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A condenser coil for a refrigerated beverage and food service merchandiser includes a plurality of parallel fins between adjacent tubes. In order to reduce the likelihood of fouling by the bridging of fibers therebetween, the spacing of the fins is maintained at a distance of 0.4 to 0.8 inches apart. In one embodiment, the tubes comprise microchannel tubes, with no fins therebetween, and the spacing between the microchannel tubes is maintained in the range of 0.75 inches to optimize the heat transfer performance while minimizing the occurrence of fouling. A supporting structure is provided between microchannel tubes when no fins are included. Also, plural rows of microchannel tubes are provided with separate inlet headings and with the rows being staggered in transverse relationship to enhance the heat transfer characteristic while minimizing the likelihood of fouling.

Methods of treating diabetes mellitus in a patient in need of such treatment include administering an effective amount of an insulin drug to the patient in order to treat diabetes mellitus in the patient. Methods according to the present invention may “activate” the liver, potentially restoring normal glucose homeostasis to individuals suffering from diabetes mellitus.

A condenser coil for a refrigerated beverage and food service merchandiser includes a plurality of parallel fins between adjacent tubes. In order to reduce the likelihood of fouling by the bridging of fibers therebetween, the spacing of the fins is maintained at a distance of 0.4 to 0.8 inches apart. In one embodiment, the tubes comprise microchannel tubes, with no fins therebetween, and the spacing between the microchannel tubes is maintained in the range of 0.75 inches to optimize the heat transfer performance while minimizing the occurrence of fouling. A supporting structure is provided between microchannel tubes when no fins are included. Also, plural rows of microchannel tubes are provided with separate inlet headings and with the rows being staggered in transverse relationship to enhance the heat transfer characteristic while minimizing the likelihood of fouling.

A battery pack containing a plurality of battery modules, these modules comprising a plurality of individual battery units, these battery units comprising a plurality of bicells with opposing terminals. The battery modules are connected in series by use of a flexible circuit and by opposing positive and negative terminals of each battery unit. The terminals of each battery unit contain a region of apertures which allow the adhesive of the envelope-like packaging material to seal more effectively by flowing through the apertures and sealing to itself, thereby eliminating or reducing the amount of leakage from an individual battery unit. The terminals pass through overlapped edges of the packaging material and include tangs for electrical connection to flaps formed in the flexible circuit.

A stripping device for stripping a waste piece from a sheet in a press has a resilient connecting portion connecting supporting finger connected to a frame of the press and a cogwheel disposed proximal an aperture of the frame. The cogwheel is aligned in register with a die in a first configuration of the device and slides along the cogwheel in contact with the waste piece to deflect, and thereby strip, the waste piece. The die also biases the cogwheel towards the finger as it is rotated until the device is in a second configuration in which the cogwheel is aligned for biasing back into the first configuration when the die is removed from contact with the cogwheel.

Methods are disclosed for mitigating the impact of resource limitations caused by privileged use schemes, such as WPS and / or GETS, on non-privileged users of a communication system. In one embodiment, a resource controller or switch (#), responsive to receiving (202) an information request from a non-privileged user, retrieves (206, 214) information regarding the percentage or quantity of resources that are being used by privileged users. In one embodiment, upon determining (304) that resources are unavailable for a non-privileged user, a bid option (314) and / or queuing option (322) is offered so as to reduce occurrences of calls (or re-attempted calls) being terminated due to lack of resources.

A battery pack containing a plurality of battery modules, these modules comprising a plurality of individual battery units, these battery units comprising a plurality of bicells with opposing terminals. The battery modules are connected in series by use of a flexible circuit and by opposing positive and negative terminals of each battery unit. The terminals of each battery unit contain a region of apertures which allow the adhesive of the packaging material to seal more effectively, thereby eliminating or reducing the amount of leakage from an individual battery unit.

A polyvinyl display device for bifocal computer / reading spectacles. The display device enables a person to identify a pair of spectacles having the correct optical center to match the wearer's pupillary separation. The present invention includes, in combination, a pair of spectacles having two near focal powers and a new type of display mechanism that allows the purchaser to choose not only the correct power needed, but also the correct pair of glasses to match the user's pupillary distance (PD). Optical centers of finished reading glasses are marked, then a display device including an opaque polyvinyl static cling film having two, preferably round, holes therein is placed onto the glasses such that the holes in the film overlie the optical centers. When the user dons the glasses, if a solid round area is viewed, the spectacles have the correct size for the user's PD. If a figure eight or two holes is viewed, the PD is too wide. If the user views the outside edges, the PD is too narrow. By visual observation, the consumer can find the correctly sized reading glasses. The reading glasses preferably are fabricated in three different PD's, Narrow, 55-58 mm, Medium, 59-62 mm and Wide, 63-66 mm.

Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray® discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image handles jumps without buffer underruns, the jumps caused by layer switching or by moving from or to branches in a multi-branch story line.

A habitat enclosure comprising a removably disposed housing or outer covering shaped or otherwise configured to represent an animate object is presented. Furthermore, the outer covering is disposed in a removable, yet confronting engagement with a container, the container being viewable through a display area of the outer covering. The container also comprises a lid removably disposed relative to a basin in order to allow at least temporary access into said interior portion thereof. The enclosure further comprises one or more access channels disposed through the outer covering and into a communicative relation with the interior portion of the container in order to facilitate feeding, breathing, and / or draining or other maintenance. A lighting assembly is disposed in an illuminating relation with the container such that the apparatus may be used as a night-light or other soothing accent.

A non-slip undergarment is provided which includes comprising an undergarment having a top side defining a waistband, a front panel, a back panel, and a crotch line, the front panel, back panel and crotch line defining a pair of leg openings, the front panel, back panel, and crotch line together covering at least a portion of the lower abdomen and buttocks of a wearer of the undergarment. Each of the leg openings having, on the back panel, a corresponding anti-slip strip, each anti slip strip extending from the crotch line upwards only part-way along the corresponding leg opening on the back panel.

A package scanning conveyance system that integrates a first two-dimensional image with at least a second two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional point clouds to calculate or estimate a package's physical properties, and / or determine if there are two or more packages in a pile. The captured imaging data is transformed by the inventive system to provide real-time feedback to a human operator to enable the operator to maintain an understanding of the system's performance. The imaging data may also be used to perform quality-checks on other parts of the package delivery and conveyance systems and document the condition of packages that have passed through the system.

The present invention relates generally to systems, methods, storage media, and software arrangements for genotyping and / or haplotyping a sequence of polymorphic genetic loci in a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sample or identifying a strain variant from the DNA sample. Exemplary embodiments of systems, methods, storage media, and software arrangements may perform the optimization of the design of one or more microarrays, each containing a set of oligonucleotide probes capable of detecting one or more known genotypes and / or haplotypes at given polymorphic genetic loci or identifying the strain variant, by optimizing the set of oligonucleotides to be incorporated into the microarrays and by optimizing the arrangement of a set of oligonucleotides on the microarrays. The optimization may be achieved through the application of one or more optimization procedures. The instant invention may be useful in typing individuals at the HLA loci or other polymorphic genetic loci, or may be employed to quickly identify viral or bacterial pathogens from which genome sequence information is available.

An image sensor device formed in an integrated circuit (IC) with one or more shading structures configured to provide a predetermined shading pattern to control the locations at which light impinges on the photodiode areas of the pixels. The predetermined shading patterns preventing color cross-talk and providing the pixels with substantially symmetric angular responses to light to thereby eliminate or reduce the occurrence of artifacts in the output image produced by the image sensor device.