JP2004338844A - Group supervisory operation device for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a group supervisory operation device for an elevator capable of being comfortably and surely used by both of a user of a wheel chair and an ordinary user in an elevator having a plurality of cars serving also for the wheel chair. <P>SOLUTION: A landing call control means 10 manages registered call information when landing call is registered including landing call exclusive for the wheel chair. A car information control means 8 determines whether there is enough space in the car serving also for the wheel chair so that the user of the wheel chair can get in based on the landing call information exclusive for the wheel chair managed and load data detected by a load detection means 2. An allocation control means 9 allocates landing call exclusive for the wheel chair with respect to the most suitable car which the user of the wheel chair who registers the landing call exclusive for the wheel chair can get in among all of the cars serving also for the wheel chairs. A preannouncing lamp control means 11 delays lighting of a landing preannouncing lamp 14 of the allocated car until the car allocated for landing call exclusive for the wheel chair is determined as it reaches in a state wherein the wheel chair can get in. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an elevator group management control device that controls the operation of a plurality of elevators operating between a plurality of floors as one group, and in particular, to an elevator group management control device in which a plurality of wheelchairs are installed. About.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In a group management device for a plurality of elevators including a wheelchair combined use unit, if there is only one wheelchair combined use unit, if a wheelchair user registers a wheelchair dedicated hall call button, the number of units that respond to the call registration is 1 It is limited to a wheelchair-only unit with only a stand.
[0003]
On the other hand, if an elevator group control device with two or more wheelchairs is registered as a wheelchair-only hall call, wheelchair users can ride for wheelchair users from all wheelchairs. The most suitable machine with the best space is selected and responded.
[0004]
One example of this kind of consideration for wheelchair users is to encourage them to get out of the car if there is not enough space in the car for wheelchairs. A method for improving service for a customer is disclosed (for example, see Patent Document 1).
[0005]
[Patent Document]
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-25550
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the above-mentioned conventional method, general passengers are sacrificed in order to give priority to wheelchair users.
[0007]
In addition, when there is more than one wheelchair combined car, when the wheelchair dedicated hall call is registered, the most suitable car is selected and assigned, and the landing forecast light is turned on. When a wheelchair-only hall call is registered on the floor before the registered floor call, an unexpected passenger gets in, and the wheelchair-only hall call is registered as it is almost full. When arriving at the floor, the wheelchair user could not get on the assigned assigned car, which could cause discomfort to the wheelchair user. In this case, it is difficult for a wheelchair user to get in the vehicle, and the rider has to wait for the ride. Therefore, the wheelchair user may have to wait long.
[0008]
Therefore, if the above-mentioned method is used to assign a wheelchair-only hall call registration and the hall forecast light is turned on, the forecast may be incorrect for the above-mentioned reason, and there may be a plurality of wheelchair dual-use machines. In that case, the landing forecast light of the assigned car was not turned on. Therefore, after registering a wheelchair-only hall call, a wheelchair user does not know in front of which car to wait, and if a car that arrives away from the waiting area responds and arrives, There are cases where the door closes while moving in front of the car, or when the passenger in the car accidentally closes it with the door close button, which can also cause discomfort to wheelchair users There was sex.
[0009]
The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and in an elevator in which a plurality of wheelchair-combined cars are installed, both a wheelchair user and a general user can comfortably and reliably use the elevator. It is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator group management device capable of performing an operation.
[0010]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 of the present application
In an elevator group management control device in which a plurality of wheelchair combined cars are installed,
A hall call control means for managing registered call information when the hall call is registered, including a wheelchair-only hall call;
Load detection means for detecting the load in the car of all units,
Based on the information on the wheelchair dedicated hall call managed by the hall call control means and the load data of each wheelchair / shared car detected by the load detecting means, is there a space where a wheelchair user can get in the wheelchair / used car Unit information control means for determining whether or not
Based on the information of the unit information control means and the assignment status of each wheelchair combined unit to the registered call, the optimal unit that can be used by a wheelchair user who has registered a wheelchair dedicated hall call from all wheelchair combined units Allocation control means for allocating a wheelchair-only hall call to
Based on the information from the car information control means and the information from the assignment control means, the car that has assigned the wheelchair-only hall call is predicted to arrive in a state in which the wheelchair can be boarded until the car is allocated. Forecast light control means for delaying the lighting of the light,
It is characterized by having.
[0011]
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the elevator group management control device according to the first aspect, the number information control means registers a wheelchair-only hall call by a wheelchair user, and the hall forecast light is turned on by the forecast light control means. In the car where the wheelchair-combined car that has been started to decelerate to stop at the call registration floor, the own car informs that the wheelchair user will board in response to the wheelchair-only hall call. Features.
