Remote-controlled in-vehicle device

• US 20060109139A1
• Filed: 11/08/2005
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Ogino, Kenichi, Katsuta, Yoshinori, Nagata, Hitomi
• Application Number:
  US11/268,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20060109139A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.720
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/209 Remote starting of engine
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00182 operated with unidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

In a keyless entry system for a vehicle, an in-vehicle device controls door-lock or door-unlock according to a remote-controlling wireless signal from a transmitter. The in-vehicle device determines whether a demodulated signal compliant with a communications rule is obtained from the received wireless signal, and then whether authentication data included in the received wireless signal accords with that stored in the vehicle. The in-vehicle device stores a result of the determination as an analysis result of received electric waves. When a read-out request is received from a diagnosis tool, the stored analysis result is thereby outputted to the diagnosis tool. Based on the outputted analysis result, it is determined whether a cause of non-operation abnormality is a transmitting function of the transmitter or a receiving function of the in-vehicle device.

Claims

1. A remote-controlled in-vehicle device provided in a vehicle, the device comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving a remote-controlling wireless signal transmitted from a transmitter when a given manipulation is conducted to the transmitter, demodulating the received wireless signal, and outputting a demodulated signal representing data included in the received wireless signal;

a controlling unit for executing a first determination of whether authentication data included in the outputted demodulated signal accords with authentication data unique to the vehicle, and for controlling a state of the vehicle when the first determination is affirmed;

a receiving state determining unit for executing a second determination of whether the outputted demodulated signal is compliant with a communications rule;

an analysis result storing unit for storing in a storage medium a result from the second determination as an analysis result for received electric waves; and

an analysis result outputting unit for outputting the stored analysis result when a read-out request of reading out the analysis result is received from an external device.

2. The remote-controlled in-vehicle device of claim 1,

wherein when the receiving state determining unit determines that the outputted demodulated signal is compliant with the communications rule, the analysis result storing unit stores, as an analysis result for received electric waves, a result from the first determination.

3. The remote-controlled in-vehicle device of claim 1,

wherein the storage medium is updated to store N pieces of analysis results from a latest analysis result, wherein N is two or more, and

the analysis result outputting unit outputs the stored N pieces of analysis results when a read-out request is inputted.

4. The remote-controlled in-vehicle device of claim 1,

wherein the external device includes a diagnosis device to execute a diagnosis for the vehicle.

5. The remote-controlled in-vehicle device of claim 1,

wherein the controlling unit controls door-lock or door-unlock of doors of the vehicle as the state of the vehicle.