ES2289921B1 - INHIBITOR DEVICE FOR THE OPERATION OF MOBILE PHONES IN VEHICLES. - Google Patents

Abstract

Device for inhibiting the operation of mobile phones in vehicles comprising the installation in the vehicle of an appropriate frequency and power band wave generator to interfere with the mobile phone's own waves in the passenger compartment of the vehicle in cooperation with at least one element Transmitter with sufficient interference waves towards said area. The device is completed with a self-activating element of the wave generator, associated with an element of necessary operation of the vehicle's engine in order to establish its activation only simultaneously with the operation of the motor.

Description

Device for inhibiting the operation of Mobile phones in vehicles.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a mobile phone function inhibitor device in vehicles.

Background of the invention

Recent studies (2006) about the causes of traffic accidents in Spain have quantified the distractions as a direct or concurrent cause, and as one of the circumstances that cause 39% of accidents in our country.

In the last 10 years and coinciding with the boom in mobile phone use in Spain, have grown by 75% you mislead them as a trigger for accidents.

There is a growing and unanimous feeling in the  European Union countries of the need to adopt measures that are genuinely effective to ensure the non-use of the mobile phone while driving motor vehicles.

However, it is still without adopt these measures, and incidents and accidents are followed producing

These inconveniences are corrected with the use of the device of the invention.

Description of the invention

The device of the invention represents a huge opportunity to materialize a security team that prevent the use of the mobile phone in motor vehicles, and ensure the safety of free driving of distractions that mobile phone use causes, as it has It has been demonstrated in an objective and worrying way.

According to the invention, the device is  constituted by three elements or components:

- A wave generator installed in the vehicle, capable of generating waves in the ranges or bands of frequency suitable to interfere the waves of the mobile telephony in any of its variants and types: GSM, GPS, UMT, etc.

- One or more wave transmitting elements interferers into the interior of the vehicle, and connected to the wave generator. Both the number and arrangement these transmitting elements as the generator power of waves will be conveniently sized to get the blocking or interference of mobile phone waves in a Convenient reach covering the interior of the passenger compartment vehicle with sufficiency, but trying to affect the minimum possible measure outside.

- A self-activating element of the generator  waves, element that is associated with an element of necessary vehicle engine operation so that the telephony wave inhibition or interference occurs only if the vehicle's engine is running, which really It is when its effect is necessary. This allows, on the one hand the use of mobile telephony with the engine stopped, as well as the operation of other devices operated by remote control by radiofrequency, such as integrated closures, systems Burglar or other vehicle alarms or any system of Remote signal inhibitor security.

For example, the element of necessary cited engine operation may consist of the alternator of the  engine, valid for all types of engines, or in the system Engine ignition, valid for gasoline engines.

In this way, and whenever the engine of the vehicle is running, interference or blocking occurs mobile phone waves in the passenger compartment and the inhibition of operation of mobile phones in this area, since no They can establish communication.

Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 shows a schematic view of the device of the invention.

Description of a practical embodiment of the invention

The device 1 of the invention is consisting of a wave generator 2 installed in a vehicle 3,  said waves having the appropriate frequency band for interfere mobile phone waves of any type and variants.

Wave generator 2 is connected to, at less, an antenna 5 or wave transmitter element inside of passenger compartment 4 of vehicle 3. The arrangement and number of antennas, as well as the power of the wave generator 2, will be the suitable to adequately interfere with telephone waves mobile inside the cabin, but trying to minimize the maximum effects outside the passenger compartment.

The device is provided with an element 6 of autoactivation, connected to alternator 7 of the vehicle, in order to establish its activation only when the vehicle's engine is running, which is when a driver distraction It can cause an accident. Therefore the device remains otherwise disabled which allows not only to set Telephone communications when engine is stopped, but avoid interfere with vehicle systems that employ transmissions of radio frequency, such as integral locking systems or alarms Anti-theft with remote control. It could also, in case of gasoline vehicles, associate the element of self-activation with engine ignition system.

Since the wave generator 2 is an element conducive to overheating, the invention has provided a system of refrigeration 8 therefor, preferably associated with own means of cooling the engine or equipment of the vehicle, and that can be implemented in multiple ways. By way of enunciative example and in no case limiting the invention this cooling system 8 can consist of a radiator on which a flow of refrigerated air supplied by the vehicle compressor air conditioning machine, or a flow of air channeled from the outside. Or you can also consist of an exchanger connected to the system liquid cooling of the engine.

Describe sufficiently the nature of the invention, as well as how to perform it in practice, should be noted that the provisions indicated above and represented in the attached drawings are susceptible to modifications of detail as long as they do not alter the principle fundamental.

Claims (6)

1. Device inhibiting the operation of mobile phones in vehicles; characterized in that it comprises the installation in the vehicle of a wave generator of appropriate frequency and power bands to interfere with the mobile phone's own waves in the passenger compartment of the vehicle in cooperation with at least one transmitting element with sufficiency of the interfering waves towards said area; The device is completed with a self-activation element of the wave generator, associated with an element of necessary operation of the vehicle's engine in order to establish its activation only simultaneously with the operation of the engine. 2. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the element of necessary operation of the vehicle's engine may consist of the
alternator. 3. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the element of necessary operation of the vehicle engine may consist of the ignition system in gasoline engines. 4. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that a cooling system of the wave emitter is provided. 5. Device according to claim 4 characterized in that the cooling system of the wave emitter consists of a radiator on which a flow of refrigerated air supplied by the air conditioning machine of the vehicle or channeled outside is affected. 6. Device according to claim 4 characterized in that the cooling system of the wave emitter consists of an exchanger connected to the liquid cooling system of the engine.