JP3391036B2 - Elevator driving device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for operating an elevator in which a plurality of cars are vertically connected.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A double-deck elevator in which an upper car and a lower car are vertically connected is known as an elevator in which a plurality of cars are connected. Double-deck elevators are advantageous in terms of building space and are gradually increasing. In a double-deck elevator, the passengers do not need to be particularly aware of the upper car and the lower car because the purpose is usually to carry passengers with both the upper car and the lower car. However, in the case of a system in which the upper car does not operate to the lowermost floor of the building and the lower car does not operate to the uppermost floor of the building, in order to reach the lowermost floor, for example, you must always get on the lower car.

In order to clearly guide these and prevent passengers from being confused, there has been proposed a hall notification device as disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 61-267674. When the cars to be commissioned are notified in advance, or when the cars arrive, whether the upper car or the lower car is commissioned is also notified. Accordingly, a person who wants to go to the bottom floor of the building can recognize whether or not it is necessary to get on the car only when the lower car comes or use the stairs after getting off the car.

On the other hand, the double-deck elevator has also been used for other than normal use (passenger use).
For example, the upper car is left as a passenger and the lower car is used for luggage. In that case, the lower car may be provided with a cover that prevents the luggage from damaging the cab, or a button that extends the time the door is open for loading and unloading the luggage. In addition, the interior of the lower car is often practically simpler than the upper car for passenger use. In this way, the upper basket and the lower basket are structured,
Due to the different interiors, the use will be completely different.

In the case of such a double-deck elevator, it is usual that an operation changeover switch is provided in the car or in the building management room so that only one of the cars is operated and the other car is not used. However, in this case, switching the operation is troublesome, and it is natural that it is more efficient to use both cars. When driving using both cars, the measures described above are not sufficient in the hall notification.

[0006] The first reason is that passengers and passengers must wait for a car to arrive because the passengers and luggage are clearly separated. Unlike when riding with both cars, it is not possible to use the stairs for the time being in a car that is not in service.

[0007] The second reason is that it is usually desired to give priority to passengers even when passengers can use passenger luggage at the same time. At hotels, passengers are a priority, and so is office buildings. In the case of the above-described landing notification, it is impossible to distinguish which one of the passengers wants to take the luggage, and thus the priority service is impossible.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the conventional double-deck elevator driving apparatus as described above, one of the upper car and the lower car is distinguished from one for passengers and the other for luggage. (If you are riding,
There is a problem that you have to wait until a specific car arrives in order to get on the lower car if it is for luggage. Further, there is a problem that the operation by a specific car cannot be prioritized over the operation by another car.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and a passenger can quickly dispatch a desired car,
It is also an object of the present invention to provide an elevator operating device capable of setting service priorities during different operations depending on the purpose of use.

[0010]

Means for Solving the Problems The elevator driving device according to a first aspect of the invention, established the vehicle allocation request buttons corresponding to each of the plurality of cars to hall, one of the car
To delay the response to the hall call from the other for a predetermined time
Therefore, when the priority setting means for setting the priority for each car and the dispatch request button are operated, the corresponding car is dispatched to the floor where the dispatch request button is operated according to the setting by the priority setting means. It is equipped with a vehicle dispatching means.

The elevator operating system according to the second aspect of the present invention is the elevator operating apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, wherein a plurality of cars are set as priority cars and non-priority cars, and a hall call for a priority car is a hall for a non-priority car. It is provided with a vehicle allocation delay detecting means for detecting that the number is larger than that of the call, and a button function invalidating means for disabling the function of the vehicle allocation request button for the non-priority car when the vehicle allocation delay detecting means operates.

Further, the elevator operating apparatus according to the third aspect of the present invention is a hall call system that supports both a plurality of cars in a hall.
Priority dispatch request button to register the
It established the <br/> general vehicle allocation request button for registering a hall call corresponding to only the response to hall calls by the general vehicle allocation request button
Predetermined from the response to the hall call by the priority dispatch request button
The priority setting means for delaying the time and the car corresponding to this when the dispatch request button is operated are set by the priority setting means.
Those having a distribution <br/> wheel means you dispatch the floor where vehicle allocation request button is operated in response to a constant.

Further, in the elevator operating apparatus according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, when the dispatch request button is operated, the corresponding car is dispatched according to a predetermined priority, and the above priority is given depending on the traffic situation, the working situation, etc. It is provided with priority varying means for changing the degree.

