JP2009184765A - Elevator device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator device, wherein specific passengers such as the disabled and the aged can easily use chairs within a cage, to greatly alleviate physical and mental strain imposed them concerning movement to destination floor. <P>SOLUTION: The elevator device which comprises a fingerprint authentication system 1 for landing-call registration, a detection sensor detecting presence of passengers in a cage, chairs 5 provided in the cage to be easily ejected or retracted, a chair drive control system 9 which controls ejection or retraction of the chairs 5 in the cage, and a direct operation control system 8 which, when the fingerprint authentication system 1 performs landing-call registration, starts direct operation to the landing-call registered by the fingerprint authentication system 1, if the detection sensor detects absence of passengers in the cage. The chair drive control system 9 usually sets chairs 5 in a stored state, and starts to install the chair 5 when direct operation is started by the direct operation control system 8. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator apparatus provided with a function for a disabled person or an elderly person to use an elevator comfortably.

In the elevator apparatus, various functions for a specific user (hereinafter, also referred to as “specific user”) such as a disabled person or an elderly person to comfortably use the elevator are realized.
For example, as a conventional technique, a chair that can be taken in and out of the elevator car room is installed for disabled people, elderly people, etc., and disabled people, elderly people, etc. who get on the car can sit on this chair as needed What has been proposed has been proposed (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In the device described in Patent Document 1, an operation panel for a specific user is installed in a car room, and a chair button for placing the chair in the car room is arranged on the operation panel. That is, the specific user can use the chair in the car room by pressing the chair button.

JP-A-9-315738

In the thing of patent document 1, in order for a specific user to use a chair in a car room, after boarding a car, the extra operation for operating a chair button will be needed. For this reason, it may take a long time for the specific user to sit on the chair, or the specific user may feel troublesome to operate the chair button.
Even if a specific user wishes to use a chair, if there are other users in the car room, the specific user will give up on using the chair in consideration of inconvenience to other users. It is also possible that In such a case, there is a problem that the specific user is not only physically burdened but also mentally burdened.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its purpose is that a specific user such as a handicapped person or an elderly person can easily use a chair in a car room to reach the destination floor. It is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator apparatus that can greatly reduce the physical and mental burdens involved in moving the vehicle.

  The elevator device according to the present invention is provided at an elevator hall, and registers a hall call when an input person of fingerprint information is authenticated by fingerprint verification as a predetermined specific user who has previously registered fingerprint information. A fingerprint authentication device, a detection sensor that is provided in an elevator car and detects the presence or absence of a user in the car, a chair that is provided in the car and is configured to be freely put into and out of the car, and a chair in and out of the car When the hall call is registered by the chair drive controller and the fingerprint authentication device, the detection sensor detects the absence of a user in the car, and the direct operation for the hall call registered by the fingerprint authentication device The chair drive control unit always places the chair in the stowed state and starts the direct operation by the direct operation control unit. Once, it is to start a chair installation operation.

  According to the present invention, a specific user such as a disabled person or an elderly person can easily use a chair in a car room, and the physical and mental burden required to move to the destination floor can be greatly reduced. Will be able to.

  In order to explain the present invention in more detail, it will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in each figure, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the part which is the same or it corresponds, The duplication description is simplified or abbreviate | omitted suitably.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
1 is a block diagram showing an elevator apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In addition to providing ordinary users with normal service (normal operation), this elevator apparatus performs direct operation without stopping at other floors up to the destination floor for a specific user. It has a function. Below, based on FIG. 1, the whole structure of the elevator apparatus which concerns on this invention is demonstrated concretely.

In FIG. 1, a fingerprint authentication device 1 and a speaker 2 are installed at an elevator hall. The fingerprint authentication apparatus 1 is installed for a predetermined specific user to register a hall call. Specifically, the fingerprint authentication device 1 has fingerprint input units 3a and 3b (not shown in FIG. 1) for an elevator user to input fingerprint information, and fingerprint information of a predetermined specific user is registered in advance. A storage unit, an authentication unit that authenticates the user by comparing the input fingerprint information with the stored fingerprint information, and information on a specific user authenticated as a hall call if the user authentication is successful (hereinafter, An output unit that outputs “specific user information”). In other words, the fingerprint authentication device 1 registers a hall call when a person who inputs fingerprint information is authenticated by fingerprint verification as a predetermined specific user who has registered fingerprint information in advance, and the specific user information Is output.
Further, the speaker 2 is installed for voice guidance of predetermined information to an elevator user at the hall.

