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US 4,288,778 AGranted
Electronic theft prevention apparatus for vehicles
OwnerYehuda Zuckerinventor
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Abstract
Electronic theft prevention apparatus including a decoder integrally formed with a vehicle component and selectively enabling the operation thereof, an encoder accessible to a vehicle operator for providing coded instructions to the decoder to enable operation of the vehicle component, and data coupling apparatus for interconnecting the decoder and the encoder to permit data transfer therebetween.
Claims16
Vehicle theft prevention apparatus comprising:
- decoder means integrally formed with a vehicle component and selectively enabling the operation thereof;
- encoder means accessible to a vehicle operator for providing coded instructions to the decoder means to enable operation of said vehicle component;
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- data coupling means for interconnecting said decoder means and said encoder means to permit data transfer therebetween, whereby application of a constant battery voltage to said data coupling means is not effective to operate said decoder means.
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