JP2003063745A - Group management system for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an indication guide device capable of being constituted at low cost even if a car call floor record operation boards are provided on all landing floors. SOLUTION: An elevator responsive to a call is guided by indicators in every group and a hall lantern.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a group management elevator, and more particularly to a group management system for elevators provided with a destination floor registration button at an arbitrary landing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A normal elevator hall is provided with an ascending call button and a descending call button. When a waiting passenger operates these buttons, the hall call is registered and the group management control device responds to the hall call. It is common to operate the entire elevator efficiently by determining the optimum car to be operated and assigning this hall call to this car.

Recently, however, as shown in FIG. 2, a destination floor registration operation panel 1 is installed at a hall to provide an elevator where waiting passengers can directly instruct the destination floor at the hall. That is, which elevator will service the call registered at the destination floor, that is, whether the elevator is to be serviced by A or B is displayed on both the display unit 2 of the operation panel and the destination floor display 3 of each elevator. It is supposed to do.

[0004]

However, for example, when the number of elevators increases so that a plurality of elevators are arranged in a face-to-face manner, it is not immediately known what number of elevators will answer the call. Occur.
Further, in the case of a group management elevator in which such a destination floor registration operation panel is installed on the intermediate floors other than the standard floor, the number of display guide devices becomes very large and the cost also rises accordingly.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a display guide device which is less expensive and more understandable.

[0006]

According to the present invention, a destination floor button is provided at an arbitrary landing where a plurality of elevators are installed, and when a destination floor call is registered by the destination floor button, the response is made. In a group management system that determines an elevator car to be used by the call allocating means and calls the elevator car to an operated hall, a plurality of elevator cars are arranged in service groups, and the call allocating means are arranged in the same direction at the hall. Only one elevator car can be assigned at a time for each service group. 2. A destination floor button is provided in an arbitrary hall where a plurality of elevators are installed, and when a destination floor call is registered by the destination floor button, an elevator car to respond to is assigned and determined,
In a group management system for calling the elevator car to an operated hall, a hall lantern for each elevator, a display means for displaying a service group of a plurality of elevator cars, and a destination floor button that lights up when operated, in the hall. There is provided a tell tale, and the tell tale of the destination floor button of the group to which the assigned car does not belong is provided with means for not continuously lighting. It is a thing.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention is an elevator group management system capable of eliminating the need for a destination floor indicator which is usually provided for each elevator.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall schematic view showing a device configuration according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is an enlarged front view showing an example of a hall operating panel according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a state in which, for example, a total of six elevators are arranged facing each other. Plan layout of group control elevator, FIG.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the device of the present invention.

In the figure, 10 is a hall operation panel according to the present invention installed in an arbitrary hall, and comprises a destination floor registration button 11 and a service group display device 12. In this service group display device 12, for example, a front group and a rear group are divided into groups, and each group is guided and divided. Reference numeral 13 is a well-known hall lantern that lights and blinks the forecast and arrival information of each car, and 14 is a car control device that controls the operation of each car.

Reference numeral 15 is a group management device for instructing the operation of the entire elevator, which is a call allocating means 15a for deciding a car to respond to a call newly registered by the destination floor registration button 11, and a general car for each car. It has an operation control means 15b for performing various operation controls, and a learning means 15c for periodically statistically processing data such as the operation status and service status of each car. Reference numeral 16 is a bus line for communicating between each car control device 14 and the group management device 15.

Here, the following restrictions are imposed on the call allocating means 15a. That is, in the front group and the rear group, only one car traveling in the ascending direction and one car traveling in the descending direction can be assigned. That is, the number of elevator cars that can be simultaneously allocated in the same direction on the same floor is limited to one for each group.

Next, the operation of the device of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. First, in step 1, it is checked whether or not the destination floor registration button 11 of the hall operation panel 10 has been pressed, and if it has been pressed, the telltale of the destination floor registration button being operated is turned on. Next, in step 2, it is checked whether the destination floor is already registered, and if it is not registered, it is registered. Then, the destination floor is assigned to the optimum car by the group management device 15, the lantern of the assigned car is turned on, and the chime is also guided at the same time. If this destination floor is already registered, the lantern will be turned on and the chime will be the only guide.

Next, in step 3, it is checked whether the car to which the call is assigned is located on the operated destination floor registration button side (that is, on the front side group side). If it is a machine in the front group, the display "Please use the front elevator" on the service group display device 12 is turned on, and the relevant telltales of all front destination floor registration buttons are turned on. If it is already lit, it remains lit.

On the contrary, in the case of the rear group machine, the display "Please use the rear group elevator" of the service group display device 12 is turned on, and the corresponding telltales of all the rear destination floor registration buttons are turned on.
In the case of this rear group machine, when the waiting passenger releases the registration button, the telltale of the registration button on the front is turned off immediately. That is, continuous lighting is not performed.

Therefore, the waiting passengers can use the service group display device of the hall control panel 10 or the registration button telltale and the hall lantern to know which elevator of which car will service the registration call.

In the above description, the grouping of elevators is divided into the front side and the rear side, but this grouping may be appropriately set according to the arrangement state of the elevators.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide sufficient information to a waiting passenger with a small number of display devices, so that an elevator group management system can be constructed at low cost. In particular, the advantage is great when the hall operation panel according to the present invention is provided on all floors of the hall.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram showing a device configuration according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing a conventional display guide device.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged front view showing an example of a hall operation panel according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan layout view of a group management elevator in which a total of six elevators are arranged facing each other.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1,10 Hall control panel 11 Destination floor registration button 12 Service group display 13 hole lantern 14 car controller 15 group management device 15a Call assigning means 15b Operation control means 15c Learning means

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. When a destination floor button is provided at an arbitrary landing where a plurality of elevators are installed and a destination floor call is registered by the destination floor button, the elevator car to respond to is determined by the call allocating means. However, in the group management system for calling the elevator car to the operated hall, the plurality of elevator cars are divided into service groups and arranged, and the call assigning means can simultaneously assign the elevator cars in the same direction in the hall. Elevator group management system characterized by one for each service group. 2. The elevator group management system according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying a service group. 3. The elevator group management system according to claim 1, wherein the hall is provided with a hall lantern for notifying an allocation forecast for each elevator car. 4. A destination floor button is provided at an arbitrary landing where a plurality of elevators are installed, and when a destination floor call is registered by the destination floor button, an elevator car to respond to is assigned, determined, and operated. In the group management system for calling the elevator car to a designated hall, a hall lantern for each elevator, display means for displaying a service group of the plurality of elevator cars, and a destination floor button lit when operated A group management system for elevators, which is provided with a tell tale, and is provided with means for not continuously lighting the tell tale of the destination floor button of the group to which the assigned car does not belong. 5. The hole lantern for rising and the one for descending are separately provided.
The elevator group management system described in. 6. The elevator group management system according to claim 1 or 4, wherein the arbitrary hall is a hall on the middle floor of a building. 7. The service group division of the elevator car is a group division of the front side and the rear side of the elevators arranged facing each other, as claimed in claim 1, claim 2 or claim 3 or claim 4. The elevator group management system described in.