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Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2019
Applicant:

Japan Hamworthy & Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Kazushi Tomita, Osaka, JP;

Hirotaka Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 3/02 (2006.01); B63B 43/18 (2006.01); B63H 25/06 (2006.01); B63H 25/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 3/02 (2013.01); B63B 43/18 (2013.01); B63H 25/06 (2013.01); B63H 25/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

In collision-avoidance maneuvering in congested waters, an own ship is decelerated by astern power. The own ship is continuously navigated on a current target course with a propulsion propeller always rotated forward at the stern of the own ship. The astern power is generated as the propulsion of a propeller slipstream with rudder angles formed at a pair of right and left high-lift rudders disposed behind the propulsion propeller. In the decelerating maneuvering, the rudder angles formed at the high-lift rudders are controlled within a range from a rudder angle for applying a maximum propeller slipstream as the astern power to a rudder angle for eliminating the ahead power of the propeller slipstream, and the deceleration of the own ship is controlled by changing the astern power according to the rudder angles.


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