CN103253566B - Elevator landing calling and displaying system and method - Google Patents
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The invention discloses an elevator landing calling and displaying system and method. The elevator landing calling and displaying system comprises a calling registering device used for registering passenger target floor and/or direction information, display devices used for displaying the state of the calling registering device, passenger registering information and one or more current elevator operating information, and a display control device used for controlling displaying of the display devices. The display control deivce controls the display device to lead all the display devices which do not receive effective calling registering information and are arranged on landings corresponding to the calling registering deivce to display total or partial display contents in a low-brightness mode. By adopting the elevator landing calling and displaying system and method, the phenomenon in the prior art that an elevator operating information displayer still displays display contents with normal brightness even when no passengers wait in the landings to take the elevator is avoided, accordingly electricity consumption of the elevator landing calling and displaying system can be remarkably reduced, and service life of the elevator operating information displayer can be effectively prolonged.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of elevator floor stops calling and display system and method, particularly relate to the adjustable energy-saving type elevator floor stops calling of a kind of stop display brightness and display system and method.
Background technology
Elevator floor stops calling and display system are generally used for registering passenger's object floor and/or direction information, demonstration calling calling mechanism state, passenger's register information and the current operation information of elevator etc., and common elevator floor stops calling and display system are by hall buttons, hall buttons lamp with for showing the elevator operation information telltale of the current floor of lift car and service direction.The calling of current elevator floor stops can be described as with display system control method: when elevator is during in readiness for action, all hall buttons lamps and the low-light level of elevator operation information telltale show; When elevator is when moving, the hall buttons lamp corresponding with the button that is pressed and the elevator operation information telltale of floor show with normal brightness.Yet, for the elevator operation information telltale of non-calling floor, owing to not having passenger in stop, so demand that does not exist elevator operation information to show, therefore, elevator under running state shows that with normal brightness non-calling floor elevator operation information is unnecessary, and such demonstration can cause unnecessary power consumption.
Chinese invention patent CN101792079A (publication number: 201010113793.X), Chinese invention patent CN101792080A (publication number: 201010113803.X) and Chinese invention patent CN102085985A (publication number: 201010253215.6) propose to reduce energy consumption, the prolonged display technical scheme in service life by turn-offing elevator operation information telltale without passenger's floor.But there is such shortcoming in this scheme: because elevator operation information telltale is in off-position, so passenger cannot know the running state information of elevator before pressing hall buttons, and passenger can take for elevator and not remove to use elevator in non-service state.
Therefore, thus developing a kind of only hall buttons lamp corresponding with the button that is pressed and elevator operation information telltale shows and reduces its energy consumption, prolonged display service life and can press energy-saving lift floor call that hall buttons forward direction passenger provides elevator operation information and display system passenger and in the current whole society, all advocate under the background of energy-conservation and environmental protection and just seem particularly necessary with normal brightness.
Summary of the invention
Thereby the elevator operation information telltale that the technical problem to be solved in the present invention is to provide a kind of only hall buttons lamp corresponding with the button that is pressed and floor just shows with normal brightness and reduces the energy-saving lift floor call of its energy consumption and display system, overcomes that prior art energy consumption is high, the life-span is short and can not whether provide to passenger the shortcomings such as in running order information before passenger presses hall buttons simultaneously.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, elevator floor stops calling of the present invention and display system, comprising: calling calling mechanism, for registering passenger's object floor and/or direction information; Read out instrument, for showing one or more of calling calling mechanism state, passenger's register information and the current operation information of elevator; Display control unit, controls for the demonstration to described read out instrument; Described display control unit is controlled described read out instrument, make all calling calling mechanisms that do not receive effective calling register information the described read out instrument of corresponding stop in low-light level mode, show its all or part of displaying contents.
The beneficial effect that the present invention can reach: by only just showing with normal brightness at the elevator operation information telltale of the hall buttons lamp corresponding with the button that is pressed and floor, the appearance of the phenomenon that when even stop does not have passenger to take elevator in elimination prior art, elevator operation information telltale still shows with normal brightness, thereby can significantly reduce the power consumption of elevator floor stops calling and display system, effectively extend the service life of elevator operation information telltale, can also press hall buttons forward direction passenger passenger elevator operation information is provided.