  The photoelectric device 4, the chair 5, and the car door 6 are installed in a car that moves up and down in the elevator hoistway. The photoelectric device 4 has a function of detecting the presence or absence of a user in the car. The chair 5 is provided so that a predetermined specific user can sit in the car room, and is stored on the wall surface of the car room or the like when unnecessary (always). That is, the chair 5 is configured to be freely taken in and out of the car room. The car door 6 has a function of opening and closing the car doorway and is generally constituted by a sliding door.

  Reference numeral 7 denotes a control device that controls the entire elevator. The control device 7 also controls direct operation provided to a specific user in addition to normal operation control provided to a general user. For example, the control device 7 includes a direct operation control unit 8 for controlling the direct operation, a chair drive control unit 9 for controlling insertion / extraction of the chair 5 into / from the car, and a door opening / closing control for controlling opening / closing of the car door 6. Part 10 is provided. In addition, you may install a part of function of the said control apparatus 7 in a cage | basket | car. Specific functions and operations of the control device 7 will be described later.

  Next, based on FIG. 2 thru | or FIG. 6, each structure of the said elevator apparatus is demonstrated concretely. 2 is a front view showing the elevator hall according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of part A of the elevator hall shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a side view showing the fingerprint input unit of the fingerprint authentication device, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a front view showing the interior of the elevator car according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a plan view showing the elevator car according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 6 corresponds to the view taken along the line BB in FIG.

  At the elevator hall, a hall unit 11 and the fingerprint authentication device 1 as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4 are installed. Here, 12 shown in FIG. 2 is a floor of the landing, 13 is a landing three-way frame standing on the floor 12, and 14 is a landing door that opens and closes a landing doorway formed by the floor 12 and the landing three-way frame 13. is there. The hall unit 11 and the fingerprint authentication device 1 are installed, for example, on the vertical pillar of the hall three-way frame 13 or on the wall surface of the hall near the vertical pillar.

  The landing unit 11 includes, for example, a direction indicator 15 indicating the traveling direction of the car, a position indicator 16 indicating the current position of the car, an upper hall call button 17 for registering an upward hall call, a downward direction A lower hall call button 18 or the like for registering a hall call is provided. A general user registers a hall call in the direction he / she wants to go by pressing the upper hall call button 17 or the lower hall call button 18.

  The fingerprint input unit 3a of the fingerprint authentication device 1 provided below the landing unit 11 is for a predetermined specific user to register an upward hall call, and the fingerprint input unit 3b is for a predetermined specific user to Each is a part where a finger is placed to register a direction hall call. Even if the predetermined specific user has stored his / her fingerprint information in the storage unit of the fingerprint authentication device 1 in advance, by naturally pressing the upper landing call button 17 or the lower landing call button 18, It is possible to register a hall call in the direction you want to go.

  Moreover, the structure of the elevator car is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the photoelectric device 4 is for detecting the presence / absence of a user who has passed through the car doorway (photoelectric device 4a) and for detecting the presence / absence of a user in the car room (photoelectric device). Device 4b). Both the photoelectric devices 4 a and 4 b are provided with a light projecting unit 19 that emits a predetermined light beam and a light receiving unit 20 that can detect the light beam emitted from the light projecting unit 19. When the light receiving unit 20 is disposed on the optical axis of the light projecting unit 19 and the light emitted from the light projecting unit 19 cannot be detected by the light receiving unit 20, it is assumed that the light is blocked by the user. Detects presence of a user (passage of user).

  Specifically, in the photoelectric device 4a, the light projecting unit 19 and the light receiving unit 20 are provided on the side of the landing side of the two car doors 6 (or the car door 6 and the door contact part when the car door 6 is a single door type). It is done. Then, when the car door 6 is opened, the light emitted from the light projecting unit 19 is detected by the light receiving unit 20, and when the light receiving unit 20 cannot receive the emitted light, it is detected that the user has passed through the car entrance. To do.

