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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 |
| 8174548 | Exposure head and an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, includes: a latent image carrier that moves in a first direction; an exposure head that includes a first imaging optical system, a second imaging optical system that is distanced from the first imaging optical system in the first directio... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7728856 | Light amount correcting method for light emitting apparatus, image forming apparatus, and display apparatus A light amount correcting method for a light emitting apparatus having a plurality of light emitting devices, includes: measuring light amount values of a plurality of the light emitting devices; extracting high frequency components from the measured light amount va... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7586507 | Printer for recording on a moving medium A method for forming a pixel (20) having a predetermined density onto a sensitized recording medium moving in a length direction energizes a pixel exposure source (14) to begin exposure at the leading edge (34) of a pixel (20) and for a f... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7397486 | Exposure head controller, exposure head and image formation device Provided is an exposure head controller that controls, via pulse width modulation control, the emission quantity of each light emitting element in an exposure head having a light emitting element array formed by arranging a plurality of light emitting elements in a ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7382387 | Image forming apparatus and image density correction device An image forming apparatus, having a submodule that causes non-uniformity in density in a slow-scanning direction in accordance with rotation, includes a correction image forming unit that forms an image for density correction, in cooperation with the submodule, a d... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7358983 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus for printing an image onto a recording medium based on input image data, comprises an electrostatic latent image carrier for forming an electrostatic latent image, and an exposure controller for forming the electrostatic latent image correspondi... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327379 | Pixel clock and pulse-modulation-signal generating device, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus A pixel clock and pulse-modulation-signal generating device includes a high-frequency-clock generating unit that generates a high-frequency clock; a modulation-data generating unit that generates, based on pixel control data that specifies a pixel length and image d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7286764 | Reconfigurable modulator-based optical add-and-drop multiplexer An optical add and drop multiplexer system comprising a first module for providing a first signal; a second module for providing a second signal; and a modulator for receiving a channel of the first signal at a first location, the first location configured to actuat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280127 | Scanning apparatus for laser printer The present invention relates to a scanning apparatus for a laser printer. More particularly, the present invention relates to a scanning apparatus, which is formed to allow a light modulator to be non-perpendicular to the shaft of a photosensitive drum, which is a ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277106 | Scanning apparatus having a fluorescent lamp and control method thereof A scanning apparatus having a cold cathode fluorescent lamp includes a central processing unit (CPU) controlling a scan unit to be in one of the stand-by mode, a scan mode and a sleep mode and outputting a PWM signal having a variable duty ratio based on an operatio... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268915 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, control program, and recording medium An object of this invention is to provide an image processing apparatus capable of preventing any color misregistration in printing even when the image processing apparatus is divided into a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuits. An image processing apparat... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7248278 | Apparatus and method for laser printing using a spatial light modulator The disclosure relates to a printing system having a linear diffractive spatial light modulator (LDSLM) assembly that diffracts light from a laser source according to or under the influence of an applied electric field applied to the LDSLM assembly. In one embodimen... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245311 | Image forming apparatus A photosensitive body has a photosensitive layer. An optical scanning device has a deflector deflecting a light flux emitted from a light source, and scans the surface of the photosensitive body by the thus-deflected light flux. A dot is formed at a center between a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7197487 | Apparatus and method for estimating battery state of charge A method for training a support vector machine to determine a present state of charge of an electrochemical cell system includes choosing a training data, preprocessing the training data, finding an optimal parameter of the support vector machine, and determining su... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190498 | Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same A scanning optical system using a short-wavelength light of 500 nm or less uses a reflecting mirror having a higher absolute reflectivity and having reduced wavelength and angle dependences. Divergent ray of light emitted from a semiconductor laser is converted into... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184607 | Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting sharpening weighting value A method of automatically adjusting sharpening weighting value in an image sharpening process is disclosed. The method utilizes scanning a correction board having a black reference region, a white reference region and a plurality of line pair regions to aid the calc... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177081 | High contrast grating light valve type device A grating light valve has with a plurality of spaced reflective ribbons are spatially arranged over a substrate with reflective surfaces. The grating light valve is configured to optimized the conditions for constructive and destructive interference with an incident... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7136087 | Multi-exposure drawing method and apparatus therefor In a multi-exposure drawing method for drawing a pattern on a drawing surface, using an exposure unit including a plurality of optical modulation elements arranged in both a first array-direction and a second array-direction, the exposure unit is moved in relation t... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7126146 | Device and method for detecting the edge of a recording material A device and a method for detecting the edge of a recording material, in particular, a printing plate, in an exposer for recording printing originals includes an exposer having an exposure drum holding the plate, and an exposure head moved axially along the drum and... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7088382 | Imaging optical system, image forming apparatus having the same, and a method therefor An image forming apparatus includes a semiconductor laser array to emit a plurality of laser beams through a plurality of independently controllable laser elements according to an image signal, an imaging optical system to magnify the laser beams emitted from the la... