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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 |
| 8077118 | Display apparatus and driving method thereof A display apparatus for displaying image information according to display data, including: display pixels, each having a light emitting element; and a drive circuit for making each of the light emitting elements emit a light having brightness according to the displa... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7742015 | Liquid crystal display device In order to prevent a gradation shift due to variations in the thickness of a film used to form an auxiliary capacitor, a detection capacitor having a layer structure similar to that of the auxiliary capacitor placed for each pixel is provided on an array substrate.... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7405523 | Remote control of lighting An electronic ballast system controls one or more ballasts of HID or fluorescent lamps, which are controlled in an “on/off” manner by a ultra low power controller that is isolated for a primary power circuit or derives its very low switch power from the ballast ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403198 | Driving circuit of liquid crystal display A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display is provided. The driving circuit comprises: a plurality of gate drivers for selectively driving a plurality of thin film transistors of the liquid crystal display; a plurality of source drivers for receiving an image sig... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7388560 | Power supply apparatus An LCD panel module includes a common boosting converter, an LCD boosting circuit, an LDO control circuit, and constant current circuits for parallel-connected LED elements and series-connected LED elements. The LCD panel module is so configured that a type-switchin... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7345683 | Driver circuit for driving display device, a display device having the same, and a method of driving the same A driver circuit for driving a display device, and the driver circuit includes a control section, a driving section and a switch. The control section provides an image signal and a first control signal in response to a power signal. The driving section receives the ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7286124 | Circuit arrangement for the AC power supply of a plasma display panel A circuit arrangement for commutating the AC voltage of a plasma display panel, in which the losses and electro-magnetic interference which occur as a result of the influence of parasitic resistances (coils, supply lines, semiconductor switches) and the attendant ha... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286110 | Liquid crystal display controller and liquid crystal display device In conventional liquid crystal display controllers such as for portable telephone sets, the display is reduced in the stand-by state but the liquid crystal display duty is not changed, i.e., even the common electrodes of the rows that are not producing display are s... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286108 | Display device, method of driving same and electronic device mounting same A liquid crystal panel (2) includes scanning signal lines (31) for supplying scanning signals to gate electrodes (20) of TFTs (14), and data signal lines (32) for supplying data signals to data electrodes (24) of TFTs. The l... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7265479 | Power supply apparatus, and image forming apparatus having the same In a power supply apparatus including a plurality of power supply circuits, each of the power supply circuits has a piezoelectric transformer, a rectification element which rectifies and smoothes a voltage output from the piezoelectric transformer in accordance with... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7256777 | LCD driver power saving during evaluation This invention provides a method and an apparatus for saving power dissipation during the testing and evaluation of liquid crystal display LCD panels. In addition, this invention provides a method and apparatus of the changing of the order of backplane and segment a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253569 | Open lamp detection in an EEFL backlight system A method according to one embodiment may include supplying power to plurality of External Electrode Fluorescent Lamps (EEFLs). The method of this embodiment may also include generating signals proportional to the voltage of each EEFL. The method of this embodiment m... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7176910 | Driving circuit for display device A driving circuit for driving a capacitive load promptly to a target voltage is to have a broad dynamic range and achieve a high accuracy output and saving in the surface area with low power dissipation. A first period and a second period are provided in one data dr... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173614 | Power supply circuit, display driver, and voltage supply method In the case of supplying voltage to a common electrode which faces a pixel electrode through electro-optical substance while changing the voltage from a first low-potential-side voltage to a first high-potential-side voltage, a second high-potential-side voltage, wh... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7166862 | Semiconductor integrated circuit In a monolithic active matrix circuit that uses offset-gate TFTs in which the gate electrode is offset from the source and drain regions or TFTs whose gate insulating film is formed by vapor deposition, not only an active matrix circuit but also a drive circuit ther... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7106284 | Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a signal conversion part (101), a drive pulse generation part (102), a source driver (103), a gate driver (1704), and a multiplexer part (1706). In addition, between the source driver (10... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7074509 | Hydrogen generators for fuel cells An electric power generator including a fuel cell, which includes a fuel cell anode and a fuel cell cathode separated by at least one proton exchange membrane and a hydrogen generator operative to provide molecular hydrogen to the fuel cell anode. The hydrogen gener... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7040536 | Electronic shelf label systems and methods An electronic shelf label including an LCD display, a housing including a protective at least partially transparent cover layer disposed over the LCD display and in spaced relationship thereto, and an at least partially transparent intermediate layer formed over the... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7030666 | Organic semiconductor inverting circuit An organic semiconductor inverting circuit includes at least three organic transistors, an output terminal (110, 210, 310, 410), a reference supply voltage input (115, 215, 315, 415), a first positive supply voltage input (120, 220, 320, 420), a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027044 | Power line arrangement for electroluminescence display devices An organic light emission display device with improved power supply line arrangement and method for forming the same is disclosed. The device has a cathode layer, an insulating layer covering at least one portion of the cathode layer, and a power supply plane formed... