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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 |
| 8346384 | Cutting machine, control unit and recording medium A cutting machine of the present invention for cutting a material to be cut, which is placed on a table, with a rotating saw blade, includes an imaging device, a determination device and a stopping device. The imaging device takes a video image of an area on the tab... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8346385 | Early-warning apparatus for health detection of servo motor and method for operating the same An early-warning apparatus for health detection of a servo motor and a method for operating the same are applied to estimate vibration phenomenon of a CNC tool machine. First, a vibration signal is produced through a vibration detecting unit. Afterward, the vibratio... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8244395 | Method for managing an active safety for an automatically operating machine This invention relates to a method for managing active safety for an automatically operating machine comprising a work surface and a work tool displaced according to a pre-established work program. The method consists of dividing (100) the work surface into s... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8200360 | Machining parameter optimizing apparatus, method for optimizing machining parameter and program therefor It is an object of the present invention to provide a machining parameter optimizing apparatus deciding a tool axis attitude and a machining zone and deciding a tooling having high stiffness for any profile of a finished workpiece. A tool axis attitude deciding memb... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8190286 | Machine tool monitoring device A machine tool monitoring device of a machine tool for machining a work piece, includes a signal unit (24) provided for an ultra-broad-band operation. The signal unit (24) processes a signal (32, 34), which has a sequence (46) of pulses (... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8078308 | Method for managing an active safety for an automatically operating machine This invention relates to a method for managing active safety for an automatically operating machine comprising a work surface and a work tool displaced according to a pre-established work program. The method consists of dividing (100) the work surface into s... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8024060 | Method for defining safe zones in laser machining systems A method for defining machine cutting path safety zones for use in laser machining devices. The method includes indentifying safety zone positional coordinates in a computer aided design model, using a machine vision system to image the modeled physical machining de... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019460 | Numerical controller of machine tool A numerical controller having a function-generating unit which executes function generation for shaft movement according to a machining program is provided, the numerical controller further comprising a unit which stores shape data of the movable unit and shape data... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7991503 | Detection systems for power equipment Improved methods to detect when a human body contacts a predetermined portion of a machine are disclosed. The methods distinguish contact with a person from contact with other materials. The methods are particularly applicable in woodworking equipment such as table ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7904195 | Method for prognostic maintenance in semiconductor manufacturing equipments A method for prognostic maintenance in semiconductor manufacturing equipments is disclosed. The said method comprising: collecting a plurality of raw data from the default detection and classification system for equipments, preprocessing the raw data, using the neur... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7653456 | Method and system for monitoring apparatus There is provided with a monitoring method of monitoring plural apparatuses each having a sensor, including: selecting two or more sample apparatuses out of the plural apparatuses; calculating averages and standard deviations of se... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7561940 | Method for predictive maintenance of a cutting unit of an automatic machine A method for predictive maintenance of a cutting unit of an automatic machine; the method determining, with a given frequency, the value of a characteristic quantity of the cutting unit related to contact between a cutting member and a counter-member; determining a ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7536238 | Detection systems for power equipment Improved methods to detect when a human body contacts a predetermined portion of a machine are disclosed. The methods distinguish contact with a person from contact with other materials. The methods are particularly applicable in woodworking equipment such as table ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7337038 | Method of determining compatibility of tool and worksheet in a sheet fabrication machine and system therefor To determine whether a tool may be used successfully to fabricate a worksheet in a sheet fabrication machine, data relating to all tools that may be used for the machine as provided by the manufacturers of those tools are stored in a tool database. Dimensional data ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333912 | Multiple sensor system An extension unit provided adjacent to an amp unit comprises a measurement data accumulation memory, a measurement data acquiring part for acquiring measurement data coming through a transmission line and accumulating it in the above memory, a data analyzing part fo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321175 | Low cost precision linear actuator and control system Embodiments of the present invention relate to a linear actuator in which the play and backlash in the linear motion of a stepper motor is reduced through the use of a torsion spring coupled to the stepper motor splined shaft. Also, embodiments of the invention incl... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7305321 | Multiple sensor system An extension unit provided adjacent to an amp unit comprises a measurement data accumulation memory, a measurement data acquiring part for acquiring measurement data coming through a transmission line and accumulating it in the above memory, a data analyzing part fo... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7289871 | Drilling apparatus The invention provides a drilling apparatus (1) having a base (2) from which a drilling arm is pivotally mounted. The drilling arm (3) has an inner arm (4) and an outer arm (5). The inner arm (4) has a first end (6) a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286895 | Safety device and method for determining an overtravel in a machine A safety device for a machine has a first machine part for carrying out a working movement towards a second machine part. It also has at least a first and a second optical barrier moving along with the first machine part during the working movement. The first optica... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272463 | Gouge and interference avoidance in surface contouring A method of determining a tool geometry and tool orientation for any prescribed path along a workpiece of a cutting tool is described. A parameter set is provided, where parameters of the parameter set include tool geometry and tool orientation relative to a surface... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7260446 | Temperature protection method for machine tool A method of protecting a rotating device, loaded by temperature of a machine tool with one temperature sensor on that device and a temperature bloc, comprising the steps of inputting specific parameters in the temperature bloc, estimating a value for the device temp... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254461 | Numerical controller having a function of learning control A numerical controller capable of checking a learning control execution interval for the entry of a command or signal that varies an operation pattern. The numerical controller reads machining programs in succession and sets a flag F to 1 until a learning control en... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254460 | Numerical control system, and method of establishing communication timing in numerical control system Performing communications between numerical control apparatus 1a and peripheral devices (composed of at least one of a servo amplifier 2a, a spindle amplifier 3a and a remote I/O unit 4a) by connecting a numeri... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245983 | Method and apparatus for correcting thermal displacement of machine tool A method corrects thermal displacement of a machine tool having a rotational spindle. The method includes detecting a rotation speed of the spindle. A thermal displacement amount of the spindle in the current cycle of execution of a program is estimated by using an ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242989 | Apparatus and method for batch property estimation A method and apparatus that generates an estimate of a property of a batch process uses a non-parametric model to generate a plurality of rate of reaction estimates associated with the batch process. Each rate of reaction estimate may correspond, for example, to a p... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239938 | Interference checking for a numerical control device The shapes of machine parts for which the possibility of interference exists are defined as rectangular parallelepipeds and it is judged whether or not there is interference between a first rectangular parallelepiped of a first machine part and a second rectangular ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236849 | Safety system for power equipment Apparatus and method is disclosed for providing a safety system for power equipment comprising a machine having a lower tool, an upper tool, and a safety controller. The lower tool is electrically isolated from the reversible upper tool. A safety controller is coupl... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233882 | Method and apparatus for monitoring process transitions A method for identifying modes and transitions during plant operation, wherein measured values of process variables are used to evaluate a current state of the process and its sections and subsections. An identified state of the plant is signaled and the plant is mo... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7218989 | Machine tool control apparatus The control section can determine, on the basis of a detection signal from a detection device, whether operation of an element corresponding to the detection device has completed. The display device can display step sequence data and a three-dimensional model of a m... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219040 | Method and system for model based control of heavy duty gas turbine A method and system of designing the operations and controls of a gas turbine, includes generating an operations model for the gas turbine including at least one objective function and defining operations and control constraints for the operations model of the gas t... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209799 | Predictive modeling of machining line variation A multistage machining process includes a plurality of stations. Workpiece feature quality is predicted based on decomposition of the machining process into sources of variation, reticulation of the machining process into machining stations and error models that acc... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7164965 | Numerical controller and servomotor control system A numerical controller and a servomotor control system, capable of axis control required in case of a communication failure in the control of servomotors driven by servo amplifiers connected to a plurality of serial buses. The numerical controller has a plurality of... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7149061 | Magnetic head with electro-lapping guide A thin-film includes an inductive element and a first and second magneto-resistive effect elements in which the first and second magneto-resistive effect elements are arranged in proximity to each other on a substrate, and one surface of the substrate perpendicular ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143647 | Analyzer unit for the measuring signal of a micromechanical sensor An analyzer unit for the measuring signal of a micromechanical sensor having an input/output characteristic which is represented as a characteristic curve includes means for analog-digital conversion of the measuring signal and transmission means for transmission of... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143007 | Equipment component monitoring and replacement management system A computer system for managing replacement components for equipment having a plurality of components, each component having a limited useful life, has a computer program module defining a duty profile comprising a plurality of usage cases for the equipment, each usa... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136740 | Machine tool control apparatus The invention aims to reduce an error occurring due to the mounting condition of an acceleration sensor. In the case of a two-axis sensor, an angle θ is calculated from outputs (x′, y′) that the acceleration sensor produces when known accelerations (x, y) are a... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127322 | Method and system for the electronic provision of services for machines via a data communication link Expert knowledge from machine manufacturers is applied quickly at any time to a machine via the Internet, by providing a main computer (host) for the production and provision of machine-related data and/or services and a machine-side working computer (client). The m... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117048 | Safety controller with safety response time monitoring A safety controller having a total worst case propagation delay, exceeding the required propagation delay required by a safety process, may be used to control the safety process by monitoring actual delays in signal processing in the safety controller and moving to ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117390 | Practical, redundant, failure-tolerant, self-reconfiguring embedded system architecture This invention relates to system architectures, specifically failure-tolerant and self-reconfiguring embedded system architectures. The invention provides both a method and architecture for redundancy. There can be redundancy in both software and hardware for multip... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110835 | Integration of graphic display elements, process modules and control modules in process plants Graphic displays, which display information about process elements and the manner in which these elements are connected within a process, process modules, which simulate the operation of the elements depicted within the graphic displays and control modules, which pe... | 09/19/2006 |
