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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 |
| 8121711 | System and method for controlling movement of a measurement machine Controlling movement of movable arms on motion shafts of a measurement machine is disclosed. Each motion shaft of the measurement machine are divided into different motion ranges. The movable arms move in different motion ranges at different speeds. Motion direction... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8078297 | Interface for retrofitting a manually controlled machine for automatic control An operator controllable machine is retrofitted to be operator controlled or to be automatically controlled. An electrical joystick output is provided by a manually actuated joystick control, including a joystick, to a machine control in the manually controlled mach... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7738979 | Work tool notification and user-selectable machine control configuration A control system for controlling one or more actuators in a machine in response to installation of a tool to the machine detects the installation of a tool to the machine and prompts a user of the machine to configure the operation of the controller with respect to ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7542811 | Control apparatus with a balance feedback function A control apparatus with a balance feedback function includes a direction control module for outputting several direction signals of different directions; an operation control module outputting several control signals of different operations; a balance control modul... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7437211 | Enhanced remote jog handle A system for controlling a machine tool is provided. The system includes a user input device deflectable from a neutral position and a controller configured to receive information corresponding to an amount of deflection of the user input device from the neutral pos... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436400 | Interface apparatus combining display panel and shaft The interface apparatus includes a base, a shaft installed on the base in a moveable way, a detecting module for detecting movement of the shaft, and a display panel with at least a handle installed on the shaft. When a user holds the handle to move the display pane... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7434838 | Work vehicle stabilizer A system for automatically moving a stabilizer of a work vehicle is disclosed. A joystick is connected to an electronic controller, which in turn, is connected to valve drivers to drive stabilizer raising and lowering valves. In one mode of operation, the controller... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7418302 | Floating deadband control A method of controlling an input device is disclosed. A deadband is generated about a first position when the input device is at the first position. The input device is moved from the first position to one or more additional positions. The deadband width is varied b... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7371176 | Game controller with vibration motor A controller includes a case body, a vibration motor for vibrating the case body, a slide switch operated by a side button disposed on a side face of the case body, a contact board of the slide switch and a wiring board, including a holder holding the vibration moto... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372452 | Portable terminal capable of displaying data in an upright direction regardless of rotation of screen and method therefore A portable terminal displays data received from the exterior or internally generated on its screen in an upright direction. The portable terminal includes a video processor, a display with the screen, a sensor, and a controller. The video processor converts data int... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7358963 | Mouse having an optically-based scrolling feature A peripheral input device for controlling movements on a display screen. The peripheral input device includes a housing and an optical touch pad carried by the housing. The optical touch pad is configured to translate finger motion into movements on the display scre... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7341521 | Limited placement joystick control system A joystick control system includes a first pair and a second pair of fluid enclosed resilient tubes with each pair of tubes having generally parallel spaced pressure sensing portions confined within a support housing with one pair of sensing portions disposed perpen... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7321360 | Systems, methods and devices for efficient communication utilizing a reduced number of selectable inputs Embodiments of the subject invention relate to systems, methods, and devices providing a reduced number of selectable inputs that enable efficient communication. One aspect of what is disclosed are embodiments of a systematic code, which systematic code enables effi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319919 | Control device and footstep determination device for legged mobile robot A landing position/orientation of a foot (22) to be landed in a landing action of a robot (1) such as a biped mobile robot or the like is estimated, and a desired footstep path for the robot (1) is set up. Based on the estimated landing position... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318130 | System and method for thermal throttling of memory modules Some embodiments of the invention accurately account for power dissipation in memory systems that include individual memory modules by keeping track of the number of read requests, the number of write requests, and the number of activate requests that are applied to... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7302350 | Selection of software and hardware functions with a force/torque sensor A force-moment sensor (1) is used as a switch, with which, depending on the introduction of forces and moments onto an operating part (5) of the force-moment sensor (1), software or hardware functions of a device (2, 2′) to be controlle... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7285933 | Method and apparatus for loss of control inhibitor systems Active and adaptive systems and methods to prevent loss of control incidents by providing tactile feedback to a vehicle operator are disclosed. According to the present invention, an operator gives a control input to an inceptor. An inceptor sensor measures an incep... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282694 | Optical navigation system having a ring pixel array An optical navigation system having an optical navigation integrated circuit (“navigation IC”) is described. The optical navigation system may include an emitter module and a pixel array surrounding the emitter module. The optical navigation system may further i... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272531 | Aggregation of asset use indices within a process plant A method of monitoring an entity within a process plant wherein the entity includes a plurality of lower level entities, includes acquiring a plurality of use indices, acquiring a plurality of weighting values, and creating an aggregate use index from a combination ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257521 | Support system, and computer-readable recording medium in which support program is recorded An apparatus concurrently executing designing of a mechanism and developing of embedded software. A three-dimensional-mechanism model simulates an operation of the mechanism, an embedded software developing section develops a control program to control the designing... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253801 | Input device of 3-D translation and rotation and its method and recording medium A photo device condenses the bright spot on the display to project the spot light onto the projection plane, thereby projecting it onto photo detectors the projection plane. A counter counts the time from the time of a vertical sync signal and supplies its output to... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245289 | Force-applying input device A force-applying input device includes a mechanical section including a tilting lever; an operation section mounted to an end of the tilting lever; first and second actuators which apply a force to the operation section through the tilting lever; first and second po... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7240299 | Method for improving usage of a graphic user interface pointing device A two part method for improving the usage of a pointing device by a physically impaired user is disclosed. A first method is provided for learning how a user moves the pointing device by acquiring motion data for a user and generating motion vectors corresponding to... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233314 | Notebook having combined touch pad and CD-ROM drive The present invention is to provide a notebook having a mechanism for combining a touch pad and a CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) drive in which the CD-ROM (or DVD-ROM) drive disposed on the notebook is combined with the touch pad disposed on a top surface of the CD-ROM (or DVD... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233853 | Multiple mode operational system for work vehicle braking A work vehicle includes a multiple mode operational system having a work system such as a linkage and associated hydraulic cylinders of a backhoe, a braking system and a multiple mode control system. The multiple mode control system includes a central controller, a ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227590 | Digital TV with operating system and method of driving same A digital TV and a driving method thereof enable a user to view the digital TV without interruption even if the present operating system is in an abnormal state. The digital TV includes a digital TV receiving part for receiving and decoding a broadcasting stream fro... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221988 | Creation and display of indices within a process plant A process control system uses an asset utilization expert to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the process control functional areas, the maintenance f... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222153 | Method of accumulating appliance located states and apparatus using the same An appliance located states accumulating method includes the steps of, receiving state information indicating operating state changes of the appliances constituted of a distributed computer through a network, calculating an occurrence time difference from the state ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215323 | Three-dimensional integrated tough screen input apparatus A 3D input device (102) is used to generate control data (108) for electronic or electrical devices, and has: an actuation part (104), which is designed so that it can be manipulated indirectly or directly by a... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7208942 | Magnetism metric controller A precise, consistent, reliable, and high resolution magnetism metric controller applied in electronic and information devices is comprised of a scrolling wheel mechanism to drive by rotation a permanent magnet to retrieve signals of changed magnetic field due to di... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206733 | Host to FPGA interface in an in-circuit emulation system A multi-purpose interface between a host computer and an FPGA. This interface uses an IEEE 1284 compliant EPP mode connection. When the host computer is initialized, a reset of the FPGA is carried out to clear the configuration memory of the FPGA. The data lines of ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7183537 | Rotary position sensor with offset beam generating element and elliptical detector array A rotary position sensor employs an offset beam forming optical element such as a tilted mirror or a diffraction grating. The axis of the light beam from a source can be parallel to the rotational axis or tilted at a predetermined angle. One or multiple spots of lig... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176892 | Lever handle type haptic input apparatus equipped with electromagnetic brake A haptic input apparatus includes: a supporting member having a spherical bearing; a lever handle having a spherical portion to be supported by the spherical bearing; an electromagnetic coil arranged opposite to a lower end surface of the lever handle; detection mea... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7164411 | Optical user interface for controlling portable electric device An optical user interface for controlling a portable electric device, such as a portable phone is provided. The user interface comprises a stripe-like optical contact surface, on which the finger of the user of the electric device is placed. A series of images of th... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159500 | Public network weapon system and method Embodiments of the invention enable the dynamic discovery and operation of at least one over a public network such as the Internet. The system may comprise dynamically discoverable sensors such as a video camera or video surveillance system or any other type of sens... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158118 | 3D pointing devices with orientation compensation and improved usability Systems and methods according to the present invention describe 3D pointing devices which enhance usability by transforming sensed motion data from a first frame of reference (e.g., the body of the 3D pointing device) into a second frame of reference (e.g., a user's... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154472 | Force-feedback input device A force-feedback input device includes an operation section to be operated by an operator; a position detection section for detecting the operating state of the operation section; a force-feedback generation section for applying force feedback to the operation secti... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151527 | Tactile feedback interface device including display screen A control device including a housing and a carrier moveable with respect to the housing in a first rotary degree of freedom. A first sensor senses the movement of the carrier and outputs a first control signal. A roller rotatably coupled to the carrier rotates with ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7139621 | Floating deadband control A control system having a floating deadband control includes an input device moveable from a first position to a second position. In addition, the control system includes a controller configured to automatically generate a first electronically defined deadband about... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7139623 | Method and apparatus for use of multiple control systems A method and apparatus for simultaneously controlling multiple control systems is provided. The resulting hybrid control system provides for sharing of inputs and outputs on a control surface membrane between the multiple distinct control systems. A unified tactile/... | 11/21/2006 |
