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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:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tokyo R & D Co., Ltd., Toyko, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 2/510 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 2/510 ;
Abstract
An electric vehicle ( ) including a rechargeable secondary battery ( ), an electric motor ( ) for driving a running section such as wheels and the like and a controller ( ) for conducting control to drive the electric motor by electric power from the secondary battery ( ) is provided with a nonvolatile memory ( ) for storing a password, a display and operation unit ( ) for inputting a password, means (the controller ( ) may also serve) for bringing the vehicle into a state capable of being driven only when the password inputted through the display and operation unit ( ) matches the password stored in the memory ( ).