CN107428493B

CN107428493B - Exclusive use method and device for elevator

Info

Publication number: CN107428493B
Application number: CN201480082038.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 许军; 许显斌
Original assignee: Fuzhou Champions League Innovation Industrial Design Co Ltd
Current assignee: Fuzhou Ouguan Innovation Industrial Design Co.,Ltd.
Priority date: 2014-09-20
Filing date: 2014-12-30
Publication date: 2020-02-11
Anticipated expiration: 2034-12-30
Also published as: CN111252636A; WO2016042369A1; GB201604708D0; CN111186733A; CN107428493A; CN105873846A; CN111268521B; CN111285211A; CN111268521A; GB201512746D0; WO2016042370A1; CN107318263A; GB201604707D0; WO2016042363A3; CN111186732A; WO2016042363A2

Abstract

An exclusive use method for elevator is disclosed, which relates to more than two elevators running in network, and is characterized by that an elevator control system is used to control the operation of elevator, and said elevator has two operation states of shared operation state and exclusive operation state, and said elevator control system can receive the active 'exclusive' request call of user to make the elevator enter the exclusive operation state, and after the exclusive time period is over, said elevator can be automatically restored to shared operation state, or said elevator control system can monitor the operation state of elevator, and can conclude that the exclusive situation exists, and can make the elevator enter the exclusive operation state, and after the exclusive situation disappears, it can be switched back to shared operation state. An apparatus for an elevator to receive an exclusive request is also disclosed.

Description

Exclusive use method and device for elevator

Technical Field

The invention relates to an elevator using method. In particular, the invention relates to a method for exclusive use of an elevator.

Background

Conventional elevator call buttons are typically located on both sides of the elevator doors in the elevator cab. The buttons of the elevator room on each floor are only two buttons of up button and down button. While the uppermost and lowermost floors typically have only a "down" or "up" button.

Fig. 1 shows a conventional distribution of elevator operating buttons.

The commands obtained by the

control panels

11, 12 and 13 of different floors of the elevator room are respectively transmitted to the command input component 30; the commands from the operating panel 20 in the elevator car are also transmitted to the command input unit 30.

In this mode of operation, the person waiting for the elevator tells the elevator to which floor, two operations are generally required: pressing an up button or a down button outside the elevator; a floor button is pressed in the elevator.

For the dispatch system of elevators each button call should have a clear meaning. While the "up" and "down" buttons are not clear in meaning.

In elevator use, such a situation sometimes occurs: people laboriously carry articles to enter the elevator, and the occupied time is long; at this time, other people waiting for the elevator can only be in urgency by the side. For a group of elevators running in a network, the other elevator is not dispatched to respond to "other calls" because the elevator dispatching system does not know more about the waiting people-in fact, it is not possible for the elevator dispatching system to recognize "other calls" and it can only recognize that there is a call on a certain floor.

Sometimes elevator users need to monopolize the elevator. For example, it is not desirable to have others with ladders to handle fragile or scented objects, or for other reasons. However, during times when the elevator is busy, the caller will often find it impossible to wait for an empty elevator at all.

Disclosure of Invention

To solve the problem of the exclusive requirement, a trigger mechanism must be designed so that the elevator control system can know the exclusive requirement of the caller or deduce the fact exclusive condition of the elevator.

Some special call buttons, such as "big goods" or "exclusive request" buttons, are disclosed in the priority-claiming international patent application PCT/IB 2014/064694. The present application provides a complete description of the mechanisms and methods of making an exclusive request based on this concept.

One, actively requesting monopolizing

The invention adds the exclusive request option in the elevator call request to realize the purpose that the caller actively puts forward the exclusive request.

The elevator exclusive call method claimed by the invention is characterized in that, in addition to the conventional method of calling an elevator, there is a call option so that the caller can make an exclusive request.

The manner in which the exclusive request is issued may be many.

Setting an "exclusive request" button in the elevator car is one way; the wireless receiving device can be adopted to cooperate with mobile terminals such as a smart phone, a tablet computer and the like to provide an exclusive request; a special contact or non-contact exclusive request sensing area can be adopted to match with a corresponding sensing card. The key point is that the elevator control system must reserve an interface capable of accepting 'exclusive request' in the input part of the call signal or the operation signal. The above-mentioned button, wireless receiving device or sensing area for receiving the exclusive request are connected to the interface.

When an exclusive request is accepted by the elevator dispatching system, the elevator dispatched to respond to the exclusive call request is in an exclusive use state.

