Daimler Chrysler Ag

Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Licentia Patent-verwaltungs Gmbh

Dietbert Kollbach

Peter Robitschko

Bernhardt Dilz

Johannes Hecht

Christian Schenk

Werner Bloch

Axel-Michael Fruhwald

Roland Ehm

Hardy Strobel

Valentin Hautle

For a transponder arrangement having a transponder arranged on an object, in order to achieve longer ranges than would be possible with a purely field-supplied response mode, the transponder is provided with a chargeable electrical energy store. An inductive supply of energy from a pump circuit situated on the object is used to hold the energy store in a charged state. The transponder arrangement can advantageously be interrogated not only in the active mode now made possible, but also in a passive mode which is known per se and is supplied with power purely by the interrogation field.

Transponder arrangement

A process and an arrangement for shutting down a vehicle by means of a shut-down signal is the result of a shut-down request. During a vehicle-side analysis, a conclusion is drawn from a current vehicle operating condition and/or a current vehicle location according to defined criteria regarding a shut-down site which is safe with respect to traffic and/or a traffic-safe shut-down site is recognized, in which case the shut-down signal is not generated before the current vehicle operating condition represents a traffic-safe shut-down site and/or before the current vehicle location corresponds to a traffic-safe shut-down site.

Method for shutting down a vehicle

In a failsafe method and apparatus for signalling theft for a motor vehicle, an item of theft-signalling information is produced as a function of the signal state of at least one of a plurality of monitoring signals, which are indicative of vehicle states. According to the invention, the theft-signalling information is produced only if the signal states of a plurality of monitoring signals are present in one of one or more prescribed theft-signalling combinations. Each theft-signalling combination comprises one or more signalling conditions, which succeed one another in a specific time sequence and which signalling conditions themselves comprise one or more theft indicative combinations of jointly interrogated signal states of associated monitoring signals.

Method and apparatus for signalling theft for a motor vehicle

In a process for marking industrial products or parts, a plurality of spot welds serve as carriers of characterizing information, especially in encoded information. Information is encoded in said spot welds by varying the position of each weld relative to a reference position.

Process for marking industrial products or parts

An arrangement for identifying a movable object includes a transponder disposed on the movable object and including an electrical memory that can be read out in a wireless manner by an electrical interrogating device which is disposes in proximity of the object. A sensor arrangement is disposed on the object and electrically linked to the transponder for writing a read-out-capable status information into the memory in response to irregular or unauthorized use of the object.

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Esslingen, Germany

Dietbert Kollbach