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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 |
| 6327910 | Special sticker and procedure for detecting acoustic emission (AE) or ultrasonic transmission during drying of lumber Disclosed are an apparatus and a monitoring system and various methods for use in the drying of lumber that use disclosed apparatus. During drying lumber is arranged in multiple courses stacked one on top of the other with multiple wooden stickers substan... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6324913 | Method for determining the operating speed, working pressure and pivot angle of an axial piston unit for a hydrostatic drive mechanism A method for determining system parameters, such as the operating speed, working pressure and pivot angle of an axial piston unit in which the operating speed, working pressure and pivot angle are determined by means of a frequency analysis of a detected ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6324911 | Apparatus and method for detecting an interface Apparatus for detecting an interface (13) between two media of a heterogeneous system, comprising transmission means (21) to send a signal through one medium from the transmission means (21) to the interface (13), measuring means (32b, 32c, 32d) to measur... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6322508 | Automated meat grading method and apparatus The present invention relates to an automated grading process and apparatus for grading an animal carcass. The process includes the steps of generating and receiving signals; determining the location of the ribs in the carcass therefrom; determining a pre... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6318178 | Cleanliness evaluation method for metallic materials based on ultrasonic flaw detection and metallic material affixed with evaluation of cleanliness Cleanliness of a metallic material to be tested is provided. The method includes the steps of setting n inspection fields in predetermined portions of the metallic material to be tested, scanning each inspection field by ultrasonic flaw detection method f... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6314380 | Ultrasound transducer temperature compensation methods, apparatus and programs Method, apparatus and computer programs are described for compensating for the effect of temperature on the sensitivity of electrostatic ultrasound (US) transducers, particularly as used in an automotive occupancy sensing (AOS) systems for sensing the nat... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6308562 | Technique for signal detection using adaptive filtering in mud pulse telemetry A mud pulse telemetry adaptive noise canceler (ANC) employs a primary transducer and a reference transducer downstream from a position of the primary transducer. The primary transducer receives a primary signal based on a combination of a transmitted puls... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6305225 | Ultrasonic signal focusing method for ultrasonic imaging system A focusing method plays a big role of determining a resolution of an ultrasonic image. Focusing is performed by controlling an arrival difference of a signal up to a focal point by an electronics delay circuit. Here, the focusing method for focusing an ul... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6301967 | Method and apparatus for acoustic detection and location of defects in structures or ice on structures The invention relates to a method and apparatus for nondestructive testing and evaluation of materials and mechanical structures to determine their integrity reducing contact-type flaws such as cracks, fractures, delamination, unbondings, etc. and also pr... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6295677 | Method for inspecting liquid filled pipes using magnetostrictive sensors An improved method for defect detectability for the inspection of liquid filled pipes using magnetostrictive sensors. The improved method comprises first recognizing the liquid-induced changes in the dispersion properties of the second longitudinal wave m... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6293152 | Method for determining twist potential in wood A method for determining twist potential of wood is described. One embodiment of the method comprises nondestructively obtaining a grain angle of wood, such as trees or lumber, and then determining twist potential of the wood based on the grain angle. Whe... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6282962 | High resolution ultrasonic thickness gauge A gauge for determining a thickness of a coating on a substrate includes a transducer for emitting ultrasonic signals into the coating and for generating electrical signals proportional to the ultrasonic signals received by the transducer, the received si... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6282963 | Numerical optimization of ultrasound beam path In dual line ultrasound beamforming, an ideal transmit beam should have two peak locations, each following one of the receive beams. Dual beam steering by apodization creates such transmit beam; however, the resulting beam is optimized for only a single d... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6279397 | Method and apparatus for focusing propagating wave paths of a phased array in spherically-bounded materials The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for focusing ultrasonic waves that are propagated from a phased array toward a spherically-bounded object so that they arrive at a pre-selected focal point at the same time and in phase and thereby s... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279379 | Apparatus and methods for performing acoustical measurements Apparatus (15, 30) and methods for performing acoustical measurements are provided having some and preferably all of the following features: (A) the system (15, 30) is operated under near-field conditions; (B) the piezoelement (40) or piezoelements (40, 4... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6269699 | Determination of actual defect size in cathode sputter targets subjected to ultrasonic inspection A method for determining actual size of internal target defects by ultrasonic inspection is provided in which the amplitude of signals generated by ultrasonic inspection are compared to metallurgical size measurements obtained through the use of optical m... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6257066 | Portable vibration monitoring device A portable vibration monitoring device which includes an accelerometer mounted on a machine to measure the vibration of the machine, and a display to display the results. The results are displayed, for example, on four bargraphs to indicate good/marginal/... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6253618 | Apparatus and method for synthetic phase tuning of acoustic guided waves A synthetic phase tuned multi-mode acoustic guided wave system and method activates at least one of a plurality of elements as a receiver or a transmitter and at least two of the elements as transmitters or receivers, respectively, and sequentially excite... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6250160 | High resolution ultrasonic thickness gauge A gauge for determining a thickness of a coating on a substrate includes a transducer for emitting ultrasonic signals into the coating and for generating electrical signals proportional to the ultrasonic signals received by said transducer, said received ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6250159 | Characterization of objects by means of ultrasonic waves To characterize an object (3) to be measured, for example to gauge the thickness (d7) of a layer (7) borne by a substrate (4), an ultrasonic wave (8.1) is transmitted by a measuring device (1). Echo impulses (8.2, 8.5) reflected by boundary sur... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6249749 | Method and apparatus for separation of impulsive and non-impulsive components in a signal Impulsive components and non-impulsive components within any time-domain signal such as audio, video, vibration, etc., are separated using wavelet analysis and sorting of wavelet coefficient sets according to statistical parameters of each respective coef... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6234020 | Method for residual stress measuring Method for measuring residual stress in a metallic specimen wherein, by means of an ultrasound transducer an ultrasound entry wave having a ground frequency is introduced into a surface of the metallic specimen, the ultrasound entry wave is measured by me... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6236950 | Automatic stencil generation system and method A stencil generator for automatically constructing a stencil representative of signals having similar characteristics includes a boundary extractor and a component generator. The boundary extractor is operable to (i) receive a frequency spectrum of a sign... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6205859 | Method for improving defect detectability with magnetostrictive sensors for piping inspection An improved method for defect detection with systems using magnetostrictive sensor techniques. The improved method involves exciting the magnetostrictive sensor transmitter by using a relatively broadband signal instead of a narrow band signal typically e... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6199431 | Method of resonant life cycle comparison inspection by serial number Modal frequencies of known good sample parts (SN) are analyzed to determine a pattern which will identify acceptable material and dimensional variations. The data obtained by analysis is then archived. Production parts are then measured at the modal frequ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6182512 | Method and apparatus for imaging thin structures An exemplary imaging apparatus includes a wave generator for generating a wave in an article; a detector for detecting a wave in the article; and a processor which: forms a matched filter based on a response of the article to a wave propagated through the... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6182018 | Method and apparatus for identifying sound in a composite sound signal Impulsive sound components in a composite sound signal are separated using wavelet analysis and sorting of wavelet coefficient sets according to statistical parameters of each respective coefficient set. Each entire coefficient set is either included or e... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6173613 | Measuring crack growth by acoustic emission A method and an apparatus for detecting and measuring cracks in plate-like structures using acoustic emission technique are disclosed. A false aperture transducer is designed to provide a criterion for filtering out extraneous noise in the acoustic emissi... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6167758 | Method and apparatus for generating ultrasonic pulses with a specified waveform shape A method and an apparatus for generating ultrasonic pulses of a specified waveform shape w(t) using an ultrasonic transducer (2) includes a power amplifier (6), a memory (9) for storing a signal for excitation of the ultrasonic transducer (2) and a contro... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6167759 | Ultrasonic system for grading meat An ultrasonic system for grading meat transmits an ultrasonic signal into the meat and detects the resulting back-scattered signal. The envelope of the back-scattered signal is determined. A decaying exponential curve having the form y=exp(-Dt) is fitted ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6164136 | Device for the investigation of boundary layer areas using ultrasound An apparatus for investigation of boundary lazier areas with ultrasound hng at least one transmission unit with which transmission signals of adjustable amplitudes at one or more fundamental frequencies are generated. The apparatus also includes a receiv... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6164135 | Method and device for the structure analysis and/or for detecting the position of layered objects A method and an apparatus for analyzing a structure, for example, a fingerprint or a hand print, in which the finger or hand is placed upon a plate which forms an ultrasonic wave waveguide and ultrasonic radiation, launched into the waveguide parallel to ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6161434 | Method and device for detecting and locating a reflecting sound source During a passive initial stage, acoustic signals received by a receiving transducer array are recorded, and the corresponding electric signals are stored. To search for the possible presence of a sound source whose contribution to the signal recorded in t... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6142019 | Method of determining surface acoustic wave paths A method for determining surface acoustic wave ray paths for an object. The method includes obtaining a representation of the object. A plurality of geodesics from a point on the object are determined and a plurality of surface acoustic wave ray paths are... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6138513 | Method and apparatus for fast acquisition of ultrasound images New apodization functions providing an effective rejection of side lobe amplitude level within wide range of beam steering angles are described in this invention. A central amplitude apodization function (13) reduces amplitudes for the central section of ... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6134966 | Method and apparatus for acoustic detection of mines and other buried man-made objects A device which employs an acoustic signal having one or more frequencies for penetrating into ground, water, or sediments and vibrating a compliant buried object is provided. When these acoustic signals encounter an acoustically compliant object such as a... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6125704 | Ultrasonic technique for inspection of weld and heat-affected zone for localized high temperature hydrogen attack The technique is based on comparing the spectral response of the "suspect" signal with that of a reference signal. The "suspect" signal is a signal detected in the weld heat-affected zone by a high-frequency (10 MHz), angle-beam (typically 45 degree) shea... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6099473 | Method and apparatus for analyzing an ultrasonic image of a carcass The present disclosure teaches a system for analyzing ultrasonic image that provides an output of a measurement of muscle width from an ultrasonic image input of an outline of a muscle from an animal or carcass. The muscle that is used in the preferred em... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6092419 | Method and system for processing measurement signals to obtain a value for a physical parameter In a measurement system wherein time-varying physical signals containing frequency information related to a physical parameter of an object are measured to obtain corresponding time-varying measurement signals, a method and system are disclosed for proces... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6078874 | Apparatus and method for machine data collection An apparatus and method for machine data collection includes a hand-held personal computer (HPC) having route-based machine information data stored therein, and at least one hand-held sensor unit which includes a sensor for sensing an operating characteri... | 06/20/2000 |
