JP2012180156A - Destination floor controlling system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display and inform a user of a newly assigned elevator car when the assigned elevator car is changed.SOLUTION: A destination floor control system which allows a user to operate a destination floor registering device provided at a lobby to designate a destination floor, has car display devices 3A to 3D which are provided near doors at the lobby, respective car controlling devices 9A to 9D which capture operation state data and transmit the same to higher orders, and a group management control part 5 having a failure diagnosis means 5A which diagnoses whether there is a failure in each elevator car from the operation state data, a car assignment processing means 5B which, when it is diagnosed that there is no failure and when a destination floor is designated from the destination registering device, assigns one of a plurality of cars and displays and informs the destination floor registering device of the assigned car, and a car assignment change processing means 5C which, when it is diagnosed that the car which has been assigned has a failure, newly assigns a car from the cars other than those having a failure and displays and informs that assignment of the car has been changed to the car display devices respectively corresponding to the car which has been assigned and which has a failure and the newly assigned car.

Description

  Embodiments described herein relate generally to a destination floor control system.

  In a general elevator, a hall call button is installed at the hall on each floor, and when an elevator user operates the hall call button, the elevator moves to the hall call floor and landing based on the hall call registration. Here, when the user operates the destination floor call button on the car operation panel after getting in the car, the call registration to the destination floor is performed by the car call.

  By the way, in recent years, a destination floor registration device that can directly specify a destination floor from a hall has been installed, and a group management system has been put into practical use that eliminates the need for an elevator user to enter the car and register the destination floor.

  This group management system is also called DCS (Destination Control System) group management system or destination floor control system, and it collects users for each destination floor specified at the landing, and the car departs from the standard floor. By reducing the number of stops and returning to the standard floor, the time required for one round trip is shortened to improve transportation capacity and wait time.

  In this destination floor control system, when the elevator user operates the destination floor registration device at the landing such as the reference floor and designates the destination floor, the group management control unit assigns the optimal elevator number from the plurality of elevator units, A device that displays the assigned number on the number display device at the upper part of the landing door on the operation floor corresponding to the elevator has been put into practical use.

JP 2006-025096 A

  By the way, after the elevator user designates the destination floor, the assigned car is guided and displayed on the destination floor registration device of the operation floor hall, and the user instructs the car that can be boarded. When the assigned car becomes unable to travel due to a failure or the like, the designated car may be out of group management.

  Here, when the instructed car goes out of the group management, the group management control unit cancels the already assigned elevator number and erases the guidance display of the destination floor registration device.

  As a result, the user needs to designate the destination floor again from the destination floor registration device and receive the elevator number assignment again. Therefore, as an elevator user, not only the reason for the cancellation is unknown, but also the destination floor is repeatedly designated in the same manner as the previous time, and there is a problem that inconveniences the elevator user.

  Therefore, this destination floor control system guides the user so that the assigned unit can be easily identified when the assigned unit goes out of group management due to a failure, etc. There is to display.

In order to solve the above-described problem, according to an embodiment of the invention, in a destination floor control system in which a destination floor registration device is installed at a landing, and a user operates the destination floor registration device to designate a destination floor.
The number display device installed near the landing door of the landing, and each elevator control device for controlling the traveling of each elevator and capturing the operation status data to the upper level,
Failure diagnosis means for diagnosing the presence / absence of a failure in each elevator unit from the operation status data sent from each unit control device, and diagnosis of no failure from the diagnosis result, and receiving a destination floor designation from the destination floor registration device When an elevator is assigned from among the plurality of elevators, a unit assignment processing means for displaying a guidance of the assigned number to the destination floor registration device, and an already assigned number from the diagnosis result are faulty. When it is diagnosed that there is a change, a new change unit is assigned from among the other elevator units except for the faulty unit, and a guidance display is provided to notify the change of the unit to the previously assigned faulty unit and the corresponding unit display unit corresponding to the change unit. A destination floor control system including a group management control unit having an assignment change processing unit.

The schematic block diagram which shows the whole destination floor control system which concerns on embodiment. The external view of the front panel of the destination floor registration apparatus shown in FIG. The figure which shows schematically the internal structure of a destination floor registration apparatus. The schematic diagram of a unit allocation table. The flowchart which shows a series of processing procedures of the group management control part shown in FIG. The figure which shows the example of a guidance display of the allocation number machine in the periphery of the landing doors corresponding to Unit A and Unit B. The figure which shows the example of a guidance display of the change of a machine when allocation is changed from the A machine to the B machine.

Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating an entire destination floor control system according to an embodiment.

