Patent ID: 7703798

Claim:
A structure of a rear portion of a vehicle furnished with a curtain airbag apparatus, said structure comprising: a rear pillar located at a rear part of a vehicle body; a side window glass fitted immediately at the front of said rear pillar; said curtain airbag apparatus including a curtain airbag which is fixed to the vehicle body close to said side window glass in a retracted state and an inflator for supplying gas pressure to the curtain airbag when activated, said curtain airbag apparatus being structured such that the curtain airbag inflated by the gas pressure fed from the inflator deploys into the vehicle interior along said side window glass to cover said side window glass from inside; a soft roof trim covering a roof panel from inside the vehicle interior; a rear pillar trim covering said rear pillar from inside the vehicle interior, said rear pillar trim being harder than said roof trim; and a cover constituting part of said rear pillar trim and covering a specific area of a frontal portion of said rear pillar trim including an outside peripheral part and an upper end part of the frontal portion thereof, said cover being so structured as to be easily displaceable frontward along an airbag deployment joint which extends generally vertically at a specific position located inward from the outside peripheral part of the frontal portion of said rear pillar trim; wherein said curtain airbag is fixed to the vehicle body along an upper edge and a rear edge of said side window glass in the retracted state and, when inflated from the retracted state, deploys into the vehicle interior upon separating said cover from the other part of said rear pillar trim along the airbag deployment joint and displacing said cover frontward, wherein said rear pillar trim includes a rear pillar trim body and a cover member, the cover member being formed separately from the rear pillar trim body, the cover member constituting said cover, and said curtain airbag deploys into the vehicle interior while deforming an inner edge part of the cover member frontward when inflated from the retracted state, and said cover member is provided on a front face portion of said rear pillar trim, said front face portion extends in a widthwise direction of the vehicle.