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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 |
| 7218029 | Adjustable compensation of a piezo drive amplifier depending on mode and number of elements driven An integrated circuit (42) provides drive signals to a piezo element (48) of a milli-actuator device (20) in a mass data storage device (10). The integrated circuit (42) includes a circuit (61) for selectively operating the ... | 05/15/2007 |
| D532065 | Putter head | 11/14/2006 |
| 7132740 | Semiconductor package with conductor impedance selected during assembly A semiconductor package having a plurality of conductors arrayed in two (or more) parallel planes, and an available ground conductor. Conductors in the auxiliary or second plane substantially overlay the primary signal conductors in the first plane, and the impedanc... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7088602 | Active gate clamp circuit for self driven synchronous rectifiers A DC-DC converter circuit includes a transformer with a resonate filter or snubber connected at a primary side and a switch for controlling operation of the converter. A secondary side of the transformer includes self-driven synchronous rectifiers and an output filt... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085088 | Method of controlling reader amplifier gain variations of a HDD preamplifier, or the like An amplifier (70) has a differential input stage (84,86). An output transistor (102) is connected to receive a single ended output developed by transistor 86. First (74) and second (76) current sources are connected to estab... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7057982 | Servo error detector for optical disk A servo error detector usable in an optical disk system is provided. An envelope detecting unit (24) detects the top envelopes and bottom envelopes of RF signals SA–SH, and top envelope signals SAtop–SHtop and bottom envelope signals SAbtm–SHbtm that re... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054091 | Digital processor controlled method and circuit for retracting a head carriage assembly to a parked position in a mass data storage device, or the like A retract circuit (40) for retracting a data transducer carriage assembly (17) of a mass data storage device (10) to a retracted position has a digital state machine (55) that is user programmable to operate in a selected retract mode. An... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049842 | Simultaneous pin short and continuity test on IC packages An integrated circuit functionality test determining shorts between adjacent pins of all the IC pins while simultaneously determining pin continuity in only three steps. The process includes categorizing all pins of the IC into three sets of pins. One set of pins is... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049986 | Fuse link trim algorithm for minimum residual A parameter of an integrated circuit including a first trim array and a second trim array is trimmed by measuring an initial value of the parameter, determining whether the parameter exceeds a reference value, and as long as the parameter exceeds the reference value... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046044 | Differential preamplifier having balanced resistor network The present invention comprises a pair of circuits (171, 172) within the first stage (100) of an AC signal pre-amplifier. The present invention reduces the current mismatch at the base of the first stage transistors (141, 142, 143, 144) resultin... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047097 | High performance controller for shifting resonance in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices Devices being controlled electronically via physical manipulation often display a resonance. In many circumstances, the frequency range of operation is not close to the resonance frequency. In these cases, the resonance can be removed through the use of simple compe... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047263 | Fast-settling digital filter and method for analog-to-digital converters A technique and circuit is provided for facilitating a faster settling time for a digital filter for use with an analog-to-digital converter. An exemplary technique utilizes a composite filter for a faster settling, lower noise resolution filter in a parallel config... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042200 | Switching mode power conversion with digital compensation The present invention provides improved line and load regulation of a switching-mode power converter (300) without requiring additional capacitors (255), either internally or externally, to stabilize the control loop. The present invention can provide ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042290 | Output stage circuit for an operational amplifier An output stage circuit is configured for enabling an output of an amplifier circuit to be pulled upwards and/or downwards to or beyond an upper power supply or below a lower power supply. The exemplary output stage circuit comprises a pair of output transistors con... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042383 | High speed gain amplifier and method in ADCs An ADC implemented according to an aspect of the present invention contains a non-zero bit stage followed by a zero-bit stage. The non-zero bit stage generates a sub-code, which is used in generating a digital code corresponding to an input analog signal, and the ze... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042523 | Video correction system and method using logarithmic conversion A video correction system and method are disclosed that provide video correction for an input signal. The system includes a logarithmic converter that creates a logarithmic representation of the input signal. A configurable corrector/converter comprises a plurality ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042690 | Power-line, differential, isolation loss detector In one embodiment, an integrated differential isolation loss detector is disclosed that generates a first temperature that is a function of a high side current and a second temperature that is a function of a low side current. A temperature sensor senses the differe... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042070 | Direct attachment of semiconductor chip to organic substrate A method for attaching an integrated circuit chip to an organic substrate comprising the steps of providing an integrated circuit chip having an active and a passive surface, said active surface including a protective polymer layer; activating said polymer layer by ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035756 | Continuous digital background calibration in pipelined ADC architecture Disclosed are new methods and systems for achieving calibration in a pipelined ADC system. The methods and systems may be used to provide continuous digital background calibration in a pipelined ADC. Component mismatch error from each DAC in the pipeline is tabulate... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035027 | Circuits to achieve high data rate writing on thin film transducer The present invention covers circuits to achieve high data rate writing. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034609 | Switching circuits A technique to implement removal of dead time control circuitry from the back-end of a digital switching amplifier system 100 and add dead time control circuitry on the front-end digital modulator chip. The front-end dead time control circuitry adaptively adj... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034591 | False-lock-free delay locked loop circuit and method A phase detector in a delay locked loop circuit operates to determine the status of propagation of a first pulse of a reference clock signal (CKref) through a delay line (21). A first control signal (DOWN) is produced a in response to represent a first time a... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034542 | Current sensing circuit and method The present invention includes a plurality of FETs (211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217) including an operational amplifier with additional FETs (218, 219, 220,221) arranged as current mirrors, and a sense FET (101), and a current sensed at FET ( | 04/25/2006 |
