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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 |
| 8007982 | Optical information recording medium An optical information recording medium, which is made of a resin provided with photoreactivity containing organometal compound, has a recording layer on which, after a photoreaction are brought about when predetermined initialization light is irradiated to the medi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7674568 | Solvent compositions and process for manufacturing an optical recording medium using said composition and optical recording medium The present invention relates to a new solvent composition useful in the process of manufacturing an optical recording medium. The invention provides a new liquid composition comprising from 0.1 to 20% by weight of a dye having a solid state absorption band maximum ... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7651832 | Optical information recording medium, recording/reproducing method, and recording/reproducing device The subject invention achieves further improvement in recording density for an optical information recording medium using a medium super-resolution effect with a super-resolution film, by reduction of the effective spot diameter in a further effective way. According... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7611823 | Photosensitive polymeric material for WORM optical data storage with two-photon fluorescent readout Image formation via photoinduced fluorescence changes in a polymeric medium with two-photon fluorescence readout of a multi-layer structure. Fluorophore-containing polymers, possessing one or more basic functional groups, underwent protonation in the presence of a p... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7598018 | Photosensitive polymeric material for worm optical data storage with two-photon fluorescent readout Image formation via photoinduced fluorescence changes in a polymeric medium with two-photon fluorescence readout of a multi-layer structure. Fluorophore-containing polymers, possessing one or more basic functional groups, underwent protonation in the presence of a p... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7427432 | Optical recording medium A dual-layer optical recording medium, which is formed by adhering a disk substrate (inverted-stack structure) formed by stacking a reflective layer (1) and a recording layer (1) on a substrate (1) and a disk substrate (conventional-stack struct... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7384677 | Metal alloys for the reflective or semi-reflective layer of an optical storage medium A silver-based alloy thin film is provided for the highly reflective or the semi-reflective layer of optical discs. Alloy additions to silver include magnesium, gold, rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, platinum, palladium, copper, silicon, cadmium, tin, lithium, nickel, co... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378219 | Optical information carrier comprising immobilized proteorhodopsin The present invention relates to materials comprising hydrophilic polymers and immobilized proteorhodopsin and the use of such materials as an optical information carrier. The material comprises one or more hydrophilic polymers that are capable to form a homogeneous... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7374804 | Method for rendering surface layer of limited play disk lightfast An optically readable media (10) has an information-encoding layer (16) and at least one color-forming layer (12) that embodies an optical readout-limiting mechanism. In a first embodiment the at least one color-forming layer contains an additiv... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371449 | Optical recording medium In an optical recording medium having two recording layers of a first recording layer and a second recording layer, the second recording layer contains metallized azo dyes represented by the following general formula (I) or (II), and recording characteristics of the... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364780 | Thermally-sensitive medium with Fabry-Perot cavities A medium includes a plurality of Fabry-Perot cavities of varying depths. The cavities correspond to different colors which are produced by the respective cavities under incident light. A thermo-sensitive material covers the plurality of cavities. The cavities are se... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7351460 | Information recording medium, information recording device, and information recording method An information recording medium includes an insulating member, first and second electrodes formed in one plane of the insulating member, and a conductive layer having an electrochromic material providing continuity with the first and second electrodes. A gap between... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348125 | Optical information recording medium and novel immonium compound Disclosed is an optical information recording medium comprising a substrate having provided thereon a recording layer capable of recording information by laser beam irradiation, wherein the recording layer contains at least one compound represented by the following ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7328447 | Optical recording medium manufacturing device, method, optical recording medium, reproduction device, method, recording device, and method An optical recording medium having a plural number of recording layers includes a n-th recording layer (23) (n≧1), made up by a substrate (20) and a semi-reflective layer (21) carried by the substrate (20) and adapted for partially refl... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316836 | Optical recording medium An optical recording medium comprises a transmission substrate and a recording layer formed on the transmission substrate, the recording layer containing at least a dye material expressed by a general formula shown at the following chemical formula (in the chemical ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7270864 | Optical information recording medium For improving the jitter property and ensuring the high reliability of an optical disk, a metal film containing phosphorus is disposed in a reflective layer. The layer has a hardness of 60 mgf/μm2 or more as nano indentation hardness, and an adhesive lay... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270943 | Compositions, systems, and methods for imaging Imaging layers, image recording media, and methods of preparation of each, are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment of the imaging layer, among others, includes a matrix; a radiation absorbing compound dissolved in the matrix; an aromatic compound dissolved in the ma... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7249847 | Eyeglass manufacturing method using variable index layer An eyeglass lens and manufacturing method using epoxy aberrator includes two lenses with a variable index material, such as epoxy, sandwiched in between. The epoxy is then cured to different indexes of refraction that provide precise corrections for the patient's wa... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7244486 | Optical recording medium and optical recording method An organic dye type optical recording medium capable of recording or reading information by a blue laser having a shorter wavelength, is provided. An optical recording medium comprising a substrate and a recording layer capable of recording or reading informa... