JP2007217137A - Group supervisory operation controller for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To guide a user going to a sublevel floor to the sublevel floor without fail by the same button operation as operation by a user going to a usual floor without being conscious of the sublevel floor. <P>SOLUTION: A car call registering device used in common by all the elevators including usual elevators 2a, 2b and a specific elevator 4 is provided to decide a transfer floor for allowing a customer registering and operating a sublevel floor call in the usual elevator to transfer from the usual elevator to the specific elevator based on a current condition of the usual elevator in which the sublevel floor call is registered and a current condition of the specific elevator for rendering services to all the floors when the sublevel floor call is registered in the usual elevator for rendering service to only the usual floor. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator group management control device that controls a plurality of elevators, and more particularly to an elevator group management control device installed in a building having different floors that can be serviced by an elevator.

  Generally, in a building where a plurality of elevators are installed and group management control operation is performed, when an upper or lower hall call is registered by operating a hall call button installed in a hall (elevator hall) of each floor The elevator that is most suitable at that time is selected from a plurality of elevators, and this hall call is assigned.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 13, some buildings have uneven (different) service floors of group management elevators for construction reasons. In such an elevator system, the difference between normal elevator 2 (No. A and B in FIG. 13) that can service only normal floor 1 of 1F to 7F, and normal floor 1 and BF (basement floor) of 1F to 7F. A specific elevator 4 (No. C in FIG. 13) capable of serving the floor 3 is incorporated.

  In such a building, for example, as shown in FIG. 14, an elevator hall on each floor has a hall call button 5 common to the normal elevator 2 and the specific elevator 4 operated when going to the normal floor 1 of 1F to 7F. , A special floor call button 6 for a different floor is provided to be operated when going to the third floor 3 of the BF.

  Further, a car call register 8 shown in FIG. 15 (a) is mounted in the car 7 of the normal elevator 2, and the car call register 8 includes seven pieces for the normal floor 1 of 1F to 7F. A car call button 9 is provided. Further, a car call register 11 shown in FIG. 15 (b) is mounted in the car 10 of the specific elevator 4, and the car call register 11 includes seven pieces for the normal floor 1 of 1F to 7F. In addition to the car call button 9, a car call button 12 for the BF uneven floor 3 is provided.

  And when a user goes to the normal floor of 1F-7F, if the hall call button 5 is pushed in an elevator hall, the optimal elevator will be selected from all the elevators of the normal elevator 2 and the specific elevator 4. The elevator will respond. Then, the passengers board the cars 7 and 10 of the responding elevators 2 and 4 and designate (register) the destination floor with the car call buttons 9 of the car call registering devices 8 and 11. Then, the corresponding cars 7 and 10 move to the destination floor.

  In addition, when the user goes to the BF uneven floor 3, the specific elevator 4 responds when the user presses the special floor calling button 6 in the elevator hall. Then, the user enters the car 10 of the responding specific elevator 4 and designates (registers) a destination floor (a step floor 3 of the BF) with the car call button 12 of the car call register 11. Then, the corresponding car 10 moves to the destination floor (BF uneven floor 3).

  However, even in such an elevator group management control system, an unfamiliar user accidentally presses the hall call button 5 and gets into the car 7 of the normal elevator 2 when going to the uneven floor 3 of the BF. Frequently occur. In this case, it is necessary for the user to immediately get off the car 7 on the nearby floor, and press the stepped floor dedicated hall call button 6 again.

In order to avoid such complications when boarding the wrong elevator, as shown in Patent Document 1, a car call register in the elevator of all elevators including the normal elevator 2 and the specific elevator 4 is illustrated. When the car call button 12 for the uneven floor 3 shown in FIG. 15 (b) is provided and the car 7 of the normal elevator 2 that does not serve the uneven floor 3 carries passengers who go to the uneven floor 3, When arriving at the connecting floor, the passenger is transferred to a specific elevator 4 serving the uneven floor 3. In addition, calls to the different floors were automatically registered in this specific elevator 4.
Japanese Patent Application No. 6-32544

  However, even in an elevator group management control apparatus that services a plurality of floors including the above-mentioned different floors with two types of elevators, a normal elevator and a specific elevator, there are still the following problems to be solved.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 14, in the elevator hall on each floor, in addition to the hall call button 5 common to the normal elevator 2 and the specific elevator 4 operated when going to the normal floor 1, when going to the uneven floor 3 There is a need to provide a special landing call button 6 for the different floors to be operated, which may increase the equipment cost of the entire elevator system.

  Furthermore, the user who goes to the uneven floor 3 is forced to perform complicated button operations.