| 7029932 | Circuit and method for measuring contact resistance Parametric testing of an integrated circuit chip includes pressing first, second, and third contact elements (PRB-1,2,3) against first, second and third terminals (P1–3), respectively, of the integrated circuit and forcing first, second, and third re... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7026801 | Guaranteed bootstrap hold-up circuit for buck high side switch A buck regulator switching power supply (10) selectively enabling a low side device to effectively recharge a bootstrap capacitor (Cboot) during a high duty cycle of operation. The switching power supply (10) includes a gate driver (12 | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023005 | Gain compensation for optocoupler feedback circuit A feedback circuit has an optical coupler with a feedback gain control. The feedback gain control includes an active element connected to vary current flow depending on changes in gain of the optical coupler. ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023647 | Fly height control for a read/write head in a hard disk drive A fly height controller (10FHC; 10FHC′) for controlling the fly height of a read/write head assembly (15) in a disk drive (20) is disclosed. A heat element resistor (30) is disposed within the read/write head assembly (15)... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017006 | System and method to enable efficient communication with a dynamic information storage and retrieval system, or the like An information storage and retrieval system (40) and method for operating same has a host device (42) and an information storage device (41), which includes mass data storage means (54), such as a DVD, a DVD RAM, CD-ROM, alone, or in comb... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015850 | Bandwidth limited sampling circuit of high linearity A bandwidth limited sampling circuit of high linearity may be implemented by using a first circuit portion to limit the bandwidth of the input signals, and using a second circuit portion to sample the bandwidth limited input signal. The first circuit portion and the... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012467 | Apparatus and method for compensating operating current in an amplifier when supply voltage varies An apparatus for compensating operating current in an amplifier device when supply voltage to the amplifier device decreases below a predetermined value at an input voltage supply locus includes: (a) A first control circuit coupled with the input voltage supply locu... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009450 | Low distortion and high slew rate output stage for voltage feedback amplifier A voltage feedback (“VF”) operational amplifier (“op-amp”) that includes a circuit operable to dynamically bias pre-driver transistors at the op amp output stage. This arrangement provides a dynamic bias from a common base gain stage (302) to the pre-... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009549 | Switched-capacitor circuit with scaled reference voltage A pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (30) with improved precision is disclosed. The pipelined ADC (30) includes a sequence of stages (20), each of which includes a sample-and-hold circuit (22), an analog-to-digital converter (... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009369 | Advanced monitoring algorithm for regulated power systems with single output flag An improved method of monitoring the output power provided by a switch mode power converter that reduces the overall cost of the converter. The method includes initiating a soft-start procedure for a first output voltage in the event the first voltage channel is ena... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7007052 | Efficient real-time computation Systems and methods for determining coefficients a filter are disclosed. The filter coefficients are computed by determining a sine of an input value and an inverse of the input value. The sine of the input signal and the inverse of the input signal are multiplied t... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006313 | Circuit and method to match common mode flex impedance and to achieve symmetrical switching voltage outputs of write driver A write driver 100, 200, 300 is implemented to provide near-ground common mode output voltages to produce a more symmetrical head voltage swing (i.e. ±0.4V from ground to ±5V supply voltages). These features help to reduce the effects of common mode impedan... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002406 | Loop filter for class D amplifiers A class-D amplifier circuit (30; 30′) providing improved open-loop error for base-band frequencies, such as the audio band, is disclosed. The amplifier circuit (30; 30′) includes a comparator (35) for generating a pulse-width-modulated outpu... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002496 | All-digital calibration of string DAC linearity using area efficient PWL approximation: eliminating hardware search and digital division A system and method of calibrating a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) such as a resistor string DAC that reduces costs by making more efficient use of integrated circuit chip area, without requiring analog calibration circuits. The DAC calibration system includes a... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998799 | System and method for improved motor control A system and method of motor control enable improved motor control by controlling a phase winding to float or enter a high impedance state prior to activating phase detection of the phase winding. Because the phase winding floats prior to phase detection, the effect... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6998898 | Programmable front end for a receiving channel The present invention discloses a circuit used to couple an input signal to an amplifier circuit. The circuit may contain a diode bridge coupled to an adjustable bias circuit. The current through the bias circuit can be adjusted such that the resistance of the diode... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995587 | Low voltage low power bandgap circuit Disclosed are methods and circuits for providing a bandgap reference in an electronic circuit having a supply voltage and ground. The methods include steps for generating a bandgap reference current, mirroring the bandgap reference current, summing the mirrored curr... | 02/07/2006 |
