Patent · US Expired

Method and apparatus for signalling theft for a motor vehicle

US6232873A · kind A · utility

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11Claims

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Assignee

Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

Bernhardt Dilz · Sindelfingen, DE
Dietbert Kollbach · Jeffery Road, DE
Peter Robitschko · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 29, 1997
Grant date	May 15, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 29, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60R25/10
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In a failsafe method and apparatus for signalling theft for a motor vehicle, an item of theft-signalling information is produced as a function of the signal state of at least one of a plurality of monitoring signals, which are indicative of vehicle states. According to the invention, the theft-signalling information is produced only if the signal states of a plurality of monitoring signals are present in one of one or more prescribed theft-signalling combinations. Each theft-signalling combination comprises one or more signalling conditions, which succeed one another in a specific time sequence and which signalling conditions themselves comprise one or more theft indicative combinations of jointly interrogated signal states of associated monitoring signals.

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