Patent ID: 9566944
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B60K,B60R

Claim:
1. A fuel anti-theft system for a vehicle possessing a fuel system further compressing a plurality of fluid entry points, the fuel anti-theft system comprising: a plurality of sensors of a pre-selected number positioned on a corresponding number of the fluid entry points, each sensor defining a secure state and a potentially tampered-with state, the potentially tampered-with state indicative of the sensor being absent, wherein actual states of the sensors combine to create an actual combined state of the sensors, the secure states of the pre-selected number of sensors combining to create a combined secure state of the pre-selected number of sensors; a controller in electrical communication with the sensors and being configured to sense the actual combined state of the sensors and to determine whether the actual combined state of the sensors is the combined secure state of the pre-selected number of sensors and to generate a signal responsive thereto whereby the signal indicates whether all of the pre-selected number of sensors are secure; and an output configured to output the signal indicative of whether all of the pre-selected number of sensors are secure.