JP2023091629A - Elevator control device - Google Patents

Abstract

To perform control so that other users do not get on a car together with a certain user when he/she is detected to get on the car.SOLUTION: An elevator control device of the present embodiment raises and lowers a car according to a call registration from an operator panel installed at an elevator lobby, The elevator control device comprises a receiving part and a control part. The receiving part receives a signal output by a terminal device. The control part switches to a response impossible mode which is impossible to make the call registration from the operator panel based on the signal, and switches from the response impossible mode to a response possible mode which is possible to make the call registration from the operator panel after the car moves to a specified destination floor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

This embodiment relates to an elevator control device.

Conventionally, as an elevator control method, there is a technique of performing control different from usual. For example, there is a technique in which when one of two adjacent cars becomes unable to operate under the control of an elevator control device due to a failure, the other car is moved to the same position as the failed car in a rescue operation.

JP 2007-186323 A

By the way, when a certain user rides in a car, it is sometimes desirable that other users do not ride in the car.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides an elevator control apparatus that, when it is detected that a certain user is boarding a car, controls the elevator so that other users do not ride with the car. With the goal.

An elevator control device for raising and lowering a car in accordance with a call registration from a control panel installed at an elevator hall according to the embodiment includes a receiving unit and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a signal output by the terminal device. Based on the signal, the control unit switches to a no-response mode in which call registration from the control panel is impossible, and after moving from the car to the designated destination floor, switches from the no-response mode to a call registration from the control panel. switch to responsive mode.

Drawing 1 is a figure showing an outline of the whole system containing an elevator system of an embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing part of the elevator system of the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a platform on the entrance floor of the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the control device of the embodiment. FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating functions of a control unit according to the embodiment; FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the car operation control processing procedure of the embodiment.

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An elevator control device according to this embodiment will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Drawing 1 is a figure showing the whole system containing elevator system 1 of an embodiment. In addition, the elevator system 1 is communicatively connected to the terminal device 40 by wire or wirelessly.

The elevator system 1 is installed in a building (airport, hotel, condominium, etc.). The elevator system 1 includes a car 10, a landing 20 provided on each floor of a building, a control device 30, and the like.

A car 10 is a car of an elevator that moves between floors. The car 10 has an in-car controller 101 . The in-car control device 101 has a communication I/F (Interface), a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and the like. The in-car control device 101 expands an application stored in a ROM or the like into a RAM, and operates according to the expanded application to control the car to the destination floor based on the user's operation from the operation panel in the car 10. to control the call, etc.

In addition, a landing control device 201 is provided at the landing 20 . The hall control device 201 has a communication I/F (Interface), a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and the like. The hall control device 201 develops applications stored in ROM or the like into RAM, and operates according to the developed applications to call the destination direction of the car 10 based on the user's operation from the operation panel of the hall 20. and perform various processing. The hall control device 201 also has a speaker for outputting sound and a display unit for outputting display.

The control device 30 is communicably connected to the car control device 101 of the car 10 and the landing control device 201 by wire or wirelessly, and performs various controls related to the elevator system 1 . For example, in response to a destination floor call from the car control device 101 and a destination direction call from the landing control device 201, control processing for movement of the car 10 is performed.

The terminal device 40 is a terminal device capable of short-range wireless communication, and is, for example, a smart phone. Moreover, the terminal device 40 is a device possessed by the user of the car 10 . An application for position confirmation is installed in the terminal device 40 . This position confirmation application is intended for people who have entered the country from overseas for the purpose of preventing the spread of infectious diseases.

The location confirmation application is an application that notifies the management server 50 of current location information in response to a current location notification request from the management server 50 . Further, the position confirmation application may notify the management server 50 of the current position information without depending on the current position notification request from the management server 50 .

The management server 50 is a server that manages the current location of the terminal device 40 . The management server 50 makes a current position notification request to the terminal device 40 in which the application for position confirmation is installed.

A user who has a terminal device 40 installed with the location confirmation application described above is a person who has entered Japan from overseas and is subject to border measures, and may be infected overseas. When the user of the terminal device 40 uses the car 10, it is desirable not to let the users of other cars 10 ride with him in order to prevent the spread of infection.

The elevator system 1 of the present embodiment controls so that the user having the terminal device 40 installed with the position confirmation application as described above and other users do not ride in the car 10 together.