  The destination floor control system includes, for example, a destination floor registration device 2a-b disposed between a landing door 1A corresponding to Unit A and a landing door 1B corresponding to Unit B installed in the landing on the reference floor, Destination floor registration device 2c-d arranged between the landing door 1C corresponding to Unit C installed at the landing and the landing door 1D corresponding to Unit D, each vehicle display device 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, and program The configuration includes a data storage unit 4, a group management control unit 5, a database 6, and a hall-side transmission device 7.

  In addition, the landing door 1A and landing door 1B corresponding to Units A and B, and the landing door 1C and landing door 1D corresponding to Units C and D may be arranged to face each other across the landing. Further, the destination floor registration devices 2a-b, 2c-d and the number display devices 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D may be installed not only on the reference floor but also on other floors as needed.

  In FIG. 1, 8 is a car-side transmission device, 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D are each car control device, and 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D are each car car.

  Each destination floor registration device 2a-b, 2c-d is externally provided with a destination floor designation button 11 and a display unit 12 as shown in FIG. 2, and functionally, as shown in FIG. A transmission unit 13 that exchanges predetermined data with the device 7, a data processing control unit 14 that includes a CPU, a data storage unit 15, a touch panel control unit 16, and a display control unit 17 are provided.

  The data storage unit 15 includes, for example, a destination floor data unit 15a that defines the relationship between at least the touch position of the destination floor designation button 11 and the destination floor designation data, each machine number, and each display number (A machine, B machine, C machine). , D machine) is provided with a guidance machine data section 15b for defining the relationship with the machine.

  The touch panel control unit 16 is connected to a touch panel switch unit 11 a that constitutes a destination floor designation button 11. That is, the destination floor designation button 11 corresponds, for example, when the touch panel switch section (switch electrode) 11a is arranged in a matrix in the arrangement frame 18 of the destination floor designation button 11 and the destination floor designation button 11 is touched. The touch panel switch section (switch electrode) 11a is turned on. The touch panel control unit 16 recognizes the touch position of the row and column that are turned on, and sends them to the data processing control unit 14.

  In addition, when the touch panel switch unit 11a is configured by a light emitting element, the touch panel control unit 16 can recognize the touch position and can display the corresponding destination floor designation button 11 in a lighting manner.

  Based on the touch position received from the touch panel control unit 16, the data processing control unit 14 extracts destination floor designation data from the destination floor data unit 15 a of the data storage unit 15 and transmits the destination floor designation data to the landing side transmission device 7.

  Further, when the data processing control unit 14 receives, for example, an assigned number from the group management control unit 5 via the transmission unit 1, the number corresponding to the assigned number from the guidance number data unit 15b of the data storage unit 15, for example, The guidance display data “A” is read and displayed on the display unit 12 via the display control unit 17 (see FIG. 2).

  Each unit display device 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D has, for example, a plurality of pieces of guide image data. Normally, the guide image data of the corresponding unit, for example, each unit display device 3A corresponding to unit A is “A”, B Guidance image data related to “B” is displayed on each machine display device 3B corresponding to the machine.

  When each of the machine display devices 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D receives selection number data from the group management control unit 5 via the hall-side transmission device 7, it selects and displays guide image data according to the selection number data.

  The program data storage unit 4 stores a group management control program that assigns an optimal elevator when at least destination floor designation data is received.

  The group management control unit 5 is constituted by a CPU, and functionally includes a failure diagnosis means 5A, a machine number allocation processing means 5B, and a machine number allocation change processing means 5C.

  The failure diagnosis means 5A detects failure from the operation status data coming up from each unit controller 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D (hereinafter, during unit inspection, abnormality of each unit controller 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D itself, and other units) It has a function of diagnosing the presence or absence of failure including failure of corresponding equipment.

  The unit allocation processing means 5B has a function of determining an optimum elevator by performing a predetermined evaluation calculation including the number of passengers from among a plurality of elevators.

  The unit assignment change processing unit 5C performs unit change processing for determining an optimum unit number from other elevator units except for the failed unit when the failed unit diagnosed by the failure diagnosis unit 5A has already been allocated. .

  The database 6 includes a destination floor designation data storage unit 6a for storing destination floor designation data including at least a hall operation floor, destination floor registration devices 2a-b, 2c-d, and each machine display device 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D. The current position of each unit from the allocation guide data storage unit 6b, the unit allocation table 6c, and the unit control devices 9A, 9B, 9C, and 9D for storing the unit number and selection number data for selecting the guide display data to be displayed. An operation status data storage unit 6d that stores operation status data including the data is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 4, for example, when the Unit A is allocated to the destination floor designation data of the destination floor “6th floor”, the Unit allocation table 6c is, for example, “ 1 ”is set, and the next floor and subsequent“ sixth floor ”destination floor designation data are assigned to other units while taking into account the number of passengers in A Unit (maximum number of passengers) or car load To do.

