Patent ID: 7213835
Filing Date: 2007-05-08
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. An occupant restraint system comprising: an air bag in a folded state being arranged in such a manner as to extend along a side portion of a roof and a pillar, the air bag being inflated with a gas generated by an inflator so as to be deployed in a curtain-like fashion along an inner surface of a side portion of a passenger compartment when a vehicle is involved in a collision; and a pillar garnish mounted on a side of a pillar which faces the passenger compartment, the pillar garnish having a bulkhead for partitioning a space formed between the pillar and the pillar garnish where an end portion of the bulkhead is apart from the pillar so as to define an air bag accommodation chamber for accommodation of the air bag, wherein an opening where the air bag is deployed is an end portion of the pillar garnish at the side the bulkhead side, wherein the pillar garnish has a mounting member for mounting the pillar garnish on the side of the pillar, the mounting member being disposed in a chamber defined by the bulkhead and different from the air bag accommodation chamber, wherein the pillar garnish has a first portion which bends at deployment of the airbag, and a second portion on which a mounting seat is formed, the mounting member is attached to the mounting seat, and the bulkhead is disposed at a location spaced apart from the mounting seat; and wherein the bulkhead protrudes more than the mounting member relative to the pillar garnish.