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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 |
| 7436224 | Low variation voltage output differential for differential drivers The methods and systems presented herein provide an improved means of correcting the variation of Voltage Output Differential (VOD) in differential drivers. In some embodiments, a high-precision reference voltage is generated not only based on a desired VOD, but als... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7411378 | Power factor controller that computes currents without measuring them A power factor controller for a switching power supply, that in one embodiment couples a power factor control circuit between an AC input and an output wherein a digital controller computes circuit currents for regulating the power supply without direct current meas... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7363522 | Apparatus and methods for information handling system with power supply device with variable output power An information handling system includes a power source configured to provide a plurality of power levels to a load. At least one of the plurality of power levels corresponds to a level obtained by de-rating a capacity of the power source from a nominal design specif... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7339331 | Dimmer circuit with improved ripple control A dimmer circuit arrangement is disclosed including a second control circuit for controlling the operation of a triac for delivering current to a load, and a first control circuit for controlling the operation of an IGBT power semiconductor switch for controlling th... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7332898 | Double-edge, stackable PWM with built-in feedforward A method and apparatus for use in a multi-phase power system. The power system is of the type having a plurality of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controllers including a first PWM controller and at least one second PWM controller. The first PWM controller generates a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7319358 | Method and apparatus for generating an adaptive power supply voltage In a method and apparatus for generating a power supply voltage, an integrated circuit including an adaptive power supply voltage circuit is provided where a target signal is generated representing an ideal or approximated ideal performance characteristic of a funct... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7301317 | Output current sharing A regulator with output current sharing including an output node and multiple converters. Each converter includes a PWM controller and switch circuit, an inductor, and an RC circuit. Each PWM controller and switch circuit receives a corresponding rail voltage and ha... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7271566 | Method and system for managing the voltage on the DC bus of a speed controller for an AC motor A method and system for managing the voltage of a DC bus of a speed controller for an AC electric motor linked to a current distribution network. The method includes comparing a value of the voltage measured on the DC bus with a determined limit value, when the valu... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7245512 | PID based controller for DC—DC converter with post-processing filters A digital PID controller for controlling the operation of a switching power converter is disclosed. A data converter is provided for converting the analog sense voltage to a digital sense voltage. A difference circuit then determines the difference between the digit... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7187226 | Anti-cross conduction drive control circuit and method An anti-cross conduction driver control circuit and method prevent the occurrence of race conditions and avoid cross-conduction between series-connected power devices, typically MOSFETs, controlled in accordance with the present invention. Individual state machines ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7135844 | Control circuit for DC/DC converter A control circuit for a DC/DC converter which includes a main switching element, a sub switching element, and a reactor in order to convert a DC input voltage to a DC output voltage. The control circuit comprises a clock signal generator for generating a clock signa... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7110270 | Method and apparatus for maintaining a constant load current with line voltage in a switch mode power supply A power supply including a regulation circuit that maintains an approximately constant load current with line voltage. In one embodiment, a regulation circuit includes a semiconductor switch and current sense circuitry to sense the current in the semiconductor switc... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7075276 | On-chip compensation control for voltage regulation Manufacturing and/or operational variations that affect performance of an integrated circuit (IC) are at least partially compensated for, by determining the magnitude of these variations and providing one or more corresponding control signals to a voltage regulator,... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6980445 | Power factor improving converter and control method thereof A boost quantity detecting section (103) detects a boost quantity of an inductor (L11). An operational amplifier (113) of a control section (106) compares the boost quantity detected by the boost quantity detecting section (103) wi... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6974560 | Electro-kinetic air transporter and conditioner device with enhanced anti-microorganism capability An electro-kinetic air conditioner for removing particulates from the air creates an airflow using no moving parts. The airflow is subjected to UV radiation from a germicidal lamp within the device. The conditioner includes an ion generator that has an electrode ass... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6958592 | Adaptive delay control circuit for switched mode power supply A switched mode power supply comprises a first switch coupled to an input power source, a second switch coupled to ground, and an output filter coupled to a phase node defined between the first and second switches. The first and second switches are responsive to a p... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6953556 | Air conditioner devices An air conditioner includes an ion generator that provides ions and safe amounts of ozone. The ion generator includes a high voltage generator that provides a voltage potential difference between first and second electrode arrays. At least one of the first and secon... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6943534 | Multipurpose transforming device A multipurpose transforming device includes a power supply device that has a power import device and a power output device respectively connected with two side of the power supply device. The power import device and the power output device have connectors used for c... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6943535 | Multiple-phase DC-DC converter topology A multiple-phase DC—DC converter adds at least one additional phase to an N-phase DC—DC converter to improve the converter's response to changes in load. In one embodiment, an additional phase operates at a switching frequency greater than that of the N phases, ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940197 | Rotary electric machine for vehicle and control device thereof The rotary electric machine includes an armature core constituting a stator having an armature coil for charging a vehicle battery with its output voltage; rotor cores disposed inside the armature core with a predetermined gap therebetween and made up of magnetic po... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6917185 | Converter device having power factor improving circuit A converter device is provided which has a power factor improving circuit that removes effects of noise superimposed on an AC power supply and reduces higher harmonics and improves the power factor. A power factor improving circuit (103) generally includes a ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6911186 | Electro-kinetic air transporter and conditioner device with enhanced housing configuration and enhanced anti-microorganism capability An electro-kinetic air conditioner for removing particulates from the air creates an airflow using no moving parts. The airflow is subjected to UV radiation from a germicidal lamp within the device. The conditioner includes an ion generator that has an electrode ass... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908501 | Electrode self-cleaning mechanism for air conditioner devices An air conditioner with a cleaning member having an opening, through which a wire-like electrode passes. The member is moved along the wire to frictionally clean the wire-like electrode when a collector electrode array is moved. A lifting arm is mounted to the colle... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6768280 | Motor control apparatus A motor control apparatus includes a fundamental wave current control system that controls a fundamental wave component of a motor current in an orthogonal coordinate system and a higher harmonic current control system that controls a higher harmonic component conta... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6670794 | Multi-phase DC-to-DC buck converter with multi-phase current balance and adjustable load regulation To balance the current of individual channel as well as regulate the output voltage for a multi-phase DC-to-DC buck converter, the converter output voltage is sensed and compared with a reference signal to produce a first error signal serving as first con... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6621254 | AC voltage triac regulator A method of providing a regulated AC output voltage at a predetermined level that makes use of an AC input voltage having a higher level, includes the steps of rectifying the input voltage to provide a DC input reference voltage, rectifying the output vol... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6327162 | Static series voltage regulator A static series voltage regulator (SSVR) for an electric power distribution system protects a load on a feeder branch from voltage dips by boosting voltage under certain conditions. The SSVR contains a 3-phase voltage source inverter and a source bridge, ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6154473 | Power supply apparatus for laser A main power supply unit 10 of this power supply apparatus for laser comprises asingle-phase rectifying circuit 16 for receiving a single-phase AC voltage EA at a commercial frequency to convert (rectify) it into a direct current, a capacitor 1... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5963022 | Method and apparatus for compensating phase distortion caused by a high impedance voltage source A phase control system has a stable timebase phase reference generated by an internal phase reference generator. The control includes a method for estimating and compensating phase distortion when an inductive load is driven by an AC voltage source having... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5932938 | Switching power supply unit A switching power supply unit controls an output voltage of a power supply without monitoring an output voltage. The switching power supply unit includes a pulse width modulator for generating a control signal to turn on and off a switching transistor. A ... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5847521 | Method and apparatus for driving an electric motor A motor drive method and apparatus for reducing noise of a motor. The motor drive apparatus includes first, second and third half bridge circuits. Each of the first, second and third half bridge circuits includes a first transistor which is adapted to for... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5757169 | Electric circuit for pulse energized electrostatic precipitator and pulse energized electrostatic precipitator using this circuit An electrostatic precipitator circuit has an input terminal supplied DC voltage, an output terminal connected to a precipitating capacitor, a storage capacitor connected between ground potential and the input terminal, and a recovery capacitor whose one e... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5600233 | Electronic power control circuit An improved method and apparatus for handling the large load currents which occur with overloads, short circuits, and momentary overcurrents such as in starting motors or cold incandescent lamp filaments. The method involves turning the load current off w... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5530748 | Power supplying system for terminal A power supplying system is adapted to a subscriber terminating equipment that supplies power to a subscriber terminal equipment based on a supply of power from an external power supply part. The power supplying system includes an excess current limiting ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5444359 | Load sensitive variable voltage motor controller An apparatus and method for controlling the voltage applied to an induction motor is taught. Load sensing is incorporated by monitoring the current through the motor, and combining that signal with a signal derived from the AC line voltage and AC voltage ... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5329223 | Ideal voltage controller for conserving energy in inductive loads An apparatus and method for controlling the voltage applied to a load is taught. The method includes receiving an AC line voltage, generating an operating AC voltage from the AC line voltage and applying this operating AC voltage across the load. A measur... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5268631 | Power control system with improved phase control An improved phase-controlled power control apparatus includes a semiconductor switching element for varying the effective power delivered to a load from the power lines. The conduction angle of the semiconductor power switch element is varied from a nomin... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5239255 | Phase-controlled power modulation system A phase-controlled power modulation system switches modes in response to circuit-threatening conditions to avert the necessity of a shutdown. Normal operation is in reverse phase control (RPC) mode. When an inductive load sensor detects the presence an in... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5200589 | Microwave oven having a fan motor rotation control function A microwave oven having a fan motor rotation control function comprising an absolute humidity sensor for sensing the humidity inside the microwave oven, a fan motor for discharging water vapor inside the microwave oven externally, a microprocessor and a k... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5045774 | Full scale AC or DC power attenuator A remotely controllable, full scale, AC or DC power attenuator, for attenuating power to a load as a function of an input control signal which represents a selected percentage of power to be applied to the load. Bidirectional series switch means are respo... | 09/03/1991 |