[0012]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on preferred embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of an elevator group management control device according to the present invention, together with a control system of a wheelchair-combined car. In the figure, a main rope 5 is wound around a sheave (a sheave) 15 connected to an electric motor (not shown). The wheelchair / combined car 1 is connected to one end of the main rope 5, and a counterweight 6 is suspended from the other end. The load detecting means 2 is attached to the bottom of the wheelchair / combined car 1, and the auto announcement device 3 is installed at the top. One end of the tail cord 4 is connected to the wheelchair-combined car 1 and the other end is connected to the unit control means 7 for exchanging information with various control elements of the wheelchair-combined car 1. The unit control means 7 is provided for each car and is connected to the group management device 12.
[0013]
When the general hall call button 13a and the wheelchair-specific hall call button 13b are pressed, that is, when a hall call is registered, the group management device 12 includes a hall call control unit 10 that manages information of the registered call. On the basis of the information on the wheelchair-specific hall call managed by the hall call control means 10 and the load data of each wheelchair / multi-purpose car detected by the load detection means 2, whether there is a space where the passenger of the wheelchair can get in A wheelchair dedicated hall call is selected from all wheelchair dual-use machines based on the information of the hall information control means 8 for determining whether or not and the information of the hall call control means 10 and the assignment status of each wheelchair dual-use car to the registered call. Information from the assignment control means 9 for assigning a dedicated wheelchair hall call to the most suitable car to which the registered wheelchair passenger can ride and information from the car information control means 8 Forecast that delays the lighting of the landing forecast light of the assigned car until the car which has assigned the wheelchair dedicated hall call based on the information from the assignment control means 9 is determined to arrive in a state where the wheelchair can be boarded. And light control means 11.
Since the configuration of the wheelchair combined use car 1 and its control system are common to each car, only the car for the first car is shown for simplification of the drawing.
[0014]
The operation of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described below in accordance with the flowchart of FIG. 2 and also with reference to the assignment explanatory diagram of FIG.
[0015]
First, it is assumed that a wheelchair user has performed an upward registration on the n floor with the wheelchair exclusive hall call button 13b. In response to this, in step S1, the assignment control means 9 searches, based on the information of the hall call control means 10, whether or not there is a wheelchair-capable car from all the wheelchairs. At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, if it is determined that the car A among the car A, the car B, and the car C is not full, but it is determined that there is no room for the wheelchair to be able to get in from the car riding rate, A similar search is executed for the next car, excluding the car A from the candidates for assignment. The car B has a longer expected arrival time to the n-th floor than the car A, but satisfies the condition of step S1 because there are fewer passengers in the car. The expected arrival time of the car C to the n-th floor is later than that of the car A or the car B, but the number of passengers in the car is zero, so that the condition of step S1 is satisfied. If no wheelchair-capable car is found in step S1, the process of step S1 is repeated until a wheelchair-capable car that satisfies the condition is found.
[0016]
Next, when a wheelchair / shared car that satisfies the condition of step S1 is found, in step S2, a wheelchair-dedicated hall call is assigned to an optimal car from among all the wheelchair / combined car that satisfies the condition of step S1. . In this case, the cars B and C satisfying the conditions in step S1 are targets. However, the assignment control means 9 assigns the car B having the shorter predicted arrival time as the optimum car at the present time. In the process of step S2, only the allocation is performed, and the landing forecasting light 14 is not turned on.
[0017]
Next, in step S3, the assignment control means 9 determines whether the next stop floor of the assigned car is the registered floor of the wheelchair exclusive hall call button 13b. At this time, if there is no car call or registered hall call on the floor before the registered floor of the wheelchair-only hall call, the process proceeds to step S4, and conversely, the car call or the registered hall call is not assigned. If there is an assignment or the like, the process of step S3 is repeated.
[0018]
Next, in step S4, as a final check before turning on the hall forecasting light 14, if the next stop floor is a registered floor for a wheelchair-only hall call, the allocation control means 9 causes Based on the boarding rate of the No. B car, whether the wheelchair user can board the vehicle is checked most. At this time, if it is determined that the assigned car No. B can be boarded by a wheelchair, the process proceeds to step S5, where the forecast light control means 11 turns on the landing forecast light 14 of the assigned car. .
