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Access control device for a motor vehicle and method for setting the sensitivity of an access control device

US6556125B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJul 19, 1999
Grant dateApr 29, 2003
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Expiry dateJul 19, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07C2009/00793
  • WIPO fieldCivil engineering
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An access control device for a motor vehicle and a method for setting the sensitivity of an access control device, include a plurality of ferrite antennas disposed in a door handle of the motor vehicle. The individual ferrite antennas are inclined with respect to one another and with respect to the door surface. Consequently, a widely fanned magnetic field is produced within which a request signal can readily be received by a portable encoder. In order to ensure that interference signals have only little effect on the reception of a request signal, the reception sensitivity of the encoder is increased only after a very powerful advance signal has been received.

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