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Bohlin worked on the seat belt for about a year, using skills in developing ejection seats for SAAB; he concentrated on keeping the driver safe in a car accident. After testing the three-point safety belt, he introduced his invention to the Volvo company in 1959 and received his first patent (number 3,043,625). [ 1 ]
The first car model to have the three-point seat belt as a standard item was the 1959 Volvo 122, first outfitted with a two-point belt at initial delivery in 1958, replaced with the three-point seat belt the following year. [35] The three-point belt was developed by Nils Bohlin, who had earlier also worked on ejection seats at Saab. [36]
That same year, Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented and patented the three-point lap and shoulder seat belt, which became standard equipment on all Volvo cars in 1959. [44] Over the next several decades, three-point safety belts were gradually mandated in all vehicles by regulators throughout the industrialised world. [citation needed]
After Vattenfall engineers presented their pioneering work to Volvo in the 1950s, [58] Volvo engineer Nils Bohlin invented and patented the modern three-point safety belt, which became standard on all Volvo cars in 1959, [59] and then made this design patent open in the interest of safety and made it available to other car manufacturers for free.
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Nils Bohlin (1920–2002) was a Swedish inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. Arvid Gerhard Damm (died 1927) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment.
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