It should be noted that the exclusive use state, or exclusive operation state, is a special operation state, and is different from the maintenance state of the elevator. When an elevator is in exclusive operation, the elevator does not respond to other calls. At this point, the elevator dispatching system will schedule other elevators to respond to other calls.

The elevator exclusive run state can be further described in terms of a sub-exclusive state of three periods.

It is assumed whether the elevator is exclusively represented by the state "0" or "1".

"0" represents the elevator is in the "shared" state;

"1" represents the elevator is in the exclusive state.

The elevator can be divided into three periods from responding to an exclusive request to transporting an exclusive requester to a destination floor:

1) and (3) receiving: responding to the exclusive request call, arriving at the caller floor, opening the door, and waiting for the caller to enter;

2) operation: after the elevator door is closed, the elevator reaches the destination floor of the exclusive request caller;

3) unloading: the elevator door is opened and the person who monopolizes the elevator leaves the elevator.

The elevator operation mode is as follows:

the non-exclusive operation mode is the normal operation mode of the elevator. The elevators are always in a "shared" state.

In the global exclusive mode, the elevator responsible for responding to the exclusive request is not present relative to other call requests. The "common" state is restored only after this elevator has completed the exclusive requested delivery task.

The local exclusive mode can have 6 combination modes theoretically; listed here are three modes that are practical; they have in common that at the time of the pick-up, the elevator is in the exclusive state.

The elevator can respond to other calls during the operation period, and the elevator is in the exclusive state during the unloading period, because the unloading period can take a longer time and can affect other passengers in the elevator, the reasonable scheme is that the elevator only responds to the calls with the destinations before or at the same destination as the exclusive requester during the operation period, and the direction of the calls also needs to be consistent with the direction of the exclusive requester, namely, the calls with the routes covered in the exclusive persons, and the selective sharing state, or the limited sharing state, is represented by 0 ＊ (local exclusive one ＊).

Local monopolizing is two: the elevator is exclusive only during the time period of pick-up (referring to exclusive caller) and is no longer in exclusive state during the run and unload periods.

Local monopolizing is three: the elevator is exclusive in the receiving and running periods, and becomes a public state in the unloading period.

In the aforesaid several local exclusive modes, whether the elevator enters the "sharing" state in the "running" period or not, i.e. the call request of the floor passing through in the middle can be received, and there are several decision ways.

1) The exclusive user needs to be exclusively owned in the whole range, and a request of continuing exclusive can be provided in the elevator. This can be done either by a "continue exclusive" request button in the elevator car or by a dedicated "continue exclusive" sensing card triggering a "continue exclusive" sensing zone in the elevator car at a short distance.

2) The elevator control system judges whether to continue monopolizing or not according to the time occupied by the elevator in the 'pick-up' time interval and the bearing information in the elevator acquired by the elevator monitoring system. If the elevator spends a relatively large amount of time in the "pick-up" period, it can be reasonably concluded that the elevator spends a relatively large amount of time in the "unload" period, affecting other passengers who have entered the elevator but have not yet reached the destination; and also the waiting time of passengers waiting for the elevator on the subsequent floors is too long. Only those passengers whose travel is covered by the exclusive person will receive no influence.

Second, passively triggering exclusivity

We also need to note a special exclusive state: "Exclusive fact".

For existing elevators, even if there is no mechanism to actively issue an "exclusive" request, we can monitor and determine the existence of the "de facto exclusive" state by some internal mechanism and make scheduling adjustments.

The "virtual exclusive" state refers to a state in which, when an elevator stops at a certain floor, although no "exclusive" request has been issued from the floor (one of possible cases is that there is no mechanism for actively issuing the "exclusive" request), the elevator door is continuously opened or continuously opened and closed, and cannot be effectively closed for a long time. This typically occurs in two situations: 1) people need to carry a large amount of or large articles to enter the elevator, and the elevator door needs to be kept open for a long time; at the moment, the closing of the elevator door is usually interfered manually; 2) the elevator door is in an accidental situation, so that the elevator door cannot be closed in time.

There are two decisions that can be made by the elevator control system: 1) whether the elevator door is closed or not can be automatically monitored; 2) the limit of the waiting time period, i.e., how long it is impossible to close the door, is determined as "virtual exclusive". This time period can be set as desired, for example, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes.

Monitoring and determining the establishment of the "de facto exclusive" state enables the elevator dispatching system to dispatch other elevators in time to respond to other calls. Here, the other calls also include subsequent calls of floors where "exclusive fact" occurs, i.e. calls that occur after the elevator dispatching system determines that there is "exclusive fact".

