US 12,223,828 B2
System for and method of controlling watercraft
Hidehiko Harada, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Iwata (JP)
Filed on Dec. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/079,032.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-062135 (JP), filed on Apr. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0312071 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G08C 17/02 (2006.01); B63H 20/12 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/40 (2006.01)
CPC G08C 17/02 (2013.01) [H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H02J 7/0063 (2013.01); H04L 12/40 (2013.01); B63H 20/12 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40215 (2013.01); H04L 2012/40286 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for controlling a watercraft, the system comprising:
a data communication module to perform wireless communication with an external computer;
a device system connected to the data communication module and including at least one electric device;
an electric power supply including a battery and operable to provide electric power to the data communication module and the device system; and
a controller configured or programmed to control providing electric power to the data communication module and the device system by the electric power supply; wherein
the controller is configured or programmed to switch between a first mode and a second mode;
the controller is configured or programmed to provide electric power to the data communication module by the electric power supply in the first mode during both activation and deactivation of the device system; and
the controller is configured or programmed to provide electric power to the data communication module by the electric power supply in the second mode during the activation of the device system, and to stop providing electric power to the data communication module by the electric power supply in the second mode during the deactivation of the device system.