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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 |
| 7877163 | Method for fast manufacturing and assembling of hot runner systems The method and apparatus of the present invention includes a computer implemented injection molding configuring subsystem which enables a customer to interactively specify and design a system using a mix of parameters that the customer specifies and are manufacturin... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7797075 | Vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding flow-tracking process and system A method of optimizing a flow process in resin transfer molding can include the steps of pre-infusing a vacuum-assisted resin transfer mold with a liquid. A sequence of the mold pre-infusion step is detected, from which a flow inhomogeneity adjacent the auxiliary in... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787983 | Method for sequential programming of an injection molding cycle of an injection molding machine In a method for sequentially programming an injection molding cycle of an injection molding machine comprising one or several injection molds, the injection molding cycle is started manually step by step. The parts of the injection molding machine and/or the parts o... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7725211 | Control system and a control method for injection molding machines A control system for injection molding machines comprises a memory means (16) for storing set values. Further, a signal input for the transmission of actual values to the control system is provided. A first control means (18) is used for the transmissi... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7643900 | Method of controlling a screw in a two-stage injection unit and a system for implementing the method Embodiments of the present invention teach a method of controlling a screw in a two-stage injection unit and a system for implementing the method. For example, a method of controlling a screw in a two-stage injection unit, the method executable at a computing appara... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7590466 | Automated quoting of molds and molded parts Automated, custom mold manufacture for a part begins by creating and storing a collection of information of standard tool geometries and surface profiles machinable by each of the standard tool geometries. A customer sends a CAD file for the part to be molded to the... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7565221 | Method for fast manufacturing and assembling of hot runner systems The method and apparatus of the present invention includes a computer implemented injection molding configuring subsystem which enables a customer to interactively specify and design a system using a mix of parameters that the customer specifies and are manufacturin... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7519450 | Drive method for production machine An actuator is driven by use of a power drive source, while drive output of the power drive source is switched among a plurality of different drive outputs. Values of a physical quantity regarding an operation state of the actuator and a physical quantity regarding ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7447561 | Display apparatus for injection molding machine A display apparatus for an injection molding machine which permits setting items unalterable during operation of the injection molding machine to be identified on the screen. When the injection molding machine is not in operation, the setting items on the screen are... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7433758 | Control apparatus of robot A robot control apparatus capable of largely reducing a calculation amount to be capable of lowering a load of a CPU is provided. A control apparatus of a robot includes: a plurality of shafts interfering with each other; each of the shafts including a motor (8 | 10/07/2008 |
| 7426559 | Method for sequential coordination of external database application events with asynchronous internal database events Database management methods that exploit time dependent sequential database management system processes to ensure presentation of the same data or view to one or a plurality of users through sequencing asynchronous database management operations such as recovery and... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421309 | Control device of injection molding machine A plurality of condition setting screens necessary to set various operation conditions of an injection molding machine is switched and displayed on a touch-panel-equipped display unit of a human-machine interface. ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7379787 | Method for forming a tangible item and a tangible item formed by the method A method and a tangible item 10 which is produced by the use of various softly created sectional members, such as members 12, 14, 16, which are selectively and softly and selectively moved or rotated, in whole or in part, used to create physical sectio... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367056 | Countering malicious code infections to computer files that have been infected more than once Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for countering malicious code infections to computer files (20). A preferred embodiment comprises selecting (40) an invariant section of each file (20), wherein said invariant section is invariant t... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366580 | Production line control using shift registers for contact lens manufacture A method for controlling a production line for the manufacture and/or packaging of contact lenses which production line simultaneous by processes at least two lots, the method comprising dividing at least a portion of the production line into a series of cells throu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349747 | Monitoring device and monitoring method for injection molding machine A monitoring device and a monitoring method for an injection molding machine, in which a trend chart is displayed on a common axis so that changes of set values of molding conditions and changes of measured values of monitoring items can be grasped correspondingly. ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346425 | Control device for use in injection molding machine A control device of an injection molding machine which injects a molten resin from an injection nozzle is provided with a display section in which a touch panel is disposed, and a human-machine interface section equipped with a general-purpose operating system, and ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342175 | Electrical connector A splice electrical connector for connecting core members of two cable conductors to each other is provided. The connector include two end members. Each end member comprises a first coupler end and a second wedge contact end. A splice coupler connects the first coup... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340777 | In memory heuristic system and method for detecting viruses Characteristics of a call module originating a critical operating system function call are analyzed for indications of suspicious content and a virus threshold counter is incremented appropriately. For example, the memory image to the file image of the call module a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340383 | Control device, method and computer program product for browsing data A conversion processing method, device and computer program product. The device includes a memory for storing drafting data, a selector for choosing the drafting data stored in the memory, a converter for converting the drafting data chosen by the selector into shap... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333868 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing gene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328083 | Injection molding system data management method A controller of an injection molding machine and a controller of a molded-product removing robot are connected to each other via communication means. When a molding condition save command is entered from the controller of the injection molding machine, a folder with... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323125 | Method of analyzing injection molding conditions A method for analyzing injection molding conditions, which takes into consideration the compressibility of molten resin in a barrel and mechanical delays in resin flow caused by constituent elements of an injection molding machine and analysis results thereof are pr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322083 | Manufacturing system architecture for tools The specification and drawings present a new method and a system for organizing and structuring a tool room manufacturing facility for reducing lead time of manufacturing component tooling. Machine tools are grouped into work cells (also called machining lines) spec... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320038 | Method and apparatus for interfacing a LAN to a drive An interface card connects a LAN with a drive. The interface card comprises a dual port memory interface, which interfaces to the main control card of the drive. An interrupt line informs a communication processor on the main control card to update feedbacks in the ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316553 | Drive assembly for rotating and translating a shaft A drive assembly for rotating and translating a shaft comprising a hollow shaft motor and a fluid cylinder. The hollow shaft motor rotates the shaft and the fluid cylinder moves the shaft lengthwise. The drive is particularly useful in the injection unit of an injec... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7302584 | Mechanisms for banning computer programs from use An anti-computer virus system is used to enforce the banning of computer programs. A user is provided with a tool for creating their own banned computer program identifying data. The user-created data is then used to control the anti-virus system to identify banned ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289874 | Method of designing and producing a mold A method of designing and producing a mold for manufacturing an article having at least one surface coated by a coating. The method including evaluating the article design to determine the probable flow characteristics of the mold, an optimal flow of the coating com... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286899 | Process board with modular SPC integration and expansion A control apparatus for controlling a machine, especially an injection molding machine, includes a bus board providing communication connections between different units, a wiring board, and a separate process module. The process module includes one or more process b... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281267 | Software audit system A software audit system is provided in conjunction with an anti-virus system. A computer virus scan request received by the anti-virus system (16) is used to trigger an audit data generator (18) to generate audit data. The audit data generator (18 | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277771 | Three-dimensional foam analysis method, product design aiding method using the analysis method, and recording medium recording these methods To regulate the passage structure of a foaming die and the injected amount of foaming material, the flow behavior of the foaming material is analyzed by obtaining a flow velocity and a pressure by inputting the density as a function, including the elapsed time from ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270447 | Uniform luminance and color mixing lens for LED device A lens for an LED having a lens body providing total internal reflection of light emitted by the LED from a first emission point disposed proximate a first junction of the lens body and centerplane. The lens includes an arcuate light-diffusing edge for diffusing lig... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7256711 | Method and system for saving and retrieving spatial related information The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing, referencing, retrieving, and graphically displaying spatial and non-spatial related information of a mobile computing device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular telephone. The spatial-rela... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251538 | Method for designing mold, mold, and molded product A mold with which a molded product in a desired shape with an aspherical curved surface is molded can be designed with high precision by correcting shape deformation of the molded product molded from the mold. A mold 10 in which use surfaces 16 ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7219039 | Method for generating a mesh representation of a region characterized by a trunk and a branch thereon The present invention provides a meshing method, called grafting, that lifts the prior art constraint on abutting surfaces, including surfaces that are linking, source/target, or other types of surfaces of the trunk volume. The grafting method locally modifies the s... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218990 | Control device for use in injection molding machine A barrel has an injection nozzle at the forward end, and an injection screw inside, and heaters in the outer circumference. The barrel injects the molten resin from the injection nozzle at the forward end by the rotation of the injection screw. In the barrel, the te... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216005 | Control apparatus for injection molding machine Test molding and mass-production molding are performed by an injection molding machine that includes a control apparatus in which neural networks are used. A quality prediction function determined based on the test molding is revised as necessary during mass-product... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210041 | System and method for identifying a macro virus family using a macro virus definitions database A macro virus definitions database is maintained and includes a set of indices and associated macro virus definition data files. One or more of the macro virus definition data files are referenced by the associated index. Each macro virus definition data file define... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206660 | Navigation apparatus and method, and computer program product A navigation apparatus is provided with: a first storing device for storing original data for a navigation based on a predetermined format and including map data, in such a manner that an empty area exists on the predetermined format in each processing unit for a pr... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7187142 | Motor drive with velocity noise filter A drive unit for controlling a motor includes a position feedback device and a velocity noise filter. The position feedback device is operable to generate a position signal relating to a position of the motor. The velocity noise filter is coupled to the position fee... | 03/06/2007 |