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7238461 | Optical information-recording medium, novel oxonol compound and method of recording information An optical information-recording medium which contains a dye having at least two chromophores bonded to each other without any conjugated bond intervening between those chromophores. ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7238460 | Optical recording medium, production method thereof and method of using same Disclosed is an optical recording medium, comprising a polymer alloy forming a phase-separated domain structure of a coating object, and a volatile substance interacting with the polymer alloy. The volatile substance in a vapor state is deposited on the surface of s... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7226719 | Limited play data storage media and coating formulations thereon The present invention provides a formulation for a reactive dye layer for a limited-play optical storage medium, the reactive formulation including at least one carrier material or curable acrylate monomer, at least one reactive material disposed within the carrier ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226720 | Limited play data storage media and method for limiting access to data thereon A limited play optical storage medium for data is described which comprises a first substrate, a reflective layer, a data layer disposed between said substrate and said reflective layer; a reactive layer comprising at least one carrier, and at least one reactive mat... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223520 | Limited play optical media device with barrier layers The present disclosure relates to a limited play optical storage media and a method for limiting access to data thereon. This storage media includes a first substrate; a reflective layer; a data storage layer disposed between said first substrate and said reflective... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223521 | Squarylium-metal chelate compounds and optical recording media Squarylium-metal chelate compounds as recording materials for optical recording media, and optical recording media using these compounds, which have excellent recording properties, light resistance and storage stability. The squarylium-metal chelate compound is repr... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7214451 | Rewriteable optical recording material having good solubility Polymeric material suitable for the preparation of optical recording media for volume data storage is disclosed. The molecular structure of the material contains a main chain derived from any of poly(meth)acrylate, poly(meth)acrylamide, polysiloxane, polyurea, polyu... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7205039 | Optical information recording medium, information recording method, and dye compound An optical information recording medium whose recording layer includes a phthalocyanine derivative having a substituent of the following formula (I): (in the formula (I), R1, R2 and R3 ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202292 | Colored polymeric resin composition with 1,8-diaminoanthraquinone derivative, article made therefrom, and method for making the same In one embodiment, a colored polymeric resin composition, comprises: a polymeric resin; and a 1,8-diaminoanthraquinone derivative having a purity of greater than or equal to about 90 wt % and having a Formula (VIII): | 04/10/2007 |
| 7183004 | Coating composition and resin product having light transmitting property A coating composition having a high adhesion which is capable of forming a cured film on a resin substrate by using one liquid. There is further provided a coating composition which is capable of obtaining a cured film having favorable dyability which is effective t... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7169454 | Multi-stack optical data storage medium and use of such medium A description is given of a multi-stack optical data storage medium (20) for rewritable recording using a focused radiation beam (30) entering through an entrance face (16) of the medium (20) during recording. The medium (20) has a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7166415 | Phase-change recording material used for information recording medium and information recording medium employing it A phase-change recording material used for an information recording medium utilizing a crystalline state as a non-recorded state and an amorphous state as a recorded state, which has the composition of the following formula (1) as the main component: (Sb | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153558 | Optical information medium and production method therefor The present invention provides an optical information medium that is less susceptible to warp in the disk surface while offering significantly high scratch resistance and abrasion resistance, and a method for producing the optical information medium. An optical info... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151626 | Reflective organic layers The present invention pertains to organic reflective layers comprising an organic radical cation compound, wherein the layer reflects in the infrared region. Preferably, the organic radical cation compound is a salt of an aminium radical cation. Also provided are ma... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144662 | Photoresist composition having a high heat resistance The present invention relates to a photoresist composition having high heat resistance used in the production process of an LCD, and more particularly, to a photoresist composition having high heat resistance, capable of decreasing process tact (a way), of process s... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7135256 | Method of increasing the shelf life of a photomask substrate In photomask making, the environmental sensitivity of a chemically amplified photoresist is eliminated, or at least substantially reduced, by overcoating the photoresist with a thin coating (topcoat) of a protective but transmissive material. To provide improved sta... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7125594 | Write-once optical recording medium A write-once optical recording medium has a transparent resin substrate having a concentric groove or a spiral groove and having recessed cells defining recording regions that are arranged in the groove, a recording film comprising an organic dye formed to fill the ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7125644 | Systems and methods for storing data on an optical disk Optical disks include machine readable data that is written with dye that is invisible to the naked eye and a laser-imagable coating that forms marks that are visible to the naked eye. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7094516 | Benzobisazole compound and optical recording medium containing the compound An optical recording medium having an organic dye layer as a recording layer on a substrate, wherein at least one benzobisazole-based compound represented by a general formula (1) is contained in the recording layer: | 08/22/2006 |
| 7094457 | Compounds for recording media and high-density optical recording media thereof A compound used as storage medium of high-density optical disc is disclosed, which has structure represented as following formula: wherein each A1, A2, A3, and A4 independent... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7087283 | Optical storage media and fabrication method thereof An optical storage medium having a three-dimensional data pattern, and fabrication method thereof. The optical storage medium includes a substrate and a plurality of recording layers, each constituting a fluorescent oligomer. Due to the high quantum yield and high s... | 08/08/2006 |
