Author: claimsbot

1. A method of assembling a gas turbine engine, said method comprising:
providing a high-pressure compressor including a first rotor and an adjacent second compressor rotor coupled downstream from the first rotor;
coupling a high-pressure turbine downstream from the compressor such that the turbine is coupled to the compressor by a first shaft such that the first shaft includes an internal air duct defined therein; and
coupling an air directing assembly between the first and second compressor rotors wherein the air directing assembly is configured to direct a portion of airflow discharged from the first rotor inward through the internal air duct.
2. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein the air directing assembly includes a pair of rings and a body extending therebetween, said method further comprises coupling each ring of the pair of rings to one of the first and second rotors.
3. A method in accordance with claim 2 wherein providing a high-pressure compressor further comprises providing a high-pressure compressor including a first and second compressor rotor coupled within the gas turbine engine such that a gap is defined between the first and second compressor rotors.
4. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein coupling an air directing assembly between the first and second compressor rotors further comprises coupling the air directing assembly between the first and second compressor rotors such that the air directing assembly rotates concurrently with the first and second compressor rotors.
5. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said method further comprises coupling a valve assembly downstream from the turbine to selectively control airflow through the internal air duct.
6. A gas turbine engine assembly comprising:
a high-pressure compressor comprising a first rotor and a second compressor rotor disposed downstream from said first rotor;
a high-pressure turbine coupled downstream to said compressor by a first shaft; and
an air directing assembly coupled between said first and second compressor rotors for selectively channeling airflow discharged from said first compressor rotor inward through said first shaft.
7. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 6 wherein said gas turbine engine further comprises an internal air duct such that said duct is substantially concentrically aligned with said shaft.
8. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 6 wherein said air directing assembly comprises a pair of rings and a body extending therebetween.
9. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 8 wherein said body comprises an annular ring, said body extends substantially perpendicularly between said pair of rings.
10. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 8 wherein said body comprises a plurality of openings extending therethrough, said plurality of openings facilitate channeling air into said first shaft.
11. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 8 wherein said body comprises an airfoil shape extending between said pair of rings.
12. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 11 wherein said body comprises a leading edge, a trailing edge, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall wherein said leading edge and said trailing edge are each coupled to one of said pair of rings.
13. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 8 wherein said gas turbine engine further comprises at least one fastening mechanism coupling said air directing assembly between said first rotor and said second compressor rotor such that said air directing assembly rotates concurrently with said first and second compressor rotor.
14. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 6 wherein said gas turbine engine further comprises a centerbody extending radially outward from said first shaft.
15. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 14 wherein said gas turbine engine further comprises a valve assembly downstream from said turbine, said assembly comprises an actuator, a butterfly valve, and a stem extending therebetween, said stem extends through a portion of said centerbody.
16. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 15 wherein said at least one butterfly valve is operated hydraulically.
17. An air directing assembly for a gas turbine engine, said air directing assembly comprising a pair of rings and a body extending therebetween wherein said air directing assembly is configured to direct airflow inward through said gas turbine engine.
18. An air directing assembly in accordance with claim 17 wherein said body comprises an annular ring, said body extends substantially perpendicularly between said pair of rings.
19. An air directing assembly in accordance with claim 17 wherein said body comprises a plurality of openings extending therethrough, said plurality of openings facilitate channeling air though said air directing assembly.
20. A gas turbine engine in accordance with claim 17 wherein said body comprises an airfoil shape extending between said pair of rings.

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 sunroof apparatus comprising:
a movable panel that is configured to open or close an opening formed in a roof of a vehicle;
guide rails that have a pair of rail-side holding portions provided side by side in a lateral direction of the vehicle, and are respectively provided in both edge portions of the opening in the lateral direction of the vehicle;
support brackets, front end portions of which are supported by the guide rails, which have vertical walls for supporting both edge portions of the movable panel in the lateral direction of the vehicle, and each of which has a pair of bracket-side held portions provided on both sides of a rear end portion of the vertical wall in the lateral direction of the vehicle;
sliding members which are provided so as to be able to move along the guide rails, and each of which has a connection wall connected to the support bracket; a pair of sliding member-side held portions that is provided on both sides of the connection wall in the lateral direction of the vehicle, and is held by both the rail-side holding portions such that both the sliding member-side held portions cannot move in the lateral direction and a vertical direction of the vehicle; and a pair of sliding member-side holding portions that is provided side by side in a rear end portion of the connection wall in the lateral direction of the vehicle, and holds both the bracket-side held portions such that both the bracket-side held portions cannot move in the lateral direction and the vertical direction of the vehicle when the movable panel is in a fully closed state; and
an electric driving source that drives the movement of the sliding members.
2. The sunroof apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein a rib protrudes from at least one of both the rail-side holding portions in such a manner as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, and
wherein a restricting piece protrudes from each of the sliding members such that the restricting piece can be engaged with the rib in a twisting direction of the support bracket.
3. The sunroof apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein when the movable panel is in the fully closed state, a first bracket-side held portion, which is one of both the bracket-side held portions, is in contact with the sliding member-side holding portion in the vertical direction of the vehicle, and
wherein when the movable panel is in the fully closed state, a second bracket-side held portion, which is the other of both the bracket-side held portions, is positioned close to the sliding member-side holding portion in the vertical direction of the vehicle.
4. The sunroof apparatus according to claim 2,
wherein when the movable panel is in the fully closed state, a first bracket-side held portion, which is one of both the bracket-side held portions, is in contact with the sliding member-side holding portion in the vertical direction of the vehicle, and
wherein when the movable panel is in the fully closed state, a second bracket-side held portion, which is the other of both the bracket-side held portions, is positioned close to the sliding member-side holding portion in the vertical direction of the vehicle.
5. The sunroof apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein a bracket-side guide surface is formed in at least one of both the bracket-side held portions such that the sliding member-side holding portion is guided to hold the bracket-side held portion by the bracket-side guide surface when the movable panel transitions to the fully closed state while being tilted downward.
6. The sunroof apparatus according to claim 1,
wherein a sliding member-side guide surface is formed at a rear end of the sliding member such that the sliding member-side holding portion is guided to hold at least one of both the bracket-side held portions by the sliding member-side guide surface when the movable panel transitions to the fully closed state while being tilted downward.

