Clip for airbag

A clip for an airbag capable of holding a garnish at an airbag accommodating position in which the garnish is contacted with or located close to a vehicle body and the airbag is accommodated therebetween, and at an airbag expansion position in which the garnish is separated from the vehicle body and the airbag is expanded in a passenger compartment, the clip comprising:

• a grommet and a pin member, wherein a head portion of the pin member is attached to one of the garnish and the vehicle body and the grommet is attached to the other of the garnish and the vehicle body;
• wherein the grommet comprises:
• a supporting hole into which the pin member is inserted from a surface side to a back side;
• and
• an engaging portion for preventing the pin member from coming out from the supporting hole,
• wherein the pin member further comprises a pair of sidewalls opposed to each other which are extended from the head portion in an axial direction and inserted into the supporting hole of the grommet and capable of relatively moving in the axial direction with respect to the grommet,
• wherein each sidewall includes:
• a first engaging portion formed on a head portion side which is engaged with the engaging portion of the grommet and holds the garnish at the airbag accommodating position;
• and
• a second engaging portion formed on a distal portion side which is engaged with the engaging portion of the grommet and holds the garnish at the airbag expansion position,
• wherein each sidewall forms a flexible region in which an arbitrary region on the distal portion side of the first engaging portion can be elastically deflected inside, and in the airbag expansion position by inwardly deflecting the flexible region exposed from the supporting hole onto the surface side of the grommet, the second engaging portion is displaced according to the deflection of the flexible region so that an engaging state with the engaging portion of the grommet can be released, and
• wherein the flexible region extends in the axial direction from a side of the second engaging portion closest to the head portion toward the head portion.