US 11,981,408 B2
Method and device for data transmission on board a watercraft
Martin Sommer, Hamburg (DE); and Leonard Fisser, Hamburg (DE)
Assigned to ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH, Kiel (DE); and thyssenkrupp AG, Essen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/267,536
Filed by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems GmbH, Kiel (DE); and thyssenkrupp AG, Essen (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 30, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/073196
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/048884, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 12, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 215 086.9 (DE), filed on Sep. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0316829 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. B63B 79/40 (2020.01); G05B 19/042 (2006.01); H04B 3/54 (2006.01)
CPC B63B 79/40 (2020.01) [G05B 19/042 (2013.01); H04B 3/542 (2013.01); H04B 3/548 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2637 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5445 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A watercraft comprising:
a first controllable electrical consumer module configured to process an instruction;
a central control unit configured to generate the instruction for the first controllable electrical consumer module;
a power supply network configured to supply electricity to the first controllable electrical consumer module; and
a data connection system including
a first head station,
a first coupling module,
a first control unit-head station data connection between the central control unit and the first head station, wherein the first head station is configured to convert the instruction that is transmitted via the first control unit-head station data connection into an instruction signal that is transmittable via the power supply network,
a first head station-power line data connection between the first head station and the power supply network,
a first coupling module-power line data connection between the first coupling module and the power supply network, and
a first coupling module-consumer data connection between the first coupling module and the first controllable electrical consumer module,
wherein the first coupling module is configured to convert the instruction signal transmitted via the power supply network into the instruction that is transmittable via one or more of the data connections,
wherein the watercraft is configured to transmit:
the instruction from the central control unit via the first control unit-head station data connection to the first head station,
the instruction as the instruction signal from the first head station via the first head station-power line data connection, the power supply network, and the first coupling module-power line data connection to the first coupling module, and
the instruction from the first coupling module via the first coupling module-consumer data connection to the first controllable electrical consumer module.