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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2003
Juergen Hoetzel, Florstadt, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A system for verifying the access authorization to a vehicle has a vehicle-based transceiver unit which has at least two transmitting/receiving antennas spaced a distance apart in or on the vehicle, and it has a transponder unit which is set up for detection of its presence and for exchanging a predetermined identification request/response sequence through or with the transceiver unit within a predetermined detection area in or around the vehicle, wherein the transceiver unit has calculation/analyzing means which perform the detection of a position of the transponder unit by using a time and/or phase measurement based on a mathematical geometric method in response to a reply signal transmitted by the transponder and received by the at least two transmitting/receiving antennas in response to the identification request.