Under the control of described display control unit, for have effective calling register information calling calling mechanism the described read out instrument of corresponding stop a kind of demonstration in as follows:
Only at described calling calling mechanism, start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car and rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time, the low-light level display mode of all or part of displaying contents of described read out instrument when not receiving effective calling register information switches to normal brightness display mode; Or
When described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car rest in this stop close in front of the door this time surpass a certain when default in limited time, described read out instrument described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to it within default time limit the low-light level display mode when not receiving effective calling register information switch to normal brightness display mode, at default time limit to lift car, rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time period and by normal brightness display mode, to switch the display mode that is different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode and show.
The described display mode that is different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode refers to the circulation display mode of mutually switching according to some cycles with normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode.
Switching between described normal brightness display mode and described low-light level display mode can take directly by normal brightness to low-light level or by low-light level the rigidity switching mode to normal brightness, also can take to transit to gradually low-light level or by low-light level, transitted to gradually the flexible switching mode of normal brightness by normal brightness.
For many elevators under group control system management, only have be assigned with response calling register information elevator and show with normal brightness with the described read out instrument with the corresponding stop of calling calling mechanism of effective calling register information, all the other read out instruments show with low-light level.
The present invention also provides described elevator floor stops calling and display method, under the control of described display control unit, for have effective calling register information calling calling mechanism the described read out instrument of corresponding stop show as follows: only at described calling calling mechanism, start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car and rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time, the low-light level display mode of all or part of displaying contents of described read out instrument when not receiving effective calling register information switches to normal brightness display mode.
Or under the control of described display control unit, for have effective calling register information calling calling mechanism the described read out instrument of corresponding stop show as follows: when described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car rest in this stop close in front of the door this time surpass a certain when default in limited time, described read out instrument described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to it within default time limit the low-light level display mode when not receiving effective calling register information switch to normal brightness display mode, at default time limit to lift car, rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time period and by normal brightness display mode, to switch the display mode that is different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode and show.
In the calling of described elevator floor stops and display method, described in be different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode display mode refer to the circulation display mode of mutually switching according to some cycles with normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode; Switching between described normal brightness display mode and described low-light level display mode can take directly by normal brightness to low-light level or by low-light level the rigidity switching mode to normal brightness, also can take to transit to gradually low-light level or by low-light level, transitted to gradually the flexible switching mode of normal brightness by normal brightness.
In described elevator floor stops calling and display method, for many elevators under group control system management, only have be assigned with response calling register information elevator and show with normal brightness with the described read out instrument with the corresponding stop of calling calling mechanism of effective calling register information, all the other read out instruments show with low-light level
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and the specific embodiment, the present invention is described in further detail:
Fig. 1 is the overall structure schematic diagram of an embodiment of elevator floor stops calling of the present invention and display system;
Fig. 2 is the signal implementing procedure figure of an embodiment of elevator floor stops calling of the present invention and display system;
Fig. 3 is the overall structure schematic diagram of the embodiment bis-of elevator floor stops calling of the present invention and display system.
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Embodiment mono-
Elevator floor stops calling of the present invention shown in Figure 1 and the overall structure schematic diagram of an embodiment of display system, described elevator floor stops calling comprises the calling calling mechanism (being hall buttons in the present embodiment) for registering passenger's object floor and/or direction information with display system, be used for showing calling calling mechanism state, the read out instrument of one or more in the current operation information of passenger's register information and elevator (in the present embodiment for for show hall buttons lamp that whether hall buttons was once pressed and for showing the elevator operation information telltale of the current floor of lift car and service direction) and display control unit for the demonstration of described read out instrument is controlled.In addition, electric life controller in Fig. 1 can comprise that for described display control unit provides elevator carries out the elevator operation relevant informations such as current floor, service direction, speed and operational mode when needed, described display control unit is controlled described read out instrument, and described read out instrument is shown all or part of of these information in a certain way.
Described read out instrument is for the demonstration of its displaying contents, only at stop, exist effectively call, be that stop is while having passenger to need the demonstration information of described read out instrument, described read out instrument just can show with normal brightness display mode, and in all the other situations, for reduce elevator floor stops calling and display system power consumption, extend service life of elevator floor stops calling and display system read out instrument, all with low-light level display mode, show, be implemented as follows:
For all calling calling mechanisms that do not have a calling register information the described read out instrument of corresponding stop, in low-light level mode, show its all or part of displaying contents;
For have effective calling register information calling calling mechanism the described read out instrument of corresponding stop, any one in as follows shows:
Mode 1: only start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car at described calling calling mechanism and rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time, the low-light level display mode of all or part of displaying contents of described read out instrument when not receiving effective calling register information switches to normal brightness display mode;
Mode 2: when described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car rest in this stop close in front of the door this time surpass a certain when default in limited time, described read out instrument described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to it within default time limit the low-light level display mode when not receiving effective calling register information switch to normal brightness display mode, at default time limit to lift car, rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time period and by normal brightness display mode, to switch the display mode that is different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode and show.