[0019]
If it is determined that the number of passengers in the car increases on the floor that has been stopped after being allocated in step S2 and the wheelchair user cannot get on, the process returns to step S1 and starts again from the search for the assigned car. . In this way, the user of the wheelchair moves in advance to the car No. B, for which the hall forecasting light 14 is turned on in step S5, so that the passenger can surely get on the car wheelchair.
[0020]
Thus, according to the first embodiment of the elevator group management device according to the present invention, it is possible to guide a user of a wheelchair to a boardable car in advance before an available car arrives. The situation where there is no space for wheelchair users to get in despite the arrival of the car that issued the forecast, or the elevator door closed while moving in front of the car that arrived, and I could not get on Can be prevented beforehand, and the wheelchair user can get on the wheelchair-cum-car unit that has arrived at the wheelchair-only hall call reliably and smoothly.
[0021]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the second embodiment of the elevator group management apparatus according to the present invention, and the hardware configuration is omitted because it is the same as that shown in FIG. The processing of steps T1 to T5 shown in FIG. 4 is the same as the processing of steps S1 to S5 shown in the flowchart of FIG. 2, and therefore the description thereof will be omitted, and the following description will focus on the newly added processing procedure. And
[0022]
As described in the first embodiment, when it is determined that the wheelchair can be boarded when the next stop floor of the wheelchair combined car assigned the wheelchair dedicated hall call is the wheelchair dedicated hall call registration floor. The process proceeds to step T5, where the forecasting light control means 11 turns on the forecasting light of the assigned car. Then, in step T6, it is determined whether or not the car information control means 8 has started deceleration to stop at the wheelchair-dedicated hall call registration floor, and waits until deceleration actually starts. The fact that a passenger in a wheelchair is going to board at the next stop floor for a certain car B is notified to the passengers in the car using the auto-announcement device 3.
[0023]
Thus, according to the second embodiment of the elevator group management device according to the present invention, even if the guidance of the wheelchair user to the assigned car by the hall forecast light 14 is delayed, the movement of the wheelchair user is delayed. Even if it is, the passengers in the car can know upon arrival that the wheelchair users are waiting at the landing, so that it is possible to prevent the doors from being closed accidentally.
[0024]
Also, since wheelchair users can get on the arriving car without fail, they will not be able to get on the arriving car and will have to register a wheelchair-only hall call again, which will cause discomfort to wheelchair users. At the same time, it is possible to obtain the effect that the overall service degradation can be prevented by reducing the number of unnecessary stoppages.
[0025]
【The invention's effect】
As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, in an elevator in which a plurality of wheelchair-combined cars are installed, an elevator that can be used comfortably and reliably by both wheelchair users and general users is provided. A group management device is provided.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a first embodiment of an elevator group management control device according to the present invention, together with a control system of a wheelchair-dedicated car;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a specific processing procedure for explaining the operation of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a state of assignment control for explaining the operation of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a specific processing procedure of the second embodiment of the elevator group management control device according to the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Wheelchair combined use car 2 Load detection means 3 Auto announcement device 4 Tail cord 5 Main rope 6 Balance weight 7 Single control means 8 Unit information control means 9 Assignment control means 10 Landing call control means 11 Forecast light control means 12 Group management device 13a General hall call button 13b Wheelchair-specific hall call button 14 Hall forecast light 15 Sheave

Claims (2)

In an elevator group management control device in which a plurality of wheelchair combined cars are installed,
A hall call control means for managing registered call information when the hall call is registered, including a wheelchair-only hall call;
Load detection means for detecting the load in the car of all units,
Based on the information of the wheelchair dedicated hall call managed by the hall call control means and the load data of each wheelchair combined machine detected by the load detecting means, a space where a wheelchair combined passenger can get into the wheelchair combined machine is provided. Unit information control means for determining whether or not there is,
Based on the information of the car information control means and the assignment status of each wheelchair combined car to the registered call, the most suitable wheelchair passenger who has registered a wheelchair dedicated hall call from all the wheelchair combined cars can board. Allocation control means for allocating a wheelchair-only hall call to the car,
Based on the information from the car information control means and the information from the assignment control means, the car to which the wheelchair dedicated hall call has been allocated is determined to be the allocated car until it is determined that the wheelchair arrives in a state where it can be boarded. Forecast light control means for delaying lighting of the landing forecast light,
An elevator group management device, comprising: The car information control means is a wheelchair user who has registered a wheelchair-only hall call, and the wheelchair / multi-purpose car with the hall forecast light turned on by the forecast light control means has started decelerating to stop at the call registration floor. 2. The elevator group management device according to claim 1, wherein the own car notifies the inside of the car that a wheelchair user is boarding in response to a wheelchair dedicated hall call.

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