(19)
(11) EP 1 408 185 A8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
25.08.2004 Bulletin 2004/35

(43) Date of publication:
14.04.2004 Bulletin 2004/16

(21) Application number: 03022967.8

(22) Date of filing: 09.10.2003
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: E05B 65/20, G07C 9/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK

(30) Priority: 09.10.2002 JP 2002296812

(71) Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8556 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Ueda, Shinichi, KK Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama-ken 351-0193 (JP)
  • Arie, Shinichi, KK Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama-ken 351-0193 (JP)
  • Yoshimura, Kentaro, KK Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama-ken 351-0193 (JP)
  • Asakura, Suguru, KK Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama-ken 351-0193 (JP)
  • Kamikura, Akira, KK Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama-ken 351-0193 (JP)
  • Sawada, Kenichi, KK Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama-ken 351-0193 (JP)

(74) Representative: Prechtel, Jörg, Dipl.-Phys. Dr. et al
Weickmann & Weickmann Patentanwälte Postfach 86 08 20
81635 München
81635 München (DE)

   


(54) Vehicular door lock remote control apparatus


(57) When a door sensor (20) is touched, a vehicle-mounted unit (16) and a portable unit (18) performs mutual communications for authentication, and the doors are unlocked. When the door sensor (20) is touched without intending to unlock the doors, wasteful consumption of electric energy is avoided which would otherwise result from mutual communications for authentication triggered by a request signal. When the door sensor (20) may possibly be operated not for the purpose of unlocking the doors, e.g., when a CPU (30) detects the doors as being already unlocked from a signal outputted from a door lock knob switch (26), a request signal is inhibited from being transmitted from the vehicle-mounted unit (16) to the portable unit (18).