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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2011
Franck Guyon, Auxerre, FR;
Raphael Trousselle, Auxerre, FR;
Franck Guyon, Auxerre, FR;
Raphael Trousselle, Auxerre, FR;
Other;
Abstract
A system for programming and lighting electronic detonators () each having an identifier (ID) associated therewith, includes: a programming unit () arranged to determine the identifiers of the detonators () and to associate the detonators individually, in memory, with a lighting time delay (T) in order to form a blasting pattern (PT); a blasting unit () arranged to recover the blasting pattern (PT) from the memory () of the programming unit (), and to control a blasting sequence of the detonators according to the recovered blasting pattern; and the programming unit () includes: a passive RFID tag () provided with a chip () acting as a memory for storing the blasting pattern (PT), and a radiofrequency reader () arranged such as to read/write passive tags. A corresponding method is also described.