JP2013216427A - Elevator notification sound volume control device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator notification sound volume control device automatically adjusting a sound volume of a notification device performing announcement notification at a landing of each floor.SOLUTION: An elevator notification sound volume control device comprises: a notification device installed on a landing of each floor; a portable terminal device performing wireless communication with the notification device; a sound collection part provided to the portable terminal device and measuring noise of the landing; a storage part storing noise data measured by the sound collection part in association with the floor in which the measurement is performed; a sound volume instruction setting table holding a sound volume instruction setting value for controlling an output sound volume from the notification device in accordance with the value of the measured noise data; a position data comparing part comparing the floor stored in the storage part with the current floor at which a car is present; and a control part performing a sound volume setting instruction to the notification device with reference to the sound volume instruction setting table.

Description

  Embodiments of the present invention relate to an elevator notification volume control device that automatically adjusts the volume of a notification device that performs announcement notification at a landing on each floor.

  In general, on a header case installed at the upper part of a landing door on each floor of an elevator, a notification device is installed for notifying a user at the landing that the elevator has arrived by chime or synthesized voice.

  In such a notification device, the output volume of the chime sound and synthesized voice is conventionally adjusted for each floor, and thereafter, notification is made at the output volume once set unless the output volume is adjusted or changed manually. It will continue.

  In addition, since the elevator alarm device is installed in the hoistway, the output volume of the alarm device must be adjusted from the inside of the hoistway by maintenance personnel, and the maintainer must be on the elevator car. After moving the car to the position where the boarding and notification devices are easy to maintain and check, the output volume is adjusted.

  Furthermore, after the adjustment work of the output sound of the notification device by the maintenance staff, whether or not the set output sound volume is appropriate is checked in the vicinity of the landing.

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  However, in the case of an elevator installed in a high-floor building, the above adjustment work is prolonged. While the adjustment work is being performed, a general user cannot use the elevator, which leads to a decrease in service.

  Therefore, in the present embodiment, in the adjustment work of the output volume of the elevator alarm device, the amount of noise at each landing is measured and stored using a portable terminal carried by a maintenance worker who performs maintenance and inspection work for the elevator, An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator notification sound volume control device that receives a volume output setting wirelessly from a terminal to a notification device and automatically performs adjustment work.

  In order to achieve the above object, an elevator notification sound volume control device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a notification device installed at a landing on each floor, a portable terminal device that performs wireless communication with the notification device, and the portable terminal. A sound collecting unit for measuring noise at the hall, a storage unit for storing the noise data measured at the sound collecting unit in association with the floor on which the measurement was performed, and the measured noise data; A volume command setting table having a volume command setting value for controlling the output volume from the notification device according to the value of the alarm, a floor stored in the storage unit, and a floor on which the current car is located And a control unit that performs a volume setting command to the notification device with reference to the volume command setting table, and the control unit uses the position data comparison unit to store both floors. And match And outputs a volume setting command to the notification device when disconnected.

It is a lineblock diagram showing the outline of the elevator concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is a volume setting command table which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the portable terminal device which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the control flow of the output volume setting control which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram illustrating an outline of a configuration of an elevator according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a volume setting command table according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the mobile terminal device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a car 2 that moves up and down in the hoistway 1 is provided with a car display device and a car door (not shown).

  In addition, a landing door 5 is attached to the landing 4 on each floor, and a chime or voice synthesis for notifying the arrival of the elevator at the upper portion of the header case 6 installed in the hoistway 1 and above the landing door 5. A notification device 7 configured by the device is installed. The notification device 7 is controlled by a mobile terminal device 9 to be described later via a landing control device 3 installed at the landing.

  In the case of an elevator with a machine room, an elevator machine room (not shown) and an elevator machine room without a machine room are provided with an elevator control device 8 installed in the upper part of the hoistway 1.

