Abstract: An integration module connected to the output of a vehicle controller on the one end and wire harnesses originally connected to the vehicle controller on the other. A circuit board connecting the input and the output of the integration module connections, wherein one or more of the connections is to a primary path controlling one or more functions or inputs of a user control or appliance or function in the vehicle such as a door, window or trunk. A supplemental path connected to the primary path on the one end and a connector of the integration module on the other. Said connector joined with a wire harness connecting the integration module and a supplemental controller such as a security system or a keyless entry system. The above structure allowing the installer to employ the integration module providing some or all connections to the primary paths necessary to control certain vehicle functions or appliances without having to isolate and splice into said primary paths individually.

Abstract: A method of indicating a degree of incoming threat to an electronically secured area comprising the steps of sensor sensing a degree of threat delivered to a secured area and generating an electric signal proportional to the degree of threat; analyzing the signal to determine if it is a low degree of threat or a high degree of threat; and producing either a first pulse representing low degree of threat or separately producing the first pulse and a second pulse representing a signal having both low degree of threat and high degree of threat.

Abstract: A system for monitoring and controlling an area comprising a controller for controlling system operational functions and responsive to at least one remote-control transmitter. The transmitter transmits system commands to the controller in a code word having a fixed word and a hopping word therein. The fixed and hopping words are scrambled using a format word resident in the transmitter and sent to the controller only during a learn mode.

Abstract: A remotely controllable vehicle system for generating a response to an incoming threat to a secured area and/or control of user selectable convenience features, comprising a wireless transmitter having at least one switch for generating and transmitting a signal encoded with a code word having at least one identification word; a receiver for receiving the signal; a decoder for decoding the code word from the signal; a controller responsive to a command word embedded in the code word only if an identification word, embedded in the code word, is identical to at least one authorized identification word stored in a memory accessible to the controller; a learn mode for programming a new identification word of a new transmitter in the memory as an authorized identification word only if multiple groups of the code words are transmitted from the transmitter and received by the controller.

Abstract: A system for monitoring and controlling an area comprising a controller for controlling system operational functions; at least one remote-control transmitter for transmitting system commands to the controller in a code word having a fixed word and a hopping word therein; the fixed word comprising at least one fixed data bit and the hopping word comprising at least one changing data bit, wherein the hopping word changes its binary value from transmission to transmission of the system commands; and, means for scrambling bits of the fixed word and bits of the hopping word within the code word.

Abstract: A vehicle convenience system comprising a wireless transmitter, having at least one switch therein, for communicating multiple channel commands to an expander, the expander responsive to activation of the transmitter and said expander having at least one expander output responsive to the channel commands received from the transmitter; the expander outputs being programmable to at least one user selectable mode.

Abstract: A security system for monitoring a protected area and sounding an alarm including a plurality of sensors arranged about a protected area for sensing incoming threat, device for generating at least one pulse for each sensor activated by the incoming threat to the area, an alarm controller for receipt of the pulses and sounding of an alert, and a single wire connecting outputs of the sensors to the controller for transmitting the pulses generated by the plurality of sensors to the controller.

Abstract: A system for monitoring and controlling an area comprising a controller for controlling system operational functions; at least one remote-control transmitter for transmitting system commands to the controller in a code word having a fixed word and a hopping word therein; the fixed word comprising at least one fixed data bit and the hopping word comprising at least one changing data bit, wherein the hopping word changes its binary value from transmission to transmission of the system commands; and, means for scrambling bits of the fixed word and bits of the hopping word within the code word.

Abstract: A system for monitoring and controlling an area comprising a controller for controlling system operational functions; at least one remote control transmitter for transmitting at least one system command to said controller in a code word having a fixed word and a hopping word therein; the fixed word having an identification code for selective control of the controller, the identification code programmed therein, and a channel code for issuing high and low security commands to the controller; a hopping algorithm for modifying the hopping code of the transmitter n-times in response to n-times activation of said transmitter and for modifying the hopping word m-times within the controller upon receipt of the code word m-times from said transmitter; and, a bypass mode for bypassing the code hopping algorithm and for controlling system functions in response to the controller receiving the low security command.

Abstract: A security system for monitoring a protected area and sounding an alarm including a plurality of sensors arranged about a protected area for sensing incoming threat, device for generating at least one pulse for each sensor activated by the incoming threat to the area, an alarm controller for receipt of the pulses and sounding of an alert, and a single wire connecting outputs of the sensors to the controller for transmitting the pulses generated by the plurality of sensors to the controller.

Abstract: A battery adapter for charging a spare cellular telephone battery in a vehicle charging unit, the adapter comprising a charging unit, having first power supply connections positioned for electrical coupling with corresponding second connections of a battery for use with a cellular telephone and a clip having an anchored biased pivot end and a hook end, wherein the hook end is resiliently movable about the pivot end for urging the hook end into a corresponding cavity of the cellular telephone for retainment of the cellular telephone in the charging unit and for urging the first and second power supply connections together to maintain electrical coupling thereof.

Abstract: A remote control transmitter comprising at least one transmission channel for transmitting a code word to a system controller and for operating system operational functions controllable thereby; a plurality of transmission channel groups, each group having at least one transmission channel therein; at least one switch for activation of the transmitter, said switch having an operational mode and a standby mode; means for transmitting the code word to the controller and activated upon transition of the switch from the operational mode to the standby mode; and, using the same switch or switches both for selecting the channel group and for transmitting channel commands.

Abstract: A method of indicating a degree of incoming threat to an electronically secured area consists of the steps of sensing via sensor a degree of threat delivered to a secured area and generating an electric signal proportional to the degree of threat; analyzing the signal to determine if it is a low degree of threat or a high degree of threat; and producing either a first pulse representing low degree of threat or separately producing the first pulse and a second pulse representing a signal having both low degree of threat and high degree of threat.

Abstract: A method of indicating the threat level of an incoming shock to an electronically secured vehicle and eliminating spurious signals developed from the interaction of EMF and RF energy fields with the shock sensor including the steps of sensing a shock delivered to the vehicle indicative of an attempted intrusion, generating an electric signal the strength of which is proportional to the intensity of the shock, analyzing the signal to determine if it is of a low, generally non-threatening intensity or a higher, generally security-threatening intensity, ignoring the first 5 milliseconds of the signal produced by the shock sensor, ignoring all signals that do not disappear and later reappear, and producing either a first pulse representing a low intensity signal, or separate first and second pulses representing a signal containing both low intensity and higher intensity components.