Vehicle-installed remote control unit

• US 20060071808A1
• Filed: 09/30/2005
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Ogino, Kenichi, Katsuta, Yoshinori, Nagata, Hitomi
• Granted Patent: US 7,529,602 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.720
• 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 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

The vehicle-installed remote control unit includes a receiver receiving a command signal transmitted from a transmitter dedicated to a vehicle, and a controller controlling a part of the vehicle in accordance with the command signal received by the receiver. The controller has a noise-decision function of deciding whether or not a signal received by the receiver is a noise, a record function of recording noise information including at least information specifying a time at which the signal received by the receiver is decided to be the noise by the noise-decision function in a memory included in the controller, and an output function of outputting the noise information recorded in the memory to an external device in response to a command received from the external device.

Claims

1. A vehicle-installed remote control unit comprising:

a receiver receiving a command signal transmitted from a transmitter dedicated to a vehicle; and

a controller controlling a part of said vehicle in accordance with said command signal received by said receiver;

said controller having a noise-decision function of deciding whether or not a signal received by said receiver is a noise, a record function of recording noise information including at least information specifying a time at which said signal received by said receiver is decided to be said noise by said noise-decision function in a memory included in said controller, and an output function of outputting said noise information recorded in said memory to an external device in response to a command received from said external device.

2. The vehicle-installed remote control unit according to claim 1, wherein noise-decision function has a signal strength determining function of making a determination whether or not a strength of said signal received by said receiver is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, and is configured to decide that said signal received by said receiver is said noise, if said signal strength determining function continuously makes an affirmative determination at a constant time interval for a time period not shorter than a predetermined time that said strength of said signal received by said receiver is equal to or larger than said predetermined threshold.

3. The vehicle-installed remote control unit according to claim 2, wherein said signal strength determining function has a time measuring function of measuring a time duration during which said signal strength determining function continuously makes said affirmative determination until said signal strength determining function determines that said strength of said signal received by said receiver becomes smaller than said predetermined threshold, and said record function is configured to record said time duration measured by said time measuring function in said memory as a part of said noise information.

4. The vehicle-installed remote control unit according to claim 3, wherein said noise-decision function is decide that said signal received by said receiver is said noise, if said time duration measured by said time measuring function is equal to or longer than said predetermined time.

5. The vehicle-installed remote control unit according to claim 2, wherein said predetermined time is changeable in accordance with a command sent from said external device.

6. The vehicle-installed remote control unit according to claim 1, wherein said external device is a diagnostic device carrying out fault diagnosis of said vehicle.

7. The vehicle-installed remote control unit according to claim 1, wherein said controller is configured to lock and unlock doors of said vehicle in accordance with said command signal transmitted from said transmitter and received by said receiver.