CN101795734A - System of evacuating occupants from a high-rise building - Google Patents

System of evacuating occupants from a high-rise building Download PDF

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CN101795734A
CN101795734A CN200880008634A CN200880008634A CN101795734A CN 101795734 A CN101795734 A CN 101795734A CN 200880008634 A CN200880008634 A CN 200880008634A CN 200880008634 A CN200880008634 A CN 200880008634A CN 101795734 A CN101795734 A CN 101795734A
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An evacuation system operatively associated with a high-rise building with multiple stories. The evacuation system may comprise at least one set of tracks disposed a wall of the building; a multiplicity of rescue vehicles that can slide upon the sets of tracks; and a multiplicity of sensors installed on the wall enabling to detect the relative location of all rescue vehicles. The evacuation system may allow the rescue vehicles to evacuate a multiplicity of passengers to a safer landing area; simultaneously using the same sets of tracks. A detection system installed in each rescue vehicle may enable detecting signals from the sensors and calculating a collision-risking factor and controlling the speed of the rescue vehicle's fall according to this factor.

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The system of evacuating occupants from skyscraper
Cross reference to related application
The application's case is advocated the rights and interests of the 60/920th, No. 804 U.S. Provisional Patent Application case of application on March 30th, 2007, and this application case is incorporated herein by reference.
Technical field
The present invention relates generally to lift and vehicular field, and more particularly, relates to the relief car that is used for skyscraper.
Background technology
Though skyscraper provides some environmental advantages that are better than low-rise building, also there is the non-existent risk of possibility in low-rise building that is associated with skyscraper in the wide and noise pollution minimizing as the visual field.Wherein extrahazardous is the dangerous situation that fire and other hinder people to enter stairwell, and life or be trapped in a large amount of and life-threatening time that the occupant in one of high-rise is spending possibly when leaving building.In these cases, the occupant of higher floor possibly can't run away to low floor or roof when emergency (as fire).In addition, Chang Gui fire ladder and other similar evacuation equipment may can't reach the higher floor in the skyscraper.
Usually be equipped with one or more lifts in the skyscraper, it is usually located in the vertical shaft (shaft), and wherein the vertical shaft and the track of himself appointment that separates along each lift of each lift are advanced.Vertical shaft is usually located at building interior.This means when emergency situations (as fire): (a) lift is the escaping tool of forbidding, because it is positioned at building interior, and it seals usually and makes with Heat Conduction Material very much; And (b) each lift in the building will arrive each floor separately, this means that the occupant of building may need to wait for one section valuable time ability actual arrival point plane and flee from building.
The US5501295 patent that the mode of quoting in full is incorporated herein (being called " R1 " herein) has disclosed " a kind of elevator system that is used for the not heaving line of super-high buildings; it comprises some vertical shafts of vertically advancing, and be furnished with and be used for for the lift truck equipment that level is advanced between vertical shaft on each floor.Some lift trucks can move in same vertical shaft simultaneously.Be formed with horizontal guide passage (guide channel) and vertical scrolling track (rolling track) in the vertically extending vertical shaft band between vertical shaft.During vertically advancing, top on the lift truck and bottom deflector roll (guide roller) and roller track engagement, and lift truck moves by the combination of Linear Driving and friction-driven.The friction-driven utilization drives the bottom deflector roll by battery powered motor.Linear Driving has the linear motor stator that is attached to the vertical shaft rear wall and the permanent magnet on the lift truck.During moving horizontally, upper and lower deflector roll and the engagement of horizontal guide passage, and lower rollers moves lift truck.Vertical strip comprises the fragment at horizontal guide passage place, and it is the gap in the closed roller track during lift truck vertically moves, and pivot moves horizontally for lift truck to open horizontal guiding channel ".(abstract of invention)
Though the elevator system of R1 allows a large amount of lift trucks to use same vertical shaft to arrive the time that the building outlet is spent to reduce some lift trucks (being loaded with the some occupants in the building), but described lift truck is not self-monitoring and is not vehicularized, this means that lift truck current in vertical shaft is not by each the independent control in the lift truck of system, but control by a master control set.This is special hazard under the emergency situations that need evacuate as quickly as possible as fire or bomb alarm etc., in case because the main monitoring of system is closed with control module or any trouble occurred, whole system just can't turn round.This may threaten all occupants in the building, and it can't using system.