The display mode that is different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode in aforesaid way 2 refers to the circulation display mode of mutually switching according to some cycles with normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode.Switching between described normal brightness display mode and described low-light level display mode can take directly by normal brightness to low-light level or by low-light level the rigidity switching mode to normal brightness, also can take to transit to gradually low-light level or by low-light level, transitted to gradually the flexible switching mode of normal brightness by normal brightness.
Elevator floor stops calling of the present invention shown in Figure 2 and the schematic implementing procedure figure of an embodiment of display system.Under the control of display control unit, after starting, all read out instrument all shows (step 1) with low-light level display mode; Then judge whether floor call registration, if not, continued to detect judgement, if having, proceeded to subsequent step (step 3); Corresponding to there being the read out instrument of floor call registration floor to switch to normal brightness display mode (step 3) by original low-light level display mode; Judge whether lift car is being stopped and opened the door corresponding to the floor that has floor call registration, if not, illustrate that car not yet opens the door in this floor stop, therefore continue to detect judgement, if so, proceeds to subsequent step (step 4); Finally, car has been stopped to the read out instrument that the floor that opens the door is corresponding and switched to low-light level display mode (step 5), proceeded to afterwards step 2.
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When passenger presses up-downgoing hall buttons, its corresponding up-downgoing hall buttons information is sent to display control unit; Display control unit is delivered to electric life controller by up-downgoing hall buttons information; Electric life controller is sent to display control unit by floor, direction, energy-conservation order, the stop up-downgoing button information such as order of lighting a lamp; Display control unit sends instruction and lights hall buttons, controls read out instrument simultaneously and shows that with normal brightness elevator carries out the information such as place floor, service direction.When lift car rests in, be pressed after the floor of hall buttons place, close hall buttons lamp, and after door-closing in-place, corresponding elevator operation telltale is switched to low-light level and show.
Flow process shown in Fig. 2 is applicable to the mode 1 of above-mentioned specific implementation, for mode 2, can on the basis of Fig. 2, slightly make an amendment and can obtain, and does not repeat herein.
As shown in the above description, all calling calling mechanisms that do not receive effective calling register information of the present invention the described read out instrument of corresponding stop be to show its all or part of displaying contents in low-light level mode, therefore before passenger presses hall buttons, the displaying contents that also can show by low-light level provides the relevant operation information of elevator to passenger.
It is pointed out that above-mentioned explanation, only for only there is a floor call registration at synchronization, for the situation that has a plurality of floor calls simultaneously, can slightly make an amendment and can obtain in conjunction with Fig. 2 and above-mentioned explanation, do not repeat equally herein.
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The overall structure schematic diagram of elevator floor stops of the present invention calling shown in Fig. 3 and another embodiment of display system, with the difference of embodiment illustrated in fig. 1 one overall structure be to have increased for to more than or equal the multiple lift control system that 2 elevators are allocated.Only just do not exist together and be illustrated with embodiment below.
When passenger presses up-downgoing hall buttons, its corresponding up-downgoing hall buttons information is sent to display control unit; Display control unit is delivered to electric life controller by up-downgoing hall buttons information; Electric life controller is delivered to multiple lift control system by up-downgoing call hall buttons information; Multiple lift control system is determined the elevator of this call calling of response, and will send terraced result to be sent to the electric life controller of corresponding elevator; The electric life controller of corresponding elevator is sent to the display control unit of corresponding elevator by floor, direction, energy-conservation order, the stop up-downgoing button information such as order of lighting a lamp; The display control unit of corresponding elevator sends instruction and lights hall buttons, and the control read out instrument of corresponding elevator shows that with normal brightness elevator carries out the information such as place floor, service direction simultaneously.When the car of corresponding elevator rests in, be pressed after the floor of hall buttons place, close hall buttons lamp, and after door-closing in-place, corresponding elevator operation telltale is switched to low-light level and show.
As shown in the above description, for many elevators under group control system management, after having hall buttons to be pressed, only have be assigned with respond effective calling register information elevator and show with normal brightness with the described read out instrument with the corresponding stop of calling calling mechanism of effective calling register information, all the other read out instruments show with low-light level.
