Patent ID: 7483784
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: B60R,F02N

Abstract:
1. An engine starting system for regularly starting an engine mounted on a propelled object, comprising: power activating means; an engine control unit; equipment on the propelled object side; steering unlocking means; alarming means; a switch capable of being manually actuated; which are mounted on the propelled object; and portable equipment possessed by a driver of the propelled object; the equipment on the propelled object side transmitting an inquiry signal including a collation code in response to an actuation signal of the switch, the portable equipment transmitting an answer signal including a cipher code corresponding to the inquiry signal to the equipment on the propelled object side, the equipment on the propelled object side unlocking the steering unlocking means while causing the engine control unit to operate by activating the power activating means in a case where the answer signal corresponds to the inquiry signal, thereby allowing the engine to start, wherein the equipment on the propelled object side includes actuation signal refusing means which avoids responding to the actuation signal from the switch for a third predetermined time in at least one of the states where a number of actuation signals successively transmitted from the switch without producing an answer signal thereto has become equal to or larger than a prescribed number of times predetermined in a first predetermined time period and where the actuation signal has been kept tuned ON for a period equal to or longer than a second predetermined time period without producing an answer signal thereto.