Pillar garnish

• US 9,487,162 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Issued: 11/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Inagawa, Keisuke, Kito, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Morrow, Jason S
• Application Number:
  US14/829,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20160068116A1
• Time in Patent Office: 447 Days
• Field of Search: 296/1.08, 296/187.08, 296/193.06, 280/730.2, 280/728.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/0206 Arrangements of fasteners and clips specially adapted for attaching inner vehicle liners or mouldings devices for fastening or securing F16B
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/025 Pillars; Roof rails
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/213 in vehicle roof frames or pillars
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/216 comprising tether means for limitation of cover motion during deployment

Abstract

A pillar garnish for covering a pillar of a vehicle includes a first garnish component and a second garnish component. The first garnish component is made of thermoplastic elastomer olefin and includes a sidewall opposite an airbag disposed between the pillar and the pillar garnish. The second garnish component is made of material having rigidity higher than the first garnish component and disposed so as to overlap the first garnish component. The second garnish component includes a garnish body having a plate-like shape and a clip mount for holding a tether clip to be fixed to the pillar. The clip mount protrudes from a surface of the garnish body on a pillar side.

Claims

1. A pillar garnish for covering a pillar of a vehicle, the pillar garnish comprising:

a first garnish component made of thermoplastic elastomer olefin and including a sidewall opposite an airbag disposed between the pillar and the pillar garnish; and

a second garnish component made of material having rigidity higher than the first garnish component and disposed so as to overlap at least a portion of the first garnish component, the second garnish component including;

a garnish body having a plate-like shape; and

a clip mount for holding a tether clip to be fixed to the pillar, the clip mount protruding from a surface of the garnish body on a pillar side.

2. The pillar garnish according to claim 1, wherein

the garnish body includes:

a main wall including a design surface of the second garnish component; and

an extending wall extending from an edge of the main wall and disposed so as to overlap with a back surface of the first garnish component, and

the clip mount protrudes from the extending wall.

3. The pillar garnish according to claim 1, wherein the clip mount protrude from a surface of the garnish body on a pillar side toward the pillar.

4. The pillar garnish according to claim 2, wherein the extending wall overlaps a portion of the first garnish component other than the sidewall of the first garnish component.

5. The pillar garnish according to claim 4, wherein the main wall of the second garnish component does not overlap the first garnish component.

6. The pillar garnish according to claim 2 further comprising another clip mount that protrudes from the main wall.

7. The pillar garnish according to claim 2, wherein

the main wall of the second garnish component includes a side edge to contact with the pillar,

the sidewall of the first garnish component is on a side of the pillar garnish opposite to the side edge of the main wall of the second garnish component to contact with the pillar, and

the side edge of the main wall of the second garnish component is a base of tilt of the pillar garnish during deployment of the airbag.

8. The pillar garnish according to claim 2, wherein

the first garnish component includes a mounting protrusion that protrudes from a back surface of the first garnish component toward the second garnish component,

the extending wall includes a fixing protrusion that protrudes from a back surface of the extending wall and has a shape along the mounting protrusion of the first garnish component, and

the fixing protrusion is fitted to the mounting protrusion.

9. The pillar garnish according to claim 8, further comprising a bolt, wherein the mounting protrusion and the fixing protrusion are fixed to each other with the bolt.