JP2011184122A - Elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate passengers' unpleasant feelings by eliminating long waiting times while eliminating frequent back-and-forth trips of a car between a doorway floor and service floors, when inside the car is thinly occupied and landing side is crowded. <P>SOLUTION: An elevator includes a door, an opening button, a closing button, destination floor call buttons, landing call buttons, answer lamps each equipped to each of the buttons, a control panel, and a group control system determining the presence or absence of an approaching car in another unit to open the door or close the door with the operation of each button, upon starting the service by the operation by use of the destination floor call buttons. The elevator detects the re-closing of the door by the operation of the closing button while the door is opened (S2), and detects the re-opening of the door by the operation of the landing call button while the door is closed (S3), so as to detect the number of repetition times of the door re-closing and door re-opening (S4). When it is determined that an approaching elevator of another unit is present (S5), the elevator invalidates the re-opening by the operation of the landing call button and invalidates re-closing by the operation of closing button regardless of the repetition times (S12). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for improving the operation efficiency of an elevator, and more particularly to an elevator group management system service.

  Conventionally, when an elevator car is put on standby at the entrance floor (eg, lobby floor or first floor) of a building, the door is opened by the passenger's landing call button operation, and the passenger gets into the car by entering the operation panel. When the destination floor call button is operated and a certain time elapses or the close button in the car is operated, the door is closed and the vehicle is driven to the destination floor (service floor).

  However, even though the car is still vacant, the passengers in the car can operate with fewer people than the ideal number of passengers due to the closing button operation. As a result, the passengers feel uncomfortable due to a decrease in driving efficiency and a long wait at the landing.

  In addition, even if the door is closed at the time of congestion on the entrance floor, etc., if the door reopening door is frequently repeated due to frequent operation of the hall call button by the passenger at the hall, the car will be operated due to repeated opening and closing of the door. Since it could not be started, it caused discomfort to passengers in the car due to a decrease in driving efficiency and long wait.

  As a conventional technique for preventing a decrease in driving efficiency due to repeated opening and closing of a door by closing a car and closing a hall call button, for example, Patent Document 1 predicts traffic demand (up-peak) in a concentrated upward direction. An elevator group management control device is disclosed that disables the door closing button in the car during the up-peak operation.

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  However, as shown in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, if the door close button is disabled in a time zone in which congestion is expected (for example, a time zone when going to work), the vehicle is always crowded in the time zone in which congestion is expected. There is a reason that it is not a reason, and it is inconvenient in terms of driving efficiency to disable the close button in the car at all times during the expected time of congestion.

  In addition, in a general elevator operation management system, the determination of the closing button restriction in the car (determination of whether or not to close the door when the closing button is operated) is not adopted, so the estimated congestion time In the belt, when the car is vacant and the hall is not crowded, it is inconvenient in terms of driving efficiency to disable the close button in the car.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention mainly adopts the following configuration.
A door provided on the car, an open button for opening the door, a close button for closing the door, a destination floor call button, a response lamp attached to each button, and a hall call button provided at the hall And a response lamp attached to the hall call button and a control panel for controlling the operation of the elevator, and when starting service by operating the destination floor call button in the car waiting on the entrance / exit floor of the building , Determining whether or not another machine is approaching, reopening the door by operating the open button or the landing call button, and controlling the passage of a certain time after the operation of the close button or completion of the door opening. An elevator having a group management system that closes the door, detects the door re-closing by the operation of the closing button while the door is opened, and operates the landing call button while the door is closed When the door reopening door is detected and the number of repetitions of the door reclosing door and the door reopening door is detected, and it is determined that there is an elevator approach of another unit, the landing call button The door reopening door by the operation is invalidated and the door reclosing door by the operation of the closing button is invalidated.

