Vehicle-use locking and unlocking system

• US 4,835,533 A
• Filed: 04/10/1986
• Issued: 05/30/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kokusan Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Kokusan Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Akutsu, Shouji
• Primary Examiner(s): Caldwell, Sr., John W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Holloway, III, Edwin C.
• Application Number:
  US06/850,176
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.3, 340/825.31, 340/825.32, 340/825.62, 340/825.69, 340/825.54, 340/528, 340/542, 340/520, 340/56, 340/63, 340/52 R, 340/825.34 , 340/825.72, 70/257, 70/256, 70/278, 180/287, 307/10 AT
• US Class Current: 340/5.3
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/08 With time considerations, e.g. temporary activation, valid time window or time limitations
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00682 actuated repeatedly
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5973 Remote control

Abstract

The invention relates to a vehicle use, wireless signal controlled locking and unlocking system. This system includes a user-carriable, userside controller and a vehicle side controller. The former controller takes the form of a card. Both these controllers are mutually communicatable by way of wireless communication and adapted for control of door-locking and unlocking operations. Switches are provided at the vehicle outside door handle and trunk, while a buzzer and a timer are provided within the vehicle interior. The buzzer is operated for a predetermined short time period, for instance 5 seconds, when the door has been brought to its locked position under such a condition that when the userside controller had been left in the vehicle with carelessness. In this case, however, the door can be opened by simple manipulation of the handle switch so far as the buzzer is kept in operation.

Claims

1. A wireless signal controlled locking and unlocking system comprising:

a user-carriable user-side controller having memory means for storing a factory-set predetermined code number and a first communication means for communicating said factory-set predetermined code number, said user-carriable, user-side controller being transportable;

a vehicle side controller including;

vehicle side communication means for receiving said factory-set predetermined code number from said first communication means;

vehicle code memory means for storing a vehicle code member;

sensor means for sensing a locked or unlocked position of a lock, said sensor means providing a signal representing said locked position;

handle switch means for manually providing a pulse series pattern signal;

a user code memory for storing a manually entered user code number signal generated by said handle switch means;

a first comparator for comparing the received factory-set predetermined code number with said vehicle code number and outputting a first signal upon coincidence;

a second comparator for comparing said user code number signal with said pulse series pattern and outputting a second signal upon coincidence;

a timer means for generating and outputting an energizing signal for a predetermined time period upon initial receipt of said signal from said sensor means;

buzzer means for receiving said energizing signal from said timer means and outputting an audible sound for said predetermined time period; and

actuator means for unlocking the system during receipt of said energizing signal from said timer means and upon actuation of said handle switch means so that when said user-carriable user-side controller is left in the vehicle, the system is unlocked during said predetermined time period and for unlocking the system upon receipt of said first signal from said first comparator and said second signal from said second comparator.