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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 416/223R - SPECIFIC BLADE STRUCTURE (E.G., SHAPE, MATERIAL, ETC.)


Subclass of Class 416 - Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers)
Definition: Apparatus in which the shape, composition or construction
No. of patents: 460
Last issue date: 05/22/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8182231Wind turbine with slender blade
Wind turbine with a rotor blade relatively insensitive to turbulence because it is more slender than prior blades and is nevertheless able to generate sufficient lift by virtue of the fact that flow enhancing elements such as vortex generators combat flow separation...
05/22/2012
8172540Airfoil for a helicopter rotor blade
An airfoil family for a helicopter rotor blade, designated SC362XX. SC362XX essentially removes the large lower surface suction peak associated with ‘drag creep’ at moderate lift coefficients while reducing the peak Mach number and shock strength at high lift/Ma...
05/08/2012
8172539Wind turbine rotor blade joint
A blade joint for joining a first blade segment and a second blade segment, each having an aerodynamic profile, in a rotor blade is disclosed. The blade joint includes a first joint segment and a second joint segment each having an outer surface, an inner surface, a...
05/08/2012
8167567Gas turbine engine airfoil
A rotor blade for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil that extends in span between a root and a tip region. A leading edge and a trailing edge of the airfoil section extend between a chord line of the airfoil. A sweep angle is defined at the leading edge of the...
05/01/2012
8162617Turbine blade with spar and shell
A turbine blade with a spar and shell construction in which the spar and the shell are both secured within two platform halves. The spar and the shell each include outward extending ledges on the bottom ends that fit within grooves formed on the inner sides of the p...
04/24/2012
8152472Blade structure for heat sink fans
A fan blade for heat sink fans is provided. The fan blade includes a wheel hub and a plurality of blades which is disposed around the rim of the wheel hub. The surfaces of the blade fans are designed with protruding or recessing inhibiting part. The flow rate on the...
04/10/2012
8142162Wind turbine blade
An aerodynamic profile and a wind turbine comprising a wind turbine blade with reduced sensitivity towards surface irregularities are provided. The invention is mainly directed towards pitch-regulated wind turbines, which are operated at variable rotor speed and hav...
03/27/2012
8128375Turbomachine blade that is cast with a local fattening of the section of the airfoil
The monocrystalline turbomachine blade according to the invention that is cast and directionally solidified, is disclosed. The blade includes an airfoil with a leading edge, a pressure face, a suction face, a trailing edge, a skeleton and having a longitudinal axis,...
03/06/2012
8118558Runner vane for axial-flow hydraulic machinery
A camber line in a radial section of a runner vane has a curved part extending near the tip of the runner vane is convex toward the front surface of the runner vane. The runner vane is formed in a shape meeting a condition expressed by: ρs
02/21/2012
8113786Stator vane profile optimization
An airfoil for a stator vane having an uncoated profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table I is provided. The profile is carried only to three decimal places wherein Z is a distance from a platform on which ...
02/14/2012
8105044Compressor turbine blade airfoil profile
A compressor turbine includes a series of compressor turbine blades each having an airfoil with a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are ...
01/31/2012
8105042Intermediate-manufactured composite airfoil and methods for manufacturing
An intermediate-manufactured composite airfoil includes first and second composite skins each having a plurality of fibers in a polymer matrix. A composite core is removably located between the first and second composite skins. The composite core includes a dry, thr...
01/31/2012
8105043HP turbine blade airfoil profile
A two-stage high pressure turbine includes a second stage blade having an airfoil with a profile substantially in accordance with at least an intermediate portion of the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table 2. The X and Y values are distances...
01/31/2012
8100658Axial-flow fluid machine blade
An axial-flow fluid machine blade which achieves reduction of the frictional loss of the blade and provision of a high surge-resistant property is provided. An axial-flow fluid machine blade 60 used for an axial-flow fluid machine includes a leading edge 6...
01/24/2012
8096777Mixed flow turbine or radial turbine
A mixed flow turbine or radial turbine suppresses a rapid increase in load applied on a leading edge of a blade, and can reduce incidence loss. The mixed flow turbine or radial turbine includes a hub, and a plurality of blades provided on an outer circumference surf...
01/17/2012
8092185Impeller and cooling fan incorporating the same
A cooling fan (10) includes a bottom plate (12) a top cover (14) covering the bottom plate, a sidewall (13) disposed between the bottom plate and the top cover, and an impeller (16) enclosed in a space formed between the bottom pla...
01/10/2012
8092186Random pitch impeller for fuel pump
A random pitch impeller for a fuel pump has number of blades. An incremental angle of the blades is set by the expression: Δθ ⁢
01/10/2012
8083487Rotary airfoils and method for fabricating same
A method of fabricating an airfoil is provided. The method includes fabricating at least one airfoil including a suction side and a pressure side coupled together at a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the airfoil includes a plurality of first and second cho...
12/27/2011
8079818Method for manufacturing of a fibre reinforced laminate, use of a wrinkle-preventing material, wind turbine blade and wind turbine
A method for manufacturing of a fiber reinforced laminate is provided. A part of the laminate is build up to a determined thickness. A layer of wrinkle-preventing material is placed on top of the partially completed laminate. The layer of wrinkle-preventing material...
12/20/2011
8070449Wind turbine
A vertical-axis wind turbine for use with an electrical generator for producing power by converting the energy of wind currents into mechanical rotational energy which is then used to operate the electrical generator. In an embodiment, a rotor is responsive to wind ...
