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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takehito Sugawara, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 1/00 ;
Abstract
A power window apparatus and a method for controlling the same is provided in which the whole travel region of a window is divided into a plurality of blocks, a reference value of a motor torque value, a tolerance value for tolerating a fluctuation in the motor torque value, and a determination value obtained by adding the reference value and the tolerance value for determining pinching are set and stored for each block and, when the torque value detected is larger than the reference value, a correction value in proportion to the difference is added to the determination value so as to perform the next determination.