US 12,258,107 B2
Overboard detection system, and watercraft including the overboard detection system
Naoju Takano, Shizuoka (JP); and Makoto Ito, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shizuoka (JP)
Filed by YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Iwata (JP)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/120,450.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-040092 (JP), filed on Mar. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294804 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B63C 9/00 (2006.01); B63B 21/24 (2006.01); B63B 45/02 (2006.01); B63B 45/08 (2006.01); B63B 79/40 (2020.01); B63H 21/21 (2006.01)
CPC B63C 9/0005 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An overboard detection system comprising:
a fob to be carried by a user on a watercraft;
an overboard sensor to detect a user overboard event when the user carrying the fob falls overboard;
an input operable by an occupant on the watercraft other than the user; and
a communicator on the watercraft to wirelessly communicate with the fob; wherein when a rescue intention notification command is inputted from the input, the communicator is operable to transmit a rescue intention notification data, other than voice signals, indicating a rescue intention to the fob carried by the user involved in the overboard event;
the fob includes a transmitter to provide the rescue intention notification to the overboard user upon reception of the rescue intention notification data; and
the transmitter is operable to generate at least one of sound, light, or vibration, other than voice, to provide the rescue intention notification to the overboard user.