Beeper controlled auto security system

• US 5,432,495 A
• Filed: 01/27/1993
• Issued: 07/11/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eugene Tompkins
• Original Assignee: Eugene Tompkins
• Inventors: Tompkins, Eugene
• Primary Examiner(s): Crosland, Donnie L.
• Application Number:
  US08/010,465
• Time in Patent Office: 895 Days
• Field of Search: 340/429, 340/426, 340/825.31, 340/825.32, 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 340/539, 340/531, 340/425.5, 307/10.2, 307/10.3, 180/287, 455/9, 455/11.1, 455/12.1, 379/58, 379/63, 379/37-40, 290/38 C, 367/197-199
• US Class Current: 340/429
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
• 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 25/33 of global position, e.g. by providing GPS coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data

Abstract

A beeper controlled auto security system in which a vehicle disabling device such as an ignition kill switch is selectively activated either by a hand held rf transmitter unit or a beeper paging system satellite transmission initiated by a telephone call which may be at a very remote location from the vehicle. A vehicle motion detector is also activated which turns on a monitor transmitter if the vehicle is thereafter moved, enabling detection by a portable monitor receiver carried by the vehicle owner or police vehicles.

Claims

1. An auto vehicle security system comprising:

selectively activated vehicle disabling means operable when activated to prevent operation of the vehicle;

receiver-disable signal generator means for selectively activating said vehicle disabling means responsive to alternative activating means, said alternative activating means including a portable hand held transmitter selectively activatable to emit an rf signal to said receiver disable signal generator means to activate said receiver-disable signal generator means, and a telephone activated remote transmitter emitting another rf signal transmitted to said receiver-disable signal generator means, whereby said vehicle may selectively be disabled either by operation of said hand held transmitter or by a telephone activated transmission;

said receiver-disable signal generator means comprising a beeper-receiver unit mounted within said vehicle adapted to emit an audible paging signal upon receipt of a signal originating from either of said hand held transmitter or said remote transmitter, and said selectively activated vehicle disabling means further including an acoustic detector mounted in said vehicle adjacent said beeper-receiver unit and tuned so as to be activated by emission of said audible paging signal by said beeper-receiver unit, said vehicle disabling means directly responsive to said audible paging signal emitted from said beeper-receiver unit.

2. The security system according to claim 1 further including a vehicle motion sensor activated by said selectively operable vehicle disabling means, and a monitor transmitter turned on upon detection of vehicle motion by the sensor to broadcast a silent alarm signal.

3. The security system according to claim 1 further including a motion sensor activated by said beeper-receiver unit to thereafter generate a signal upon motion of said vehicle, and a monitor transmitter turned on by said signal to broadcast a silent alarm signal.

4. The security system according to claim 2 wherein said vehicle disabling means includes an ignition kill switch.