Remote start controller

• US 7,688,178 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2005
• Issued: 03/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshimura, Minoru, Kimura, Yasuomi, Koike, Masaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown; Vernal U
• Application Number:
  US11/256,993
• Publication Number:
  US 20060087405A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,617 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.73, 340/542, 340/307, 340/5.2, 340/10.5, 307/10.1, 187/287
• US Class Current: 340/5.64
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/209 Remote starting of engine
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0807 Remote means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00547 starting ignition
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

A remote start controller is mounted on a vehicle, which includes a keyless entry device for controlling a locking action of doors of the vehicle in response to a user'"'"'s operation with respect to a lock button of a transmitter. The remote start controller includes a CPU. Upon detecting that the lock button of the transmitter is operated in a first predetermined way, the CPU causes an engine of the vehicle to start.

Claims

1. A remote start controller mounted on a vehicle, which includes a keyless entry device for controlling a locking action of doors of the vehicle in response to a user'"'"'s operation with respect to a single lock button of a transmitter, the remote start controller comprising:

a CPU, wherein upon detecting that the single lock button of the transmitter is operated in a first predetermined way, the CPU simultaneously causes the doors of the vehicle to lock and an engine of the vehicle to start,

wherein upon detecting that the single lock button of the transmitter is operated in a second predetermined way different from the first predetermined way, the CPU simultaneously causes the doors of the vehicle to lock and the engine to stop.

2. The remote start controller according to claim 1, wherein:

the keyless entry device outputs reception information transmitted from the transmitter, and

the CPU detects how the single lock button of the transmitter is operated, on a basis of the reception information outputted from the keyless entry device.

3. The remote start controller according to claim 1, wherein the CPU detects how the single lock button of the transmitter is operated on a basis of a drive signal outputted from the keyless entry device to a lock actuator of the vehicle.

4. The remote start controller according to claim 1, wherein the operating of the single lock button in the first predetermined way is performed within a predetermined period.

5. The remote start controller according to claim 4, wherein:

the operating of the single lock button in the first predetermined way comprises operating the single lock button in a third predetermined way and operating the single lock button in a fourth predetermined way different from the third predetermined way.

6. The remote start controller according to claim 1, wherein:

the operating of the single lock button in the first predetermined way comprises pressing the single lock button for less than a first predetermined period and pressing the single lock button for longer than a second predetermined period, and

the second predetermined period is longer than the first predetermined period.

7. A remote start controller comprising:

a keyless entry section that controlling a locking action of doors of a vehicle in response to a user'"'"'s operation with respect to a single lock button of a transmitter; and

a remote start controlling section that controls starting of an engine of the vehicle, wherein;

upon detecting that the single lock button of the transmitter is operated in a first predetermined way, the remote start controlling section simultaneously causes the doors of the vehicle to lock and the engine of the vehicle to start, and

upon detecting that the single lock button of the transmitter is operated in a second predetermined way different from the first predetermined way, the remote start controlling section simultaneously causes the doors of the vehicle to lock and the engine of the vehicle to stop.

8. A remote start controller mounted on a vehicle, which includes an antitheft apparatus for setting a security function for the vehicle in response to a user'"'"'s operation with respect to a single arming button of a transmitter, the remote start controller comprising:

a CPU, wherein upon detecting that the single arming button of the transmitter is operated in a first predetermined way, the CPU simultaneously causes the security function for the vehicle to set and an engine of the vehicle start,

wherein upon detecting that the single arming button of the transmitter is operated in a second predetermined way different from the first predetermined way, the CPU causes the security function for the vehicle to set and the engine to stop.