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US 2010/0250122 A1Published application
Sail assist device
AssigneeFuruno Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsYugo KUBOTA, Hiroshi Yoshii, Ikuo Ezaki
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Abstract
This disclosure provides a sail assist device, which includes a wind direction sensor for measuring a wind direction, a ship position acquiring module for acquiring a latitude and a longitude of the ship, and a display module for calculating a layline based on the latitude and longitude of the ship, a latitude and a longitude of a target position of the ship, and the wind direction, with the target position being a reference, and displaying a target mark indicating the target, a ship mark indicating the ship, and the layline.
Claims8
A sail assist device comprising:
- a wind direction sensor for measuring a wind direction;
- a ship position acquiring module for acquiring a latitude and a longitude of the ship;
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- a display module for calculating a layline based on the latitude and longitude of the ship, a latitude and a longitude of a target position of the ship, and the wind direction, with the target position being a reference, and displaying a target mark indicating the target, a ship mark indicating the ship, and the layline.
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