Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Hiroaki Iwashita

Daisuke Kawamura

Tetsuya Egawa

Masaki Hayashi

Toshihiro Nagae

Yoshiyuki Mizuno

Hideki Kawai

Masahiro Arakawa

Masaki Oshima

Keiji Yamamoto

Masayuki Yurimoto

Masahiko Oya

Kenji Tanaka

Hidenobu Hanaki

Hisashi Kato

Tomomi Shimizu

Mikihisa Araki

Kazunori Arakawa

Jun Shionoya

Kazuki Naiki

Yuichi Inami

Kohei Kishimoto

Yoshiyuki Oya

Yosuke Ohashi

Kenichi Koga

Tatsuya Koike

Yoshiki Oishi

Ryuta Atsumi

Shinichi Koga

Takahiro Shimizu

Takeo Endo

Kazukuni Kobara

Yutaka Kubo

Hiromitsu Mizuno

Kiyotoshi Sekine

Yuuki Nawa

Akihito Kimura

Kota Nishida

Tomohiro Ito

Kouhei Kishimoto

Kyohei Takeuchi

Chihiro Tatebayashi

Tadayuki Tobimatsu

An authentication system is provided with: a first input unit and a second input unit into which authentication information can be input; a first computing unit which performs computation on the basis of the authentication information input into the first input unit and a communication counterpart-side authentication parameter registered in a communication counterpart; a second computing unit which performs computation on the basis of the authentication information input into the second input unit and a portable terminal-side authentication parameter registered in a portable terminal; and authentication units which, if the authentication information has been input into the first or the second input unit, perform authentication on the basis of the result of computation by corresponding computing unit and the portable terminal-side authentication parameter.

Authentication system and authentication method

This key information generation system generates key information necessary when using a shared device and imparts this key information to a mobile terminal. Authentication is performed between a mobile terminal which has imported key information, and an authentication device provided to the device, and if said authentication is successful, the mobile terminal enables operation of the device via the authentication device. The key information generation system includes: an information management unit which manages, by associating with one another, individual information for the authentication device, a key information generating code, and usage information pertaining to the use of the authentication device; and a key information generation unit which specifies a key information generation code from the individual information and usage information managed by being associated with one another by the information management unit, and generates key information on the basis of the key information generation code.

Key information generation system and key information generation method

An authentication system includes an authentication unit that performs an authentication process between a first communication device and a second communication device when the first communication device and the second communication device communicate. The authentication unit performs the authentication process by transmitting authentication information from one of the first communication device and the second communication device to the other one, calculating the authentication information with an encryption code in each of the first communication device and the second communication device, and evaluating a calculation result. During a processing series in the authentication process, the authentication unit performs a first authentication based on part of the calculation result transmitted between the first and second communication device, and a second authentication based on another part of the calculation result transmitted between the first and second communication device.

Authentication system

An electronic key system determines that legitimate communication has been performed on the basis of conditions including that a measured distance from a ranging request unit to a ranging response unit measured on the basis of a ranging request signal and a ranging response signal is within a threshold range that is set on the basis of the distance from a communication area of a transmission antenna where an electronic key is determined to be located by a key location determination unit to one of either the ranging request unit or the ranging response unit that is provided in an on-board device.

Electronic key system

This key information generation system generates key information required when using a shared vehicle, and imparts this key information to a mobile terminal. Authentication is performed between a mobile terminal containing the imparted key information, and an authentication device provided to a vehicle, and if said authentication is successful, the mobile terminal enables operation of the vehicle via the authentication device. The key information generation system includes: an information management unit which manages, by associating with one another, individual information for the authentication device, a key information generation code, and usage information pertaining to the use of the authentication device; and a key information generation unit which specifies a key information generation code from individual information and usage information managed by being associated with one another by the information management unit, and generates key information on the basis of the key information generation code.

A car sharing system includes a car sharing device installed in a vehicle. The car sharing device is configured to perform ID verification via an electronic key system of the vehicle in a state in which key information registered to the mobile terminal has been authenticated to allow an onboard device to be operated by the mobile terminal. The car sharing system includes a key function unit that implements a smart function to perform the ID verification through bidirectional short-range wireless communication with the electronic key system, a determination processing unit that determines whether or not a condition for permitting actuation of the smart function has been satisfied, and an actuation switching unit that validates the smart function if the condition for permitting actuation of the smart function has been satisfied.