[0014]

[Action] In the first aspect of the invention, dispatch your or corresponding request button, because you to dispatch according to the priority set in Kagogoto, waiting time corresponding to the priority in each cage Will be dispatched at.

According to the second aspect of the invention, when the number of landing calls for the priority car is greater than the number of landing calls for the non-priority car,
Since the function of the dispatch request button for the non-priority car is disabled, the response to the temporary non-priority call is blocked when the number of priority calls is very large.

Further, in the third invention, when the priority dispatch request button is operated, the car corresponding thereto is dispatched prior to other cars, so that the desired car is dispatched earlier. .

Further, in the fourth aspect of the invention, since the priority is variable, the non-priority call is retained without being released.

[0018]

EXAMPLES Example 1. 1 to 7 are views showing an embodiment of the first to second inventions of the present invention, FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram, FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a program, and FIGS. 3 to 7 are operation flowcharts. 3 is a call registration operation, FIG. 4 is a call priority operation, FIG. 5 is a vehicle allocation operation, FIG. 6 is a call cancellation operation, and FIG. 7 is a detailed operation of step (71) in FIG.

In FIG. 1, (1F) to (5F) are the first to fifth floors of the building, and (1U) and (1L) are double deck elevators working on the first floor (1F) to the fifth floor (5F). Upper and lower cars, (2) a hoist, (3) a counterweight, and (4) a control device composed of a computer, a CPU (41), a ROM (4
2), RAM (43) and input / output interface (44). P1 to P5 are hall control panels installed on the 1st floor (1F) to 5th floor (5F), U1U to U4U are up buttons on the 1st to 4th floor of the upper car provided on the hall control panels P1 to P4, respectively. U2D to U5D are hall control panels P2 to P5, respectively.
Upper car 2nd to 5th floor down button, L1U
L4U is a lower car first floor to fourth floor up button provided on each of the hall operation panels P1 to P4, and L2D to L5D are lower cars second floor to five provided on each of the hall operation panels P2 to P5.
It is a downstairs button.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit (4) cancels the call registration program at step (51), the call priority program at step (52), the dispatching program at step (53), and the call cancellation at step (54). Run the program sequentially,
Repeat this. In addition, these programs are control devices
It is stored in the ROM (42) of (4).

Now, the upper car of the double deck elevator
It is assumed that (1U) is on the 2nd floor (2F), lower car (1L) is on the 1st floor (1F), and the driving direction is not set.
Where the upper car (1U) is the passenger car (priority car) and the lower car (1U)
L) is for luggage (non-priority basket). Here, it is assumed that a person who wants to carry luggage from the 3rd floor (3F) and go to the 4th floor (4F) operates the up button L3U on the 3rd floor of the lower car. Now the controller
The CPU (41) of (4) executes the call registration program of step (51).

In step (61), the floor number N is set to 1. In step (62), it is determined whether the upper car first floor up button U1U has been operated. A signal indicating whether or not it is operated is stored in the RAM (43) via the input / output interface (44). Now, the upper car first floor up button U1
Since U has not been operated, it jumps to step (64) and determines whether the floor number N is 4 or more. Now, since N = 1, go to step (65) and add 1 to the floor number N (N = 2)
Then, returning to step (62), it is determined whether or not the upper car second floor up button U2U is operated.

In this way, the operation of the ascending button for calling the upper car (1U) is checked in steps (61) to (65), and if it is operated, the upper car N floor ascending in step (63). Register as Call UNUC. Next steps (66) ~ (7
Similarly, (0) is the down button for calling the upper car (1U), and steps (72) to (76) (step (71) will be described later) are for the up button for calling the lower car (1L). Steps (77) to (81) similarly process the down button for calling the lower car (1L).

Here, the lower car third floor up button L3U
Is operated, the process proceeds from step (73) to step (74) to register the upward call L3UC for the third floor of the lower car (when the call is registered, the hall call registration light () incorporated in the button ( (Not shown) lights up, but omitted here). No other hall calls are registered.

Next, the call prioritizing program of step (52) is executed. In step (91), N = 1 is set, and in step (9
In 2), determine whether the lower car first floor upward call L1UC is registered. Not registered now, so step (96)
Jumping to the lower car first floor upcall registration time is set to zero, and the lower car first floor uphill waiting flag L1UW is reset in step (97).

