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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 |
| 7774087 | Wire electrical discharge machine with deformation compensation ability A wire electrical discharge machine (WEDM) is disclosed, which comprises: a movable crane; a measure unit, mounted on the crane for measuring the deformation of the same; and a control unit, electrically connected to the measure unit and used for controlling the cra... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7751925 | System to manufacture custom orthodontic appliances, program product, and related methods A system to manufacture orthodontic appliances, program product, and associated methods are provided. An embodiment of a system can include a virtual orthodontic appliance design computer having orthodontic appliance design program product provided to design a virtu... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7596424 | Machining condition determining system and method for sinker electric discharge machining apparatus A method of determining machining condition for a sinker electric discharge machining apparatus in which a tool electrode is advanced along a z-axis to machine the workpiece, comprises the steps of: (a) producing a cavity model (D) as a solid model of part of the to... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7451012 | Fault electric arc protection circuits and method for detecting fault electric arc The present invention relates to an fault electric arc protection circuits which comprising a power source, a signal sampling device, a signal processing module, an arc detection control device and a power cut-off module. This invention also provides a method for de... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7428444 | Method for under-sizing electrodes for polygonal orbit electric discharge machining A system, method, and computer program for designing an electrode for electric discharge machining, comprising identifying a cavity in a three-dimensional design; calculating a direct negative boolean of said cavity to define a general form for an electrode; determi... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7383098 | Machine tool acceleration A method of controlling the movement of a processing head of a machine tool includes monitoring the position of the processing head along a first coordinate direction, monitoring the movement of the processing head along a second coordinate direction different from ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7322083 | Manufacturing system architecture for tools The specification and drawings present a new method and a system for organizing and structuring a tool room manufacturing facility for reducing lead time of manufacturing component tooling. Machine tools are grouped into work cells (also called machining lines) spec... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7301116 | Programmed electrode wear compensation device and method for 3D EDM scanning apparatus A programmed electrode wear compensation device and method for 3D EDM scanning apparatus has a compensation device which receives raw data about a working path of a working apparatus from a CAD/CAM device, calculates therefrom compensated data which take into accoun... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7281779 | Apparatus and method for measuring the length change of the feed spindle in an exposer for printing originals Measuring a feed spindle length change in a printing exposer, having at least one exposure head on a carrier moved axially along the drum in a feed direction by a stepping motor and the spindle, carries out the measurement by determining the number of stepping motor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7262382 | Process of forming conical holes with an electrical discharge machining system An electrical discharge machine is configured to (i) machine at least a portion of a workpiece through electrical discharge between the workpiece and a first machining electrode aligned by the electrode guide; (ii) generate a dressed machining electrode by engaging ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262381 | Controller for wire electric discharge machine A controller for a wire cut electric discharge machine which can provide stable finish machining and corner-region machining with high corner-form accuracy. An electric discharge gap detection device detects a voltage between a wire electrode and a workpiece. A mach... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259347 | Electric discharge machine that calculates and displays the machining time A change in machining volume is calculated using a shape of the electrode and a shape of the workpiece expressed by three-dimensional models and machining condition data and the machining time is calculated according to actual machining status based on the calculate... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248941 | Automatic programming method and device An automatic programming method includes a first processing including detecting a turning surface having a largest diameter in the product model, and determining a central axis of rotation on the turning surface detected as a turning axis of the product model; a sec... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7243000 | Method and apparatus for automatically dividing machining process in automatic programming apparatus An automatic programming apparatus includes a process division control section, which automatically divides a machining process executed to obtain a predetermined product shape from a material shape of a workpiece. The process division control section computes a rem... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7202438 | Electrical discharge machining apparatus An electric-discharge machining apparatus for machining a workpiece by an electric discharge generated between a machining electrode and the workpiece, includes a correcting unit that corrects a machining amount input for machining the workpiece, based on a usage hi... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7175752 | Method and apparatus for electrochemical machining An electrochemical machining apparatus and method for machining a workpiece. The apparatus provides a pulse of electric power, which is conducted from the workpiece, to an electrolyte flowing through a gap, and then to an electrode. Material is eroded from the workp... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7159152 | System with a monitoring device that monitors the proper functioning of the system, and method of operating such a system A system and a method are distinguished by the fact that, if it is determined that the system is not operating properly, a control device is stopped and it is ensured that the control device, when operation is continued, begins with the execution of the operation wh... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7136708 | Control system, control apparatus, and control method for microscope stage A control system of a stage of a microscope includes: a stage transfer unit for transferring the stage for loading a sample perpendicular to an optical axis of the microscope; a transfer command acquisition unit for obtaining command information for a transfer of th... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7130713 | Used wire cutting device for wire cut electric discharge machine A used wire cutting device for wire cut electric discharge machine which appropriately determines the time to replace a movable blade and a fixed blade of a cutting mechanism on the basis of not only time but also the degree of wear of each blade. The device include... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127323 | Automatic programming method and device An automatic programming method includes a first processing including detecting a turning surface having a largest diameter in the product model, and determining a central axis of rotation on the turning surface detected as a turning axis of the product model; a sec... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7090145 | Liquid cooled fuel injection valve and method of operating a liquid cooled fuel injection valve A liquid cooled fuel injection valve is operable to inject fuel directly into a combustion chamber through a nozzle orifice provided in an injector tip. The fuel injection valve further comprises a cooling system for draining fuel from a fuel cavity disposed within ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7076333 | Releasable, repeatable electrical connection employing compression An electrical connection of a transfer station releasably, repeatably electrically couples with respect to a matching connection of a portable cartridge. A substrate in the portable cartridge has electrical contacts on a facing surface. In the transfer station, a ma... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7058465 | Method of preparing estimate for sheet metal working A method is provided for preparing an estimate for sheet metal working. Data of bending lines and data of an associated processing time for the bending lines is stored. Data of holes and data of an associated processing time for the holes is stored. A three-dimensio... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054712 | Wire contact/noncontact boundary position detecting apparatus of wire cut discharge machine Supply of a wire electrode, application of a detection voltage, and binarization and sampling of the detection voltage are started, so as to start advance of the wire electrode from the position A toward a workpiece. The position of the wire electrode when a samplin... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7039490 | Controller for wire electric discharge machine A controller for a wire electric discharge machine which can achieve stable machining with high surface accuracy without requiring adjustment of a gain or the like in wire-electrode feed control. A discharge gap detection unit detects a voltage between a wire electr... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7038158 | Wire electrical discharge machining apparatus A wire cutting electric discharge machine has a high frequency voltage applying unit that applies a high frequency voltage and a direct current voltage applying unit applies a direct current voltage to the gap between the wire electrode and the workpiece. A detectin... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7019246 | Controller for wire electric discharge machine A discharge pulse number generated between a wire electrode and a workpiece is counted every predetermined time. A ratio Px/Ps of this counted value Px to the reference pulse number Ps will be determined to control an amount of coolant in response to this ratio Px/P... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013195 | Wire electric discharge machining apparatus In a wire electric discharge machining apparatus, data on the number of machining shapes and the machining frequency of each of the machining shapes are acquired by analyzing the machining program and acquiring data on the machining starting positions, and those dat... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7002093 | Manual feed device in wire electric discharge machine A manual feeding device in a wire electric discharge machine in which selection between a jog feed and a step feed is made automatically without mode change. When an axis motion key is pressed, a timer measures the time for which the key is pressed. When the key is ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998562 | Controller for a wire electrical discharge machine Set feed speed is lowered when a short circuit is detected in a range within which machining is unstable, the range starting from the point at which discharge is detected after machining starts from a machining start point, thus control is carried our according to a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998561 | Wire electric discharge machine A wire electric discharge machine capable of preventing a straightness error from being caused by consumption of a wire electrode, to eliminate insufficient machining. A correction angle φ is predetermined for preventing the straightness error of the workpiece due ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999841 | Control system of a numerical tool machine with a reusable software structure A control system of a numerically controlled machine tool with a software structure, the control system including a program code of a control program specific to a machine tool and a framework that is independent of an application, wherein the framework is implement... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6980879 | Controller for wire electric discharge machine A discharge pulse number generated between a wire electrode and a workpiece is counted every predetermined time. A ratio Px/Ps of this counted value Px to the reference pulse number Ps will be determined to control an amount of coolant in response to this ratio Px/P... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973406 | Apparatus and method for electrical testing of electrical circuits Apparatus for electrical testing of electrical circuits includes an array of probes arranged for selective engagement with portions of electrical circuits to be tested, testing circuitry associated with the array of probes for sensing electrical characteristics of t... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972389 | Method and apparatus for preparing program for die machining When die machining including machining processes from a rough machining process to a finish machining process is carried out on the same workpiece along a closed machining path, each of the points equally dividing a length of the closed machining path by the repetit... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6941187 | Multiple discharge-servo curve control method and device for an electrical discharge machine A discharge-servo curve control method and device for an electrical discharge machine enables multiple discharge-servo curves to be chosen during a machining process in real-time. The control device includes a storage unit, a setting unit, a reading unit, a program ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6930461 | Device and method for controlling a machine tool A device and a method are provided for controlling a machine tool, at least one arbitrarily organized database having supplementary data being used for workpiece machining. During the execution of a machining program using a processing unit, the database commands ar... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6924453 | Machining control method for wire-cut electric discharge machine The number of electric discharge pulses is detected every given period. A deviation between the detected number and a target number of electric discharge pulses is obtained. Based on the obtained deviation, a correction value for the correction of a machining path i... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6920370 | Method and device for disturbance sensing, especially collision sensing, in the drive system of a numerically controlled machine tool A method and device for disturbance sensing in the drive system of a numerically controlled machine tool or similar device is disclosed, in which at least one drive motor for positioning of a machine part being moved such as an advance slide or an X/Y cross-slide is... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917840 | Method of ascertaining control parameters for a control system A method of ascertaining control parameters for a control system having a controller and a plant includes establishing a model of the plant and a model of the controller and calculating a performance index for a closed-loop system as a function of controller paramet... | 07/12/2005 |