  Next, the operation of the destination floor control system as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, when the operation starts, the group management control unit 5 displays the corresponding number machines A, B, C, and D on the number machine display devices 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D, respectively.

  The group management control unit 5 executes the failure diagnosis means 5A in the above state. The failure diagnosis means 5A is such that each elevator unit is under inspection, the presence / absence of abnormality of the corresponding unit control devices 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, the operation status of each unit elevator coming up from each unit control device 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, etc. The presence or absence of a machine failure is diagnosed (S1-S3).

  When it is diagnosed that all units have no failure, the group management control unit 5 determines whether the elevator user has received destination floor designation data from, for example, the destination floor registration device 2a-b installed at the landing on the reference floor. (S4). Here, when there is no reception of destination floor designation data, it returns to step S1 and the same process is repeatedly performed.

  By the way, when the elevator user touches the “6” destination floor designation button 11 arranged on the panel of the destination floor registration device 2a-b installed at the landing, the data processing control unit of the destination floor registration device 2a-b. 14 reads out the destination floor designation data including the operation floor corresponding to the touch position from the destination floor data section 15a of the data storage section 15 based on the touch position received from the touch panel control section 16, and the group via the landing side transmission device 7 This is transmitted to the management control unit 5.

  The group management control unit 5 stores the destination floor designation data including the operation floor in the destination floor designation data storage unit 6a, determines that there is the destination floor designation data in step S4, and executes the unit allocation processing means 5B.

  This number assignment unit 5B calculates an evaluation value for each number according to the group management control program (S5).

  Here, there are various evaluation value evaluation functions (evaluation items). For example, the predicted response time of each unit, the suppression of the stop floor, the number of passengers in each unit, the load in the car (for example, the efficiency during ascent / descent) Driving), presence / absence of long waiting call (reduction of long waiting time), and the like.

  Then, after performing the evaluation calculation of all the units 10A to 10D (S5 to S7), when the assigned number (for example, 10A) determined to be the optimum evaluation value is determined (S8), the number control device 9A corresponding to the assigned number Is notified that the "6" floor is allocated (S9).

  Further, the car number assignment processing means 5B takes out the car number corresponding to the car number A from the assignment guidance data storage unit 6b of the database 6, and the destination floor registration device 2a-b that has been designated for the destination floor via the landing side transmission device 7. , And a guidance display indicating that No. A is assigned (S10).

  That is, when the data processing control unit 14 of the destination floor registration device 2a-b receives the unit number from the group management control unit 5, the guidance number data “15” corresponding to the unit number from the guidance unit data unit 15b of the data storage unit 15 is displayed. A ”is read out and displayed on the display unit 12 as shown in FIG. That is, a guidance display is displayed indicating that the elevator car that the elevator user can board is 10A corresponding to Unit A.

  On the other hand, the group management control unit 5 executes unit allocation change processing means 5C when any unit is diagnosed as having a failure in step S1.

  When the unit allocation change processing means 5C is diagnosed as having a failure, it determines whether the unit diagnosed as having a failure has already been allocated from the unit allocation table 6c (S11). Here, when it is determined that the allocation has already been performed, the evaluation calculation of all the other units except the failed unit is performed, and when the allocation unit (for example, 10B) determined to be the optimum evaluation value is determined (S12 to S15), the allocation is performed. The number control device 9B corresponding to the number is notified that the “6” floor is allocated (S16).

  Further, the unit allocation change processing means 5C selects from the allocation guidance data storage unit 6b the selection number data to be displayed for guidance to the previously allocated faulty unit (for example, No. A) and the guidance for display to the changed unit (for example, No. B). The number data is taken out and transmitted to the number display devices 3A and 3B via the hall-side transmission device 7.

  Therefore, the machine display device 3A selects the guide image data corresponding to the selection number data sent from the group management control unit 5, and displays the guide image as shown in FIG. That is, a guidance display is displayed on the machine display device 3A corresponding to the assigned fault A machine, for example, “Failure. The car has been changed” (S17).

  On the other hand, the machine display device 3B selects the guide image data corresponding to the selection number data sent from the group management control unit 5, and displays the guide image as shown in FIG. 7B. On the machine number display device 3B corresponding to the machine No. B serving as the changed machine, “A / B” indicating that the assigned fault A machine has been changed to the machine B serving as the changed car is guided and displayed (S17).

  In addition, after the change guidance display data is displayed on the unit display devices 3A to 3D, the group management control unit 5 arrives toward the operation floor of the cars 10A to 10D of the corresponding unit, and the unit control devices 9A to 9D. When the elevator user gets on the corresponding car 10A to 10D and receives a door closing signal, the return instruction data is transmitted, and the number display devices 3A to 3D are returned to the original display state.