Summary of the invention
In some embodiments of the invention, the present invention discloses a kind of evacuating system, and it is associated with the skyscraper with a large amount of floors with mode of operation.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, described system can comprise:
At least one group of track, it is arranged at least one wall of building;
At least one sensor, it is installed on described at least one wall; And
At least one sensor, it is installed on described at least one relief car; And
At least one relief car, it is used for conveying people, and wherein said relief car is self-driven, thereby can controllably descend by the floor from its place (for example, with controlled braking free-falling) and slide on described group of track; Each relief car comprises:
At least one inlet, it makes at least one passenger 10 can enter described relief car;
At least one braking element, it can make described relief car slow down;
At least one detection system, it is associated with described braking element with mode of operation; And
Mesh component, wherein said mesh component and described group of track engagement make described relief car slide along described group of track simultaneously;
According to some embodiments of the present invention, described evacuating system can allow in a large amount of relief cars at least some to use identical described at least one group of track that a large amount of passengers are dispersed into the touch-down zone simultaneously.
In addition, described sensor can transmit, thereby indication is at the relative position of each relief car of the described evacuating system of any given time; And at least some received signals that the described detection system in each relief car can be from described sensor wherein, and be numerical data with described signal transition; Handle described numerical data to calculate the risk of collision factor of any given time; Reach the falling speed of controlling described relief car according to described risk of collision factor.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, in described group of track at least one can extend to described touch-down zone from the uppermost storey of building, and wherein said relief car can be by described mesh component and described at least one group of track engagement, and described mesh component allows to slide along described at least one group of track.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, described detection system can comprise:
At least one receiver, it can receive the signal from sensor emission;
At least one controller, it can handle the signal that arrives from described sensor.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, described detection system can further comprise:
At least one alignment sensor, it can detect the relative position of the relief car that described detection system is installed; And
At least one transmitter, it can be transmitted into the signal of described relative position sensor other relief car.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, in case described risk of collision factor has surpassed the predefine threshold value, described detection system just can be operated the described braking element of described relief car, thereby described relief car is slowed down, and prevents hypervelocity and/or collide with another relief car or touch-down zone.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, evacuating system 100 can further comprise at least one control module, it can be installed on described building or the vehicle, thereby can receive the signal that arrives from described sensor, and controls relief car current of slip according to described signal.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, control module 500, described detection system and described sensor can be launched described signal by at least one cordless communication network (for example reciprocity wireless or cable network).
According to some embodiments of the present invention, at least some in the described sensor can the identified emergency situation (for example, some sensors in the described sensor can be Smoke Sensor, temperature take into account can the sensing fire similar device).
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each relief car can further comprise control loop, its make in each described relief car at least one passenger can in case described relief car arrived the touch-down zone and just driven described relief car away from described building.Described control loop can comprise motor, control member, brake apparatus and the wheel that is relative to each other and joins with mode of operation.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each relief car can further comprise the shell that protects described relief car.Described shell can be made by air-locked material, fire-resistant and/or heat-resisting material and similar material, avoids the influence of one or more danger with the protection passenger, as poison gas, smog, heat, flame etc.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, described braking element may be a hydraulic pressure.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each relief car can further comprise translation building block, its kinetic energy in described relief car decline process can be become with potential energy converting and energy following at least one: electric charge, mechanical energy, and store this energy through conversion, for example to allow using described energy when the levels operation mobile system.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each described relief car can further comprise communication means, and it makes the passenger to call out the destination.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each described relief car can further comprise at least one seat, thereby allows the passenger to take during evacuating.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, the wall that evacuating system is installed can be positioned at two vertical walls, parallel wall or this two kinds of between the walls, thereby forms vertical shaft, and wherein said at least one group of track is installed in the described vertical shaft.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each floor of building can comprise the storage area, and described storage area is particularly suited for storing one or more relief cars.Each described group of track can comprise:
At least one vertical track, its floor from described building extends;
A large amount of horizontal rail, its each storage area from each floor of building extends.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each described horizontal rail can be connected to a vertical track, and each mesh component of each described relief car can allow the horizontal slip on described horizontal rail of described relief car, and then vertically slides on described vertical track.
In addition, each described group of track also can be at the bottom of at least one vertical track horizontal-extending, thereby described relief car can be directed into the predefine anchor point in the touch-down zone of building, and wherein each anchor point is assigned to predefined relief car.
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Fig. 1 is the perspective view according to the evacuating system on the exterior wall that is installed in skyscraper of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the perspective view according to the relief car of some embodiments of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the perspective view that is installed in the evacuating system in the vertical shaft in the skyscraper according to one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 4 A and Fig. 4 B are that described floor comprises the storage area that is used to store relief car according to the perspective view of the floor of the skyscraper that is associated with evacuating system with mode of operation of some embodiments of the present invention;
Fig. 5 schematically describes according to one embodiment of the invention to use a large amount of relief cars to evacuate the flow chart of the method for the passenger in the skyscraper simultaneously; And
Fig. 6 is the block diagram of schematically describing according to the module in the controller of the detection system of the relief car of some embodiments of the present invention.
