Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Timed independent vehicle secure compartment access
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Application No.: US14721214Application Date: 2015-05-26
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Publication No.: US09656629B2Publication Date: 2017-05-23
- Inventor: Arie Groeneveld , Daniel M. King , Steven Skikun , Robert Kern , William Michael Gardner , Steven Erno , Patricia Seashore
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Agent Frank A. MacKenzie
- Main IPC: B60R25/01
- IPC: B60R25/01 ; B60R25/24

Abstract:
An access system for a vehicle may include a controller. The controller may be configured to respond to receiving an unlock signal indicative of an unlock request by causing a compartment closure to unlock for a predetermined time. Or the controller may be configured to respond to receiving an unlock signal indicative of an unlock request and a vehicle operation signal indicative of a vehicle secure state by causing a compartment closure to unlock for a predetermined time. Upon expiration of the predetermined time, the controller may cause the compartment closure to lock. The controller may be configured to respond to receiving an unlatch signal indicative of an unlatch request during the predetermined time by causing the compartment closure to unlatch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160347279A1 TIMED INDEPENDENT VEHICLE SECURE COMPARTMENT ACCESS Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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