Author: claimsbot

1. A coating material applying method for applying an image protecting coating material to a surface of a print, including the steps of:
applying said image protecting coating material to said surface of said print by spraying said image protecting coating material thereto from a plurality of droplet spray nozzles while said print is moved relatively to said droplet spray nozzles, said image protecting coating material being provided to protect an image on said print, wherein;
an area for image protecting coating material application is determined as a particular area on said print, said image protecting coating material being applied to said particular area by spraying said image protecting coating material selectively onto said particular area;
said plurality of droplet spray nozzles are arranged transversely of said print, said image protecting coating material being applied selectively to said particular area by spraying said image protecting coating material from selected droplet spray nozzles corresponding to said particular area among said plurality of droplet spray nozzles; and
said particular area is determined based on image data forming said image on said print;
the method further including the steps of:
obtaining coating conditions for said particular area; and
converting the obtained coating conditions into control data for said selected droplet nozzles.
2. The coating material applying method as defined in claim 1, wherein said image protecting coating material is an ultraviolet-curable coating material, said image protecting coating material being cured by emitting ultraviolet light to said print after applying said image protecting coating material to said print.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the coating conditions comprise at least one of a droplet size and a number of droplets.
4. A coating material applying apparatus for applying an image protecting coating material to a surface of a print, comprising:
a plurality of droplet spray nozzles for spraying said image protecting coating material on said surface of said print to apply said image protecting coating material thereto, said image protecting coating material being provided to protect an image on said print;
moving means for moving said print relative to said droplet spray nozzles;
area determining means for determining an area for image protecting coating material application as a particular area on said print;
an instruction device for obtaining coating conditions for said particular area, wherein said area determining means is for converting said coating conditions into control data for said droplet spray nozzles; and
control means for selectively driving, based on said control data, droplet spray nozzles corresponding to said particular area from among said plurality of droplet spray nozzles and causing said image protecting coating material to be sprayed from said droplet spray nozzles selected;
wherein said area determining means is arranged to determine said particular area based on image data forming said image on said print.
5. The coating material applying apparatus as defined in claim 4, wherein said image protecting coating material is an ultraviolet-curable coating material, said apparatus further comprising ultraviolet light emitting means for emitting ultraviolet light to said print after said droplet spray nozzles apply said image protecting coating material to said print.
6. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the coating conditions comprise at least one of a droplet size and a number of droplets.
7. A printing machine for performing printing based on image data, comprising:
a transport mechanism for transporting a print;
coating applying means including a plurality of droplet spray nozzles arranged perpendicular to a direction in which said print is transported by said transport mechanism, for spraying an image protecting coating material on said print as said print is transported, said image protecting coating material being provided to protect an image on said print;
area determining means for determining, based on said image data, an area for image protecting coating material application as a particular area on said print;
an instruction device for obtaining coating conditions for said particular area, wherein said area determining means is for converting said coating conditions into control data for said droplet spray nozzles; and
control means for selectively driving, based on said control data, droplet spray nozzles corresponding to said particular area from among said plurality of droplet spray nozzles, and causing said image protecting coating material to be sprayed from said droplet spray nozzles selected;
wherein said area determining means is arranged to recognize an image area on said print from said image data, and determine said particular area to coincide with said image area.
8. The printing machine as defined in claim 7, further composing:
platemaking means for making printing plates based on said image data; and
printing means for performing printing by using said printing plates.
9. The printing machine as defined in claim 7, wherein said area determining means is arranged to determine said particular area as an area for image protecting coating material application on said print based on data inputted by an operator.
10. The printing machine as defined in claim 7, wherein said image protecting coating material is an ultraviolet-curable coating material, said printing machine further comprising ultraviolet light emitting means disposed downstream of said coating applying means with respect to said direction in which said print is transported, for emitting ultraviolet light to said print.
11. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the coating conditions comprise at least one of a droplet size and a number of droplets.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. An exhaust gas recirculation cooler comprising:
a housing including an exhaust gas region, a coolant region, an exhaust gas inlet that provides communication between an exhaust gas from an engine and the exhaust gas region, and an exhaust gas outlet that provides communication between the exhaust gas region and an engine intake air supply; and
a first wall fixed within the housing and separating the exhaust gas region from the coolant region, the first wall including a first region facing the exhaust gas region and a first tab having a fixed end coupled to the first region and a free end generally opposite the fixed end, the free end being displaceable between first and second positions based on an operating temperature of the exhaust gas, the free end being displaced in a direction generally perpendicular to the first region when in the second position.
2. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein the free end generates turbulent exhaust gas flow when in the second position.
3. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein the first tab includes first and second portions, the first portion being formed from a first material and the second portion being formed from a second material, the first portion including an outer surface facing the exhaust gas region and an inner surface having the second portion coupled thereto, one of the first and second materials having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is greater than the other of the first and second materials.
4. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 3, wherein the second material has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is greater than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the first material.
5. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 3, wherein the first material has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is greater than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the second material.
6. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 3, wherein the displacement of the free end is caused by a difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion of the first and second materials.
7. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 3, wherein the first region of the first wall is formed from the first material.
8. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein the free end of the first tab is located downstream of the fixed end in a flow direction of the exhaust gas.
9. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein displacement of the free end removes a particulate matter from the first tab.
10. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein displacement of the free end from the first position to the second position occurs as the operating temperature of the exhaust gas increases.
11. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein displacement of the free end from the first position to the second position occurs as the operating temperature of the exhaust gas decreases.
12. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 11, wherein the first tab restricts a flow of the exhaust gas as the operating temperature of the exhaust gas decreases.
13. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, further comprising a second wall fixed within the housing, the second wall including a second region facing the exhaust gas region and the first region of the first wall, a second tab having a fixed end coupled to the second region of the second wall and a free end generally opposite the fixed end thereof, the free end of the second tab being displaceable between third and fourth positions based on an operating temperature of the exhaust gas.
14. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 13, wherein the free end of the second tab is displaced in a direction toward the first wall when in the fourth position.
15. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 13, wherein the free ends of the first and second tabs extend toward one another when the first tab is in the second position and the second tab is in the fourth position.
16. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 13, wherein the free end of the first tab is located downstream relative to the free end of the second tab in a flow direction of the exhaust gas.
17. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 13, wherein the free end of the second tab is displaced in a direction generally perpendicular to the second region when in the second position.
18. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein the first tab extends at an angle relative to the first portion when the free end is in the second position.
19. The exhaust gas recirculation cooler of claim 1, wherein the first tab extends generally parallel to the first portion when the free end is in the first position.

1. A system for modeling dose distribution, the system comprising:
an input operable to receive functional imaging information representing metabolic or biochemical activity of a tumor;
a processor operable to apply a model of tumor response to a treatment dose, the tumor response being different for different regions of the tumor as a function of the functional imaging information; and
a display operable to output an image as a function of the tumor response.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the input comprises a data interface operable to receive the functional imaging information.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the functional imaging information comprises positron emission tomography imaging with fluorodeoxyglucose, the metabolic or biochemical activity comprising glucose metabolism, and the tumor being a tumor of a non-small cell lung cancer.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein the model is a machine-learned model.
5. The system of claim 1 wherein the model represents a probability of residual disease in each of the different regions given the functional imaging information and the treatment dose for the respective region.
6. The system of claim 5 wherein the probability is a function of data from other patients representing functional imaging information before and after radiation therapy at known dosages.
7. The system of claim 6 wherein residual disease corresponds to functional imaging information, from after radiation therapy, greater than a threshold standard uptake value for the respective patient, the threshold standard uptake value for each patient being a function of the functional imaging information for that patient.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein the model uses a feature vector comprising age, gender, WHO performance, and tumor size.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein the model uses a feature vector for each of the different regions, the feature vector comprising functional imaging information from neighboring ones of the different regions.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is operable to determine radiation level differently for different ones of the different regions.
11. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is operable to redistribute the treatment dose amongst the different regions as a function of the tumor response.
12. In a computer readable storage medium having stored therein data representing instructions executable by a programmed processor for distributing dose for tumor treatment, the instructions comprising:
receiving positron emission information showing variance of standardized uptake of different locations in a cancer region;
predicting therapy responses of the cancer region at the different locations as a function of the standardized uptake for the respective different locations;
determining an increase or decrease in a location specific dose as a function of the predicted therapy response; and
outputting the location specific dose for each of the different locations of the cancer region.
13. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein receiving positron emission information comprises receiving positron emission information showing the variance of standardized uptake of fluorine-18 deoxyglucose.
14. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein predicting comprises modeling as a function of a probability of residual disease given the standardized uptake and the location specific dose.
15. The computer readable medium of claim 14 wherein modeling comprises modeling as a function of the standardized uptake at neighboring ones of different locations, a patient age, a patient gender, and size of the cancer region.
16. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein outputting comprises outputting different location specific doses for the different locations.
17. A method for modeling dose distribution, the method comprising:
determining uptake of an agent at different portions of a tumor in a patient from emission tomography information;
classifying radiation response of the different portions of the tumor as a function of the uptake for the different portions and control probabilities of residual disease given a dose, the control probabilities having been machine-learned from a dataset for other patients having uptake information before and after treatment by radiation;
determining dose information as a function of the radiation response, the dose information varying between the different portions of the tumor; and
outputting the dose information for use with a linear accelerator to treat the patient.
18. The method of claim 17 wherein determining uptake comprises determining uptake of fluorodeoxyglucose from a positron emission tomography image of the patient’s lung, wherein classifying comprises modeling a tumor control probability as a function of dose and range of uptake, and a normal tissue control probability as a function of dose, wherein determining dose information comprises determining dose levels with sufficient probability of success and probability of harm to normal tissue as a function of the uptake at the different portions.
19. The method of claim 17 wherein the uptake is from a time before treatment of the patient.
20. The method of claim 17 wherein classifying comprises classifying for each of the different portions with a feature vector comprising the uptake for the portion, uptake for surrounding ones of the different portions, a size of the tumor, and at least one clinical factor.
21. The method of claim 17 wherein classifying comprises classifying as a function of probabilities of proper application of dose.
22. The system of claim 1 wherein the model comprises dose probabilities.
23. The computer readable medium of claim 12 wherein predicting comprises predicting as a function of a dose uncertainty.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A portable information processing unit to be used by a storage medium storing at least program data being connected thereto, comprising:
an information processing circuit for performing data processing based on the program data stored in said storage medium;
a liquid crystal display for displaying data processed by said information processing circuit;
a transflective-type reflection plate laminated on a back surface of said liquid crystal display;
a backlight emitter, in a shape of a sheet, having the same flat form as said liquid crystal display and laminated on a back surface of said transflective-type reflection plate;
backlight drive means for driving said backlight emitter;
a power supply portion for supplying power; and
a power switch capable of being switched among a first group of contacts, a second group of contacts and a third group of contacts,
said power switch:
stopping all power supply when said first group of contacts is selected;
supplying power from said power supply portion only to said information processing circuit and said liquid crystal display when said second group of contacts is selected; and
supplying power from said power supply portion to all of said information processing circuit, said liquid crystal display, and said backlight drive means when said third group of contacts is selected.
2. The portable information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein said transflective-type reflection plate is made of a material in which reflectance is higher than transmittance.
3. The portable information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein said backlight drive means includes power converting means for converting a DC power supplied by said power supply portion into an AC power of a voltage and a frequency suitable for driving said backlight emitter.
4. The portable information processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:
power-supply-voltage detecting means for detecting whether a voltage of said power supply portion is more than or equal to a given value; and
backlight-drive control means for controlling said backlight drive means based on a result detected by said power-supply-voltage detecting means, and
wherein said backlight-drive control means places said backlight drive means in an inactive state in response to the result detected by said power-supply-voltage detecting means that the voltage of said power supply portion is less than the given value, and thereby stops power supply to said backlight emitter.
5. The portable information processing unit according to claim 1, further comprising:
intensity control means for controlling intensity of said backlight emitter; and
voltage adjusting means connected in relation to said third group of contacts of said power switch, for adjusting a voltage value in an analog fashion, and
wherein said intensity control means adjusts the intensity of said backlight emitter based on a position of said voltage adjusting means.
6. The portable information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein said power switch is a three-position switch capable of being switched among a first position for selecting said first group of contacts, a second position for selecting said second group of contacts, and a third position for selecting said third group of contacts.
7. The portable information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein said power switch is a two-position switch with a pushbutton having a first position for selecting said first group of contacts and a second position for selecting said second group of contacts, and selecting said third group of contacts when the pushbutton is pushed at the second position.