Author: claimsbot

1. A method of managing a treatment plan on a computer network, comprising:
making a database of efficacy data accessible to a provider interface;
receiving a work-up from the provider interface;
creating a treatment plan on the database from the work-up received from the provider interface;
assigning an approval status to the treatment plan;
sending an approval notice relating to the treatment plan to said provider interface and to a pharmacy interface, wherein the approval notice relates to the treatment plan;
invoking a surveillance plan to track and capture outcome information generated from the implementation of the treatment plan;
storing a plurality outcome information received from at least one of: (a) a payer interface; (b) the pharmacy interface; (c) the provider interface; and (d) a patient interface; and
automatically updating the efficacy data using the outcome information.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
automatically changing the status of the treatment plan in response to the stored outcome information.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the creation of the treatment plan is automatically influenced by an efficacy datum and a patient datum.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the creation of the treatment plan is automatically influenced by a plurality of patient data, including business information, medical information, and surveillance information.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the creation of the treatment plan is automatically influenced by a payer rule, a provider rule, a patient rule, and a pharmacy rule.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the treatment plan relates to a condition of cancer, wherein the treatment plan includes a chemotherapy as a treatment component, and wherein the treatment plan is automatically modified before the completion of the treatment plan.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the surveillance plan relates to a cancer condition, wherein the surveillance plan includes a pharmaceutical product, and wherein the surveillance plan is automatically modified before the completion of the surveillance plan.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the work-up is selected from a pre-approved regimen selection.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising an automatic sending of a notice to at least one of: (a) the payer interface; (b) the provider interface; (c) the patient interface; and (d) the pharmacy interface in response to a failure to comply with at least one of: (i) the treatment plan; and (ii) the surveillance plan.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein a surveillance plan is automatically created without human intervention after the approval of the treatment plan.
11. A healthcare management system, comprising:
an application and database residing on a server;
said database including a plurality of regimen data, a plurality efficacy data, a plurality of interaction data, a plurality of patient data, a treatment plan, and a surveillance plan;
said application providing for a patient interface, a provider interface, a payer interface, and a pharmacist interface;
wherein said treatment plan is selected from said provider interface and is selectively and automatically influenced by said patient data, and said efficacy data.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein said treatment plan selected from said provider interface is a pre-approved treatment plan.
13. The system of claim 11, wherein said surveillance plan is approved separate from the approval of said treatment plan.
14. The system of claim 11, wherein said efficacy data and said regimen data are updated before the completion of said surveillance plan.
15. The system of claim 11, wherein a status associated with said treatment plan is modified before the completion of said treatment plan.
16. The system of claim 11, said database further including a payer rule received thru said payer interface, wherein said payer rule influences said application to reject a work-up.
17. The system of claim 11, said application further providing for the capture of a plurality of outcome data, wherein receipt of said outcome data triggers a modification to said surveillance plan.
18. The system of claim 11, wherein the treatment plan relates to a condition of cancer, wherein the treatment plan includes a chemotherapy as a treatment component, and wherein the treatment plan is pre-approved from a regimen selection made with said provider interface.
19. The system of claim 11, wherein said efficacy data is automatically updated by said application.
20. A health care management system, comprising:
a provider subsystem, said provider subsystem providing for the scheduling of an examination with a patient, the creation of a work-up using a regimen selected using a provider interface, and the submission of the work-up for approval as a treatment plan, wherein the schedule of the examination, the work-up are stored on a database accessible by a payer subsystem;
said payer subsystem providing for populating a database with a plurality of regimen data and a plurality of efficacy data, wherein said payer subsystem further provided for approving a work-up as a treatment plan and transmitting an order corresponding to the treatment plan to a pharmacy subsystem;
said pharmacy subsystem providing for initiating at least one shipment and at least one notification;
wherein said treatment plan is associated with a surveillance plan, and wherein said system automatically collects a plurality of outcome data in accordance with said surveillance plan.

