METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION OF VEHICLE AND ITS PARTS Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: automotive industry. SUBSTANCE: peculiarity of offered invention is provision of special marking applied in form of visible and invisible alphanumeric code patterns on preselected places on main parts and units of vehicle in strict compliance with preliminarily worked out route map and loading of vehicle code and route map cipher into data banks of manufacturer and traffic police services. Owner receives special document (coupon) stating that the car has been coded in strict compliance with previously worked out route map. Stated in coupon are data on code pattern making and application method which can be used in identification of vehicle. Other peculiarity of this method is possibility of employment of additional code to be applied by Owner. This code pattern and place of its application are also entered into data bank. EFFECT: prevention of unauthorized use of vehicle. 7 cl, 4 dwg