Method of alarm to prevent vehicle thefts

• US 4,821,309 A
• Filed: 07/02/1986
• Issued: 04/11/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Namekawa, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Lev, Robert
• Application Number:
  US06/881,229
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• Field of Search: 379/58, 379/57, 379/59, 379/61-63, 340/539, 458/343
• US Class Current: 455/404.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/102 a signal being sent to a remote location, e.g. a radio signal being transmitted to a police station, a security company or the owner
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/04 with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems

Abstract

A theft-notifying method is applicable for a motor vehicle having a motor vehicle telephone system and a theft-alarm system. The method comprises the steps for pre-storing into a memory telephone numbers of a notifiee to which an alarm is sent when a theft occurs. When theft is detected, the theft-alarm system signals the theft condition to the vehicle telephone system. The vehicle telephone system then automatically dials a notifiee whose telephone number is stored in the memory. A vehicle owner is thus notified of the abnormality and take measures for the prevention of theft even at night or even when nobody is near the vehicle.

Claims

1. A method for notifying a notifiee of an abnormality occurring in a vehicle which is equipped with a vehicle telephone system and an anti-theft system for detecting abnormal conditions occurring at the vehicle, comprising:

providing an operative connection between the telephone system and the anti-theft system so that the anti-theft system can provide a power-on signal and an alarm signal to the telephone system;

placing the anti-theft system is an armed mode and the telephone system in a power-off mode when the vehicle owner leaves the vehicle;

operating the anti-theft system in the armed mode so that it provides the power-on signal and the alarm signal through the operative connection to the telephone system when the anti-theft system detects an abnormal condition;

operating the telephone system so that upon receipt of the power-on signal it switches to a power-on mode;

storing in advance in a memory of the telephone system a telephone number of a notifiee to be called in the event of an abnormal condition occurring at the vehicle;

operating the telephone system so that upon receipt of the alarm signal from the anti-theft system and switching to the power-on state, the telephone number of the notifiee is recalled from memory, and the telephone number is dialed to establish a communication state with the notifiee.

2. A method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the telephone numbers of a plurality of notifiee are stored in the memory in priority order, the method further comprising calling dialing a telephone number of lower priority when a communication between a desired priority telephone number is not established within a predetermined period of time.