Patent ID: 7579708

Claim:
An opening/closing member control apparatus comprising: an opening/closing member; a driving part to drive the opening/closing member to be opened or closed; and a pinching detecting part to detect pinching of a foreign object by the opening/closing member while the opening/closing member is driven to be opened or closed, wherein the pinching detecting part includes: a pinched amount calculating means for calculating an amount of the pinching of the foreign object by the opening/closing member; a pinched amount estimating means for estimating the amount of the pinching before the pinched amount calculating means calculates the amount of the pinching, in a state in which the foreign object is pinched by the opening/closing member; and a pinching determining means for determining the pinching of the foreign object, based on a pinching calculation amount that is calculated by the pinched amount calculating means, and a pinching estimation amount that is estimated by the pinched amount estimating means, wherein the pinching determining means determines the pinching of the foreign object based on a sum of the pinching calculation amount and the pinching estimation amount in comparison to a predetermined pinching determination threshold.