History
The airbag was invented by John W. Hetrick and he patented
the airbag the subsequent year. It was an innovation to protect his
own family using knowledge from his naval engineering. Airbag-like devices
for aero planes are there as early as the 1940s, with the first patents
filed in the 1950s.
The American inventor Allen Breed
created a device used for automobile is the ball-in-tube sensor for
collapse sensing. He announced this improvement in 1967 to Chrysler.
At that time seat belts are used by few American car users and a technique
of providing seat belt like plane of occupant guard to unbelted occupants
in a head-on collapse was viewed as a precious improvement.
Ford built an experimental fleet of cars with airbags
in 1971. The first example of an airbag in a production car was in 1972
when the 1973 model Oldsmobile Toronado was released. In 1974, dual
airbags were an option on several full-sized cars made by the Buick,
Cadillac and Oldsmobile divisions. These devices did not meet with market
acceptance.
Benefits
Air bags appendage the safety belt by minimizing the
chance that the occupant's head and upper body will hit some part of
the vehicle's inside. They also facilitate decrease the risk of grave
damage by distributing crash forces more equally across the occupant's
body. One recent study concluded that as many as 6,000 lives have been
saved as a result of airbags.
The-Automover offers you all important informationswhich will help
you stay safe in a vehicle with air bags.
