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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 three-point belt was developed by Nils Bohlin, who had earlier also worked on ejection seats at Saab. [36] Volvo then made the new seat belt design patent open in the interest of safety and made it available to other car manufacturers for free. [37] [38]
Many of the most life saving safety innovations, like seat belts and roll cage construction were brought to market under its auspices. 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]
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.
Then during the WW2 he took on the more challenging continuous cooking process for pulp. Virtually all paper in the world is today produced with processes developed by Richter. He holds more than 750 patents. Nils Bohlin (1920–2002) was a Swedish inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo.
Nils Bohlin (1920–2002), Sweden – the three-point seat belt Sarah Boone (1832–1908), U.S. – improved ironing board design Charlie Booth (1903–2008), Australia – Starting blocks
The first modern three-point seat belt, the CIR-Griswold restraint used in most consumer vehicles today, was patented in 1955 (US patent 2,710,649 [44]) by the Americans Roger W. Griswold and Hugh DeHaven. [45]
The following is a list of celebrity inventors and their patents. (For the purposes of this article, an inventor is a person who has been granted a patent.)After Google released a patent search [1] online in December 2006, a website called Ironic Sans, [2] made the public aware of a number of celebrity patents found through the new patent search engine.