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Though following description contains many detailed descriptions, these detailed descriptions should not be interpreted as limiting the scope of the invention, but the demonstration of preferred embodiment.The those skilled in the art belongs to other possible change in its scope with imagination.Therefore, scope of the present invention should not determined by illustrated embodiment, and should be determined by appended claims and legal equivalent thereof.
Embodiment is example of the present invention or embodiment.The various forms of expression of " embodiment ", " embodiment " or " some embodiment " might not all refer to identical embodiment.Though may under the background of single embodiment, describe various feature of the present invention, also can provide separately or provide described feature with any suitable combination.On the contrary, though for the sake of clarity can under the background of independent embodiment, describe the present invention in this article, also can in single embodiment, implement the present invention.
Reference to " embodiment ", " embodiment ", " some embodiment " or " other embodiment " in the specification means that the special characteristic, structure or the characteristic that combine with embodiment comprise at least one embodiment of the present invention, but not necessarily is included among all embodiment of the present invention.It is restrictive to should be understood that phrase used herein and term should not be interpreted as, and just for purposes of illustration.
Can understand the principle and the purposes of teaching of the present invention better referring to the description of enclosing, figure and example.Should be understood that the details of stating does not constitute the restriction to application of the present invention herein.In addition, should be understood that and to carry out or to put into practice the present invention in various manners, and can in the embodiment the embodiment that in following description, summarizes, implement the present invention.
Should understand, term " comprises ", " comprising ", " by ... form " and phraseological version do not get rid of and add one or more assemblies, feature, step or whole or its group, and described term should not be interpreted as regulation assembly, feature, step or integral body.Phrase " mainly by ... form " and phraseological version should not be interpreted as getting rid of additional assemblies, step, feature, integral body or its group but the fundamental sum novel characteristics of composition, device or method that additional features, integral body, step, assembly or its group can't material alterations advocate when using in this article.
If specification or claims are mentioned " additionally " element, it is not got rid of and has an above additional element.Should be understood that when claims or specification are mentioned " one " element this is with reference to not being interpreted as only existing a described element.Should be understood that when specification statement " may (may) ", " may (might) ", " can (can) ", " can (could) " comprise an assembly, feature, structure or characteristic, need not to comprise described specific components, feature, structure or characteristic.
At where applicable, though state diagram, flow chart or its both can be used to describe embodiment, the invention is not restricted to those figure or corresponding description.For instance, flow process need not to move through each illustrated square frame or state, perhaps carries out with same sequence illustrated and that describe fully.
Can be by manually, automatically or selected step is carried out or finished to its compound mode or task is implemented method of the present invention.Term " method " is meant mode, means, technology and the program that is used to realize given task, and it is including but not limited to those skilled in the art in the invention those modes, means, technology and program known or that gone out by known mode, means, technology and program development easily.The description that is presented in claims and the specification, example, method and material should not be interpreted as restricted and only should be interpreted as illustrative.
Unless otherwise defined, otherwise the implication of technology used herein and scientific terminology according to the technical staff's in the field under the present invention general understanding.Can in test or practice, implement the present invention with the method and the material that are equivalent to or are similar to method described herein and material.
In this specification with reference to or the full text of any publication (comprising patent, patent application case and article) of mentioning be incorporated in this article in this specification, its degree is specific and individually be indicated as and be incorporated herein as each other publication.In addition, quoting or discerning and to be interpreted as permitting that described list of references can be used as prior art of the present invention when describing some embodiments of the present invention to any list of references.
In some embodiments of the invention, the present invention is a kind of evacuating system 100 that is used to have the skyscraper 400 (for example the high-rise apartment building building 400) of a plurality of floors.The embodiment of evacuating system 100 can allow in the evacuation time of optimum a plurality of building occupants (being called " passenger " herein) 10 to be evacuated safely, particularly the time, need the occupant to evacuate as far as possible apace this moment and flee from building 400 as emergency situations such as fire, bomb threats.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, start evacuating system 100 of the present invention and can allow a plurality of passengers 10 are transported to safe touch-down zone downwards from building 400 internal security ground.Described conveying can be carried out simultaneously, so that the passengers quantity of carrying in single time limit maximization.
