Passive keyless entry device

• US 20050046546A1
• Filed: 08/23/2004
• Published: 03/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Masudaya, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US10/924,387
• Publication Number:
  US 20050046546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.610
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2072 with means for preventing jamming or interference of a remote switch control signal
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00373 whereby the wake-up circuit is situated in the lock
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

A passive keyless entry device includes a fixed unit and a portable unit. A signal receiving section of the portable unit includes three antennas for receiving a signal which is wirelessly transmitted from the fixed unit with respect to three directions which are at right angles to one another; three amplifiers; three detectors; a selector circuit for selecting one detection output by which a wake-up signal can be detected and in which the received signal valve of the antenna is comparatively high from among the detection outputs which are output from the detectors; a level comparator; first and second switches; and a counter.

Claims

1. A passive keyless entry device comprising:

a fixed unit; and

a portable unit,

wherein a wakeup signal and a data signal are wirelessly transmitted from said fixed unit to said portable unit, an instruction signal is wirelessly transmitted from said portable unit receiving said wakeup signal and said data signal to said fixed unit so as to remotely operate a controlled device provided in said fixed unit, and

said portable unit comprises;

three antennas for receiving said wakeup signal and said data signal with respect to three directions which intersect at right angles to one another;

three sets of amplifiers and detectors for obtaining detection output from a signal received from each of said antennas; and

detection output selection means for selecting one detection output by which said wakeup signal can be detected normally from the detection output which is output from each of said detectors and for extracting and outputting a detection signal of said data signal from the one detection output.

2. A passive keyless entry device according to claim 1, wherein said detection output selection means comprises:

a level comparator for comparing a received signal strength of said antenna, which is output from each of said detectors;

a selector circuit for selecting and outputting each of said detection outputs which are output from each of said detectors in the order of the magnitude of said received signal strength specified at said level comparator;

a storage section in which patterns of said wakeup signal are prestored; and

a pattern comparator for comparing the pattern of said wakeup signal, stored in the storage section, with the pattern of said one detection output, which is output from said selector circuit.

3. A passive keyless entry device according to claim 1, wherein said detection output selection means comprises:

a storage section in which patterns of said wakeup signal are prestored;

three pattern comparators for comparing the pattern of said wakeup signal, stored in the storage section, with the pattern of each of said detection outputs, which are output from each of said detectors; and

a selector circuit for selecting one detection output corresponding to a comparison signal output from each of said pattern comparators from among detection outputs which are output from each of said detectors and for extracting and outputting a detection signal of said data signal from the one detection output.

4. A passive keyless entry device according to claim 1, wherein said detection output selection means comprises:

a storage section in which patterns of said wakeup signal are prestored;

three pattern comparators for comparing the pattern of said wakeup signal, stored in the storage section, with the pattern of each of said detection outputs, which are output from each of said detectors; and

a selector circuit for selecting one detection output corresponding to a comparison signal output from each of said pattern comparators and a received signal strength of said antenna, output from each of said detectors, from among detection outputs which are output from each of said detectors and for extracting and outputting a detection signal of said data signal from the one detection output.