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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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Class 331/186 - Regulated


Subclass of Class 331 - Oscillators
Definition: Subject matter wherein means are provided for automatically
No. of patents: 186
Last issue date: 01/29/2013


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NumberTitleIssue Date
5844446Oscillator based tamperproof precision timing circuit
An oscillator that has a substantially-constant voltage source configured such that it does not require the voltage source to be tuned to a particular voltage to oscillate a particular frequency. The oscillator has greater precision and reliability since ...
12/01/1998
5834983Wideband oscillator with automatic bias control
A bipolar negative resistance UHF oscillator having a voltage tunable resonator in its emitter circuit is operated at a fixed collector bias current and an RF detector is used as a convenient way to determine the RF current at which the oscillator is oper...
11/10/1998
5834982Quick starting oscillator circuit having low power consumption
Supplied with a power source, an output level of an oscillating circuit gradually increases until the oscillator circuit reaches its steady oscillation. A level monitor monitors the output level, and produces a control signal if the output level is less t...
11/10/1998
5825255Oscillator starting circuit
An oscillator in which the transconductance of an amplification transistor (T0) is limited through a measurement of the potential at the input electrode (G0) of the amplification transistor (T0) by means of a differential pair (T1, T2) for safeguarding th...
10/20/1998
5821829Integrated circuit waith automatic compensation for deviations of the capacitances from nominal values
The system includes various circuit units each having a capacitor and a charging circuit for defining a quantity depending upon the ratio (I/C) between the charging current and the capacitance of the capacitors. In order to compensate automatically for de...
10/13/1998
5719534Semiconductor integrated circuit having low power consumption oscillator
A semiconductor integrated circuit has a constant voltage generation circuit and an oscillation circuit for generating a clock signal. The constant voltage generation circuit supplies a first voltage to the oscillation circuit until the clock signal is st...
02/17/1998
5714912VCO supply voltage regulator
A voltage-controlled oscillator includes at least one voltage-controlled delay element and a reference voltage generator. The voltage-controlled delay element has first and second voltage supply inputs, a control voltage input, a signal input and a signal...
02/03/1998
5686867Regulated supply for voltage controlled oscillator
A monolithic CMOS phase-lock loop (PLL) circuit provides a high frequency of operation suitable for RF applications. The PLL produces an output clock with high spectral purity and very low jitter. The output clock has a low static phase error relative to ...
11/11/1997
5650754Phase-loched loop circuits and voltage controlled oscillator circuits
Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuits include a VCO and voltage regulator provided on an integrated VCO module, balanced control input for the VCO, buffering of the VCO and frequency multiplication of the VCO output signal. Such improved VCO circui...
07/22/1997
5638030High frequency differential VCO with common biased clipper
A VCO includes a ring oscillator formed by connecting a plurality of voltage controlled inverting delay cells together, a biasing circuit for providing a bias voltage to each of the voltage controlled inverting delay cells, and a source-follower transisto...
06/10/1997
5606294Automatic gain control circuit and method
An automatic gain control circuit and method ensure feedback for oscillator circuitry fabricated on a single semiconductor chip to adapt to the Q value established by a resonator circuit connected to the oscillator circuitry, and to ensure that gain is ma...
02/25/1997
5604466On-chip voltage controlled oscillator
An on-chip voltage controlled oscillator for use in an analog phase locked loop receives power from a voltage regulator which greatly reduces the noise seen by the voltage controlled oscillator. The voltage controlled oscillator has a DC bias section whic...
02/18/1997
5596302Ring oscillator using even numbers of differential stages with current mirrors
A ring oscillator having an even number of differential amplifier stages is disclosed wherein each stage includes a differential amplifier using two N-channel MOSFETs whose gates serve as the inputs and whose drains serve as the outputs of the stage. The ...
01/21/1997
5585765Low power RC oscillator using a low voltage bias circuit
A low power RC oscillator includes a low power bias circuit and an RC network. The RC network is used to form a time constant equal to the RC product. However, this RC time constant is not used in the manner of a typical RC network to set the frequency of...
12/17/1996
5581216Low jitter voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit
A voltage controlled oscillator circuit includes a predetermined number of interconnected differential comparator cells having source connected p-channel and n-channel transistors, a biasing transistor connected to the sources of the p-channel or n-channe...
12/03/1996
5574405Low noise amplifier/mixer/frequency synthesizer circuit for an RF system
A low noise amplifier (LNA)/mixer/frequency synthesizer circuit for the front end of a RF system. The LNA/mixer/frequency synthesizer circuit is fabricated as an integrated circuit utilizing 0.6 μM CMOS technologies. The LNA within the circuit is provide...
11/12/1996
5568099High frequency differential VCO with common biased clipper
A VCO includes a ring oscillator formed by connecting a plurality of voltage controlled inverting delay cells together, a biasing circuit for providing a bias voltage to each of the voltage controlled inverting delay cells, and a source-follower transisto...
10/22/1996
5544120Semiconductor integrated circuit including ring oscillator of low current consumption
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a bias voltage regulation circuit having variable resistors which are provided between voltage output circuits of higher and lower potential sides and changes corresponding to a specified condition such as V
08/06/1996
5491441Method and apparatus for generating a clock signal from a continuous oscillator signal including a translator circuit
A method and apparatus are provided for translating small voltage continuous signals into large full supply signals to generate a clock signal. At least one oscillator input signal is applied to a first amplifier stage for generating an amplified voltage ...
02/13/1996
5485126Ring oscillator circuit having output with fifty percent duty cycle
A ring oscillator circuit which provides an output signal having a substantially constant, fifty (50%) percent duty cycle. The circuit includes a plurality of cascaded inverting stages, each of which has an input circuit for detecting an output voltage of...
