Patent ID: 7641259

Claim:
A rain shelter control system for a vehicle having a plurality of doorways comprising: a rain shelter disposed at each doorway of a vehicle to be opened and closed; a driver unit for opening and closing the rain shelter; a rain sensor for detecting rain; an exterior signal transmitter provided for each doorway for periodically transmitting a request signal toward outside of the vehicle; a portable device held by a passenger of the vehicle and including a receiver unit for receiving the request signal, and a transmitter unit for transmitting a response signal outside automatically in response to the request signal; a receiver for receiving the response signal transmitted from the portable device; and a rain shelter opening/closing control unit for controlling the driver unit to open the rain shelter when the receiver receives the response signal and the rain sensor detects the rain, wherein the rain shelter opening/closing control unit is configured to determine the rain shelter to be opened by the drive unit based on to which exterior signal transmitter the portable device has responded.