Pillar garnish mounting structure for a vehicle equipped with a head-protecting air bag apparatus
First Claim
1. A pillar garnish mounting structure in a vehicle equipped with a head-protecting air bag apparatus, comprising:
- a head-protecting air bag apparatus comprising;
an inflator, disposed at a prescribed position in the vehicle; and
an air bag, at least a part of which is housed in a folded condition between a roof side rail and a headliner end part, which expands and deploys from below the roof side rail into a passenger compartment of the vehicle by pressing open the headliner end part when gas is supplied from the inflator;
a deployment direction guide integrally formed in an outside surface that faces outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle at an upper edge of a front part of a pillar garnish, the pillar garnish being affixed to an inside surface that faces the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle of a pillar inner panel, wherein at least one part of the front part overlaps with a headliner end part surface inside the passenger compartment, and the deployment direction guide includes a guide wall inclined toward the passenger compartment to guide the deploying direction of the air bag toward the passenger compartment;
a seat part is formed on the pillar inner panel and protrudes toward the guide wall; and
a metal bracket is provided on an outside surface of the deployment direction guide, said outside surface facing outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle, which comes into surface contact with the seat part when the expansion force of the air bag is applied to the guide wall.
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Abstract
A metal bracket (50) is mounted on the outside surface that faces outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle of an upper end (46C) of a center pillar garnish (36). When an air bag (20) is deployed, bent parts (74B) of the wings of the bracket (50) come into contact with a seat part (88) of a pillar inner panel (38) and the a portion of the expansion force is transferred. As the air bag (20) continues to expand, the bracket (50) rotates about the base of an upper inclined part (72C), and the bent parts 74B rotate toward the outside in the vehicle width direction. Because the lower edges (74C) of the wings (74) come into contact with the pillar inner panel (38), the expansion force is transferred to the pillar inner panel 38.
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1. A pillar garnish mounting structure in a vehicle equipped with a head-protecting air bag apparatus, comprising:
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a head-protecting air bag apparatus comprising; an inflator, disposed at a prescribed position in the vehicle; and an air bag, at least a part of which is housed in a folded condition between a roof side rail and a headliner end part, which expands and deploys from below the roof side rail into a passenger compartment of the vehicle by pressing open the headliner end part when gas is supplied from the inflator; a deployment direction guide integrally formed in an outside surface that faces outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle at an upper edge of a front part of a pillar garnish, the pillar garnish being affixed to an inside surface that faces the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle of a pillar inner panel, wherein at least one part of the front part overlaps with a headliner end part surface inside the passenger compartment, and the deployment direction guide includes a guide wall inclined toward the passenger compartment to guide the deploying direction of the air bag toward the passenger compartment; a seat part is formed on the pillar inner panel and protrudes toward the guide wall; and a metal bracket is provided on an outside surface of the deployment direction guide, said outside surface facing outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle, which comes into surface contact with the seat part when the expansion force of the air bag is applied to the guide wall. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A pillar garnish mounting structure in a vehicle equipped with a head-protecting air bag apparatus, comprising:
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a head-protecting air bag apparatus comprising; an inflator, disposed at a prescribed position in the vehicle; and an air bag, at least a part of which is housed in a folded condition between a roof side rail and a headliner end part, which expands and deploys from below the roof side rail into a passenger compartment of the vehicle by pressing the headliner end part to open; a deployment direction guide integrally formed in an outside surface that faces outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle at an upper edge of a front part of a pillar garnish, the pillar garnish being affixed to an inside surface that faces the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle of a pillar inner panel, wherein at least one part of the front part overlaps with a headliner end part surface inside the passenger compartment, and the deployment direction guide includes a guide wall inclined toward the passenger compartment to guide the deploying direction of the air bag toward the passenger compartment; and a metal bracket provided on an outside surface that faces outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle of the deployment direction guide, a lower part of which comes into contact with the pillar inner panel when an expansion force of the air bag is applied to the guide wall and the upper edge of the front part of the pillar garnish flexes into the passenger compartment, and wherein an upper end of the bracket extends both upward and laterally outward, and passes through an aperture formed in the pillar inner panel, and further engages and overlaps with an outside surface that faces outside of the passenger compartment in the lateral direction of the vehicle of the pillar inner panel. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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