False Or Picking Key Trapping Patents (Class 70/390)
  • Patent number: 8915107
    Abstract: A locking system is set forth having a key and a lock cylinder. The lock cylinder has a cylinder core journalled in a housing and having a keyway for inserting the key. A plurality of tumblers actuable by the key and an additional blocking element movably arranged in a guide passage of the cylinder core project into the keyway, said additional blocking element being displaceable obliquely or transversely to the direction of insertion of the key. The additional blocking element is made for cooperation with a counter-element arranged at the key blade with a key introduced up to the maximum insertion depth. The counter-element is in this respect arranged in a groove or recess starting from the key tip and extending in the longitudinal direction of the key blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Abus Pfaffenhain GmbH
    Inventors: Jorg Hertel, Thomas Pechmann
  • Patent number: 8848548
    Abstract: Aspects describe utilizing the Internet capability in mobile devices/networks to deliver broadcast multimedia to a device. The broadcast can be video, audio, and so forth. Initially the broadcast multimedia is transmitted at high data rates (and in unicast mode) in order for a buffer associated with mobile device to be built to a very long buffer length. When the long buffer length is reached, the multimedia can be delivered at real-time rates. The multimedia delivered at real times rates can be unicast mode or in multicast mode. If the buffer is depleted, a mobile device that is part of a multicast group can autonomously disassociated from the group until the buffer length is restored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ahmad Jalali, Leonard N. Schiff, William G. Ames
  • Patent number: 8474289
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of locking systems that include a barrel lock. The barrel lock is configured to damage, deface, and/or capture a key that is inserted into the barrel lock. Additionally, some embodiments include a locking mechanism adapter that can allow the locking mechanism to be operated by a key if the user has knowledge about the properties of the barrel lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Southern Company Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Arnold Cory Solomon
  • Publication number: 20090293566
    Abstract: A key locking device for an immobilizer system may include a rotor casing having an inner space therein, a rotor rotatably coupled to the rotor casing in the inner space thereof and having a first key hole formed in a front end of the rotor, a locking member selectively coupling the rotor, the rotor casing, and the vehicle key according to rotation of the vehicle key, and/or the vehicle key to be inserted into the rotor through the first key hole and having a locking notch, so that when the vehicle key is inserted into the rotor through the first key hole and rotated along the rotor casing, the vehicle key activates the locking member to lock the vehicle key to the rotor through the locking notch of the vehicle key such that the vehicle key is prevented from being released from the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Jin Sang CHUNG
  • Patent number: 7350384
    Abstract: A door device equipped with a lock, which prevents forgetting to lock a door and the like, without an electrical warning device. The door device includes a lock allowing a rotating shaft to rotate between an opened position and a closed position by inserting and rotating a key and the key to be extracted only at the closed position, a cam rotating between the opened position and the closed position in linkage with the rotating shaft, and an oscillating strip oscillating between a first position and a second position, thereby contacting a door projection and moving to the first position when the door is closed while moving to the second position when the door is opened. An oscillating projection and a cam projection do not contact when the oscillating strip is in the first position, while they contact when the strip is in the second position. Thus, the cam rotation is suppressed and the lock rotation is restricted in the opened position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazumi Teratani
  • Patent number: 7051563
    Abstract: This Door Key Retention Security System guarantees that a key used to enable operation of a powered door is retained or locked in the invention until the door is, once again, closed. Thus, it requires a person who has authorized access to the key to insert the key and properly turn it in order for a door to be opened. Then, while the door is open, the key is locked in the mechanism and cannot be removed. When the need for the door to be open is ended, the door can be closed and the key removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Key Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: George H. Eckerdt
  • Patent number: 6513357
    Abstract: A customer key actuated lock includes a retention mechanism which prevents counterrotation of the customer key plug to roation from the locked position toward the unlocked position and further includes a release mechanism to disengage the retention mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: CompX International Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald McCurry
  • Patent number: 6119496
    Abstract: A blank for use in fabricating a key for a cylinder lock having a camming projection extending outwardly from a first side of the blade portion of the blank and a recess in the opposite side of the blade portion. The projection and recess are simultaneously formed in a punching operation and have at least one different geometrical parameter whereby the camming projection is not complementary to the recess and/or has a different orientation than the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: International Security Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth T. Theriault
  • Patent number: 5970761
    Abstract: A novel lock system utilizes a cylinder lock and a companion key with a projection extending from one side thereof to improve security. The cylinder lock comprises a shell, a core which is rotatably mounted within the shell and a plurality of pin tumbler stacks normally prevent movement between the shell member and the core. Shear lines are defined between the shell and the core, and also within each tumbler stack. The core also includes an outer surface, a longitudinal keyway and a cut-out which is normally offset from, but alignable with, at least one of the tumbler stacks. A plate member is disposed within the cut-out for movement between a first position, wherein the plate member acts as an extension of the core surface to prevent a tumbler stack from entering the cut-out and a second position, wherein the plate member does not prevent a tumbler stack from entering the cut-out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: International Security Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles W. Eden, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5823030
    Abstract: A key having profile features which include a shaped indentation on a first side of the blade and an aligned projection on the opposite side of the blade cooperates with a cylinder lock with unauthorized key trapping capability. The lock has an auxiliary locking pin which cooperates with the key indentation and a movable plate member which cooperates with the key projection. Both the indentation and projection must be present and properly sized and shaped for a properly bitted key to operate the lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: International Security Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth T. Theriault, Charles W. Eden, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5819567
    Abstract: A novel lock system utilizes a cylinder lock and a companion key with a projection extending from one side thereof to improve security. The cylinder lock comprises a shell, a core which is rotatably mounted within the shell and a plurality of pin tumbler stacks normally prevent movement between the shell member and the core. Shear lines are defined between the shell and the core, and also within each tumbler stack. The core also includes an outer surface, a longitudinal keyway and a cut-out which is normally offset from, but alignable with, at least one of the tumbler stacks. A plate member is disposed within the cut-out for movement between a first position, wherein the plate member acts as an extension of the core surface to prevent a tumbler stack from entering the cut-out and a second position, wherein the plate member does not prevent a tumbler stack from entering the cut-out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: International Security Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles W. Eden, Jr.