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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307 105 ; 180287 ;
Abstract
In a vehicle antitheft system having an immobilizer unit which reads in an identification code generated by and transmitted from an ignition key of the type having a built-in signal transmitter, an ID code of a first ignition key is tentatively stored in the immobilizer unit until different ID codes of first and second ignition keys are registered even in the event where ID code entry operation is interrupted before registration of the first and second keys' ID codes during an entry of the first ignition key ID code and is resumed with the second ignition key.