Next, the structure of the elevator system 1 will be described using FIG. The car 10 has, for example, a box shape on which users and luggage can be placed, and moves up and down between the landings 20 provided on each floor in the hoistway 2 installed in the building (hereinafter referred to as elevating). do. In the following description, the first floor side is the bottom, and the upper floor side is the top. Above the hoistway 2, a hoist 3 (including a motor 4, a main sheave 5, etc.) for raising and lowering the car 10 is provided. The hoisting machine 3 is controlled by a control device 30 . Further, the hoistway 2 is provided with vertically extending guide rails (not shown) that serve as guides for the car 10 to ascend and descend.

A car 10 is connected to a counterweight 7 via a main rope 6. - 特許庁The counterweight 7 is a counterweight and moves up and down in conjunction with the car 10 within the hoistway 2 . The counterweight 7 moves up and down along weight guide rails (not shown). The weight of the counterweight 7 is set so as to balance the car 10 with the hoisting machine 3 in between when the car 10 has a predetermined load capacity (for example, about 1/2 of the maximum load capacity). ing. This elevator system 1 employs a so-called tube-type elevator in which a car 10 and a counterweight 7 are connected by a main rope 6 .

Each landing 20 has a landing door 25 that can be freely opened and closed. The landing door 25 is normally in a closed state, and is restricted from opening by a lock mechanism (not shown). Thus, the landing door 25 normally blocks the space between the landing 20 side and the hoistway 2 side. When the car 10 arrives and the car door (not shown) moves from the closed state to the open state, the landing door 25 releases the lock by the lock mechanism and changes from the closed state to the open state.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the platform 20. As shown in FIG. The landing 20 is provided with a landing operating panel 22 located on the side of the landing door 25. - 特許庁A landing operation panel 22 constituting a call section includes an up call button 23 for calling a car 10 moving to an upper floor, a down call button 24 for calling a car 10 moving to an underground floor (not shown), A speaker 26 and a display unit 27 are provided. A communication unit 21 provided below the hall operating panel 22 receives information from the terminal device 40 by short-range wireless communication. For example, the communication unit 21 receives a signal from the terminal device 40 indicating that an application for position confirmation is installed. The communication unit 21 transmits a signal received from the terminal device 40 to the control device 30 .

The speaker 26 outputs audio under the control of the control device 30 . The display unit 27 performs display output under the control of the control device 30 .

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of the elevator system 1. As shown in FIG. Control device 30 includes control unit 401 , communication I/F 31 , and communication I/F 32 .

The control section 401 includes a CPU 41 , a ROM 42 , a RAM 43 and a memory section 44 . The CPU 41 is connected to the ROM 42 , the RAM 43 and the memory section 44 via the bus line 45 . The CPU 41 expands the control programs stored in the ROM 42 and the memory unit 44 into the RAM 43, and operates according to the expanded control programs to control the operation of the elevator system 1 in general. The memory unit 44 is a non-volatile memory, HDD (Hard Disk Drive), or the like, and stores programs for performing various functions of the elevator system 1 .

The communication I/F 31 is an interface for the control unit 401 to communicate with the in-car control device 101 of the car 10 . The control unit 401 can communicate with the in-car control device 101 of the car 10 via the communication I/F 31 .

Communication I/F 32 is an interface for control unit 401 to communicate with platform 20 . The control unit 401 can communicate with the hall control device 201 of the hall 20 via the communication I/F 32 . The control unit 401 can communicate with the communication unit 21 , the hall operation panel 22 , the speaker 26 and the display unit 27 of the hall control device 201 via the communication I/F 32 .

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an example of the functional configuration of the control unit 401. As shown in FIG. The control unit 401 includes a terminal signal reception unit 410 , a car operation control unit 420 and a dedicated operation notification unit 430 .

The terminal signal reception unit 410 receives the signal acquired from the terminal device 40 via the communication unit 21 of the platform 20 . Terminal signal receiver 410 is an example of a receiver.

The car operation control unit 420 controls the operation of the car 10 . When the signal acquired from the terminal device 40 is a signal indicating that the application for position confirmation is installed, the car operation control unit 420 selects a non-response mode (dedicated operation mode) in which call registration from the hall operating panel 22 is impossible. ). When the car operation control unit 420 switches to the non-response mode, it notifies each landing 20 of non-response. In response to this, the hall 20 does not accept the call registration for the hall operation panel 22.例文帳に追加

In addition, the car operation control unit 420 can register a call from the hall operating panel 22 from the non-response mode after the car 10 has moved to the destination floor specified by the car 10 after switching to the dedicated operation. switch to responsive mode. When the user of the terminal device 40 installed with the position confirmation application detects that the user of the terminal device 40 has moved to the destination floor by operating the car 10, the car operation control unit 420 switches from the non-response mode to the response possible mode. switch. If a camera is provided in the car 10, the car operation control unit 420 detects that the user of the terminal device 40 has gotten off the car 10 based on the image captured by the camera. It is also possible to switch from response-disabled mode to response-enabled mode.

