Burglarproofing device for a car-carried acoustic apparatus

• US 4,734,896 A
• Filed: 09/02/1986
• Issued: 03/29/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Noguchi, Masaru, Soma, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Swann, III, Glen R.
• Application Number:
  US06/902,754
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: 340/568, 340/825.31, 340/571, 307/10 AT
• US Class Current: 340/568.1
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/14 by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/04 Arrangements for preventing, inhibiting, or warning against double recording on the same blank or against other recording or reproducing malfunctions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/00 Constructional parts, details or accessories not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/02 Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/12 Disposition of constructional parts in the apparatus, e.g. of power supply, of modules
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 2207/16 Solid state audio deprecated, only for historical reasons, G06F3/16, G11B

Abstract

A burglarproofing device for a car-carried acoustic apparatus prevents operation of the car-carried acoustic apparatus if the apparatus is stolen. The device allows only an owner of a car who holds a controller to render the apparatus operative. The controller is in the form of a card having keys for entering a pass number and a memory for storing a pass number thus entered. The pass number is transmitted to the car-carried acoustic apparatus when the controller is inserted into a hole formed in the car-carried acoustic apparatus, and is compared with a verification number stored in discriminating means, and only when coincidence is found, is power made available to the apparatus.

Claims

1. A burglarproofing device for a car-carried acoustic apparatus, comprising:

a portable controller having memory means in which a pass number or word is sorted and data outputting means connected to said memory means located at a predetermined position on said controller;

said car-carried acoustic apparatus having a receiving hole for receiving said controller inserted therein, and including data inputting means located at a predetermined position in said receiving hole in opposing relationship to said data outputting means of said controller when said controller is inserted in said receiving hole, discriminating means for discriminating coincidence between the pass number of word read out from said controller through said data outputting means to said data inputting means and a verification number or word previously stored in said discriminating means, and enabling means responsive only to a coincidence signal received from said discriminating means for enabling operation of said car-carried acoustic apparatus,

whereby said car-carried acoustic apparatus is rendered operative only when said controller has been inserted into said receiving hole of said car-carried acoustic apparatus and the pass number or word thereof coincides with said previously stored verification number or word.

2. A burglarproofing device according to claim 1, wherein said controller further includes a switch means which is closed upon insertion of said controller into said receiving hole of said car-carried acoustic apparatus to allow transmission of data from said data outputting means.

3. A burglarproofing device according to claim 2, wherein said controller is in the form of a card and further includes a battery contained therein.

4. A burglarproofing device according to claim 2, wherein said controller is in the form of a card and further includes operation keys for entering said pass number or word therethrough and a display means for indicating data entered through said operation keys.

5. A burglarproofing device according to claim 1, wherein said car-carried acoustic apparatus further includes operation keys for entering said verification number or word therethrough, the verification number or word entered being stored in said discriminating means, and a display means for indicating data entered by way of said operation keys.

6. A burglarproofing device according to claim 1, wherein said car-carried acoustic apparatus further includes a second switch means which is closed upon insertion of said controller into said receiving hole of said car-carried acoustic apparatus to allow reception of data by said inputting means of said car-carried acoustic apparatus from said data outputting means of said controller.

7. A burglarproofing device according to claim 1, wherein said car-carried acoustic apparatus further includes means for entering said verification number or word therethrough and is connected to be energized by a car-carried battery as its power source whereby if said car-carried acoustic apparatus is disconnected from said car-carried battery, the verification number or word which has been entered through said entering means and stored into said discriminating means is cancelled.

8. A burglarproofing device according to claim 1, wherein the verification number or word is permanently stored in and cannot be cancelled from said discriminating means.

9. A burglarproofing device as defined in claim 1, wherein said car-carried acoustic apparatus is connected to a car power source, and said enabling means includes a switching circuit which connects said car power source to operate said car-carried acoustic apparatus in response to receipt of said coincidence signal.

10. A burglarproofing device as defined in claim 1, wherein said car-carried acoustic apparatus includes a music selection unit which is connected to said data inputting means and is controlled in accordance with music selection data provided from said controller.