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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Helmut Hermann, Bochum, DE;
DBT Automation GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for remotely controlled operation of one of several control devices ( ) for support frames in underground mining in which the control device ( ′) to be actuated is selected by means of an infra-red remote operation and then the transmission of control data between a remote controller ( ) and the selected control device ( ) is effected by radio transmission. The remote controller, ( ) has not only a radio transmitter ( ) and the control devices ( ) a radio receiver ( ), but each control device ( ) is additionally provided with at least one infra-red receiver ( ), whereby by an infra-red data transmission, the control device ( ′) to be actuated is first deliberately selected by the remote controller ( ), before the control data is then subsequently transmitted by radio.