Patent ID: 8100043

Claim:
A method for mounting an energetic material initiation device to a firing circuit, the firing circuit including a circuit board, the method comprising: providing a receiver assembly with a receiver, and a plurality of receiver terminals, the receiver including a base and an upstanding wall member, the base and the upstanding wall member cooperating to form a socket, the upstanding wall member defining a first insertion guide and a first locking member, the receiver terminals extending through at least one of the base and the upstanding wall member; providing an initiator assembly with an initiator housing, an electronic initiator, a pellet assembly and a plurality of initiator terminals, the initiator housing defining a recess into which the pellet assembly is received, the initiator housing including a second insertion guide and a second locking member, the electronic initiator being at least partially encapsulated into the initiator housing, the initiator terminals being electrically coupled to the electronic initiator and extending through the initiator housing, the pellet assembly including an energetic material; electrically coupling the receiver terminals to corresponding arming terminals on the circuit board when the pellet assembly is not disposed in the socket; aligning the initiator assembly to the socket such that the first and second insertion guides are engaged to one another; and electrically coupling the electronic initiator to the arming terminals solely by pushing the initiator assembly into the socket such that the first and second locking members are lockingly engaged to one another and the initiator terminals are electrically engaged to the receiver terminals.