Next, the process proceeds from step (98) to step (99), N = 2 is set, and the process returns to step (92) to execute the operation of the second floor. After that, N = 3 and step (9
Returning to 2), since the lower car third floor upcall L3UC is registered, the process proceeds to step (93). Here, the upcall registration time on the third floor of the lower car is incremented by 1. Immediately after registration, the registration time would have been zero, so lower basket 3
The upward call registration time is 1. Although not particularly shown, if the period of this program is 1 second, it corresponds to 1 second.

In step (94), it is determined whether the time for registering an upward call on the third floor of the lower car is 60 seconds or more. Since the registration time is now 1 second, the process proceeds to step (97), and the lower car third floor uphill waiting flag L1UW remains reset. Similarly, in steps (100) to (107), the downlink call registration time of the lower car (1L) is recorded, and if it is 60 seconds or more, the long wait flag LNDW is set. There is no corresponding call now, the registration time is zero, and the long wait flag is reset.

Next, the vehicle allocation program of step (53) is executed. In step (111), it is determined whether the driving direction is set. Since the direction is not set now, the process proceeds to step (112). Here, the current position of the upper car (1U) is designated as P and used for checking the call. Step (112)
Then, whether the upper car P floor ascending call UPUC is registered, or the lower car (P-1) floor ascending long waiting flag L (P
-1) Determine whether UW is set. Since the upper car (1U) is now on the second floor (2F), it is decided in step (112) whether the upper car second floor upcall U2UC or the lower car first floor uphill waiting flag L1UW is set. Become.

Similarly, in step (113), the upper car second floor down call U2DC is registered, or the lower car 1
It is determined whether the downstairs long wait flag L1DW is set. In step (114), the upper car F floor ascending call UFUC and the upper car F floor descending call UFDC are registered as a call above the P floor, that is, F> 2.
In addition, the lower car (F-1) floor uphill waiting flag L (F-
1) It is determined whether the UW and the lower car (F-1) floor downlong waiting flag L (F-1) DW are set. Similarly, in step (115), the calls on the lower floors than the second floor are checked.

Since neither of them exists, the process proceeds to step (116), and the lower car first floor upward call L1UC is changed to step (117).
Check the lower car first floor down call L1DC. Further, in step (118), the call for the upper floor above the second floor, that is, F> 2, is set, and the upward call for the lower car (F-1) floor U (F-
1) UC and lower car (F-1) floor downcall L (F-
1) Check DC. Now, the lower basket 3rd floor upcall L
Since 3UC is registered, the process proceeds from step (118) to step (122) to set the operating direction of the elevator to the up direction and to depart upward. The departure command is C
The PU (41) sends the data to the hoisting machine (2), the upper car (1U) and the lower car (1L) through the input / output interface (44), but it is omitted here.

Next, the call cancellation program of step (54) will be executed, which will be described later, and the program will return to step (51) again. Now, before the elevator responds to the lower car third floor upcall L3UC,
It is assumed that a person who wants to go from the fifth floor (5F) to the first floor (1F) operates the upper car fifth floor down button U5D.

In the call registration program of step (51),
When N = 5, the process proceeds from step (67) to step (68), and the upper car fifth floor down call U5DC is registered. In this state, the elevator is on the 4th floor (4F) with the upper car (1U) (the lower car (1U)
At L), it is assumed that you have reached a position where you can stop on the 3rd floor (3F). In the vehicle allocation program of step (53), the process proceeds from step (111) to steps (124) and (125). Flags after step (125) that indicate the direction is "H",
When the current elevator driving direction is up, "U"
When descending, it shall be replaced with "D".

Now, the car position (shown by the upper car (1U)) is 4,
Since the direction is up, P = 4, H = U, and in step (125), the upper car fourth floor upcall U4UC is registered, or the lower car third floor uplong waiting flag L3UW is set, or It will be checked if there is a stop instruction from the car. Lower basket 3rd floor upcall L3
If the UC is registered, but the registration time is not 60 seconds, the lower car 3rd floor uphill waiting flag L3UW
Remains reset and the upper and lower cages (1U)
Since (1L) is unmanned, there is no stop instruction from the inside of the car (for example, stop by the button inside the car), and the process proceeds to step (126).

