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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 418/171 - Inner member has five or more teeth


Subclass of Class 418 - Rotary expansible chamber devices
Definition: Apparatus in which rotary internal reacting member is provided
No. of patents: 247
Last issue date: 02/07/2012


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8109747Drive system having a variable output gerotor pump
A variable output assembly including a hydraulic pump disposed on a pump running surface located on a center section, end cap or other hydraulic mounting member. The pump may be a gerotor or other rotatable pump body. A support member is disposed between the pump ru...
02/07/2012
8038423Electric pump with relief valve
According to an aspect of the present invention, an electric pump includes: a housing; an outer rotor; an inner rotor; a base member facing one side surface of the outer rotor and one side surface of the inner rotor; a side plate member, having a facing surface faci...
10/18/2011
7931454Pump device
A bearing is located with movement of an outer race in the longitudinal direction of a drive shaft being restricted, and the drive shaft is fixed to an inner race with the press fit, so that, it is possible to prevent the drive shaft from escaping. In addition, the ...
04/26/2011
7922468Gear pump with improved inlet port
A gear pump is provided and includes an inlet port which terminates, in the pumping direction of the rotor set, in a radially inwardly extending ramp portion. The ramp portion operates to direct working fluid from an inlet radially inwardly into a pumping chamber of...
04/12/2011
7909593Power transfer device with torque limited pump
A lube pump is provided for supplying lubricant to various components of a power transmission unit of the type used in motor vehicles. The lube pump includes a pump assembly and a coupling mechanism for releaseably coupling the pump assembly to a driven shaft. The c...
03/22/2011
7819645Internal gear pump
In an internal gear pump of the present invention, a first angle that is formed by a first straight line that connects a rotation axis of an inner rotor to a tooth tip portion of an external tooth in the rotational direction of the inner rotor and an outer rotor, an...
10/26/2010
7798792Power transfer assembly with high efficiency pump
A pump assembly includes a pump housing, a stator ring supported within the pump housing, and a pump ring also rotatably supported within the pump housing. The pump ring interfaces with the stator ring to define a plurality of variable volume pressure chambers. A co...
09/21/2010
7717689Rotor apparatus of pump including a drive shaft with a plurality of arcuate circumferential surface sections
To provide a rotor apparatus of a pump in which pressure release in the air gap between an oil seal and an inner rotor is conducted smoothly and good durability and sealing ability of the oil seal is maintained and which has a very simple structure and allows the in...
05/18/2010
7699590Oil pump and automatic transmission including the same
An oil pump includes a pump cover covering a recess in a side face of a pump body to form a gear compartment therebetween. A drive gear and a rotatably driven gear are meshed and mounted in the gear compartment. Working spaces R are formed by the engagement of the m...
04/20/2010
7641457Internal gear pump
The invention relates to an internal gear pump including: a rotor member including an outer rotor provided with inner teeth to which a torque supplied from a driving device is transmittable; an inner rotor provided with outer teeth engageable with the inner teeth of...
01/05/2010
7572117Inner rotor of internal gear pump having convex small circular arc parts
A crankshaft and an mounting hole have two main circular arc parts on the same circle; and two connecting parts for connecting the adjacent main circular arc parts, and have a cross-sectional shape in which the connecting parts facing each other are substantially pa...
08/11/2009
7503757Oil pump having rotor receiving portion for restriction moving range of an outer rotor in a direction perpendicular to an eccentric direction
An oil pump includes a housing including a rotor receiving portion at an inner side and an inner rotor accommodated in the rotor receiving portion formed at the housing. The inner rotor includes a plurality of outer teeth sequentially arranged at an outer peripheral...
03/17/2009
7445438Torque limited lube pump for power transfer devices
A lube pump is provided for supplying lubricant to various components of a power transmission unit of the type used in motor vehicles. The lube pump includes a pump assembly and a coupling mechanism for releaseably coupling the pump assembly to a driven shaft. The c...
11/04/2008
7438542Fluid pump assembly
A fluid pump assembly comprises a pump housing and a fluid pump disposed within the pump housing. The fluid pump has axially opposite first and second side faces and includes cooperating impeller and rotor members. The fluid pump assembly further comprises inlet and...
10/21/2008
7427192Toothing of a toothed wheel
A toothing of a toothed wheel, consisting of tooth tips and tooth roots of teeth which are formed by second or higher order curves, wherein said curves point tangentially toward each other at their ends, and wherein at least the curves forming the tooth tips or at l...
09/23/2008
7427191Oil pump
In an oil pump employing a cam ring, and inner and outer rotors in meshed-engagement, two housings are provided at opposite ends of the cam ring. A plurality of volume chambers are defined between inner and outer teeth of the rotors. Two axial holes are formed in th...
09/23/2008
7410349High efficiency gerotor pump
A pump assembly includes a pump housing, a stator ring supported within the pump housing, and a pump ring also rotatably supported within the pump housing. The pump ring interfaces with the stator ring to define a plurality of variable volume pressure chambers. A co...
08/12/2008
7407373Internal gear pump and an inner rotor of such a pump
An inner motor is structured to increase the discharge rate of an internal gear pump by making it possible to freely adjust the eccentricity e between the inner and outer rotors. Each tooth of the inner rotor includes a tooth bottom defined by hypocycloidal curves, ...
08/05/2008
7399171Rotary pump for braking device
The curvature of a circular arc constituted by a side of a suction groove is made larger than that of a circular arc constituted by a side of a discharge groove. Thus, when the suction groove and the discharge groove are viewed in the axial direction of a drive shaf...