Fig. 1 schematically illustrates according to being installed in of some embodiments of the present invention to have evacuating system 100 on the exterior wall 420 of skyscraper 400 of a plurality of floors 410.Evacuating system 100 can comprise:
At least one group of track 120, it is arranged at least one wall 420 of described building 400;
Big quantity sensor 550, it is installed on the wall 420 that described group of track 120 is installed; And
The a large amount of relief cars 200 that are used for conveying people 10, wherein each relief car 200 is self-driven, thereby can (for example descend controllably by floor 410 from relief car 200 places, with in check braking free-falling) and on described group of track 120, slide, wherein each relief car 200 comprises at least one detection system 250.
In the relief car 200 each is operated (therefore being " self-driven ") (need not to remove any artificial or electronic external intervention from the sensor 550) by following mode for example independently and automatically by detection system 250: can the sensing emergency situations, the existence of passenger 10 in the sensing relief car 200, operation vehicle 200 (for example, take-off the brake element and permission relief car 200 descend controllably), operation braking element 230 or the like.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, relief car 200 can be self-driven, thereby can be by descending controllably from the floor 410 at its place and in 120 slips of described group of track.The gravity that in check decline can cause naturally by the weight of using relief car 200 and contents thereof makes each relief car 200 to lower slider.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, sensor 550 can transmit (for example, radio frequency (RF) signal), thereby indication is at the relative position of each relief car 200 of any given time evacuating system 100.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, at least some received signals that the detection system 250 in each relief car 200 can be from sensor 550 are numerical data with described signal transition; Handle described numerical data to calculate the risk of collision factor of any given time; Reach the falling speed of controlling described relief car 200 according to described risk of collision factor.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each relief car 200 can comprise braking element 230, thereby it can be and anyly can apply the member that brake force can make relief car 200 slow down or stop free-falling.Detection system 250 can mode of operation be associated with braking element 230, thereby can control braking element 230.After identifying risk of collision situation (it is the function of described factor), detection system 250 can be operated braking element 230, thereby control braking element 230 puts on the brake force level of the mesh component 290 of relief car 200.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each relief car 200 can allow to descend by relief car 200 is slided on one group of track 120, and then allow the passenger 10 in the relief car 200 to use it to slide into safe ground downwards, described safe ground can be positioned at 700 places, touch-down zone that are adjacent to building 400, as illustrated in fig. 1.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, can specify at least one relief car 200 to each floor 410 of building 400, thereby allow the occupant of floor 410 to evacuate from building 400 where necessary.
Fig. 2 schematically illustrates the relief car 200 according to some embodiments of the present invention.Relief car 200 can comprise:
At least one inlet 220, it makes at least one passenger 10 can enter relief car 200;
At least one braking element 230, it can make described relief car 200 slow down;
At least one detection system 250; And
Mesh component 290.
Mesh component 290 can be when relief car 200 slides on described group of track 120 be engaged at least one side of relief car 200 on the described group of track 120.For instance, described group of track 120 can be the seam of band groove, and mesh component 290 can be and have the device that is installed in the wheel on the axle, and wherein said wheel can be inserted in the groove of track 120.
Relief car 200 can have and allows one or more passengers 10 to be in Any shape and size in the relief car 200.In addition, relief car 200 can be by shell 210 protection, and shell 210 can be by fire-resistant and/or heat proof material and/or air-locked material is made or by its coating.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, described group of track 120 can extend to touch-down zone 700 from building 400 uppermost storey 410.In addition, relief car 200 can be by mesh component 290 and described at least one group of track 120 engagements, and described mesh component 290 allows described relief car 200 to slide along described at least one group of track 120.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, as illustrated in fig. 2, detection system 250 can (i) detects the relative position of the relief car 200 that detection system 250 is installed; (ii) by detect the position of other close object (for example other relief car 200 and/or close touch-down zone 700) and other dangerous obstacles from sensor 550 received signals; And (iii) operate braking element 230 according to the data that detect and handle by detection system 250.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, as illustrated in fig. 2, described detection system 250 can comprise:
At least one alignment sensor 251, it can detect the relative position of the relief car 200 that detection system 250 is installed;
At least one transmitter 252, its can transmit to the detection system 250 of other relief car 200 (for example, radio frequency (RF) signal), wherein said signal can be indicated the current relative position of described relief car 200;
At least one receiver 253, it can receive from the signal (for example RF signal) of other relief car 200 and other source emission from evacuating system 100;