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. A linear motor armature comprising:
an armature core including:
a yoke extending straight; and
a plurality of pole teeth fixed to the yoke and disposed along the yoke and spaced in a longitudinal direction of the yoke such that a slot is formed between two adjacent pole teeth;

a plurality of excitation windings at least partially disposed in the slots formed in the armature core to excite the plurality of pole teeth; and
a cooling device configured to cool the plurality of excitation windings using a coolant, the cooling device comprising:
a first cooling conduit including:
a first main conduit running zigzag, the first main conduit including a plurality of straight conduits extending inside the slots and a plurality of coupling conduits, each of which couples two adjacent straight conduits such that the plurality of straight conduits are connected in series; and
a first pair of connecting conduits provided at both ends of the first main conduit;

a second cooling conduit including:
a second main conduit running zigzag and opposed to the first main conduit via the plurality of excitation windings, the second main conduit including a plurality of straight conduits extending inside the slots and a plurality of coupling conduits, each of which couples two adjacent straight conduits such that the plurality of straight conduits are connected in series; and
a second pair of connecting conduits provided at both ends of the second main conduit; and

a manifold provided to supply the coolant to the first cooling conduit and the second cooling conduit, wherein

the manifold and the first and second pairs of connecting conduits are configured such that the coolant is supplied from one connecting conduit of the first pair of connecting conduits and one connecting conduit of the second pair of connecting conduits and discharged from the other connecting conduit of the first pair of connecting conduits and the other connecting conduit of the second pair of connecting conduits.
2. The linear motor armature according to claim 1, wherein:
the manifold is fixed to the armature core and includes one coolant inlet port, two coolant delivery ports each communicating with the one coolant inlet port, one coolant outlet port, and two coolant discharge ports each communicating with the one coolant outlet port; and
the first and second pairs of connecting conduits are shaped such that the one connecting conduit of the first pair of connecting conduits of the first cooling conduit and the one connecting conduit of the second pair of connecting conduits of the second cooling conduit are connected to the two coolant delivery ports, and that the other connecting conduit of the first pair of connecting conduits of the first cooling conduit and the other connecting conduit of the second pair of connecting conduits of the second cooling conduit are connected to the two coolant discharge ports.
3. The linear motor armature according to claim 2, wherein:
the manifold is fixed in the vicinity of one side surface of the armature core that is located in a direction in which the slots extend;
the first and second pairs of connecting conduits are disposed in a connecting conduit installation space located above the one side surface; and
the two coolant delivery ports and the two coolant discharge ports of the manifold each open toward the connecting conduit installation space.
4. The linear motor armature according to claim 3, wherein:
the connecting conduit of the first pair of connecting conduits that extends toward the manifold from a side opposite to a side where the manifold is located and the connecting conduit of the second pair of connecting conduits that extends toward the manifold from a side opposite to the side where the manifold is located intersect each other in the connecting conduit installation space to form an intersecting portion; and
the intersecting portion is at least partially located between the plurality of coupling conduits included in the first main conduit and the plurality of coupling conduits included in the second main conduit.
5. The linear motor armature according to claim 4, wherein:
the plurality of pole teeth include a plurality of wound pole teeth on which the excitation windings are wound and a plurality of non-wound pole teeth on which the excitation windings are not wound; and
the intersecting portion is located above the non-wound pole teeth.
6. The linear motor armature according to claim 4, wherein
the first and second pairs of connecting conduits are disposed such that the coolant flows through one of the first and second main conduits in a direction from the side where the manifold is located to the opposite side, and that the coolant flows through the other of the first and second main conduits in a direction from the opposite side to the side where the manifold is located.
7. The linear motor armature according to claim 1, wherein:
the first and second cooling conduits each have a rectangular cross-sectional shape; and
one of outer surfaces of each of the first and second cooling conduits faces the excitation windings.
8. The linear motor armature according to claim 2, wherein:
the first and second cooling conduits each have a rectangular cross-sectional shape; and
one of outer surfaces of each of the first and second cooling conduits faces the excitation windings.
9. The linear motor armature according to claim 3, wherein:
the first and second cooling conduits each have a rectangular cross-sectional shape; and
one of outer surfaces of each of the first and second cooling conduits faces the excitation windings.
10. The linear motor armature according to claim 4, wherein:
the first and second cooling conduits each have a rectangular cross-sectional shape; and
one of outer surfaces of each of the first and second cooling conduits faces the excitation windings.
11. The linear motor armature according to claim 5, wherein:
the first and second cooling conduits each have a rectangular cross-sectional shape; and
one of outer surfaces of each of the first and second cooling conduits faces the excitation windings.
12. The linear motor armature according to claim 6, wherein:
the first and second cooling conduits each have a rectangular cross-sectional shape; and
one of outer surfaces of each of the first and second cooling conduits faces the excitation windings.