On the other hand, the photoelectric device 4b includes a plurality of sets of light projecting units 19 and light receiving units 20. The light projecting unit 19 and the light receiving unit 20 are installed so that the emitted light from the light projecting unit 19 is arranged in the entire cab. That is, the photoelectric device 4b is configured and arranged so that the user can be reliably detected regardless of the position of the user in the car room.
Specifically, the light projecting unit 19 of the photoelectric device 4b is disposed on one car side wall, and the light receiving unit 20 is disposed on the other car side wall. Further, the light projecting unit 19 and the light receiving unit 20 are arranged at a predetermined height of the car room at equal intervals from the car entrance / exit side. Then, when at least one light receiving unit 20 among the plurality of light receiving units 20 constituting the photoelectric device 4b cannot receive the emitted light from the corresponding light projecting unit 19, it is detected that there is a user in the car room. To do.

  The chair 5 is installed in the vicinity of the car entrance so that, for example, a predetermined specific user who uses the chair 5 is taken into account, actions required for using the chair 5 are reduced. In addition, in addition to the car operation panel 21 for general users installed on the sleeve wall, when an operation panel (not shown) for wheelchair users is installed on the wall surface of the car room, the chair 5 is attached. You may install in the vicinity of this operation panel for wheelchair users. According to this configuration, the operation panel can be operated while sitting on the chair 5. Furthermore, the arrangement of the chair 5 may be considered so that the display on the car display 22 can be seen while sitting on the chair 5.

Next, a specific operation of the elevator apparatus having the above configuration will be described. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of the elevator apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
A predetermined specific user who has previously stored his / her fingerprint information in the fingerprint authentication device 1 (who can be authenticated by the fingerprint authentication device 1) makes a hall call using the fingerprint authentication device 1 as described above. You can register. That is, when the predetermined specific user inputs his / her fingerprint information from the fingerprint input unit 3a or 3b of the fingerprint authentication apparatus 1, personal authentication is performed in the authentication unit (Yes in S101 and S102), and a landing call is made from the output unit. And the specific user information are output (S103).

  In addition, when the person who input fingerprint information from the fingerprint authentication device 1 is not a handicapped person or an elderly person (No in S101), the normal operation is continued thereafter (S104). When a specific user who has not stored his / her fingerprint information in the storage unit inputs his / her fingerprint information from the fingerprint input unit 3a or 3b, the process proceeds to S103 only when the fingerprint information is registered.

  In the control device 7, when the hall call registration is performed by the fingerprint authentication device 1, the direct operation control unit 8 performs an operation for shifting from the normal operation to the direct operation. Specifically, the direct operation control unit 8 first detects whether or not the car is unmanned. That is, the presence or absence of a user in the car is detected by the photoelectric device 4 (photoelectric device 4b) (S106). Here, when the photoelectric device 4 detects the presence of a user in the car, for example, an announcement such as “Please wait for a while” is sent from the speaker 2 of the hall where the hall call is registered by the fingerprint authentication device 1 ( S107).

  When the absence of a user in the car is detected in S106, the direct operation control unit 8 starts a direct operation for the hall call registered by the fingerprint authentication device 1. That is, the car is allowed to travel unattended to the floor where the hall call is registered by the fingerprint authentication device 1 (hereinafter also referred to as “fingerprint call registration floor”) without stopping the car on another floor. On the other hand, in the car, the chair drive control unit 9 starts the installation operation of the chair 5 placed in the housed state during the normal operation with the start of the direct operation (S108).

  Note that if the specific user information output from the fingerprint authentication device 1 includes information indicating that the chair 5 is not used, the chair drive control unit 9 does not use the chair even if the direct operation is started in S108. The installation operation of 5 is not started. For example, information indicating that the chair 5 is not used is included in the specific user information of the wheelchair user.

  When the car arrives at the fingerprint call registration floor by the direct operation in S108, the car door 6 and the landing door 14 are opened. The chair drive controller 9 completes the installation of the chair 5 in the car before the car door 6 is opened on the fingerprint call registration floor. That is, the predetermined specific user who registered the hall call in S103 can sit on the chair 5 immediately after getting on the unmanned car. After the car door 6 and the landing door 14 are opened, when the photoelectric device 4 detects that the car is on board, that is, there is a user in the car, the car door 6 and the landing door 14 are closed, and direct access to the destination floor is made. Operation is started (S109, S110).