For a linked elevator group, an elevator control system can arrange or judge which elevator enters an exclusive state, so that reasonable response scheduling is performed on other elevator call requests, and the elevator control system is very important for improving the satisfaction degree of elevator users.

In conclusion, the exclusive use method of the elevator claimed by the invention relates to more than two elevators which are operated in a network manner, and an elevator control system is responsible for dispatching and operating the elevators; it is characterized in that the elevator has two running states: a shared operating state and an exclusive operating state; the switching between the two operation states is realized by the following trigger mechanism:

1) a user outside the elevator actively calls an exclusive request, and the elevator control system assigns one elevator to respond to the request and enters an exclusive running state; after the exclusive time period corresponding to the 'exclusive' request is ended, the elevator automatically removes the exclusive running state and restores to the shared running state;

2) a user in an elevator car sends a request of 'continuously monopolizing', the elevator control system keeps the elevator in an monopolizing operation state until the elevator automatically removes the monopolizing operation state and restores to a sharing operation state after the monopolizing time period corresponding to the request of 'continuously monopolizing';

3) the elevator control system deduces that the elevator with the fact monopolizing situation is in the state of monopolizing the elevator by analyzing the elevator running state information obtained in real time; when the de-facto exclusive situation disappears, the elevator is switched back to the shared operating state.

The invention also claims a device for receiving the exclusive request of the elevator, which relates to more than two elevators operating in a network, and the elevator is dispatched and operated by an elevator control system; the elevator control system reserves an interface capable of receiving an exclusive request at a call signal or operation signal input part, and the device for receiving the exclusive request is connected with the interface for receiving the exclusive request; wherein the means for receiving an exclusive request is one of:

1) an "exclusive request" button 80 provided in the elevator car;

2) the wireless receiving device arranged in the building can receive an exclusive request provided by a user through a mobile terminal such as a smart phone and a tablet personal computer;

3) a special contact or non-contact exclusive request sensing area arranged in the elevator room can receive an exclusive request provided by a corresponding sensing card;

4) a "continue exclusive" button 90 or a dedicated contact or contactless "continue exclusive" sensing zone 91 is provided in the elevator car.

Drawings

Fig. 1 shows a conventional distribution of elevator operating buttons.

Fig. 2 shows a basic logical structure of the present invention.

Figure 3 shows an embodiment of the invention.

In the figure, 80 is an "exclusive request" button, or "exclusive request" sensing zone, on the elevator outer call panel; 90 is a "continue exclusive" request button on a control panel inside the elevator car.

Fig. 4 shows a situation in which a "continue exclusive" sensing device is used in the car.

Fig. 5 is an elevator out-call control panel for inputting information on the number of waiting persons in combination with "+" - "buttons.

Wherein 1000 is a waiting people number display area, 2000 is a "+" - "button; 80 is an "exclusive request" button, or "exclusive request" sensing area, on the call panel.

Fig. 6 shows an embodiment in which the elevator call information collection area 200 is separated from the elevator running information display area 100.

Wherein, the information 1000 of the number of passengers waiting for calling to be going to each destination floor is displayed on the elevator operation information display area 100; the information acquisition area 200 is provided with an information acquisition input area 201 and an information acquisition prompt area 202.

Fig. 7 is a schematic view of an information acquisition area.

The information acquisition input area 201 includes conventional numbers "0" - "9" as well as "OK" (OK) and "C" (cancel) buttons. Also included on the panel is a special call button 80 or "exclusive request" sensing area such as "exclusive request". Other special buttons, such as "big goods", may be considered to meet special needs.

In the information collection prompt area 202, a collection prompt and display 2021 of the destination floor number and a collection prompt and display 2022 of the number of passengers are included.

Fig. 8 adds a more complex information acquisition area to that of fig. 7. After the caller normally inputs the information of the floor and the number of people, the elevator control system feeds back an elevator assignment information (which elevator to wait) and an estimated waiting time prompt in the information feedback area 203. Of course, callers who have made "exclusive requests" will also get this feedback information.

Fig. 9 is an embodiment employing a sliding touch input mode. There are 5 data display bits (5001, 5002, 5003, 5004 and 5005) on touchpad 5000; 6001 is a floor information area to be confirmed, and 6002 is a person number information area to be confirmed. 80 is an "exclusive request" button, or "exclusive request" sensing area, on the call panel.