1. A liquid ejection head comprising an ejection device substrate having a substrate provided with an energy-generating element that generates energy for ejecting a liquid, a liquid supply member that supplies the liquid to the ejection device substrate, and a support member that is provided between the ejection device substrate and the liquid supply member and joined to the ejection device substrate and to the liquid supply member,
wherein the support member has at least two liquid supply flow paths that are through-holes extending through the support member and has a projected portion or a depressed portion at a joint surface of the support member with respect to the liquid supply member,
wherein a spacing between two first openings of two of the liquid supply flow paths adjoining each other at the joint surface of the support member with respect to the liquid supply member is larger than a spacing between two second openings of the two of the liquid supply flow paths adjoining each other at a joint surface of the support member with respect to the ejection device substrate, and
wherein each of the two liquid supply flow paths is formed in the support member such that the first opening of the liquid supply flow path at the joint surface of the support member with respect to the liquid supply member and the second opening of the liquid supply flow path at the joint surface of the support member with respect to the ejection device substrate communicate with each other.
2. The liquid ejection head according to claim 1, wherein the projected portion or depressed portion of the support member is arranged so as to surround each of the liquid supply flow paths.
3. The liquid ejection head according to claim 1, wherein the height and width of the projected portion are both 1 mm or more and 3 mm or less, and wherein the depth and width of the depressed portion are both 1 mm or more and 3 mm or less.
4. The liquid ejection head according to claim 1, wherein the support member is an injection-molded product of an alloy material containing a spherical filler, a poly(phenylene sulfide) resin (PPS) and a modified poly(phenylene ether) resin (PPE), and the support member and the liquid supply member are integrated by insert molding.
5. The liquid ejection head according to claim 1, wherein the support member has the projected portion at a joint surface of the support member with respect to the liquid supply member.
6. The liquid ejection head according to claim 5, wherein the support member and the projected portion are formed of the same type of material.
7. The liquid ejection head according to claim 5, wherein the support member and the projected portion are formed of the same resin material.
8. The liquid ejection head according to claim 1, wherein the two liquid supply flow paths extend obliquely with respect to the joint surface of the support member with respect to the liquid supply member and the joint surface of the support member with respect to the ejection device substrate.
9. The liquid ejection head according to claim 1, wherein the support member has the depressed portion at a joint surface of the support member with respect to the liquid supply member.

