Brunswick Corporation

John T Ledden

Robert P Macias

Chetan Avinash Dharmadhikari

John N Oenick

Clint Szumal

Grant Shane

A thermal management system for a marine vessel. The thermal management system includes an open loop circuit and a pump that pumps water from a body of water, through the open loop circuit, and back to the body of water. The thermal management system further includes a closed loop circuit and a pump that pumps a heat transfer fluid through the closed loop circuit. A heat exchanger is configured to exchange heat between the water and the heat transfer fluid. The thermal management system includes multiple components each cooled or heated by the heat transfer fluid. A valve has valve positions configured to vary a sequence that the heat transfer fluid is conveyed to the components so as to vary how the components share the heating and cooling from the heat transfer fluid and from the water from the body of water via the heat transfer fluid.

Thermal management systems and methods for thermally managing components for marine vessels

An electrical system for a marine vessel. The electrical system includes a power supply that produces an output. A powered device is electrically coupled to the power supply, where the powered device receives an incoming power from the power supply. An analysis module determines a difference between the output of the power supply and the incoming power received by the powered device. The analysis module compares the determined difference to a first threshold and generates a first signal when the determined difference exceeds the first threshold.

Systems and methods for monitoring electrical systems of marine vessels

A method for automatically reducing the power consumed by devices from a power source having a limited amount of power. The method includes determining with a control system which of the devices is consuming the power. The method further includes identifying a candidate device among the devices to tentatively control to reduce the power consumed by the candidate device. The method further includes accessing a power control model, where the power control model includes pairings of the candidate device with complementary devices among the devices, and where the devices in each of the pairings consume the power in a related pattern. The method further includes controlling the candidate device to reduce the power consumed thereby only when each of the complementary devices in each of the pairings in the power control model are determined to be in a non-power consuming state.

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Edgewater, FL, United States of America

John T Ledden