Interior equipment mounting structure for a vehicle incorporating head-protecting air bag body

A vehicle structure for incorporating in the vicinity of a sun visor a head-protecting air bag which expands in a region from a front pillar to a roof side rail, the sun visor being provided to be movable from an accommodated state, in which the sun visor is disposed along a vehicle transverse direction and near to a front end of a roof head lining and substantially parallel to the roof head lining, to at least one predetermined position for use, said vehicle structure comprising:

• an air bag body which is mounted to the roof side rail, and at the time of expanding, deforms the roof head lining toward an interior side of the vehicle and further expands toward the interior side of the vehicle;
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• roof head lining deformation limiting means which is mounted to the roof side rail at a position between the sun visor and said air bag body and limits deformation of the roof head lining to limit application of expansion force of the air bag body to the sun visor.

An interior equipment mounting structure for a vehicle incorporating a head-protecting air bag body that expands through a roof head lining positioned in a region from a pillar to a roof side rail, comprising:

• a roof head lining structure provided adjacent the roof side rail and between the roof head lining and an interior equipment of the vehicle, the roof head lining structure restricting deformation of the roof head lining during expansion of the air bag body to reduce an impact load acting inwardly in a vehicle transverse direction on the interior equipment, the interior equipment being disposed adjacent the roof head lining at a position further inwardly in the vehicle transverse direction than the air bag body before expansion.