JP2010024024A - Earthquake control preferential communication system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To select, in case of an earthquake, an abnormal elevator with high emergency degree, and preferentially transmit a despatch request therefor. <P>SOLUTION: The system includes: a customer elevator control board 6; remote maintenance systemd 7a, 7b, etc. for each predetermined area, each of which monitors the operating state of a customer elevator car from information for operating state transmitted from the customer elevator control board within a predetermined area, and transmits a maintenance staff dispatch request when necessity of maintenance is determined; and a maintenance company server 8 which outputs a dispatch instruction of maintenance staff in response to the maintenance staff dispatch request. The customer elevator control board 6 or each remote maintenance system 7a, 7b, etc. executes earthquake control operation based on that an earthquake sensing signal of an earthquake detector 5 is a predetermined seismic intensity or more and that general operation is performed, and preferentially requests the maintenance company server 8 to dispatch maintenance staff when end of the earthquake control operation is confirmed, and it is determined that a passenger is present within the car from a car load signal of a load detector set in the car. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a seismic control priority communication system for making a notification such as a maintenance staff dispatch request to a maintenance company when an earthquake occurs.

  Around Japan, including the inland, a number of plates carrying continents and the seabed overlap each other, and there is a situation where earthquakes are likely to occur due to pull-in, repulsion, and active movement of many active faults. Therefore, Japan is also known as an earthquake-prone country.

  In recent years, in Japan's metropolitan areas, the rise of houses and office buildings has progressed, and the safety and reliability of elevators in the event of an earthquake have attracted social attention.

  By the way, there are various elevators installed in a building, such as those provided with a seismic control operation device and those not provided with a seismic control operation device.

  Elevators that do not have a seismic control operation device may be trapped in the car when an earthquake occurs. If the car is trapped, users in the car may turn around, elderly people, children, etc. In the case of, it is in a state that cannot be properly reported to the outside.

  On the other hand, an elevator equipped with a seismic control operation device is controlled by the elevator control panel based on the seismic intensity level of the detection signal from the seismic detector. After taking down, the operation mode is set to close the door and stop the operation.

  However, even in such an elevator, there is a way to check whether the seismic control operation is performed from the outside of the elevator or the outside of the building, or what kind of operation state it is at the present time. Absent. The same applies to an elevator of a high-rise apartment with a security function that restricts the intrusion of outsiders, for example.

  Therefore, in recent years, when an elevator installed in a building has stopped at the time of an earthquake, the elevator control panel detects the load in the car from the load detector installed at the bottom of the car floor, and the user in the car There has been proposed a system for notifying an elevator maintenance service company, for example, a contractor outside the building that a car is trapped, and requesting the dispatch of maintenance personnel (Patent Document 1).

The elevator maintenance service company dispatches maintenance personnel regularly and a remote maintenance system that constantly monitors the operation status of the elevator to undertake total maintenance work for the elevator based on a contract with the elevator installation manager at the customer's site. A maintenance company has been set up to provide a service to dispatch maintenance personnel when the car is trapped due to an earthquake.
JP 2007-119130 A

  The maintenance service system as described above is considered to be an effective system from the aspect of user rescue due to sudden cage confinement, but is not necessarily an effective means or system when an earthquake occurs.

  The reason for this is that when an earthquake occurs, the elevator stops urgently over a wide area, or when a car is trapped, regardless of whether or not there is a seismic control operation, automatically from a number of elevator control panels or from the elevator installation manager It is conceivable that reports of requests for dispatch of maintenance personnel will be flooded directly to the elevator maintenance service company.

  In other words, in the case of an earthquake, the elevator maintenance service company's remote maintenance system or maintenance company can be used if the elevator stops after an emergency stop, regardless of whether a user is in the car or not. Request dispatch of maintenance personnel.

  As a result, when a maintenance staff dispatch request is received from many customers due to the occurrence of an earthquake, it cannot be determined at all which customer elevator is urgent. For this reason, maintenance personnel are dispatched to customers according to the order in which the notifications are received, but when they arrive at the site, the elevator may be moving or the car may not be trapped. For this reason, despite the fact that a serious accident occurred at a customer elevator that was subsequently notified, it was difficult to dispatch due to a lack of maintenance personnel, or maintenance personnel caused a serious accident from a customer at the destination. There is a problem that it takes a lot of time to arrive at the customer, and the efficiency of the dispatching work is deteriorated, and the maintenance service is lowered.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides an earthquake control priority communication system that preferentially issues a maintenance staff dispatch request to a maintenance company by selecting an abnormality with a high degree of urgency when an earthquake occurs. Objective.

