Security/prevention system with related device

• US 5,900,814 A
• Filed: 07/30/1996
• Issued: 05/04/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ivan Stern
• Original Assignee: Ivan Stern
• Inventors: Stern, Ivan
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pope, Daryl C.
• Application Number:
  US08/647,967
• Time in Patent Office: 1,008 Days
• Field of Search: 340/995, 340/825.03, 340/825.69, 340/905, 340/539, 340/426, 340/932, 340/425.5, 364/444, 455/186
• US Class Current: 340/426.16
• 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: G08G 1/127 to a central station ; Indicators in a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication

Abstract

The base of a security/prevention system is an electronic device which has the capability of joining the performance of two functions, i.e. prevention of road accidents and theft protection of vehicles, using the principle of joint use of frequencies, whereby interference with the device'"'"'s operation is prevented. The invention allows, on the one hand, such application in road traffic prevention in which an electronic security device installed in a vehicle provides passive or active warning of participants in the traffic as to possible momentary dangers requiring quick reaction of the driver. On the other hand, the invention allows such application in road traffic safety in which an electronic security device protects vehicles against theft; the device comprises three base units, i.e. an electronic security device, which is installed in the vehicle and intended for transmitting messages about theft, a pocket receiver, and a network of receiver devices distributed at all locations of importance to the reception of the transmitted messages.

Claims

1. A security/prevention system with related device, said device, said device being installed in a vehicle and comprising:

a decoder;

a microcomputer(3);

a high-frequency(HF) part(10);

a receiver modulator(4);

an aerial part(8); and

an aerial(8);

said device operating with low-power transmission signals and obtaining the encoding and frequency of transmitted or received alarm signals by means of a roadside infrastructure, said roadside infrastructure comprising specific code and specific transmitters, thereby enabling said vehicle to receive at individual road sections, information on which frequency said device should receive or transmit alarm signals, and information on a digital code into which said alarm signals to be transmitted or received by said device are to be encoded, said device operating in a manner comprising the following features and steps;

a) receiving said alarm signals comprising the steps of;

1a) selecting and checking the occupancy of a second random channel at a second frequency when a first receiving channel at a first frequency is occupied by an analog signal;

2a) receiving and processing said alarm signals when said first receiving channel is occupied by said alarm signals which have a valid code as defined by said roadside infrastructure;

3a) changing the receiving frequency of said HF part(10) by said receiver(70) or said microcomputer(3) after a certain first period of time that the alarm signals are received and processed, said first period of time being at least equal to the sum of transmission times of a transmission device on all receiving channels;

4a) selecting randomly by said microcomputer(3) a third channel at a third frequency, when said first receiving channel is free of signals for a certain second period of time, or, when after said certain second period of time, said decoder does not identify a specific code into which said alarm signals are encoded, or, when an analog signal appears on said receiving channel as a result of interference or use by another user;

b) adding a weighting factor to individual digital information packages of alarm information included withing said alarm signal, said weighting factor defining a length of pause between said individual digital information packages; and

c) transmitting said alarm signals comprising the steps of;

1c) selecting randomly by said microcomputer(3) one of a group of permitted frequencies corresponding to a selected channel;

2c) said microcomputer(3) sending said selected frequency by a first communication link(a) to said receiver(7) which checks the status of said selected frequency;

3c) said microcomputer(3) tuning, by said first communication link(a), said transmitter(6) to said selected frequency, when said selected frequency is unoccupied;

4c) said microcomputer(3) sending a certain number of digital information packages included within said alarm signals, by a second communication link(d), to said modulator(4);

5c) said modulator(4) sending said digital information packages, by a third communication link(e), to said transmitter(6);

6c) said transmitter(6) sending said digital information packages, by a fourth communication link(I), to said aerial part(8) or said aerial(9), which transmits said digital information packages; and

7c) commencing step 1c after a certain third period of time unless the transmission of said alarm signals is complete.

2. A security/prevention system with related device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device further comprises related peripheral devices (1,2,12).

3. A security/prevention system with related device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a receiver station of the system comprises:

a telephone modem (2);

a second microcomputer (3) connected through a fifth communication link (o) with said telephone modem (2);

a second modem (11) comprising a demodulator (5);

a second high-frequency part (10);

a second receiver (7) of said second high-frequency part (10);

a second transmitter (6) of said second high-frequency part (10);

a second aerial part (8); and

a second aerial (9);

said second microcomputer (3) selecting at random one of a group of permitted frequencies and, through a sixth communication link (a), tuning said second transmitter (6) and said second receiver (7) to said randomly selected frequency, said second microcomputer (3) then, over said second aerial part (8) or over said second aerial (9), checking the occupancy of said randomly selected frequency by a seventh communication link (j) to said second receiver (7), by an eighth communication link (f) to said demodulator (5), and by a ninth communication link (d) to said second microcomputer (3).

4. A security/prevention system with related device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a pocket receiver of the system comprises:

a third microcomputer (3);

an HW key (1);

a beeper (2);

a third aerial (6);

a third receiver (5); and

a second demodulator (4);

said third microcomputer (3) being capable of communicating with said device by a tenth communication link (a) through said HW key (1), said third microcomputer (3) also being capable of alerting an owner of an alarm signal by means of said beeper (2) through an eleventh communication link (b), said alarm signal being recorded in said third microcomputer (3), said alarm signal being received from said third aerial (6) or said third receiver (5) through a twelfth communication link (d) to said second demodulator (4) and a thirteenth communication link (c) to said third microcomputer (3).