Patent ID: 6719321
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
An occupant restraint system for a vehicle comprising:an airbag disposed in a folded state along an upper edge of a door opening of a vehicle body; an inflator that generates gas when the vehicle is involved in a collision to inflate the airbag so that it is deployed in a curtain shape along an inner face of a side of an occupant compartment; a part of the folded airbag being housed within a front pillar garnish covering a side face, on the occupant compartment side, of a front pillar such that the garnish is deformed when the airbag is deployed; and an impact absorbing rib being formed on an inner face of a section of the front pillar garnish that is little deformed by deployment of the airbag; wherein said section of the front pillar garnish on which said impact absorbing rib is formed does not house the airbag.