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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 |
| 8080947 | Current-sharing transformer and power supply circuit having such current-sharing transformer A current-sharing transformer includes a magnetic core assembly, a primary winding coil and multiple secondary winding coils. The magnetic core assembly includes a main magnetic post and multiple minor magnetic posts. The primary winding coil is wound around the mai... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8049433 | Inverter circuit and lamp control apparatus having the same Disclosed is an inverter circuit. The inverter circuit comprises a transformer comprising a primary coil and a secondary coil wound at a predetermined turn ratio, a first switch circuit comprising first and second switch devices commonly connected with a first end o... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8049432 | Measurement circuit for an electronic ballast An electronic ballast for driving a gas discharge lamp comprises a measurement circuit for measuring a lamp current flowing through the lamp and a lamp voltage produced across the lamp. The ballast comprises a first winding magnetically coupled to a main transformer... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040073 | AC power supply system for balanced energization of a plurality of loads A gas-discharge lamp igniter is disclosed which has a group of gas-discharge lamps, such as those for LCD backlighting, connected in parallel with one another between the pair of outputs of an AC power supply. Provided one for each lamp to be energized, current-bala... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8004205 | Backlight module control system whose two backlight sub-modules are in a closed loop A backlight module control system includes a power supply, a first backlight sub-module, a second backlight sub-module, a first transformer and a second transformer. The power supply is utilized for providing an operating power to the backlight module control system... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990071 | Lamp drive circuit for driving a number of lamps and balancing currents flowing through the lamps A lamp drive circuit used for driving a number of lamps is provided. The lamps are used in a backlight module. The backlight module is used for providing a light source when a liquid crystal display displays. The lamps are respectively electrically connected to a co... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990072 | Balancing arrangement with reduced amount of balancing transformers A backlighting arrangement constituted of: a driving transformer; at least one balancing transformer; a plurality of luminaires, a first end of each of the plurality of luminaires connected to a high voltage lead of the driving transformer and a second end of each o... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986104 | Discharge lamp lighting apparatus A discharge lamp lighting apparatus includes a first inverter, a second inverter to output a voltage whose phase is opposite to that of a voltage provided by the first inverter, a discharge lamp connected between a first output terminal of the first inverter and a f... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7952298 | Split phase inverters for CCFL backlight system An apparatus and method for driving a lamp are provided. In one embodiment, an inverter having four switching elements is split into two inverter arms that are deployed at separate terminals of a floating lamp structure to achieve even light output. A controller dri... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7940011 | Lamp drive circuit for driving a number of lamps and balancing currents flowing through the lamps A lamp drive circuit used for driving a number of lamps is provided. The lamps are used in the backlight module. The backlight module is used for providing a light source when a liquid crystal display displays. The lamps are respectively electrically connected to a ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7902767 | AC inverter capable of driving multiple lamps for LCD panel backlight An AC inverter circuit supplies power to multiple lamps in an LCD backlight. Conventional AC power is used as direct input into a full wave rectifier that converts the input from AC to a DC reference voltage. A transformer driver, including a chopper, converts the D... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7902768 | Driving arrangement for feeding a current with a plurality of LED cells A driving arrangement for feeding a current generated by a high frequency generator (10) coupled with a magnetic element (11) to a plurality of LED cells (33) each including at least one LED. The arrangement includes a respective plurality of LE... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7893629 | Backlight apparatus capable of short prevention and voltage feedback compensation The invention discloses a backlight apparatus. The backlight apparatus includes a power source, a lamp, a balance transformer, a detecting circuit, a judging module, and a controlling module. The balance transformer includes a primary winding electrically connected ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7812546 | Circuit structure for driving a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps A DC/AC converter circuit structure for driving a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps is described. A common-mode choke is used between the cold cathode fluorescent lamps. The common-mode choke balances the currents respectively flowing through the cold cath... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7777425 | Backlight circuit for LCD panel A multi-lamp backlight system is disclosed. The multi-lamp backlight system includes a plurality of lamps, an inverter circuit and a current balance circuit. The inverter circuit is capable of converting a DC input signal to a pair of AC output signals, which have a... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7741790 | Backlight system having a lamp current balance and feedback mechanism and related method thereof A lamp current balance and feedback system and related method are disclosed for balancing the input and output currents of a lamp by making use of a lamp current balance and feedback mechanism. The operation of the lamp current balance and feedback mechanism include... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7741789 | Locked phase active power current control circuit The locked phase active power current control circuit is composed of a DC source, an electronic switch, a driving transformer, a phase detecting unit, a current intercepting unit and a square wave controller. A DC signal provided by the DC source is converted into a... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7671540 | Current balancing module For having magnitudes of all currents for supplying for all passive elements in a same product be equal, a current balancing module, which has balancing transformers as more as approximately half an amount of all the passive elements, is provided for meeting such re... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7667411 | Backlight assembly having voltage boosting section with electrically isolated primary side and secondary side A backlight assembly includes a switching section for switching on/off an input voltage so as to output a primary voltage in accordance with a control signal; and a voltage boosting section for boosting the primary voltage received at a primary side thereof to a sec... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7633240 | Lamp driving apparatus having balance circuit units for a display A lamp driving apparatus wherein a plurality of two-winding balance circuits are connected to a plurality of parallel-connected lamp groups so that all of the lamps may be illuminated even though ambient conditions cause some of the lamps to have low resistance. Cap... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7605544 | Current balancing circuit A current balancing circuit for first and second lamp sets includes a step-up transformer and a current balancer. The step-up transformer is adapted to be coupled to a power supply for receiving an alternating-current source power, and for generating a drive signal ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7557517 | Primary side current balancing scheme for multiple CCF lamp operation A backlight system drives multiple lamps using balanced groups of serially-connected lamp transformers. A plurality of lamp transformers is divided into multiple transformer groups. Primary windings of the lamp transformers are coupled in series in each transformer ... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7550929 | Power system and method for driving plural lamps A power system for driving plural or multiple lamps includes a transformer circuit, a filter and steady-flow circuit, and a light source. The transformer circuit transforms a voltage level of an input AC signal, and includes a first output end for outputting a first... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7528552 | Power transformer combined with balance windings and application circuits thereof A power transformer combined with balance windings is used for driving a CCFL. The power transformer makes use of a ferrite core structure to achieve a closed magnetic circuit, and is combined with balance windings. When used in application circuits, the power trans... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525258 | Current balancing techniques for fluorescent lamps Methods and apparatus are disclosed for balancing currents passing through multiple circuit loads and in some cases through fluorescent lamps. Multiple-leg magnetic cores are wound in specific manners to simplify current balancing. Conventional three- or more than t... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7479740 | Module for parallel lighting and balancer coil for discharge lamp A small balancer coil for cold-cathode florescent lamps having sufficient shunt/balance effects, comprises a discharge lamp, a conductor located close to the discharge lamp, and two coils whose magnetic fluxes face each other. The magnetic fluxes generated in the co... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7477023 | Inverter circuit and backlight assembly having the same An inverter circuit includes a power supply which outputs an alternating current voltage, an inverter transformer having one primary coil connected to an output terminal of the power supply and pairs of secondary coils which supply an alternating current high voltag... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477022 | System and method for driving a multi-lamp A system for driving a multi-lamp, and more particularly to, a system for driving a multi-lamp for driving a parallel arrangement of a plurality of discharge lamps and a method of driving a plurality of discharge lamps and a method thereof. The multi-discharge lamp ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7459863 | Transformer and multi-lamp driving circuit using the same A transformer for driving multiple lamps includes a core, a primary winding set, a secondary winding set and a balancing winding set. The primary winding set winds around the core and includes a first primary coil. The secondary winding set winds around the core and... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7443108 | Apparatus for driving a plurality of lamps A power system for driving a plurality of lamps includes a transformer circuit, a current balancing circuit, and a light source. The transformer circuit includes a plurality of transformers in a quantity denoted by N, and each of the transformers has a first, a seco... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7429831 | Balance controlling circuit An exemplary balance controlling circuit (100) includes a transformer (T11), a first capacitor (C11), a second capacitor (C22), a first inductor (TC11), and a second inductor (TC12). The transformer includes two inputs (4... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7411358 | Inverter circuit, backlight assembly, and liquid crystal display with backlight assembly In an inverter circuit for a backlight assembly, a first sinusoidal voltage and a second sinusoidal voltage having an opposite polarity to that of the first sinusoidal voltage are applied across terminals of 2n CCFLs. Each of respective primary coils of n first bala... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7397198 | Fluorescent lamp driver and liquid crystal display apparatus In order to suppress leak current at the time of high voltage application to a fluorescent lamp so as to improve the luminous efficiency, the present invention provides a fluorescent lamp driver, which includes switching means that switches a DC power supply voltage... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372213 | Lamp current balancing topologies A method according to on embodiment may include generating AC voltage and current and a striking voltage. The method of this embodiment may also include generating striking voltage and steady-state voltage for at least two lamp loads. The method of this embodiment m... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365502 | Device for driving light sources A device for driving a light source (L11) including a first lamp (a1) and a second lamp (a2) includes two power supply circuits, two transformers (12, 12′), and two current balancing components (13, 13′). Each power... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358684 | Balanced circuit for multi-LED driver A driving circuit uses a plurality of transformers to provide currents for driving a plurality of LEDs associated with a plurality of current paths. Each transformer has two induction coils with a coil turn ratio between to the number of turns in each induction coil... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7345431 | Circuit structure for driving a plurality of cold cathode flourescent lamps A DC/AC converter circuit structure for driving a plurality of cold cathode fluorescent lamps is described. A common-mode choke is used between the cold cathode fluorescent lamps. The common-mode choke balances the currents respectively flowing through the cold cath... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7319297 | Balanced current lamp module and multi-lamp circuit A balanced current lamp module driven by a power source includes a first balanced current unit, a second balanced current unit and a balanced transformer. The first balanced current unit includes a first transformer, a first lamp and a second lamp. The first transfo... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319296 | Device for driving lamps A driving device for driving a plurality of lamps each including a first terminal and a second terminal, includes a power stage circuit (202), a transformer circuit (204) electrically connectable to the power stage circuit, and a current balancing circ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315136 | Protection apparatus and multi-lamp driving system using the same A multi-lamp driving system includes a driving apparatus and a current balancer having detection nodes. The protection apparatus includes at least a detection unit and a determining unit. The detection unit includes first impedance devices and a second impedance dev... | 01/01/2008 |
