Signal responsive vehicle disabling system

• US 5,533,589 A
• Filed: 04/10/1995
• Issued: 07/09/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Rick P. Lucas, Terry Allan D
• Original Assignee: Allan D. Terry, Rick P. Lucas
• Inventors: Critzer, W. Larry
• Primary Examiner(s): Dickson, Paul N.
• Application Number:
  US08/419,025
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• Field of Search: 180/167, 180/287, 307/10.2, 307/10.3, 307/10.4, 340/426
• US Class Current: 180/287
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor

Abstract

A remote signal responsive vehicle disabling system comprising a receiver, a disabling mechanism with external leads for direct connection to a fuse receptacle of an operative electrical circuit in the vehicle, where the disabling mechanism comprises a destructible component which is destroyed upon activation, thereby interrupting the operative electrical circuit of the vehicle and disabling it.

Claims

1. A remote signal responsive vehicle disabling system for disabling a vehicle in response to a remotely transmitted activation signal, said vehicle having one or more necessary operative electrical circuits and one or more fuse receptacles electrically connected in said one or more electrical circuits, said system comprising:

(A) separate transmitter means to transmit an activation signal comprising an activation number and a password;

(B) activation signal receiver means mountable within the vehicle to receive said activation signal and activate vehicle disabling mechanism means to disable the vehicle in response to said activation signal by interrupting said one or more operative electrical circuits of said vehicle, said disabling mechanism means comprising a destructible component which is destroyed upon activation;

(C) external leads for connecting said disabling mechanism means to said one or more fuse receptacles of said one or more operative electrical circuits of said vehicle, whereby said one or more operative electrical circuits is routed through said disabling mechanism means and operates uninterrupted until said disabling mechanism means is activated to destroy said destructible component, thereby interrupting said one or more operative electrical circuits; and

(D) a reset mechanism which must be reset to allow operation of said one or more operative electrical circuits after said one or more operative electrical circuits has been interrupted and said destructive component has been replaced.

2. The system of claim 1, where said destructible component is a fuse.

3. The system of claim 1, where said external leads further comprise a connector fitting to connect said leads to said fuse receptacle.

4. The system of claim 3, where said connector fitting is a blade type fitting.

5. The system of claim 3, where said connector fitting is a bulb type fitting.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a timing mechanism connected to said disabling mechanism means whereby said disabling mechanism means is repeatedly activated over successive periods of time.

7. The system of claim 2, where said disabling mechanism means further comprises in circuit a 1.5 V relay and a 12 V relay.

8. The system of claim 2, where said disabling mechanism means further comprises in circuit a transistor and a 12 V relay.

9. A remote signal responsive vehicle disabling system for disabling a vehicle in response to a remotely transmitted activation signal, said vehicle having one or more necessary operative electrical circuits and one or more fuse receptacles electrically connected in said one or more electrical circuits, said system comprising:

(A) separate transmitter means to transmit an activation signal comprising an activation number and a password;

(B) activation signal receiver means mountable within the vehicle to receive said activation signal and activate vehicle disabling mechanism means to disable the vehicle in response to said activation signal by interrupting said one or more operative electrical circuits of said vehicle, said disabling mechanism means comprising a destructible component which is destroyed upon activation;

(C) external leads for connecting said disabling mechanism means to said one or more fuse receptacles of said one or more operative electrical circuits of said vehicle, whereby said one or more operative electrical circuits is routed through said disabling mechanism means and operates uninterrupted until said disabling mechanism means is activated to destroy said destructible component, thereby interrupting said one or more operative electrical circuits; and

(D) a timing mechanism connected to said disabling mechanism means whereby the disabling mechanism means is repeatedly activated over successive periods of time.

10. The system of claim 9, where said destructible component is a fuse.

11. The system of claim 9, where said external leads further comprise a connector fitting to connect said leads to said fuse receptacle.

12. The system of claim 11, where said connector fitting is a blade type fitting.

13. The system of claim 11, where said connector fitting is a bulb type fitting.

14. The system of claim 10, where said disabling mechanism means further comprises in circuit a 1.5 V relay and a 12 V relay.

15. The system of claim 10, where said disabling mechanism means further comprises in circuit a transistor and a 12 V relay.