Remote-control device for a motor vehicle

• US 10,320,435 B2
• Filed: 12/10/2014
• Issued: 06/11/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Valeo Comfort And Driving Assistance
• Original Assignee: Valeo Comfort And Driving Assistance
• Inventors: Druault, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie, Rexford N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vu, Toan T
• Application Number:
  US15/102,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20160308567A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,644 Days
• Field of Search: 307 52
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0346 Hand-held transmitters
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3833 Hand-held transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 15/02 Reducing interference from electric apparatus by means located at or near the interfering apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2215/063 by smoothing the transmission power envelope
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 5/0086 portable, e.g. battery operated apparatus casings for switching devices H01H9/02

Abstract

An electronic assembly for a remote-control device for a motor vehicle includes an electric power source and a supercapacitor block. The supercapacitor block has one or more supercapacitors, and said supercapacitor block is arranged in parallel with the electric power source. Additionally, a transmitter/receiver is connected to the supercapacitor block and a frequency amplifier stage is connected to said transmitter/receiver.

Claims

1. An electronic assembly for a remote-control device for a motor vehicle in which said electronic assembly comprises:

an electric power source;

a supercapacitor block, said supercapacitor block being arranged in parallel with the electric power source;

a protection block for the supercapacitor block to limit a demand for current from said supercapacitor block to the electric power source, wherein said protection block is connected in series with the electric power source, and wherein the protection block includes two resistances in parallel;

a transmitter/receiver connected to said supercapacitor block; and

a frequency amplifier stage connected to said transmitter/receiver.

2. The electronic assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the supercapacitor block has a value greater than or equal to ten millifarads.

3. The electronic assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the supercapacitor block has a value greater than or equal to one hundred and fifty millifarads.

4. The electronic assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the supercapacitor block includes a single supercapacitor having a value of two hundred and twenty millifarads.

5. A remote-control device for a motor vehicle, wherein said remote-control device comprises:

a user control device;

an antenna;

an electronic assembly, wherein the electronic assembly comprises;

an electric power source,

a supercapacitor block, said supercapacitor block being arranged in parallel with the electric power source,

a protection block for the supercapacitor block to limit a demand for current from said supercapacitor block to the electric power source, wherein said protection block is connected in series with the electric power source,

a transmitter/receiver connected to said supercapacitor block, and

a frequency amplifier stage connected to said transmitter/receiver; and

a switch connected on a downstream side of the frequency amplifier stage and on an upstream side of the antenna to set said antenna to receive mode or transmit mode.

6. The remote-control device as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a screen configured displaying information emanating from the motor vehicle.

7. The remote-control device as claimed in claim 6, wherein a communication between the motor vehicle and the remote-control device comprises a transmission of a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) frames.