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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 |
| 7681963 | Braking system for a lift truck A braking system for a lift truck performs all service braking using truck traction drive motors. Mechanical, spring applied, electrically released brakes are coupled to wheels on opposite sides of the truck with the mechanical brakes applying unequal braking forces... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7416264 | Vehicle steering apparatus and vehicle steering method A wheel adjusting device can adjust separately the wheel angles of left and right wheels. A judgment portion which determines whether vehicle braking is to be permitted or not based on the driving state of the vehicle. A control portion controls the wheel adjusting ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7218014 | Wind energy system, as well as a method for operating such a wind energy system Systems and methods of the present invention are directed to wind energy. Wind rotors (1) drive at least two generators (2) which each have a corresponding rectifier unit (3). The rectifier unit (3) being an active rectifier having drivab... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7130735 | Roll over stability control for an automotive vehicle A stability control system (24) for an automotive vehicle as includes a plurality of sensors (28–37) sensing the dynamic conditions of the vehicle and a controller (26) that controls a distributed brake pressure to reduce a tire moment so the ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7096108 | Brake system with distributed electronic control units incorporating failsafe mode A brake system for a heavy vehicle includes a control network, a brake component, a central control unit, and a distributed electronic control unit. The central control unit generates central control signals adapted to control the brake component, which control sign... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091678 | Device and method for controlling prime mover When an angular acceleration α of a rotating shaft of a motor connected with a drive shaft exceeds a preset threshold value αslip, which suggests the occurrence of a skid, the torque control procedure sets a maximum torque Tmax by referring to a map, which gives a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7035726 | Steering characteristic control apparatus and method for a vehicle A steering characteristic control apparatus and method for a vehicle is disclosed which can carry out behavior control of the vehicle regarding a steering characteristic and so forth appropriately in accordance with the type of turning and the road surface situation... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027903 | Roll over stability control for an automotive vehicle A stability control system (24) for an automotive vehicle as includes a plurality of sensors (28–37) sensing the dynamic conditions of the vehicle and a controller (26) that controls a distributed brake pressure to reduce a tire moment so the ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6964460 | Brake controller and method for controlling a brake system A control system for controlling a brake system of a braked vehicle during a turn, the vehicle having four wheels. The control system is configured to selectively modify a brake pressure applied to each of the wheels by the brake system. The control system is config... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6866349 | Traction control system including individual slip threshold reduction of the drive wheel on the outside of the curve A vehicle traction control system having capabilities for braking intervention and coefficient of friction detection is provided, a slipping wheel being braked by braking intervention if a slip threshold is exceeded. In order to improve the lateral stability of the ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6859712 | Adaptive compensation method for an anti-lock brake control An improved anti-lock control method for a vehicle brake system identifies various factors that degrade the effectiveness of the brake system and adaptively adjusts a brake apply rate during anti-lock brake control to compensate for the identified degradation so tha... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6799092 | Rollover stability control for an automotive vehicle using rear wheel steering and brake control A stability control system (24) for an automotive vehicle includes a rollover sensor that may include one or more sensor to a various dynamic conditions of the vehicle and a controller to control a steering force to reduce a tire moment so the net moment of t... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6735510 | Dynamic side to side brake proportioning A dynamic side-to-side braking method is disclosed. First, when the vehicle is in a combined braking and cornering maneuver, a desired braking force among tires of a vehicle is determined. Second, a brake force distribution of the desired braking force among the tir... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6663196 | Device and method for controlling wheel slip A device for controlling the wheel slip, particularly for controlling the brake slip and/or the drive slip of individual wheels for a motor vehicle, by which a braking pressure applied to the vehicle wheels can be varied and/or set as a function of the mo... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6512973 | System and method for ABS stability control A system and method for ABS stability control is provided, the method comprising the steps of determining whether a first wheel is in an ABS mode; determining whether the first wheel is in an apply mode; determining whether a second parallel wheel is in t... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6491358 | Braking force control system for vehicle A braking force distribution control apparatus for a vehicle has a lateral acceleration detecting unit detecting lateral acceleration of the vehicle, a longitudinal acceleration detecting unit detecting longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle, a vehicle ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6412885 | Brake system for vehicles In order to prevent a needlessly excessive yaw moment from being applied to the vehicle, thereby improving the running stability of the vehicle when either one of the braking force generation units went wrong, a brake system for vehicles having electric b... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6338012 | Roll over stability control for an automotive vehicle A stability control system 24 for an automotive vehicle as includes a plurality of sensors 28-37 sensing the dynamic conditions of the vehicle and a controller 26 that controls a distributed brake force to reduce a tire moment so the net moment of the veh... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6301541 | Braking force control apparatus for vehicle Provided is a braking force control apparatus for vehicles capable of performing appropriate vehicle braking even in a road-contactless state of a wheel. The braking force control apparatus is adapted to a four-wheel drive vehicle having a center differen... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6290311 | Brake system of vehicle for simultaneous execution of driver's braking and automatic behavior control In a brake system of a four-wheel vehicle having a powered fluid pressure source, fluid flow control circuit including control valves, and an automatic controller for selectively operating the powered fluid pressure source and the control valves so as to ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6289281 | Integrated control system of vehicle An integrated vehicle control system including: contact possibility determining means for determining whether a possibility of contact with an obstacle is great, first brake control means for controlling operation of the vehicle brake in response to the p... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6263261 | Roll over stability control for an automotive vehicle A stability control system 24 for an automotive vehicle as includes a plurality of sensors 28-37 sensing the dynamic conditions of the vehicle and a controller 26 that controls a distributed brake pressure to reduce a tire moment so the net moment of the ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6246947 | Method of improving ABS control behavior To improve the steerability and the driving stability of a vehicle during cornering, the standard control mode is replaced by a special or curve control mode in such a situation in an anti-lock system. This special control mode reduces the brake pressure ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6236926 | Vehicle behavior control device An upper limit of a target braking force for performing behavior control, and an upper limit of its variation rate, are limited so as not to produce hunting due to interference with an anti-skid control. A microcomputer comprising a braking force controll... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6223115 | Method of improving ABS control behavior In order to improve the control behavior of an ABS control system wherein, instead of the standard control mode, a special control mode or rather corner control mode comes into operation when a cornering situation is identified, said special control mode ... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6202019 | Method of improving ABS control behavior In a method of improving the control behavior of an anti-lock control system, criteria for identifying a cornering situation and the direction of curve are obtained from the rotating behavior of the vehicle wheels. For cornering identification, the wheel ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6135578 | Motor vehicle braking method which prevents brake pedal hardening during an automatic braking process In a method for carrying out an automatic braking operation for motor vehicle with an anti-lock system, the pedal position and the brake pressure for the wheels not subjected to ABS control are correlated during the automatic braking operation such that t... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6099090 | Breaking control system for agricultural tractors A braking control system for agricultural tractors wherein individual front and rear wheel hydraulic brakes are operated by a hydraulic braking control unit which is controlled by an electronic control unit to cause it to vary the braking pressure to the ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6059383 | Braking control system for agricultural tractors A braking control system for agricultural tractors comprises: of the type having a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels with at least one pair being driven through a differential and wherein individual wheel brakes are individually controlled through... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6050655 | Antiskid brake controller An antiskid brake controller, which can secure safety by avoiding a cascade caused when a braking pressure is reduced in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, includes wheel speed sensors braking force adjuster for adjusting a braking pressure and an ECU for calcul... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6039411 | Brake control system for a vehicle The present invention is directed to a brake control system, which includes a first pressure circuit and a second pressure circuit for communicating a master cylinder with two sets of wheel cylinders, respectively. In each pressure circuit, a modulator is... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6012010 | Process for improving the regulating behavior of an anti-lock systems To improve the control behavior of an anti-lock control system or brake slip control system, more particularly, to improve the steerability of a vehicle and its drivability when braking during cornering is performed, criteria for cornering identification ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5988774 | Hydraulic brake system with anti-lock arrangement for a vehicle A hydraulic brake system for a vehicle with an anti-lock arrangement operable by wheel brake pressures are individually variable in front wheel brakes and rear wheel brakes, connected to diagonal brake circuits, of a four-wheeled vehicle, in order to redu... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5895098 | Rear manual brake control for an electro-hydraulic braking system A control method for a manual back-up electro-hydraulic braking system in which the rear service brakes of the vehicle are intentionally operated in a manual back-up mode under specified non-failure operating conditions to conserve electrical energy. The ... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5887957 | Circuit arrangement for a brake system with electronic brake force distribution control A circuit arrangement for a brake system with electronic brake force distribution control includes circuits which determine the deceleration of the rear wheels and the deceleration of a vehicle or a corresponding reference quantity. The discrepancy of the... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5876101 | Automotive antiskid control system Before a wheel to be controlled satisfies conditions to shift to ABS control, when a specified or larger deceleration is caused by applying a brake, a wheel for which the difference in rotational speed from that of a wheel having the maximum rotational sp... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5865513 | Antilock brake control process for vehicle In an antilock brake control for a vehicle for individually regulating braking forces of left and right wheel brakes in accordance with a locking tendency of left and right wheels during braking of the vehicle, a steering angle, a vehicle speed and a yaw ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5862503 | System for driving stability control Apparatus for improving the driving behavior of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has front and rear axles, each having a plurality of wheels. Each wheel-has a brake. Sensor are provided for measuring the rotational speed of each wheel, the vehicle yaw r... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5816666 | Process and apparatus for controlling the brake system of a vehicle A process and an apparatus are provided for controlling the brake system of a vehicle. A desired value representing the vehicle deceleration is formed depending on a depression signal derived from actuation of the brake pedal by the drive, and additionall... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5774821 | System for driving stability control Apparatus for improving the driving behavior of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle has front and rear axles, each having a plurality of wheels. Each wheel has a brake. Sensor are provided for measuring the rotational speed of each wheel, the vehicle yaw r... | 06/30/1998 |