At least one controller 254, it can (i) be handled from the position sensor 251 of the receiver 253 of relief car 200 and relief car 200 and simultaneously at the signal that arrives of the transmitter 252 of other relief car 200 of sliding of track 120 on the same group mutually; (ii) calculate the relative position of the relief car 200 that described controller 254 is installed, use mutually the distance between the track 120 and relief car 200 and ground on the same group to calculate the relative position of other relief car 200; Reach the braking element 230 of (iii) operating relief car 200 according to the relative position that calculates of relief car 200.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, controller 254 for example can be processors such as computer, and it can be connected at least one communication network, receives and the emission data by described at least one communication network, change signal (for example RF signal) into numerical data, and handle described numerical data.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, the alignment sensor of relief car 200 251 detects the relative position of relief cars 200 with respect to other object (for example, at another contiguous relief car 200 of slid underneath and/or build 400 the bottom that is positioned at 700 places, touch-down zone).But controller 254 received signals and to its handle (for example, be numerical data with the RF signal transition, and calculate relief car 200 with its below other object between distance).Controller 254 can mode of operation be associated with braking element 230, thereby can operate braking element 230 according to predefined rule, described rule for example be when the distance between another object that identifies relief car 200 and relief car 200 belows less than minimum threshold apart from the time, the function that wherein can described threshold distance be calculated as the speed (for example, simultaneously at another relief cars 200 of first vehicle, 200 slid underneath) of relief car 200 and object.Controller 254 can be controlled the brake force that braking element 230 is applied according to the power of the required necessity that calculates of effect that realizes slowing down, so that make the sinking speed deceleration of relief car 200.This can help to prevent relief car 200 and object collision.If object is to be positioned at another slip of first relief car, 200 belows or the relief car 200 of landing, then but controller 254 command brakes members 230 apply bigger brake force, and subsequently, be identified as when being safe when described group of track 120 is detected as free time or slip, but controller 254 command brakes members 230 apply less brake force.Similarly, if object is touch-down zone 700, then braking element 230 can allow to slow down gradually, till the ground level place in arriving touch-down zone 700 stops fully, in case the collision of causing danger in relief car 200 and ground.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, as illustrated in fig. 2, relief car 200 can comprise control loop 600 in addition, in case it makes that relief car 200 has arrived touch-down zone 700, at least one passenger 10 can drive relief car 200 and use relief car 200 to escape fartherly to allow passenger 10---away from described building 400.
Described control loop 600 can comprise motor 610, control member 620 and the wheel 630 that is relative to each other and joins with mode of operation.Motor 610 can only be used for driving on the ground, and is not used in relief car is slided on described group of track 120.In addition, the potential energy or the part in the kinetic energy that can cause by height and the weight thereof because of relief car 200 comes motor is charged.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, as illustrated in fig. 2, relief car 200 also can comprise one or more seats 20, and it allows passenger 10 to take when dropping to touch-down zone 700 (during the evacuation).
In addition or alternatively, relief car 200 also can comprise following at least one:
Communication means 80; And
Translation building block 70;
According to some embodiments of the present invention, communication means 80 can allow passenger 10 call intent ground, for example immediate care or any other destination.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, translation building block 70 at least a portion in the kinetic energy of the landing of relief car 200 can be converted to following at least one and it is stored: electric charge or heat energy.Alternatively or in addition, translation building block 70 can convert solar energy to electric charge, and store this electric charge with operation detection system 250, communication system 80 or the like.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, translation building block 70 can mode of operation and controller 254 and/or be associated with driving member 600, is its charging thereby allow with electric charge.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, described braking element 230 can be hydraulic pressure.
Fig. 3 schematically illustrates the perspective view that is installed in the evacuating system 100 in the building 400 according to some embodiments of the present invention.
According to these embodiment, evacuating system 100 can comprise at least one control module 500 in addition, it can be installed in the building 400, thereby can receive from the signal that can arrive along the sensor 550 that a building wall of 400 420 is installed, thus can sensing along the predefine of described group of track 120 each in the relief car 200 of process partly.
In addition, control module 500 (it can be hardware cell) can and read signal from sensor 550 receptions, and these signals is transferred to the controller 254 of the relief car 200 of each described process.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, the controller 254 of control module 500, vehicle 200, alignment sensor 251 and sensor 550 can be launched its signal by at least one communication network.
In addition, cordless communication network can be dedicated network or peer-to-peer network, thereby can direct communication between the detection system 250 of sensor 550 and relief car 200.For example, if one in the sensor 550 be not in work, then network can be by near the sensor 550 locating or detection system 250 keeping and the communicating by letter of relief car 200 conveying a message between the sensor 550 of all operations and the detection system 250, thereby need not centralized server or control and communication means.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, control module 500 also can serve as the standby control module of the controller 254 of relief car 200, thereby can detect the relative position of the relief car 200 of each slip, and (for example, pass through radio communication) from afar and operate its arrestment mechanism 230.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, as illustrated in fig. 3, the wall 420 that the track in groups 120 of evacuating system 100 is installed on it can be between two perpendicular walls 422, thereby form the vertical shaft that track 120 in groups wherein is installed.