01/16/1996
5481229Low power temperature compensated crystal oscillator
A temperature compensated crystal oscillator (10), has a crystal oscillator circuit (12), a voltage controlled reactance element (30), a temperature compensation network (50), and a programmable DC-DC converter network (60) having an output (62) connected...
01/02/1996
5442325Voltage-controlled oscillator and system with reduced sensitivity to power supply variation
The voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) of the present invention is designed with reduced sensitivity to power supply voltage variations. The VCO includes multiple inverter stages with dc supply inputs tied to a filtered control dc signal, and a disabling...
08/15/1995
5440277VCO bias circuit with low supply and temperature sensitivity
A novel bias generator circuit for a voltage controlled oscillator is described. The bias generator allows the VCO frequency to be made essentially independent of the supply voltage and temperature....
08/08/1995
5359300Phase locked loop (PLL) having a power supply circuit
A phase locked loop PLL circuitry for use in a radio pager. A power source applies a voltage to a charge pump circuit. A power supply control circuit controls the application of the voltage....
10/25/1994
5325074Oscillator with supply voltage changeover according to activated and disabled states of a microcomputer
A microcomputer in which an oscillating circuit provided therein is activated both when the microcomputer is in an activated state and when it is in a disabled state is provided with a changeover circuit for changing over a supply voltage of the oscillati...
06/28/1994
5311476Semiconductor memory, components and layout arrangements thereof, and method of testing the memory
There is provided in connection with a semiconductor memory, such as of the pseudostatic RAM, a layout of the circuit components thereof including a method of testing the memory. There is provided an oscillation circuit which is capable of withstanding bu...
05/10/1994
5302921Piezoelectric oscillator having reduced radiation of higher harmonics
A piezoelectric oscillator in which radiation of higher harmonic components is reduced. A piezoelectric vibrator and a semiconductor device are provided in an oscillation circuit for making the piezoelectric vibrator oscillate, as is a filter for cutting ...
04/12/1994
5212460Crystal oscillation circuit with voltage regulating circuit
A crystal oscillation circuit has a constant-current load type inverter circuit receiving a regulated supply voltage from a voltage regulating circuit and functioning as an inverting amplifier for oscillation; a feedback circuit connected between an input...
05/18/1993
5202647Apparatus and method for generating clock pulses having a stable duty ratio
An apparatus for generating clock pulses comprises a Colpitts-type quartz crystal oscillator having an inverter composed of a C-MOS integrated circuit, and a quartz-crystal resonator connected with said inverter, and an amplifying circuit for amplifying t...
04/13/1993
5180992PLL frequency synthesizer having a power saving circuit
A PLL frequency synthesizer includes a reset circuit which determines whether or not an oscillator starts to normally generate an oscillation signal in response to a power save signal which intermittently operates the oscillator in a standby mode and whic...
01/19/1993
5180995Temperature-compensated ring oscillator circuit formed on a semiconductor substrate
An improved ring oscillator is disclosed which can be formed in a semiconductor substrate. The ring oscillator includes inverters cascaded in a ring-like manner, and a diffused resistor R1 having a positive temperature coefficient and a polysilicon resist...
01/19/1993
5179358Circuit, counter and frequency synthesizer with adjustable bias current
An electronic circuit (100) includes a load stage circuit (116) having at least one FET (118 and 120). The load stage circuit (116) includes an adjustment terminal responsive to an adjustment voltage for controlling the load resistance of the FET (118 and...
01/12/1993
5175512High speed, power supply independent CMOS voltage controlled ring oscillator with level shifting circuit
A high speed voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) providing for low sensitivity to the noise on the integrated circuit's (IC) power supply. The VCO circuit creates a supply voltage for a ring oscillator independent of the IC's power supply thereby controll...
12/29/1992
5172078Differential oscillator with common mode control
An oscillator circuit uses a differential oscillator and differential amplifier to generate a symmetrical single-ended output signal. The differential oscillator generates a differential oscillator signal having an adjustable zero-crossing point in respon...
12/15/1992
5140286Oscillator with bias and buffer circuits formed in a die mounted with distributed elements on ceramic substrate
A voltage controlled oscillator and buffer amplifier circuit (211) is disclosed. The circuit is in a stacked configuration, whereby, the current from the power supply (361) is used by the buffer amplifier circuit and reused by the VCO circuit. The VCO cir...
08/18/1992
5126695Semiconductor integrated circuit device operated with an applied voltage lower than required by its clock oscillator
A semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises a first oscillator circuit driven by a first voltage for generating a first clock signal employed as the internal system clock signal for an internal circuit in the integrated circuit device and a second...
06/30/1992
4884043High-frequency generator
A high-frequency generator 1 includes a multigrid electron tube (2). A current source circuit (10) is connected to the control grid (3) or the screen grid (4) of the electron tube (2) and is arranged as an optionally adjustable current source which is als...
11/28/1989
4783620Constant voltage circuit having an operation-stop function
A constant voltage circuit comprises a capacitor connected between one end of a MOS transistor controlled by an operation-stop control signal and an output terminal of an inverter for inverting the operation-stop control signal. When, in the circuit havin...
11/08/1988
4714901Temperature compensated complementary metal-insulator-semiconductor oscillator
A temperature compensated complementary metal-insulator-semiconductor oscillator receives a temperature independent reference voltage from an external source. The temperature independent reference voltage is attenuated and summed with a threshold voltage ...
12/22/1987
4631496Battery saving system for a frequency synthesizer
A frequency synthesized transceiver capable of tuning to a plurality of communication channels is disclosed. The transceiver includes a receiver and a transmitter section which are coupled to the synthesizer which generates the appropriate injection signa...
12/23/1986
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