for outputting selection signals in dependence on a function selected by operating the device. A function is selected by tilting the function selector device which includes optically fu... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5029974 | Unitube optical fiber cable The optical fiber cable has a plurality of centrally located optical fibers. Carrying the optical fibers is a gel-filled plastic buffer tube. A plurality of radial strength yarn threads extended along the outside of the buffer tube in a contra-helical pat... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5029623 | Process for filling a liquid crystal cell After it has been evacuated, a liquid crystal cell whose filling hole is located at a corner of the cell is immersed into a liquid crystal material inside a vacuum jar and immediately raised again, whereby a drop of liquid crystal material forms at the fi... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5031129 | Parallel pseudo-random generator for emulating a serial pseudo-random generator and method for carrying out same A parallel pseudo-random generator emulates a serial pseudo-random generator which in turn is defined by a polynomial of the type 1+xM + . . . +xP ; that is, wherein the serial outputs are generated such that the next serial output v... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5027349 | Embedded control technique for distributed control systems A control method and apparatus for an electronic system having a plurality of functional elements, both intelligent and non-intelligent, interconnected by a plurality of time-division multiplexed serial data links, wherein information is normally conveyed... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5027097 | Saddle-coil arrangement for a cathode ray tube and a coil carrier for such an arrangement A coil-carrier half (11) for a saddle-coil arrangement for a cathode ray tube accomodates a saddle-coil winding, in a front groove (13), a rear groove (14), left slots (18.11-18.51) and right slots. Prolongation of the left slots in comparison with the ri... | 06/25/1991 |
| 5021755 | N-way signal splitter with isolated outputs An n-way signal splitter having isolated outputs with a printed circuit board geometry providing the necessary crossovers with impedance lines, running under and orthogonal to resistive components, fabricated in microstrip on one side of the board, with a... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5020052 | Packet switching network Packet switching network with first and second cascaded parts, including first and second switching modules respectively. In the second switching modules, the path selection is controlled by routing information contained in the packets. In the first switc... | 05/28/1991 |
| 5018132 | SONET 4h byte receiver and filter A filtering algorithm for the SONET H4 byte is implemented with circuitry including an internal H4 counter which is incremented each frame and is locked to a received H4 byte once every 24 frames if a proper bit sequence is detected in a designated frame.... | 05/21/1991 |
| 5013125 | Pulling eye assembly for connectorized optical fiber cables A pulling assembly for connectorized optical fiber cables is formed of a flexible metal braided hose portion for conveying a pulling force to said cable and for providing a chamber in which the cable connectors may be housed during a cable pulling operati... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5014268 | Parallel time slot interchanger matrix and switch block module for use therewith A parallel time slot interchanger, particularly for use in telecommunication switching, comprises a plurality of switch groups, with each switch group containing a second plurality of channels. The parallel time slot interchanger incroporated a matrix-typ... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5008524 | Optical receiver with extended dynamic range To extend the dynamic range of an optical receiver with a transimpedance amplifier (TIV), it is known to operate the photodiode (PD) as an AC source at high light levels by using a DC-limiting element in the DC circuit of the photodiode, and to convert, b... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5006951 | Lock handle for printed wiring board assemblies and the like A locking handle assembly used in combination with printed wiring boards and the like has camming portions which cooperate with a rod on the housing for the boards to act as a lever thereby positively seating and unseating its associated board within the ... | 04/09/1991 |
| 5001708 | Sonet H4 byte generator An H4 byte generating algorithm is implemented by circuitry which includes counters for generating the H4 byte. The circuit is provisioned to indicate whether it is operating in a terminal multiplexer mode or an add-drop multiplexer mode. In the terminal ... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4996429 | Pocket measuring instrument for measuring ionizing radiation An instrument for measuring ionization radiation acting upon a person is mounted in a housing which can be carried in the pocket of a garment, the housing includes a forwardly projecting portion having a radiation detector mounted in the forwardmost porti... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4993019 | Line unit interface circuit A line unit interface circuit used on line units in a line shelf of a digital loop carrier provides all of the logic necessary to access two subscriber lines to a line unit interface bus connected to common equipment within the line shelf. Information rec... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4991173 | Apparatus and method for mapping of PCM signaling at signaling rate conversion boundaries In pulse code modulation communications systems where network links, using A, AB and ABCD signaling systems having different sized bit patterns and signaling rates for signaling operations, are interfaced, apparatus is provided to control the mapping of s... | 02/05/1991 |
