Patent ID: 8474887

Claim:
A door opening and closing apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a latch configured to engage with and disengaged from a striker; a displacement body operating the latch via a latch operation mechanism and being displaced within a moving region including a closing region in which the latch is engaged with the striker, a releasing region in which the latch is disengaged from the striker and a neutral region positioned between the closing region and the releasing region, the displacement body displacing by means of a drive force of an actuator for selectively engaging and disengaging the latch and the striker; a first detection switch outputting a first detection signal changed when the displacement body passes through a first border portion of the neutral region closer to the closing region, the first border portion being positioned between the closing region and the neutral region; a second detection switch outputting a second detection signal changed when the displacement body passes through a second border portion of the neutral region closer to the releasing region, the second border portion being positioned between the releasing region and the neutral region; and a control unit connected to the first detection switch and the second detection switch, and controls a moving position of the displacement body based on the first detection signal and the second detection signal.