Door lock system

• US 9,556,663 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2015
• Issued: 01/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamagiwa, Takaaki, Yamazaki, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Torres, Juan A
• Application Number:
  US14/613,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20150218869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.72
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0094 Mechanical aspects of remotely controlled locks
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 81/54 Electrical circuits for locking several wings simultaneously E05B77/48
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 83/40 for sliding doors
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/659 Control circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/10 Electronic control
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/531 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00523 opening of different locks separately
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

If a second operation is performed on a driver'"'"'s seat side button (or a front passenger seat side button) when a door of a vehicle is in a locked state, a controller unlocks the door and then opens a sliding door for a rear seat behind a driver'"'"'s seat (or a front passenger seat). If the second operation is performed on the driver'"'"'s seat side button (or the front passenger seat side button) when the door of the vehicle is in an unlocked state and the sliding door for the rear seat behind the driver'"'"'s seat or the front passenger seat is in an opened state, the controller closes the sliding door and then locks the door.

Claims

1. A door lock system for locking and unlocking a door of a vehicle provided with a sliding door for a rear seat, comprising:

an operation unit provided on at least one of position on or in the vicinity of an outer surface of a door for a driver'"'"'s seat of the vehicle and position on or in the vicinity of an outer surface of a door for a front passenger seat, the operation unit accepting a first operation of locking or unlocking the door of the vehicle and a second operation different from the first operation;

a door lock device that unlocks the door;

a door controller that opens the sliding door; and

a controller that controls the door lock device and the door controller,

wherein the controller only unlocks the door by the door lock device if the operation unit accepts the first operation when the door is in a locked state, and unlocks the door by the door lock device and opens only the sliding door located behind the door provided with the operation unit accepting the second operation by the door controller if the operation unit accepts the second operation when the door is in the locked state, and

wherein the operation unit is not provided on the sliding door.

2. The door lock system according to claim 1, wherein

the controller closes the sliding door by the door controller, and then

locks the door by the door lock device if the operation unit accepts the second operation when the sliding door is in an opened state.

3. The door lock system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a vehicle key that includes a memory unit storing authentication information assigned to the vehicle, and a transmission unit transmitting, by wireless, the authentication information stored in the memory unit;

a wireless reception unit receiving, by wireless, the authentication information transmitted by the vehicle key; and

an authentication unit determining whether or not the authentication information received by the wireless reception unit is appropriate, wherein

the controller unlocks the door by the door lock device if the authentication unit determines that the authentication information is appropriate.

4. The door lock system according to claim 1, wherein the operation unit is an operation button accepting a pressing operation.

5. The door lock system according to claim 1, wherein the operation unit is a sensor accepting a touch operation or a proximity operation.

6. The door lock system according to claim 1, wherein

the operation unit accepts a third operation different from the first operation and the second operation, and

if the operation unit provided on the driver'"'"'s seat side or the front passenger seat side accepts the third operation, the controller opens both sliding doors provided for rear seats on the driver'"'"'s seat side and the front passenger seat side by the door controller.

7. The door lock system according to claim 4, wherein

the first operation is an operation in which a continuous pressing time for the operation button is shorter than a prescribed time, and

the second operation is an operation in which the continuous pressing time for the operation button is equal to or longer than the prescribed time.

8. The door lock system according to claim 5, wherein

the first operation is an operation in which a continuous touching time or a continuous approximating time to the sensor is shorter than a prescribed time, and

the second operation is an operation in which the continuous touching time or the continuous approximating time to the sensor is equal to or longer than the prescribed time.