Patents Assigned to Detnet South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
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Patent number: 11982520Abstract: A wireless detonator system wherein a blast control unit communicates bidirectionally with at least one tagger and with detonators, prior to deployment thereof, using a NFC technique, and a transmitter/receiver assembly communicates with each detonator atan ultralow frequency.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Elmar Lennox Muller, Marius Christo Botha, Tielman Christiaan Meyer
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Patent number: 11953305Abstract: A detonator installation (10) in which a detonator fire capacitor (36) which is connected in series with an inductor (18) is charged from a low voltage source (16) by repeatedly opening and closing a switch (20) thereby to cause a collapsing magnetic field in the inductor (18) which results in a charging current flow to the capacitor (36).Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventor: Michiel Jacobus Kruger
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Patent number: 11879716Abstract: A detonator which is responsive to a shock tube event which is validated if a link is fused at a predetermined time interval after a light signal produced by the event is detected and if, at the end of a subsequent time interval, the link is still fused and the light signal is absent.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Christopher Malcolm Birkin, Richard Joseph Michna, Daniel Auguste Maurissens, Andre Louis Koekemoer
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Patent number: 11874098Abstract: A wireless detonator assembly which includes a detonator, a receiver, a printed circuit board with a stored key which is hardwired onto the board during manufacture of the detonator assembly and control logic which allows the detonator to be fired only if the control logic extracts from a signal, received by the receiver, a reference key which is identical to the stored key.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Elmar Lennox Muller, Christiaan Tielman Meyer, Abraham Johannes Liebenberg
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Patent number: 11852450Abstract: A detonator assembly method wherein a base charge is placed into a tube to abut a closed end of the tube, an electronic module is positioned inside the tube, a displacement member with a stop formation is used to move the module, against a frictional restraining force, to a location at which the stop formation abuts a rim of the tube and wherein the module is held in position by deforming the tube into engagement with the module.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Christopher Malcolm Birkin, Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Richard Joseph Michna, Andre Louis Koekemoer
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Patent number: 11852455Abstract: A detonator which is used with a shock tube or a fibre optic cable and wherein an incident light signal is passed through a first impedance for communication purposes and a light signal associated with initiation of the detonator is passed through a second impedance which is less in value than the first impedance.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Daniel Auguste Maurissens, Albertus Abraham Labuschagne, Andre Louis Koekemoer
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Patent number: 11725920Abstract: A detonator which includes a housing which has a passage with an inlet and an outlet and which is of reducing cross sectional area from the inlet to the outlet and wherein the inlet is configured to be exposed to an end of a shock tube, and a fusible link is located at the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Christopher Malcolm Birkin, Richard Joseph Michna, Daniel Auguste Maurissens, Andre Louis Koekemoer
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Patent number: 11686565Abstract: A control circuit for a detonator which includes a charger pump with an inductor which is connected to earth via a fusible link and wherein the charge pump is placed in an operative mode to produce a charging voltage for a firing capacitor if the link is fused in response to a shock tube event.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Daniel Auguste Maurissens, Albertus Abraham Labuschagne, Andre Louis Koekemoer
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Patent number: 11604054Abstract: A detonator which is initiated by a shock tube event which is validated if a processor determines that a fusible link was not fused by a shock tube event at a predetermined time interval before light generated by the shock tube event is detected.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Daniel Auguste Maurissens, Andre Louis Koekemoer, Albertus Abraham Labuschagne
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Patent number: 11604055Abstract: A detonator which includes a tube with an open end, a shock tube, secured to a plug which is fixed to an open end of the tube, an electronic module inside the tube, the module including a substrate which carries electronic components, and sensing structure mounted to the substrate spaced from an opposing end of the shock tube.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Christopher Malcolm Birkin, Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Richard Joseph Michna, Andre Louis Koekemoer, Mark Ivan Jurras, III
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Publication number: 20230057631Abstract: A wireless detonator system wherein a blast control unit communicates bidirectionally with at least one tagger and with detonators, prior to deployment thereof, using a NFC technique, and a transmitter/receiver assembly communicates with each detonator a tan ultralow frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Elmar Lennox Muller, Marius Christo Botha, Tielman Christiaan Meyer
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Publication number: 20220357141Abstract: A wireless detonator assembly which includes a detonator, a receiver, a printed circuit board with a stored key which is hardwired onto the board during manufacture of the detonator assembly and control logic which allows the detonator to be fired only if the control logic extracts from a signal, received by the receiver, a reference key which is identical to the stored key.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Elmar Lennox Muller, Christiaan Tielman Meyer, Abraham Johannes Liebenberg
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Patent number: 11456089Abstract: A downline wire (10) serves to connect a location on the ground surface to at least one detonator (52) in a blast hole. The downline wire includes at least two flexible electrical conductors (12, 14) encased by respective flexible layers of an insulating material (20, 22) and a flexible sheath (24) in which the insulated conductors are embedded. Each conductor (12, 14) is made of a copper-clad steel core and the insulating material is either a filled flexible polyvinylchloride (PVC) composition or a polyester elastomer. The sheath (24) is made from a medium or high density polyethylene compound which includes carbon black.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventor: Phillip Olwage
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Patent number: 11453569Abstract: A spool for use in a blasting system which carries a coiled signal-transmitting conductor which is connected at one end to a detonator and at an opposed end to a connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Elmar Lennox Muller, Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Pierre De Vos Mynhardt
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Patent number: 11441883Abstract: A blasting system which includes control equipment and a plurality of detonators which are located in respective boreholes formed in rock, wherein signals from the detonators are magnetically transmitted wirelessly through the rock to the control equipment via different paths between successive detonators, and wherein a signal from the control equipment can be simultaneously transmitted to all of the detonators.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventors: Daniel August Julien Louis Maurissens, Elmar Lennox Muller
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Patent number: 11394470Abstract: A method of communicating through the earth which includes the steps of using a digital pulse train to generate a sweep pulse train which controls the frequency of a magnetic field at a first location, and at a second location, detecting the magnetic field and producing a signal at a frequency dependent on the frequency of the sweep pulse train, and extracting a replica of the digital pulse train from the signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventor: Gerhard Brink Louw
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Publication number: 20210218479Abstract: A method of communicating through the earth which includes the steps of using a digital pulse train to generate a sweep pulse train which controls the frequency of a magnetic field at a first location, and at a second location, detecting the magnetic field and producing a signal at a frequency dependent on the frequency of the sweep pulse train, and extracting a replica of the digital pulse train from the signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventor: Gerhard Brink Louw
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Patent number: 11021415Abstract: A shock tube for propagating and initiating a signal to an explosive charge which includes at least first and second elongate flexible conductors on a body of the detonator to enable two-way communication between the explosive charge and a blasting machine thereby to confirm the status of the detonator prior to sending a fire signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTDInventor: Elmar Lennox Muller
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Patent number: D923133Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD.Inventors: Michiel Jacobus Kruger, Christopher Malcolm Birkin, Andre Louis Koekemoer, Richard Joseph Michna, Daniel Auguste Maurissens
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Patent number: D948440Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD.Inventors: Philip Olwage, Marius Christo Botha, Chris Beukes