Marine vessel maneuvering system and marine vessel
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKento SAKURADA
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Abstract
A marine vessel maneuvering system includes an operator, propulsion device controllers each configured or programmed to control driving of a respective propulsion device based on an operation signal from the operator, a first communication bus to transmit the operation signal to some of the propulsion device controllers, a second communication bus to transmit the operation signal to a remainder of the propulsion device controllers excluding the some of the propulsion device controllers, and a gateway device to connect the first communication bus to the second communication bus such that the first communication bus and the second communication bus communicate with each other.
Claims20
A marine vessel maneuvering system comprising:
- an operator to receive an operation to drive a plurality of propulsion devices attached to a hull;
- a plurality of propulsion device controllers, one for each of the plurality of propulsion devices, configured or programmed to control driving of the plurality of propulsion devices based on an operation signal from the operator;
- a first communication bus to transmit the operation signal to some, but not all, of the plurality of propulsion device controllers;
- a second communication bus to transmit the operation signal to remaining propulsion device controllers excluding the some of the plurality of propulsion device controllers;
- and
- a gateway device to connect the first communication bus to the second communication bus such that the first communication bus and the second communication bus communicate with each other.
A marine vessel comprising:
- a hull;
- and
- a marine vessel maneuvering system provided on the hull;
- wherein
- the marine vessel maneuvering system includes:
- an operator to receive an operation to drive a plurality of propulsion devices attached to the hull;
- a plurality of propulsion device controllers, one for each of the plurality of propulsion devices, configured or programmed to control driving of the plurality of propulsion devices based on an operation signal from the operator;
- a first communication bus to transmit the operation signal to some, but not all, of the plurality of propulsion device controllers;
- a second communication bus to transmit the operation signal to remaining propulsion device controllers excluding the some of the plurality of propulsion device controllers;
- and
- a gateway device to connect the first communication bus to the second communication bus such that the first communication bus and the second communication bus communicate with each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.