Position-based proximity security system for parked vehicle

• US 7,570,155 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2007
• Issued: 08/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Horii, Yasutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHANNON, MICHAEL T
• Application Number:
  US11/700,568
• Publication Number:
  US 20070182526A1
• Time in Patent Office: 916 Days
• Field of Search: 34042611- 36, 340/463, 340/436, 340/541, 340/435
• US Class Current: 340/426.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/1004 Alarm systems characterised by the type of sensor, e.g. current sensing means using door lock sensors B60R25/1001
• 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: B60R 25/305 using a camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves

Abstract

A security system includes a position detecting device, a sensing device, and a notifying device. The position detecting device detects a position of a vehicle. The sensing device senses a moving object that moves around the vehicle. The sensing device is mounted in the vehicle. The notifying device provides a notification when the position of the vehicle, which is detected by the position detecting device, indicates that the vehicle is parked at a predetermined position, and when the sensing means senses that the moving object is located in a predetermined range from the vehicle.

Claims

1. A security system comprising:

a position detecting means for detecting a position of a vehicle;

a sensing means for sensing a moving object that moves around the vehicle, wherein the sensing means is mounted in the vehicle; and

a notifying means for providing a notification upon satisfaction of all of the following conditions;

the position of the vehicle, which is detected by the position detecting means, indicates that the vehicle is parked at a predetermined position; and

the sensing means senses that the moving object is located in a predetermined range from the vehicle.

2. The security system according to claim 1, wherein the notifying means includes a warning means for providing a warning as the notification with respect to the moving object.

3. The security system according to claim 2, wherein the warning means provides the warning, which varies according to a distance between the moving object and the vehicle.

4. The security system according to claim 1, wherein:

the notifying means includes an external warning means for providing a warning as the notification with respect to the moving object; and

the external warning means is located outside the vehicle.

5. The security system according to claim 1, wherein:

the predetermined position is located in a parking place that faces a vehicular road; and

the sensing means senses the moving object, which is on the vehicular road and approaches the vehicle.