  Also, a door provided on the car, an opening button for opening the door, a closing button for closing the door, a destination floor call button, a response lamp attached to each button, and a landing provided on the landing A service provided by a call button, a response lamp attached to the hall call button, and a control panel for controlling the operation of the elevator, by operating the destination floor call button in the car waiting on the entrance / exit floor of the building At the time of starting, it is determined whether or not another vehicle is approaching, the door is restarted by the operation of the open button or the landing call button, and the control of the lapse of a fixed time after the operation of the close button or the door opening is completed The elevator having a group management system for closing the door by detecting the door re-closing by the operation of the closing button while the door is opened and the landing call button while the door is closing When the door reopening door is detected by detecting the number of repetitions of the door reclosing door and the door reopening door, and when it is determined that there is no approach of the elevator of another unit, when the number of repetitions exceeds a specified value, The door reopening door by the operation of the hall call button is invalidated and the door reclosing door by the operation of the closing button is invalidated.

  Further, in the elevator, in addition to invalidating the door reopening door by operating the landing call button and invalidating the door reclosing door by operating the closing button, the door by operating the opening button while the door is closed The restart door is disabled. Further, the response lamps respectively attached to the hall call button and the close button are disabled when the door reopening door is invalidated by the operation of the hall call button and when the door reclosing door is invalidated by the operation of the close button. When the landing call button is pressed and when the closing button is pressed, it is not lit and remains unlit, and the non-lighting disables the door reopening door of the landing call button and recloses the door of the closing button. Thus, each response lamp has the above-described invalid notification function in addition to the original operation response function corresponding to the pressing operation of each button.

  According to the present invention, when the inside of the car is vacant and the landing side is congested, frequent round trips between the entrance and exit floors of the car and the destination floor (service floor) are eliminated, and the long waiting time for passengers in the car and passengers Discomfort can be eliminated.

  In addition, regarding the restrictions on the close button and call button that disable the functions of the close button and the hall call button in the car under certain conditions, a response lamp that is attached to each button to notify and notify that the restriction has occurred. By executing by turning off, it is possible to provide an inexpensive and simple service.

It is a figure showing the whole elevator composition concerning an embodiment of the present invention. It is a figure which shows the specific component in the elevator which concerns on this embodiment. It is a flowchart showing the operation | movement procedure of the elevator which concerns on this embodiment.

  The elevator which concerns on embodiment of this invention is demonstrated below, referring FIGS. 1-3. 1 and 2, 1 is a main rope, 2 is a passenger car, 3 is a suspension weight, 4 is a compen- sion rope, 5 is a hoisting machine, 6 is a control panel, 7 is a central processing unit, and 8 is a landing operation. Panel, 9 is a hall call button and response lamp, 10 is an operation panel, 11 is a destination floor call button and response lamp, 12 is an open button and response lamp, 13 is a close button and response lamp, and 14 is a door.

  1 and 2, the car 2 and the counterweight 3 are connected by the main rope 1, and the main rope 1 is driven by the hoisting machine 5 to raise and lower the car. Further, the car 2 and the counterweight 3 are connected by a compen- sation rope 4 as illustrated symmetrically with the main rope 1. FIG. 1 shows a configuration corresponding to a group management system service in two elevators driven by a hoisting machine 5.

  FIG. 2 shows a specific configuration per elevator, and a landing operation panel 8 is installed on the entrance floor of the elevator shown in FIG. 1 (the landing operation panel 8 is naturally installed on each floor). The hall operation panel 8 includes a hall call button 9 and a response lamp with a button that is turned on when the call button 9 is operated. An operation panel 10 is attached to the car 2. The operation panel 10 includes a destination floor call button 11 corresponding to each floor, an open button 12, a close button 13, and buttons 11, 12, and 13. And a response lamp with a button that is turned on in accordance with the operation.

  Further, the elevator is provided with a control panel 6 which detects and determines the operation of these buttons 9, 11, 12, and 13 and performs opening / closing of the door 14 and an operation command of a response lamp lighting mode informing operation service. . The control panel 6 stores a central processing unit 7 that commands an operation flowchart showing an operation procedure of FIG.

