Device for transmitting data or energy

• US 5,796,180 A
• Filed: 01/23/1997
• Issued: 08/18/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Glehr, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Sircus, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ganjian, Peter
• Application Number:
  US08/787,649
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 307/9.1-10.8, 180/287, 180/167, 340/425.5, 340/426, 340/435, 340/825.31, 340/825.34, 340/825.36, 340/825.44, 340/825.54, 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 364/423.098, 364/423.099, 364/424.045, 235/128, 235/380, 235/382, 235/382.5, 380/3, 342/42, 342/51, 342/52, 342/53
• US Class Current: 340/10.34
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 5/24 with a number of separate pretuned tuning circuits or separate tuning elements selectively brought into circuit, e.g. for waveband selection or for television channel selection

Abstract

A device for transmitting data or energy supply from or to a transponder, especially for an anti-theft system in a motor vehicle, includes an antenna oscillating circuit which is induced to oscillate by an exciter variable. The oscillation is transmitted by transformer coupling to a transponder oscillating circuit. In order to make the transmission of energy or data as effective as possible, the current or the voltage in the antenna oscillating circuit is measured and compared with a desired variable. Upon a deviation, a correction value is generated by which the exciter current is increased or the resonant frequency is adapted to the exciter frequency as a consequence of the addition of an impedance to the antenna oscillating circuit.

Claims

1. A device for transmitting data or energy supply from or to a transponder, comprising:

a stationary transceiver including a first oscillating circuit having an antenna in the form of a first coil, a first capacitor, and a resonant frequency determined by said antenna and said first capacitor;

a portable transponder including a second oscillating circuit having a second coil and a second capacitor;

an exciter unit oscillating at an oscillator frequency and supplying an output variable used as an exciter variable with an exciter frequency for compelling an oscillation of said first oscillating circuit; and

an evaluation unit for measuring at least one of current and voltage in said first oscillating circuit, said evaluation unit generating a correction value upon a deviation of the current or the voltage from a desired value and then correcting said first oscillating circuit upon all transmissions between said transceiver and said transponder for causing the most effective possible transmission between said transceiver and said transponder to take place.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the current and the voltage in said first oscillating circuit is measured in accordance with amount and phase, and the correction value is ascertained as a function thereof.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the resonant frequency of said first oscillating circuit is varied as a function of the correction value by adding or subtracting at least one serial or parallel inductance and/or at least one serial or parallel capacitance, to or from said antenna or said first capacitor.

4. The device according to claim 2, wherein:

said exciter unit has a driver stage controlled as a function of the correction value, for increasing or decreasing the current in said first oscillating circuit;

said exciter unit has a memory for storing the correction value; and

said memory is connected to said driver stage.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein the current in said first oscillating circuit is varied by the correction value only within a predetermined tolerance width.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein said first oscillating circuit is connected to said second oscillating circuit through said antenna and said second coil, if said transponder is located in the vicinity of said transceiver.

7. The device according to claim 6, wherein:

said transponder has code information generating a modulated oscillation of said first oscillating circuit as a consequence of an inductive coupling;

said evaluation unit detects the modulated oscillation;

the code information is demodulated from the modulated oscillation;

the detected code information is compared with desired code information; and

a release signal for releasing a security device is generated if the detected code information and the desired code information agree.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein said transceiver is one part of an anti-theft system and is located in a motor vehicle, and said transponder is another part of said anti-theft system and is portable.