TRIGGERING UNIT CONTROLLED BY A MICROPROCESSOR FOR INITIATING PYROTECHNICAL ELEMENTS

摘要

The invention relates to a triggering unit for initiating pyrotechnical elements. The inventive unit comprises a control component, a rectifier (12) , an energy store (15), a voltage regulator (13), a data coupling device (11), a current limiter and a suppressor circuit (10). The aim of the invention is t o enable an up to now unknown variety of variants pertaining to characteristic s and functionality without having to change the hard ware or the design of th e chip. To this end, the control component is a programmable microprocessor (2 0) with an integrated program memory.