  Moreover, in the method described in patent document 1, the connection floor is previously fixed for every building. Therefore, the elevator cars are concentrated on the transfer floor, waiting time for passengers waiting in the elevator hall on each floor other than the transfer floor is increased, the operation efficiency of the entire elevator system is reduced, and There was a concern that the service would decline.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, without providing a hall call button dedicated to the different floors in the elevator hall on each floor, without providing a fixed transit floor for each building, and further Even for users who go to the floor, the user can be surely guided to the different floors by the same button operation as a user who goes to the normal floor without special awareness of the different floors. It is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator group management control device that can be improved and can improve services for users.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention puts a plurality of elevators composed of a normal elevator that can service only a normal floor and a specific elevator that can service a normal floor and a different floor to each floor, and In the elevator group management control device for allocating the hall call generated at the hall to the optimum elevator and moving the elevator to the floor registered by the car call generated at each elevator,
Common car call registration means that can be registered in all elevators including normal elevators and specific elevators and that can register all floors including normal floors and uneven floors, and different floor calls are registered in the car call registration means of specific elevators. Then, if a different floor call is registered by the normal floor call normal allocation means for allocating the different floor call to the specific elevator and the normal elevator car call registration means, the current state of the normal elevator where the different floor call is registered A transit floor determining means for determining a transit floor for a passenger of a normal elevator who has registered and operated a different floor call to transfer from the normal elevator to the specific elevator based on the state and the current state of the specific elevator; A moving means for moving the normal elevator and the specific elevator in which the different floor call is registered to the transit floor determined by the connecting floor determining means; To go to the uneven floors and a guide output means for outputting the transit instrument transit guided into the cage of a normal elevator to a specific elevator in transit floor.

  In the elevator group management control device configured as described above, all the floors including the normal floor and the different floors can be registered in the specific elevator car that can service all the floors including the normal floor and the different floors. The car call registration means is provided, but the car call registration means capable of registering all the floors including the normal floor and the different floors is also provided in the normal elevator car that can service only the normal floor.

  Also, there is no hall call button dedicated to the different floors in the elevator hall on each floor. When the user who wants to go to the different floor presses the hall call button in the elevator hall, the optimum elevator responds to the user's floor. Then, the user gets into the elevator car that has responded, and performs call registration for the different floors with the car call registration means.

  When the car in the specific elevator is a specific elevator car, the specific elevator car goes to the different floor as it is. In addition, when the passenger car is a normal elevator car, the passenger must transfer to the specific elevator, but the connecting floor has the current state of the normal elevator and the current state of the specific elevator where the different floor call is registered. And based on the state.

  Therefore, since the transfer floor is determined each time, the elevator cars are not concentrated on a specific transfer floor, and the service to the user does not deteriorate.

  In another invention, the transit floor determining means in the elevator group management control device of the above invention is based on the positional relationship between the car position of the normal elevator and the specific elevator car position where the different floor call is registered. The transit floor is judged.

  In the elevator group management control device configured in this way, for example, by setting the floor of the car position closer to the stepped floor of the normal elevator car position and the specific elevator car position as a transit floor, Unnecessary movement of each elevator can be minimized.

  In another invention, the transit floor determining means in the elevator group management control device according to the above invention is configured such that when a call specifying a floor by a hall call or a car call is not registered in the specific elevator, There is a first determination means for preferentially determining the floor of the location floor and the call floor other than the uneven floor registered by the hall call or the car call in the normal elevator as the transfer floor.

  In this case, since the specific elevator is in a standby state, it is efficient for all elevators to stop the specific elevator at the call floor registered in the normal elevator in which the different floors are registered.

  In another invention, the transit floor determining means in the elevator group management control device according to the above invention, when a call specifying a floor by a hall call or a car call is registered in the specific elevator, A second floor that preferentially determines the floor that coincides between the registered floor and the current floor of the normal elevator and the floor of the call other than the uneven floor registered to the normal elevator by the hall call or the car call. Determination means. In such a configuration, the elevators can be smoothly connected by setting the connecting floors on the floors that coincide with the specific elevator and the normal elevator.

  In another invention, in the second determining means of the above invention, if there is no coincidence between the registered floor of the specific elevator and the current position floor and registered floor of the normal elevator, the specific elevator on each registered floor And a waiting time calculating means for calculating an arrival waiting time from the arrival of one elevator car of the normal elevator to the arrival of the other elevator car, and each arrival waiting time calculated by the waiting time calculating means. Among them, there is a third determination means for preferentially determining the registered floor corresponding to the minimum arrival waiting time as the transit floor.

  As described above, when there is no matching floor between the registered floor of the specific elevator and the current position floor and the registered floor of the normal elevator, a transit floor having a minimum arrival waiting time is newly set.

  In another invention, the transit floor determination means in the elevator group management control device according to the above invention is such that only the different floor call is registered in the normal elevator, and the call registration floor of the specific elevator is the current position floor of the normal elevator. When the elevator car is not included in the floor between the current floor and the different floor, the elevator car of one elevator of the specific elevator and the normal elevator arrives at each floor between the current position floor of the normal elevator and the lower floor. Waiting time calculating means for calculating arrival waiting time until the car arrives, and the floor corresponding to the minimum arrival waiting time among the arrival waiting times calculated by this waiting time calculating means is preferentially designated as the transit floor It has the 4th determination means to determine. Even in such a configuration, a transit floor having a minimum arrival waiting time is newly set.

