Marine steering apparatus
AssigneeSanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyoichi Nakase, Masayoshi Nanami
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Abstract
A combined manual and automatic steering for a watercraft wherein there is provided an automatic steering control and a manual steering control that is operative to override the automatic control upon manual operator actuation.
Claims15
In a steering system comprising a steered member, a single power device for operating said steered member, an automatic control device for providing a first source of power operating said single power device for placing said steered member in a position set by an operator, and manual steering means for providing a second source of power manually operating said single power device for positioning said steering member in response to a manual operator control and independent of said automatic control device and means responsive to the operation of said manual steering means for disabling said automatic control device from applying said first source of power for operating said single power device so that said second source of power does not have to overpower said first source of power to effect manual control.
In a steering system comprising a steered member, a fluid motor for operating said steered member, an automatic control device for supplying fluid under pressure from a first fluid pump for placing said steered member in a position set by an operator, and manual steering means including a manually operable fluid pump for manually operating said fluid motor for positioning said steering member in response to a manual operator control and means responsive to operation of said manual steering means for precluding fluid communication between said first fluid pump and said fluid motor.
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