IP Library Granted Patent US 10,501,161
Granted Patent B2
US 10,501,161 · App. 16/087,916 · Granted Dec 10, 2019

Ship steering device and ship including the same

Inventors: Gakuji Tamura (Osaka, JP); Jun Watanabe (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
B63H25/42B63H21/21B63H25/02B63H5/08B63H21/24B63H25/04B63H2021/216
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Patent No.
US 10,501,161
App. No.
16/087,916
Granted
Dec 10, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A ship steering device including: an engine; an auto-drive unit that exerts propulsive power on a ship hull by power from the engine; detection means for detecting a current position and an orientation of the ship hull; a ship steering control device that controls an output of the engine and propulsive power of the auto-drive unit; and a calibration switch that starts calibration of a ship. When the ship steering control device detects that the calibration switch is turned on, the ship steering control device controls the engine and the auto-drive unit to cause the ship hull to move in a predetermined direction or to turn, and if a difference between, for instance, a traveling amount and speed in the predetermined direction and an intended traveling amount and speed exceeds a predetermined value, the ship steering control device corrects control values of the engine and the auto-drive unit.

Claims (15)

1. A ship steering device comprising:

an engine;

a propulsion unit configured to exert propulsive power on a ship hull by power from the engine;

detection means for detecting a current position and an orientation of the ship hull;

a control device configured to control an output of the engine and propulsive power of the propulsion unit; and

manipulation means configured to start calibration of a ship, wherein

when the control device detects that the manipulation means is turned on, the control device controls the engine and the propulsion unit to cause the ship hull to move in a predetermined direction or to turn, and

if a difference between

a traveling amount and a travelling speed or a turning amount and a turning speed in the predetermined direction and

an intended traveling amount and an intended traveling speed or an intended turning amount and an intended turning speed

exceeds a predetermined value, the control device corrects control values of the engine and the propulsion unit.

2. The ship steering device according to claim 1 , further comprising manipulation means including an accelerator device configured to change number of revolutions of the engine, wherein

the control device simulates manipulation of the accelerator device to control the engine and the propulsion unit, and based on a correlation among an amount of the simulated manipulation of the accelerator device and a traveling amount and a traveling speed of the ship hull, the control device corrects a control value of the engine.

3. A ship comprising the ship steering device according to claim 1 .

4. A ship comprising the ship steering device according to claim 2 .

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 26, 2020
From: YANMAR CO., LTD.
To: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054162/0112 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 24, 2018
From: TAMURA, GAKUJI; WATANABE, JUN
To: YANMAR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 046952/0860 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-061988 · Mar 25, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190092444A1 · Mar 28, 2019
Cited By (2)
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