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7068372 | MEMS interferometer-based reconfigurable optical add-and-drop multiplexor The interferometer comprises a beam splitter, a mirror and a phase modulator. The beam splitter splits a signal into a first portion and a second portion. The mirror reflects the first portion. The first portion includes an optical path length, which is fixed. The p... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068406 | Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same A scanning optical system using a short-wavelength light of 500 nm or less uses a reflecting mirror having a higher absolute reflectivity and having reduced wavelength and angle dependences. Divergent ray of light emitted from a semiconductor laser is converted into... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057819 | High contrast tilting ribbon blazed grating The light modulator includes elongated elements and a support structure coupled to the elongated elements. Each element includes one or more lengthwise slits within an active optical area, and a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfac... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054515 | Diffractive light modulator-based dynamic equalizer with integrated spectral monitor An integrated device of the present invention comprises free-space optics, a bi-directional multiplexor/de-multiplexor, a diffractive light modulator, a beam splitter, an optical performance monitor, and a controller. The free-space optics collimate, transform and i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049164 | Microelectronic mechanical system and methods The current invention provides for encapsulated release structures, intermediates thereof and methods for their fabrication. The multi-layer structure has a capping layer, that preferably comprises silicon oxide and/or silicon nitride, and which is formed over an et... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042611 | Pre-deflected bias ribbons A modulator for and a method of modulating an incident beam of light including means for supporting a plurality of active elements and a plurality of bias elements, each active and bias element including a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective pl... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027202 | Silicon substrate as a light modulator sacrificial layer An optical MEM device is fabricated with a patterned device layer formed on a silicon wafer. Preferably, the patterned device layer is patterned with plurality of ribbons and/or access trenches. The central portion of the ribbon is released from the silicon wafer us... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6993255 | Method and apparatus for providing adaptive illumination An illumination system (20, 72, 110, 142) for illuminating a scene comprising: an illuminator (24, 74, 116) having a plurality of substantially contiguous independently controllable light (26, 76) providing regions each of which provides light t... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6977534 | Low voltage differential signaling [LVDS] driver with pre-emphasis A Low Voltage Differential Signaling Driver with Pre-emphasis and including a primary stage having a first switching circuit providing an output representing a sequence of pulses at a predetermined current level, a secondary stage having a second switching circuit a... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975339 | Electrostatic-writing mechanism having micromirrors to selectively direct light onto optical photoconductor mechanism An electrostatic-writing mechanism for an image-formation device having an optical photoconductor (OPC) mechanism of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that includes a light source and an array of micromirror devices. The light source is to emit light. The... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6956878 | Method and apparatus for reducing laser speckle using polarization averaging A method and apparatus for reducing speckle uses polarization averaging. A polarizing beam splitter divides a first polarized laser output into a second polarized laser output and a third polarized laser output. A plurality of mirrors creates an optical path differe... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6956995 | Optical communication arrangement An arrangement for optical communication comprises an optical coupler, an opto-electronic board, and an optical fiber. The optical fiber comprises a first refraction surface, a second refraction surface, and an internal reflector. The first refraction surface has a ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6947613 | Wavelength selective switch and equalizer A device comprising a light modulator including a plurality of elements wherein each element is selectively operable such that the plurality of elements are dynamically configurable to combine selected ones of a plurality of grating periods such that selected portio... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943817 | Color image formation apparatus An optical unit includes an incidence optical member for giving a different angle to each of a plurality of laser beams to form a color image and making the laser beam incident on a single polygon mirror rotation body; a single first reflecting mirror for reflecting... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6934070 | Chirped optical MEM device A light modulator comprises a series of ribbons divided by a series of gaps. Sequences of consecutive ribbons and gaps are grouped together to form a plurality of pixels that are configured to process a respective plurality of wavelengths. The spacing from center-li... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6927891 | Tilt-able grating plane for improved crosstalk in 1×N blaze switches A light modulator includes elongated elements arranged parallel to each other. Each elongated element includes a light reflective planar surface with the light reflective planar surfaces configured in a first grating plane. A support structure is coupled to the elon... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928207 | Apparatus for selectively blocking WDM channels An apparatus for selective blocking WDM channels comprises a light modulator, a diffraction grating, and a transform lens. The light modulator comprises an array of pixels. Each pixel of the light modulator is selectively operable to direct light into a first mode a... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927789 | Pixel clock generating device, laser scanning device, and image forming device A pixel clock generating device includes a measurement unit that measures a scanning time required for scanning a length and outputs a measured value, a pixel clock generating unit that generates a pixel clock, and a reference clock generating unit that generates a ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6927825 | Liquid crystal display using liquid crystal with bend alignment and driving method thereof When a transition voltage, which is higher than a display voltage for image display, is applied to liquid crystal, the liquid crystal can transition to a bend alignment. Therefore, by applying a transition voltage to liquid crystal prior to image display period only... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6922272 | Method and apparatus for leveling thermal stress variations in multi-layer MEMS devices A MEMS device such as a grating light valve™ light modulator is athermalized such that the force required to deflect the movable portion of the MEMS device remains constant over a range of temperatures. In MEMS embodiments directed to a grating light valve™ ligh... | 07/26/2005 |
