Abstract: A key assembly which includes a key shank having a forward portion and a handle portion having an aperture. A shuttle is also included. The shuttle includes first and second substantially planar portions and a center portion connected to the substantially planar portions. A transponder recess is located on the shuttle. The shuttle is configured and dimensioned to mate with the aperture on the handle portion of the key shank. After mating with the aperture, the shuttle rotates within the aperture. After mating with and rotating within the aperture, the shuttle is securely retained within the aperture. A transponder is located within the transponder recess. The transponder receives a wireless interrogation signal and transmitting a wireless response signal in response to the interrogation signal. A key head is formed about the shuttle, transponder, and handle portion of the key shank.

Abstract: A locking latch includes an outer housing and a handle in relative movable engagement with the outer housing. In rigid engagement with the handle is a barrel positioned in the outer housing. A key cylinder is in relative movable engagement with the barrel. The key cylinder is rotatable by a key between locked and unlocked positions in which rotation of the handle is, respectively, inhibited and enabled. A latching member is in movable engagement with the barrel so that rotation of the barrel by the handle induces movement of the latching member to latch and unlatch an access structure of a container. An engaging member is in movable engagement with the key cylinder so that rotation of the key cylinder induces movement of the engaging member between an engaged position where the handle is locked to the outer housing to inhibit rotation of the handle and an unengaged position where rotation of the handle is not inhibited.

Abstract: An assembly method for a vehicle anti-theft key having an embedded resistor pellet is provided. The resistor pellet includes a flange at one end which abuts one side of the key blade when the opposed end of the pellet is inserted into a through opening formed in the shank portion of the key blade. With the resistor pellet loosely positioned within the through opening, a second flange is attached to the end of the pellet that was inserted through the through opening, thereby capturing the pellet within the through opening by the two opposed flanges. In one embodiment, the second flange is formed in place by employing a polymeric molding process, such as a thermoforming injection molding process. A handle for the key is efficiently formed substantially simultaneously with the second flange using the same polymeric molding process.

Abstract: A desk locking mechanism operated by reversible D.C. electric motors and powered by dry cell batteries is controlled by a programmable microprocessor. A column of drawers are locked and unlocked simultaneously by a single, vertical axis motor having a threaded drive shaft to reciprocate a vertically guided locking bar. The microprocessor provides primary and secondary programmable operating codes in a multiplicity of digits with program states signified by distinctive LED flashing sequences.

Abstract: A key lock tumbler cylinder is selectively removed with an extraction key that is longer than a normal operating key. The last tumbler plate in a tabular cylinder series along the cylinder key slot projects into an arcuate channel in the cylinder cavity wall of the lock body. This arcuate channel does not junction with the lock tumbler plate channel but does intersect with a second channel in the cavity wall that is angularly displaced about the cylinder axis from the tumbler plate channel. However, the second channel is more shallow than the arcuate channel to confine the tumbler cylinder within the body cavity when rotated by the operating key which does not engage the last tumbler plate key aperture. A second, tumbler cylinder extraction key that is longer than the operating key includes an edge bit at the end of the key for cooperating with the last tumbler plate key aperture.