1. An electronic device comprising:
storage media for storing data in the electronic device;
a wireless communication interface; and
a processor which monitors contents of the storage media, wherein upon the storage media reaching a preset capacity the processor automatically initiates a connection from the wireless communication interface to transfer the contents from the storage media.
2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication interface connects with a remote storage device.
3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the contents of the storage media is transferred to the remote storage device.
4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication interface is a cellular interface.
5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication interface is a Bluetooth interface.
6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication interface is a wireless LAN interface.
7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the storage media is a flash memory card.
8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is selected from a group consisting of: a digital camera, a camcorder, a personal digital assistant, a portable game system, a portable music player and a portable movie player.
9. A method of managing memory in an electronic device comprising:
determining contents of the memory have exceeded a predetermined level;
automatically establishing a wireless connection between the electronic device and a remote storage device; and
transferring at least a portion of the contents of the memory to the remote storage device.
10. The method of claim 9, further comprising deleting the contents of the memory that is transferred to the remote storage device.
11. The method of claim 9, further comprising informing a user the transfer is complete.
12. The method of claim 9, further comprising waiting a predetermined time period if establishing the wireless connection is unsuccessful.
13. The method of claim 12, further comprising reattempting to establish the wireless connection.
14. The method of claim 9, wherein the wireless connection is a cellular connection.
15. The method of claim 9, wherein the wireless connection is a Bluetooth connection.
16. The method of claim 9, wherein the wireless connection is a wireless LAN connection.
17. The method of claim 9, wherein the memory is a flash memory card.
18. The method of claim 9, wherein the electronic device is selected from a group consisting of: a digital camera, a camcorder, a personal digital assistant, a portable game system, a portable music player and a portable movie player.

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 selection process designed to select optimized results from a plurality of possible results represented in a search tree, the process comprising:
employing a tree-search, wherein bounds are used to prune at least one node or branch of the search tree;
invoking a non-overlapping support constraint in conjunction with the tree search to further prune the search tree, wherein the non-overlapping support constraint which requires that any one node or branch must support at most one other accepted node or branch which has been selected by the tree search process is relaxed to permit support of more than one other accepted node or branch;
storing an optimized search tree into memory, following the invoking of the non-overlapping support constraint; and
employing the optimized search tree in additional processing operations.
2. The process according to claim 1, wherein the tree search is a depth-first tree search.
3. The process according to claim 1, wherein the tree search is a best-first tree search.
4. The process according to claim 1, wherein the non-overlapping support constraint includes dynamically vetoing nodes or branches of the search tree based on decisions made higher in the search tree by the tree search process.
5. The process according to claim 4, further including non-vetoing previously vetoed nodes or branches of the search tree.
6. The process according to claim 1, wherein the non-overlapping constraint includes searching a binary tree where one branch corresponds to assigning true values and the other branch corresponds to assigning false values.
7. In a computer controlled system, provided is a method designed to select optimized results from a plurality of possible results represented in a search tree, the method comprising:
employing a tree-search, wherein bounds are used to prune at least one node or branch of the search tree;
invoking a non-overlapping support constraint in conjunction with the tree search to further prune the search tree, wherein the non-overlapping support constraint includes dynamically vetoing nodes or branches of the search tree based on decisions made higher in the search tree by the tree search process;
storing an optimized search tree into a memory of the computer controlled system, following the invoking of the non-overlapping support constraint; and
employing the optimized search tree in additional computer controlled processing operations.
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the tree search is a depth-first tree search.
9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the tree search is a best-first tree search.
10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the non-overlapping support constraint requires that anyone node or branch must support at most one other accepted node or branch of the search tree which has been selected by the tree search process.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the non-overlapping support constraint which requires that anyone branch must support at most one other accepted node or branch which has been selected by the tree search process, is relaxed to permit support of more than one other accepted node or branch.
12. The method according to claim 7, further including non-vetoing previously vetoed nodes or branches of the search tree.
13. The method according to claim 7, wherein the non-overlapping constraint includes searching a binary tree where one branch corresponds to assigning true values and the other branch corresponds to assigning false values.
14. In a computer controlled system, provided is a method designed to select optimized results from a plurality of possible results represented in a search tree, the method comprising:
employing a tree-search, wherein bounds are used to prune at least one node or branch of the search tree;
invoking a non-overlapping support constraint in conjunction with the tree search to further prune the search tree, wherein the non-overlapping support constraint which requires that any one node or branch must support at most one other accepted node or branch which has been selected by the tree search process is relaxed to permit support of more than one other accepted node or branch;
storing an optimized search tree into memory, following the invoking of the non-overlapping support constraint; and
employing the optimized search tree in additional processing operations.
15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the non-overlapping support constraint includes dynamically vetoing nodes or branches of the search tree based on decisions made higher in the search tree by the tree search process.
16. The method according to claim 15, further including non-vetoing previously vetoed nodes or branches of the search tree.