Arrangement for prevention of motor vehicle thefts
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1. A vehicle including an engine and various electrical and electromechanical components that control operability of said vehicle, the improvement comprising:
- a component that requires a specified control signal applied to an electrical operational control lead thereof in order to continue operating said vehicle once said engine of said vehicle is started, and a decoder coupled to said component that, only while a preselected coded activation signal is applied to said decoder, supplies said specified control signal to said electrical operational control lead, where said electrical operational control lead is made inaccessible by operation of said coupling.
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Abstract
The risk of vehicle theft is substantially diminished with an arrangement employs a decoder that is integrally coupled to, or embedded in, one or more operating elements of a vehicle that are controlled with an electrical signal. The decoder is constructed to be responsive to an encoded signal that is generated with a security device, such as a keypad.
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1. A vehicle including an engine and various electrical and electromechanical components that control operability of said vehicle, the improvement comprising:
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a component that requires a specified control signal applied to an electrical operational control lead thereof in order to continue operating said vehicle once said engine of said vehicle is started, and a decoder coupled to said component that, only while a preselected coded activation signal is applied to said decoder, supplies said specified control signal to said electrical operational control lead, where said electrical operational control lead is made inaccessible by operation of said coupling. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for operating a vehicle comprising the steps of:
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supplying to an encoder a security input, in response to affirmative verification of said security input, said encoder developing an encoded signal that continues while said vehicle is operating after starting, communicating said encoded signal to a decoder that is integrally coupled to an operational element of said vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. A vehicle including an engine and various electrical and electromechanical components that control operability of said vehicle, the improvement comprising:
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a component that requires a specified control signal applied to an electrical operational control lead thereof in order to continue operating said vehicle once said vehicle is started, and a decoder coupled to said component that, only while a preselected coded activation signal is applied to said decoder, supplies said specified control signal to said electrical operational control lead.
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20. A vehicle control system comprising:
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a decoder adapted to be coupled to a component of said vehicle stops an engine of said vehicle from being operational in ice absence of a specified control signal to an electrical operational control lead of said component, where said decoder applies said specified control signal to said electrical operational control lead when a preselected coded activation signal is applied to said decoder; and
means to connect said decoder to said component that removes access to said electrical operational control lead of said component so that said specified control signals cannot be applied to said electrical operational control lead by means other than said decoder. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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