  In addition, when the destination floor of the predetermined specific user is specified, car call information for moving to the destination floor is included in the specific user information in advance, and this specific user gets on the car. At this time, the car call may be automatically registered. In addition, it is configured such that a direct operation to the destination floor is started after detecting that the specific user is sitting on the chair 5 using a signal from a predetermined light receiving unit 20 of the photoelectric device 4b. You may do it.

When the car arrives at the destination floor by direct operation in S110, the car door 6 and the landing door 14 are opened, and the specific user in the car is alighted. Then, when the photoelectric device 4 detects getting out of the car, that is, the absence of a user in the car, the car door 6 and the landing door 14 are closed, and the storing operation of the chair 5 is started (S111).
With the above operation, the direct operation to the fingerprint call registration floor and the destination floor is terminated, and the normal operation is resumed (S112).

According to the first embodiment of the present invention, a predetermined specific user who has stored his / her fingerprint information in the fingerprint authentication device 1 in advance can easily use the chair 5 in the car room. Therefore, when this specific user uses an elevator, the physical and mental burden required to move to the destination floor can be greatly reduced.
In the first embodiment, the photoelectric device 4 is used to detect the presence or absence of passengers in the car. However, any detection sensor having the above functions may be used. For example, it is possible to detect the presence or absence of passengers in the car by using signals from a scale device that detects the load in the car, a camera that photographs the car interior, and the like.

It is a block diagram which shows the elevator apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a front view which shows the elevator hall in Embodiment 1 of this invention. FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of part A of the elevator hall shown in FIG. 2. It is a side view which shows the fingerprint input part of a fingerprint authentication apparatus. It is a front view which shows the cage | basket | car interior part of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a top view which shows the cage | basket | car of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the elevator apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 fingerprint authentication device, 2 speaker, 3a fingerprint input unit, 3b fingerprint input unit,
4 photoelectric device, 4a photoelectric device, 4b photoelectric device, 5 chair, 6 car door,
7 control device, 8 direct operation control unit, 9 chair drive control unit,
10 door opening and closing control unit, 11 landing unit, 12 floor surface, 13 landing three-way frame,
14 landing doors, 15 direction indicators, 16 position indicators,
17 upper landing call button, 18 lower landing call button, 19 light emitting unit, 20 light receiving unit,
21 Car operation panel, 22 In-car display

Claims (4)

A fingerprint authentication device that is provided at an elevator hall and registers a hall call when an input person of fingerprint information is authenticated by fingerprint verification as a predetermined specific user who has previously registered fingerprint information;
A detection sensor provided in an elevator car for detecting the presence or absence of a user in the car;
A chair provided in the car and configured to be freely inserted into and removed from the car;
A chair drive control unit for controlling the taking in and out of the chair into the car;
When a hall call is registered by the fingerprint authentication device, a direct operation for starting a direct operation for the hall call registered by the fingerprint authentication device is detected by detecting that there is no user in the car by the detection sensor. A control unit;
With
The said chair drive control part arrange | positions the said chair in the accommodation state normally, and if the said direct operation | movement is started by the said direct operation control part, the installation operation | movement of the said chair will be started, The elevator apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned.   When the direct operation is started by the direct operation control unit for the hall call registered by the fingerprint authentication device, the chair drive control unit waits until the car door is opened on the floor where the hall call is registered. The elevator apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the installation of the chair in the car is completed.   The chair drive control unit starts the storing operation of the chair when the detection sensor detects that the predetermined specific user who registered the hall call by the fingerprint authentication device has got out of the car. The elevator apparatus of Claim 1 or Claim 2. The fingerprint authentication device registers the hall call and outputs the specific user information related to the authenticated specific user when the input person of the fingerprint information is authenticated as the predetermined specific user,
The chair drive control unit does not start the chair installation operation even when the direct user control unit starts the direct operation for the hall call when the specific user information includes information indicating that the chair is not used. The elevator apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the elevator apparatus is provided.

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