JP2021054629A - Lighting apparatus for escalator - Google Patents

Abstract

To obtain a lighting apparatus for an escalator that is able to adjust the luminosity of an escalator in correspondence with the respective luminous intensities of a handrail lower portion and a handrail upper portion.SOLUTION: A lighting apparatus for an escalator comprises: a lighting apparatus body 41 having a lower lighting unit 411 provided in a handrail lower portion 21 and an upper lighting unit 412 provided in a handrail upper portion 22; a luminous intensity measurement device 42 having a lower luminous intensity measurement unit 421 that measures a luminous intensity of the handrail lower portion 21 and an upper luminous intensity measurement unit 422 that measures a luminous intensity of the handrail upper portion 22; and a lighting control device 43 that separately adjusts respective luminous intensities of the lower lighting unit 411 and the upper lighting unit 412 by using respective results of the measurements by the luminous intensity measurement device 42.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to an escalator lighting device.

Conventionally, an escalator lighting device provided over a lower part of a balustrade and an upper part of a balustrade is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP-A-2007-84219

However, the brightness of each of the portion provided in the lower part of the balustrade and the portion provided in the upper part of the balustrade in the escalator lighting device cannot be adjusted separately. Therefore, when there is a difference between the illuminances of the lower part of the balustrade and the upper part of the balustrade, the problem is that the brightness of the escalator lighting device cannot be adjusted according to the respective illuminances of the lower part of the balustrade and the upper part of the balustrade. was there.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to adjust the brightness of the escalator lighting device according to the respective illuminances of the lower part of the balustrade and the upper part of the balustrade. It provides an escalator lighting device that can be used.

The escalator lighting device according to the present invention includes a lighting device main body having a lower lighting unit provided at the lower part of the balustrade and an upper illuminating unit provided at the upper part of the balustrade, a lower illuminance measuring unit for measuring the illuminance of the lower part of the balustrade, and an upper part of the balustrade. An illuminance measuring device having an upper illuminance measuring unit for measuring the illuminance of the illuminance, and a lighting control device for separately adjusting the brightness of each of the lower illuminating unit and the upper illuminating unit using the measurement results of the illuminance measuring device. There is.

According to the escalator lighting device according to the present invention, the brightness of the escalator lighting device can be adjusted according to the illuminances of the lower part of the balustrade and the upper part of the balustrade.

It is a side view which shows the escalator which attached the lighting device of the escalator which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the lighting apparatus of FIG. It is an enlarged view which shows the lower part of the balustrade of FIG. It is a front view which shows the key switch for lighting of FIG.

Embodiment 1.
FIG. 1 is a side view showing an escalator to which a lighting device for the escalator according to the first embodiment of the present invention is attached. The escalator is provided on the truss 1 provided across the lower floor and the upper floor, the balustrade 2 supported by the truss 1, and the balustrade 2, and is provided on the lower floor and the upper floor. It is provided with a moving handrail 3 that circulates across the floor and a lighting device 4 provided on the balustrade 2. A pair of balustrades 2 are supported on the truss 1. One moving handrail 3 is provided for each of the pair of balustrades 2. One lighting device 4 is provided for each of the pair of balustrades 2. Due to the difference between the brightness of the lighting equipment (not shown) installed on the lower floor and the brightness of the lighting equipment (not shown) installed on the upper floor, the illumination of the lower floor and the upper floor side Differences may occur between floor illuminances.

The balustrade 2 has a balustrade lower portion 21 provided on the lower floor, a balustrade upper portion 22 provided on the upper floor side floor, and a balustrade inclined portion 23 provided over the balustrade lower portion 21 and the balustrade upper portion 22. And have. The balustrade inclined portion 23 is arranged so as to be inclined with respect to the horizontal plane.

