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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1997
Bernhardt Dilz, Sindelfingen, DE;
Dietbert Kollbach, Esslkingen, DE;
Peter Robitschko, Sindelfingen, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
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.