US 12,447,926 B2
Device for activating a vehicle function
Guilherme Germano Buchmeier, Toulouse (FR); Brahim Aloui, Toulouse (FR); and Grégory Siguier, Toulouse (FR)
Assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH, Hannover (DE)
Filed by Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Hannover (DE)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/523,063.
Claims priority of application No. 2213301 (FR), filed on Dec. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0198959 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. B60R 25/24 (2013.01)
CPC B60R 25/24 (2013.01) [B60R 2325/103 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for activating a vehicle function, the device being intended to be housed on board a vehicle and comprising at least one ultra-wideband communication antenna and at least one near-field communication antenna, comprising windings, in order to communicate with an item of portable equipment carried by a user, the vehicle function being activated based on a location of said item of equipment with respect to the vehicle and on an authentication of the item of equipment, the windings of the near-field communication antenna delimit a perimeter of a receptacle in which the ultra-wideband communication antenna is located.