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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 |
| 7948334 | Attachment of deep drawn resonator shell An apparatus includes a shell member having an interior width, where the shell includes a closed end and an open end, and a nut that includes a plurality of laterally extending resilient leg. The legs define an outer width of the nut, and when the legs are in a rela... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7777599 | Methods and apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma Methods and apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma, such as the spatial distribution of RF power and plasma uniformity, are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus for controlling characteristics of a plasma includes a resonator for use in ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7760054 | Tubular RF cage field confinement cavity An RF cavity is provided with a plurality of tubes that are formed into a tubular cage in a predefined shape to define the RF cavity. A selected number of tubes and a selected tube diameter are provided to form a confinement cage for the RF fields within the RF cavi... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7741934 | Coupling a signal through a window A device and method is provided that includes a window for coupling a signal between cavities of a device or between cavities of different devices. A wall or microstructure is formed on a surface and defines a cavity. The window is formed in the wall and comprises a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7327210 | Band agile filter A microwave filter and method for remotely tuning a microwave filter from one sub-band to another sub-band using metallic rings to adjust the capacitance or inductance of the resonator. In adjusting the capacitance, a plurality of metallic rings are disposed in the ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321280 | Transmission line and high frequency cavity resonator using such transmission lines, particularly for the nuclear magnetic resonance Transmission line and high frequency cavity resonator using such transmission lines, particularly for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. This transmission line comprises a straight and segmented (1) bar, these segments being (or being made) electrically condu... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7307581 | Mounting structure of high-frequency semiconductor apparatus and its production method In a high-frequency circuit having a substrate having a high-frequency transmission line and an dielectric resonator formed on said substrate so that said dielectric resonator and said high-frequency transmission line may be coupled electro-magnetically to each othe... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7283022 | Dual mode ceramic filter A dual mode ceramic filter has an enclosure with two cavities separated by a wall, and two TM dual-mode resonators, each TM dual-mode resonator positioned in a corresponding cavity. Each TM dual-mode resonator has first and second modes, and a body having a central ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7268554 | RF coil for imaging system An RF coil suitable for use in imaging systems is provided which coil has a dielectric filled cavity formed by a surrounding conducting enclosure, the conducting enclosure preferably being patterned to form continuous electrical paths around the cavity, each of whic... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263392 | Superconductor transmission line having slits of less than λ /4 A transmission line is provided which has a low loss and can flow large current. A superconductor transmission line has: an internal conductor; and an external conductor surrounding the internal conductor, made of oxide superconductor and having four planes, which f... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7106063 | Axially constrained RF probe coil An NMR resonant structure is formed of axial conductors (54a, 54b, 54c, and 54d) and end members (50,51), supporting said conductors to form a coil structure (8) of desired electrical topology whe... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7068127 | Tunable triple-mode mono-block filter assembly The present invention incorporates triple-mode, mono-block resonators that are tunable. Four novel and unobvious methods of tuning are disclosed. The first tuning method is to mechanically grind areas on three orthogonal faces of the mono-block in order to change th... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059765 | Temperature measuring apparatus and related improvements An apparatus for measuring the temperature of an object. The apparatus includes a device for establishing a standing wave pattern or radiation emanating from the object and a coupling device for coupling the radiation to a detector, such as a measuring radiometer. | 06/13/2006 |
| 6992548 | RF module and method for arranging through holes in RF module The present invention is directed to optimize arrangement of through holes and enable electromagnetic waves to be efficiently propagated. A cylindrical waveguide has a dielectric substrate, ground electrodes which face each other, and a plurality of through holes fo... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6965286 | Tunable resonant cavity using conductive fluids A tunable resonant system (100) and a method for a varying the resonant characteristics of a resonant cavity (102). The resonant cavity is enclosed by a conductive material that has at least one aperture (104) for coupling the resonant cavity to... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6954077 | Apparatus and method for improving microwave coupling to a resonant cavity An equipment status monitoring system (10) and method of operating includes first (40) and second (50) microwave mirrors in a plasma processing chamber (20) each forming a multi-modal resonator. A power source (60) is coupled to th... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6946933 | Dielectric loaded cavity for high frequency filters The dielectric loaded cavity for high frequency filters consists of a metal container housing s dielectric block held in position by supporting plates, that also sustains coupling and tuning elements. This invention provides broadband filters, small in size and with... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6933482 | Microwave heating apparatus Microwave heating apparatus comprising an elongated dielectric microwave applicator with an axial TM type mode, said dielectric applicator is provided with a load chamber for a load to be heated, said load chamber is located in a centered axial position inside the a... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6914501 | High performance embedded RF filters Embedded, coupled, shaped waveguide resonators having conductive walls sandwiched between two fired green tape stacks, said conductive walls having apertures therein whose size and location determine the degree of coupling. These waveguides are made by forming openi... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6900424 | Microwave delivery system for a cooking appliance A microwave delivery system for a cooking appliance includes a toroidal waveguide, a launching zone and a waveguide cover. The launching zone includes opposing top, bottom and side walls that form a pathway for a microwave energy field to travel from a magnetron thr... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6894589 | Radio frequency resonator and method for producing the same A dished head and a wall part are integrally formed in one body by spinning, using a flat aluminum based material, and then a corrosion-proof protective coating is formed on the whole surface by the Irridite process to complete the canister. The combination of appro... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6885265 | Hybrid mode stirred and mode tuned chamber First and second electrically conductive rods are provided inside a shielded electromagnetic test chamber. These rods are energized to radiate electromagnetic energy inside the chamber. The rods are mounted inside the chamber at right angles to one another, the firs... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6873222 | Modified conductor loaded cavity resonator with improved spurious performance A microwave cavity has a cut resonator therein that is conductor-loaded. Filters made from one or more cavities having cut resonators therein have improved spurious performance over previous filters. A filter can have two conductor loaded resonators in one cavity or... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6781102 | Microwave feed system for a cooking appliance having a toroidal-shaped waveguide A microwave delivery system for a cooking appliance having a cooking chamber includes a toroidal-shaped waveguide, a magnetron, a tubular feed member interconnecting the magnetron with the toroidal-shaped wave guide and a field flux generator positioned about the tu... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6756865 | Resonator device, filter, duplexer, and communication apparatus using the same A multi-mode resonator device can be reduced in size even while increasing the number of resonators while including either a semi-coaxial resonator or a coaxial resonator. Coupling between a TEM mode as a resonance mode of the semi-coaxial resonator and a TM mode as... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6674056 | Apparatus for uniforming microwave and heating system using the same The apparatus for uniformly dispersing the microwave comprises a body including a plurality of reflective portions which are made of materials capable of reflecting the microwave and have the horizontal top surfaces and vertical side surfaces. The width o... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6667466 | Microwave delivery system for a cooking appliance A microwave delivery system for a cooking appliance includes a toroidal waveguide and a launching zone. The launching zone has an interior metallic surface into which a microwave energy field is introduced. The microwave energy field couples with the inte... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6657214 | Shielded enclosure for testing wireless communication devices A test system having a shielded enclosure and common air interface for testing the transmit and receive functionality of wireless communication devices such as mobile phones. A test system according to the present invention provides improved fault coverag... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6617793 | Resonator for microwave lighting apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A resonator for use in microwave lighting apparatus includes a mesh portion formed in a cylindrical shape with one side opened, at least one portion of which prevents microwave transmitted through a waveguide from leaking and light radiated from a light b... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6538535 | Dual-mode microwave filter The invention provides a dual-mode microwave filter, comprising a rectangular resonator of length l, height b, and width a operating in two distinct modes (m, 0, n) and (p, 0, q) from a single family of modes and presenting the same direction as the E fie... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535085 | Resonator A resonator including a lower substrate having a groove, a dielectric filling the groove, a material film formed on the inner wall of the groove, the material film for preventing the permittivity from suddenly changing between the lower substrate and the ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6521876 | Microwave volatiles analyzer with high efficiency cavity A volatiles analyzer is disclosed that includes a source of microwave radiation that can selectively produce at least one predetermined frequency of microwave radiation. A cavity is in communication with the source. The walls of the cavity form a twelve f... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6366184 | Resonator filter The invention comprises a filter consisting of resonators (330, 320, . . . ) with a conducting housing, particularly to be used in networks operating on microwave frequencies. The couplings between the resonators are realised outside the conducting filter... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6362706 | Cavity resonator for reducing phase noise of voltage controlled oscillator There is provided a cavity resonator for reducing the phase noise of electromagnetic waves output from a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) by utilizing a semiconductor (e.g., silicon, GaAs or InP) micro mac... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6356171 | Planar general response dual-mode cavity filter An electromagnetic cavity filter is formed by at least two cavities having electrically conductive walls. Each cavity is the equivalent of two filter poles because two orthogonal modes of electromagnetic radiation can resonate within each cavity. Characte... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6356172 | Resonator structure embedded in mechanical structure An assembly for supporting a substrate of an integrated circuit and forming a cavity resonator with the substrate. The assembly includes a baseplate in which a cavity for the cavity resonator is integrally formed. A substrate is mounted over the cavity re... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6222432 | Quarter-wave coaxial cavity resonator In a quarter-wave coaxial cavity resonator, having a cavity with a cylinder inner wall (1), and bottom (3) and top (4) walls and a symmetry axis (2) with a resonator bar (5), a high coupling degree to a feed line (12) is obtained by a T-formed antenna wit... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6222429 | Dielectric resonator, dielectric notch filter, and dielectric filter with optimized resonator and cavity dimensions The dielectric notch filter of the invention includes: a transmission line for transmitting a high-frequency signal; input and output terminals provided at both ends of the transmission line; a ground conductor for supplying a ground potential; and a diel... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6091439 | Laser printer and light source suitable for the same A laser printer is provided printing with a high precision simply and at a high speed, and the laser printer uses a semiconductor laser which can vary the diameter of the emitted light while the light density is held constant. In the laser printer, laser ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5930266 | Multiplexing/demultiplexing an FDM of RF signal channels A multiplexer comprises a number of directional filters 17n connected to a transmission line feeding an antenna 2, 3. Signals to be multiplexed fed to the filters 17n may be sent via respective switches 16n. Unlike prior m... | 07/27/1999 |
