Patent ID: 7397146

Claim:
A child lock apparatus capable of electrically controlling a child lock function, which disables a door opening operation when a door of a vehicle is opened from a vehicle cabin side by operating a door inner handle, said door being provided with an automatic opening/closing means for automatically opening and closing the door, the child lock apparatus comprising: a child lock mechanism which child-locks the door; a driving condition detector; and a controller which controls the child lock mechanism based on driving conditions of the vehicle detected by the driving condition detector; said controller including: a means for central processing a signal from the driving condition detector to determine when the vehicle is running and for central processing a signal from the automatic opening/closing means to determine when operation of the automatic opening/closing means is prohibited; and a means for controlling the child lock mechanism to child-lock the door when one of said central processing means determines that the vehicle is running and that operation of the automatic opening/closing means is prohibited.