At step (126), since the upper car 5th floor downcall L5DC is registered in front of the driving direction, the process jumps to step (137) to issue a command to pass while keeping the driving direction as it is. Thus, even if the lower car third floor upward call L3UC is registered, it will be passed when there is a priority call.

When the upper car (1U) arrives at the 5th floor (5F), the process proceeds to steps (124) to (128). In step (128), the upper car 5th floor descending call U5DC is registered. Proceed to (135), reverse direction to step (136)
Stop to decide. What is indicated by a bar H in the step (128) indicates a direction opposite to the driving direction, and it is replaced with "D" when the driving direction is up and "U" when the driving direction is down.

Next, the call cancellation program of step (54) is executed. It is determined in step (141) whether the stop is determined. Since the stop is determined at present, the process proceeds to step (142), and the upper car fifth floor down call U5DC is canceled. Here, the upper car (1U) opens the door to accommodate the person on the 5th floor. Then, as soon as the call in the upper car (1U) is registered, it will start in the down direction, but the details are omitted.

Now, it is assumed that the elevator arrives at the first floor, and the downward call U5DC on the fifth floor of the upper car is registered.
However, it is assumed here that the registration time of the lower car third floor upward call L3UC has passed 60 seconds. That is, step (92)
If the registration time, which was increased by 1 per second in (93), reaches 60, the process proceeds from step (94) to step (95).
The lower car third floor uphill waiting flag L3UW is set.

In this state, if the elevator reaches the stop decision position on the 4th floor (4F) of the upper car (1U) (on the 3rd floor (3F) of the lower car (1L)), from steps (124) and (125) step 1
Proceed to step 34), and stop in step (136) while keeping the driving direction. That is, although the lower car (1L) is for non-priority luggage, when the waiting time reaches 60 seconds, it is treated as if it were for riding.

Next, step (71) in FIG. 3 will be described. This step is for not only not giving priority to the call to the lower car (1L), but also for preventing the call registration due to a predetermined condition. For example, the conditions of steps (151) and (152) in FIG. 7 can be considered. That is, the total number of uplink calls and downlink calls for the upper car (1U) which is a priority call is counted in step (100), and when it is 4 or less in step (152), the process proceeds to step (72), If the number exceeds 4, it will not proceed to the call registration program for the lower car. As a result, when the number of priority calls is very large, it is possible to prevent the temporary non-priority call from being registered and make the person who operates the button of the non-priority call aware that the service cannot be provided.

Example 2. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the third invention of the present invention and is a call registration operation flowchart showing the steps (62) and (63) of FIG. Although the button for calling the upper car (1U) and the button for calling the lower car (1L) are installed in the landing in the first embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the upper car button may be a button that can call both cars. That is, in order to improve the passenger service, the lower car (1L) may be used for both luggage and passenger.

In this case, the same priority as that of the first embodiment (the upper car (1U) gives priority service to the lower car (1L). Strictly speaking, 60 seconds have passed since the call for the upper car which just occurred and after registration. If it has the same priority as that of the lower car call), it is determined in step (62A) whether the upper car priority N floor up button has been operated. When this is operated, in steps (62A) and (63B), the upper car and the lower car N floor upward calls UNUC and LNUC are both registered.

If the upper car (1U) and the lower car (1L) have exactly the same priority, the call for the lower car can be made to wait long after 60 seconds, and long waiting at 0 second. Good.

Example 3. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the fourth invention of the present invention, and is a call prioritizing operation flowchart showing a portion of step (94) of FIG. In the first embodiment, when a large number of priority calls occur, non-priority calls cannot be temporarily registered, but registration can be made possible by changing the priority.

That is, in the step (64A), the upper car (1U)
The total number of inbound and outbound calls for is counted in step (94B) and if it is 4 or less, step (94B)
If the number exceeds 4, go to step (94D). That is, when the number exceeds 4, the lower car upstream call cannot be treated the same as the upper car upstream call unless 90 seconds elapse after the registration. On the other hand, when the number is 4 or less, it is treated as if it were an upper car upcall after 30 seconds.

Example 4. Further, in each of the above embodiments, one of the upper car (1U) and the lower car (1L) of the double-deck elevator is for riding, and the other is for luggage, but one is for wheelchairs only, or for important passengers, It may be used for transporting garbage or for automatic use. For the latter two, the dismounting may be automatic, and the "stop instruction from inside the car" may not be artificially instructed.

