Patent ID: 6400255
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: B60R,G07C

Abstract:
A vehicle lock apparatus having a wireless door lock function for remotely controlling a locked/unlocked state of a vehicle and an immobilizing function for switching a state of the vehicle between an active state and an inactive state, said vehicle lock apparatus comprising:a portable wireless transmitting unit having first code transmitting means for transmitting a first code signal set in accordance with a first method and second code transmitting means for transmitting a second code signal set in accordance with a second method; wireless door lock means for switching the locked/unlocked state of the vehicle when the first code signal, transmitted by the first code transmitting means, corresponds to a vehicle code; immobilizing means for switching the state of the vehicle from the inactive state to the active state when the second code signal, transmitted by the second code transmitting means, corresponds to the vehicle code; and the portable wireless transmitting unit including function selecting means for selectively activating one of said wireless door lock means and said immobilizing means, wherein, when one of the wireless door lock function and the immobilizing function is activated by one of the first code signal and the second code signal, the transmission of the other of the first code signal and the second code signal by a corresponding one of the first code transmitting means and the second code transmitting means is inhibited.