Keyless entry receiver

• US 20050083175A1
• Filed: 10/12/2004
• Published: 04/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yanagimoto, Hideki
• Application Number:
  US10/964,228
• Publication Number:
  US 20050083175A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.720
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0433 Radio signals
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

A keyless entry receiver for a vehicle having an ignition switch is provided. The keyless entry receiver includes a receiving unit that receives a remote control signal and an air pressure monitoring signal. The remote control signal is configured to control a door locking/unlocking and is supplied from a keyless entry transmitter. The air pressure monitoring signal is configured to monitor air pressure of a tire and is supplied from an air pressure detecting unit. The receiving unit receives the remote control signal and the air pressure monitoring signal at a different time frame in response to an on/off operation of the ignition switch.

Claims

1. A keyless entry receiver for a vehicle having an ignition switch, comprising;

a receiving unit that receives a remote control signal and an air pressure monitoring signal, the remote control signal configured to control a door locking/unlocking and supplied from a keyless entry transmitter, and the air pressure monitoring signal configured to monitor an air pressure of a tire and supplied from an air pressure detecting unit,

wherein the receiving unit is switched to receive the remote control signal or the air pressure monitoring signal at a different time frame in response to an on/off operation of the ignition switch.

2. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 1, wherein the receiving unit receives the remote control signal when the ignition switch is turned off.

3. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 1, wherein the receiving unit receives the air pressure monitoring signal when the ignition switch is turned on.

4. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 2, wherein the receiving unit receives the air pressure monitoring signal when the ignition switch is turned on.

5. The keyless entry receiver according claim 1, wherein the remote control signal is modulated by a first digital signal.

6. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 5, wherein the air pressure monitoring signal is modulated by a second digital signal.

7. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 6, wherein the first digital signal has a different bit rate from that of the second digital signal.

8. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 6, wherein the receiving unit comprises a demodulator circuit that demodulates the remote control signal and the air pressure monitoring signal to extract the first digital signal and the second digital signal, respectively.

9. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 7, wherein the receiving unit further comprises a low pass filter through which the extracted first digital signal or the extracted second digital signals passes.

10. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 9, wherein a cutoff frequency of the low pass filter is changed into a higher value or a lower value according to a size of a bit rate of the first and the second digital signals.

11. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 10, wherein the cutoff frequency of the low pass filter is changed in response to an on/off operation of the ignition switch.

12. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 11, wherein the cutoff frequency of the low pass filter is changed to the higher value upon turning on of the ignition switch.

13. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 12, wherein the cutoff frequency of the low pass filter is at least twice as large as that of the bit rate of the second digital signal.

14. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 13, wherein the second digital signal passes through the low pass filter.

15. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 11, wherein the cutoff frequency of the low pass filter is changed to the lower value upon turning off of the ignition switch.

16. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 15, wherein the cutoff frequency of the low pass filter is at least twice as large as that of the bit rate of the first digital signal.

17. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 16, wherein the first digital signal passes through the low pass filter.

18. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 9, wherein the low pass filter includes an active low pass filter using an operation amplifier.

19. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 9, wherein the low pass filter includes a first switch, a second switch, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor, and the first switch is switched between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, and the second switch is switched between the third capacitor and the fourth capacitor.

20. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 19, wherein the second capacitor has a larger capacitance than the first capacitor, and the fourth capacitor has a larger capacitance than the third capacitor.

21. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 20, wherein the first switch and the second switch are switched to the first capacitor and the third capacitor, respectively, upon the on operation of the ignition switch, so that a cutoff frequency of the low pass filter increases.

22. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 21, wherein the second digital signal passes through the low pass filter.

23. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 20, wherein the first switch and the second switch are switched to the second capacitor and the fourth capacitor, respectively, upon the off operation of the ignition switch, so that a cutoff frequency of the low pass filter decreases.

24. The keyless entry receiver according to claim 23, wherein the first digital signal passes through the low pass filter.

25. A method for operating a keyless entry receiver for a vehicle having an ignition switch, comprising:

transmitting a remote control signal from a keyless entry transmitter to a receiving unit, wherein the remote control signal is configured to control a door locking/unlocking;

transmitting an air pressure monitoring signal from an air pressure detecting unit to the receiving unit, wherein the air pressure monitoring signal is configured to monitor air pressure of a tire;

switching the receiving unit to receive the remote control signal upon an off operation of the ignition switch; and

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switching the receiving unit to receive the air pressure monitoring signal upon an on operation of the ignition switch.

26. The method according to claim 25, further comprising:

filtering by a low pass filter the remote control signal and the air pressure monitoring signal to extract a first digital signal and a second digital signal therefrom.

27. The method according to claim 26, further comprising:

changing a cutoff frequency of the low pass filter to a high frequency or a low frequency in response to an on/off operation of the ignition switch.

28. The method according to claim 26, further comprising:

changing a cutoff frequency of the low pass filter to a high frequency in response to the on operation of the ignition switch; and

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passing the second digital signal through the low pass filter.

29. The method according to claim 26, further comprising:

changing a cutoff frequency of the low pass filter to a low frequency in response to the off operation of the ignition switch; and

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passing the first digital signal through the low pass filter.