JP2014213987A - Hall lantern device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hall lantern device for a group control elevator having a function performing evacuation guidance at an evacuation time, in an embodiment.SOLUTION: In an embodiment, a hall lantern device includes a plurality of light sources 7 which can be lit selectively and are provided on a plurality of hall lanterns 4 installed on a landing place, and a translucent illuminator 10 for illuminating the landing place with light radiated from the light sources 7. When the operation mode of an elevator is switched from a normal operation mode to an evacuation operation mode, the light source 7 corresponding to the evacuation operation mode among the plurality of light sources 7 is illuminated.

Description

  Embodiments of the present invention relate to a hall lantern device of a group management elevator having a function of performing evacuation guidance during evacuation.

  A hall lantern is usually installed at the elevator hall to notify the arrival of the car. A hall lantern has a light source such as an LED or incandescent lamp inside the box, and when the light source is turned on, the hall lantern is illuminated to the hall by an illuminator made of a translucent material such as acrylic glass placed on the front of the box. Is irradiated. It is a device that can notify the user at the hall of arrival of the elevator by this irradiation light.

  However, as described above, the hall lantern is only lit and blinked to notify the arrival of the elevator, so it is difficult to guide evacuation by turning on and blinking the hall lantern at the time of evacuation such as when a disaster occurs. It was.

  In view of this, there has been proposed a digital indicator provided at a landing and displaying evacuation character information on a display portion of the indicator.

JP 2012-35972 A

  However, there are few cases where the digital indicator as described above can be installed at the landing, and it is desirable that evacuation guidance can be performed only by installing a hall lantern.

  Therefore, in the embodiment of the present invention, when a disaster such as a fire or an earthquake occurs and evacuates from a building, the lighting / flashing of the hall lantern is controlled differently from that during normal operation, thereby evacuating the user. An object of the present invention is to provide a hall lantern apparatus capable of performing guidance.

  In order to achieve the above object, a hall lantern apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention has a plurality of selectively illuminable light sources provided in a plurality of hall lanterns installed at a landing, and has translucency. A light source corresponding to the evacuation operation mode of the plurality of light sources when the elevator operation mode is switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode. It is characterized by illuminating.

It is an external view which shows the hall of the elevator which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the hall lantern apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure which attached the speaker to the hall lantern apparatus which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the hall lantern apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the lighting control of the hall lantern apparatus 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 an external view showing an elevator hall according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing the configuration of the hall lantern apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a landing call registration device 3 is provided in the vicinity of a landing door 2 installed on the landing 1 to perform landing call registration. A hall lantern device 4 for notifying the user of the arrival of the elevator is installed above the hall call registration device 3.

  The hall lantern device 4 is attached when group management is controlled by a plurality of elevators, and is controlled so as to be lit in conjunction with each elevator. Specifically, an elevator system that is optimal for the hall call registration performed by the user is assigned by a group management control unit (not shown). The hall lantern device 4 corresponding to the elevator assigned to the landing call registration is turned on, so that the user at the landing 1 can be notified of the arrival of the elevator.

  Next, the operation mode of the elevator according to the present embodiment will be described. As the operation mode of the elevator according to the present embodiment, there are a “normal operation mode” for performing normal operation control and an “evacuation operation mode” for performing special operation control when a disaster such as a fire or an earthquake occurs. .

  The normal operation mode is an operation mode in which normal operation control is performed as described above. For example, when the user performs landing call registration by operating the landing call registration device 3 at the landing 1, the call mode is called. A registration signal is input to the group management control unit, and the group management control unit selects an optimal elevator from the plurality of elevators according to the current operation status of the plurality of elevators, and performs allocation control.

  In the evacuation operation mode, when a disaster such as a fire or an earthquake occurs, at least one of a plurality of elevators is used as an evacuation elevator that operates in the event of a disaster, and the evacuation person is evacuated to the evacuation floor. .

  In this evacuation operation mode, the evacuation elevator is basically made to stand by at the floor where the evacuation elevator can be evacuated (floor where evacuation operation can be performed) during disasters, or the evacuation elevator travels at low speed between the floors subject to evacuation operation Have a role to play. By this evacuation operation control, it is possible to quickly evacuate the residents present at the hall of a predetermined evacuation elevator.

