Abstract: An ornament mounting device has a support member configured for supporting an ornament. The support member has a keyed structure, including dentations, along an internal perimeter of the support member, and a pair of through channels formed along an outside perimeter of the support member at opposite regions. A base member includes grooves configured to accommodate the dentations of the support member. A locking pin is seated in each of a pair of recesses of the base member. Each locking pin includes a biasing member configured to exert an outward force on the locking pin relative to the base member and configured to lockingly interact with the keyed structure of the support member. A mounting assembly is configured to removably mount the support member and base member to a structural surface.

Abstract: An ornament mounting device has a support member configured for supporting an ornament. The support member has a keyed structure, including dentations, along an internal perimeter of the support member, and a pair of through channels formed along an outside perimeter of the support member at opposite regions. A base member includes grooves configured to accommodate the dentations of the support member. A locking pin is seated in each of a pair of recesses of the base member. Each locking pin includes a biasing member configured to exert an outward force on the locking pin relative to the base member and configured to lockingly interact with the keyed structure of the support member. A mounting assembly is configured to removably mount the support member and base member to a structural surface.

Abstract: A hood ornament mounting system is provided. The system includes a ring member having a keyed structure, including dentations, along an internal perimeter of the ring member, and a pair of through channels formed along an outside perimeter of the ring member at opposite regions. Additionally, the system includes a base member with a pair of recesses formed at opposite regions along a perimeter of the base member. The base member includes a bottom surface configured to contact a surface of an automobile and a top surface dimensioned to fit within the internal perimeter of the ring member. The base member has grooves on the perimeter to accommodate the dentations. A locking pin is seated in each of the pair of recesses. The locking pin is configured to lockingly interact with the keyed structure.

Abstract: A hood ornament mounting system is provided. The system includes a ring member having a keyed structure, including dentations, along an internal perimeter of the ring member, and a pair of through channels formed along an outside perimeter of the ring member at opposite regions. Additionally, the system includes a base member with a pair of recesses formed at opposite regions along a perimeter of the base member. The base member includes a bottom surface configured to contact a surface of an automobile and a top surface dimensioned to fit within the internal perimeter of the ring member. The base member has grooves on the perimeter to accommodate the dentations. A locking pin is seated in each of the pair of recesses. The locking pin is configured to lockingly interact with the keyed structure.

Abstract: A method of fabricating high resolution, light emitting devices for printheads and the like is disclosed. An epitaxial layer of an alloy compound such as GaAs:P is used as the host material. Typically, p-type material is diffused into n-type material to form planar and isolated p-n junctions that provide individual light emitting pixels. In the method of this invention the shape of each pixel and the gap between pixels is controlled by tailoring the dimensions of the aperture through which thermal diffusion takes place and by providing a layer of modulation material over the diffusion aperture. This combination results in the control of lateral diffusion parameters such that both the shape of the pixels and the gap between can be controlled.