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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7447116 | Dynamic underwater position tracking of small objects A system, method and program product for tracking the depth of small objects in which a transmitter is connected to a fishing line. The transmitter includes a sensor for measuring water pressure and transmits the pressure measurements to a receiver at a location rem... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7327636 | Underwater sounding apparatus and method capable of calculating fish school information, volume of fish school and backscattering strength of single fish An underwater sounding apparatus includes a transducer transmitting an acoustic sounding beam along a plurality of directional surfaces that intersect in three-dimensions and receiving echoes returning from within a fish school using receiving beams. The transducer ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7259660 | Device for determining the passability of a vehicle A device for determining the ability of a vehicle to pass obstacles is used to estimate whether a vehicle is able to pass between obstacles on the basis of the vehicle height and/or vehicle width. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7227623 | Method and apparatus for standardization of a measuring instrument A method, a portable device and a measuring instrument for standardization of a satellite measuring instrument to a corresponding master measuring instrument are disclosed. The portable device includes a device for containing a reference material, and an information... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7203131 | Pixel display method and apparatus A liquid crystal display (LCD) for a sonar depth-finding device includes a matrix of pixels, each pixel having a first dimension and a second dimension greater than the first dimension such that a ratio of the second dimension to the first dimension is approximately... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7161872 | Fishing data display device A fish depth monitor is a device that can display first water depth data that indicates the location of terminal tackle that is engaged on fishing line reeled out from a spool, and second water depth data that indicates the location of the bottom of a fishing locati... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7131231 | Multi-function electronic fishing float A multi-function electronic fishing float having an identification number automatically generates radio frequency (RF) signals, if a fish takes bait or is hooked. The generated RF signal is sent to a receiver, and an angler can clearly identify a sign of a fish's bi... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7113449 | Marine electronics with lure depth analyzer A lure depth analyzer includes a digital processor, a lure analyzer data structure, a user interface having a display and user inputs to input and display variables relating to fishing lures. The database relates specific lures to running depth, length of line, and ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7108213 | Fishing reel, fishing information display device, and fishing information display system An electric reel is furnished with an information communication unit is adapted for transmitting first information concerning the reel to an external fishing information display device. The information communication unit is adapted for receiving second information c... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7057972 | Flasher type fish sonar A flasher type fish sonar includes a case, a circuit board mounted in the case, and a motor attached to the circuit board and including a rotary shaft. A light conducting disk is fixed to the rotary shaft and includes a projecting portion for mounting the light cond... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7047132 | Mobile vehicle sensor array An improved sensor array for a mobile vehicle. The vehicle includes a centerline parallel to a vehicle velocity vector. The sensor array comprises a first sensor mounted to the mobile vehicle at a maximum lateral distance from the centerline near a first side of mob... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6980484 | Fish finding device and method for detecting and distinguishing marine life from a sonar reflected marker An improved fish finding device and method for detecting and distinguishing marine life from a sonar reflected marker that generates artificial echoes comprises steps of 1. transmitting of sonar waves 2. receiving of sonar echoes 3. distinguishing the sonar echoes r... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980688 | Method and apparatus for investigating integrity of structural member A method for investigating structural integrity utilizes a carrier member having a flexible surface and a plurality of electromechanical transducer elements attached to the carrier member, the transducer elements being spaced from each other along at least two spati... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6967414 | Power line isolation An electrical system for a vehicle such as a truck wherein a power source is split or divided into a plurality of branch power lines to transmit power and data to a variety of systems and subsystems throughout the vehicle, each line having a fuse and a filter so tha... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6934218 | Sounding device for showing its location on a fish detector A sounding device for showing its location on a sonar fish detector including a sonar wave receiving unit (10) to detect the sonar signal, a sonar wave producing unit (20) to simulate the reflection of the sonar wave from the fish, a control unit (3... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6907779 | Continuous flow measurement recorder and recording method A continuous flow measurement recorder is provided for making water flow measurements in an open channel. An ultrasonic sensor obtains pressure head measurements upstream from a flume or weir located in the open channel. A central processing unit receives the head m... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908386 | Game device changing sound and an image in accordance with a tilt operation Character data including an image generation program, image data, a sound program, and sound data, which are previously determined for each of characters used in a game, is stored in a game device 10. A controller 12 having a built-in tilt sensor 12... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6791902 | Portable fish finder A portable fish finder device with a housing that defines a wrap cavity for receiving a signal cable that communicates between a depth finder device and a transducer attached to the water craft. A skirt connected to the housing moves between a first position coverin... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6771562 | Fish finding method and system A buoy to shore fish finding system has a buoyant station with a sonar transmitter, a sonar receiver, a sonar to electric signal transducer and a radio transmitter all controlled by a microprocessor. The system shore station has a radio receiver and signal display c... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6628569 | Fishfinder device with integrated controller A fishfinder device (10) with an integrated controller (11) for simplified operation, in which a control switch (20) causes a display (14) to present in a looping sequence an identifier (64) associated with each of a plurality of operational features (74)... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6595315 | Underwater detecting apparatus, depth measuring apparatus and display apparatus A screen on which water depth information obtained from an echo signal is historically displayed and a screen on which fish school detection information obtained from an echo signal is displayed, are displayed side by side on a display screen of a display... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6466891 | System for providing an estimate of the location of an undersea object A system is disclosed that provides. a sonar operator with the most likely range to a target of interest. The system generates and displays a contour based on ship's parameters, target parameters, environmental data, and operator parameters. The sonar ope... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6198692 | Apparatus suitable for searching objects in water A fish finder having two 1D transducer arrays vertically arranged on a ship's hull. Each 1D transducer array provides a beam having a narrow width on a plane parallel to a plane in the transducer arrangement direction, and a fan-like beam on a plane cross... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6128576 | Obstruction detecting apparatus In the obstruction detection apparatus incorporated in a vehicle (11), ultrasonic wave transmitter/receiver (16 to 19 171) for changing a combination of transmitting of ultrasonic waves and of receiving of reflected ultrasonic waves, a CPU (20) calculates... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6009044 | Fish sonar Two digital reflectional signals of different depth ranges are displayed on two divided pictures in a display, whereby the conditions of the water and the bottom in the lake or pond can be detected. Therefore, the fish sonar is suitable for fishing for bl... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5999490 | Flasher type fish sonar Reflected digital signals of a surface of the water, fish and a bottom are displayed by a usual scale on a half portion of the display board, reflected digital signals of fish and a bottom are reversely read from the second buffer function and are display... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5973997 | Flasher type fish sonar An ultrasonic wave having a narrow directive angle and an ultrasonic wave having a wide directive angle are transmitted in water by two ultrasonic transducers, echo signals to the ultrasonic waves having the narrow and wide angles are displayed by the two... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5926438 | Hand-held LCD fish finder A hand-held LCD game machine is used as a hand-held LCD fish finder, in addition to its original game functions. Instead of a typical ROM game cassette, another device, which includes a cassette portion, a main body, and a float sensor having an ultrasoni... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5805528 | Underwater detection system An underwater detection system for displaying underwater conditions over a large area around a ship comprises a linear array type transducer, a transducer training mechanism for rotating the transducer stepwise in a horizontal plane, a receiver which form... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5675552 | Sonar apparatus having a steerable beam A sonar apparatus using a phased array technique for steering an acoustical beam for scanning an underwater area. The sonar apparatus includes a scanning transducer having multiple elements for transmitting and steering the acoustical beam and receiving i... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5594707 | Fish finder A receiver converts an echo received by a transducer to a supersonic echo signal, and a controller measures the depth of obstacles depending on a timing for receiving the supersonic echo signal, obtains an echo level according to quantity of the supersoni... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5537380 | Sonar system having an interactive sonar viewing apparatus and method of configuring same A sonar system includes an interactive sonar viewing apparatus for facilitating operator selection of a variety of features. The interactive sonar viewing apparatus can include a screen display for displaying a graphical representation of characterization... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5327398 | Fishfinder with readout of bottom coverage A fishfinder having a real time or A-scope display with a numerical readout indicating the diameter of the transducer beam on the bottom of the water body. Further, an indicia indicating the position of the boat and downwardly diverging lines correspondin... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5260912 | Side-looking fish finder A side-looking fish finding apparatus transmits a sonar pulse approximately horizontally into a body of water, and then monitors echoes from the pulse. The time interval between successive sonar pulses is varied in a random manner in order to permit two o... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5184330 | Multi-beam sonar fish detection apparatus providing real-time three-dimensional wire-frame display representation A sonar depth sounder system is provided in which a plurality of elements are combined to form a sonar transducer capable of generating a plurality of narrow overlapping beams and receiving sonar echoes. The sonar return information is filtered, amplified... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5159579 | Apparatus for encoding fishfinder image information and transmission method When a signal from a calling device is received by a remote-located fishfinder, the fishfinder emits supersonic waves to a body of water below it and receives reflected waves from a fish shoal as an analog signal. Fish shoal information is expressed by th... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5127352 | Flasher display sonar depth sounder non-intrusion sensor A small motor powered boat guidance system is disclosed and includes an arrangement for sensing the vertical distance between the boat and the bottom of a body of water in which the boat is floating and for providing a visual indication of the sensed vert... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5065371 | Depth finder having variable measurement capabilities A depth finder utilizing a CPU to control the function of various components including a transducer, receiver, and a liquid crystal display, allowing a user to select between fresh and salt water operational modes as well as between English and metric dis... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5045856 | Vehicular anticollision radar system for driving in the fog The space ahead of a moving vehicle is irradiated in sectors (A-G) by a plurality of CW solid state radar devices mounted as an array across the front of the vehicle, such that adjacent lobes of each beam may overlap. The radar signal comprises a CW beam ... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5043727 | Display system for marine vessel A first embodiment of the invention provides a display system which is adapted to be embodied in a marine vessel having marine propulsion unit which is pivotally attached thereto for trim movement about a generally horizontally extending trim axis. The di... | 08/27/1991 |