07/15/2008
7390180Oil pumping device of hermetic compressor
A hermetic compressor uses an oil pump that includes a trochoid gear. Therefore, regardless of the rotation speed of a driving motor of the compressor, a sufficient amount of oil can always be pumped. The oil pump unit may include a plurality of suction holes with o...
06/24/2008
7374411Oil pump adapted to prevent leakage without using sealing member
An oil pump is provided which includes a cam ring made of a material having a first line expansion coefficient, a pump element rotatably disposed in the cam ring and smaller in an axial length than the cam ring, a first housing member disposed on one of axially oppo...
05/20/2008
7367782Pump plate of a rotary feed pump
In a pump plate (26) of a feed pump, an inlet port (26b) and an outlet port (26c) are formed around a shaft hole (26a) through which a driving shaft is inserted, and a rib (26f), which partitions each of...
05/06/2008
7364018Oil pump drive assembly
An oil pump drive assembly for an automobile engine includes an oil pump and a drive shaft. The drive shaft is rotatably secured to the oil pump for actuating the oil pump in response to rotation of the drive shaft. The drive shaft extends between a pump end secured...
04/29/2008
7361002Oil pump
An oil pump to be insatalled to an engine of an automotive vehicle. The oil pump includes a section defining a suction port and a section defining a discharge port. A main unit of the oil pump has a section defining a plurality of pump chambers. Volume of each pump ...
04/22/2008
7347678Friction reducing seal ring for gear pump
A seal ring for improving the performance of a gear pump, primarily for vehicle transmissions, comprises the milling of a circular ring on at least one lateral face of an inner gear and an outer gear in a gear pump and inserting a friction reducing ring within the m...
03/25/2008
7318422Fluid pump assembly
A fluid pump includes an electric motor with a casing and a drive shaft extending from the casing, a pumping element coupled to the drive shaft for rotation with the shaft to take in fluid and discharge it under pressure. The fuel pump casing may be sealed and a hou...
01/15/2008
7290995Tandem type trochoid pump and method of assembling the same
A tandem type trochoid pump is comprised of a drive shaft having a non-circular end portion, a spacer positioned between a first trochoid pump and a second trochoid pump in a housing body, a first fixing portion for fixing a first inner rotor of the first trochoid p...
11/06/2007
7278841Gerotor pump
Improved gerotor pumps comprising laterally constrained floating rings, thereby providing an orthogonal degree-of-freedom and allowing gerotor sets positioned therein to establish their own preferred mesh orientation, and additionally wherein the outer rotor of the ...
10/09/2007
7255544Housing including shock valves for use in a gerotor motor
A housing for a motor having fluid passages integrated within. The passages include a first passage for receiving a fluid from outside the motor, a second passage for directing the fluid away from the motor, and at least one other passage from conveying the fluid to...
08/14/2007
7241122Internal gear pump with recesses on the gear bearing surfaces
A positive-displacement pump, in particular for use in machines or dispensing fluids, including two elements that are with respect to one another and which mesh with one another (20, 30), each of them being rotatably mounted in the pump with centered coupling...
07/10/2007
7220111Hydraulic pump
A fluid pump includes a housing having a lateral wall and an end wall, an insert located in the housing surrounded by the lateral wall and including a body having a central aperture and inlet and outlet fluid channels. A seal, located between the end wall and the in...
05/22/2007
7207050Disk drive provided with tray
A disk drive with a tray that can be smoothly taken in and out without a gear coming-off from a rack. The tray includes, on its back surface side, a cam wall and a gear escape-preventing wall in parallel to each other along the rack with a predetermined spacing ther...
04/17/2007
7195467Internal gear machine with variable capacity
A fluidic machine has a fixed body, an external orbital member rotatable around a first rotational axis and internal gear teeth including a first teeth number, a transmission member rotatable around a second rotational axis, an internal orbital member supported by t...
03/27/2007
7188601Oil pump for engine using gerotors having fully filtered oil flow
The oil pump has a cam support plate attached to the engine block. The support plate has a pressure relief valve. An oil pump body assembly has a pair of gerotors on each side. The gerotors are attached to and driven by a shaft attached to the rear cam. ...
03/13/2007
7186101Gerotor apparatus for a quasi-isothermal Brayton cycle Engine
According to one embodiment of the invention, a gerotor apparatus includes an outer gerotor having an outer gerotor chamber, an inner gerotor, at least a portion of which is disposed within the outer gerotor chamber, and a synchronizing apparatus operable to control...
03/06/2007
7165955Trochoid type oil pump
It is an object of the present invention to provide a trochoid type oil pump in which erosion of the rotor surfaces caused by cavitation is minimized, vibration and noise are reduced, and the structure is greatly simplified. The trochoid type oil pump of the present...
01/23/2007
7156623Electric oil pump apparatus
An electric oil pump apparatus includes a pump housing a drive side communicating portion, a motor housing having a pump side communicating portion communicating with the drive side communicating portion, a bearing portion arranged at one of the drive side communica...
01/02/2007
7156625Fuel pump with filter-absent safety valve and universal inlet and outlet
Fuel pump 10 includes a filter 42 that rests on ledge 48, between the pump housing 12 and inlet cap 56. Filter detector 50 has a valve engager stem 62 for opening the check valve 58 and bearing feet 52 t...
01/02/2007
7156628Wobblestick with helix
A wobblestick with driving teeth with a helix which is equal to or less than 1° of the running angle of the wobblestick. ...
01/02/2007
7153110Variable volume flow internal gear pump
Rotational pump with variable volume flow, comprising a pump housing having a suction connection and a pressure connection, an outer rotor with inner toothing which is rotatably disposed inside the housing, and an inner rotor with outer toothing which is eccentrical...
12/26/2006
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