  In another invention, the elevator group management control device according to the invention described above is configured to include a congestion degree detection means for detecting the degree of congestion of users waiting for an elevator at a landing on each floor, and a plurality of boardings by a transit floor determination means. Transit floor selection means for selecting a transit floor having the smallest congestion level detected by the congestion level detection means as the final transit floor when a transition floor is determined.

  In the elevator group management control apparatus configured as described above, the transit floor is preferentially assigned to the floor where the congestion level of the elevator waiting user is low, so the congestion level of the floor designated as the transit floor is particularly high. It will never grow.

  Further, in another invention, after the connection guidance is output to the elevator group management control device according to the above invention, the different elevator call registered by the elevator car call registration means is registered as a specific elevator car call. There is provided a step call transfer means for transferring to the means.

  Therefore, the passenger who has transferred from the normal elevator to the specific elevator on the connecting floor does not need to register the different floor in the car calling registration means again in the specific elevator car.

  Furthermore, in another invention, the guidance output means displays the connection guidance on a display provided in the car.

  According to the present invention, the elevator hall on each floor does not have a dedicated hall call button for the different floors, does not have a fixed transit floor for each building, and for users who go to the different floors, The user can be surely guided to the different floor by the same button operation as the user who goes to the normal floor without specially being aware of the above, and the service for the user can be improved.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an elevator group management control apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an elevator system to which the elevator group management control apparatus of this embodiment is applied. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an elevator hall on each floor of a building to which the elevator group management control device of the embodiment is applied. The same parts as those of the conventional elevator system and elevator hall of FIGS. 13 and 14 are denoted by the same reference numerals, and detailed description of the overlapping parts is omitted.

  As shown in FIG. 2, in the elevator system to which the elevator group management control device of the embodiment is applied, normal elevators 2 a and 2 b (No. A in FIG. 2) that can service only the normal floor 1 of 1F to 7F of the building. , B) and a specific elevator 4 (No. C in FIG. 2) capable of serving the normal floor 1 of 1F to 7F and the uneven floor 3 of BF (basement floor).

  In such an elevator system, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, the elevator halls on each floor of the first floor 1F to 7F include all the floors (BF˜ A common hall call button 5 is provided for each of the elevators 2a, 2b, 4 operated when going to 7F). Note that there is no special floor call button for a different floor for going to the third floor 3 of the BF. Furthermore, one hall call button 5 is provided in the elevator hall of the specific elevator 4 on the uneven floor 3 of the BF.

  As shown in FIG. 4, a car call register 13 common to the normal elevators 2 a, 2 b and the specific elevator 4 is attached in each car 7 a, 7 b, 10 of each elevator 2 a, 2 b, 4. The car call register 13 is provided with eight car call buttons 14 for the normal floor 1 of 1F to 7F and the uneven floor 3 of BF. Further, a speaker 15 for outputting a connection guidance for passengers in the cars 7a, 7b and 10 is incorporated.

  In FIG. 1, the cars 7a, 7b and 10 in the normal elevators 2a and 2b and the specific elevator 4 are controlled to move up and down by the car single controllers 16a, 16b and 16c, respectively. In each car single control section 16a, 16b, 16c, car call response sections 17a, 17b, 17c are provided. The car call response units 17a, 17b, and 17c use the car call floors registered by the car call button 14 of the car call register 13 of the cars 7a, 7b, and 10 that they control to their own elevators 2a, 2b, and 4 respectively. Assign. As a result, the elevators 2a, 2b, and 4 of the elevators 7a, 7b, and 10 move to the floor registered (designated) by the car call.

  When the car call floor registered with the car call button 14 of the car call register 13 is the BF uneven floor 3, the elevators 2a, 2b, and 4 in which the uneven floor 3 is called and registered do not always respond. Therefore, this uneven floor call is written into the uneven floor car call registration unit 18 with information for specifying the elevator in which the call is registered.

  Each hall call floor registered by the hall call button 5 provided in the elevator hall on each floor including the uneven floor 3 is temporarily stored in the hall call registration unit 19. The hall call assigning unit 20 refers to each hall call and each car call that have already been assigned to each car single control unit 16a, 16b, 16c, and each hall call temporarily stored in the hall call registration unit 19, Allocate 2a, 2b, 4 to the best elevator with the lowest waiting time on the call generation floor.

  However, only the specific elevator 4 responds to the landing call on the uneven floor 3 registered with the landing call button 5 on the uneven floor 3.