In order to solve the above problems, the seismic control priority communication system according to the present invention performs normal operation control of a car and seismic control operation control based on an earthquake detection signal from an earthquake detector when an earthquake occurs. From the customer elevator control panel that captures and transmits the operation status based on the control and the earthquake detection signal, and the customer's car from the information related to the operation status sent from the scattered customer elevator control panels in the predetermined area Monitoring the operation status of the system, and issuing maintenance staff dispatch request information when it is determined that maintenance is required.The maintenance service dispatch request information received from each remote maintenance system is received, and maintenance staff dispatch requests are received. A maintenance company-owned server that outputs dispatch instructions,
The customer elevator control panel executes the seismic control operation on the assumption that the seismic detection signal is equal to or higher than a predetermined seismic intensity level and is in normal operation, and the seismic control after the car is closed due to arrival at the nearest floor. When it is confirmed that the operation is finished, when it is determined from the car load signal of the load detector installed in the car that there are passengers in the car, emergency priority information is preferentially reported to the remote maintenance system. The corresponding remote maintenance system is configured to issue the maintenance staff dispatch request information to the maintenance company-owned server when the emergency priority information is received.

In addition, the earthquake control priority communication system according to the present invention includes information on the driving status of customer cars sent from scattered customer elevator control panels in a predetermined area, and an earthquake detection signal detected by an earthquake detector. And a remote maintenance system for each predetermined area that receives a car load signal of a load detector installed in the car and issues maintenance staff dispatch request information when it is determined that maintenance is necessary, and from each remote maintenance system A maintenance company-owned server that accepts maintenance staff dispatch requests and outputs dispatch instructions for maintenance staff;
Each of the remote maintenance systems is based on the seismic control operation on the assumption that the seismic detection signal sent from the customer elevator control panel is a predetermined seismic intensity level or more and is in normal operation from the information on the operation status. When it is confirmed that there is a passenger in the car from the car load signal when it is confirmed that the earthquake control operation has been completed after the car is closed due to arrival at the nearest floor, a maintenance staff dispatch request to the maintenance company-owned server is given priority. It is the structure which provided the priority notification judgment part which issues information.

  According to the present invention, since a priority order is given based on the relationship between the seismic control operation state at the time of the earthquake and the car load signal, a maintenance staff dispatch request is issued to the maintenance company. It is possible to provide a seismic control priority communication system capable of effectively dispatching maintenance personnel to the earlier, and thereby improving the efficiency of maintenance services or maintaining the reliability of maintenance service operations.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a seismic control priority communication system according to the present invention.

  The seismic control priority communication system includes a car 4 suspended on a main rope 3 suspended over a machine room above the hoistway 1 or a hoist 2 installed in the hoistway 1, and a pit on the hoistway 1. The seismic detector 5 installed at the bottom or other appropriate location to detect seismic waves, the elevator control panel 6, remote maintenance systems 7 a, 7 b,. Composed.

  The car 4 has an emergency call button 9 attached to the car operation panel inside the car room 4a, and an emergency call signal is output when the user operates the emergency call button 9 in an emergency. It is sent to an administrator room or a remote maintenance system such as 7a.

  A load detector 5 for detecting the load inside the car room 4 a is installed at the floor bottom of the car 4, and the car load signal detected here is sent to the elevator control panel 6.

  In addition, a landing plate 11 is attached to each floor landing zone in the hoistway 1, and a deviation of the landing position of the corresponding floor is detected from the flooring plate 11 on the side of the car 4, and the vehicle passes through the elevator control panel 6. It has a function of adjusting the car 4 to an appropriate landing position.

  The elevator control panel 6 is connected to a storage device 13 for storing a normal operation control program and a seismic control operation control program. Functionally, an operation control unit 6A and a priority notification determination unit 6B are provided. Yes.