All the other are identical with embodiment mono-, do not repeat herein.
The present invention is not limited to embodiment discussed above.Above the description of the specific embodiment is intended in order to describe and illustrate the technical scheme the present invention relates to.Apparent conversion based on the present invention enlightenment or substitute and also should be considered to fall into protection scope of the present invention.The above specific embodiment is used for disclosing best implementation method of the present invention, so that those of ordinary skill in the art can apply numerous embodiments of the present invention and multiple alternative reaches object of the present invention.
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1. elevator floor stops calling and a display system, is characterized in that, comprising:
Calling calling mechanism, for registering passenger's object floor and/or direction information;
Read out instrument, for showing one or more of calling calling mechanism state, passenger's register information and the current operation information of elevator;
Display control unit, controls for the demonstration to described read out instrument;
Described display control unit is controlled described read out instrument, make all calling calling mechanisms that do not receive effective calling register information the described read out instrument of corresponding stop in low-light level mode, show its all or part of displaying contents;
Under the control of described display control unit, for have effective calling register information calling calling mechanism the described read out instrument of corresponding stop a kind of demonstration in as follows:
Only at described calling calling mechanism, start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car and rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time, the low-light level display mode of all or part of displaying contents of described read out instrument when not receiving effective calling register information switches to normal brightness display mode; Or
When described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car rest in this stop close in front of the door this time surpass a certain when default in limited time, described read out instrument described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to it within default time limit the low-light level display mode when not receiving effective calling register information switch to normal brightness display mode, at default time limit to lift car, rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time period and by normal brightness display mode, to switch the display mode that is different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode and show.
2. elevator floor stops according to claim 1 is called and display system, it is characterized in that, described in be different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode display mode refer to the circulation display mode of mutually switching according to some cycles with normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode.
3. elevator floor stops according to claim 1 and 2 is called and display system, it is characterized in that, switching between described normal brightness display mode and described low-light level display mode refer to directly by normal brightness to low-light level or by low-light level the rigidity switching mode to normal brightness, or transit to gradually low-light level or by low-light level, transitted to gradually the flexible switching mode of normal brightness by normal brightness.
4. elevator floor stops according to claim 1 and 2 is called and display system, it is characterized in that, for many elevators under group control system management, only have be assigned with response calling register information elevator and show with normal brightness with the described read out instrument with the corresponding stop of calling calling mechanism of effective calling register information, all the other read out instruments show with low-light level.
5. elevator floor stops according to claim 3 is called and display system, it is characterized in that, for many elevators under group control system management, only have be assigned with response calling register information elevator and show with normal brightness with the described read out instrument with the corresponding stop of calling calling mechanism of effective calling register information, all the other read out instruments show with low-light level.
6. elevator floor stops according to claim 1 is called and display system, it is characterized in that, under the control of described display control unit, for have effective calling register information calling calling mechanism the described read out instrument of corresponding stop show as follows:
Only at described calling calling mechanism, start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car and rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time, the low-light level display mode of all or part of displaying contents of described read out instrument when not receiving effective calling register information switches to normal brightness display mode.
7. elevator floor stops according to claim 1 is called and display system, it is characterized in that, under the control of described display control unit, for have effective calling register information calling calling mechanism the described read out instrument of corresponding stop show as follows:
When described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to lift car rest in this stop close in front of the door this time surpass a certain when default in limited time, described read out instrument described calling calling mechanism start to register object floor and/or direction information to it within default time limit the low-light level display mode when not receiving effective calling register information switch to normal brightness display mode, at default time limit to lift car, rest in before this stop door-closing in-place in this time period and by normal brightness display mode, to switch the display mode that is different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode and show.
8. according to elevator floor stops calling and display system described in claim 6 or 7, it is characterized in that, described in be different from normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode display mode refer to the circulation display mode of mutually switching according to some cycles with normal brightness display mode and low-light level display mode; Switching between described normal brightness display mode and described low-light level display mode refer to directly by normal brightness to low-light level or by low-light level the rigidity switching mode to normal brightness, or transit to gradually low-light level or by low-light level, transitted to gradually the flexible switching mode of normal brightness by normal brightness.
9. according to elevator floor stops calling and display system described in claim 6 or 7, it is characterized in that, for many elevators under group control system management, only have be assigned with response calling register information elevator and show with normal brightness with the described read out instrument with the corresponding stop of calling calling mechanism of effective calling register information, all the other read out instruments show with low-light level.
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