Pager vehicle theft prevention and recovery system

• US 5,793,283 A
• Filed: 01/21/1997
• Issued: 08/11/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ronnie Davis
• Original Assignee: Ronnie Davis
• Inventors: Davis, Ronnie
• Primary Examiner(s): Swarthout, Brent A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LA, ANH V
• Application Number:
  US08/792,948
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 340/426, 340/428, 340/988, 340/989, 340/825.44, 307/10.2, 342/457, 364/449.7, 379/59
• US Class Current: 340/426.19
• 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

Abstract

A pager vehicle theft prevention and recovery system including an electronic transceiver and associated global positioning system(GPS) discreetly situated within a vehicle and coupled to an associated alarm system. The transceiver is adapted to transmit a pager electronic alarm signal via free space upon the activation of the alarm system. The system further comprises a remotely positionable portable receiver such as a conventional pager for receiving the pager electronic alarm signal from the transceiver via free space and further providing an audible alarm to a user. Upon verification that the vehicle is indeed stolen, the user may instruct the transceiver to transmit a continuous pager signal containing longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates generated by the GPS. To activate the transceiver in such a mode, a recovery signal may be deployed from a conventional phone or in the alternative be transmitted directly from the remotely positionable portable receiver. The longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates allow the car to be traced and recovered.

Claims

1. A pager vehicle theft prevention and recovery system for providing an alarm indication when unauthorized access to the motor vehicle is detected and further allowing the vehicle to be traced thereafter, the pager vehicle theft prevention and recovery system comprising, in combination:

a motor vehicle having at least one openable door, a trunk, a hood, a set of headlights, an electrically actuatable horn, and a power source coupled to the horn and the set of headlights;

switch means coupled to the door, the trunk, the hood, and the power source of the motor vehicle for transmitting an indication of when the door, the trunk, and the hood are opened;

an authorization means for deploying an authorization signal upon proper identification of a person gaining access to the vehicle;

electronic control means coupled to the switch means, the horn, the set of headlights, and the power source, the electronic control means being placed in an active mode in response to the indication from the switch means and lack of receipt of the authorization signal from the authorization means for sounding the horn and illuminating the set of headlights after a predetermined amount of time of 30 seconds and immediately generating a remote alarm activation signal;

a global positioning system adapted to continuously generate a plurality of latitudinal coordinates and longitudinal coordinates upon the receipt of a recovery signal, the coordinates corresponding to the location of the vehicle, the recover signal including a pager signal generated by the dialling of a predetermined phone number which utilizes a pager network;

an electronic transceiver coupled to the electronic control means and global positioning system for transmitting a pager electronic alarm signal via free space upon the receipt of the remote alarm activation signal, the electronic transceiver adapted to allow selective changing of the designated electronic alarm signal, the electronic transceiver further adapted to transmit the latitudinal coordinates and longitudinal coordinates via a continuous pager signal upon the receipt of the recovery signal thereby allowing the car to be traced; and

a remotely positionable and hand-carriable receiver means for receiving via free space the designated electronic alarm signal from the transceiver and then providing an alarm, the receiver means further including a transmitter for emitting the recovery signal in additional to dialing said phone number upon the depression of a recovery activation signal button situated thereon.