  The transit necessity determination unit 21 converts each stepped floor car call temporarily stored in the stepped floor car call registration unit 18 from the elevators 2a, 2b, 4 in which the stepped floor car call is registered. Determine if necessary. Specifically, passengers are required to connect to the different floor car calls registered in the elevators 2a and 2b, and the passenger's connection to the different floor car calls registered in the specific elevator 4 is required. There is no need to make a connection. The connection necessity determination unit 21 sends the in-storey floor car call registered in the specific elevator 4 that does not require connection to the car call response unit 17c of the specific elevator 4 that is the transmission source. The car call response unit 17c assigns the car call on the different floor to the specific elevator 4 of its own. As a result, the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 responds to the uneven floor 3 of the BF.

  The transfer necessity determination unit 21 sends out the difference floor car call registered in the normal elevators 2a, 2b that need to be connected to the driving schedule detection unit 22. The driving schedule detector 22 includes the current position floors of the cars 7a and 7b of the normal elevators 2a and 2b in which the different floor calls are registered, the hall call floors assigned to the normal elevators 2a and 2b, and the car call call floors. The current state and the current state composed of the hall call floor and the car call floor that are also assigned to the specific elevator 4 are read out from the individual car controllers 16a, 16b, and 16c. The transit floor determination unit 23 determines the transit floor for the passengers of the normal elevators 2a and 2b who have registered and operated the different floor call to transfer to the specific elevator 4 from the normal elevators 2a and 2b based on the respective current states. To do.

  The transit floor determination unit 23 transmits the determined transit floor to the transit floor car call registration unit 24. The transfer floor car call registration unit 24 assigns the determined car call of the transfer floor to the normal elevators 2a, 2b and the specific elevator 4 that have registered and operated the different floor call, and assigns the assigned result to the corresponding elevators 2a, 2b, 4 To the car call response units 17a, 17b, and 17c. Each of the car call response units 17a, 17b, and 17c assigns the transfer floors to the normal elevators 2a and 2b and the specific elevator 4. As a result, the cars 7a and 7b of one of the normal elevators 2a and 2b and the car 4 of the specific elevator 4 respond to the determined transit floor.

  Further, the transit floor determination unit 23 sends the determined transit floor to the transit guidance output unit 25. When the transit guidance output unit 25 approaches the transit floor where the elevators 7a and 7b of the normal elevators 2a and 2b in which the different floor calls are registered, for example, “the customer who goes to the BF floor has the next transit Please transfer to the right-hand side Unit C on the floor. "

  The different floor call transfer unit 26 assigns and transfers the different floor call registered in the normal elevators 2 a and 2 b to the specific elevator 4 based on the information on the transfer floor from the transfer floor car call registration unit 24. As a result, the specific elevator 4 that the passenger has transferred from the normal elevators 2a and 2b on the connecting floor moves to the uneven floor 3 of the BF.

  Control operations of the respective units 14 to 26 when the hall call and the car call are generated in the elevator group management control apparatus configured as described above can be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  When a hall call is generated by a button operation of the hall call button 5 provided in the elevator hall on each floor of the building (step S1), the hall call assigning unit 20 calls this hall call to all the elevators 2a including the specific elevator 4. Assign to the best elevator among 2b and 4 (S2). Allocation information is sent to the car single controllers 16a, 16b, 16c of the elevators 2a, 2b, 4 to which the hall call is allocated (S3).

  A car call is generated from each of the elevators 2a, 2b, 4 in the cars 7a, 7b, 10 (S4), and if the car call is a call on the normal floor 1 (S5), this normal call The call of the floor 1 is sent to the elevators 2a, 2b and 4 of the car single control units 16a, 16b and 16c of the car call generation source (S6).

  Even if the car call is in the third floor, if it is a specific elevator 4 that does not require connection (S7), the allocation information is sent to the car single controller 16c of the specific elevator 4 that is the car call source (S6). .

  In the case where the car call is the different level 3 and the normal elevators 2a and 2b that need to be connected (S7), the operation status (current state) of each of the elevators 2a, 2b, and 4 is determined by the operation schedule detector 22. The data is read from each car single controller 16a, 16b, 16c (S8). Then, in the transit floor determination unit 23, the transit floor for the passengers of the normal elevators 2 a and 2 b who have registered and operated the different floor call to transfer to the specific elevator 4 from the normal elevators 2 a and 2 b based on the respective current states. Is determined (S9).

  When one normal elevator 2a, 2b registered with a different floor call arrives at the transfer floor determined by the transfer floor determination unit 23 (S10), the speakers 16 of the cars 7a, 7b of the normal elevator 2a, 2b. To transfer guidance (S11).

  When the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 arrives at the transfer floor (S12), the transfer guidance for the passengers connecting from the normal elevators 2a and 2b is also output in the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 (S13). . Then, the uneven floor call transfer unit 26 transfers the uneven floor call registered in the normal elevators 2a and 2b to the specific elevator 4 (S14). When the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 in which the stepped floor call is registered arrives at the stepped floor 3 (S15), the door of the car 10 is opened (S16).

  Thus, since the response processing of each elevator for one hall call or car call is completed, the process returns to S1 and waits for the next hall call or car call to be input (registered).