Car sharing system

A portable electronic key device starts up only when movement of the portable electronic key device is present on the basis of detection signal Sac of a motion detector. A communication monitoring unit monitors whether or not radio waves Swk periodically transmitted from a vehicle are received. When there is no movement of the portable electronic key device but the portable electronic key device has received or is receiving radio waves from the vehicle, an operation controller maintains the start-up state of the portable electronic key device.

Mobile electronic key device and electronic key system

This electronic key system includes: an electronic key which is enabled to engage in radio communication with a vehicle on condition that a vibration is detected by a vibration detection part; and the vehicle which has an on-board control part for starting an engine on condition that the radio communication with the electronic key is established, and a push switch installed in the vehicle is operated. The on-board control part causes the vehicle to be vibrated by the engine on condition that the push switch is operated.

There are provided a buckle switch that detects an insertion of a tongue into a buckle of a seatbelt and an ejection of the tongue from the buckle, a signal transmitting section that wirelessly transmits a signal showing a state of the buckle switch, and an attaching detection control unit that controls the signal transmitting section such that the signal transmitting section transmits different signals that correspond to a first time lasting from the insertion of the tongue into the buckle until the ejection of the tongue from the buckle or a second time lasting from the ejection of the tongue from the buckle until the insertion of the tongue into the buckle.

Wireless seatbelt attaching detection device

An electronic key registration system includes an electronic key and a communication master. The electronic key transmits a registration code. The communication master receives the registration code from the electronic key, obtains key information using the registration code, and registers the key information. The registration code is set in accordance with the communication master to which the electronic key is registered. The communication master includes a level determination unit, which determines a key registration security level when the electronic key is registered to the communication master, and a registration execution unit, which obtains the key information using the registration code based on the determined key registration security level and registers the key information to the communication master.

Electronic key registration system

A method for registering a first electronic key, which is capable of controlling a communication subject, to a controller of the communication subject, the method including: performing an initial production process including storing identification information unique to the communication subject in the controller, and storing an encryption key generation code unique to the first electronic key and an encryption key that is used to verify the first electronic key in the first electronic key; and performing an initial registration process including writing the identification information stored in the controller to the first electronic key, obtaining the encryption key generation code from the first electronic key, generating the encryption key with an encryption key generation logic that uses the encryption key generation code, storing the encryption key in the controller, and storing encryption key information related to the encryption key in a database in association with the identification information.

Electronic key registration method and electronic key registration system

A method for registering an electronic key includes storing an electronic key ID and an encryption code in a controller to register the electronic key to the controller, and associating a communication subject ID, which is unique to a communication subject, with a controller ID, which is unique to the controller storing the electronic key ID and the encryption code, and the electronic key ID.

An immobilizer ECU generates an encryption key using key generating logic, from a SEED code included in an ID code signal sent from an electronic key, and registers the encryption key to the immobilizer ECU. The immobilizer ECU receives an instruction from a registration and deletion tool and sends, to the electronic key, a deletion request signal that requests the deletion of the SEED code. The electronic key deletes the SEED code from the electronic key if a deletion request signal has been received.

Portable device registration system and portable device registration method

A method for registering first and second electronic keys, which are capable of controlling a communication subject, to a controller of the communication subject, wherein the first electronic key is to be initially registered, and the second electronic key is to be additionally registered, the method including: performing an additional key production process including storing, in the second electronic key, an additional encryption key generation code unique to the second electronic key and an additional encryption key that is used to verify the second electronic key; and performing a key additional registration process including obtaining the additional encryption key generation code from the second electronic key when identification information unique to the communication subject is stored in the second electronic key, generating the additional encryption key with an additional encryption key generation logic, and storing the additional encryption key in the controller.

A wireless communications system that regularly executes verification between an electronic key and an immobilizer ECU, and sends and receives deletion request signals unrelated to verification, between the electronic key and the immobilizer ECU. The sending and receiving of deletion request signals is executed at intervals between the regularly executed verifications.

Growing community of inventors

Aichi, Japan

Hiroaki Iwashita