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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 |
| 8040758 | Golf watch having heart rate monitoring for improved golf game A wrist-worn apparatus for monitoring a user's performance while playing golf includes a user input, a processor, a heart rate monitor, a timer, a user input, a display, a processor and a memory for storing a plurality of inputted golf parameters that pertain to a r... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8018796 | Bookmark with integrated electronic timer and method therefor According to an example embodiment, an electronic bookmark includes a header and an electronic timer disposed within the header of the electronic bookmark. The electronic bookmark further includes a display disposed on a first surface of the header. The display of t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7948830 | Electronic device and display control method In an electronic device that includes a first display unit (28) and a second display unit (29) that differs from the first display unit (28) in at least a type, a driving method to perform a display control, and a mode of driving to perform the ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7948831 | Smart shower, a motion activated shower timer and alarm with diversion related soundbytes for entertaining or informing used to conserve energy and water A sound device with a motion detector. The device is used to provide a diversion while user occupies the shower, at the same time keeping track of time and alarming the occupant when time has elapsed. For example: A minute after entering the shower, the timer automa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7869308 | Dive watch The invention concerns a mechanical or electromechanical dive watch including hour (4) and minute (6) hands, a pressure sensor (42), a depth indicator hand (14) and a depth variation indicator hand (22), the depth indicator hand ( | 01/11/2011 |
| 7778115 | Depth measuring device for watches, and watches incorporating such a measuring device The depth measuring device for a diving watch with a chronograph mechanism, includes a plunger moved by external pressure through a rolling membrane against the action of a return element. The plunger acts on cams belonging to a circular slide mounted in a casing ri... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7746729 | Electronic device with working mode switching function and method of switching working mode A method of switching working modes, the method includes: supplying a storage unit, therein the storage unit stores at least two working modes, alarm information, and alarm time, the alarm information includes indicating information and determining information; dete... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7633836 | Method and apparatus for controlling alarm function of mobile device with inertial sensor Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for controlling an alarm function of a mobile device with an inertial sensor. In one example of the method, after an initial threshold value is established, an alarm occurrence is generated at a predefined hour. If the alarm o... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7623415 | Electronic device with analogue display of the history of at least one quantity measured by a sensor There is disclosed a portable electronic device (1), particularly of the wristwatch type, comprising at least first and second analogue display members, a sensor (23, 52) powered to take measurements of a surrounding physical magnitude and a memory zon... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7466633 | Electronic watch with indication of the direction of a pre-programmed geographical place The electronic watch (1) indicates the time using two hands (2, 3). This electronic watch includes an electronic compass (10), a processing unit (13) with a microcontroller (15) for calculating the direction of North on the basis o... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7414921 | Portable electronic device with radiofrequency signal receiver and method for determining the position of the same The portable electronic device, preferably a wristwatch, includes a radiofrequency signal receiver for receiving, in particular, GPS signals via an antenna, a magnetic compass, a microprocessor data processing unit for processing data provided by the receiver and th... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411869 | Wireless synchronous time system A method of synchronizing an event system. The method includes receiving a first signal at a primary device, where the first signal includes a time component, and processing the first signal to produce a second signal, where the second signal includes the time compo... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7382691 | Multifunction watch system and method A multifunction watch provides plural worlds, each world supporting one or more modes of operation within the world. Separate configurations can be maintained for each world and separate navigation menus can be provided for each world. Modes of operation may be conf... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369462 | Wireless synchronous time system with solar powered transceiver A primary device for a synchronous event system. In one construction, the primary device includes a solar panel operable to convert light into electricity; a receiver operable to receive a global positioning system time signal; a processor coupled to the receiver an... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362662 | Color timepiece A timepiece includes a display face having a color time field with a first axis representing a first unit of time and a second axis representing a second unit of time, wherein a colored section fills the color time field as time elapses and wherein a current color d... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352339 | Diffuse illumination systems and methods The systems and methods disclosed herein relate to sources of diffuse illumination for providing substantially uniform illumination to a surface. The diffuse illumination arises from varying the diffusion angle of light generated by an LED system. To vary the diffus... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345956 | Portable electronic device with analog display rate of climb indicator A portable electronic device (1) is described, in particular of bracelet watch type, comprising at least first and second display members (8 and 9), means (23, 31) for making measurements of a physical magnitude related to the value of th... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341561 | Wrist-worn high-accuracy pulsation measuring apparatus A wrist-worn apparatus capable of sensing pulsation of blood in the blood tubes of a user's wrist with high accuracy. The apparatus comprises a body of the apparatus, a band to be used to wear the body of the apparatus on the user's wrist, and a fluid-containing pul... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7275859 | Display device for watch The invention concerns a display device for a watch movement comprising: a frame (110), an assembly of wheels pivotably mounted on the frame and wherein the angular position of a first (116) and a second (120) among them is based on the state of... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269100 | Electronic dive watch including a redundant instantaneous depth display The present invention proposes an electronic dive watch (10) including a water resistant case (12) containing a watch movement (15) on which there is mounted a dial (16) provided with at least one first and one second coaxial hand (18,... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264477 | Underwater drawing tablet An underwater writing and drawing tablet that stretches a length of waterproof (plastic) vellum between two rollers over a flat surface thereby enabling the user to easily draw or write on said vellum and permanently save the drawing and writing. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260025 | Bookmark with integrated electronic timer and method therefor A bookmark (12) uses an integrated electronic timer circuit (18) to track reading time. A flat substrate (14) marks the page of the book. A header (16) is integral with the substrate. The header has a cavity for housing the electronic tim... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242639 | Altimeter watch The invention concerns a method allowing an electronic watch to automatically exit an altimeter mode including the following steps: (a) entry into altimeter mode by activating the watch altimeter module; (b) using a pressure sensor of the watch to measure at least o... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236765 | Data communication over power lines A system for receiving and processing signals received from a plurality of endpoints. Each endpoint includes an endpoint transmitter in electrical communication with a power distribution line within a power distribution system. The system comprises a power line coup... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231060 | Systems and methods of generating control signals Separating a source in a stereo signal having a left channel and a right channel includes transforming the signal into a short-time transform domain; computing a short-time similarity measure between the left channel and the right channel; classifying portions of th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218216 | Referee's wireless horn indicator system Referee's wireless horn indicator system for aiding a referee in accurately officiating in a sports event. The system includes a controller and a sensory receiver. The controller includes the official time clock for the sports event, a control circuit coupled to the... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215601 | Wearable electronic device with multiple display functionality A wearable electronic device for conveying information in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display hand positioned on the dial side of a dial, wherein the wearable electronic device uses the display hand(s) to convey information that is s... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7180412 | Power line communication system having time server A system for bi-directional power distribution line communication. The system is configured for data communication with an endpoint transceiver located at a customer premise. The system comprises a time server in electrical communication with the transceiver, the ti... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171259 | Method and device for measuring heart rate, and method for manufacturing the device A heart rate measuring device is attached around a user's hand, the device having an inner surface, which is in contact with the skin on the hand to which it is attached, and an outer surface, which is other than the inner surface. The inner surface of the measuring... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170826 | Multifunctional watch There is provided a multifunction timepiece wherein the visibility of pointers can be improved, and increases in the thickness of the timepiece can be reduced. This timepiece includes a dial, an hour hand, a minute hand, a pointer, and a movement. The dial has a dia... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167689 | Crystal for a telephone watch The telephone watch includes a crystal (1) including a keyboard (2) formed in particular of a plurality of capacitive sensors (3) disposed under the crystal. This crystal includes a thick zone (4) at its center and a thinned zone (5 | 01/23/2007 |
| 7159469 | Portable electronic appliance including a pressure sensor In an electronic apparatus worn on the wrist such as a diver's wristwatch or an altimeter, a pressure sensor (10) is mounted from the exterior in a housing (11), located in one flank (9) of the case (2) of the apparatus and closed by a ca... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158449 | Electronic timepiece and electronic apparatus An electronic timepiece includes a radio wave receiving antenna (8) for receiving radio waves, electromagnetic motors (61, 65) for driving a time display part, a battery (5), and a body case for receiving the antenna (8), electromagnetic ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145438 | Endpoint event processing system An endpoint processor includes a processor block, a timer block, a memory block, and analog-to-digital converter. The timer block is arranged to provide a time based signal to the processor block. The memory block cooperates with the processor block. The analog-to-d... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7123549 | Watch including a pressure sensor The invention concerns a device for mounting a pressure sensor simply and precisely on the back cover (11) of a diver's watch or altimeter watch. The pressure sensor (31) is driven into an intermediate ring (33) forming part of a sensor module (... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113450 | Wearable electronic device with multiple display functionality A wearable electronic device for conveying information in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display hand positioned on the dial side of a dial, wherein the wearable electronic device uses the display hand(s) to convey information that is s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106660 | Sun dial and method for determining average sunlight A sun dial including a housing, a light detector mounted on the housing exposed to detect ambient light, a logic circuit mounted in the housing for processing the detected light for determining over a preselected period of time the average light detected by the ligh... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7080938 | Watch apparatus A watch apparatus includes a wristwatch that includes a watch housing with a face, a back side and a peripheral edge. A wristband is attached to the peripheral edge. A bezel is rotatably mounted to the watch housing and extends around the face. A motor is mounted on... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079452 | Time display system, method and device A time display device (“TDD”)—equally adaptable to watches, clocks, computers, phones, and vehicles—indicates the current hour of the day by displaying a color that refers an observer to the disclosed color-to-hour matrix, thereby eliminating the traditional... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072246 | Wearable electronic device with multiple ring indicia display A wearable electronic device for conveying information in an analog manner at least in part by the use of at least one display hand positioned on the dial side of a dial, and a rotatable ring positioned on the opposite side of the dial, wherein the wearable electron... | 07/04/2006 |
