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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 |
| 8179762 | Information processor, optical disc failure analysis method, and computer product According to one embodiment, an information processor includes an optical disc drive, an acquiring module, a storage module, and a determination module. The acquiring module acquires identification information that uniquely identifies an optical disc loaded in the o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169868 | Method for detecting surface defects in patterned media An optical defect detection method for patterned media includes: irradiating a laser beam onto a patterned medium and obtaining reflected light by reflection very close to a sample; outputting the reflected light as an analog electrical signal from an optical receiv... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8009539 | Monitoring and analyzing the storage quality and the drive hardware performance of a media library A method and infrastructure are provided for monitoring and analyzing the storage media quality and the drive hardware performance of a media library. The media library comprises a plurality of removable storage media, a plurality of drive units for said storage med... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004946 | Information processor, failure prediction method, and computer product According to one embodiment, an information processor includes an optical disc drive, a recorder, and a determination module. The optical disc drive includes a loading mechanism that loads and ejects an optical disc. The recorder obtains state information indicating... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7817521 | Optical disc device configured to detect abnormal loading status An information recording/reproducing device is provided with a tray (3) having holders (2, 4) for holding a disc (9) on a disc placing part (11) by permitting the disc to overhang on a part of the disc placing part (11) in a vertic... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7426163 | Method and apparatus for preventing malfunction of disc drive A method and apparatus for preventing a malfunction of a disc drive due to an operation error of a correction function for a minimum pit length by selectively performing the correction function based on an operative state of the disc drive. The method includes a fir... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7362535 | Magnetic disk drive and recording method Embodiments of the invention provide a recording method capable of improving reliability of write data in a magnetic disk drive employing the servo area data system. In a magnetic disk drive according to one embodiment, vibration of a head/slider can be detected wit... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349313 | Clamper magnetism test method for a tray-type optical drive A magnetism test method for a tray-type optical drive is disclosed. A preliminary input voltage is provided to a DC motor of the tray-type optical drive for performing a preliminary ejection on a tray and a magnetic clamper of the tray-type optical drive. Then, a te... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7301867 | Method and apparatus for changing a recording speed of a disk device The present invention relates to a recording speed determining method of a disk device. The present method, when data record is requested from a host through an interface, a disk device can receive size information about data to be recorded and/or the present time f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289287 | Apparatus for recording or/and reproducing information and method for reducing power consumption thereof In an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information, which reproduces servo information being recorded on a medium and conducts a tracking operation based on the servo information, a power save part conducts a power save operation by reducing an operation c... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7275166 | Power saving control system and power saving control method Provided is a power saving control method and system for data storage devices or electrical equipment. Herein, data items are divided into groups according to required response times or access frequencies. The groups of data items are allocated to data storage devic... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265934 | Head position control method, head position control device, and disk device A position control device corrects the displacement of the head by disturbance applied to the disk device by the control system. An adaptive control to an unknown disturbance frequency is performed. The frequency estimation block for estimating the external vibratio... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7224654 | Disc drive apparatus An optical disc drive apparatus (1) comprises: rotating means (4) for rotating an optical disc (2); a sledge (10) radially displaceable with respect to an apparatus frame (3); a platform (20) radially displaceable with respe... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7185118 | Reliable use of desktop class disk drives in enterprise storage applications Aspects of increasing the quality and reliability of desktop class storage disks in enterprise storage applications are described. The aspects include monitoring a number of idle states and busy states in a disk drive, and limiting performance of read/write commands... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177243 | Optical disc track access apparatus and method for optical disc reproducer The present invention relates to a track access apparatus and a method by which an optical pick-up unit quickly accesses a destination track of an optical disc by controlling a tracking actuator using a back electromotive force by detecting the vibration of an objec... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7133236 | Storage device control method, motor control method, and storage device Embodiments of the invention avoid erroneous drive current control at the time of a change in the drive waveform for a spindle motor. In one embodiment, a drive current setup section acquires the actual rotational speed from a rotational speed determination section.... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130255 | Method of CD/DVD vibration detection by monitoring motor conditions This invention describes a method and apparatus to determine a safe rotational speed for a CD/DVD drive by detecting the amount of vibration of the disk by measuring the operating conditions of the spindle motor. A disk drive includes a motor for rotating the disk a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7109672 | Brushless motor control device and disc apparatus using the same A brushless motor control device includes a brushless motor including a rotor magnet and a stator coil; rotor position detection means for detecting positions of a plurality of magnetic poles of the rotor magnet; vibration detection means for detecting an unnecessar... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7092190 | Dynamic power supply Briefly, descriptions of embodiments for, at least practically, reducing the power consumption of a mass storage device are provided. The present disclosure relates to at least partially reducing the power consumption of a mass storage device and, more particularly,... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7075875 | Disk evaluation device The invention has an object to provide a disk evaluation apparatus capable of performing a highly reliable disk evaluation even on a recording disk on which information is recorded in high density. Amplitude-limited read sample value sequence are obtained by limitin... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7068456 | Method and apparatus for providing multiple power and performance status for a spinning media A method and device for controlling power consumption in a computer having a storage device including a motor and a storage medium is disclosed. The method comprises supplying a first power level to the motor of the storage device to spin the storage medium at a fir... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057992 | Exposure apparatus for optical disc An exposure apparatus for an optical disc used for eliminating the vibrations in the propagating direction when a rotation mechanism rotates. The slider controller 40 and the spindle controller 41 of the exposure apparatus 1 are activated, and t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046603 | Information storage apparatus There is disclosed an information storage apparatus in which even when a remaining power of a battery or a galvanic cell is low, an information recording medium can safely be removed. An MPU, a spindle motor driver, and a spindle motor constitute a decelerator for d... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7031244 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus An information recording apparatus and method for recording information of a recording block including a plurality of sectors as one verifying unit into an optical information recording medium, a recording area of the optical information recording medium including a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7006418 | Optical disk device that monitors chip temperature of a drive and controls its operation based on the chip temperature Monitor circuits monitor junction temperatures of chips of driver ICs which drive a driving part of a recording/reproduction system. Comparison circuits compare the junction temperatures with respective arbitrarily set temperatures to output temperature flags as com... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6977477 | Systems, apparatus, and methods for motor control Systems and methods are provided through which the current to a spindle motor of the recording medium of a mass storage device is modulated to avoid anomalies in the operation of mass storage device and reduce power consumption. In the example of a disc drive, the c... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977875 | Tracking system for recording/reading a data medium and recording medium The invention relates to a system for reading a magnetic medium having several tracks of data which can be read in parallel with a detection device having at least as many detectors as there are tracks, making it possible to read simultaneously and at regular interv... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6934231 | Information recording medium, information reproduction apparatus, and information recording apparatus An information recording medium according to an embodiment of this invention has a plurality of disk-like information recording layers, which are adhered to each other within an allowable decentering error range, and a data area assured on each information recording... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6906989 | Apparatus and method for searching for defective address of recording medium An apparatus for searching for defective address of recording medium includes a recording unit, a converter, and a comparator. The recording unit is configured to record a defect list recorded in an recording medium using physical addresses. The defect list includes... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6854022 | Disk drive using rotational position optimization algorithm to facilitate write verify operations A disk drive is disclosed wherein a write command is verified according to a rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm rather than immediately after the write command to better optimize drive performance relative to mechanical latencies. ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6845405 | Disk drive executing part of a linked disk command A disk drive is disclosed which links disk commands that access near sequential data sectors. The linked and non-linked disk commands are inserted into an input/output queue and selected for execution according to a rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm. ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6754153 | Exposure apparatus for optical disc An exposure apparatus for an optical disc used for eliminating the vibrations in the propagating direction when a rotation mechanism rotates. The slider controller 40 and the spindle controller 41 of the exposure apparatus 1 are activated, and t... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6711628 | Disk drive aborting a write command before a last target sector reached if an abnormal condition detected and selecting a second command according to a rotational positioning optimization algorithm A disk drive is disclosed wherein if a write command is aborted, the write command is re-executed according to a rotational position optimization (RPO) algorithm rather than immediately re-executing the write command to better optimize drive performance relative to ... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6697310 | Storage apparatus and calibrating method A calibration processing unit executes a calibration when calibration operative conditions are satisfied. Irrespective of satisfaction of the calibration operative conditions during the processing of sequential data, a calibration invalidation unit tempor... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6687064 | Write head fault detection circuit and method A circuit (30, 40) and method for detecting faults of a write head (18) of a hard-disk drive system (70). A first resistor R1 and a second resistor R2 are coupled to coil L of write head (18). A transistor Q1 is coupled to... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6639883 | Apparatus and method utilized in personal computer for control of disk drive rate to reduce its noise and vibration Apparatus and method for reducing noise and vibrations in a personal computer having at least one disk data-storage device (disk drive), e.g., CDROM drive. The disk drive operation (data reading from or writing to the disk) is afforded by rotation of the ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6510014 | Disturbance detection circuit, memory device thereof, and disturbance detection method In a magnetic disk device and other memory devices, the scale and cycle of disturbance applied to each memory device are monitored to make a distinction between a harmful shock and harmless vibrations and detect the disturbance. Values at at least two poi... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6496461 | Information recording/reproducing apparatus A method for recording information and information recording/reproducing apparatus wherein information of a plurality of sectors is recorded as one recording unit into an optical information recording medium, a recording area of which is constructed with ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6487034 | Write head fault detection with small threshold A circuit (50) and method are provided for generating a signal (84) indicating an open impedance fault of a coil (56) of a write head (18) of a mass data storage device (10). The circuit (10) includes a differential amplifier (51) with the electrical comp... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6445658 | Disk reproducing speed control method and a disk reproducing apparatus using this method When a deviated gravity disc is reproduced at a higher rate with the disc reproducing apparatus, an excessive vibration is generated and this vibration gives adverse effect on the disc reproducing apparatus and peripheral components/apparatuses, and/or ma... | 09/03/2002 |