The balustrade 2 is composed of a glass panel. The lighting device 4 is arranged in a portion of the balustrade 2 near the moving handrail 3. Further, the lighting device 4 is arranged along the moving handrail 3. Further, the lighting device 4 is arranged over the entire area of the balustrade 2 from the lower floor side floor to the upper floor side floor.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the lighting device 4 of FIG. The lighting device 4 includes a lighting device main body 41 that emits light and an illuminance measuring device 42 that measures illuminance. The lighting device main body 41 has a lower lighting unit 411 provided in the lower part 21 of the balustrade, an upper illuminating unit 412 provided in the upper part 22 of the balustrade, and an inclined portion illuminating unit 413 provided in the inclined portion 23 of the balustrade. There is.

Each of the lower lighting unit 411, the upper lighting unit 412, and the inclined portion lighting unit 413 is composed of an LED (Light Emitting Diode). By adjusting the amount of current supplied to each of the lower illumination unit 411, the upper illumination unit 412, and the inclined portion illumination unit 413, the brightness of each of the lower illumination unit 411, the upper illumination unit 412, and the inclined portion illumination unit 413 is adjusted. Is adjusted.

The illuminance measuring device 42 includes a lower illuminance measuring unit 421 that measures the illuminance of the lower part 21 of the balustrade, and an upper illuminance measuring unit 422 that measures the illuminance of the upper part 22 of the balustrade.

Further, the lighting device 4 further includes a lighting control device 43 for adjusting the brightness of each of the lower lighting unit 411, the upper lighting unit 412, and the inclined portion lighting unit 413. The measurement results of the lower illuminance measuring unit 421 and the upper illuminance measuring unit 422 are input to the lighting control device 43.

The lighting control device 43 uses the measurement results of the illuminance measuring device 42 to correspond to the illuminance of the lower part 21 of the balustrade and the illuminance of the upper part 22 of the balustrade, respectively. Adjust the brightness of each separately. The brightness of each of the lower illumination unit 411, the upper illumination unit 412, and the inclined portion illumination unit 413 can be adjusted steplessly.

In the lighting control device 43, when the illuminance of the lower part 21 of the balustrade is higher than the illuminance of the upper part 22 of the balustrade, the lower illuminating unit 411 and the lower illuminating unit 411 and the lower illuminating unit 43 have a brightness higher than that of the lower illuminating unit 411. The brightness of each of the upper illumination units 412 is adjusted separately.

On the other hand, in the lighting control device 43, when the illuminance of the upper part 22 of the balustrade is higher than the illuminance of the lower part 21 of the balustrade, the lower illuminating unit 43 makes the brightness of the lower illuminating unit 411 stronger than the brightness of the upper illuminating unit 412. The brightness of each of the 411 and the upper illumination unit 412 is adjusted separately.

The lighting control device uses the measurement result of the illuminance measuring device 42 so that the brightness of the inclined portion illuminating unit 413 is between the brightness of the lower illuminating unit 411 and the brightness of the upper illuminating unit 412. Adjust the illuminance of 413. The brightness of the inclined portion illuminating unit 413 becomes closer to the brightness of the lower illuminating unit 411 as it approaches the lower illuminating unit 411, and becomes closer to the brightness of the upper illuminating unit 412 as it approaches the upper illuminating unit 412. .. The brightness of each portion of the inclined portion illuminating portion 413 in the longitudinal direction of the truss 1 can be adjusted so as to gradually change from the portion on the lower illuminating portion 411 side to the portion on the upper illuminating portion 412 side. There is.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view showing the lower part 21 of the balustrade of FIG. FIG. 3 shows the lower part 21 of each of the pair of balustrades 2. The pair of balustrade lower portions 21 are arranged apart from each other in the width direction of the entrance / exit of the escalator. One of the pair of balustrade lower parts 21 is referred to as the first balustrade lower portion 21A, and the other of the pair of balustrade lower portions 21 is referred to as the second balustrade lower portion 21B.

The lighting device 4 further includes a lighting key switch 44 provided in the lower part of the first column lower part 21A. When the operator operates the lighting key switch 44, the state of the lighting device 4 is switched between the on state and the off state. When the state of the lighting device 4 is on, the lighting device main body 41 lights up. On the other hand, when the state of the lighting device 4 is in the off state, the lighting device main body 41 is turned off.

