Closing system for motor vehicles

• US 8,053,922 B2
• Filed: 11/28/2001
• Issued: 11/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Müller, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie; Rexford
• Assistant Examiner(s): PARRIES, DRU M
• Application Number:
  US10/451,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20040066092A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,632 Days
• Field of Search: 307/10.1, 455/556.1
• US Class Current: 307/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/101 Bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2325/205 Mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00373 whereby the wake-up circuit is situated in the lock
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

The invention relates to a closing system for motor vehicles involving access authorization and driving authorization by means of a control unit provided with means of communication. Said communication means comprise a stationary transmitter-receiver unit in the vehicle and a mobile transmitter-receiver unit in a wireless hand telephone (10). The control unit monitors the data transferred during said communication for access or driving authorization and activates or deactivates the corresponding systems if authorization is valid. The hand telephone (10) contains an SIM card (15) for telephonic network operation. In order to use the closing system in a quick and comfortable manner, the SIM card (15) is also a carrier for the access and driving authorization data. (16). A bi-directional local communication hands-free system operating in the GHz range is also used in the motor vehicle. Said telephonic local communication is also used for transmitting access and/or driving authorization data (16).

Claims

1. Apparatus for operating vehicles (20) with two different operating systems, namely with an access authorization system for releasing and locking of doors (24) or hatches (28, 27) in the vehicle (20), as a first operating system,

with a driving authorization system for starting, operating, and stopping an engine in the vehicle (20) and enabling and disabling a steering wheel (18) of the vehicle (20), as a second operating system,

and with a control unit (33) for both systems, which is operated by two different communication devices,

wherein the communication devices consist of two different stationary transmitter-receiver units (25, 25′

) in the vehicle (20) but only one common mobile transmitter-receiver unit in a wireless hand telephone (mobile phone 10),

and the control unit (33) checks the transmitted data and, corresponding to checked results, activates or deactivates the two associated systems,

with a SIM-card, for the telephonic network operation of the mobile phone (10), which can be inserted in and, if necessary, removed from its housing,

wherein the SIM card (15) simultaneously serves as the carrier both for the access authorization data of the communication (16) and vehicle-specific driving authorization data (16) for rendering operative the engine electronics, for starting and for operating the engine, are arranged on the SIM-card (15),

and with a hands-free system in the vehicle (20) for a bi-directional local communication (bluetooth system 30) of the mobile phone (10) which operates in the GHz range,

wherein the two different communications devices are formed, on the one hand, as an

external communication device (25′

) at the vehicle, which automatically transmits the access authorization data without actuation of buttons on the mobile phone (10) when the mobile phone (10) is in a vehicle exterior position (32), and, on the other hand,

as an internal communication device (25) arranged in the vehicle interior (22) which recognizes the vehicle interior position of the mobile phone (10) and which, without actuating any buttons on the mobile phone (10), automatically transmits the driving authorization data,

and wherein the driving authorization data (16) of the SIM-card (15) are received and evaluated by the near communication (bluetooth-system 30) of the mobile phone (10) which operates in the GHz range with the internal communication devices.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter-receiver device (25′

) acting in the exterior area (32) of the vehicle (20) is integrated in the door handle (23) and/or in the actuating device (29) of the rear flap (28).

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a cradle for the mobile phone (10) is located in the vehicle interior (22) and wherein the inner transmitter-receiver device (25) for the local communication (bluetooth-system 30) is arranged in the area of the cradle.