Vessel running information display control system

• US 5,063,381 A
• Filed: 02/28/1990
• Issued: 11/05/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Sanshin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Ito, Saburo
• Primary Examiner(s): Ng, Jin F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Swarthout, Brent A.
• Application Number:
  US07/486,250
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 340/984, 340/987, 340/461, 340/438, 340/459, 340/980, 340/973, 367/107, 367/110, 367/111, 440/2, 364/424.01, 364/424.03
• US Class Current: 340/984
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 49/00 Arrangements of nautical instruments or navigational aids nautical measuring instruments G01C; radio navigation, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S
• CPC Class Codes: B63J 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means

Abstract

A vessel display system that is operative to provide a display both of vehicle operating conditions and extraneous operating conditions. A switching arrangement allows the operator to select either the display of the external condition except during initial operation and when there is an abnormal condition in which case the vehicle running condition is displayed or a condition wherein the vehicle running condition is continuously displayed.

Claims

1. A vessel display system comprising a first output device for sensing a vehicle operating condition within a normal range and an abnormal condition and providing first output signals representative of a normal condition within the normal range and an abnormal condition when outside of the normal range, a second output device providing a second output signal of other information than the vehicle operating condition, a single display means for displaying information from said signals, and control means for switching said display means from a first condition wherein one of the first output signals is displayed during initial vehicle operation and in the event of an abnormal condition and wherein the second output signal is displayed at all other times and a second condition wherein one of the first output signals is displayed at all times.

2. A vessel display system as set forth in claim 1 wherein there are a plurality of additional second output devices each providing a respective output signal indicative of information other than vehicle information other than the other information supplied by said second output device, and a plurality of additional displays each receiving and displaying a respective one of the second output device signals, a plurality of additional first output devices sensing vehicle operating conditions other than that sensed by the first mentioned first output device and displayed on a respective one of said additional displays.

3. A vessel display system as set forth in claim 2 wherein only the abnormal condition is displayed on a given display in the event of an abnormal condition sensed by a respective first output device, and means for causing the other displays also to provide a warning signal while continuing to provide the output of the respective second output signal so long as their associated first output device does not have an abnormal condition.