A key switch 5 for operation is provided at the lower part of the lower part 21B of the second column. When the operator operates the operation key switch 5, the state of the escalator is switched between the operation state and the stop state. When the state of the escalator is the operating state, the step and the moving handrail 3 (not shown) circulate and move in synchronization with each other. On the other hand, when the escalator is in the stopped state, the step and the moving handrail 3 are stopped.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing the lighting key switch 44 of FIG. A ring-shaped lower illuminance measuring unit 421 is arranged around the lighting key switch 44. By arranging the lower illuminance measuring unit 421 around the lighting key switch 44, the wiring of the lighting key switch 44 and the wiring of the lower illuminance measuring unit 421 can be combined.

Although not shown, a lighting key switch 44 is also provided on the balustrade upper portion 22, and a ring-shaped upper illuminance measuring unit 422 is provided around the lighting key switch 44 provided on the balustrade upper portion 22. Have been placed. By arranging the upper illuminance measuring unit 422 around the lighting key switch 44, the wiring of the lighting key switch 44 and the wiring of the upper illuminance measuring unit 422 can be combined.

The lighting device 4 can be switched between the brightness adjustment mode and the constant brightness mode. The brightness adjustment mode is a mode in which the brightness of each of the lower illumination unit 411, the upper illumination unit 412, and the inclined portion illumination unit 413 can be adjusted separately. The constant brightness mode is a mode in which the brightness of each of the lower illumination unit 411, the upper illumination unit 412, and the inclined portion illumination unit 413 is the same as each other.

Around the lighting key switch 44, a mode display unit (not shown) is provided to indicate whether the mode of the lighting device 4 is the brightness adjustment mode or the constant brightness mode. The operator can grasp the mode of the lighting device 4 by visually observing the mode display unit.

Even when the mode display unit is not provided, the operator can grasp the mode of the lighting device 4 by blocking the light directed to the lower illuminance measuring unit 421 or the upper illuminance measuring unit 422. ..

As described above, according to the lighting device 4 of the elevator according to the first embodiment of the present invention, the lighting device main body 41, the illuminance measuring device 42, and the lighting control device 43 are provided. The lighting control device 43 adjusts the brightness of each of the lower lighting unit 411 and the upper lighting unit 412 separately by using the measurement result of the illuminance measuring device 42. Thereby, the brightness of the lighting device 4 can be adjusted according to the illuminance in each of the lower part 21 of the balustrade and the upper part 22 of the balustrade. As a result, when there is a difference between the illuminance of the lower floor and the illuminance of the upper floor, it corresponds to the illuminance of the lower floor and the illuminance of the upper floor, respectively. , The brightness of each of the lower illuminance unit 411 and the upper illuminance unit 412 can be adjusted separately.

Further, the illuminating device main body 41 has a lower illuminating unit 411, an upper illuminating unit 412, and an inclined portion illuminating unit 413. The lighting control device 43 adjusts the illuminance of the inclined portion illuminating unit 413 so that the brightness of the inclined portion illuminating unit 413 is intermediate between the brightness of the lower illuminating unit 411 and the brightness of the upper illuminating unit 412. Thereby, the brightness of the inclined portion illuminating unit 413 can be adjusted in accordance with the brightness of the lower illuminating unit 411 and the brightness of the upper illuminating unit 412.

Further, in the lighting control device 43, when the illuminance of the lower part 21 of the balustrade is higher than the illuminance of the upper part 22 of the balustrade, the lower illuminating unit 43 makes the brightness of the upper illuminating unit 412 stronger than the brightness of the lower illuminating unit 411. The brightness of each of the 411 and the upper illumination unit 412 is adjusted separately. As a result, the illuminance of the lower part of the balustrade 21 and the illuminance of the upper part of the balustrade 22 can be brought close to each other.

Further, in the lighting control device 43, when the illuminance of the upper part 22 of the balustrade is higher than the illuminance of the lower part 21 of the balustrade, the lower illuminating unit 43 makes the brightness of the lower illuminating unit 411 stronger than the brightness of the upper illuminating unit 412. The brightness of each of the 411 and the upper illumination unit 412 is adjusted separately. As a result, the illuminance of the lower part of the balustrade 21 and the illuminance of the upper part of the balustrade 22 can be brought close to each other.

