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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8120475 | Security-feature-equipped on-vehicle device and security-feature control method of on-vehicle device A security-feature-equipped on-vehicle device includes: a vibration detection unit that detects vibration; an alarm sound output unit that outputs a predetermined alarm sound from a speaker; and an alarm sound control unit that going outs from a sleep mode to move i... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7777614 | Vehicle theft prevention apparatus A vehicle theft prevention apparatus has a gyro, a G sensor, and a microcomputer in a case, thereby being capable of detecting a tilt of a vehicle and of detecting inertia applied to the vehicle. An outer surface of the case has a light detector that detects an appr... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7646287 | Antitheft system for vehicle An antitheft apparatus for a vehicle has an inertia sensor, which is also used for an anti-lock braking system. An electronic control unit receives output signals from the inertia sensor and determines a possible vehicle theft when a detected vehicle condition (for ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7616100 | Antitheft system An antitheft system for use in a vehicle includes an angle sensor for outputting a signal that represents a body angle of the vehicle, an angle variation determination unit for determining an angle variation of the body angle at a predetermined interval based on the... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7535345 | Vehicular anti-theft security system In a vehicular anti-theft security system which includes a theft detection sensor that detects an abnormality of the vehicle associated with vehicle theft, and performs a theft preventing operation when the theft detection sensor detects the abnormality, an altitude... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7430468 | System and method for sensitizing the activation criteria of a rollover control system A method for sensitizing the roll signal for a rollover control system (18) is provided. A sensitizing method for controlling a vehicle includes when the relative roll angle reaches a threshold, initiating a wheel departure angle determination, boosting contr... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7422087 | Method and system for detecting vehicle rollover events The present invention relates to a method and system for detecting a vehicle rollover or near-rollover event that may precede a rollover of a vehicle. The system comprises controller connected to at least one right and at least one left vehicle tire pressure sensor,... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420460 | Vehicle security system Disclosed is a vehicle security system, which includes a security controller and a remote controller. The security controller is electrically connected to sensors and alarms, respectively, and has a memory storing an anti-thief alert grade table. The anti-thief aler... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412314 | Soil trip vehicle rollover detection method Impending rollover events are detected by recognizing a plow phase increase in lateral acceleration, coupled with a significant trip phase roll rate. The plow phase increase is recognized by modeling a typical soil trip lateral acceleration characteristic and comput... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403848 | Vehicle rollover detection method Impending rollover events are detected based on vehicle roll rate, roll angle and lateral acceleration, and an assessment of the relative polarities of vehicle roll rate and lateral acceleration. When the vehicle roll rate and lateral acceleration are opposite in po... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391301 | Antitheft device, monitoring device and antitheft system The present invention teaches an antitheft device whereby the detection accuracy of an unauthorized intruder into a vehicle can be improved, comprising a section for judging whether or not there is an approaching object T toward a vehicle M based on information obta... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388483 | Monitoring status of railyard equipment using wireless sensing devices A wireless position sensing device is provided for monitoring railyard equipment status. The device comprises a gravity sensing mechanism for sensing an angular displacement with respect to a substantially vertical line, and for generating a displacement signal upon... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7369936 | Remote start control system including an engine speed data bus reader and related methods A remote start control system may include an engine speed data bus reader at the vehicle for reading the engine speed signal on the vehicle data communications bus, and a remote start controller at the vehicle and connected to the engine speed data bus reader for op... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7351925 | Method and apparatus for detecting free fall A data processing system including a data storage device having data stored on a data storage medium. Within said data processing system, a system electronics is operatively coupled to a sensor and to said data storage device. When the sensor senses a change in grav... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346719 | Systems, methods, and bus controllers for creating an event trigger on a network bus The present invention provides systems, methods, and bus controllers (12) for monitoring an event of interest via a network bus (14) and creating an asynchronous event trigger on the network bus indicating that the event occurred. Importantly, the syst... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343020 | Vehicle audio system with directional sound and reflected audio imaging for creating a personal sound stage Automotive audio systems that use directional planar magnetic transducers in a layout or placement configuration to provide direct or reflected audio imaging in stereo or surround sounds for individual passengers of an automotive vehicle with reduced crossed audio i... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343233 | Method and system for preventing erroneous starting of a vehicle having a manual transmission A safety system and method for a manual transmission vehicle with a remote starter is provided. The system includes a motion transducer module detecting motion of the vehicle and a controller module deciding erroneous starting of the vehicle and stopping the vehicle... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334925 | Lighted exterior rearview mirror system A lighted exterior rearview mirror system for a vehicle comprises an exterior rearview mirror assembly adapted for mounting to a side of a vehicle. The exterior mirror assembly includes a reflective element having a heater and a breakaway joint assembly having stati... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330112 | Location-aware services In some embodiments, a technique for providing location-based functionality comprises providing functionality, wherein the functionality uses information provided by a location-aware device. ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325322 | Electric park brake inclinometer A tilt sensor system (10) is provided comprising a housing (12), a magnetized region (13) within the housing (12), and a magnetized, articulated pendulum (14) magnetically coupled to the magnetized region (13) for suspending... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327224 | Vehicle security system This invention relates to a vehicle security system. The invention provides a vehicle security system which can be armed and disarmed via a remote control device, e.g. an RF device. The system includes also sensing means which can sense a predetermined event indicat... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325953 | Vehicle exterior mirror system with turn signal light assembly A vehicular exterior rearview mirror system suitable for use on a vehicle includes an exterior mirror assembly adapted for mounting to a side of a vehicle and a turn signal light assembly. The mirror assembly includes a reflectance element that is moveably mounted o... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327234 | Driving assistance method and system with haptic notification seat A driving assistance system and method for providing driving condition information to a driver via a seat with a haptic signal. A set of state signals of the vehicle with respect to a lane on the road is generated. The set of state signals include at least a lateral... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318353 | Method and apparatus for a product displacement sensing device A displacement sensing device transduces deflection of a body disposed around a conduit into complementary signals indicative of the amount of displacement experienced by the conduit. The displacement sensing device includes a cuff and a sensor disposed on an outer ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315237 | Automotive antitheft system An automotive burglar alarm unit has an intrusion or equivalent security sensor. The burglar alarm unit can operate in an alarm set state for generating alarm, with a security sensor OFF mode for invalidating a signal of the security sensor. A user can use a portabl... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310509 | Software and protocol structure for an automated user notification system The present invention provides an automated user notification system for monitoring user items and notifying a user when selected conditions occur. A first portion of the notification system comprises a network operations center (NOC). The NOC stores user informatio... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290437 | Sensor node for impact detection The invention is intended to provide a technique regarding sensor nodes for impact detection to enable the intensities of impacts to be determined in a multi-value or analog mode and to reduce the power consumption of sensor nodes. The sensor node is provided with a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7284769 | Method and apparatus for sensing a vehicle crash Method and apparatus for sensing a crash of a vehicle in which acceleration and angular motion of the vehicle are measured and analyzed by a processor to determine whether a crash is occurring. A deployable occupant protection device is deployed by a processor when ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282810 | Power supplying apparatus for vehicle and intensive wiring apparatus An electric power supply system for a vehicle has an electric power line wired in a loop configuration. From the electric power line power is supplied to a load, and to another system which supplies control system power supply. One shutdown circuit is provided in a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7234340 | Apparatus, method, and medium for detecting and discriminating impact sound An apparatus, method, and medium for detecting an impact sound and an apparatus, method, and medium for discriminating the impact sound using the same. The impact sound detecting apparatus includes: an onset detector separating an input signal of a frame unit into a... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228217 | Roll over detector for a vehicle A roll over detector for a vehicle is disclosed, which includes a roll over phenomenon detecting circuit that detects a roll over phenomenon of the vehicle based on a relationship between at least a type of physical quantity representative of a roll state of the veh... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227464 | Auto wake-up method from sleep mode of an optical motion sensing device There is described a method for waking up an optical sensing device from a sleep mode to a motion detection mode, the optical motion sensing device comprising a light source, a photodetector device, a motion sensing unit and a control unit, the motion detection mode... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224263 | Security apparatus An IG key monitor sends out an anti-theft instruction to a GAIN switching part, in case that an IG key SW (ignition key switch) was turned to an OFF state. The GAIN switching part receives the anti-theft instruction from the IG key monitor, and then, switches detect... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224083 | Remote start system for a vehicle having a data communications bus and related methods The remote start control system may include at least one vehicle device associated with starting an engine of the vehicle, a remote start transmitter, and a vehicle remote start controller connected to the data communications bus for communicating with the at least ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7225108 | Cross correlation diagnostics tool for vibration analysis A system and method for detecting and analyzing anomalies in a machine during operation. The system and method includes at least one sensor associated with a component on the machine, a transducer configured to be positioned about the component, and a test station f... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212895 | Magnetic sensor A magnetic flux is sensed within a gap at a first location between two portions of a vehicle body/structure and a signal generated responsive thereto controls an element of the vehicle, wherein the magnetic flux is responsive to a disturbance of the vehicle body/str... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212103 | Monitor system, central monitor apparatus, on-vehicle monitor apparatus, monitor method, monitor program, computer-readable recording medium containing the same A monitoring system which can monitor a plurality of vehicles (1) includes vibration sensing units (15) each sensing a vibration of the associated vehicle (1), a sensed time specifying unit (20b) which specifies an instant at which... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209844 | Magnetic crash sensor A first magnetic field generated by a first coil operatively associated with a first portion of a vehicle interacts with at least one conductive element operatively associated with or at least a part of a second portion of the vehicle so as to generate an eddy curre... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205679 | Remote start system for a vehicle having a data communications bus and related methods A remote start control system for a vehicle including an engine, a transmission connected to the engine and a data communications bus carrying transmission position data related to a selected transmission position, may include a remote start transmitter and a vehicl... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190161 | Magnetic sensor A coil is operatively associated with a magnetic circuit of a vehicle body, and is adapted to cooperate with a time-varying magnetic flux in the vehicle body that is responsive to a condition of the vehicle body sensed by the magnetic sensor. An electrical circuit i... | 03/13/2007 |
