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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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| 8121707 | Method for download of sequential function charts to a triple module redundant control system Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for an online load of logic to a triple module redundant (TMR) control system using a cascading switch and designated controller. Application code having SFC logic may be first downloaded to a designat... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7409246 | Apparatus and method for evaluating equipment operability, and equipment operability evaluating program When an input unit of the equipment operability evaluating apparatus selects the human body type of the human body model and a scenario, the posture calculation unit calculates an appropriate operating posture of the human body model having the physique of the selec... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7369963 | System managing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and method of implementing redundant system-managing apparatus A system managing apparatus that monitors a status of a device, which is installed in an information processing apparatus, includes a connecting unit that connects the system managing apparatus with other system managing apparatus installed in other information proc... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365661 | Power converter circuitry and method A control system and method for simultaneously regulating the operation of a plurality of different types of switching power converters. The system utilizes in regulating the power converters sampled data and nonlinear feedback control loops. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353221 | Method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data of systems The invention relates to a method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data from installations. The engineering and runtime objects are described by a uniform object model. This allows the correspondence between engineering objects and runtime objects to be de... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7292001 | Gain adjusting method for servo control device An object of this invention is to provide a gain adjusting method in a servo control device to suppress changes according to a place where a machine is located. This invention provides a gain adjusting method for a servo control device providing speed control... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290180 | Method to use an alternate I/O debug path A method, system, and computer product for aiding in the debugging of an I/O failure. When an I/O failure is detected on a RIO drawer, a data processing system uses the bulk power controller to provide an alternate path, rather than using the existing RIO links, to ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272452 | Controller with configurable connections between data processing components A controller with configurable connections between data processing components that is optimized to provide a particular function such as temperature control is provided. In one embodiment, the controller includes a number of configurable inputs and outputs that may ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263476 | High speed information processing and mass storage system and method, particularly for information and application servers A high speed, microcomputer based, Fibre Channel compatible and fault tolerant information processing and mass storage system especially suited for information servers and application servers. A unique and extremely versatile system architecture, including a dual lo... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7231325 | System for evaluating a sensor signal The inventive device for evaluating the sensor signal includes the provider for providing the sensor signal, the processor for processing the sensor signal and for providing an information signal comprising information regarding the amplitude course of the sensor si... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7184858 | Apparatus and method for controlling elastic actuator An internal pressure of a hydropneumatic drive actuator is measured by a pressure measurement device, a displacement amount of a movable mechanism is measured, a desired value and a measurement value of the displacement are inputted so that a position error is compe... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7167762 | System and method for implementing safety instrumented systems in a fieldbus architecture An apparatus, system and process is provided for communicating safety-related data, over an open system, from a sender to a receiver. Safety-related components, including function blocks, flexible function blocks, resource blocks and transducer blocks, as well as, s... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7135789 | Controlling devices using cascaded control units Power supplies, supplied with an input voltage to produce output voltages, are controlled in a desired sequence, and their output voltages are monitored, by respective state machines of two or more control units which are coupled in cascade by a bidirectional signal... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117044 | Alternative energy system control method and apparatus A multivariable control system provides regulation for a plurality of control variables of interest based on selecting a particular one of the variables for regulation relative to a corresponding setpoint, while continuing to monitor the other variables and switchin... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7117046 | Cascaded control of an average value of a process parameter to a desired value At least one of the multiple process parameters (MPPs) is a controllable process parameter (CTPP) and one is a targeted process parameter (TPP). The process also has a defined target limit (DTV) representing a first limit on an actual average value (AAV) of the TPP.... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099720 | Method for identifying a control path of a controlled system A method for identifying a control path of a controlled system, and more particularly to a method for identifying a control path in the presence of deterministic perturbations is described. At least one deterministic perturbation correcting signal is determined in a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7072767 | Simultaneous inversion for source wavelet and AVO parameters from prestack seismic data The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for seismic data processing. Prestack seismic data is obtained that contains a plurality of reflectors. Non-parallel moveout of the plurality of reflectors is utilized to determine a source wavelet using an L... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068002 | Motor control device A motor control device comprises: a current limiter 115 for limiting a current-instruction signal Ir for a motor 18 and for turning a limiting signal L from off to on when the current-instruction signal Ir reaches a predetermined value; a model-positio... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7061654 | Image processor, image processing method and storage medium To provide an image processor and an image processing method having enhanced speed of external output to a printer and the like, and a storage medium storing a control program therefor. A time Te(n, k) when the nth image output unit requires image data k is predicte... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051309 | Implementation of fast data processing with mixed-signal and purely digital 3D-flow processing boars A system extends the execution time of a pipeline stage to a time longer than the time interval between two consecutive input data. Each processor in the system has an input and output port connected to a “bypass switch” (or multiplexer). Input data is sent eith... