Patent ID: 7871103

Claim:
An interior trim article-mounting structure for a vehicle equipped with a head protection airbag apparatus that includes an inflator disposed at a predetermined position in the vehicle, and an airbag at least a portion of which is housed in a folded state between a roof side rail and a terminal end portion of a headliner, and which, when supplied with gas from the inflator, inflates and deploys downward of the roof side rail, pushing open the terminal end portion of the headliner toward an inner side relative to a vehicle compartment, the interior trim article-mounting structure comprising: an interior trim article including a main body portion fixed by junction to the roof side rail, and a bezel fixed to at least one of the main body portion and the roof side rail by an engagement that uses an elastically deformable claw; an opening portion formed in the terminal end portion of the headliner so that the interior trim article is mounted to the opening portion, wherein when the interior trim article is set in the terminal end portion of the headliner, a predetermined amount of a periphery portion of the bezel is latched on a periphery portion of the opening portion; a linking member which links the bezel and one of the main body portion and the roof side rail, and which is elongated, and whose intermediate portion has a surplus length portion; and a bundling member that bundles the surplus length portion, and that breaks when a load of a predetermined value or greater is input at a time of inflation and deployment of the airbag.