  Next, details of the transit floor determination process in step S9 in the flowchart of FIG. 7 will be described using the definition diagram of FIG. 5, the pattern diagram of FIG. 6, and the subroutine flowcharts of FIGS.

  In order to simplify the description, in FIGS. 5, 6, and 8 to 10, there are two elevators, one normal elevator 2 a (No. A) and a specific elevator 4 (No. C). It is assumed that a different floor call is registered in the normal elevator 2a (No. A).

In FIG. 5, at the start of the transit floor determination process in step S9, the different floor calls assigned to the A and C machines are A _D (floor) and C _D (floor), and the A and C machines Normal floor calls other than the different floor calls assigned to A are A _OR (floor) and C _R (floor), and the current position floors of Units A and C are X (floor) and Y (floor). The floor is D (floor). The uneven floor D is a floor below X (floor) and Y (floor) (Z <X, Z <Y). Then, let R be the determined transit floor. In addition, the normal floor call A _OR (floor) of Unit A is the floor below the current position X (A _OR <X).

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing nine types of patterns P1 to P9 showing the relationship between the current state of Unit A and the current state of Unit C at the start of the transit floor determination process in Step S9 of FIG. . Patterns P1 to P3 indicate a standby (stopped) state in which a different floor call _AD is registered in Unit A, and a call of each floor is not registered in Unit C.

Pattern P4~P6 is uneven floor call A _D to A Unit has been registered, C Unit are usually floor call C _R is registered in, C _R referred the normal floor, from C Unit current position floor Y Located below (C _R <Y).

Pattern P7~P9 is uneven floor call A _D to A Unit has been registered, C Unit are usually floor call C _R is registered in, C _R referred the normal floor, from C Unit current position floor Y Located above (C _R > Y).

  The subroutines shown in FIGS. 8, 9, and 10 executed under the conditions defined in FIG. 5 will be described.

As described above, when the different floor call _AD is registered in the A-unit, the transit floor determination process subroutine of FIG. 8 is started.

At this point, normal floor call C _R other than call uneven floor to C Unit is not registered, i.e., when the C Unit indicated by pattern P1~P3 6 is in the standby state (step Q1), A Unit And C are on the same floor (X = Y, pattern P1) (Q2), the transit floor R is set as the current position floor (R = X) of Car A (Q3). In other words, in this case, a passenger who has entered the Unit A and designated the third floor 3 with the car call button 14 is prompted by the transit guidance before moving to the Unit C, which is stopped on the same floor, before the elevator starts moving. become.

When Unit A and Unit C are not on the same floor, and Unit A has not registered the standard floor call A _OR in addition to the stepped floor call _AD (Q4), Unit A is located on the upper floor ( When X> Y, pattern P2) (Q5), move Unit A in the lower stepped Z direction, move Unit C to pick up Unit A, and change transit floor R to Units A and C. It is assumed that the intermediate floor (R = (XY) / 2) of the unit (Q6). Further, when the A machine is on the lower floor (X <Y, pattern P3) from the C machine (Q5), the A machine waits for the C car to descend to the A machine position X. Therefore, the transfer floor R is set to the position of the A machine (R = X) (Q7).

When the normal floor call A _OR is registered in Unit A in addition to the stepped floor call _AD (Q4), and when the Unit A is below the C floor (X <Y, pattern P3) (Q8), Unit A waits for Unit C to descend to Unit A position. Therefore, the transit floor R is set to the position of the No. A machine (R = X) (Q9).

Upper floors car A from C Unit (X> Y, the pattern P2) (Q8) in the case of, if the normal floor call A _OR of one (Q10), generally referred floor A Unit of transfer floors R A _OR (floor) (R = A _OR ) (Q11).

Upper floors car A from C Unit (X> Y, the pattern P2) in the case of (Q8), when the normal floor call A _OR is plural (Q10), when the car A and C Unit starts moving downwards at the same time In addition, each normal floor call A _OR floor is calculated by calculating the arrival waiting period WT of the transit passenger indicated by the difference in arrival time between Unit A and Unit C, and the normal floor calling of Unit A that minimizes this arrival waiting period WT The A _OR floor is the transit floor (R = A _OR ) (Q12).

Further, the subroutine of transit floor determining process of FIG. 8 is started, at Q1, have normal floor call C _R other than call uneven floor to C Unit is registered at Q13 in FIG. 9, generally referred Floor C _{When R} is below the current position Y of Unit C, that is, when Unit C indicated by patterns P4 to P6 in FIG. 6 is moving downward, and Unit A and Unit C are on the same floor (X = In the case of Y, pattern P4) (Q14 in FIG. 9), the transfer floor R is set as the current position floor (R = X) of the A-unit (Q15).

