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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 |
| 6864552 | Focal plane arrays in type II-superlattices The subject invention comprises a type-II superlattice photon detector and focal planes array and method for making. The device may be either a binary or tertiary system with a type-II band alignment. ... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6864511 | Optical transmission module and the production method of the same An optical transmission module with an optical device mounted in a substrate provided with an optical waveguide is provided wherein respective metallic electrodes in pair are symmetrically disposed in each side of an optical device divided by a centerline parallel t... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6864415 | Photoelectric cell and process for producing metal oxide semiconductor film for use in photoelectric cell A photoelectric cell that includes a first insulating base, having on its surface a first electrode layer, which has on its surface a metal oxide semiconductor film, which includes anatase titanium oxide particles, on which a photosensitizer is absorbed and a second... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6864414 | Apparatus and method for integral bypass diode in solar cells A solar cell having a multijunction solar cell structure with a bypass diode is disclosed. The bypass diode provides a reverse bias protection for the multijunction solar cell structure. In one embodiment, the multifunction solar cell structure includes a substrate,... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6861722 | Solid state heterojunction and solid state sensitized photovoltaic cell A solid state p-n heterojunction comprising an electron conductor and a hole conductor; it further comprises a sensitising semiconductor, said sensitizing semiconductor being located at an interface between said electron conductor and said hole conductor. In particu... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6853042 | Hybrid optical element and photodetector device The present invention concerns a hybrid optical element including at least one optical element (2) attached to one surface of a substrate (1), a semiconductor laser (3) and a photodetector (4) attached to the other surface of the substrat... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6849914 | Thermo-optic semiconductor device A thermo-optic semiconductor device has one semiconductor region providing an optical waveguide and an adjacent semiconductor region providing a resistive heater between two doped regions, current may be passed through the resistive heater within the adjacent semico... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6849798 | Photovoltaic cell using stable Cu2O nanocrystals and conductive polymers The present invention relates to the use of a nanocrystalline layer of Cu2O in the construction of photovoltaic cells to increase the ability of the photovoltaic cells to utilize UV radiations for photocurrent generation. ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6846696 | Method for manufacturing solar battery The invention is aimed to prevent that fall of characteristic of a solar battery and producing yield caused by particles of powder condition generating from working part at laser beam process in the method producing the solar battery by laser beam process. The const... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6846694 | Semiconductor device with built-in light receiving element, production method thereof, and optical pickup incorporating the same A method for producing a semiconductor device with a built-in light receiving element is provided. The device comprises a light receiving element region for receiving and converting an optical signal to an electric signal, the light receiving element region being pr... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6846984 | Solar cell and method for making a solar cell A solar cell with buried contacts in recesses (7) on a first surface (2). On a lateral face (4), a metal layer (12) is produced. The metal layer (12) extends into a lateral zone (9) of a second surface (3) opposite th... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6841842 | Method and apparatus for electrical-optical packaging with capacitive DC shunts An optical-electrical (OE) package includes a substrate electrically coupled to a motherboard via one or more capacitor DC shunts (CDCSs). In one embodiment, the substrate includes an IC chip electrically coupled to a first set of contact-receiving members on an upp... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6838743 | Optoelectronic material, device using the same and method for manufacturing optoelectronic material This invention relates an optoelectronic material comprising a uniform medium with a controllable electric characteristic; and semiconductor ultrafine particles dispersed in the medium and having a mean particle size of 100 nm or less, and an application device usin... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6838739 | Component with a label For labeling a component provided with a metallic cover layer, it is proposed that at least one additional contrast layer is arranged over the cover layer. The contrast layer produces an optical contrast with the metallic cover layer and is capable of being eroded b... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6831341 | Photocathode having AlGaN layer with specified Mg content concentration Ultraviolet light incident from the side of a surface layer 5 passes through the surface layer 5 to reach an optical absorption layer 4. Light which reaches the optical absorption layer 4 is absorbed within the optical absorption layer | 12/14/2004 |
| 6828595 | Light shield cum gap fill scheme for microdisplay backplane fabrication A light shield apparatus and formation method for preventing the transmission of incident light towards active devices of the display. In one embodiment, the present invention recites forming a plurality of metal pixels wherein adjacent ones of the plurality of meta... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6819839 | Tapered waveguide photodetector apparatus and methods Waveguide photodetector apparatus and methods employing an optical waveguide having a tapered section, which may be horizontally tapered, vertically tapered, or both. The apparatus also includes a photodetector with an intrinsic region, which in one embodiment may b... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6818933 | CMOS image sensors An active pixel array has the signal output of each pixel connected to a first column conductor, and a reset switch connected to a second column conductor. The first and second column conductors are connected to a read-reset amplifier. The read-reset amplifier opera... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6815792 | Epitaxially grown compound semiconductor film and compound semiconductor multi-layer structure The present invention provides an epitaxially grown compound semiconductor film having a low density of crystal defects which are generated during the course of crystal growth of a compound semiconductor. The present invention also provides a compound semiconductor ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6811324 | Method and apparatus for incorporating a low contrast interface and a high contrast interface into an optical device Methods and apparatuses for incorporating low contrast and high contrast interfaces in optical devices. In one embodiment an insulator is disposed proximate to a plurality of regions of a semiconductor including regions through which an optical beam is directed. Hig... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6809389 | Fill pattern generation for spin-on glass and related self-planarization deposition A reticle for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The reticle includes cutouts that permit material deposited through the reticle and onto a surface of a semiconductor device being manufactured to form the shape of the cutouts. Shapes defined in the cutouts and pr... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6809355 | Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device having a gate structure including an oxide film and a nitride film includes upper layer films (for example, a planarization film, an insulating film, and a protective film) allowing ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 400 nm or less ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6803651 | Optoelectronic semiconductor package device An optoelectronic semiconductor package device includes a semiconductor chip, an insulative housing and a conductive trace, wherein the chip includes an upper surface and a lower surface, the upper surface includes a light sensitive cell and a conductive pad, the in... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6803639 | Photo-semiconductor module and method for manufacturing the same In a photo-semiconductor module of the present invention, a light-receiving photo-semiconductor device is mounted flip-chip-wise on a circuit board to then fix an optical fiber to a mounting face of the light-receiving photo-semiconductor or a back face of this moun... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6800943 | Solid image pickup device There is provided an extremely miniaturized solid image pickup apparatus having a bare-chip-on-bare-chip structure in which a bare chip of a solid image pickup device is directly mounted on an LSI bare chip including a driving circuit, and the bare chips are electri... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6800915 | Push-pull configurations for semiconductor device having a PN-Junction with a photosensitive region A semiconductor device that has a p-n junction with a photosensitive region partially having a diffusion region and a non-diffused region when the p-n junction is subjected to a reverse bias voltage. When an incident light (e.g. a laser) is directed at the surface o... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6797874 | Layers, coatings or films synthesized using precursor layer exerted pressure containment Systems and methods are described for synthesis of films, coatings or layers using precursor exerted pressure containment. A method includes exerting a pressure between a first precursor layer that is coupled to a first substrate and a second precursor layer that is... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6797938 | Polarimetric optical device with an insulating layer between detectors This optical polarimetric detector comprises: a first active detector element having a photoconductor (1) with which a first diffraction grating (3) is associated allowing incident light from a first specific polarization direction to be coupled... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6791842 | Image sensor structure An image sensor includes a substrate, a frame layer, signal input terminals, a photosensitive chip, a transparent layer, a plurality of wires and a glue layer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The frame layer is placed on the first surface to ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6787819 | Retrograde well structure for a CMOS imager A retrograde well structure for a CMOS imager that improves the quantum efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio of the imager. The retrograde well comprises a doped region with a vertically graded dopant concentration that is lowest at the substrate surface, and highes... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6787424 | Fully depleted SOI transistor with elevated source and drain A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit utilizes a thin film substrate. The method includes providing a mask structure on a top surface of the thin film, depositing a semiconductor material above the top surface of the thin film and the mask structure, remov... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6784511 | Resin-sealed laser diode device In a resin-sealed laser diode device, in order to prevent the sealing resin on the front light-emitting end face of the laser diode chip from being deteriorated by the laser beam, a thermosetting rubber-like organic silicone resin layer is formed on the front light-... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6784466 | Si/SiGe optoelectronic integrated circuits An integrated optoelectronic circuit and process for making is described incorporating a photodetector and a MODFET on a chip. The chip contains a single-crystal semiconductor substrate, a buffer layer of SiGe graded in composition, a relaxed SiGe layer, a quantum w... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6781147 | Lateral current blocking light emitting diode and method of making the same A lateral current blocking light emitting diode (LED) and a method of making the same are disclosed. The present invention features in that a trench is formed between the two electrodes via the technique of such as etching, wherein the depth of the trench reaches to... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6780665 | Photovoltaic cells from silicon kerf The disclosure describes an economical and environmentally benign method to recover crystalline silicon metal kerf from wiresaw slurries and to shape and sinter said recovered crystalline silicon kerf into thin-layer PV cell configurations with enhanced surface text... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6777767 | Methods for producing packaged integrated circuit devices & packaged integrated circuit devices produced thereby A crystalline substrate based device includes a crystalline substrate having formed thereon a microstructure, and a transparent packaging layer which is sealed over the microstructure by an adhesive and defines therewith at least one gap between the crystalline subs... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6777727 | Flexural plate wave systems An exemplary system and method for providing an acoustic plate wave apparatus is disclosed as comprising inter alia: a monocrystalline silicon substrate (200); an amorphous oxide material (220); a monocrystalline perovskite oxide material (230);... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6774447 | Package having an opening in a surface thereof for mounting a solid state image sensor The package for mounting a solid state image sensor is a box-type resin package having in its bottom surface an opening for allowing light to pass so that a solid state image sensor may be mounted face down there. In the package, a three-dimensional circuit is forme... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6774396 | Thin film transistor type optical sensor A image detector comprises a light source for radiating light in accordance with a predetermined signal; a window for transmitting the light from the light source; a thin film phototransistor for generating an optical current in accordance with the intensity of exte... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6774300 | Apparatus and method for photovoltaic energy production based on internal charge emission in a solid-state heterostructure An apparatus and method for solar energy production comprises a multi-layer solid-state structure including a photosensitive layer, a thin conductor, a charge separation layer, and a back ohmic conductor, wherein light absorption occurs in a photosensitive layer and... | 08/10/2004 |
