Safety feature for vehicles parked indoors

• US 6,924,728 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2002
• Issued: 08/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Directed, LLC (VOXX International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: No-Start, Inc.
• Inventors: Wisnia, Jack, Nelson, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Horabik, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): JENKINS, KIMBERLY YVETTE
• Application Number:
  US10/143,839
• Publication Number:
  US 20030027548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,176 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.31, 340/426.16, 340/426.17
• US Class Current: 340/5.31
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user

Abstract

The vehicle safety system which is for a vehicle equipped with a remote starter comprises a wireless transmitter located inside a closed space, adapted to emit a signal for disabling the remote starter. The system further comprises at least one wireless receiver located on board the vehicle, and being operatively connected to the remote starter. The wireless receiver, upon receipt of the signal, disables the remote starter, and thereby prevents remote starting of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle safety system for a vehicle equipped with a remote starter, said system comprising:

a wireless transmitter located inside a closed space and fixedly secured thereto, said transmitter emitting a signal for automatically disabling said remote starter when said vehicle is in said closed space; and

at least one wireless receiver located on board said vehicle, and being operatively connected to said remote starter, said wireless receiver, upon receipt of said signal, disabling said remote starter thereby preventing remote starting of said vehicle.

2. A vehicle safety system according to claim 1, wherein said closed space is a car garage.

3. A vehicle safety system according to claim 1, wherein said wireless transmitter is an IR transmitter, and said at least one receiver is an IR receiver, and wherein when said vehicle is located inside said closed space, said transmitter and at least one of said at least one receiver are in line-of-sight alignment.

4. A vehicle safety system according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle includes two transmitters located at a front and at a back of said vehicle.

5. A vehicle safety system according to claim 1, wherein said transmitter emits said signal regularly or sporadically.

6. A vehicle system for a vehicle equipped with a remote starter, said system comprising:

a wireless transmitter located inside a closed space, said transmitter being adapted to emit a signal for disabling said remote starter; and

at least one wireless receiver located on board said vehicle, and being operatively connected to said remote starter, said wireless receiver, upon receipt of said signal, disabling said remote starter thereby preventing remote starting of said vehicle,

wherein said signal is a 24-bit message sent three times in sequence.