Patent ID: 6776448
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: E05B,E05F,E05Y

Abstract:
A vehicle door apparatus for opening and closing a vehicle door, comprising:a drive mechanism for driving the door from an open state to a closed state; a closure mechanism including a striker provided at the vehicle body and a latch provided at the door for engaging with the striker so as to lock the door, the striker being positioned within a region where the striker is engageable with the latch when the drive mechanism drives the door in a closing direction, the latch being driven to engage with the striker and shifted to a final locked position by the closure mechanism; a control mechanism for controlling operations of the drive mechanism and the closure mechanism based on a door closing command; a detection means for detecting the striker to be positioned within the region where the striker is engageable with the latch; and a drive force decreasing mechanism provided in the control mechanism for decreasing an output of the drive mechanism after the detecting means detects that the striker is positioned within the region where the striker is engageable with the latch.