Fig. 4 A and Fig. 4 B schematically illustrate the skyscraper 400 that has according to the evacuating system 100 of some embodiments of the present invention, wherein build each floor 400 of 400 and comprise a storage area 300, and described storage area 300 is particularly suited for storing at least one relief car 200.Described storage area can for example specify and be used to store relief car 200 and allow relief car 200 in case of emergency to enter one or more rooms of track 120 in groups in the layer of floor 410.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, as illustrated among Fig. 4 A, every group of track 120 can comprise:
At least one vertical track 121, its floor 410 from described building 400 extends;
At least one horizontal rail 122, its each storage area 300 from each floor 410 of described building 400 extends;
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each described horizontal rail 122 can be connected to one in the vertical track 121, and each mesh component 290 of each relief car 200 can allow horizontal slip on horizontal rail 122, and then vertically slides on vertical track 121.Shown in Fig. 4 A, each horizontal rail 122 can be installed on the floor of storage area 300.
As illustrated among Fig. 4 B, each storage area 300 can comprise: at least one exit point 330, and it makes passenger 10 can enter relief car 200; And at least one entrance 335, it makes passenger 10 can enter storage area 300.
In addition or alternatively, as illustrated in fig. 1, every group of track 120 also can be at the place, bottom of at least one vertical track 122 horizontal-extending, thereby relief car 200 can be directed into the predefined anchor point 125 at 700 places, touch-down zone that are positioned at building 400.Each anchor point 125 can be assigned to a predefined relief car 200, with the stop traffic of control relief car 200.
Fig. 5 illustrates schematically according to the evacuating system 100 that is installed in skyscraper 400 that is used for using of some embodiments of the present invention to evacuate the flow chart of passenger 10 method that described skyscraper is associated with evacuating system 100 with mode of operation.Described method can comprise following:
Operate 51 relief cars 200, wherein build at least one passenger 10 in one in 400 the floor 410 and enter relief car 200 and operate relief car 200 (for example, by enter simply or by the making operation switch);
For example discern risk of collision situation 52 by calculating the risk of collision factor, described risk of collision factor is described relief car 200 and distance, the speed of described relief car 200 and the function of speed of described object between the object that identifies below the described relief car 200 (or any other barrier);
Engagement 53 is to described group of track 120, if wherein unidentifiedly go out risk of collision, then relief car 200 arrives vertical tracks 121 or described group of track 120 descends controllably with beginning;
In described at least one group of track 120 one on slide 54, wherein said relief car 200 uses the kinetic energy that is derived from the gravity that is applied by described relief car 200 to slide downward vertically towards the touch-down zone 700 of building 400;
Detect 55 relief cars 200 when sliding in any predefined time interval the relative position along described group of track 120;
And
The braking element 230 of operation 56 relief cars 200 after identifying the risk of collision situation.
Fig. 6 is the block diagram of schematically describing according to the module in the controller 254 of the relief car 200 of some embodiments of the present invention.
Controller 254 can be can with the hardware cell (it is referred to herein as " brain of controller 254 ") of software and/or additional hardware combination, its permission will change numerical data into from the signal (for example RF signal) of alignment sensor 251 and/or sensor 550 and/or control module 500 receptions, handle these data and it is analyzed, (for example to allow optimization to the slip parameter, sinking speed, and control therefore, brake force that can apply or the like).This can help to optimize traffic control to all relief cars 200 that slide in any given time or the time interval on described group of track 120, and wherein first relief car 200 of each slip can prevent and vicinity second relief car 200 collisions that are positioned at first relief car, 200 belows.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, as illustrated in fig. 6, controller 254 can comprise security module 62 and operational module 63.Described security module 62 can the identified emergency situation.
Can be installed in sensor 550 on the wall 420 that described group of track 120 is installed and can be the slip relief car 200 that can detect process distance and/or the relief car 200 of each slip and the sensor 550 of the distance between the ground between the slip relief car 200 of the speed of the slip relief car 200 of the relative position of any given time, process and/or per two adjacent processes.In addition or alternatively, control module 500 can calculate distance and the relief car 200 of each slip and the distance between the ground between the slip relief car 200 of per two processes by handling by sensor 550 detected each relief car 200 in the relative position parameter (for example, coordinate) of any given time.