Unit A and Unit C are not on the same floor (Q14), normal floor call A _OR is not registered in Unit A (Q16), and normal floor call C _R (floor) registered in Unit C Is equal to or greater than the current position X of the A-unit (C _R ≧ X) (Q17, pattern P6), the transit floor R is set to the current position floor (R = X) of the A-unit (Q18). When the normal floor call C _R (floor) registered in Unit C is less than the current position X of Unit A (Q17, pattern P5), the transfer floor R is registered as the normal floor call C _R (floor) ) _(R = C R) to (Q19).

At Q16, if the normal floor call A _OR the car A has been registered, the car A normal floor call A _OR and C Unit normal floor call C _R, generally referred floor of the first floor is registered If (Q20), usually floor call a _OR of the same floor of the transit floor R, and C _R (Q21).

If the normal floor call of the same floor is not registered (Q20), the arrival waiting period WT of the other party's unit at each normal floor call A _{OR (floor)} and C _R (floor) is calculated (Q22). The normal floor call A _OR floor or C _R (floor) that minimizes the waiting period WT is defined as the transit floor (R = A _OR, C _R ) (Q23).

Further, the subroutine of transit floor determining process of FIG. 8 is started, at Q1, have normal floor call C _R other than call uneven floor to C Unit is registered at Q13 in FIG. 9, generally referred Floor C _{When R} is above the current position Y of the C machine, that is, when the C machine indicated by the patterns P7 to P9 in FIG. 6 is moving upward, and at Q23 in FIG. There same floor (X = Y, pattern P7) in the case of, if the normal floor call a _OR the car a is not registered (Q24), car a current position floor a transit floor R (R = X) (Q25).

If the normal floor call A _OR the car A has been registered (Q24), if the car A normal floor call A _OR and C Unit normal floor call C _R, generally referred floor of the first floor is registered (Q26), usually floor call a _OR of the same floor of the transit floor R, and C _R (Q27).

If the normal floor call of the same floor is not registered (Q26), the arrival waiting period WT of the other party's unit at each normal floor call A _{OR (floor)} and C _R (floor) is calculated (Q28). The normal floor call A _OR floor or C _R (floor) in which the waiting period WT is minimum is set as the transit floor (R = A _OR , C _R ) (Q29).

Further, instead of car A and C Unit and the same floor Q23, when the normal floor call A _OR the car A is registered in Q30, performs processing Q26~Q29 described above.

In Q23, when Unit A and Unit C are not on the same floor, and Normal Floor Call A _OR is not registered in Unit A (Q30), Normal Floor Call C _R (floor) registered in Unit C is Unit A. If the current position X is greater than or equal to (C _R ≧ X) (Q31, pattern P9), the movement of the No. A machine is started downward, and the A in each normal floor 1 from the current position X of the No. A machine to the uneven floor Z The arrival waiting period WT of the other party's numbering machine in Units C and C is calculated, and the normal floor where this arrival waiting period WT is minimum is set as the transit floor R (Q32).

If call normally floor registered in C Unit C _R (floors) is less than car A current position X (Q31, pattern P8), usually floor registered a car A to C Unit lower call to C _R floor so moved, transit floor usually floor call C _R floor of R (R = C _R) to (Q33).

  In the elevator group management control device of the first embodiment configured as described above, the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 that can service all the floors including the normal floor 1 and the uneven floor 3 and the normal floor 1 only are serviced. A car call register 13 having a car call button 14 that can register all floors BF to 7F including the normal floor 1 and the uneven floor 3 is provided in the cars 7a and 7b of the normal elevators 2a and 2b. ing.

  When the user who wants to go to the uneven floor 3 presses the hall call button 5 in the elevator hall, the optimum elevators 2a, 2b, 4 respond to the floor where the user waits. Then, the user gets into the elevators 2a, 2b, 4 of the responding elevators 7a, 7b, 10 and designates the different floor 3 with the car call button 14. When the car in the specific elevator 4 is in the car 10, the car 10 in the specific elevator 4 goes to the uneven floor 3 as it is.

In addition, when the passenger cars are the elevators 7a and 7b of the normal elevators 2a and 2b, the passengers need to transfer to the specific elevator, but the connecting floors are the normal elevators 2a, Based on the current state of 2b (current position X, normal floor call A _OR other than stepped floor call) and the current state of the specific elevator 4 (current position Y, normal floor call C _R other than stepped floor call) It is judged efficiently.

  Therefore, since the transfer floor is determined each time, the elevator cars are not concentrated on a specific transfer floor, and the service to the user does not deteriorate.

  In addition, even for a user who goes to the uneven floor 3, the user can be surely guided to the uneven floor 3 by the same button operation as the user who goes to the normal floor 1 without being particularly aware of the uneven floor 3. The operation efficiency of the whole elevator system can be improved, and the service for users can be improved.

  The present invention is not limited to the first embodiment described above. For example, it is also possible to display and output the connection guidance on a display provided in the cars 7a and 7b.

(Second Embodiment)
FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an elevator group management control apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The same parts as those of the elevator group management control apparatus of the first embodiment shown in FIG. Detailed description of overlapping parts with reference numerals will be omitted.

