Vehicle authentication device

• US 8,400,267 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2009
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Automotive Electronics Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Kasai, Yoshiyuki, Onoda, Tomoko
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWN, VERNAL U
• Application Number:
  US12/580,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20100097175A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.8, 340/5.6, 340/3.1, 340/12.22, 240/5.64, 307/10.1
• US Class Current: 340/5.8
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user

Abstract

A vehicle authentication device has an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle, an authentication unit disposed in the in-vehicle device, for matching an ID returned from a portable device in response to a request from the in-vehicle device and performing an authentication of the vehicle, and an operation switch for instructing a power supply transition of the vehicle. The in-vehicle device has a measurement unit for measuring a duration of an active state of the operation switch, a determination unit for determining whether the duration exceeds a predetermined time, and a control unit for executing a power supply transition control of the vehicle based on the determination that the duration time of the active state of the operation switch exceeds the predetermined time made by the determination unit and an authentication result of the authentication unit.

Claims

1. A vehicle authentication device comprising:

an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle;

an authentication unit disposed in the in-vehicle device, for matching an ID returned from a portable device in response to a request from the in-vehicle device and performing an authentication of the vehicle, and

an operation switch for instructing a power supply transition of the vehicle;

wherein the operation switch is an operation push button switch,

wherein the in-vehicle device comprises;

a measurement unit for measuring a duration of an active state of the operation switch,

a determination unit for determining whether the duration exceeds a predetermined time, and

a control unit for executing a power supply transition control of the vehicle based on a simultaneous occurrence of the determination that the duration time of the active state of the operation switch exceeds the predetermined time made by the determination unit and an authentication result of the authentication unit that the portable device is legitimate, and

wherein the active state is a state in which the operation switch is pushed.

2. The vehicle authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined time is set as a time a driver intentionally operates a switch for generating a power supply transition control signal.

3. The vehicle authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit further permits engine startup of the vehicle when a foot brake of the vehicle is depressed.