According to embodiments of the invention, passenger 10 can be anyone in building 400 when starting evacuating system 100.
According to some embodiments of the present invention, each relief car 200 can have the self-sustaining power supply.This power supply can especially be battery or hydraulic transmission.
According to embodiments of the invention, can distribute and determine the storage area 300 in (for example, according to space and design) each floor 410 or apartment according to design, framework and the function of building 400.Each relief car 200 can remain in the storage area 300 of its distribution, up to needs it the time.
Though described the present invention about a finite population embodiment, these embodiment should not be interpreted as the restriction to scope of the present invention, but should be interpreted as the demonstration of some embodiment.The those skilled in the art will imagine other possible variation, modification and application, and it also belongs to scope of the present invention.Therefore, scope of the present invention should not limited by the content of having described so far, and should be limited by appended claims and legal equivalent thereof.Therefore, should be understood that replacement scheme of the present invention, modifications and variations should be interpreted as being in the scope and spirit of appended claims.

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1. an evacuating system (100), it is associated with the skyscraper with a plurality of floors (410) (400) with mode of operation, and described system (100) comprising:
At least one group of track (120), it is arranged at least one wall (420) of described building (400);
At least one sensor (550), it is installed on described at least one wall (420); And
At least one relief car (200), it is used for conveying people (10), wherein said relief car (200) is self-driven, wherein each described relief car (200) is operated independently and automatically, and need not any outside intervention, wherein said relief car (200) can descend by the described floor (410) from its place by going up slip at described group of track (120); Each relief car (200) comprising:
At least one inlet (220), it makes at least one passenger (10) can enter described relief car (200);
At least one braking element (230), it can make described relief car (200) slow down;
At least one detection system (250), it is associated with described braking element (230) with mode of operation; And
Mesh component (290), wherein said mesh component (290) is making described relief car (200) can mesh described group of track (120) when described group of track (120) slides;
In wherein said evacuating system (100) the described a large amount of relief cars of permission (200) at least some use identical described at least one group of track (120) that a large amount of passengers (10) are dispersed into touch-down zone (700) simultaneously,
Wherein said sensor (550) can be launched the signal of each relief car (200) of the described evacuating system of indication (100) at the relative position of any given time; And wherein at least some that the described detection system (250) in each relief car (200) can be from described sensor (550) receive described signal,
With described signal transition is numerical data; Handle described numerical data to calculate risk of collision factor at any given time; And the controlled velocity of controlling described relief car (200) according to described risk of collision factor.
2. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein said at least one group of track (120) extends to described touch-down zone (700) from a floor (410) of described building (400), and wherein said relief car can be by described mesh component (290) and described at least one group of track (120) engagement, and described mesh component (290) allows to slide along described at least one group of track (120).
3. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein said detection system (250) comprising:
At least one receiver (253), it can receive from the signal of described sensor (550) emission;
At least one controller (254), it can handle the described signal that arrives from described sensor (550).
4. evacuating system according to claim 3, wherein said detection system (250) further comprises:
At least one alignment sensor (251), it can detect the described relative position of the described relief car (200) that described detection system (250) is installed; And
At least one transmitter (252), it can be transmitted into the described signal of described alignment sensor (251) other relief car (200).
5. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein in a single day described risk of collision factor surpasses predefined threshold value, described detection system (250) is just operated the described braking element (230) of described relief car (200), thereby described relief car (200) is slowed down, and help to prevent that described relief car (200) hypervelocity from reaching and following at least one collision: another relief car (200) and ground.
6. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), it further comprises at least one control module (500), described control module (500) is installed on the described building (400), thereby can receive the signal that arrives from described sensor (550), and control the traffic of the relief car (200) of slip according to described signal.
7. evacuating system according to claim 6, wherein said control module (500), described detection system (250) and described sensor (550) can be launched described signal by at least one cordless communication network.
8. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein each relief car (200) further comprises control loop (600), and it makes in case at least one passenger (10) that described relief car (200) has arrived in each described relief car (200) of described touch-down zone (700) just can drive described relief car (200) away from described building (400).
9. evacuating system according to claim 8, wherein said control loop (600) comprise motor (610), control member (620) and the wheel (630) that is relative to each other and joins with mode of operation.
10. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein said relief car (200) further comprise the shell (210) of the described relief car of protection (200).
11. evacuating system according to claim 10 (100), wherein said shell (210) is made by following at least one: gastight material, refractory material and heat proof material.
12. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein said braking element (230) is a hydraulic pressure.
13. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein said relief car (200) further comprises translation building block (70), its action potential of the landing of described relief car (200) can be converted to following at least one: electric charge, heat energy.
14. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein each described relief car (200) further comprises communication means (80).
15. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein each described relief car (200) further comprises at least one seat (20) that allows passenger (10) to take during evacuating.
16. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), wherein said wall (420) is positioned between two vertical substantially walls (422), thereby forms the vertical shaft that described at least one group of track (120) is installed.
17. evacuating system according to claim 1 (100), each floor (400) of wherein said building (400) comprises the storage area (300) that is particularly suited for storing described relief car (200); Wherein each described group of track (120) comprising:
At least one vertical track (121), its floor (410) from described building (400) extends;
At least one horizontal rail (122), its each storage area (300) from each floor (410) of described building (400) extends;
Wherein each described horizontal rail (122) is connected to vertical track (121), and wherein each mesh component (290) of each described relief car (200) allows to go up horizontal slip and then go up vertical the slip at described vertical track (121) in described horizontal rail (122).
18. evacuating system according to claim 17 (100), wherein each described group of track (120) is also at the place, bottom of described at least one vertical track (122) horizontal-extending, the predefined anchor point (125) that the described landing (700) that thereby described relief car (200) can be directed into described building (400) is located, wherein each anchor point (125) is assigned to predefined relief car (200).
19. the skyscraper (400) with a plurality of floors (410), it comprises:
Evacuating system (100), it is installed at least one wall (420) of described building (400); And
Touch-down zone (700), it is positioned on the ground that is adjacent to described building (400);
Wherein said evacuating system (100) comprising:
Big quantity sensor (550), it is installed on described at least one wall (420); And
A large amount of relief cars (200), it is used for passenger (10) is transported to described touch-down zone (700); And
At least one group of track (120), wherein said group of track (120) are installed on described at least one wall (420);
Wherein each floor (410) comprises at least one storage area (300), and described at least one storage area (300) is particularly suited for storing at least one relief car (200); Wherein each described group of track (120) can direct into described touch-down zone (700) from described floor (400) with each described relief car (200), and then helps to evacuate described passenger from described building (400);
In wherein said evacuating system (100) the described a large amount of relief cars of permission (200) at least some use identical described at least one group of track (120) that a large amount of passengers (10) are dispersed into touch-down zone (700) simultaneously,
Wherein said sensor (550) can be launched the signal of each relief car (200) of the described evacuating system of indication (100) at the relative position of any given time; And wherein at least some that the described detection system (250) in each relief car (200) can be from described sensor (550) receive described signal, are with next person with described signal transition: analogue data, numerical data; Processing said data is to calculate the risk of collision factor at any given time; And the sinking speed of controlling described relief car (200) according to described risk of collision factor.
20. skyscraper according to claim 19 (400), each storage area (300) of each floor (410) of wherein said building (400) is the inner designated room of each floor (410) that is positioned at described building (400), wherein each floor (410) further comprises the system of entering, and its passenger at any one place who allows to be arranged in the room of described floor (410) arrives described storage area (300).
21. skyscraper according to claim 20 (400), each storage area (300) of each floor (410) of wherein said building (400) comprising: at least one exit point 330, and it makes passenger (10) can leave described storage area (300) and enters described relief car (200); And at least one entrance 335, it makes passenger (10) can enter described storage area (300).
22. one kind is used to use relief car (200) to evacuate the method for a large amount of passengers (10) simultaneously from the different floors (410) of skyscraper (400), at least one group track (120) of described relief car (200) on the wall that is arranged at described building (400) (420) gone up and slided, and described method comprises:
Operate described relief car (200), at least one passenger (10) in one in the floor (410) of wherein said building (400) enters described relief car (200) and operates described vehicle (200);
Upward slips in described at least one group of track (120), the gravity that wherein said relief car (200) uses described relief car (200) to be applied slides downward vertically towards the touch-down zone (700) of described building (400);
Detect described relief car (200) when sliding in any predefined time interval the relative position along described group of track (120);
Discern the risk of collision situation by calculating the risk of collision factor, described risk of collision factor be described relief car (200) with the object that below described relief car (200), identifies between distance, the speed of described relief car (200) and the function of speed of described object; And
The braking element (230) of the described relief car of operation (200) after identifying described risk of collision situation.
23. method according to claim 22, it further comprises identified emergency situation and described type of situation.
24. method according to claim 22 is wherein by distance and the relief car (200) of each slip and the described identification that the distance between the ground is carried out the risk of collision factor between the relief car (200) that calculates per two adjacent slips.
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