Patent ID: 7607963

Claim:
A control apparatus for opening/closing a vehicle slide door, comprising: a door opening/closing mechanism for slidably operating the vehicle slide door to laterally move the vehicle slide door between a fully-opened position and a fully-closed position; a driving source for driving the door opening/closing mechanism; a clutch operatively disposed between the driving source and the door opening/closing mechanism, the clutch being switchable between a connected state, in which a driving force is transmitted to the vehicle slide door from the driving source, and a disconnected state, in which the driving force is not transmitted to the vehicle slide door from the driving source; a controlling means for controlling the clutch to be in the connected state or the disconnected state; a door movement-detecting means for detecting a movement of the vehicle slide door; the controlling means switching the clutch from the connected state to the disconnected state when the driving source is stopped during an opening/closing operation of the vehicle slide door by the driving source and before the vehicle slide door reaches the fully-opened position and before the vehicle slide door reaches the fully-closed position; and the controlling means performing a repetition mode, in which the controlling means controls the clutch to switch from the disconnected state to the connected state, and then from the connected state to the disconnected state when the movement of the vehicle slide door is detected by the door movement-detecting means in the disconnected state of the clutch.