In the first embodiment, the configuration in which the light color of the lighting device main body 41 is one color has been described. However, the lighting control device 43 may change the color of the light emitted by the lighting device main body according to the brightness of the lighting device main body 41. Specifically, the color of the light in the relatively dark portion of the illuminating device main body 41 may be blue, and the color of the light in the relatively bright portion of the illuminating device main body 41 may be white. Further, the color of the light emitted by the lighting device main body 41 may be adjusted according to the season, temperature, time, and the like. Specifically, when the season is winter, when the temperature is relatively low, or when the time is night time, the color of the light is a warm color, and when the season is summer, the temperature is relatively high. If it is high or the time is daytime, the color of the light may be cool.

Further, in the first embodiment, the lighting device main body 41 composed of LEDs has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the illuminating device main body 41 composed of other luminaires may be used.

Further, in the first embodiment, the lighting device main body 41 arranged along the moving handrail 3 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, the lighting device main body 41 composed of comlite may be used.

Further, in the first embodiment, the configuration in which the lighting device main body 41 is lit has been described. However, the lighting device main body 41 may be configured to blink. In this case, the lighting device main body 41 may blink so that the lighting portion of the lighting device main body 41 moves in the moving direction of the escalator.

Further, in the first embodiment, the configuration in which the lighting device main body 41 is lit when the lighting device 4 is in the ON state has been described. However, when the state of the lighting device 4 is on and the user detection device that detects the user of the escalator detects the user, the lighting device main body 41 lights up relatively brightly, and the state of the lighting device 4 May be configured so that the lighting device main body 41 lights up relatively darkly when is on and the user detecting device does not detect the user.

1 truss, 2 balustrade, 3 moving handrail, 4 lighting device, 5 key switch for operation, 21 balustrade lower part, 21A 1st balustrade lower part, 21B 2nd balustrade lower part, 22 balustrade upper part, 23 balustrade inclined part, 41 lighting device body, 42 Illuminance measuring device, 43 Lighting control device, 44 Lighting key switch, 411 Lower lighting unit, 412 Upper lighting unit, 413 Inclined lighting unit, 421 Lower illuminance measuring unit, 422 Upper illuminance measuring unit.

Claims (5)

A lighting device main body having a lower lighting unit provided at the lower part of the balustrade and an upper illuminating unit provided at the upper part of the balustrade, and
An illuminance measuring device having a lower illuminance measuring unit for measuring the illuminance of the lower part of the balustrade and an upper illuminance measuring unit for measuring the illuminance of the upper part of the balustrade.
An escalator lighting device including a lighting control device that separately adjusts the brightness of each of the lower lighting unit and the upper lighting unit using the measurement results of the illuminance measuring device. The illuminating device main body further has an inclined portion illuminating portion provided on the balustrade inclined portion.
The lighting control device uses the measurement result of the illuminance measuring device so that the brightness of the inclined portion illumination portion is intermediate between the brightness of the lower illumination portion and the brightness of the upper illumination portion. The escalator lighting device according to claim 1, wherein the illuminance of the lighting unit is adjusted. In the lighting control device, when the illuminance of the lower part of the balustrade is higher than the illuminance of the upper part of the balustrade, the lower illuminating unit and the lower illuminating unit and the illuminance control device have a brightness of the upper illuminating unit higher than the brightness of the lower illuminating unit. The escalator lighting device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the brightness of each of the upper lighting units is adjusted separately. In the lighting control device, when the illuminance of the upper part of the balustrade is higher than the illuminance of the lower part of the balustrade, the lower illuminating unit and the lower illuminating unit and the lower illuminating unit have a brightness higher than the brightness of the upper illuminating unit. The escalator lighting device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the brightness of each of the upper lighting units is adjusted separately. The escalator lighting device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the lighting control device changes the color of the light emitted by the lighting device main body according to the brightness of the lighting device main body. ..

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