Detailed description of the preferred embodiments

The first embodiment is as follows: unambiguous call button, comprising "Exclusive request" button

FIG. 3 shows a basic embodiment of the invention: an unambiguous call button, plus an "exclusive request" button. There is no "up" or "down" button in the elevator call buttons, nor is there a button corresponding to the floor number at the floor where each caller is located. Specifically, the hall call button located on floor 2 includes floor number buttons corresponding to floors other than floor 2; that is, there is no button corresponding to floor 2; and also has no "up" or "down" buttons.

Similarly, the hall call button located at floor 3 includes floor number buttons corresponding to floors other than floor 3; that is, there is no button corresponding to floor 3; and also has no "up" or "down" buttons.

When the caller needs to exclusively use the elevator, the call can be implemented by an "exclusive request" button 80. Of course, other calling modes can be adopted, for example, a mobile terminal such as a smart phone can be adopted to make an exclusive request; a special contact or contactless chip card can be used.

In this embodiment, there is still a "continue exclusive" button 90 after entering the elevator car. When the exclusive request outside the elevator is not in a whole-course exclusive mode, the person entering the elevator can continue the exclusive state through the continuous exclusive button.

The "continue exclusive" request in the elevator, if in the manner of a button, may cause human abuse. To reduce the abuse, a special "continue to monopolize" the sensor card may be used to manage: only the person owning the special sensor card can activate "continue exclusive". Accordingly, as shown in fig. 4, the elevator must have a "continued exclusive" sensing zone 91, or sensing device with similar functionality.

Example two: embodiment with waiting number input function

Fig. 5 is a basic example of an elevator call solution with a waiting people number input function.

On the call panel, there are a set of input buttons 2000 including "+" - "buttons and a waiting person number display area 1000 corresponding to each floor (except the floor where the caller is located); for the caller on floor 2, if the floor to go is 5, a waiting person can be registered by pressing the "+" button corresponding to floor number 5. And a "1" is added to the corresponding display area 1000.

Similarly, clicking the "-" button corresponding to floor number 5 may decrease a waiting person by one, and the corresponding display area 1000 may decrease by "1". The minimum value of the number of waiting persons is "0", of course.

In this embodiment, a special "exclusive request" button 80 follows the floor number where the caller is located. When the caller selects "exclusive request," his destination floor does not need to be entered; this step is left to be completed again by entering the elevator.

Example three: embodiments with separate information acquisition zones

In this embodiment, the elevator call information collection area 200 is separated from the elevator operation information display area 100, as shown in fig. 6. The calling information acquisition area 200 is located at a height of about 1 m away from the ground, so as to facilitate the operation of people with different heights. It includes an information acquisition input area 201 and an information acquisition prompt area 202.

Fig. 7 is a schematic view of an information acquisition area. The information acquisition input area 201 includes not only conventional numeric buttons "0" - "9" but also "OK" (OK) and "C" (cancel) buttons. Also included on the panel is a special call button 80 or "exclusive request" sensing area such as "exclusive request". Other special buttons, such as "big goods", may be considered to meet special needs.

On the basis of the above embodiment, an information feedback area 203 may be added. This information feedback area is located next to the "exclusive request" button or "exclusive request" sensing area, and the information comes from the feedback of the elevator dispatching system: based on the still-active call requests of all callers on each floor and the current operating state data of each elevator, a scheduling notification is made of which elevator the current caller is to be delivered, and an expected value for the waiting period is given. Of course, callers who have made "exclusive requests" will also get this feedback information. When a number of people entered by a caller require multiple elevators to undertake a transport task, a corresponding number of elevators will be circularly prompted.

Example four: example having sliding touch type information input mode

The elevator call information collection area 200 of fig. 6 can be implemented as a sliding touch data selection input. As shown in fig. 9, 5 candidate data are sequentially arranged in the candidate data selection area 5000; the data may be clicked by touching, and by sliding the touch up and down, each data in the candidate data selection area may be shifted smoothly downward or upward in sequence, and the candidate data selection area 5000 is just like a display window, and presents a part of data from a preset candidate database.

There are two groups of alternative databases: a floor candidate database and a passenger number candidate database.

The data in the passenger number candidate database may be generally set to:

“”；“”；1；2；3；4；5；6；7；8；9；10+；20+；30+；40+；......

due to the limited capacity of elevators, providing accurate information on the number of people is cumbersome and less necessary when the number of people in the same group reaches more than 10. It is sufficient to replace it with a fuzzy value.

