Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless detonators with state sensing, and their use
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Application No.: US14114289Application Date: 2012-04-27
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Publication No.: US10267611B2Publication Date: 2019-04-23
- Inventor: Charles Michael Lownds , Walter Hardy Piel
- Applicant: Charles Michael Lownds , Walter Hardy Piel
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore
- Assignee: ORICA INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD.
- Current Assignee: ORICA INTERNATIONAL PTE LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- International Application: PCT/US2012/035397 WO 20120427
- International Announcement: WO2012/149277 WO 20121101
- Main IPC: F42D1/05
- IPC: F42D1/05 ; F42C11/06 ; F42D5/00

Abstract:
Wireless detonator systems present opportunities for controlled blasting of rock without the encumbrances of physical wired connections at the blast site. Disclosed herein are wireless detonator assemblies, which sense the state of environmental condition(s) of their immediate vicinity, and which are active to receive and/or process a command signal to FIRE only if the environmental condition(s) are deemed suitable or appropriate according to predetermined parameters. Also disclosed are improved methods of blasting involving such wireless detonator assemblies, as well as corresponding wireless electronic primers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140053750A1 WIRELESS DETONATORS WITH STATE SENSING, AND THEIR USE Public/Granted day:2014-02-27
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