  In the elevator group management control device of the second embodiment, in addition to the hall call button 5, a camera 30 for photographing the entire elevator hall from above is provided in each of the normal halls 1 F to 1 F of the building. Installed. The moving image of the elevator hall on each floor taken by each camera 30 is input to the image processing unit 31. The moving image of the elevator hall naturally includes users waiting for the elevator in this elevator hall. The image processing unit 31 binarizes the moving image of the elevator hall on each floor into a user area and other areas with an appropriate threshold value, and sends the binarized image to the congestion degree detection unit 32.

  The congestion level detection unit 32 defines the floor level of the user's area in the entire image as the congestion level of the elevator hall, obtains the congestion level G of each floor, and sends it to the transit floor determination unit 23a. When a plurality of transit floors are determined, the transit floor determination unit 23a selects the transit floor having the smallest congestion level G detected by the congestion level detection unit 32 as the final transit floor R.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the control processing of the elevator group management control apparatus of the second embodiment. This flowchart is in accordance with the flowchart showing the control processing of FIG. 7 of the first embodiment.

  When a hall call is generated by operating the hall call button 5 provided in the elevator hall on each floor (step T1), the hall call assigning unit 20 converts this hall call into all the elevators 2a, 2b including the specific elevator 4, 4. Assign to the best elevator among 4 (T2). The allocation information is sent to the car single controllers 16a, 16b and 16c of the elevators 2a, 2b and 4 to which the hall call is allocated (T3).

  A car call is generated from the car 7a, 7b, 10 of each elevator 2a, 2b, 4 (T4). When the car call is a call of the normal floor 1 instead of the call of the different floor 3 (T5), this normal The call of the floor 1 is sent to the elevator unit 2a, 2b, 4 which is the car call generation source, the assigned information to the car single controllers 16a, 16b, 16c (T6).

  In the case of the elevators 2a and 2b where the car call is at the different floor 3 and needs to be connected (T7), the operation schedule detection unit 22 determines the operation status (current state) of each of the elevators 2a, 2b and 4 Reading is performed from each car single controller 16a, 16b, 16c (T8). Then, in the transit floor determination unit 23, the transit floor for the passengers of the normal elevators 2 a and 2 b who have registered and operated the different floor call to transfer to the specific elevator 4 from the normal elevators 2 a and 2 b based on the respective current states. Is determined (T9).

  When a plurality of transit floors are obtained at T9 (T10), the congestion degree G of each transit floor at this time is read from the congestion portion detection unit 32 (T11). The transfer floor having the lowest congestion degree G is set as the final transfer floor (T12).

  When one normal elevator 2a, 2b registered with a different floor call arrives at the final determined transfer floor (T13), the transfer guidance is output from the speakers 16 of the cars 7a, 7b of the normal elevator 2a, 2b. (T14).

  When the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 arrives at the connection floor (T15), the connection guidance for the passengers who are connecting from the normal elevators 2a and 2b is also output in the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 (T16). . Then, the stepped floor transfer unit 26 transfers the stepped floor call registered in the normal elevators 2a and 2b to the specific elevator 4 (S17). When the car 10 of the specific elevator 4 in which the stepped floor call is registered arrives at the stepped floor 3 (S18), the door of the car 10 is opened (T19).

  Thus, since the response process of each elevator for one hall call or car call is completed, the process returns to T1 and waits for the next hall call or car call to be input (registered).

  Note that the transfer floor determination process subroutine at T9 is substantially the same as the subroutines shown in FIGS. 8, 9, and 10 of the first embodiment.

  Also in the elevator group management control device of the second embodiment configured as described above, it is possible to obtain substantially the same operational effects as the elevator group management control device of the first embodiment described above.

  Furthermore, in the elevator group management control device of the second embodiment, the transfer floor is preferentially assigned to the floor where the congestion level of the elevator waiting user is low, so the congestion level of the floor designated as the transfer floor Is not particularly large.

The block block diagram which shows schematic structure of the group management control apparatus of the elevator concerning 1st Embodiment of this invention. Schematic diagram of an elevator system to which the elevator group management control device of the embodiment is applied The figure which shows the elevator hall of each floor of the building in which the elevator system to which the elevator group management control device of the embodiment is applied is incorporated The figure which shows the car call registration device attached to each car of the elevator in the group management control apparatus of the elevator of the embodiment The figure which shows the definition table for calculating | requiring a connection floor in the group management control apparatus of the elevator of the embodiment Pattern diagram showing the relationship between the current state of Unit A and the current state of Unit C at the start of the transfer floor determination process for obtaining the transfer floor The flowchart which shows the control processing operation | movement of the group management control apparatus of the elevator of the embodiment Flow chart showing a subroutine of transit floor determination processing in the flow chart showing the control processing operation Flow chart showing a subroutine of transit floor determination processing in the flow chart showing the control processing operation Flow chart showing a subroutine of transit floor determination processing in the flow chart showing the control processing operation The block block diagram which shows schematic structure of the group management control apparatus of the elevator concerning 2nd Embodiment of this invention. The flowchart which shows the control processing operation | movement of the group management control apparatus of the elevator of the embodiment Schematic diagram of an elevator system incorporating a conventional uneven floor The figure which shows the elevator hall of each floor of the elevator system where the same level floor was built The figure which shows the car call register installed in each car of the normal elevator and the specific elevator of the elevator system in which the same level is built