  Therefore, according to the embodiment as described above, when a failure occurs in the previously assigned elevator unit and it becomes out of the group management, the evaluation calculation is carried out for the other elevator unit under the group management, and the optimum Change to a new elevator and notify the relevant unit control device, and at the same time, display the change guidance that can be grasped visually on the unit display devices 3A and 3B corresponding to the already assigned failure unit and the assigned unit after change. Even if the assigned machine is canceled, the person can easily know the assigned changed machine that has been changed without specifying the destination floor again.

(Other embodiments)
(1) In the above embodiment, the change guide data is displayed on the machine display devices 3A and 3B corresponding to the assigned machine before the change and the assigned machine after the change. For example, either one of the machine display devices 3A and 3B or For both, the elevator user may be notified of the changed car by blinking over a predetermined time according to a predetermined period.

(2) In addition to displaying the change guidance data continuously or blinking on the machine display devices 3A and 3B, a sound generator is provided on the machine display devices 3A to 3D, and a voice or chime (one dot) is displayed along with the continuous display or blinking display. : For example, ping pong) may be output to notify the change machine.

(3) Further, when the assignment is changed, the change guide data is displayed on the machine display devices 3A and 3B corresponding to the already assigned failed machine and the assigned machine after the change. For example, three or more machine display devices such as The structure which displays change guidance data on 3A-3C may be sufficient.

(4) In the above embodiment, the destination floor registration device 2a-b displays the guidance display data “A” of the assigned car number before the change. For example, the already assigned faulty car (eg, 10A) If the user is instructed, the next user will wait at the landing door B, for example, other than the landing door 1A corresponding to the failed car after operating the destination floor registration device 2a-b. For example, the vehicle 10B can be smoothly boarded.

(5) In the above embodiment, the machine number data and selection number data for guidance display are stored in the assigned guidance data storage unit 6b. However, character data and guidance message data for guidance display are stored instead of these number data. Then, appropriate character data and guidance message data are read out at the time of unit allocation and unit change allocation, and transmitted to the destination floor registration devices 2a-b, 2c-d and each unit display device 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D for display. It may be a configuration.

(6) The above embodiment is presented as an example, and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1A-1D ... landing door, 2a-b, 2c-d ... destination floor registration apparatus, 3A-3D ... number machine display device, 5 ... group management control part, 5A ... failure diagnosis means, 5B ... number machine allocation processing means, 5C ... Unit allocation change processing means, 6 ... database, 7 ... landing side transmission device, 8 ... car side transmission device, 9A-9D ... No. controller, 10A-10D ... No. 1 passenger car (No. A-D).

Claims (5)

In a destination floor control system in which a destination floor registration device is installed at a hall, and a user operates the destination floor registration device to specify a destination floor.
A machine display device installed in the vicinity of the landing door of the landing,
Each elevator control device that controls the traveling of each elevator and that captures the operation status data and transmits it to the host,
Failure diagnosis means for diagnosing the presence / absence of a failure in each elevator unit from the operation status data sent from each unit control device, and diagnosis of no failure from the diagnosis result, and receiving a destination floor designation from the destination floor registration device When an elevator is assigned from among the plurality of elevators, a unit assignment processing means for displaying a guidance of the assigned number to the destination floor registration device, and an already assigned number from the diagnosis result are faulty. When it is diagnosed that there is a change, a new change unit is assigned from among the other elevator units except for the faulty unit, and a guidance display is provided to notify the change of the unit to the previously assigned faulty unit and the corresponding unit display unit corresponding to the change unit. A destination floor control system comprising: a group management control unit having an assignment change processing unit.   The unit allocation change processing means displays guidance display data indicating that the unit has been changed on the basis of a predetermined cause on the unit display device corresponding to the already-allocated failed unit, and on the unit display unit corresponding to the changed unit. 2. The destination floor control system according to claim 1, wherein guidance display data representing the relationship between the previous / next car changed from the assigned faulty car to the changed assigned car is displayed. In the destination floor control system according to claim 1 or 2,
A destination floor control system comprising means for erasing guide data of a corresponding car display device when it is detected that the elevator whose number has been changed has arrived at the operation floor of the destination floor registration apparatus. In the destination floor control system according to claim 1 or 2,
A destination floor control system comprising means for blinking and displaying guidance data relating to allocation change displayed on a corresponding machine display device for a predetermined time at a predetermined cycle. In the destination floor control system according to any one of claims 1, 2 and 4,
A destination floor control system characterized in that a voice output device is provided in each of the number display devices, and a predetermined voice signal is output together with continuous display or blinking display of the guidance data.

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