Abstract: A beverage container with a grip formed in side and bottom walls thereof. The grip includes a V-shaped groove on a side wall that receives a finger of a consumer (e.g., a thumb or set of fingers) and a recess formed in a bottom wall of the container to receive one or more other fingers of the consumer's hand. When gripped in this fashion a lower corner of the bottle may be located in the palm of the consumer's hand. The groove in the side wall is formed in the side wall sufficiently close to the bottom wall to allow the hands of most consumers to use the grip. The V shape points upward. Either side of the V can be used depending on whether the consumer wishes to grip with their right hand or their left hand.

Abstract: An electrical connector disposed in use between a store and an aircraft or dispenser comprises a first half 10 mechanically connected to the store and a second, complementary half 12 connected to an electrical cable attached to the aircraft or dispenser, the connector second half 12 comprising a core 14 containing electrical contacts and an outer shell 24, 26, 28, 30 snap-engageable with the first connector half to securely retain the connector second half in mating engagement with the connector first half while the store is being carried by the aircraft, the outer shell being pulled off the connector first half as the store is separated from the aircraft, the outer shell being formed as a separate component or assembly, removably attached to the connector second half core.

Abstract: In thermal inkjet printing, an energy source supplies voltage pulses to a set of resistors in a printhead. The resistors are not necessarily equal-valued. The subset of energized resistors changes from pulse to pulse as a function of the printable data. As the subsets vary, resulting in a varying load on the energy source, this causes undesirable variations in the energy supplied to individual resistors, even when a regulated source is used, because of residual impedances in the source and wiring. The invention compensates for such energy variations, using information about which subset of resistors is to be energized during a pulse. By determining the electrical load presented by the subset, and by referring to a predetermined relation between the load value and the voltage drop in the residual impedances, the invention maintains nominally constant energy in individual pulsed resistors by an appropriate adjustment of the pulse width.