For an exclusive request call, an option "exclusive" may be added to the ride number alternatives database. For example, the data in the passenger number candidate database may be set to:

"; "; "Exclusive"; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10 +; 20 +; 30 +; 40 +; ......

In this way, the caller can click "exclusive" when selecting the number of people.

To facilitate exclusive request caller operation, in this embodiment, a separate "exclusive request" call button 80 is added.

It is noted that if a plurality of networked elevators are operated in sections, it is necessary to enter destination floor information at the same time as the exclusive request is issued, so that the elevator control system can arrange for the elevator at that floor to be reachable in response to the exclusive request. The term "simultaneously" as used herein means that two correlation operations occur before and after a very short time difference.

Claims

1. An exclusive use method of an elevator relates to more than two elevators which are operated in a network, and an elevator control system is responsible for dispatching and operating the elevators; it is characterized in that the elevator has two running states: shared running state, exclusive running state; the switching between the two operation states is realized by the following trigger mechanism:

1) a user outside the elevator actively calls an exclusive request, and the elevator control system assigns one elevator to respond to the request and enters the exclusive operation state; after the exclusive time period corresponding to the 'exclusive' request is over, the elevator automatically releases the exclusive operation state and restores to the shared operation state;

2) a user in an elevator car sends a request of 'continuing to monopolize', the elevator control system keeps the elevator in the monopolizing running state until the elevator automatically releases the monopolizing running state and restores to the sharing running state after the monopolizing time period corresponding to the request of 'continuing to monopolize' is over;

3) the elevator control system analyzes the elevator running state information obtained in real time, wherein the elevator running state information refers to whether the elevator door of the elevator is in a state of being incapable of being effectively closed for a long time; when the elevator control system judges that the waiting time reaches a preset waiting time limit, the situation of the fact exclusive existence is inferred; the waiting time is the time for waiting for the elevator door to close after the elevator control system finds that the elevator door cannot be effectively closed; when the fact exclusive situation exists, switching the elevator with the fact exclusive situation into the exclusive operation state; when the de-facto exclusivity condition disappears, the elevator is switched back to the shared operational state.

2. Method for exclusive use of elevators according to claim 1, characterized in that the elevator control system comprises a call signal or operation signal input part, in which an interface for receiving an exclusive request is reserved.

3. Method for exclusive use of elevators according to claim 2, wherein the method for the user outside the elevator to actively call the exclusive request comprises:

1) setting an exclusive request button (80) in an elevator car, wherein the button (80) is connected with the interface for receiving the exclusive request;

2) setting a wireless receiving device in a building where the elevator is located, and providing an exclusive request through a mobile terminal, wherein the wireless receiving device is connected with an interface for receiving the exclusive request;

3) a special contact or non-contact exclusive request sensing area is arranged in the elevator car, and is matched with a corresponding sensing card to provide an exclusive request, and the sensing area is connected with the interface for receiving the exclusive request;

4) providing a sliding touch input device within the elevator car, the input device including an alternative data selection field (5000); the data is clicked in a touch mode, and all data in the alternative data selection area (5000) are smoothly shifted downwards or upwards in sequence through up-and-down sliding touch, wherein the data presented in the alternative data selection area (5000) is from a preset alternative database; the alternative database comprises a floor alternative database and a passenger number alternative database; the passenger number candidate database contains a data value "exclusive" that the caller can click on when selecting the number of people.

4. Method for exclusive use of elevators according to claim 3, wherein the destination floor information is entered at the same time as the active call exclusive request by the user outside the elevator.

5. Method for exclusive use of elevators according to claim 3, characterized in that an information feedback area (203) is further provided beside the "exclusive request" button (80) or the "exclusive request" sensing area, and after the caller's exclusive request, the elevator control system feeds back an elevator allocation information and a predicted waiting time prompt in the information feedback area (203).

6. Method for exclusive use of an elevator according to claim 1, characterized in that the predetermined waiting period limit is 30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes.

7. Method for exclusive use of elevators according to one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the exclusive operating state is divided into full-range exclusive and local exclusive; the local exclusivity includes the following three types according to the difference of the exclusive time period:

1) local monopolizing one: the 'receiving' and 'unloading' time periods are exclusive, and the 'running' time period is shared;

2) local monopolizing is two: exclusive "pick-up" period, shared "run" and "unload" periods;

3) local monopolizing is three: the "pick-up" and "run" periods are exclusive and the "unload" period is shared.

8. Method for exclusive use of elevators according to claim 7, wherein the shared state of the "run" period is the "limited shared" state in the local exclusive one.