Patent ID: 11933096
Assignee: KIA CORPORATION
Field: Civil engineering (Other fields)
Classification: CPC E  B | IPC B  E

Claim 0:
1. A window control apparatus of a vehicle, the window control apparatus comprising:
a sensor configured to collect state information related to the vehicle; and
a controller configured to subdivide an entire short drop section of a frameless window provided in the vehicle into a plurality of short drop sections, and to perform a transition of the frameless window between a full closed state of the frameless window and a plurality of shot drop states corresponding to the plurality of shot drop sections, according to the state information related to the vehicle,
wherein the plurality of shot drop states includes a first short drop state and a second short drop state, and
wherein the controller is configured to divide a state of the frameless window into the full closed state in which the frameless window is drawn into a pocket of a frame provided on a body of the vehicle and is in close contact with the pocket, the first short drop state in which the frameless window is dropped by a reference value from the pocket of the frame, and the second shot drop state in which the frameless window is completely separated from the pocket of the frame,
wherein the controller is configured to perform a transition of the frameless window from the full closed state to the first short drop state when a door unlocking of the vehicle is detected, a transition of the frameless window from the first short drop state to the second short drop state when the controller determines that a user starts to manipulate an outside door handle of the vehicle, a transition of the frameless window from the second short drop state to the first short drop state when a door closing of the vehicle is detected, and a transition of the frameless window from the first short drop state to the full closed state when a door locking of the vehicle is detected.