When the car operation control unit 420 switches to the non-response mode, the car 10 is moved to the floor of the call registration source after the car 10 is no longer occupied. The car operation control unit 420 causes the car to move to the floor where the user of the terminal device 40 is located after passing through all the floors specified for the operation in the car 10 .

When the car operation control unit 420 switches to the non-response mode, the dedicated operation notification unit 430 causes each landing 20 to output that it is an exclusive operation. Specifically, the exclusive driving notification unit 430 notifies the hall control device 201 of each hall 20 of the exclusive driving. display or output audio. Exclusive operation notification unit 430 is an example of a notification unit. For example, the dedicated driving notification unit 430 transmits a control signal indicating a voice output instruction to the hall control device 201, thereby causing the speaker 26 to output a voice indicating that it is dedicated driving. In addition, the dedicated driving notification unit 430 causes the display unit 27 to display and output that it is dedicated driving by transmitting a control signal indicating a display output instruction to the hall control device 201 .

Next, a car operation control processing procedure will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the car operation control processing procedure.

First, the terminal signal receiving unit 410 receives a signal acquired from the terminal device 40 via the communication unit 21 of the platform 20 (step S1). The car operation control unit 420 controls the operation of the car 10 . When receiving the signal acquired from the terminal device 40, the car operation control unit 420 switches to a non-response mode in which call registration from the hall operating panel 22 is impossible (step S2). When the car operation control unit 420 has switched to the non-response mode, the exclusive operation notification unit 430 notifies the hall 20 of the exclusive operation (step S3).

In the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which a signal indicating that a position confirmation application is installed is received from the terminal device 40. A signal may be received to indicate that the

The control device 30 according to the present embodiment acquires a signal output by the terminal device 40, and when the signal indicates that the position confirmation application is installed, switches to the non-response mode, and After moving from the car 10 to the designated destination floor, the mode is switched to the responsive mode.

In this way, the control device 30 switches to the non-response mode when the user who has the terminal device 40 installed with the position confirmation application for the purpose of preventing the spread of infection is using the car 10. By doing so, it is possible to prevent other users from riding together.

When the control device 30 switches to the non-response mode, the dedicated driving notification unit 430 outputs a voice message indicating dedicated driving to the speaker 26 or displays a message indicating dedicated driving to the display unit 27 . As a result, the control device 30 can notify that it is a dedicated operation, and can avoid riding with the user of the terminal device 40 having the position confirmation application installed.

When the control device 30 switches to the non-response mode, the car 10 is moved to the floor of the call registration source after there is no passenger in the car. In this case as well, the control device 30 can avoid riding with the user of the terminal device 40 having the application for position confirmation installed.

The program executed by the control device 30 described above has a module configuration including functional blocks that can be implemented by the program among the functional blocks of the control device 30 in FIG. 3 described above.

While several embodiments of the invention have been described, these embodiments have been presented by way of example and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and modifications 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 scope of the invention described in the claims and equivalents thereof.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 elevator system 10 car 30 control device 40 terminal device 41 CPU 42 ROM 43 RAM 44 memory unit 50 management server 101 in-car control device 201 410 terminal signal receiver 420 car operation control unit 430 dedicated operation notification unit.

An elevator control device for raising and lowering a car in accordance with a call registration from a control panel installed at an elevator hall according to the embodiment includes a receiving unit and a control unit. The receiving unit receives a signal output by the terminal device. The control unit receives a signal indicating that the terminal device has installed a position confirmation application for notifying the management server of the current position information in response to a current position notification request from the management server connected to the network. In some cases, after switching to non-response mode in which call registration from the control panel is impossible and moving from the car to the specified destination floor, the system switches from non-response mode to response mode in which call registration from the control panel is possible. switch to mode.

Claims (3)

An elevator control device for raising and lowering a car in response to a call registration from a control panel installed at an elevator hall,
a receiving unit that receives a signal output by a terminal device;
Based on the signal, the mode is switched to the non-response mode in which the call registration from the operation panel is impossible, and after moving from the car to the designated destination floor, the mode is switched from the non-response mode to the non-response mode. a control unit that switches to a response-enabled mode in which call registration is possible;
An elevator controller comprising: 2. The elevator control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit that outputs, at the hall of the elevator, that the mode is the response-disabled mode at the hall when the control unit switches to the response-disabled mode. 2. The elevator control device according to claim 1, wherein when the mode is switched to the non-response mode, the control unit moves the car to the floor of the call registration source after there is no occupant in the car.

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