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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 |
| 8005208 | Sealing assembly and sliding cover mechanism using the sealing assembly The invention discloses a sealing assembly (40) includes a first sealing member (41) and a second sealing member (46) tightly cooperating with the first sealing member (41). The first sealing member (41) has a first assembling side... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7885403 | Radiotelephone A hand held communications device is provided. The device includes: a circuit board including electronic components; display coupled to the circuit board; a housing substantially surrounding the circuit board and electronic components, wherein the housing includes a... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7729492 | Portable communication device having a multi-axis hinge assembly A portable communication device includes a base assembly and a top assembly that is coupled to the base assembly by a multi-axis hinge assembly. The multi-axis hinge assembly is configured to facilitate sliding motion between the top assembly and the base assembly a... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7711111 | Assembling structure of back cover for mobile phone A mobile phone at least includes a first back cover, a second back cover and a main body. The first back cover has a first fastening part on its inner wall. The second back cover has a first interfering part on its inner wall. The first back cover and the second bac... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7634081 | Method for manufacturing electronic device panel and structure thereof A method for manufacturing a panel having a surface of three-dimensional patterns and the structure thereof, first of all, provides a piece body, on the surface of which plane panel patterns are arranged by means of ink printing process, and which is thermally press... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7613293 | Hinge apparatus for a portable terminal and portable terminal having the same A hinge apparatus for connecting a first housing and a second housing of a portable terminal is provided. The hinge apparatus includes a hinge housing and a damping member. The hinge housing is connected to the second housing and has an internal wall formed with one... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7555119 | Device for automatically lifting a cover of mobile phone by pressing A device for automatically lifting a cover of a mobile phone by pressing is to control the lifting/closing operation of an upper cover relative to a main body of a mobile phone. A housing member is connected between the main body and the upper cover. The device for ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7526082 | Portable terminal and opening or closing method therefor A portable terminal has one casing with a display unit and a speaker coupled to another casing with an operation unit and a microphone. The casings connect via a coupling unit and are capable of opening or closing by means of the coupling unit. The face of the casin... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7496194 | Sliding and swing apparatus for a portable apparatus A sliding swing apparatus for a mobile terminal is disclosed that provides a swing movement after a complete sliding movement. A sliding member is adapted to slide along the longitudinal direction and then to rotate once sliding movement is fully extended. A sliding... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7443979 | Portable communication terminal having a housing capable of both sliding and swinging A portable communication terminal having a sliding/swinging housing is disclosed. The portable communication terminal includes a body housing; and a sliding/swinging housing which slides lengthwise along the body housing while being closely opposed to the body housi... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440783 | Dual axis hinge apparatus for portable terminal A dual hinge apparatus for a portable terminal provides a pair of hinge axes perpendicular to each other and connects first and second housings that form the portable terminal to each other such that they can rotate relative to the first and second hinge axes, respe... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438486 | Device with an elastic shifting mechanism The present invention discloses a device with an elastic shifting mechanism, which comprises: a body and a movable element, wherein the body has a first snap-fit element, and the movable element has a second snap-fit element, and the movable element is installed to ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433468 | Electrical device for adjusting the angle between a top module and a bottom module An electrical device includes a top module having a display panel for displaying image, a bottom module having a plurality of buttons for controlling the operation of the electrical device, a base fixed on the bottom module, a first pivot extended out of the base, a... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424316 | Body-worn personal communications apparatus In a body-worn personal communications apparatus, for example a wrist-carried wireless telephone, an antenna (102) is a helical or other physically-shortened electric antenna that makes use of the enhanced normal component of electric field close to the body.... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417539 | Baby monitor system A baby monitor system includes a transmitter unit that has a first receiver to receive baby sounds, a transmitter to transmit a signal corresponding to the baby sounds, and a transmitter housing to house the first receiver and the transmitter. The transmitter housin... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409059 | Portable terminal unit To provide a superposition type portable terminal unit in which functions other than opening and closing functions are added to opening and closing operations thereby to improve the operating performance of the portable terminal unit. In a superposition type portabl... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400721 | Pivot apparatus and method thereof A pivot apparatus. The pivot apparatus includes a first member, a hinge body, a hinge head, a second member and a base member. The first member has a hinge receiving portion. The hinge body is movably disposed in the hinge receiving portion. The hinge head is connec... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7400913 | Position-holding pivot/slide mechanism for cell phone A base part has a planar inner face, and a cover part is shiftable on the inner face between a closed position overlying and congruent with the base part and an open position exposing at least part of the inner face. A pair of parallel elongated spring elements exte... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395102 | Sliding-type mobile communication terminal A sliding-type mobile communication terminal having a first housing and a second housing adapted to allow the first housing to be opened or closed by means of a sliding movement on the first housing in a longitudinal direction of the first housing. The terminal incl... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386330 | Bi-axial swivel mechanism in electronic apparatus A support shaft is received in a socket for relative rotation. A first hollow space penetrates through the support shaft. A first hollow member extends in a first direction from the tip end of the support shaft. The first hollow member defines a second hollow space ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7386331 | Bi-directional sliding-type portable terminal Disclosed is a bi-directional sliding-type portable terminal. The bi-directional sliding-type portable terminal comprises a phone body and a bi-directional sliding body. The phone body comprises a first section which is located on one side of the top surface thereof... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7376230 | Mobile phone and battery-release device A mobile phone and a battery-release device. The mobile phone includes a body, a positioning device, and a battery. The positioning device includes a magnet. The positioning device is disposed in the body in a manner such that it moves between a first position and a... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373180 | Method and apparatus for accentuating graphical elements on a mobile handset housing A transparent mobile handset housing with graphical elements such as alphanumeric characters, icons, and logos positioned directly onto the housing with visibility enhanced through backlighting. The transparent housing is covered with an opaque coating and omitted p... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369882 | Sliding/swing-type portable apparatus having self-retaining function A sliding/swing-type portable apparatus having a self-retaining function includes a main body; a battery cover coupled to the bottom surface of the main body in a predetermined position so that it can rotate about a first hinge axis toward or away from the main body... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369884 | Slide assembly A sliding assembly for a keypad protection cover of a telephone handset including at least one slide spring to urge the keypad protection cover in either the open or the closed position. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363006 | Cell phone extension using wireless piconet In accordance with the principles of the present invention utilizing the BLUETOOTH specification Cordless Telephony profile, incoming calls to a cell phone including a Gateway role can be routed to another piconet device (e.g., another cell phone including a Termina... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363068 | Portable electronic apparatus A portable electronic apparatus including an apparatus body having an angle-adjustment device and a sliding-cover is provided. The sliding-cover selectively covers an internal space of the apparatus body and forms a rotatable connection with the angle-adjustment dev... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359128 | Supplementary lens for viewing a video or computer screen A device (5) for viewing a display screen (2), including a large-area visual medium (1) that can be placed in front of the display screen (2), characterised in that the visual medium (2) has a focal length f of at least 615 mm. The... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359506 | Opening and closing device and electronic equipment using the same Inclined plane is provided at the tip of rotor cam. On the other hand, inclined planes are also provided in specific positions of stator cam. Because of this structure, in the specific positions, the inclined planes are in resilient contact with each other. Thus, th... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353051 | Torque cell A hand held mobile terminal includes at least one torque cell for facilitating a torsionally stiff housing structure. The torque cell includes a plurality of first locking members located around a perimeter of a first housing and a plurality of second locking member... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353053 | Non-binding sliding display for a handheld electronic device A handheld electronic device having a slidable display is provided. A display unit is slidably connected to a body unit at two (or more) sliding joints. A mechanical linkage constrains motion at all of the sliding joints to be substantially equal. In this manner, bi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346377 | Folding mechanism and electronic apparatus using the same To provide a folding mechanism capable of securely holding its opened and closed positions and an electronic apparatus employing the same. The folding mechanism is constructed by disposing outer circumferential fixed cam on the outer circumferential side and inner c... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343184 | Handheld device protective case A protective cover for handheld devices. The protective cover containing a hardened plastic protective inner layer and a soft outer layer. The protective cover containing at least one cavity for mounting the associated segment of the handheld device therein and at l... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340238 | Personal communications and cosmetics apparatus A portable personal communications and cosmetics apparatus (1) comprising a base unit (2) having side walls with cavities (17a-f) therein for receiving removable cosmetics products (18a-f) and a mobile phone un... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336980 | Outer decorative cover for attachment to a wireless communication device including a printed circuit board and an associated light source mounted in an interior of the wireless device An illuminated decorative cover for a device, and a cellular telephone having such a cover. The illuminated decorative cover includes a cover member having an inner surface and an outer surface, an optical fiber member having an input end and having a side surface a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336781 | Latching assembly for a removable cover of a portable electronic device A latching assembly includes a removable panel (1), a knob (2), a sliding latch (3), and a base cover (5). The removable panel includes a mounting hole (12), a depression portion (13), and a plurality of catches (17).... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333839 | Casing The invention relates to casings for portable communication devices. The casing is reusable with engines having different processing capabilities. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333607 | Replaceable panel device for a handset A replaceable panel device (1) includes a panel (20) with a mounting portion (24), a locking subassembly (30), and a top cover (40) with a block (45). The mounting portion has at least one slideway (241), a recess ( | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330547 | Dual keypad phone A telephone comprises a first body part with a first keypad and a second keypad located on opposite sides of the first body part, and a second body part having a display. As the first body part is swiveled to bring the second keypad to the front of the phone the pro... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330743 | Casing A casing for a portable communication device having an operating face comprising a fragile input region providing recesses for operation of respective user input elements and a protection arrangement protruding beyond the fragile input region having an external prof... | 02/12/2008 |