  The operation of the elevator is basically controlled in the normal operation mode, and the normal operation mode is switched to the evacuation operation mode when a disaster such as a fire or an earthquake occurs.

  The switching of the operation mode is not described in detail here, but for example, it is possible to input information detected by a heat sensor, a smoke sensor, etc. installed in an arbitrary place such as a control device, a car, a landing, etc. A disaster detection unit for detecting occurrence is provided in the elevator control device. When a signal from the disaster detection unit is received, the operation control of the elevator is switched.

  Thus, the operation control of the elevator is controlled so as to be switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode.

  However, in some cases, for example, when a fire occurs and the landing is poorly visible due to smoke from the fire, the occupant may not be able to recognize which of the multiple elevators is an evacuation elevator. . Therefore, evacuation guidance is performed using the hall lantern according to the present embodiment. Hereinafter, the operation of the hall lantern according to the present embodiment will be described in detail.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the hall lantern device 4 includes a housing 5 having an opening on the landing 1 side and a face plate 6 that closes the opening and forms the design surface of the landing 1 as constituents. Further, inside the housing 5, light sources 7a and 7b for ascending and descending are provided.

  An illuminating body 10 for transmitting the illumination of the light source 7 to the landing side is attached to the face plate 6. The illuminator 10 is formed from a translucent material such as acrylic resin or glass. As shown in FIG. 2, the illuminating body 10 is configured as the illuminating bodies 10 and 10b so as to correspond to the light sources 7a and 7b. The illuminating body 10a illuminates the light source 7a, and the illuminating body 10b illuminates the light source 7b. It is irradiated to the landing side through.

  That is, when the illuminating body 10a of the hall lantern device 4 is illuminated, it is predicted that the car arrives at the elevator hall 1 and that the traveling direction of the car after arrival is an upward direction. On the other hand, when the illuminating body 10b of the hall lantern device 4 is illuminated, it is predicted that the car arrives at the elevator hall 1 and that the traveling direction of the car after arrival is a downward direction.

  In addition, the hall lantern device 4 is disposed so that the housing 5 is buried in the wall surface of the hall 1, and the surface of the face plate 6 is flush with the wall surface of the hall 1.

  In addition to the light source 7, the hall lantern or the like 4 also has an evacuation light source 8 that is turned on instead of the light source 7 when the elevator operation mode is switched to the evacuation operation mode. The evacuation light source 8 is attached above the light source 7 for raising. The light source 7 and the evacuation light source 8 are connected to a control unit 9 that controls the operation of the elevator, and are controlled so that each light source is turned on in conjunction with the operation control of the elevator.

  Specifically, first, when the elevator operation mode is the normal operation mode, when the elevator car is landed on the floor where the user is present, when the traveling direction of the car is the upward direction The control unit 9 performs lighting control on the light source 7a. On the other hand, when the traveling direction of the car is the descending direction, the control unit 9 performs lighting control on the light source 7b.

  Further, when the operation mode of the elevator is switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode, the control unit 9 performs lighting control on the evacuation light source 8.

  As described above, the hall lantern device 4 according to the present embodiment can ensure the convenience of the user by performing the lighting control of the light source 7 and the evacuation light source 8 according to the operation control of the elevator. When a disaster such as a fire occurs, an effect can be obtained in which the user can immediately recognize which elevator is available as an evacuation elevator among a plurality of elevators at the landing.

  In the present embodiment, the lighting color of the evacuation light source 8 may be illuminated with a color different from that of the light source 7. By making the illumination colors of the light source 7 and the evacuation light source 8 different from each other, there is an effect that it becomes possible for the user at the hall 1 to immediately recognize which elevator the evacuation elevator is.

  In the present embodiment, when the operation mode of the elevator is switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode, the control unit 9 performs the lighting control on the evacuation light source 8, but not limited thereto, It is good also as what performs blink control. Further, after switching to the evacuation operation mode, the evacuation light source 8 may be controlled to blink while the light source 7 is lit, or conversely, the evacuation light source 8 may be controlled to be lit by blinking the light source 7. .

  In addition, by controlling blinking of the light source 7 as described above, a plurality of hall lantern devices are interlocked to control blinking order and time interval, thereby guiding blinking to the car corresponding to the evacuation elevator. Also good.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the hall lantern device 4 may be provided with a speaker 11. As a result, evacuation guidance can be performed by making an audio announcement when the visibility is poor at the time of a disaster or when a weakly sighted person is at the hall 1.

