US 7,592,896 B2
Vehicle door control apparatus
Kentarou Teshima, Kariya (Japan); Kazuhiro Nakashima, Kariya (Japan); and Kenichi Ogino, Toyota (Japan)
Assigned to DENSO Corporation, Kariya (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 30, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/790,966.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-170351 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0290796 A1, Dec. 20, 2007
Int. Cl. B60R 25/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 340—5.72  [340/505; 340/506; 340/539.1; 340/539.11; 340/539.13; 340/539.32; 340/572.1; 340/10.1; 340/825.36; 340/825.49; 340/5.2; 340/687; 340/691.1] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A door control apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus communicative with a handheld unit held by a user, the apparatus comprising:
an actuator configured to change a rotation angle of a door of the vehicle to thereby rotate the door to be opened or closed in a use for the user to ride in or get out the vehicle;
a verification unit configured to obtain an ID code of the handheld unit to verify an accordance between the obtained ID code and a registered ID code;
a manipulation detection unit configured to detect a manipulation by the user to an unlock switch in a door handle of the door;
an unlock unit configured to unlock the door when the accordance is verified and the manipulation to the unlock switch is detected;
an instruction detection unit configured to detect a pop-up instruction, which is issued by the user approaching the door for activating a pop-up operation; and
a control unit configured to perform the pop-up operation by driving the actuator to rotate the door to a predetermined rotation angle, which is smaller than a fully opened angle, after a pop-up condition is satisfied, the pop-up condition that the pop-up instruction is detected while the door is unlocked and closed.