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US 11,794,691 B2Granted
Vehicles and vehicle systems for operating powered door locks in an alarm deterrent mode
AssigneeToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
InventorsClinton Williams, Alexander L. Paradis
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Abstract
A vehicle including powered door locks, a motor for positioning the powered door locks between a locked position and an unlocked position, one or more sensors for detecting an unauthorized event around the vehicle, and a controller configured to operate the motor to repeatedly move the powered door locks in a predetermined pattern based on speed in response to the one or more sensors detecting an unauthorized event around the vehicle.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- powered door locks;
- a motor for positioning the powered door locks between a locked position and an unlocked position;
- a sensor configured to capture data of activity around the vehicle;
- and
- an electronic control unit configured to:
- process the data captured by the sensor to detect an unauthorized event around the vehicle;
- and
- operate the motor to repeatedly re-engage the powered door locks into the locked position in a predetermined pattern based on speed in response to detecting an unauthorized event around the vehicle without moving the powered door locks into the unlocked position.
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An electronic control unit of a vehicle configured to:
- process data captured by a sensor to detect an unauthorized event around the vehicle;
- and
- operate a motor of the vehicle to repeatedly re-engage powered door locks of the vehicle into a locked position in a predetermined pattern based on speed in response to detecting the unauthorized event around the vehicle without moving the powered door locks into an unlocked position.
A method comprising:
- processing data captured by a sensor;
- detecting an unauthorized event around a vehicle based on the processed data captured by the sensor;
- and
- in response to detecting the unauthorized event around the vehicle, an electronic control unit operating a motor to repeatedly re-engage powered door locks into a locked position in a predetermined pattern based on speed without moving the powered door locks into an unlocked position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.