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Remote control device for vehicles
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Inventors: Ueda, Shinichi; Arie, Shinichi; Yoshimura, Kentaro; Asakura, Suguru; Kamikura, Akira; Sawada, Kenichi;
Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Black; Thomas G.
Assistant Examiner: Gibson; Eric M.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Arent Fox PLLC
A request signal transmitted from LF antennas of a vehicle-mounted unit is received by a radio terminal through an LF antenna. In response to the request signal, the radio terminal transmits a response signal from an antenna. The response signal is received by an RF unit of the vehicle-mounted unit. The vehicular remote control device controls an operating state of a vehicle-mounted device depending on the judgment of a match between the response signal and identification information inherent in the vehicle. The radio terminal has a light-emitting diode. When the radio terminal receives a failure diagnosis signal that is transmitted instead of the request signal, the radio terminal does not transmit a response signal, but energizes the light-emitting diode. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is a major object of the present invention to provide a vehicular remote control device which can reduce the power consumption of a portable unit.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular remote control device which easily specifies the location of a failure in the vehicular remote control device.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular remote control device with a simple arrangement for diagnosing failures.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular remote control device which is capable of reducing a power consumption thereof at the time of a failure diagnosis of the vehicular remote control device.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a vehicular remote control device comprising vehicular transmitter for transmitting a request signal, a portable unit for transmitting a response signal in response to the request signal transmitted thereto from the vehicular transmitter, vehicular receiver for receiving the response signal, and control means for determining whether the response signal received by the vehicular receiver matches identification information stored in a vehicle or not, and controlling an operating state of a vehicle-mounted device depending on the determined result, the portable unit having indicating means for indicating a failure status and decision means for determining the reception of a failure diagnosis signal transmitted to the portable unit instead of the request signal.
The indicating means is operated when the decision means determines the reception of the failure diagnosis signal.
With the above vehicular remote control device, when a failure diagnosis signal is transmitted, instead of the request signal, from the vehicular transmitter to the portable unit, the decision means determines the reception of the failure diagnosis signal, and operates the indicating means based on the determined reception of the failure diagnosis signal for a failure diagnosis
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