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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 315/237 - Discharge control discharge device load


Subclass of Class 315 - Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
Definition: Systems wherein the load device is an electric discharge
No. of patents: 10
Last issue date: 01/02/2007


NumberTitleIssue Date
7157860Control device for flashlight systems in airports
A control for a flashlight system in an airport, includes flash units which are connected to an energy supply line and, on the output side, to respective flashlights of the flashlight system via a light cable. In order to avoid unwanted high voltages, each flash lig...
01/02/2007
6856101Method and apparatus for switching of parallel capacitors in an HID bi-level dimming system using voltage suppression
Switching of parallel capacitors in an HID bi-level lighting control system is accomplished through use of transient voltage suppression across an electronic relay for discharge of residual charge from a switched capacitor when combined peak voltage exceeds clamping...
02/15/2005
6593704Method and ballast for feeding a UV light low pressure radiator
The invention relates to a method and a ballast for feeding a UV light low pressure radiator. The UV light low pressure radiator is ignited and subsequently fed with direct current. The polarity of the direct current is changed at successive intervals whi...
07/15/2003
6274986Method and apparatus for driving a discharge lamp with pulses that terminate prior to the discharge reaching a steady state
An apparatus and method for applying short pulsed waveforms, on the order of 1 μs pulses at a frequency of about 5 kHz, to a discharge lamp, such as a low-pressure mercury/argon lamp, in order to shift the ratio of the intensities of two of the mercury l...
08/14/2001
6150761Discharge lamp ballast circuit with charge pump igniter
A ballast for a compact fluorescent lamp includes a down-converter for operating the lamp with a DC current during stable operation and a charge pump for igniting the lamp. The converter includes an inductor and a first series circuit of a first diodie an...
11/21/2000
5838115Gas discharge device
In a gas discharge device having a gas discharge channel, which comprises two gas discharge electrodes and a gas discharge volume lying between said electrodes, having an energy storage circuit connected by a switching device to the gas discharge electrod...
11/17/1998
5592052Variable color temperature fluorescent lamp
A fluorescent lamp (2) having at least two phosphor coatings (12) on the surface of the sealed lamp bulb, typically an inner surface. There is variable driving means which preferentially activates one phosphor and not the other phosphors, at one arrangeme...
01/07/1997
4613797Flash strobe power supply
A flash strobe power supply adapted for controlling alternately the energization of a pair of flash lamps includes a trigger timing device for generating a series of positive pulses and a series of negative pulses spaced in time from the positive pulses b...
09/23/1986
4398129Active lamp pulse driver circuit
A flashlamp drive circuit 10 using an unsaturated transistor Q1 as a current mode switch to periodically subject a partially ionized gaseous laser excitation flashlamp 20 to a stable, rectangular pulse of current from an incomplete discharge of an energy ...
08/09/1983
4335297Electron beam processor
An electron beam processor with an energy storage line and matched field emission diode that define a high energy electron beam generator. A transport system positions a specimen to be thermally processed in a processing station. Energy stored on the line...
06/15/1982
 
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