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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 |
| 6277077 | Catheter including ultrasound transducer with emissions attenuation A catheter including an elongated body member, an ultrasound transducer located on the elongated body member, and dampening means for forming an ultrasound dampening region adjacent to a portion of the ultrasound transducer, is disclosed. The ultrasound t... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6269473 | Method and apparatus for the development of dynamically configurable software systems A software modeling environment is presented that supports the development and execution of software that can be dynamically configured. This is achieved by introducing a design-time object modeling construct called a dynamically configurable type (DCT) t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6245319 | Colloidal dispersions of perfluoropentane Agents for enhancing the contrast in a diagnostic ultrasound procedure comprise colloidal dispersions of the liquid-in-liquid type, i.e., emulsions or microemulsions, in which the dispersed liquid phase is a liquid having a boiling point below the tempera... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6236236 | 2.5 volt input/output buffer circuit tolerant to 3.3 and 5 volts An apparatus and method of communicating signals between a 2.5 volt internal circuit and both 3.3 and 5 volt external circuits using a P-well. The apparatus includes a circuit having a P-well control circuit and a number of NMOS transistors. The P-well co... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6222383 | Controlled PMOS load on a CMOS PLA A programmable logic array (PLA) AND plane receives data input signals from input registers and generates corresponding minterms. The minterms are OR-ed together to form a sum of products, which are provided to output latches and clocked out before the en... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6208878 | Radio communication apparatus A radio communication apparatus is disclosed, that comprises a receiving portion for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a base station, the radio signal including character codes, a display portion for displaying a character string corresponding to... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6202304 | Method of making a perforated metal sheet A movable sheet overlying a wing is disclosed that creates laminar flow over its exposed surface. The movable sheet serves as an integral, retractable shield for protecting a suction support structure of a wing against contamination, and also serves as a ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6200900 | Method for formation of an air gap in an integrated circuit architecture Capacitance between interconnects lines of a semiconductor device is reduced by providing air voids between the interconnects. The air voids are produced by depositing a dielectric over and partially between the pairs of interconnects and the substrate be... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6198711 | Equalizer for optical reproducing apparatus, using partial response method An equalizer used for an optical reproducing apparatus performs an optimal equalizing operation in accordance with the spatial frequency without needing an electrical equalizer. The optical reproducing apparatus reproduces the reproducing data in the foll... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6199206 | Television transmitter, television transmitting method, television receiver and television receiving method A TV transmitter, a TV transmitting method, a TV receiver and a TV receiving method allowing users to find and choose desired programs through the use of a program guide displayed by graphical user interface (GUI). The TV transmitter comprises a signal ge... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6195848 | Slidable ratchet tensioning device and tie-down assembly A strap tensioning device that uses ratchet means to wind up and secure a tension strap in a tensioned condition for securing loads for hauling or transport. The device is adapted to be moveable along the length of a tension strap prior to tensioning the ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6194917 | XOR differential phase detector with transconductance circuit as output charge pump An apparatus for and method of reducing transistor body effect when detecting and correcting a phase error between clock signals using delay-locked and phase-locked loop circuits. The clock signals are provided to an equal number of circuit elements in cr... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6192066 | Spread spectrum communication apparatus and rake receiver A RAKE receiver includes an arithmetic circuit for weighting coefficients. The arithmetic circuit obtains the signal power for each path from the reception amplitude on the path which is detected by a transmission path characteristics detector, and also o... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6191903 | Recording medium, data transmission apparatus, data receiver, and optical disk unit This invention relates to a recording medium, data transmission apparatus, data receiver, and optical disk unit, and particularly applies to a system which transmits video data and other data or records them on an optical disk in a predetermined block uni... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6192502 | Information reproducing apparatus and reproducing method In a Viterbi decoder, an SMU is used instead of a PMU. The SMU has four status memories that process a status data value composed of a plurality of bits that represent a status at a time. The status memories generate a sequence of four status data values.... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188802 | Information input method, information input sheet, and information input apparatus An information input apparatus, an information input method, and an information input sheet which a user can easily operate without directly having to become aware of hardware are provided. An information input sheet includes a display area having an inpu... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6184859 | Picture display apparatus A picture display apparatus for enlarging a portion of a picture displayed on a screen for display on the same screen. The picture display apparatus includes a display unit having a display screen on which a picture is displayed, a specifying unit for spe... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185633 | DMA configurable receive channel with memory width N and with steering logic compressing N multiplexors A descriptor controlled transmit and receive scatter/gather Direct Memory Access Controller efficiently moves data frames comprised of scattered blocks of data from within memory to a destination interface via a multibyte-wide buffer. The transfer of fram... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6173355 | System for sending and receiving data on a universal serial bus (USB) using a memory shared among a number of endpoints An apparatus for an method of sending and receiving data on a Universal Serial Bus using a memory shared among a number of end points are disclosed. The memory is a double buffer which allows the next packet to be prepared while the current packet is bein... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6172867 | Electronic apparatus with reinforced upper case A body of an electronic apparatus includes an upper case and a lower case fitted to the upper case. A display is rotatably mounted on an outer surface of the upper case. A keyboard is attached to an inner surface of the upper case, and a shield plate is f... