Patent ID: 7501931

Claim:
A vehicular remote locking and unlocking control apparatus comprising: unlocking trigger means and locking trigger means, mounted on a door handle on an outer side of a vehicle, manually operable for outputting respective output signals; vehicular transmitting means for transmitting a transmission request signal in response to the output signals from said unlocking trigger means and said locking trigger means; a portable radio terminal for transmitting a response signal in response to the transmission request signal transmitted from said vehicular transmitting means; vehicular receiving means for receiving said response signal; control means for determining whether the response signal received by said vehicular receiving means matches an identification peculiar to the vehicle, and outputting an unlocking signal if the response signal matches the identification peculiar to the vehicle and the output signal is received from said unlocking trigger means, and a locking signal if the response signal matches the identification peculiar to the vehicle and the output signal is received from said locking trigger means; a door lock mechanism for unlocking or locking a door of the vehicle depending on said unlocking signal or said locking signal; and monitoring means for monitoring the output signal from said unlocking trigger means during a period after said locking trigger means has output the output signal and until said control means determines whether the response signal matches the identification peculiar to the vehicle, wherein if said control means judges that said response signal from said portable radio terminal that is transmitted in response to the transmission request signal outputted based on the output signal from said lock trigger means matches the identification peculiar to the vehicle, and during said period said monitoring means detects the output signal from said unlocking trigger means, said control means outputs the unlocking signal, instead of outputting the locking signal.