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7018129 | Enhanced guardrail A guardrail comprising a rail and an electronic display mounted on the rail. The display may be integrated with a bar code or RFID reader and a voice-recognition module. ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7019737 | Liquid crystal display device, portable electronic device and driving method thereof A display device which is provided with a liquid crystal display which uses reflective type liquid crystal with a memory effect. This display device is used, for example, as a sub display of a personal computer. The liquid crystal display keeps displaying an image a... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012578 | Light emission control device, backlight device, liquid crystal display apparatus, liquid crystal monitor and liquid crystal television The present invention provides a light emission control device that can drive a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent tubes independently only by connecting a plurality of piezoelectric transformers to only one piezoelectric inverter circuit. A first phase control p... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7008055 | Eye protection methods and apparatus An eye protection apparatus includes a selectively darkenable element, such as a liquid crystal panel, and a controller that causes transmission of a darken signal that causes the selectively darkenable element to darken in conjunction with an emission of light, suc... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6998770 | Organic electroluminescent device and fabricating method thereof An organic electroluminescent device includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines on the substrate, a plurality of data lines on the substrate, each of the plurality of data lines crossing the gate lines, a plurality of switching elements and driving elements int... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6970162 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus having a plurality of image forming devices. In an output circuit provided between constant voltage supplies and wiring for driving each of the image forming devices, MOSFETs are successively turned on from the one having a higher ON resis... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961054 | Driving circuit and display comprising the same A driving circuit capable of reducing current consumption is obtained. This driving circuit comprises an analog buffer circuit outputting a signal responsive to the potential of input data while supplying the data to a data line and a buffer control circuit for subs... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6950105 | Power consumption management in a video graphics accelerator A method and apparatus matches one or more clock speeds used in, or used by, a graphics accelerator so as to match graphics processing requirements to the speed of the clock source or sources. Clock speed is adjusted under software control to match current requireme... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6756958 | Liquid crystal display device In a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel for displaying a tone in correspondence with a potential difference between a drain voltage and a common voltage, a drain driver circuit for generating the drain voltage corresponding to display dat... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6661415 | Liquid crystal driver and optical head for tilt correction Tilt which is inclination of a normal of optical disk relative to optical axis of optical head is corrected with a liquid crystal element. In a driver for the liquid crystal element, a periodic waveform generator generates periodic waveform and an inverti... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6646251 | Separate type photoelectric switch A tolerance-level display portion 12 is provided in a casing 11 of a head 1 of a photoelectric switch. A light reception signal output from the head 1 is transmitted through a cable 31b of a main body 2. The casing 21 of the main body 2 contains a receive... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6639590 | Method for controlling liquid crystal display device, device for driving liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal display device, and electronic apparatus The present invention permits quick removal of charge stored in a liquid crystal layer, without depending upon characteristics of individual devices. This is achieved by providing a detector that detects the turning-off of a power supply, and a connection... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6597119 | Method for driving an electro-optical device, driving circuit for driving an electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal display device, includes a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of signal electrodes wherein the plurality of scanning electrodes intersect the plurality of signal electrodes, wherein the sca... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6559677 | Driving circuit for LCD A driving circuit includes a driving signal generating circuit which generates a plurality of driving signals; a plurality of switching circuits which are supplied with the driving signals so as to supply driving voltages in response to the driving signal... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6529257 | Active-matrix liquid-crystal display apparatus which prevents flicker and image sticking in main display area and sub display area Opposed electrodes are separately provided correspondingly to a main display area and a sub display area in an active-matrix liquid-crystal display apparatus. The most-appropriate voltages are applied to the opposed electrode corresponding to the main dis... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6501443 | Method of controlling liquid crystal lens in solar powered spectacles using light sensors In a pair of spectacles using liquid crystal lenses, an electrical circuit, for controlling the optical transmission of the liquid crystal lenses, controls the amplitude and/or duty cycle of the voltage driving the lens so as to operate the liquid crystal... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6426594 | Electro-optical device and method for driving the same Disclosed is a method of driving an electro-optical device, such as a liquid crystal display device, including a plurality of scanning electrodes and a plurality of signal electrodes which are formed such that the plurality of scanning electrodes intersec... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6344838 | Control device for a liquid crystal display cell The present invention concerns a control device (21) for a liquid crystal display cell (1) including electrodes (1.1a; 1.1b; 1.1c) forming segments and/or symbols. This device includes control means (33a; 33b; 33c) for providing control signals to said el... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6329969 | Integrated circuit for driving liquid crystal A liquid crystal driving integrated circuit (101) mounted directly on a liquid crystal substrate, wherein the integrated circuit (101) comprises a plurality of power supply terminal arrays, each of which include a high voltage power input terminal (102), ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6201517 | Stereoscopic image display apparatus A display apparatus displays an image based on image data and distance data concerning each pixel. The display apparatus has a detector, a display data generator. The detector detects a visual range from a viewer's eye to the viewer's point of regard. The... | 03/13/2001 |