  An elevator processing procedure representing the features of the present embodiment will be described below with reference to FIG. First, when the car 2 starts service on the entrance / exit floor of the building, the opening / closing frequency of the door 14 is set to t = 0 (step 1), and the closing button 13 is operated by the passenger in the car while the door is open. If the operation is detected (step 2) and the operation of the hall call button 9 is detected while the door 14 is closed by the control of the control panel 6 (step 3), the number of determinations is t = t + 1. That is, the closing button operation while the door is open and the hall call button operation while the door is closing are regarded as one cycle, and the number of repetitions of the cycle is added one by one (step 4).

  Further, in the elevator of the group management system service, it is determined whether or not another vehicle is approaching (step 5). When it is determined that the vehicle is approaching (No in step 5), the other vehicle that is approaching can be used without much waiting time. The operation of the door 14 restarting door by the hall call button 9 when the door 14 is closed is invalidated, the door reclosing by the operation of the closing button 13 when the door is opened is invalidated (step 12), and the door 14 is closed. The reopening door of the door 14 by the open button 12 in the car is invalidated (step 13), the door 14 is closed (step 8), the vehicle starts running and the service is started (step 9).

  On the other hand, when it is determined that there is no approach in determining whether or not another vehicle is approaching (Yes in step 5), the number of times the door 14 is opened and closed is determined by the determination number t, which exceeds the arbitrarily determined number x. In this case (No in Step 6 and Step 11), the car is considered to be congested, and the operation of the door 14 restart door by the operation of the hall call button 9 while the door 14 is closed is invalidated and the door is closed while the door is opened. The door reclosing by the operation of the button 13 is invalidated (step 12), and the response lamps attached to the buttons 9 and 13 are invalidated. Further, the operation of step 13 is also executed.

  The response lamp will be further described. When the hall call button 9 is pressed, the attached response lamp is lit in the normal operation, but the response lamp is not lit when the operation by the hall call button 9 is invalid. By not lighting, the operator is notified and guided that the operation by the hall call button 9 has become invalid. In the case where the determination in step 5 is No, when the door reopening door is disabled by the hall call button 9 in step 12 and when the door reclosing door is disabled by the closing button 13, notification and guidance by respective response lamps are also made. The same is done. Further, the door restart door and the door reclosing door in step 12 after step 11 are disabled, and the door 14 restart door and the response lamp of the opening button 12 are disabled (not lit) by operating the open button 12 while the door 14 is closed. To do. When the hall call button 9 is pressed during normal operation, the response lamp illuminates and continues to be lit until the car arrives at the floor, while the close button 13 in the car is in normal operation. The response lamp is turned on when is pressed, and is controlled to turn off when the door is fully closed.

  In addition, when the number of repetitions t is an arbitrarily determined number of determinations x or less (t ≦ x) (Yes in Step 6), if the passage of a predetermined time is detected after the door 14 is opened (Step 7), The door is closed (step 8) and the service starts, so when the cab is vacant and the landing side is congested, waiting for the passengers and passengers to wait for frequent round trips between the entrance and exit floors of the car and the service floor In addition, the operation restriction of the close button and the call button can be notified and guided by non-lighting when the response lamp is pressed.

  In step 7, the passage of the predetermined time after the door opening is completed is detected by the central processing unit 7 in the control panel 7, and a specific example of the predetermined time is given as an entrance / exit. On the floor, it is set to 5 seconds after the door opening is completed, 2 seconds is set on the other floors, 3 seconds is set on the hall call button, and when the set second time elapses, the door opens from the door open state. The closing operation starts.

  When the operation by the close button 13 and the hall call button 9 in the car is disabled, that is, when the buttons 13 and 9 are restricted, the response lamp attached to the buttons 13 and 9 is not turned on. The invalidity may be notified and guided by lighting a dedicated button provided separately. Moreover, although the group management system in the case of two elevators has been described, the same can be applied to the case of one or a plurality of elevators.

