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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 |
| 7353022 | Wireless mobile call location and delivery for non-geographic numbers A system and method is provided for establishing a call to a wireless directory number (982) which is either a non-geographic directory number or a non-dialable directory number. A call is initiated from a wireline telephone (155) to a geographic-based... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7180933 | Squelch circuitry for high speed high frequency operation A squelch circuit for operating at high speed and at high frequencies includes a squelch input unit, a low swing pre-amplifier and a sampling and decision circuit. The squelch input unit pre-processes the positive and negative signals of an input signal to generate ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7120408 | Differential signal squelch detection circuit and method An electrical circuit detects a “squelch,” or “out-of-band,” state of a differential signal pair having a positive (“p”) signal line and a negative (“n”) signal line. In one embodiment of the invention, a first and a second comparator each have posit... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7093765 | Transponder, especially for a contactless chip card A transponder located for example in a contactless smart card receives energy via an antenna (L2) from a high-frequency alternating field. A voltage (Udd) formed with a rectifier (12) is fed as a control quantity to a clock generator (14 | 08/22/2006 |
| 7043223 | Super-regenerative radio frequency receiver and its data receiving method A high sensitivity of a Super-Regenerative Radio Frequency Receiver and its method is provided in the embodiment of the present invention. By using a common-mode feedback circuit and by replacing the rectifier with a feedback integral-rectifier, the rectifier, the l... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6842609 | Radio having adjustable seek sensitivity based on average signal strength and method therefor A tuneable radio and method for automatically adjusting the seek sensitivity alignment for seek operations. The radio has a radio receiver for receiving broadcast radio wave signals, and a tuner adjustable for selecting from a plurality of radio wave signal channels... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6775527 | Squelch circuit with adjustable reference level A squelch circuit with an adjustable reference level, having an input level comparator with a first, a second, a third and a fourth current input terminal, a first and a second input terminal, and an output terminal. A first current source is coupled between the fir... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6640093 | Broadcast receiver A receiver for broadcast signals, e.g. DAB, FM, DVB, and digital or analog short-wave RF broadcast signals according to the present invention includes a polyfunctional circuit (5) that can be switched into three modes and performs the digital frequency de... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6397049 | Two-way radio with improved squelch A two-way radio (1) that has a radio frequency receiver (2) having a modulated radio frequency signal output and a variable bandwidth filter (3) with an input coupled to the modulated radio frequency signal output. The radio (1) also has demodulator circu... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6377590 | Apparatus and method for adaptive delay mitigation of voice communication An apparatus (30) and method minimize voice delay by combining comfort noise with subframe insertions to fill gaps in speech and maintain a minimum delay for packets arriving late. When a packet is late, short durations of sound are repetitively inserted ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6298225 | Radio telephones and method of operation A radio receiver operable for communication in a radio system in which information is transmitted on respective channels in bursts. Each burst has a field for enabling the radio receiver to synchronise therewith. The radio receiver has an adjustable inter... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6108528 | Receive squelch circuit having function of detecting pulse width A receive squelch circuit detects a pulse width of an input data signal to prevent errors from occurring during detection of received data. The squelch circuit adds a function of detecting a pulse width to an input side to detect normal and abnormal pulse... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5933769 | Portable telephone capable of decreasing noise In a portable telephone, a voice filter is connected to an antenna through a receiving circuit. A filter is connected to the voice filter through a switching circuit and filters the voice signal from the voice filter to produce a filtered voice signal. Th... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5564090 | Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting receiver squelch threshold An adaptive digital squelch system, responsive to ambient RF background noise, that automatically adjusts the receiver squelch level during intervals when no valid signal is being received. A valid signal is considered to be a signal that is greater than ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5493711 | Radio receiver for locating the strongest signal carrying a selected program A receiver has a random counter, which outputs a timer signal to a control circuit. A zero-cross point detection circuit generates a detection signal which is input to the control circuit. When the random counter outputs a timer signal and the zero-cross ... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5465404 | Communications receiver with an adaptive squelch system A wireless communications receiver having an adaptive squelch system and operable in multiple states including a receiver (11) that provides a received signal when operating in a clear (unscrambled) state and when operating in a secure (scrambled) state; ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5454118 | Method and apparatus for prevention of squelch chatter A squelch circuit (118) is provided having a squelch hysteresis window for preventing squelch chatter in a communication device (100). The communication device (100) includes a plurality of squelch states. The squelch circuit (118) comprises a first means... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5450622 | Method and apparatus for providing a very fast acting noise squelch control system for an RF radio receiver A fast acting noise squelch control circuit for FM radio receivers samples the noise above the audio band to determine the presence of an RF carrier. The detected noise signal is integrated by a low-pass frequency gain integrating filter and compared, usi... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5408694 | Receiver squelch circuit with adjustable threshold A receiver squelch circuit has a programmable DC threshold level. The squelch circuit includes input circuitry that responds to an incoming signal by generating a decision signal when the DC voltage level of the incoming signal crosses a predetermined thr... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5390344 | FM audio signal receiver having a characteristic control function An FM audio signal receiver having a characteristic control function includes a receiving circuit for receiving an FM broadcast wave, a received state analyzing circuit for analyzing a state of the FM broadcast signal received by the receiving circuit, an... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5309443 | Dynamic muting method for ADPCM coded speech A method and apparatus are provided for muting a audio signal in a digital communication system. The method includes the steps of integrating an indicated error per frame for a time interval and comparing the integrated value with a threshold. The method ... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5303409 | Automatically compensated squelch circuit A receiver (100) includes an audio section (200) which provides for compensated squelch settings which are automatically adjustable for changes in operating conditions such as changes in temperature or receiver channel spacing. Temperature circuit (128) p... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5303406 | Noise squelch circuit with adaptive noise shaping A noise squelch circuit for a radio receiver (100) includes an adaptive filter (204) for shaping frequency characteristics of a demodulator out put (115) according to factors which effects squelch sensitivity. Such factors may include channel spacing of t... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5303407 | Digital squelch tail circuit for two-way radio communication systems A squelch tail circuit (20) is provided capable of incorporation within integrated circuit structures. A digital timer (26 and 27) provides a time delay based upon a feed-back comparison providing a long time delay to weak signals and a short time delay t... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5263184 | Noise reducing circuit for a receiver using a fuzzy controller A noise reducing circuit for a receiver such as an FM receiver which is improved in noise reducing effect while reducing an unfamiliar feeling to and an erroneous operation of the receiver. The noise reducing circuit comprises fuzzy inference means for fu... | 11/16/1993 |
| 4991227 | Squelch circuit with variable squelch tail and variable hysteresis The period of time that the squelch circuit maintains a radio receiver's audio amplifier active after the signal strength of a received carrier fades below a threshold level is inversely proportional to the strength of the received carrier immediately bef... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4627102 | Squelch circuit A squelch circuit in which a phase locked loop (PLL) (5) having a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) (7) and a phase comparator (10) is used to detect the number of zero crossings, these being low for a speech signal and high for noise. The error voltage... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4107614 | Muting control circuit for FM receiver A muting control circuit for an FM receiver provides rapid on-off response during channel selection or tuning, and rapid on but delayed off response during listening, whereby annoying muting circuit switching is reduced. The delay is implemented by rapidl... | 08/15/1978 |
| 3934206 | Receiver with adjustable squelch A radio receiver having adjustable squelch means and including demodulator means, intelligence processing means including gating means, and squelch circuit means for controlling the gating means. The squelch circuit includes voltage dividing means which c... | 01/20/1976 |
