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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 |
| 7283348 | Multilayer capacitor A multilayer capacitor comprises a multilayer body in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second inner electrodes are alternately laminated, and a plurality of outer conductors (first and second terminal conductors, and first and seco... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277270 | Multilayer filter An objective is to provide a multilayer filter capable of preventing an electric current rapidly flowing by virtue of varistor effect, from passing as noise, upon application of noise of a high voltage over a varistor voltage to its input. A multilayer filter has an... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7154374 | Plated terminations Improved termination features for multilayer electronic components are disclosed. Monolithic components are provided with plated terminations whereby the need for typical thick-film termination stripes is eliminated or greatly simplified. Such termination technology... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7135376 | Resistance dividing circuit and manufacturing method thereof A resistance dividing circuit including silicide layers respectively formed only on branch portions of a linear polysilicon resistance wiring having the branch portions. Contact plugs are connected to the resistance wiring via the silicide layers, and fetching elect... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7053751 | Resistance hybrid, and voltage detection and constant voltage generating circuits incorporating such resistance hybrid A resistance hybrid is disclosed including m+1 unit resistors connected in series, to further be connected in series between two resistance elements, one Rbottom and the other Rtop. Each unit resistor SBn includes an error correction resistance element R1dn a... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053749 | Metal plate resistor A metal plate resistor includes a resistive body comprising a metal plate, and at least a pair of electrodes joined respectively to opposite ends of the resistive body, the electrodes being made of a highly conductive metal conductor. The resistive body has a main s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6166620 | Resistance wiring board and method for manufacturing the same A resistance wiring board having a cavity disposed on an insulated substrate, a resistance disposed in the cavity, a protective film disposed on a top face of the resistance, and electrodes electrically connected at near both ends of the resistance, where... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6150920 | Resistor and its manufacturing method The present invention is to offer a resistor which can be mounted exactly on the terminals disposed on a circuit board regardless the sides of the resistor, and to offer its manufacturing method by forming the surface of the side-electrode layer at a heig... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5469131 | Hybrid integrated circuit device A resistive body of a hybrid integrated circuit has a resistance pattern on a resin film. Bonding pads permit connection of current through the resistance pattern. The resistance pattern may form part of a detecting bridge for overcurrent detection. One e... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5339067 | Integrated voltage divider and circuit employing an integrated voltage divider An apparatus and method is provided for dividing a voltage with a resistor voltage divider and for employing the voltage divider in an integrated circuit. The resistor voltage divider utilizes inaccessible compensation taps that are placed between nonline... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5334967 | Voltage divider A voltage divider which can be manipulated so as to vary the output voltage thereof, prevents mechanical wear of the voltage divider element, provides continuous contact, and can be sealed so as to prevent interaction with the ambient atmosphere including... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5257005 | Small value precision integrated circuit resistors The effective parasitic end resistance of small-value precision integrated circuit resistors is reduced by providing N resistors connected in parallel and causing at least two of the resistors to share a terminal contact. The resulting integrated circuit ... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5039975 | Resistor substrate A resistor substrate for a variable resistor of the enclosed type which may be employed in a throttle sensor of an automobile. The resistor substrate has a disk portion and a rectangular apron provided at a circumferential portion of the disk portion. The... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4845462 | Linear integrated resistor An integrated resistor is constituted by a doped resistance body in a semiconductor substrate which is coated with a layer of insulating material having local apertures in which metal end contacts (2a, 3a) and tapping contacts (4a, 5a, 6a) are provided. T... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4485370 | Thin film bar resistor A thin film bar resistor comprises: an insulative substrate, a pair of conductive thin film resistor terminals spaced apart on the substrate, an approximately square thin film resistance body disposed on the substrate between the terminals to be separated... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4447747 | Waveform generating apparatus Waveform generating apparatus for synthesizing a non-linear waveform by sampling voltage levels along a series string of resistances. The series string of resistances is a linear resistance fabricated in a monolithic integrated circuit structure and inclu... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4323726 | Electrical bus bar assembly An electroconductive laminated window having an electroconductive coating applied to one interior substrate surface with a pair of bus bars electrically connecting a source of electrical potential thereto. The bus bars include an electroconductive layer h... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4191880 | Heating element for electrical appliance having a blower A heating element for electrical appliances which include a meander-form winding of resistance heating wire, two or more supporting plates arranged parallel to an incident flow direction of air produced by the blower and having openings in which turns of ... | 03/04/1980 |
| 4174513 | Foil type resistor with firmly fixed lead wires In the present device, a base member is included which has channels formed therein to hold lead wires. In the preferred embodiment a metal foil resistor member, having termination land sections, is secured to the base member to form a fourth side for each... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4122329 | Electrical air heating appliance An electric air heating appliance includes a housing defining an air flow path in which is positioned a resistance heater assembly which includes a plurality of air vanes for reducing air swirling. The heater assembly includes a semi-rigid assembly of mic... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4117589 | Method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed electronic component A method of manufacturing a passive hermetically sealed electronic component having a coupling element of soft alloy material between the component element and the leads for providing strain relief. The component element is composed of a passive element h... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4075459 | Voltage tapping in electrical heating elements A heater element for an electrical appliance (especially one having a blower, such as a fan heater, hair drier or the like) consists of a resistance heating wire looped in linear formation (e.g. zig-zag) and held transversely of the air flow direction by ... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4032752 | Heating elements comprising a PTC ceramic article of a honeycomb structure composed of barium titanate Heating elements comprising a ceramic article of a honeycomb structure having a positive temperature coefficient of electric resistance and composed of barium titanate are provided with channels, in which a pair of ohmic electrodes consisting mainly of si... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4016527 | Hermetically sealed film resistor A hermetically sealed fixed film resistor including a coupling element of soft alloy material between the resistive element and the leads for providing strain relief. The resistive element is composed of a resistive film having coated ends composed of a r... | 04/05/1977 |