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049961 | Key control system using separated ID and location detection mechanisms An object control and tracking system and related methods using separate object identification and location detection mechanisms for objects, such as keys, that are maintained in a secure enclosure, such as a key drawer. A plurality of object slots are located on th... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7031793 | Conflict resolution among multiple controllers A method and an apparatus are provided for conflict resolution among a plurality of controllers. The method includes receiving a first control instruction from a first process controller to process a workpiece, receiving a second control instruction from a second pr... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013328 | Electrical drive system with drive unit networks, intercommunication networks and multi-link-controller An electrical drive system for the synchronized adjustment of rotatable axles or linearly movable functional parts in particular for printing machines, in terms of their position, speed or acceleration. Drive units are controlled using computer assistance and are co... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010359 | Method and device for synchronizing drive combinations A method is provided for synchronizing drive combinations having a plurality of drives for machines. The drives include at least one master drive and a plurality of slave drives assigned to the master drive. A central control unit is provided, as well as controls fo... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006900 | Hybrid cascade model-based predictive control system A hybrid cascade Model-Based Predictive control (MBPC) and conventional control system for thermal processing equipment of semiconductor substrates, and more in particular for vertical thermal reactors is described. In one embodiment, the conventional control system... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999824 | System and method for implementing safety instrumented systems in a fieldbus architecture An apparatus, system and process is provided for communicating safety-related data, over an open system, from a sender to a receiver. Safety-related components, including function blocks, flexible function blocks, resource blocks and transducer blocks, as well as, s... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6996454 | Method and control system for controlling a conveyor system and a plant for baling paper pulp Methods are disclosed for controlling conveyor systems including providing status information for each of a plurality of conveyors, providing control information for each of the conveyors based solely upon the status information from that conveyor and from adjacent ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6973508 | Highly versatile process control system controller A versatile controller that can be used as either a stand-alone controller in a relatively small process plant or as one of numerous controllers in a distributed process control system depending on the needs of the process plant includes a processor adapted to be pr... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6944520 | System and method for communication between machine controllers A communication system and a method for data exchange between machine controllers, in particular machine controllers of knitting machines, are described. The communication system and method use for communication a standard e-mail application protocol, so that any fo... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6934606 | Automatic calibration of a wafer-handling robot In one embodiment, a wafer-handling robot in a wafer processing system is automatically calibrated by determining an orientation of the robot relative to a chassis of the wafer processing system, determining hand-off coordinates of a load port in the wafer processin... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6922594 | Controlling device and controlling method for control within a predetermined energy consumption amount A preferential upper limit processing section L_MH1 limits the value of a pre-input manipulated variable output upper limit MH1 so as to adjust a manipulated variable output MV1 of a preferential controller PID1 to a predetermined value M... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6912980 | Electromagnetic valve gear An electromagnetic valve drive of a charge cycle valve for an internal-combustion engine has an electromagnetic actuator and additional electric devices, such as a power system operating the actuator, a controlling and regulating device as well as a power supply. Fo... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912426 | Method for determining time constants of a reference model in a cascade controlling circuit A method for determining at least one time constant of a reference model, which is designed as a 2nd order time-delay element of a machine. The method includes detecting an oscillation frequency of an undamped machine oscillation and determining an optimized value o... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6907488 | Serial data transmission via a bus system The present invention relates to a passive component for a bus system, such as, for example, a field bus system, having a bus interface for connection to a bus, a serial interface for serially reading out and reading in data, a data memory with an output area for st... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6865426 | Adaptive data security systems and methods The present disclosure relates to a method for communicating and applying adaptive security to a data stream comprising a plurality of data packets. The method comprises the steps of identifying a desired security level range and a desired actual security level whic... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6834216 | Method and apparatus for the automatic synchronization of dynamic angular and time domain control systems A hardware system is provided for performing angle-to-time and time-to-angle conversions in a dynamic angular measurement and control system. The system has the capability of updating scheduled event times of other hardware timers in the system that are being used t... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6775576 | Industrial plant asset management system: apparatus and method An industrial plant asset management system comprising of a synchronized multiple view graphical user interface combining simultaneous real time and database display capability, a database including a knowledge manager and having input and output interfaces, a norma... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6758541 | Printing machine and the method of reporting an error thereof A printing machine as described has a plurality of image formation units each of which serves to perform an printing operation on a printing sheet. Particularly, the printing machine is capable of reporting an error in the printing operation in order to minimize the... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6644398 | Advanced starting control for multiple zone system A system and method for controlling delivery of conditioned water to a plurality of heat exchangers includes a system controller which gathers information as to the current and future demands for conditioned water by a plurality of zone controllers associ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6598617 | Cascaded variable bias feedforward and feedback flow and level control system A control system for maintaining the liquid levels in a plurality of reservoirs connected in series includes one or more nested control modules. The nested control module, one for each reservoir, includes a proportional only level controller in electrical... | 07/29/2003 |
