Electronic vehicle security system with remote control

An electronic remote control vehicle security system with remote programmability of sensor sensitivity, comprising:

• a sensor device responsive to a disturbance phenomenon to provide a sensor signal indicative of a disturbance event;
• alarm apparatus for generating an alarm response in the event the sensor device is tripped by a disturbance event while the system is armed;
• a wireless remote control transmitter for transmitting wireless remote signals to control functions of the security system, said transmitter including a circuit for transmitting a coded signal to adjust the sensitivity of the sensor to disturbance events;
• a receiver mounted within the vehicle for receiving the wireless remote signals and generating receiver signals in response to said receipt;
• a sensitivity adjustment circuit responsive to the receiver signals and receipt of the coded signal to adjust the sensitivity of the sensor to disturbance events,
• wherein the controller further compares the magnitude of the sensor signal to a stored warning threshold value, and actuates a warning signal if the sensor signal exceeds the warning threshold value but does not exceed an alarm threshold value, and said transmitter further includes means for generating a second coded signal to adjust the warning threshold value, said controller responsive to the receipt of the second coded signal to adjust the stored warning threshold value.

An electronic remote control vehicle security system with remote programmability of sensor sensitivity, comprising:

• a sensor device responsive to a disturbance phenomenon to provide a sensor signal indicative of a disturbance event;
• alarm apparatus for generating an alarm response in the event the sensor device is tripped by a disturbance event while the system is armed;
• a wireless remote control transmitter for transmitting wireless remote signals to control functions of the security system, said transmitter including a circuit for transmitting a coded signal to adjust the sensitivity of the sensor to disturbance events;
• a receiver mounted within the vehicle for receiving the wireless remote signals and generating receiver signals in response to said receipt;
• a sensitivity adjustment circuit responsive to the receiver signals and receipt of the coded signal to adjust the sensitivity of the sensor to disturbance events,
• wherein the sensitivity adjustment circuit is responsive to receipt of the coded signal only when the system is in a disarmed mode.

An electronic remote control vehicle security system, comprising:

• a user programmable sensor device responsive to a disturbance phenomenon to provide a sensor signal indicative of a disturbance event, the sensor device including a sensitivity adjustment circuit responsive to sensor program signals initiated by the user to adjust the sensitivity of the sensor device to the disturbance phenomenon;
• a wireless remote control transmitter for transmitting wireless remote signals initiated by the user to control functions of the security system, said transmitter including a circuit for transmitting a first code to arm or disarm the system and a second code to incrementally adjust the sensitivity of the sensor;
• a receiver mounted within the vehicle for receiving the wireless remote signals and generating receiver signals in response to said receipt;
• a system controller responsive to the sensor signal to generate an alarm when the system is armed, said controller further responsive to the receiver signals to control functions of the system, including apparatus responsive to the first code to arm or disarm the system and apparatus responsive to the second code to generate a sensor program control signal to incrementally adjust the sensitivity of the sensor in response to said user initiated second code.

An electronic remote control vehicle security system, comprising:

• a wireless remote control transmitter for transmitting wireless remote signals to arm or disarm the system;
• a receiver mounted within the vehicle for receiving the wireless remote signals and generating receiver signals in response to said receipt;
• an audio generator for generating audible sounds confirming a change of state of the system;
• a system controller responsive to the receiver signals to arm or disarm the system in response to commands received from the remote transmitter, said controller further responsive to the receiver signals to issue a control signal to said audio generator to generate an audio signal confirming arming or disarming of the system;
• and means to disable said generation of said confirming audio signal during night conditions,
• wherein the means to disable said generation includes a photodetector mounted on the vehicle for monitoring the ambient light conditions, and said controller is responsive to the photodetector signal to disable said generation when said photodetector output indicates darkness.

An electronic vehicle security system for a vehicle having a power door locking system, comprising:

• an alarm;
• apparatus for detecting intrusion attempts and generating intrusion signals in response to said detection;
• a controller for arming the system so that said alarm is activated in response to detected intrusion attempts;
• the controller further comprising means for issuing door lock and unlock commands to lock or unlock the doors under predetermined circumstances;
• and
• polarity programming means for programming the controller to set the polarity of said door lock and unlock commands to match the polarity required by the power door locking system.