# US 11,441,335 B2 · Vehicular portable device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,441,335 B2 - Document ID: US11441335B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/509,579 - Filed: 2019-07-12 - Published: 2019-11-07 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2017-02-03 - Assignees: Denso Corporation - Applicants: Denso Corporation - Inventors: Tetsuyuki Anzai - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11441335B2 ## CPC - E05B 19/0082: {Keys or shanks being removably stored in a larger object, e.g. a remote control or a key fob (general constructional details of electronic keys G07C9/00944)} - E05B 49/006: {actuating opto-electronic devices} - E05B 19/00: Keys; Accessories therefor ({key modifications or attachments preventing removal from the lock E05B11/005; key rings A44B15/00; key cases A45C11/32; key holders A47G29/10;} making keys, see the relevant places, e.g. B21D53/42; milling grooves in keys B23C3/35) - E05B 49/00: Electric permutation locks; Circuits therefor {; Mechanical aspects of electronic locks; Mechanical keys therefor (arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; mechanisms including electronic locks actuated by nonmechanical keys such as passive and active electrical keys and other data carriers G07C9/00, G07F7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00)} - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G07C 9/00944: {Details of construction or manufacture} - H01H 36/00: Switches actuated by change of magnetic field or of electric field, e.g. by change of relative position of magnet and switch, by shielding - H03K 17/9622: {using a plurality of detectors, e.g. keyboard} - H05K 1/0275: {Security details, e.g. tampering prevention or detection} - G07C 2009/00261: {the keyless data carrier having more than one function} - H03K 2217/96046: Key-pad combined with display, back-lit - H03K 2217/96079: using a single or more light guides - E05B: LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE - H01H: ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES (contact cables H01B7/10; electrolytic self-interrupters H01G9/18; emergency protective circuit arrangements H02H; switching by electronic means without contact-making H03K17/00) - H03K: PULSE TECHNIQUE (measuring pulse characteristics G01R; modulating sinusoidal oscillations with pulses H03C; transmission of digital information H04L; discriminator circuits detecting phase difference between two signals by counting or integrating cycles of oscillation H03D3/04; automatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses where the type of generator is irrelevant or unspecified H03L; coding, decoding or code conversion, in general H03M) - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract In a vehicular portable device, a display unit is controlled to display an icon representing an instruction to an in-vehicle device when detecting that an acceleration equal to or greater than an activation threshold occurs in the vehicular portable device, a pressing force at an icon selection position, which is a position where the icon is selected by a touch sensor, is detected, and a control signal instructing execution of a command corresponding to the icon being selected is transmitted based on detection of the pressing force in a state where the icon is selected. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicular portable device to be carried by a user of a vehicle and configured to transmit a control signal to an in-vehicle device mounted on the vehicle, the vehicular portable device comprising: an acceleration sensor; a display unit that displays an icon representing an instruction to the in-vehicle device; a display control unit that controls the display unit to display the icon when detecting that an acceleration equal to or greater than an activation threshold occurs in the vehicular portable device based on a signal output from the acceleration sensor; a touch sensor to select the icon displayed on the display unit; a pressure sensor that detects a pressing force at an icon selection position, which is a position where the icon is selected by the touch sensor; and a transmission control unit that transmits a control signal instructing execution of a command corresponding to the icon being selected based on detection of the pressing force by the pressure sensor in a state where the icon is selected. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicular portable device according to claim 1, wherein the touch sensor is a capacitive touch sensor. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The vehicular portable device according to claim 2, wherein the capacitive touch sensor used as the touch sensor is a first capacitive touch sensor, the vehicular portable device further comprises a second capacitive touch sensor that is disposed to a rear side of the first capacitive touch sensor, and the pressure sensor includes the first capacitive touch sensor and the second capacitive touch sensor. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The vehicular portable device according to claim 3, wherein the display unit displays a plurality of the icons at different positions, and the second capacitive touch sensor has detection regions, the number of which is less than the number of the icons that are displayed. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The vehicular portable device according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit turns off the display unit based on transmission of the control signal by the transmission control unit. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The vehicular portable device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit includes a display region that indicates transmission of the control signal when the control signal is transmitted at a position different from the icon. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The vehicular portable device according to claim 1, wherein the acceleration sensor, the display unit, the touch sensor, the pressure sensor, and the transmission control unit are connected to the display control unit. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The vehicular portable device according to claim 1, wherein each of the display control unit and the transmission control unit includes a processor and a memory. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The vehicular portable device according to claim 1, wherein the transmission control unit transmits the control signal instructing execution of the command corresponding to the icon being selected when the pressor sensor detects that the pressing force at the icon selection position continues for a predetermined time in the state where the icon is selected.