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Secure system for controlling the unlocking of at least one openable panel of a motor vehicle

US6424254B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 11, 2000
Grant dateJul 23, 2002
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Expiry dateMay 11, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07C2209/63
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system for locking/unlocking at least one motor vehicle openable panel comprising transmission/reception devices which are intended for transmitting, from the vehicle, a radio-frequency interrogation signal, which transmission/reception devices are intended to be carried by a user and which, on receipt of the interrogation signal, are intended for transmitting a radio-frequency identification signal so as to actuate the unlocking of the openable panel, which system comprises detection unit which are linked to the transmission/reception devices on the vehicle and which are able to detect, on an identification signal received on the transmission/reception devices, a modification of a parameter of the transmission, between the transmission/reception means of the vehicle and of the user, which may be due to the interposition, between the vehicle and the user, of intermediate transmission/reception devices.

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