Patent ID: 7934748

Claim:
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.