12/06/2011
8061996Wind turbine blade planforms with twisted and tapered tips
A blade for a wind turbine includes a total backward twist of between approximately 6 degrees and approximately 15 degrees between an outer approximately 1 percent to 10 percent of a rotor radius of the blade; and an approximate planform distribution within the foll...
11/22/2011
8043064Fan and fan wheel thereof
A fan and a fan wheel thereof are provided. The fan comprises the fan wheel and a fan cowl. The fan wheel comprises a hub and a plurality of blades. The hub can define an axial direction and a radial direction, and each of the blades has an axial length and a radial...
10/25/2011
8038406Axial fan and blade design method for the same
An axial fan which includes a hub portion having the rotational center thereof and blades arranged on the outer periphery of the hub portion is equipped with a thickness reinforcing portion which extends from the joint portion between the blade front edge portion of...
10/18/2011
8016566High performance low noise rotorcraft blade aerodynamic design
One embodiment of the present invention is a main rotor helicopter blade for generating higher lift with less drag and delaying stall at high Mach numbers. A cross-section of this blade includes aft camber. The difference between a chord line of the cross-section an...
09/13/2011
7997872Fan blade
The suction surface blade angle of a transonic fan blade, subject in use to a shock wave, progressively reduces along part of the suction surface, beginning at a position upstream of the shock wave position. The increased area variation at the location of the shock ...
08/16/2011
7997874Wind turbine rotor blade joint
A blade segment is disclosed for a rotor blade formed from a plurality of blade segments, the blade segment having a span and a chord. The blade segment includes a shell segment having a pressure side and a suction side extending between a leading edge and a trailin...
08/16/2011
7985052Curved blade for wind turbines
A curved blade for use on horizontal wind turbines, the blade comprising a substantially semicircular tip portion, a substantially semicircular counter-tip portion opposite the tip portion, and a body portion extending between the tip portion and the counter-tip por...
07/26/2011
7980826Strengthening structure for a wind turbine blade, a wind turbine blade, a method for assembling a wind turbine blade and use hereof
A strengthening structure for a wind turbine blade includes at least one first reinforcement part adapted to be connected to a first blade part of the wind turbine blade, and at least one second reinforcement part adapted to be connected to a second blade part of th...
07/19/2011
7967570Low transient thermal stress turbine engine components
A turbine vane includes a platform; and at least one airfoil mounted to the platform and having a trailing edge and a leading edge, wherein the vane is composed of a functionally graded material having a first material and a second material, wherein the trailing edg...
06/28/2011
7946824Electric axial flow fan
In an axial flow fan, a line extending from a center axis and passing a corner where a following edge and a radially outer edge of a blade of an impeller meet is arranged forwardly in a rotational direction from an another corner where a leading edge of the blade an...
05/24/2011
7934908Impeller manufacturing method and impeller
The present invention provides a manufacturing method for an impeller with which molding and high-quality finishing can be performed extremely easily and quickly through resin molding using a die, and an impeller manufactured by the impeller manufacturing method. A ...
05/03/2011
7862302Fluid circulation system
A fluid circulation system wherein circulation is caused within a body by establishing a ring vortex within the fluid caused by an impeller designed in accordance with the Golden Section or Phi Geometry. ...
01/04/2011
7857595Molded reinforced shear web cores
A method of producing a shear web for a wind turbine blade includes providing a mold generally conforming to a shape of at least a portion of a shear web; and filling the mold with a closed cell structural foam. ...
12/28/2010
7854593Airfoil for a helicopter rotor blade
An airfoil family for a helicopter rotor blade, designated SC362XX. SC362XX essentially removes the large lower surface suction peak associated with ‘drag creep’ at moderate lift coefficients while reducing the peak Mach number and shock strength at high lift/Ma...
12/21/2010
7798780Modularly constructed rotorblade and method for construction
Disclosed is a modularly constructed rotorblade including a leading and a trailing edge, including a plurality of rotorblade sections in bonded association, and at least one bonding line disposed away from continuous contact with the leading edge and the trailing ed...
09/21/2010
7794209Rotor blade for a wind turbine
A rotor blade of a wind power installation in which the rotor blade, in particular in the central region of the rotor, the so-called main board, has a lift-drag ratio which in the region of about ±2° from the optimum pitch angle has a lift-drag ratio value of more...
09/14/2010
7794210Turbomachine blade
A turbomachine blade comprising a root portion and an aerofoil portion, the aerofoil portion having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a concave metal wall portion extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and a convex metal wall portion extending from the ...
09/14/2010
7789629Non-fouling kinetic hydro power system axial-flow blade tip treatment
This relates to a modified turbine blade tip design using a fairing shaped design that increases the tip area efficiency of a kinetic hydropower turbine rotor blade while having a non-fouling characteristic and a tip design with the ability to shed weeds, debris, or...
09/07/2010
7785074Rotor blade for a second stage of a compressor
A blade of a rotor of a second stage of a compressor can be defined by coordinates of a discreet combination of points, in a Cartesian reference system (X, Y, Z), where the axis (Z) is a radial axis intersecting the central axis of the compressor. The blade has a pr...
08/31/2010
7766624Rotor blade for a ninth phase of a compressor
The invention relates to a blade of a rotor of a ninth phase of a compressor, which can be defined by coordinates of a discreet combination of points, in a Cartesian reference system (X, Y, Z), wherein the axis (Z) is a radial axis intersecting the central axis of t...
08/03/2010
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