Patent ID: 7472944

Claim:
A vehicle sliding door opening and closing apparatus comprising: a full-opening latch unit adapted to be brought into engagement with a full-opening striker provided on a side of a vehicle body so as to hold a sliding door at a fully-opened position; a first drive unit adapted to operate in a first direction based on operation of a door opening and closing control unit which enables an opening and closing of the sliding door so as to unfasten a latch of the full-opening latch unit; a half-opening stopping unit adapted to be displaced from a state where the half-opening stopping unit is unable to be brought into abutment with a half-opening striker provided on the side of the vehicle body to a state where the half-opening stopping unit is able to be brought into abutment with the half-opening striker when a window glass provided in the sliding door in such a manner as to be opened and closed is opened, wherein the half-opening stopping unit is brought into abutment with the half-opening striker when the sliding door is opened to a predetermined half-opened position to stop the sliding door at the half-opened position; a window glass detecting switch adapted to detect an opening and closing of the window glass; and a first control unit adapted to control the first drive unit so as to operate in a second direction when the window glass detecting switch detects that the window glass has been opened, wherein the first drive unit is linked to the half-opening stopping unit such that the half-opening stopping unit can be displaced to the state where the half-opening stopping unit is brought into abutment with the half-opening striker when the first drive unit is operated in the second direction.