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  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Normal floor, 2a, 2b ... Normal elevator, 3 ... Stepped floor, 4 ... Specific elevator, 5 ... Platform call button, 7a, 7b, 10 ... Car, 13 ... Car call register, 14 ... Car call button, 15 ... Speaker, 16a, 16b, 16c ... Car single control unit, 17a, 17b, 17c ... Cage call response unit, 18 ... Stage car registration unit, 19 ... Place call registration unit, 20 ... Place call assignment unit, 21 ... Transfer necessity determination unit, 22 ... Driving schedule detection unit, 23, 23a ... Transfer floor determination unit, 24 ... Transfer floor car call registration unit, 25 ... Transfer guide output unit, 26 ... Incorrect floor call transfer unit, 30 ... Camera, 31 ... Image processing unit, 32 ... Congestion degree detection unit

Claims (9)

A plurality of elevators composed of a normal elevator that can be serviced only on the normal floor and a specific elevator that can service the normal floor and the different floors are put into service on each floor, and the hall call generated at the landing on each floor is made the optimum elevator In the elevator group management control device for allocating and moving the elevator to the floor registered by the car call generated in each elevator,
A common car call registration means provided in all elevators including the normal elevator and the specific elevator and capable of registering all the floors including the normal floor and the different floors;
When a different floor call is registered by the specific elevator car call registration means, a different floor call normal assignment means for assigning the different floor call to the specific elevator,
When a stepped floor call is registered by the standard elevator car call registration means, a stepped floor call registration operation is performed based on the current state of the normal elevator in which the stepped floor call is registered and the current state of the specific elevator. Transit floor determination means for determining a transit floor for a passenger of an elevator to transfer from a normal elevator to a specific elevator;
A moving means for moving the normal elevator in which the stepped floor call is registered and the specific elevator to the connecting floor determined by the connecting floor determining means;
An elevator group management control device comprising: a guidance output means for outputting a transfer guide for transferring to a specific elevator on the connecting floor to the stepped floor in the normal elevator car.   2. The transit floor determining unit determines the transit floor based on a positional relationship between a car position of a normal elevator in which a different floor call is registered and a car position of the specific elevator. Elevator group management control device. The transit floor determining means includes
When a call specifying a floor by a hall call or a car call is not registered in the specific elevator, a floor other than the current position floor of the normal elevator and the stepped floor registered in the normal elevator by a hall call or a car call The elevator group management control device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising first determination means for preferentially determining a call floor as a transit floor. The transit floor determining means includes
When a call that specifies a floor by a hall call or a car call is registered in the specific elevator, it is registered by a hall call or a car call in the registration floor of the specific elevator, the current position floor of the normal elevator, and the normal elevator. The elevator group according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: a second determination unit that preferentially determines a floor that coincides with a call floor other than the raised floor as a transit floor. Management control unit. In the second determination means, if there is no matching floor between the registered floor of the specific elevator and the current position floor and registered floor of the normal elevator, one of the specific elevator and the normal elevator on each registered floor A waiting time calculating means for calculating an arrival waiting time from the arrival of the car to the arrival of the other elevator car;
5. A third determination unit that preferentially determines a registered floor corresponding to a minimum arrival waiting time among the arrival waiting times calculated by the waiting time calculating unit as a transit floor. The elevator group management control device described. The transit floor determining means includes
When only the stepped floor call is registered in the normal elevator and the call registration floor of the specific elevator is not included in the floor between the current position floor of the normal elevator and the stepped floor, the current position floor of the normal elevator A waiting time calculating means for calculating an arrival waiting time from the arrival of one elevator car of a specific elevator and a normal elevator to the arrival of the other elevator car at each floor between the different floors;
3. The fourth determining means for preferentially determining a floor corresponding to the minimum arrival waiting time among the arrival waiting times calculated by the waiting time calculating means as a transit floor. Elevator group management control device. Congestion level detection means for detecting the level of congestion of users waiting for elevators at the landings on each floor;
When a plurality of transit floors are determined by the transit floor determining means, a transit floor selecting means for selecting the transit floor having the smallest congestion level detected by the congestion level detecting means as a final transit floor; The elevator group management control device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:   A stepped floor transfer unit for transferring the stepped floor registered by the normal elevator car call registering unit to the specific elevator car call registering unit after the transfer guidance is output. Item 8. The elevator group management control device according to any one of Items 1 to 7.   The elevator group management control device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the guidance output means displays and outputs the transit guidance on a display provided in the car.

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