Patent application filed for safety passenger cell

Date:
23 January 1951
Description:
A patent application is filed for the passenger safety cell. Béla Barényi’s invention, protected under patent no. 854 157, still forms the basis of passive safety in automotive production today.

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Rough sketch by Béla Barényi for his crumple zone concept, here called "end cell with predetermined break point”, 1950.

Patent document DRP No. 854 157 "Motor vehicle, in particular for the conveyance of persons” of 23 January 1951. The principle of the rigid passenger cell. The inventor on behalf of Daimler-Benz AG was Béla Barényi.