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Crispy Chip Sandwich and Process of Producing a Sandwich Product
A food product comprising a multilayer cookie or snack having outer layers formed from a crispy type edible food product such as a potato chip or corn chip, etc. with an intermediate marshmallow layer being in contact with the inner surface of each crispy chip and one or more filler substances.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7248943 | Method for judging communication state in a control system of linked joints Provided is a method in which a communication state between a main control unit and each sub control unit can be judged to be normal or abnormal, in a condition where a noise may be generated from a drive system power line. This method includes a power supply step s... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7204355 | Shock absorbing structure of two-wheeled vehicle A shock absorbing structure of a two-wheeled vehicle capable of sufficiently absorbing shock and desirably maintain the steerability of the two-wheeled vehicle. The structure includes a shock absorbing member projecting from a front wheel, wherein the shock absorbin... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7191875 | Disc brake A disc brake includes a piston seal made of rubber that is shaped to fit into a seal groove on the inner surface of a cylinder of a caliper for a brake piston. To prevent braking effectiveness from being impaired, even if the temperature of a caliper rises in a disc... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191740 | Internal combustion engine A cooling block forming a top wall of a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine is formed by layering, from the outside to the inside, a casing, an upper layer block, a middle layer block, and a lower layer block. Labyrinth-shaped cooling water passages ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7155327 | Control apparatus for an electric power steering system A control apparatus for an electric power steering system is provided, which controls a motor for applying assist steering torque to a steering line of a vehicle at least according to steering torque signal of the steering line, vehicle velocity signal and motor cur... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7063179 | Tricycle with a rocking mechanism A tricycle with independently-suspended rear wheels and having a rocking mechanism and a single shock absorber used to effect the damping action of both the left and the right suspension arms connected to the rear wheels. The left and right suspension arms are conne... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7048328 | Panel sealing structure The present invention provides a panel seal structure having a seal mounted around the outer circumferential edge of a panel body, such as glass panel, covering an opening formed in a vehicle body. An upper face of the seal is set to be substantially flush with an u... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6964426 | Side stand device for motorbike A spring stand for motorcycles for making a return spring invisible from the outside to provide a neat appearance. A side stand is installed on a side lower section of a motorcycle body through a stand bracket. The side stand is formed on a pipe-shape in which a ret... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6926985 | Fuel cell stack A fuel gas passage, an oxygen-containing gas passage, and a coolant passage extend through a fuel cell stack. Each of the fuel gas passage and the oxygen-containing gas passage is formed by serially connecting passages between the first through third fuel cell modul... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6926984 | Polymer electrolyte membrane, method for producing same, and membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprising same A polymer electrolyte membrane obtained by subjecting a sulfonated polyarylene membrane having an initial water content of 80-300 weight % to a hot-water treatment. A composite polymer electrolyte membrane comprising a matrix made of a first sulfonated aromatic poly... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6895942 | Engine fuel pump mounting structure A rocker shaft holder that supports a rocker shaft and a camshaft holder that supports an intake camshaft and an exhaust camshaft in association with the rocker shaft holder are superimposed and connected to each other on the upper surface of a cylinder head, and a ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6840203 | Engine starting device Engine starting performance is enhanced by a brushless motor having no rotor position detecting sensor. In the first place an engine is rotated forward and then is reversely rotated to overcome a high load region of the engine. Then, the engine is accelerated and ro... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6772725 | Balance shaft, housing for balance shaft and engine oil return passage An engine including an engine oil return passage for returning engine oil from a cylinder head side to an oil pan having a balance shaft forming a balancing system for said engine; and a housing disposed below a crankshaft for accommodating rotatably therein the bal... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6723463 | Fuel cell stack having terminal element located at specified location The present invention provides a fuel stack comprising: a plurality of fuel cell units stacked together in a direction of stacking each of which comprises an electrolyte element, a pair of electrodes holding the electrolyte element therebetween, and a pair of separa... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6719598 | System for lubricating engine for personal watercraft To provide a system for lubricating an engine for a personal watercraft, which is capable of simplifying an oil piping structure. An oil pump driven by a crankshaft of an engine and a relief valve for controlling a discharge pressure of the oil pump are provided in ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6690260 | Driver authentication apparatus and method for identifying automatically-extracted driver's operation feature data with already-registered feature data A driver authentication apparatus and method permits a vehicle driver to be identified using a simpler method without using an ID card or the like, and without performing any special operation. The apparatus has a feature amount storing section for storin... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6682120 | Vehicle seat A vehicle seat wherein left and right seat backs are attached to left and right seat cushions, respectively, in such a manner as to be folded up thereon. A support shaft is provided on the left and right seat cushions for allowing the left and right seat ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6638653 | Fuel cell system To provide the fuel cell system, which can prevents the imperfect combustion of the fuel gas in combustor caused by shortage of the air exhausted from the fuel cell so that the harmful components is not contained in the exhausted gas, and can prevents the... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6592100 | Valve mounting structure of fuel tank A float valve mounted to a tank body made of a synthetic resin. A welding flange provided on a cover made of a synthetic resin having a large swelling rate is welded to an outer periphery of an opening defined in an upper wall of a tank body made of a syn... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6580874 | Field current control method in motor In separately excited DC brush motors ML and MR, an armature current control circuit for feeding power to armatures 61 and a field current control circuit for feeding power to a field system 62 form separate systems and are independently controllable exce... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6460929 | Storable/slidable seat apparatus for vehicles Storable/slidable vehicular seat apparatus includes a seat with a seat base that can be flipped upwardly via a pivot to be stored against a wall of a vehicle compartment. The seat base is slidable in a front-and-rear direction of a vehicle bodywork. The s... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6448728 | Electric power steering apparatus The controller possesses a reference torque signal setting unit which generates a reference signal which becomes high when the detected signal becomes high based on at least the signal detected from the steering torque sensor; a correction torque signal s... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6387458 | Reverse painting process A reverse painting process includes the preheating of work prior to its powder coating. By the preheating of the work, it becomes possible to form a film having a sufficiently large thickness for maintaining a satisfactorily high level of rustproofness in... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6357545 | Power unit for vehicle To provide a power unit mounted for a vehicle, such as a motorcycle, wherein the power unit is attached to a transmission actuating device or attached to a clutch actuating device, or attached to both actuating units. A power unit for a vehicle having an ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6294280 | Fuel cell stack Disclosed is a fuel cell stack comprising a fuel cell unit and separators which are stacked with each other. The separator is provided with a cooling medium supply port corresponding to a central portion of an electrode power-generating section and a cool... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6269896 | Radiator cover assembly for a motorcycle A radiator cover for covering the side of a radiator. The inside of the radiator cover forms an expelled air path with air being expelled to the outside of the vehicle from an expelled air port of a side section thereof. An intake path for the flow of fre... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6262160 | Water base adhesion promotor for polypropylene and method for coating to polypropylene materials using the promotor The water base adhesion promotor for polypropylene comprises: a grafted polypropylene chloride, which includes a polypropylene chloride moiety and a maleic an-hydride moiety as bonded thereto, and which has a chlorine content of 15~25 weight % and a maleic anh... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6256552 | Method for setting tool-based working condition in off-line teaching A method for setting a tool-based working condition in off-line teaching makes it possible to automatically set an optimum tool-based working condition while referring to specifications of a tool and workpiece-based working conditions so that reduced oper... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6250368 | Casting mold for producing a fiber-reinforced composite article by die-casting process A mold is provided which is capable of producing a sound fiber-reinforced composite article utilizing a die-casting process. A cavity in the mold includes a composite article forming area in which a formed product of fiber is located, a molten metal stori... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6223525 | Air-fuel ratio controlling device for an internal combustion engine In accordance with an output of an oxygen concentration sensor 16, an air-fuel ratio correction coefficient KO2 is periodically set to values respectively corresponding to a leaner air-fuel ratio and a richer air-fuel ratio with respect to a theoretical a... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6219900 | Method of assembling a stator core A method of assembling a stator core, the stator core having a plurality of segmented cores. Each of the segmented cores has an arcuate yoke portion, a pole portion extending diametrically inwards from the yoke portion, and a tooth portion on a diametrica... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6185931 | Failure detecting system of exhaust purification apparatus A failure detecting system of an exhaust purification apparatus includes, a catalyst unit including an electrically heated catalyst and intervened in an engine exhaust path, an air pump supplying a secondary air to the engine exhaust path, a first electri... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6063641 | Method of measuring electrical characteristics of semiconductor circuit in wafer state and semiconductor device for the same A plurality of semiconductor circuits provided on a semiconductor wafer are arranged in a plurality of rows. The plurality of semiconductor circuits of each row are connected in series through first and second conductive layers provided between adjacent t... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6058584 | Apparatus for increasing the surface strength of metal components A casing has a processing chamber and a drying chamber defined therein by a partition mechanism. The processing chamber houses an impelling mechanism for impelling a mixed stream of glass beads and water toward a gear. First and second drying mechanisms a... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6056531 | Apparatus for vacuum forming synthetic resin products A vacuum forming apparatus has a first mold and a second mold, the first mold including a forming surface. The first mold has a hollow space defined therein and communicating with the forming surface through holes defined in the first mold. The hollow spa... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5996724 | Steering control system In a steering control system for a motor vehicle, the magnitude of the steering assist torque is reduced from a normal value by a value depending on the ratio of the steering angle to a maximum permissible steering angle which is determined according to t... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5933109 | Multibeam radar system A multibeam radar system includes a multibeam radar module having n (n is a natural number of at least 3) transmitting/receiving channels for transmitting high-frequency signals and receiving echo signals, and a radar circuit for detecting a distance up t... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5929578 | Control process in a motor driving control unit A control command value map is formed with a voltage applied to a motor and an output torque as an output command value from a driver being taken on axes of coordinates, so that an output command value suitable for a power source voltage is easily and rap... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5861621 | Photosensor circuit having an initial setting unit A photosensor circuit comprises a photoelectric transducer, an n-channel MOS transistor and an initial setting unit for precluding the occurrence of a residual image phenomenon. When an optical signal is generated by the photoelectric transducer, the init... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5775457 | Final drive assembly for an all-terrain vehicle An axle for a vehicle includes an elongated shaft having a first end, a second end and an intermediate portion being disposed therebetween. The elongated shaft includes a predetermined diameter extending over a portion thereof. The first end of the elonga... | 07/07/1998 |