(Second Embodiment)
Next, a hall lantern apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram showing the configuration of the hall lantern apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing lighting control of the hall lantern device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the hall lantern device 12 according to the present embodiment is a multicolor having a plurality of color light sources instead of the light source 7 and the evacuation light source 8 provided in the hall lantern device 4 according to the first embodiment. An LED light source 13 is provided.

  Further, the hall lantern apparatus 12 is provided with a selection unit 14, which is connected to the control unit 9 by a signal line 15. The selection unit 14 is connected to the multicolor LED light source 13, and the selection unit 14 performs lighting control based on a signal from the control unit 9 so as to illuminate a light source of a predetermined color among the multicolor LED light sources 13. Do.

  Thereby, unlike the hall lantern apparatus 4 according to the first embodiment, it is possible to provide a light source as an arrival lamp and a light source as an evacuation guide lamp with only one light source system.

  In addition, by using the multicolor LED light source 13 as shown in FIG. 5, it can also be used for displaying predetermined characters when lit as an evacuation guide light. Using the LED chip 16 arranged in the multi-color LED light source 13, for example, the LED chip 16 corresponding to the character arrangement such as “Hinan” is turned on and blinked to facilitate easy guidance to the evacuation elevator. be able to.

  In this case, when all the character strings can be displayed on the multi-color LED light source 13, the display is performed by turning on the LED chip 16 corresponding to the character string or lighting it with a different color scheme from the other LED chips.

  On the other hand, when all of the character strings cannot be displayed on the multicolor LED light source 13, the character strings are displayed by controlling the LED chip 16 to be turned on. As described above, as described above, only the LED chip 16 corresponding to the character string may be lit, or the LED corresponding to the character string by a lighting color different from the lighting color of the non-corresponding LED chip 16. The chip 16 may be controlled to be turned on.

  Note that the illuminator 10 in these cases is configured using a light-transmitting material that can read the display of the character string when the multicolor LED light source 13 is turned on.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Hall 2 ... Hall door 3 ... Hall call registration device 4 ... Hall lantern device 5 ... Housing 6 ... Face plate 7 ... Light source 8 ... Evacuation light source 9 ... Control part 10 ... Illuminator 11 ... Speaker 12 ... Hall lantern device 13 ... multicolor LED light source 14 ... selection unit 15 ... signal line 16 ... LED chip

In order to achieve the above object, a hall lantern apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention has a plurality of selectively illuminable light sources provided in a plurality of hall lanterns installed at a landing, and has translucency. An illuminator that illuminates the landing with the light emitted from the light source, and when the elevator operation mode is switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode, among the elevators that the user has at the landing, which Unit is characterized by illuminating a light source corresponding to the evacuation operation mode among the plurality of light sources to be able to recognize whether it is usable for the evacuation.

Claims (6)

A plurality of selectively illuminable light sources provided in a plurality of hall lanterns installed at a landing;
An illuminator having translucency and illuminating the hall with light emitted from the light source;
With
A hall lantern apparatus that illuminates a light source corresponding to an evacuation operation mode among the plurality of light sources when an elevator operation mode is switched from a normal operation mode to an evacuation operation mode.   2. The hall lantern apparatus according to claim 1, wherein among the plurality of light sources, the illumination color of the light source corresponding to the normal operation mode is different from that of the light source corresponding to the evacuation operation mode.   2. The hall lantern corresponding to an elevator that can be operated is turned on and the other hall lanterns are blinked when switching to the evacuation operation mode among the plurality of hall lanterns. Hall lantern equipment.   The hall lantern apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the hall lantern blinks in such a manner that it can be guided to an elevator that can be operated.   The hall lantern apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an elevator that can be operated by an announcement is guided during the evacuation operation mode. A light source provided in a plurality of hall lanterns installed at the landing,
An illuminator having translucency and illuminating the hall with light emitted from the light source;
With
The light source is formed of an assembly of a plurality of light sources, and the light source corresponding to the evacuation operation mode among the assembly of the plurality of light sources when the elevator operation mode is switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode. A hall lantern device that performs arbitrary lighting display by illuminating

Images