  When the operation control unit 6A receives a hall call or a car call, the operation control unit 6A registers the call according to the normal operation control program, then sends an operation drive command to the hoist 2 and directs the car 4 to the destination floor. When normal operation control is performed and an earthquake detection signal of a predetermined seismic intensity level (P wave or extra low gal, etc.) is received from the seismic detector 5, seismic control operation control is performed according to the seismic control operation control program and required. The information regarding the driving state as the operation control result, the earthquake detection signal, the car load signal, and the like are taken in from each part and stored in the storage device 13 and sent to the corresponding remote maintenance system 7a.

  The priority notification determination unit 6B assigns a priority level with a high degree of urgency based on the seismic control operation state and the car load signal of the load detector 5 in the event of an earthquake, and assigns emergency priority information that requires dispatch of maintenance personnel to the corresponding remote Report to the maintenance system 7a.

  The remote maintenance systems 7a, 7b,... Are connected to the elevator control panel 6 via a telephone communication line or a communication network such as a LAN or WAN. The remote maintenance system 7a, 7b,... Receives information on the operation status, the earthquake detection signal, and the car load signal sent from the elevator control panel 6 side. For example, the maintenance target property identification data and the property name are sequentially time-sequentially. In addition, the operation state of the elevator as a customer is constantly monitored, and an optimum operation control command is sent to the elevator control panel 6 side based on the monitoring result.

  The maintenance company-owned server 8 has a maintenance management database 15 and a display unit (not shown), displays map image information of the pre-registration maintenance area on the display unit, and from each remote maintenance system 7a, 7b,. When receiving emergency priority information with property identification data, the map image information is marked on the maintenance target property part that received emergency priority information, and the maintenance staff in the area in charge is instructed to dispatch to the field. Have.

  In the maintenance management database 15, in addition to map information of all maintenance service areas, at least emergency priority information with property identification data is received from each remote maintenance system 7a, 7b,. A maintenance target property specifying table 15a for storing data and a maintenance staff contact table 15b for storing data for dispatching maintenance staff to the maintenance target property are provided.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the maintenance target property specifying table 15a stores target property identification data, property position data such as longitude and latitude, data such as a building name, a property address, and a maintenance area name.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the maintenance staff contact table 15b stores the maintenance area name, the maintenance staff in charge for each maintenance area name, the mobile number for each maintenance staff, the mail address, and the like.

  Next, a series of processes by the elevator control panel 6 in the system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, it is assumed that an earthquake has occurred during normal operation control. When the operation control unit 6A of the elevator control panel 6 receives the earthquake detection signal from the earthquake detector 5, it determines whether or not the earthquake detection signal is equal to or greater than a predetermined seismic intensity level (S1). The operation is continued (S2).

  When it is determined that the earthquake detection signal received from the earthquake detector 5 is greater than or equal to the predetermined seismic intensity level, the priority notification determination unit 6B is executed.

  The priority notification determination unit 6B determines whether or not the car 4 is currently in operation (S3). When it is determined that the car is in operation, it is sent from the car 4 through the landing plate 11 immediately before it is determined to be in operation. The current car position is confirmed (S4), the nearest floor is determined based on the current car position, and the seismic control operation is started according to the seismic control operation control program stored in the storage device 13 (S5). Drive toward the floor (S6).

  At this time, when the car 4 arrives at a predetermined nearest floor, the priority notification determination unit 6B determines whether or not the seismic control operation has ended, whether the door is closed and the passenger is taken down and then closed. S7).

  If the seismic control operation has not been completed yet, the operation returns to step S6 to continue the operation to the nearest floor. When it is determined that the seismic control operation has been completed, the load detector 10 installed in the lower floor of the cab 4a. The load detection signal measured in step 1 is taken in, and it is determined whether there are passengers in the car 4 (S8).

  The priority notification determination unit 6B determines that the urgency is high when it is determined that there is a passenger in the car 4, and reports the emergency priority information to the corresponding remote maintenance system 7a based on the property identification data (S9).

  Further, when it is determined in step S3 that the earthquake detection signal is equal to or higher than the predetermined seismic intensity level, the priority notification determination unit 6B determines that it is not in operation at any floor. (S10). Here, if the vehicle is stopped on the floor, the operation is stopped as it is (S11).

  When not stopping on the floor, it is determined whether there is a passenger in the car 4 from the car load signal of the load detector 5 as described above (S8), and when it is determined that there is a passenger in the car 4, Similarly to the above, the emergency priority information with the property identification data is notified to the corresponding remote maintenance system 7a (S9).

