Security arrangement for motor vehicle equipped with a programmed hands-free monitoring system

• US 6,600,410 B1
• Filed: 02/20/2001
• Issued: 07/29/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Valeo Electronique
• Original Assignee: Valeo Electronique
• Inventors: Morillon, Jacques
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUNG
• Application Number:
  US09/785,202
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 340/426, 340/428, 340/506, 340/507, 307/10.5
• US Class Current: 340/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/02142 comprising externally controlled safety devices for preventing locking during vehicle running condition
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor

Abstract

A security arrangement for motor vehicle equipped with a programmed monitoring system (1) and with at least one specific system (2) to which the monitoring system transmits commands. The arrangement comprises hard-wired logic (4) mounted between a control facility (3) and the specific system, as is the monitoring system. This logic makes it possible to block a command (OV) transmitted by the monitoring system to the specific system, when this command corresponds to that which is obtained in respect of an instruction (C) received by the control facility and when such an instruction has not been received from the control facility by the hard-wired logic. The arrangement is intended to be fitted to a vehicle comprising a programmed monitoring system, such as a “hands-free” monitoring system, and one or more specific systems, for example an electrical anti-theft system or electrical supply monitoring system.

Claims

1. A security arrangement for motor vehicle equipped with a control facility (3), with at least one specific system (2) and with a programmed monitoring system (1) which is hard-wired between said control facility and said specific system in order that said programmed monitoring system (1) can receive an instruction (C) from said control facility and transmit thereupon a command (OV) to the specific system, wherein said security arrangement comprises hard-wired logic (4) mounted between said control facility and said specific system in order to be able to receive said instruction (C), said hard-wired logic blocking said command sent by said programmed monitoring system to said specific system when said hard-wired logic has not received said instruction (C).

2. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control facility is made available to a user so as to allow him to transmit instructions to the vehicle.

3. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the instructions received by the control facility originate from systems for managing specific functions of the vehicle functioning upstream of the security arrangement.

4. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, for vehicle equipped with an antitheft specific system (2), where the hard-wired logic (4) receives, on the one hand, a turn-off instruction (C), which is delivered to the monitoring system (1) by means of the control facility (3), and which brings about the delivery of a locking command (OV) by the monitoring system destined for the antitheft system, on the other hand, an indication of the state of functioning of the vehicle which manifests the presence of the supply current (APC) distributed within the vehicle from the turn-on phase, until turn-off, the said logic blocking any locking command sent by the monitoring system, if the supply current is distributed and if said logic has not itself received the turn-off instruction.

5. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, for vehicle equipped with a specific system (2′

) monitoring the supply of current to the vehicle while the vehicle is functioning, where the hard-wired logic (4′

) receives a vehicle engine turn-off instruction (C) which is delivered to the monitoring system by means of the control facility (3′

), and which brings about the delivery of a supply cutoff command (OC) by the monitoring system destined for the specific system, and where the hard-wired logic comprises clock means which allow it to deliver a security signal (S) corresponding to a time window of specified duration, on receipt of a turn-off instruction, so as to block at the level of a logic circuit (5′

) any supply cutoff command (OC) transmitted by the monitoring system destined for the specific system, via the logic circuit, when this command is outside the said time window.

6. The arrangement as claimed in claim 4, in which the hard-wired logic (4) combines the indication which manifests the absence of supply current (APC) following a vehicle engine turn-off instruction (C) produced by means of the control facility (3), and a signal, corresponding to an authorization time window (F), triggered by the receipt of the turn-off instruction, so as to produce a security signal (S) which is transmitted to the antitheft system and in the absence of which any locking command (OV) transmitted by the monitoring system is blocked.

7. The arrangement as claimed in claim 1, in which the programmed monitoring system is a so-called “

hands-free”

monitoring system.

8. A motor vehicle equipped with a programmed monitoring system and with at least one specific system to which the monitoring system transmits commands, which vehicle comprises a security arrangement, according to claim 1.