  Further, when the output sound volume adjustment work of the elevator notification device 7 is performed, the mobile terminal device 9 is disposed in the car 2. The mobile terminal device 9 communicates with the hall control device 3 by wireless communication, and receives information related to the operation of the elevator from the elevator control device 8 connected to the hall control device 3 via the hall control device 3.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the mobile terminal device 9 includes a sound collecting unit 10 that collects external noise, and a level on which external noise collected by the sound collecting unit 10 and noise obtained from the elevator control device 8 are measured. A storage unit 14 that stores data in association with floor data, a control unit 16 that calculates an optimal volume setting command value for the elevator notification device 7 installed on each floor, and a volume setting command value that is calculated for the notification device 7 A command unit 17 is provided for performing the commands. In addition to the external noise level and floor data, the storage unit 14 also stores a volume command setting table 15 (to be described in detail later) and other necessary data and programs.

  Furthermore, in order to issue the above-mentioned volume setting command to an appropriate elevator notification device 7 among the elevator notification devices 7 installed on each floor, the floor where the sound is collected and the floor where the volume setting command is issued are compared. A position data comparison unit 18 for determination is provided.

  Further, in the present embodiment, in order to measure the noise amount of the hall 4 on each floor, the elevator operation mode is changed to a noise measurement operation mode in which both car call and hall call are prohibited and each floor is stopped. An operation changeover switch 19 for switching is installed in the hall 4. The operation changeover switch 19 is not limited to the landing and may be installed in the car 2.

  As described above, the elevator notification volume control device is configured.

  Next, volume setting control of the elevator notification device 7 installed on each floor by the elevator notification volume control device according to the present embodiment will be described. In the present embodiment, at the time of volume setting control, first, each floor is stopped in the noise measurement operation mode, and the volume along the floor of each floor is measured. Then, after measuring the noise on all floors, the car is turned over to set the output volume of the notification device 7 on each floor. At this time, the output sound volume setting operation is performed at a normal operation speed. Details will be described below.

  During normal operation, the operation changeover switch 19 is off and the elevator is operated in the normal operation mode.

  And when performing the output volume adjustment work of the alerting | reporting apparatus 7, the portable terminal device 9 is installed in the passenger car 2, and a maintenance worker turns on the operation switch 19 at the landing. When the elevator control device 8 detects that the operation switch 19 is turned on, the elevator control device 8 switches the elevator operation mode to the noise measurement operation mode.

  When the operation mode is switched to the noise measurement operation mode, subsequent car calls are temporarily prohibited as described above, and landing calls are also prohibited. For calls that have already occurred before the operation switch 19 is turned on, the response is completed. And when all the responses are completed, it shifts to each floor stop operation control as a noise measurement operation mode.

  Each time the car 2 stops on each floor, the car door and the landing door 5 are controlled to be opened and closed, and the noise level of the stop floor is measured by the sound collecting unit 10 of the mobile terminal device 9 installed in the car 2. . After measuring the noise level, the noise level measured by the sound collecting unit 10 is output to the storage unit 14, and the noise level is stored in the storage unit 14. The storage unit 14 stores the measured noise level in association with the measured floor data obtained from the operation information from the elevator control device 8.

  When the noise level measurement is completed for all the floors where the elevators are installed, the elevator control device 8 then performs an output volume setting operation of the notification device 7 installed on each floor. This will be specifically described below.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 16 of the mobile terminal device 9 sets the measured value of the noise level of each floor stored in the storage unit 14 to the noise level while referring to the volume command setting table 15. The sound volume setting command value corresponding to the distribution and the noise level is determined. For example, in this embodiment, each noise measurement value measured at each floor is assigned to a noise level 1-5, and a sound volume setting command value 1-5 is determined corresponding to the noise level 1-5.

  When the volume setting command value for each floor is determined, the elevator control device 8 operates the car 2 at a normal traveling speed, and the mobile terminal device 9 is the optimum volume setting command for the notification device 7 installed on each floor. Is controlled as follows.

  First, the position data comparison unit 18 compares whether the floor of the alarm device 7 of the floor that is the adjustment target stored in the storage unit 14 matches the current position of the car 2. The current position of the car 2 is also grasped by information from the elevator control device 9. As a result of the comparison, if it is determined that the two data match, the control unit 16 outputs a volume setting command corresponding to the measured noise level to the notification device 7 via the command unit 17.

