Patent ID: 8010166

Claim:
A handsfree apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a cellular phone communication device configured to receive, in a state of establishing a communication link with a cellular phone, an incoming notice signal from the cellular phone in connection with an incoming signal having been received by the cellular phone from a communication network; a control circuit configured to execute a handsfree incoming control when the cellular phone communication device receives the incoming notice signal from the cellular phone in a control executable state where the handsfree incoming control is executable; an incoming notice device configured to give an incoming notice for indicating that an incoming signal is being received, an incoming history acquisition device configured to acquire an incoming history for indicating that the cellular phone having received an incoming signal from the communication network; and an incoming history notice device configured to give a notice of the acquired incoming history, an answer suspension notice device configured to give an answer suspension notice for indicating that an answer to an incoming signal is being suspended, wherein when the cellular phone communication device receives from the cellular phone an incoming notice signal relative to an incoming signal in a control inexecutable state where the handsfree incoming control is inexecutable because an audio output device and an audio input device are being used dedicatedly for other than a handsfree call, the control circuit is further configured to give a suspension notice for indicating that an answer to the incoming signal is being suspended, via the answer suspension notice device; when the handsfree incoming control is switched from the control inexecutable state to the control executable state after the incoming signal finishes after the answer suspension notice is given via the answer suspension notice device, the control circuit is further configured to automatically give, via the incoming history notice, a notice of the incoming history acquired by the incoming history acquisition device; and when the handsfree incoming control is switched from the control inexecutable state to the control executable while the incoming signal continues being received after the answer suspension notice is given via the answer suspension notice device, the control circuit is further configured to give, via the incoming notice device, an incoming notice for indicating that the incoming signal is being received.