  When the remote maintenance system 7a receives the emergency priority information accompanied by the property identification data, the remote maintenance system 7a stores it in a storage device (not shown) and issues dispatch request information accompanied by the property identification data to the maintenance company owning server 8.

  The maintenance company-owned server 8 specifies the property position of the target property from the maintenance target property specifying table 15a based on the dispatch request information accompanied with the property identification data, and blinks the portion corresponding to the property position on the map image information of the target maintenance area. At the same time, the maintenance staff dispatched from the maintenance staff contact table 15b from the area name of the target property is assigned to the maintenance staff who has not been dispatched or the dispatched maintenance staff is not dispatched. A maintenance staff at a location closest to the maintenance target property is identified from the GPS function, and an instruction is given to urgently go to the maintenance target property by telephone or email to a mobile terminal owned by the maintenance staff.

  Therefore, according to the embodiment as described above, when the elevator control panel 6 has an earthquake of a predetermined seismic intensity level or higher, the priority order is high on the condition that the seismic control operation ends and there are passengers in the car by the load detection signal. The emergency priority information is reported to the remote maintenance systems 7a, 7b,... Based on the property identification data. The remote maintenance system 7a, 7b,... Recognizes that the car is in a locked state despite the end of the earthquake control operation, and issues maintenance staff dispatch request information to the maintenance company based on the property identification data. Therefore, it is possible to selectively accept only customers with high priority of dispatch under certain restrictions and dispatch maintenance personnel quickly.

  In addition, when an earthquake with a seismic intensity of a level greater than the specified level occurs, the car 4 is not stopped and stopped in the middle without being stopped. The emergency priority information can be reported to the remote maintenance systems 7a, 7b,... Based on the property identification data, and a maintenance staff dispatch request can be made to the maintenance company.

  Therefore, since a maintenance staff is dispatched by selecting an urgent property, it is possible to respond promptly to a maintenance staff dispatch request, passengers can use the elevator with peace of mind, and maintenance staff can be arranged efficiently, making dispatch work smooth. Can proceed.

  Furthermore, in any of the above cases, for example, when a user falls in the car and delays escape, or when an elderly person, a child, or the like is in a car confinement state, it can be reliably notified to the outside.

(Other embodiments)
(1) Although the priority notification determination unit 6B is provided in the elevator control panel 6 in the above embodiment, for example, a configuration in which the priority notification determination unit 6B is provided in the remote maintenance systems 7a, 7b,.

  Normally, the remote maintenance system 7a, 7b,... Can always monitor the operation state of the elevator if only information related to the operation state is received from the elevator control panel 6, but in this embodiment, the earthquake detector 5, the seismic detection signal and the car load signal from the load detector 5 at the floor bottom of the car 4 are taken in, added from the elevator control panel 6 to the information on the operation status, and transmitted to the remote maintenance systems 7a, 7b,.

  When the remote maintenance system 7a, 7b,... Receives information on occurrence of an earthquake from the corresponding elevator control panel 6, the priority notification determination unit 6B executes a series of processes shown in FIG. When it is determined that there is a passenger in the car in step S8, maintenance staff dispatch request information accompanied with the property identification data is issued to the maintenance company owned server 8.

  Therefore, also in this embodiment, the same effect as the above-described embodiment (FIGS. 1 to 4) can be obtained.

(2) Further, in the above embodiment, it is determined whether there is a passenger in the car from the load detection signal after the end of the seismic control operation (S7). For example, as shown in FIG. In the meantime, step S <b> 20 may be provided for determining whether or not an emergency call has been sent from within the car 4 by operating the emergency call button 9 by the passenger.

  With this configuration, the emergency call button 9 in the car 4 can be used prior to determining whether there are passengers in the car 4 from the car load signal of the load detector 10 installed in the car 4. When an emergency call is received, emergency priority information is preferentially reported from the elevator control panel 6 regardless of the presence or absence of passengers in the car 4, or maintenance staff dispatch request information is issued from the remote maintenance systems 7a, 7b. (S9).

  If no emergency call has been issued from the car 4, when it is determined from the load detection signal that there is a passenger in the car 4 (S8) as in FIG. Information is reported, or maintenance staff dispatch request information by car confinement is issued from the remote maintenance systems 7a, 7b... (S9).