  As described above, the feature of the elevator according to the embodiment of the present invention is simply to detect the number of repetitions of the operation of the close button in the car while the door is open and the operation of the landing call button while the door is closed. If it is determined that another elevator is approaching in the same bank, the door reopening door is disabled by the hall call button operation while the door is closed, and the door is closed When the door reclosing by the button operation is disabled, the door reopening door is disabled by the opening button operation in the car while the door is closed, and when it is determined that there is no other elevator approaching in the same bank, If the number of repetitions exceeds a predetermined value (for example, 2 or 3 times), the operation of the hall call button, the close button, and the open button is invalidated. The normal operation shown in Step 6 to Step 9 shown in performing. In the above-described operation, when the operations of the hall call button, the close button, and the open button are disabled (the operation of the door opening / closing corresponding to the operation is performed even if the button is pressed by the central processing unit). If the buttons are pressed, the response lamp attached to the buttons is not turned on, thereby informing and guiding the invalidity of the operation.

1 Main rope 2 Car 3 Suspended weight 4 Compen rope 5 Hoisting machine 6 Control panel
7 Central processing unit 8 Platform control panel 9 Platform call button and response lamp 10 Control panel 11 Destination floor call button and response lamp 12 Open button and response lamp 13 Close button and response lamp 14 Door

Claims (6)

A door provided on the car, an open button for opening the door, a close button for closing the door, a destination floor call button, a response lamp attached to each button, and a hall call button provided at the hall And a response lamp attached to the hall call button and a control panel for controlling the operation of the elevator, and when starting service by operating the destination floor call button in the car waiting on the entrance / exit floor of the building , Determining whether or not another machine is approaching, reopening the door by operating the open button or the landing call button, and controlling the passage of a certain time after the operation of the close button or completion of the door opening. An elevator with a group management system that closes the door,
When the door is opened, the door is closed again by the operation of the closing button, and the door reopening door is detected by the operation of the landing call button while the door is closed, and the number of repetitions of the door reclosing door and the door restarting door is detected. And
When it is determined that the elevator of another unit is approaching, regardless of the number of repetitions, the door reopening door by the operation of the hall call button is invalidated and the door reclosing by the operation of the closing button is invalidated. An elevator characterized by. A door provided on the car, an open button for opening the door, a close button for closing the door, a destination floor call button, a response lamp attached to each button, and a hall call button provided at the hall And a response lamp attached to the hall call button, and a control panel for controlling the operation of the elevator. , Determining whether or not another machine is approaching, reopening the door by operating the open button or the landing call button, and controlling the passage of a certain time after the operation of the close button or completion of the door opening. An elevator with a group management system that closes the door,
When the door is opened, the door is closed again by the operation of the closing button, and the door reopening door is detected by the operation of the landing call button while the door is closed, and the number of repetitions of the door reclosing door and the door restarting door is detected. And
When it is determined that there is no approach of the elevator of another unit and the number of repetitions exceeds a specified value, the door reopening door by the operation of the landing call button is invalidated and the door is closed again by the operation of the closing button. An elevator characterized by disabling. In claim 1 or 2,
In addition to invalidating the door reopening door by the operation of the landing call button and invalidating the door reclosing door by the operation of the closing button, the door resuming door by the operation of the opening button while the door is closed is invalidated. An elevator characterized by that. In claim 1 or 2,
The response lamps respectively attached to the hall call button and the close button are when the door reopening door is invalidated by the operation of the hall call button and when the door reclosing door is invalidated by the operation of the closing button. The landing call button pressing operation and the closing button pressing operation do not light up and remain unlit, and the non-lighting disables the door reopening door of the landing calling button and invalidates the door reclosing door of the closing button An elevator characterized by informing and guiding. In claim 3,
Response lamps attached to the hall call button, the close button, and the open button, respectively, when the door reopening door is disabled by the operation of the hall call button, the door reclosing by the operation of the closing button is disabled. And when the door is restarted due to the operation of the open button, the landing call button pressing operation, the closing button pressing operation and the opening button pressing operation do not light up and remain unlit. An elevator that informs and guides the invalidation of the door reopening door of the hall call button, the invalidation of the door reclosing door of the closing button, and the invalidity of the door resuming door of the opening button by the non-lighting. In claim 2,
When the number of repetitions is less than or equal to a specified value, an elapse of a predetermined time is detected after the door opening is completed, and the car starts running after the door is closed by the detection.

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