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6171018 | Automatic control system for construction machinery An automatic control system for a construction machine includes the construction machine provided with a ground leveling implement, a target, and a laser sensor; a survey unit that has a coordinate position measuring element and projects a beam of trackin... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6166963 | Dual port memory with synchronized read and write pointers A FIFO stack is implemented using a DPRAM. One of the ports of the DPRAM is used to add elements to the FIFO stack, and the other port is used to remove elements from the FIFO stack. The ports operate in separate clock domains. A synchronization circuit c... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6160845 | Picture encoding device, picture encoding method, picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and recording medium A compressed picture signal having a number of pixels smaller than the number of pixels of an original picture signal is generated, and plural patterns of prediction pixels are formed by using neighboring pixels of as notable pixel which is one of pixels ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6157975 | Apparatus and method for providing an interface to a compound Universal Serial Bus controller A method and apparatus for providing a programming interface to a Universal Serial Bus Device. The programming interface is partitioned so that an external controller does not handle intermediate transfers such as packet retry, handshake packets or interm... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6154501 | Method and apparatus for combining transponders on multiple satellites into virtual channels A satellite communications system provides an information channel between remotely located transmitters and receivers. A virtual satellite system provides the same service, but divides the signal either in power or in data content into subchannels such th... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6148043 | Viterbi decoder and viterbi decoding method In a branch metric calculating circuit, using a sample value `y` input from an A/D converter and reference levels {-1, -1/2, 1/2, 1}, branch metric calculation is performed by squaring a difference between the sample value `y` and each of the reference le... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6145045 | System for sending and receiving data on a Universal Serial Bus (USB) using a memory shared among a number of end points An apparatus for an method of sending and receiving data on a Universal Serial Bus using a memory shared among a number of endpoints are disclosed. The memory is a double buffer which allows the next packet to be prepared while the current packet is being... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6141489 | Data recording device, date reproducing device and data recording medium for managing encoded data over a plurality of recording media A data recording device that can easily and reliably manage a plurality of recording media or information recording surfaces even when a data compression rate largely varies with the contents of the data and that can record, for example, mass image data b... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6139275 | Impeller for use in cooling dynamoelectric machine An impeller used for cooling a dynamoelectric machine such as electric motors includes a disk and a plurality of blades arranged on the disk in a circle at unequal spaces so that a position angle θn of an n-th blade is met by an equation: θn=θn0+θmaxÃ... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6141217 | Enclosed control device In an enclosed control device including a casing enclosing an electronic circuit in a closed state, a centrifugal fan is also enclosed in the casing for enhancing the cooling of the electronic circuit. With a smoothing capacitor and a semiconductor elemen... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6138149 | System for tracking information copied from a web page and sent via electronic mail The electronic mail editing section 26 has a function of editing an electronic mail and inserts a stored index sticker into the text of the electronic mail. The edited electronic mail after insertion of the index sticker is sent to the electronic mail tra... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6137946 | Picture editing apparatus and method using virtual buffer estimation A bit stream C is composed in editing work at a high processing speed wherein at least a portion of a bit stream A resulting from MPEG encoding is concatenated with at least a portion of a bit stream B also resulting from MPEG encoding. The amount of data... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6134626 | Method and apparatus for recording data using multiple buffers In an information recording method and its device to sequentially write data on a recording medium on a fixed data basis, a command to write the first data formed of the fixed data basis is transmitted from the fixed file system to the writing means of th... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134155 | Synchronized circuit for coordinating address pointers across clock domains A FIFO stack is implemented using a DPRAM. One of the ports of the DPRAM is used to add elements to the FIFO stack, and the other port is used to remove elements from the FIFO stack. The ports operate in separate clock domains. A synchronization circuit c... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6134198 | Optical disc apparatus and tracking error signal calculation circuit A tracking error signal calculation circuit has peak detection multiplication circuits which detect the peaks of the detection signals of left and right regions of a photodiode and multiply a coefficient for detecting the deviation of the beam light with ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130866 | Error-correcting storage medium reproduction apparatus and method using frames and synchronization patterns A storage medium reproduction apparatus for reproducing data from a storage medium for storing data which are divided into frames of a predetermined length, each of the frames comprising a synchronizing pattern. The apparatus comprises a synchronizing pat... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6119119 | Data supplying method and device therefor In a data providing method and device thereof for providing data in a simple manner at a highly efficient transmission rate, first data of a configuration where information relating to a valid period of data is added to the data is made and provided, with... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6115513 | Information input method and apparatus using a target pattern and an access indication pattern An information input method and interface, which can easily be operated without direct awareness of hardware, are provided. Image recognition is performed with an image recognition unit on image information obtained from imaging a target pattern on an obj... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6110557 | Vertical-magnetic-recording medium with barium ferrite magnetic layer A very-high-performance ultrahigh-density vertical-magnetic-recording disk and associated method of manufacture is disclosed. The magnetic-recording disk has a rigid disk-shaped substrate composed of a titanium alloy or an austenitic stainless steel, an i... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6112180 | Data transmission and reception methods and data transmission and reception apparatus The invention provides data transmission and reception methods and apparatus by which timer reservation of a program can be performed readily. A data signal including program information generated from a program information generation section is added to ... | 08/29/2000 |