  In addition, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.

The block diagram which shows one Embodiment of the earthquake control priority communication system which concerns on this invention. The data array example figure of the maintenance object specific table provided in the database connected to the maintenance company possession server shown in FIG. The data array example figure of the maintenance worker communication table provided in the database connected to the maintenance company possession server shown in FIG. The flowchart explaining a series of process examples regarding the principal part of a seismic control priority communication system. The flowchart explaining another series of process examples regarding the principal part of a seismic control priority communication system.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Hoistway, 4 ... Car, 5 ... Earthquake detector, 6 ... Elevator control panel, 6A ... Operation control part, 6B ... Priority notification judgment part, 7a, 7b, ... Remote maintenance system, 8 ... Maintenance company own server , 9 ... Emergency call button, 10 ... Load detector, 11 ... Landing board, 13 ... Storage device, 15 ... Maintenance management database, 15a ... Maintenance target property specifying table, 15b ... Maintenance staff communication table.

Claims (5)

The customer who executes the seismic control operation control based on the seismic detection signal from the seismic detector in the normal operation control of the car and the occurrence of the earthquake, and receives and transmits the information on the operation status based on the operation control and the seismic detection signal. An elevator control panel;
Monitor the driving status of the customer's car from the information on the operating status sent from the scattered customer elevator control panels in the specified area, and issue maintenance staff dispatch request information when it is judged that maintenance is necessary. A remote maintenance system for each predetermined area;
A maintenance company owning server that receives maintenance staff dispatch request information received from each remote maintenance system and outputs dispatch instructions of maintenance staff, and
The customer elevator control panel executes the seismic control operation on the assumption that the seismic detection signal is equal to or higher than a predetermined seismic intensity level and is in normal operation, and the seismic control after the car is closed due to arrival at the nearest floor. When it is confirmed that the operation is finished, when it is determined from the car load signal of the load detector installed in the car that there are passengers in the car, emergency priority information is preferentially reported to the remote maintenance system. ,
The said remote maintenance system issues the said maintenance staff dispatch request information to the said maintenance company's server, if the said emergency priority information is received, The earthquake control priority communication system characterized by the above-mentioned. Information on the operation status of customer's cars sent from the customer elevator control panels scattered in a given area, earthquake detection signals detected by the earthquake detectors, and load detector cars installed in the cars A remote maintenance system for each predetermined area that receives load signals and issues maintenance staff dispatch request information when it is determined that maintenance is necessary;
A maintenance company-owned server that accepts maintenance staff dispatch requests received from each remote maintenance system and outputs dispatch instructions of maintenance staff;
Each of the remote maintenance systems is based on the seismic control operation on the assumption that the seismic detection signal sent from the customer elevator control panel is a predetermined seismic intensity level or more and is in normal operation from the information on the operation status. When it is confirmed that there is a passenger in the car from the car load signal when it is confirmed that the earthquake control operation has been completed after the car is closed due to arrival at the nearest floor, a maintenance staff dispatch request to the maintenance company-owned server is given priority. A seismic control priority communication system characterized by the provision of a priority notification judgment unit that issues information. In the earthquake control priority communication system according to claim 1 or claim 2,
The priority notification determination unit confirms the end of the seismic control operation on the assumption that the seismic detection signal from the seismic detector is equal to or higher than a predetermined seismic intensity level, and the car is stopped other than a specific floor. A seismic control priority communication system, further comprising means for determining whether or not there is a passenger in the car from a car load signal of a load detector installed in the car. In the earthquake control priority communication system according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
Prior to judging whether there are passengers in the car from the car load signal of the load detector installed in the car, when the emergency call is received from the emergency call button in the car, the car An earthquake control priority communication system, wherein the emergency priority information is preferentially reported regardless of the presence or absence of passengers, or the maintenance staff dispatch request information is issued. In the earthquake control priority communication system according to claim 1, claim 2 or claim 4,
The maintenance company-owned server is provided with at least a maintenance staff contact table. When the maintenance staff dispatch request information is received from the remote maintenance system based on property identification data, the maintenance staff in the area in charge becomes the maintenance target. An earthquake control priority communication system characterized by notifying an instruction to go to the property.

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