  The notification device 7 to which the volume setting command is input from the mobile terminal device 9 performs the volume output control according to the volume setting command with the internal setting. By performing this control operation on the notification device 7 of each floor, the output volume setting of each notification device 7 can be automatically adjusted.

  As described above, the elevator notification sound volume control device according to the present embodiment can automatically set the output sound volume of the notification device 7 according to the noise level of each floor, and further, the output sound volume at the normal operation speed. Since the setting operation is performed, the working time is shortened, and service degradation for the elevator user can be prevented.

  In the present embodiment, a volume output setting permission signal is output from the elevator control device 8 to the specific notification device 7 via the hall control device 3, and the notification device 7 to which this volume output setting permission signal is input. It is good also as what can perform output volume setting control by the portable terminal device 9 only.

  As a result, the output volume setting control can be performed only for the notification device 7 that wants to adjust the output volume setting, so that an erroneous setting is not generated for the unintended notification device 7 and the work time is reduced. It leads to shortening.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a second embodiment will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation flow of output volume setting control according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the flowchart of FIG. 4 will be described.

  First, similarly to the first embodiment, when the output volume adjustment work of the notification device 7 is performed, the portable terminal device 9 is installed in the car 2, and the maintenance worker sets the operation switch 19 at the landing. Turn on. When the elevator control device 8 detects that the operation switch 19 is turned on, the elevator control device 8 switches the elevator operation mode to the noise measurement operation mode (S1).

  Thereafter, within a predetermined time, for example, within 30 seconds after switching to the noise measurement operation mode, the elevator control device 8 determines whether or not the car call registration has been performed (S2). When it is determined that the car call registration has not been made (NO in S2), the elevator control device 8 performs a noise measurement operation as usual (S3). On the other hand, if it is determined that the car call registration has been made (YES in S2), output volume adjustment control is performed only for the floor where the car call registration has been made (S4). Since the output volume adjustment control is the same as the control described in the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

  Then, after the output volume adjustment control is performed only on the specific floor, the elevator control device 8 switches the elevator operation control to the normal operation control (S5).

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, since the adjustment work can be performed only for the notification device 7 that desires to perform the output volume adjustment work, the work time can be shortened.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Hoistway 2 ... Car 3 ... Hall control apparatus 4 ... Hall 5 ... Hall door 6 ... Header case 7 ... Notification apparatus 8 ... Elevator control apparatus 9 ... Portable terminal device 10 ... Sound collecting part 14 ... Memory | storage part 15 ... Volume Command setting table 16 ... control unit 17 ... command unit 18 ... position data comparison unit 19 ... operation changeover switch

Claims (4)

A notification device installed at the landing on each floor;
A mobile terminal device that performs wireless communication with the notification device;
A sound collection unit provided in the portable terminal device for measuring noise at the hall;
A storage unit for storing the noise data measured by the sound collection unit in association with the measured floor;
A volume command setting table having a volume command setting value for controlling the output volume from the notification device according to the value of the measured noise data;
A position data comparison unit that compares the floor stored in the storage unit with the floor on which the current car is located;
With reference to the volume command setting table, a control unit that issues a volume setting command to the notification device;
With
The control unit compares the floor where the noise is measured by the sound collecting unit and the floor where the current car is located by the position data comparison unit, and determines that the two floors match. An elevator notification volume control device that outputs a volume setting command to the notification device.   The elevator control device that controls the operation of the elevator performs a first operation of measuring the noise of the hall at the sound collection unit, and then performs a second operation of outputting the volume setting command to the notification device. The portable terminal device outputs a volume output setting command to the notification device when the two floors coincide with each other by the position data comparison unit during the second operation. Item 2. The elevator notification sound volume control device according to Item 1.   The elevator notification sound volume control device according to claim 1, wherein the output sound volume control of the notification device is performed at an arbitrary floor. A selector switch for switching between a first operation mode for performing normal operation control of the elevator operation mode and a second operation mode for performing output volume control operation of the notification device;
The output volume control of the notification device is performed only on the floor for which a car call registration is made within a predetermined time after the operation mode is switched to the second operation mode. The elevator notification sound volume control device described.

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