Vehicle remote-operation apparatus
OwnerShinichiro Satoinventor
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Abstract
A vehicle remote-operation apparatus is provided which is capable of heightening the speed of a response. In this apparatus, with a plurality of portable units for a vehicle located within their communicable range with a vehicle-side transmitter and a vehicle-side receiver, when one of the plurality of portable units is specified as a communication target and a transmission request signal is transmitted from the vehicle-side transmitter, a portable unit is specified in order of the greatness of a counter value corresponding to each portable unit.
Claims10
A vehicle remote-operation apparatus, comprising:
- a vehicle-side communication unit;
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- a plurality of radio portable units which are allocated an identification code unique to a vehicle,
- wherein the vehicle-side communication unit includes:
- a vehicle-side transmitter which transmits a transmission request signal to each of the plurality of portable units;
- a vehicle-side receiver which receives a reply signal from each of the plurality of portable units;
- a plurality of counters which are provided for each of the plurality of portable units, and count a value on a communication state between the vehicle-side transmitter and the vehicle-side receiver and each of the plurality of portable units;
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- a controller which, with the plurality of portable units located within a communicable range with the vehicle-side transmitter and the vehicle-side receiver, when specifying one portable unit of the plurality of portable units as a communication target and transmitting a transmission request signal from the vehicle-side transmitter, specifies a portable unit in order of the greatness of the values of the plurality of counters, and controls the vehicle-side transmitter so that it transmits a transmission request signal for this portable unit.
A vehicle-side communication unit which communicates by radio with a plurality of portable unit allocated an identification code unique to a vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle-side transmitter which transmits a transmission request signal to each of the plurality of portable units;
- a vehicle-side receiver which receives a reply signal from each of the plurality of portable units;
- a plurality of counters which are provided for each of the plurality of portable units, and count a value on a communication state between the vehicle-side transmitter and the vehicle-side receiver and each of the plurality of portable units;
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- a controller which, with the plurality of portable units located within a communicable range with the vehicle-side transmitter and the vehicle-side receiver, when specifying one portable unit of the plurality of portable units as a communication target and transmitting a transmission request signal from the vehicle-side transmitter, specifies a portable unit in order of the greatness of the values of the plurality of counters, and controls the vehicle-side transmitter so that it transmits a transmission request signal for this portable unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.