Patent ID: 7814704
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: E05F,E05Y

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a power slide door of a vehicle to prevent entrapment between the power slide door and a vehicle body by limiting a slidable range of the power slide door, wherein the slide door comprises an operable window and is operable by a user-operated mechanism, the method comprising: moving the power slide door in an opening direction toward a fully open position, the movement of the slide door in the opening direction being stoppable at an intermediate stop position by a stopper as a result of the window being at least partially open, the stopper being a mechanism of the vehicle; judging if entrapment of the moving slide door with a foreign object occurs within a predetermined range, the predetermined range extending from a starting position to a finishing position and including the intermediate stop position between the starting position and the finishing position, the starting position of the predetermined range being different from the fully open position and a fully closed position of the slide door, and the finishing position of the predetermined range being different from the fully open position and the fully closed position of the slide door; moving the slide door a specified distance in a closing direction, which is a direction that is reverse of the opening direction, to a stopped position, the specified distance being less than the distance required to move the slide door to the fully closed position, when it is judged that entrapment of the moving slide door in the predetermined range has occurred; and stopping and holding the slide door at the stopped position in a condition in which, if a predetermined time has not passed, the slide door cannot be moved except when the user-operated mechanism is operated during the predetermined time period.