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US 9,902,475 B2Granted
Methods, systems, and devices for managing mooring sites
OwnerSusan Waldropinventor
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Abstract
A remote controlled lighted mooring beacon is adapted to be secured to a mooring site. The beacon may include various features, such as a central shaft, a ballast at the base of the shaft containing at least one power source, a float, an electronics package having a receiver that responds to a wireless code for generating an activation signal, and a 360 degree viewable high intensity light source.
Claims18
A system for identifying a mooring site, the system comprising:
- a plurality of mooring beacons, wherein each mooring beacon is assigned to a different mooring site, each mooring beacon including:
- a receiver adapted to receive a wireless activation signal for activating a high intensity light source thereon, said mooring beacon fixedly attached to said mooring site;
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- a head end control device comprising a plurality of remote control devices for wirelessly transmitting said activation signal to said receiver to activate said high intensity light source, whereby the mooring site can be identified by activating a corresponding mooring beacon among the plurality of mooring beacons.
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A system for locating a mooring site, the system comprising:
- a first mooring beacon configured to connect to the mooring site, the first mooring site comprising:
- a central shaft of a mooring stick;
- a ballast at the base of said shaft containing at least one power source which supplies the ballast for the mooring stick;
- a float surrounding a middle portion of the mooring stick and located along said shaft between the top of said shaft and said ballast;
- a 360 degree viewable high intensity light source on top of said shaft being daylight visible and activated by an activation signal;
- an electronics package located on said shaft including a receiver that responds to a wireless frequency or a code for generating the activation signal, wherein the electronics package is configured to allow a user to program the high intensity light source to change from a first flash sequence to emit a second flash sequence, wherein the first flash sequence is different than the second flash sequence;
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- a conductor connected from the at least one power source in said ballast to said electronics package and light source for the powering thereof;
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- a first wireless remote control device configured to transmit the wireless frequency or code to generate the activation signal of the first mooring beacon.
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A system for managing a plurality of mooring sites, the system comprising:
- a mooring site having an attached mooring beacon, the mooring beacon having a 360 degree viewable light source thereon and a receiver;
- a mooring site management device for wirelessly transmitting an activation signal to said receiver to activate said high intensity light source;
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- a user device for sending and receiving signal to the mooring site management device and for wirelessly transmitting an activation signal to said receiver to activate said high intensity light source.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.