Vehicle pillar garnish mounting structure
OwnerMinoru Hasegawa, Keisuke Shimizu +3inventors
InventorsMinoru Hasegawa, Keisuke Shimizu, Yutaka Saguchi, Izuru Sugiura, Yuuki Aoshima
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Abstract
A vehicle pillar garnish mounting structure has upper and lower retainers attached to the pillar. The pillar garnish has side edge flanges that are engaged with engagement parts at corresponding sides of the retainers. The retainers have an elongated block shape with U-shaped cross-section. The lower retainer has a hook unit that engages a cooperating part on a side edge flange of the pillar garnish to secure the pillar garnish to the hook unit.
Claims7
A vehicle pillar garnish mounting structure for fastening a pillar garnish to an outer surface of a vehicle pillar, by engagement means, wherein:
- side edge flanges are formed at two side edges of said pillar garnish, spaced in a width dimension of said pillar garnish, extending toward the pillar;
- a retainer is secured to an outer surface of the pillar, extending between two sides of the pillar in a width dimension, serving as said engagement means, and comprising engagement parts on two sides of said retainer for fastening to said two side edge flanges of said pillar garnish, respectively;
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- the side edge flanges of said pillar garnish are engaged in the engagement parts.
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