Patent ID: 8636398

Claim:
A room lamp for a motor vehicle, including: a lamp assembly having a housing and a resin clip; a vessel having an opening; and a reinforcing member, wherein the resin clip is engaged with a peripheral edge of the reinforcing member through the opening of the vessel to integrally attach the lamp assembly, the vessel and the reinforcing member, the resin clip is formed generally in an inverted U shape, made of an elastic member and includes a base part connected to the housing, an inverted U shape part connected to the base part and a lock connected to the inverted U shape part, the resin clip has a protruding piece in a lower part of the lock, a side protruding piece is formed in a lower part side of the protruding piece, and the protruding piece is located in an engaging recessed part of an opening peripheral edge of the vessel and the side protruding piece abuts against a clip abutting surface of the vessel in a direction of outward displacement of the resin clip when the resin clip is engaged with the peripheral edge of the reinforcing member.