US 12,420,904 B1
Marine vessel ventilation system
Robert Darron Roop, Virginia Beach, VA (US)
Assigned to Shorebreak, LLC, Virginia Beach, VA (US)
Filed by Shorebreak, LLC, Virginia Beach, VA (US)
Filed on Mar. 12, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/078,080.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/564,315, filed on Mar. 12, 2024.
Int. Cl. B63J 2/02 (2006.01); B63B 19/00 (2006.01)
CPC B63J 2/02 (2013.01) [B63B 2019/0046 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
by a marine vessel having a hardtop structure disposed about a helm area that includes a support structure coupled to both a console structure and a seamless windshield structure, wherein the seamless windshield structure is disposed between the helm area and a bow area and the hardtop structure extends from the helm area to the bow area, the hardtop structure having a ventilation system that includes an airflow cavity disposed in the hardtop structure with an inlet aperture configured to receive airflow from the bow area and an outlet aperture configured to direct airflow into the helm area, the airflow cavity being configured to enable airflow from the inlet aperture to the outlet aperture, the ventilation system further including an inlet or outlet vent structure,
controlling, by a controller device operationally coupled to the inlet or outlet vent structure, the airflow entering or exiting the inlet or outlet aperture.