Patent ID: 7523959

Claim:
Apparatus comprising a curtain airbag having an airbag-anchor portion, and a fastener for fixing the airbag-anchor portion of the curtain airbag to a body panel of a vehicle, wherein the fastener comprises a screw grommet having a flange with a shank extending from one side of the flange through a hole in the airbag-anchor portion and disposed for insertion into a mounting hole of the body panel, and a tapping screw, wherein the flange has an opening and the shank has a shank hole continuous to the opening to allow the tapping screw to be screwed thereinto, wherein the shank has resilient engagement fingers protruding outwardly from sides of the shank to engage edge regions of the mounting hole of the body panel, each finger being partially surrounded by a slot through a wall of the shank and projecting through the wall into the shank hole to engage the tapping screw, and wherein the airbag has an inflatable portion extending from the airbag-anchor portion, and the screw grommet has an integrally formed partition plate extending from the flange between the inflatable portion and the flange opening and separating the inflatable portion from the flange opening.