MOBILE IDENTIFICATION TRANSMITTER IN A SAFETY SYSTEM

• US 20110133886A1
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Published: 06/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Schumacher, Helmut, Schröter, Veith, Simon, Jörg, Mönig, Stefan
• Application Number:
  US12/996,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20110133886A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.61
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/62 Comprising means for indicating the status of the lock
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0858 wherein the data carrier is removable
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

The invention relates to a mobile identification transmitter (10) in a safety system for a keyless activation of a locking apparatus (43) of a motor vehicle (40), with a housing (11) in which an electronic unit (12) with at least one transmitting and receiving unit (13) is arranged, which electronic unit (12) communicates with a communication unit (41) in the motor vehicle, by means of which an identification check for determining a user authorization can be performed. The invention provides that vehicle data from the motor vehicle (40) can be transmitted to the electronic unit (12), and that the electronic unit (12) comprises a connection means (20) for transmitting the vehicle data to an external data device (30).

Claims

1. A mobile identification transmitter in a safety system for a keyless activation of a locking apparatus of a motor vehicle, comprising:

a housing in which an electronic unit with at least one transmitting and receiving unit is arranged,

which electronic unit communicates with a communication unit in the motor vehicle, by means of which an identification check for determining a user authorization can be performed, wherein

vehicle data from the motor vehicle can be transmitted to the electronic unit, and that

the electronic unit comprises a connection means for transmitting the vehicle data to an external data device.

2. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least one transmitting and receiving unit of the electronic unit and the connection in means have at least one of the following technologies:

wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11), FireWire (IEEE

     1394), USB (Universal Serial Bus), wireless USB, HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), IrDA (Infrared Data Association), Bluetooth, Unilink, ATA/ATAPI (Advanced Technology Attachment with Packet Interface), IEEE 488, IEEE 1284, bidirectional radio path, Near Field Communication (NFC) or inductive transmission.

3. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the mobile identification transmitter comprises a display that uses at least one of the following means:

a light-emitting diode (LEDs), an organic light-emitting diode (OLEDs), a liquid crystal display (LCDs), a Surface-Conduction Electron-Emitter display (SED) or a field emission display (FED).

4. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 3, wherein the vehicle data can be displayed on the display.

5. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting and receiving unit secures the communication with the communication unit in the motor vehicle and receives the vehicle data from the motor vehicle, in particular that the connection means is a part of the transmitting and receiving unit or makes use of the transmitting and receiving unit.

6. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the mobile identification transmitter comprises at least one of a data memory and an energy storage device, in particular a rechargeable energy storage device.

7. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 1, wherein a computer program can be transmitted to the mobile identification transmitter by the connection means.

8. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the mobile identification transmitter further comprises a computer element for controlling at least one of the electronic unit and for evaluating the vehicle data.

9. The mobile identification transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting and receiving unit is a part of at least one of an existing active keyless entry system and of a passive keyless entry system.

10. A monitoring system for a motor vehicle, with a mobile identification transmitter and an external data device, in which the mobile identification transmitter is a part of a safety system for a keyless activation of a locking apparatus of the motor vehicle, the mobile identification transmitter has a housing in which an electronic unit with at least one transmitting and receiving unit is arranged, the electronic unit communicates with a communication unit in the motor vehicle, by means of which an identification check can be carried out for determining a user authorization, vehicle data can be transmitted from the motor vehicle to the electronic unit, and the electronic unit comprises a connection means for transmitting the vehicle data to the external data device.

11. The monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein a data connection to the Internet can be established by the external data device.

12. The monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein the external data device evaluates the vehicle data.

13. The monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein the external data device visualizes at least one of the vehicle data and the evaluated vehicle data.

14. The monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein the external data device is at least one of the following devices:

a PC, a PDA, a fax, a notebook or a mobile telephone.

15. The monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein the external data device comprises a receiver for the mobile identification transmitter, in particular, that the external data device comprises a charging device for a rechargeable energy storage device of the mobile identification transmitter.

16. The monitoring system according to claim 10, wherein the external data device comprises an interface for communicating with the connection means of the mobile identification transmitter.

17. The monitoring system according to claim 16, wherein the interface has at least one of the following technologies:

wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11), FireWire (IEEE

     1394), USB (Universal Serial Bus), wireless USB, HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface), IrDA (Infrared Data Association), Bluetooth, Unilink, ATA/ATAPI (Advanced Technology Attachment with Packet Interface), IEEE 488, IEEE 1284, bidirectional radio path, Near Field Communication (NFC) or inductive transmission.

18. A process for controlling a monitoring system for a motor vehicle, in which the monitoring system comprises a mobile identification transmitter and an external data device, the mobile identification transmitter is part of a safety system for a keyless activation of a locking apparatus of the motor vehicle, which process comprises the steps:

transmission of vehicle data to the electronic unit,

transmission of the vehicle data from the electronic unit to the external data device, and

evaluation of the vehicle data by the external data device.

19. The process according to claim 18, wherein the external data device transmits the vehicle data to the Internet.

20. The process according to claim 18, wherein the mobile identification transmitter is brought into the spatial vicinity of the external data device in order to initiate the transmission.

21. The process according to claim 18, wherein the vehicle data is transmitted to the mobile identification transmitter if the latter is arranged inside the motor vehicle.

24. A computer program product for carrying out the process according to claim 18, wherein the process steps are integrated in a program stored in the computer program product if the process is carried out on a data processing unit.

22-23. -23. (canceled)