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(Accessed March 2, 2011). Shortly after John Hetrick had witnessed an automobile accident he received a patent in 1953 for a âsafety cushion assembly for automotive vehicles.â His U.S. Patent No. 2,649,311 was the first prototype for airbags. 5.
His crash sensing technology -- the only one of its kind -- is considered the world's first electromechanical automotive airbag system. Breed's role in automotive safety didn't stop there. He helped designed more than two dozen other car safety inventions, including an airbag that vents air as it inflates. This 1991 invention -- patent No. 5,071,161 -- was designed to reduce the risk of secondary injuries by reducing the inflated bag's rigidity..