1. An overhead console for a vehicle interior having a storage module, said overhead console comprising:
a housing having an aperture;
a cover pivotally mounted on the housing about a first axis between a closed position and an open position with regard to the aperture; and
a receptacle mounted on the cover so that in the closed position the receptacle is inside the housing being inaccessible to a user and, in the open position the receptacle is outside the housing being accessible to the user;
wherein, the receptacle is pivotally mounted to the cover about a second axis, parallel to the first axis, between a folded position wherein the receptacle is in abutment against the cover and an unfolded position wherein the receptacle is rotated away from the cover so that, the storage module can be set in a storage configuration, the cover being in the closed position and the receptacle being in the folded position inside the housing to retain an object stored in the receptacle and, can be set as well in a deployed configuration, the cover being in the open position and the receptacle being in the unfolded position open upwardly and toward the user to allow the user to grab said object more easily.
2. The overhead console of claim 1, wherein the overhead console further comprises a driving device so that rotation of the cover about the housing drives rotation of the receptacle about the cover so that the deployed configuration can be obtained by actuating the cover toward the open position.
3. The overhead console of claim 2, wherein the driving device comprises a lever extending between a third axis fixed to the housing and a fourth axis fixed to the receptacle, the lever being pivotally mounted about the third axis and about the fourth axis, the third axis and the fourth axis being parallel to the first axis and the second axis.
4. The overhead console of claim 3, wherein a first distance between the third axis and the fourth axis is longer than a second distance between the first axis and the second axis such that, in the closed position, a first line joining the first axis to the second axis is intersecting with a second line joining the third axis to the fourth axis and, in the open position, said first line and said second line are not intersecting.
5. The overhead console of claim 1, wherein the receptacle comprises a support wall that, in the deployed configuration, is substantially horizontal, a stored object being on said support wall.
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 apparatus comprising:
a first integrated circuit (IC); and
a second IC having:
one or more logic components having a high soft error rate (SER) to detect radiation that could result in soft errors at logic at the first IC, including:
a first soft error rate (SER) sensitive memory array to detect alpha particle strikes;
second SER sensitive memory array to detect neutron particle strikes; and
one or more SER immune components to analyze data received from the one or more logic components, including:
a non-volatile memory to store expected SER data for the first and second memory arrays; and
control logic to examine data received from the first and second memory arrays by comparing the received data to the expected data.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first and second memory arrays include inverters and latches that are asymmetric in drive strengths.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein a refresh rate of the first and second memory arrays are controlled to operate as a sensitivity control to alpha and neutron strikes.
4. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the one of more SER immune components comprises;
timers to control the rate at which the first and second memory arrays are examined.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the one or more SER immune components further comprises;
inputoutput logic;
a random acccss memory (RAM); and
a read only memory (ROM).
6. A method comprising:
detecting radiation at one or more logic components having a high soft error rate (SER) that could result in soft errors at logic at a first IC, by:
detecting alpha particle strikes at a first soft error rate (SER) sensitive memory array; and
detecting neutron particle strikes at a second SER sensitive memory array; and
analyzing data at one or more SER immune components received from the one or more logic components, by:
storing expected SER data for the first and second memory arrays at a non-volatile memory; and
examining data received from the first and second memory arrays at control logic by comparing the received data to the expected data.
7. A radiation detector comprising;
an integrated circuit (IC) having:
one or more logic components having a high soft error rate (SER) to detect radiation, including:
a first soft error rate (SER) sensitive memory array to detect alpha particle strikes;
second SER sensitive memory array to detect neutron particle strikes; and
one or more SER immune components to analyze data received from the one or more logic components, including:
a non-volatile memory to store expected SER data for the first and second memory arrays; and
control logic to examine data received from the first and second memory arrays by comparing the received data to the expected data.
8. The radiation detector of claim 7 wherein a refresh rate of the first and second memory arrays are controlled to operate as a sensitivity control to alpha and neutron strikes.
9. The radiation detector of claim 7 wherein the one or more SER immune components further comprise;
timers to control the rate at which the first and second memory arrays are examined.
10. The radiation detector of claim 9 wherein the one or more SER immune components further comprises;
inputoutput logic;
a random access memory (RAM); and
a read only memory (ROM).
11. A computer system comprising:
a central processing unit (CPU); and
a radiation detector coupled to the CPU, having:
one or more logic components having a high soft error rate (SER) to detect radiation, including:
a first soft error rate (SER) sensitive memory array to detect alpha particle strikes;
second SER sensitive memory array to detect neutron particle strikes; and
one or more SER immune components to analyze data received from the one or more logic components, including:
a non-volatile memory to store expected SER data for the first and second memory arrays; and
control logic to examine data received from the first and second memory arrays by comparing the received data to the expected data.
12. The computer system of claim 11 wherein the first and second memory arrays include inverters and latches that are asymmetric in drive strengths.
13. The computer system of claim 11 wherein the radiation detector further comprises;
timers to control the rate at which the first and second memory arrays are examined.