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AssigneesCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives, Davey Bickford
InventorLionel BIARD
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A firing method for a set of electronic detonators includes receipt, by a receiving device associated with one or more electronic detonators, of an ignition command from a transmitted sequence of ignition commands including at least two ignition commands, a synchronisation delay being associated with each ignition command. A counting down, from the time of receipt of the ignition command, of the synchronisation delay associated with the received ignition command, and a counting down of an ignition delay associated with each electronic detonator from a synchronisation time corresponding to the time at which the countdown of the synchronisation delay is complete, are carried out. Each electronic detonator is ignited once the countdown of the ignition delay is complete. An electronic detonator includes a reception device, first and second countdown devices and a firing device.
A firing method for a set of electronic detonators, each electronic detonator having an associated firing delay (tdelay), the method comprising:
An electronic detonator comprising:
An emitter device comprising an emission device configured to emit a sequence of firing commands for firing a set of electronic detonators, the sequence of firing commands comprising at least two firing commands, wherein a synchronization period is associated with each firing command, to obtain a synchronization instant starting from when a countdown of a firing delay (tdelay) is triggered for the firing of the set of electronic detonators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.