Patent ID: 7252328

Claim:
A sunroof control apparatus comprising: a roof glass which is so provided as to be slidable along a skylight of a vehicle and tiltable about one axial line and is placeable in a fully-closed position where said skylight is fully closed, a tilt fully-open position where one side of said skylight is opened as one side of said roof glass is placed outside said vehicle by a tilt action of said roof glass, and a fully-open position where said skylight is fully opened as said roof glass is moved along said skylight; a drive motor for tilting and sliding said roof glass; a tilt switch which is operated to actuate said roof glass between said fully-closed position and said tilt fully-open position; a detecting device for detecting whether said drive motor is running; control means which controls said drive motor to actuate said roof glass based on an operation of said tilt switch and executes operations of: setting a tilt action permitting area in such a way as to include an area from said fully-closed position to said tilt fully-open position; and permitting a tilt action of said roof glass toward said fully-closed position based on said operation of said tilt switch, when a non-active state of said drive motor is detected in said tilt action permitting area while said roof glass is tilted to said tilt fully-open position from said fully-closed position and when said roof glass moves outward beyond said tilt action permitting area due to force of inertia.