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. A paper-sheet storing and feeding device adapted to temporarily stack paper-sheets fed from the exterior and then bring them into a stored state as well as adapted to feed out the paper-sheets in the stored state to the exterior, the paper-sheet storing and feeding device comprising:
a receptacle adapted for placing the paper-sheets thereon in a standing state;
a stacking and feeding mechanism adapted to successively carry the paper-sheets fed from the exterior, into the receptacle, upon temporarily stacking the paper-sheets, as well as configured to be in contact with a forefront paper-sheet in the receptacle and then feed out the forefront paper-sheet, upon feeding out the paper-sheets in the stored state:
a pushing member provided on the side of the forefront paper-sheet in the receptacle, and configured to be optionally advanced and retracted relative to the forefront paper-sheet, such that when advanced, the pushing member can press the forefront paper-sheet backward so as to disconnect the paper-sheet from the stacking and feeding mechanism, while when retracted, the pushing member can be moved away from the forefront paper-sheet so as to bring the paper-sheet into contact with the stacking and feeding mechanism;
a holding member provided to be in contact with a backmost paper-sheet in the receptacle, and configured to be optionally advanced and retracted relative to the stacking and feeding mechanism;
a storage space defined between the stacking and feeding mechanism and the holding member in the receptacle, and adapted for storing the paper-sheets therein;
a retaining member provided to be optionally advanced and retracted relative to the storage space, such that when advanced, the retaining member can be in contact with the forefront paper-sheet among the paper-sheets moved to be spaced away from the stacking and feeding mechanism due to the pushing member in the receptacle so as to hold the paper-sheets between the retaining member and the holding member and bring them into a temporary holding state, while when retracted, the retaining member can release the paper-sheets; and
a drive mechanism configured to operate the pushing member, the holding member and the retaining member, such that the holding member can be retracted to be moved away from the stacking and feeding mechanism while the pushing member can be advanced, and the retaining member can be advanced into the storage space so as to bring the paper-sheets having been moved to be spaced away from the stacking and feeding mechanism due to the pushing member in the receptacle, into the temporary holding state, thereby defining a temporary stacking space, and such that upon bringing the paper-sheets newly stacked in the temporary stacking space due to the stacking and feeding mechanism, into the stored state, the holding member can be advanced toward the stacking and feeding mechanism while the retaining member can be retracted from the forefront paper-sheet in the temporary holding state in the receptacle.
2. The paper-sheet storing and feeding device according to claim 1,
wherein the retaining member includes a pair of upper and lower claws respectively located above and below the storage space,
wherein each claw includes a first claw part having a proximal end turnably turned by an axis fixed in position to the receptacle and a distal end, and a second claw part having a proximal end turnably turned at the distal end of the first claw and a distal end, and
wherein the drive mechanism operates the retaining member, such that when the retaining member is retracted from the storage space, a state, in which the side face of the second claw part is extended substantially along the surface of the paper-sheet newly stacked in the temporary stacking space in the receptacle, can be kept, by turning the second claw part relative to the first claw part, together with turn of the first claw part.
3. The paper-sheet storing and feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the drive mechanism operates the retaining member, such that the retaining member can be advanced together with advancing movement of the pushing member as well as can be retracted together with advancing movement of the holding member.
4. The paper-sheet storing and feeding device according to claim 1, wherein the drive mechanism operates the pushing member, the holding member and the retaining member, together with one another.
5. The paper-sheet storing and feeding device according to claim 1,
wherein a detection sensor having a light-emitting part and a light-receiving part is provided in the vicinity of the receptacle,
wherein the receptacle includes a plate adapted for placing the paper-sheets thereon, and a light-blocking member having a proximal end turned by the plate, such that the light-blocking member can be turned between a light-blocking position in which light emitted from the light-emitting part of the detection sensor is blocked so as not to reach the light-receiving part of the detection sensor and a light-passing position in which the light can travel up to the light-receiving part,
wherein the holding member includes a light-blocking member pushing unit configured to be in contact with the light-blocking member when an amount of the paper-sheets in the receptacle reaches a criterion when the holding member is advanced upon feeding out the paper-sheets, thereby turning the light-blocking member, and
wherein the detection sensor is configured to detect change in a state of the light traveling from the light-emitting part to the light-receiving part when the light-blocking member is turned by the light-blocking member pushing unit of the holding member, thereby detecting a timing on which the amount of the paper-sheets in the receptacle reaches the criterion upon feeding out the paper-sheets.
6. The paper-sheet storing and feeding device according to claim 5, wherein the holding member includes a plurality of light-blocking member pushing units respectively formed corresponding to different criteria, whereby the relative positional relationship between the holding member and the light-blocking member can be optionally changed so as to select either one of the light-blocking member pushing units for turning the light-blocking member.