1. An impact protection reinforcing element, comprising:
an impact protection reinforcing element body having at least one outer surface conforming to a contour of a surface of at least one vehicle body part for being positioned with extensive contact against the vehicle body part in a area of complementary construction and connected firmly to the vehicle body part, said impact protection reinforcing element body formed of a fiberplastics composite.
2. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body connects in a form-fitting manner to the vehicle body part.
3. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body is firmly connected in a bonded manner to the vehicle body part.
4. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body is shaped to conform at least in part to an inner surface of an inner plate of the vehicle body part being a B-pillar.
5. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body is shaped to conform at least in part to an inner surface of an outer plate of the vehicle body part being a B-pillar.
6. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body is a layer conformed to a shape of a contact surface of the vehicle body part.
7. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body is a hollow component having at least one outer side conforming to a shape of a contact surface of the vehicle body part.
8. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body has a form of solid body with at least one outer side conforming to a shape of a contact surface of the vehicle body part.
9. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body has at least one means for a mechanical attachment of components.
10. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body has at least one area exhibiting strength characteristics greater than those exhibited by a rest of said impact protection reinforcing element body.
11. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 10, wherein said at least one area with the elevated strength characteristics is produced by an introduction of at least one additional textile element.
12. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said impact protection reinforcing element body exhibits different geometrical moments of inertia along a lengthwise direction.
13. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said fiberplastics composite has fibers oriented in a principal normal stress direction.
14. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 1, wherein said fiberplastics composite is composed of at least one textile semi-finished product and a petrochemical matrix.
15. The impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 14, wherein:
said textile semi-finished product contains just one biaxial glass fabric with different fiber components in a warp and weft directions; and
said petrochemical matrix is a thermosetting epoxy resin.
16. A method of producing an impact protection reinforcing element, which comprises the steps of:
producing, by injection molding, an impact protection reinforcing element body having at least one outer surface conforming to a contour of a surface of at least one vehicle body part for being positioned with extensive contact against the vehicle body part in a area of complementary construction and to be connected firmly to the vehicle body part, the impact protection reinforcing element body formed of a fiberplastics composite.
17. The method of producing the impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 16, which further comprises:
producing a preform from a textile semi-finished product in a compression mold; and
joining the preform to a petrochemical matrix in an injection mold.
18. The method of producing an impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 16, which further comprises performing the injection molding via a resin transfer molding method.
19. The method of producing the impact protection reinforcing element according to claim 16, which further comprises laminating the fiberplastics composite directly into the vehicle body part and the vehicle body part is thus a mold constituent.
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 integrated circuit comprising:
a plurality of bridges which are operable to drive respective signals for one or more power supply rails;
a plurality of controllers; and
a main controller to couple one or more controllers from the plurality of controllers to one or more bridges from the plurality of bridges.
2. The integrated circuit of claim 1 further comprises a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for converting voltage levels on the one or more power supply rails to their respective digital representations.
3. The integrated circuit of claim 2, wherein the plurality of ADCs is coupled to the plurality of controllers.
4. The integrated circuit of claim 2, wherein each of the plurality of controllers includes a digital compensator to close a control loop formed by the one or more bridges, external passive components, one of the ADCs of the plurality of ADCs, and one of the controllers of the plurality of controllers.
5. The integrated circuit of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of controllers includes a register.
6. The integrated circuit of claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of bridges includes a register.
7. The integrated circuit of claim 5 further comprises a non-volatile memory (NVM) coupled to the main controller, the NVM to store a plurality of configurations for coupling the plurality of bridges with the plurality of controllers.
8. The integrated circuit of claim 6, wherein the plurality of configurations includes one or more of:
switching frequency for each of the plurality of bridges;
compensation filter characteristics for each of the plurality of controllers; or
coupling information for each controller and each bridge of the plurality of controllers and bridges.
9. The integrated circuit of claim 6, wherein the NVM is operable to update the plurality of configurations at power-up.
10. The integrated circuit of claim 6, wherein the main controller is operable to copy some of the configuration information from the NVM to the respective registers of the plurality of bridges and the plurality of controllers.
11. The integrated circuit of claim 1, wherein the main controller is coupled to the plurality of controllers and the plurality of bridges by a configuration bus.
12. The integrated circuit of claim 11, wherein each controller of the plurality of controllers and each bridge of the plurality of bridges is coupled by a communication fabric.
13. The integrated circuit of claim 12, wherein the communication fabric is one of: an asynchronous bus, a crossbar, a network of wires, or dedicated connections with multiplexers.
14. The integrated circuit of claim 13, wherein each controller of the plurality of controller operates using a clock signal.
15. The integrated circuit of claim 1, wherein the main controller is operable to configure a single controller from the plurality of controllers to operate with more than two bridges of the plurality of bridges.
16. A system comprising:
one or more power supply rails;
one or more logic units coupled to the one or more power supply rails, the one or more power supply rails to provide power supply to the one or more logic units; and
a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) coupled to the one or more power supply rails, the PMIC including:
a plurality of bridges which are operable to drive respective power supplies on the one or more power supply rails;
a plurality of controllers; and
a main controller to couple one or more controllers from the plurality of controllers to one or more bridges from the plurality of bridges.
17. The system of claim 16 further comprises a wireless interface for allowing the system to communicate with another device.
18. The system of claim 16 further comprises a memory unit.
19. An integrated circuit comprising:
a main controller;
a register bus coupled to the main controller;
a plurality of bridges each having a register to receive configuration information from the register bus; and
a plurality of controllers each having a register to receive the configuration information from the register bus.
20. The integrated circuit of claim 19 further comprises:
an asynchronous bus coupled to the plurality of bridges and the plurality of controllers.
21. The integrated circuit of claim 19, wherein the main controller is operable to provide the configuration information over the register bus for the plurality of bridges and controllers.
22. The integrated circuit of claim 19 further comprises a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) for converting voltage levels on the one or more power supply rails to their respective digital representations.
23. The integrated circuit of claim 19 further comprises a non-volatile memory (NVM) coupled to the main controller, the NVM to store a plurality of configurations for coupling the plurality of bridges with the plurality of controllers.