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US 11,634,204 B2Granted
Boat
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShu Akuzawa, Hirotaka Aoki, Yusuke Ashida
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Abstract
A boat includes a boat body, a propulsion device, an operator that operates the propulsion device, and a controller. The propulsion device is disposed in the boat body and generates a propulsion force to move the boat body. The controller executes an automatic shore arrival control to control the propulsion device so as to cause the boat body to move toward a target position. The controller ends the automatic shore arrival control when the operator is positioned in a non-neutral position that differs from a neutral position.
Claims8
A boat comprising:
- a boat body;
- a propulsion device disposed in the boat body and that generates a propulsion force to move the boat body;
- an operator that operates the propulsion device;
- and
- a controller configured or programmed to execute an automatic shore arrival control to control the propulsion device so as to move the boat body toward a target position;
- wherein
- the controller is configured or programmed to end the automatic shore arrival control when the operator is positioned in a non-neutral position that differs from a neutral position;
- the non-neutral position is a forward movement position that causes the propulsion device to generate a propulsion force that causes the boat body to move forward, or a reverse movement position that causes the propulsion device to generate a propulsion force that causes the boat body to move in reverse;
- the controller is configured or programmed to start the automatic shore arrival control when the operator is positioned in the neutral position;
- and
- the forward movement position corresponds to when a bucket of the propulsion device is positioned in a forward movement position, and the reverse movement position corresponds to when the bucket of the propulsion device is positioned in a reverse movement position.
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A boat comprising:
- a boat body;
- a propulsion device disposed in the boat body and that generates a propulsion force to move the boat body;
- an operator that operates the propulsion device;
- a sensing device that detects a distance between an object and the boat body;
- and
- a controller configured or programmed to execute an automatic shore arrival control to control the propulsion device so as to move the boat body toward a target position;
- wherein
- the controller is configured or programmed to end the automatic shore arrival control and transition from an automatic shore arrival mode to a manual operation mode when the operator is positioned in a non-neutral position that differs from a neutral position and when the object is detected by the sensing device.
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A boat comprising:
- a boat body;
- a propulsion device disposed in the boat body and that generates a propulsion force to move the boat body;
- an operator that operates the propulsion device;
- a positional sensor that detects a current position of the boat body;
- and
- a controller configured or programmed to execute an automatic shore arrival control to control the propulsion device so as to move the boat body toward a target position;
- wherein
- the controller is configured or programmed to end the automatic shore arrival control when the operator is positioned in a non-neutral position that differs from a neutral position and when the current position of the boat body has moved out of a predetermined area;
- and
- the target position is within the predetermined area.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.