Example 5. In addition, in each of the above-described embodiments, two types of buttons, which are the same as the landing buttons for the passenger elevator, are provided.
A key switch may be used instead of the button. In addition to general riding, a non-directional dam waiter type button may be used. Furthermore, in each of the above-described embodiments, the double-deck elevator has been described, but it goes without saying that it may be a triple deck or more.

Example 6. Further, as the priority service means, if the registration time of the non-priority call exceeds the specified value, it is treated as a priority call, but it is not limited to this. For example, if a floor on which a non-priority call is registered has passed a prescribed number of times, it may be treated as a priority call, or a criterion for treating it as a priority call may be determined based on the difference from the priority call registration time.

Example 7. In addition, the number of priority calls was used as the standard for changing the priority, but the number of priority calls is not limited to this, and it is also possible to determine by the operation of the switch by the manager, the average waiting time of priority calls, the time, the number of waiting passengers at the hall, etc. Is. Various means can be considered for invalidating the function of the non-priority button.

Example 8. Furthermore, in each of the above-described embodiments, the invention is applied to one elevator, but it is obvious that the invention can also be applied to a group management elevator that controls a plurality of elevators as a group. In that case, various call assigning means to the upper car (1U) and the lower car (1L), particularly various assigning means with priority set, can be considered. In addition to simply setting the priority based on the duration of the call, the estimated arrival time to the floor with the call and the estimated load inside the car are also used as one of the comprehensive evaluation items for evaluation. It is also possible to set the priority.

[0050]

As described above, according to the present invention in a first aspect of the invention, the cage corresponding to the vehicle allocation request button. Thus for dispatch in accordance with the priority set in Kagogoto priority in each cage Vehicles are dispatched according to the waiting time according to, and there is an effect that they can be used without worrying about the waiting time of the waiting customers of other cars.

In the second aspect of the invention, when the number of landing calls for the priority car is higher than the number of landing calls for the non-priority car, the function of the dispatch request button for the non-priority car is disabled. When the number of calls is very large, the response to the temporary non-priority call is blocked, which has the effect of making the non-priority car user recognize that it is busy.

Further, in the third aspect of the invention, when the priority dispatch request button is operated, the car corresponding thereto is prioritized over the other cars, so that the desired car is dispatched earlier, There is an effect that the waiting time can be shortened.

Further, in the fourth aspect of the invention, since the priority is variable, the non-priority call is retained without being released, and even if it is crowded, the car can be dispatched if the waiter perseveres with some waiting time. There is.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the operation program of FIG.

3 is an operation flowchart of the call registration program of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an operation flowchart of the operation program with call priority shown in FIG.

5 is an operation flowchart of the vehicle allocation program of FIG.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart of the call cancellation program of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a detailed operation flowchart of step (71) in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention and is an operation flowchart corresponding to steps (62) and (63) in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the third embodiment of the present invention and is an operation flowchart corresponding to step (94) in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1U upper basket, 1L lower basket, U1U～U4U upper car one floor to 4 upstairs Ri buttons, U2D ~ U5D upper cage 2 floor 5 downstairs Ri buttons, L1U ~ L4U the low car 1
4th floor up button, L2D ~ L5D lower car 2nd floor ~
5th floor down button, 4 control device

Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] 1. An apparatus having an elevator in which a plurality of cars are vertically connected, and causing one of the cars to respond to the hall call when a hall call is registered at the hall, wherein the plurality of cars are provided in the hall. of installing the vehicle allocation request button for registering a call the hall corresponding to each of the car one
Delay the response to the above hall call from the other for a predetermined time
By responding to the above hall call for each car,
And priority setting means for setting a priority against, the priority of the car corresponding to the above vehicle allocation request button is operated
An elevator operating device comprising vehicle allocation means for allocating a vehicle to a floor where the vehicle allocation request button is operated according to the setting by the degree setting means . 2. A priority car in which a plurality of cars are connected vertically
In a device that has an elevator set as a non-priority car and causes one of the above cars to respond to the hall call when the hall call is registered at the hall, the hall call corresponding to each of the plurality of cars in the hall established the vehicle allocation request button for registering a vehicle allocation means for dispatching the car corresponding to this vehicle allocation request button is operated in floors above Symbol vehicle allocation request button is operated, the hall calls for the priority car
More than the number of landing calls for non-priority cars above
Dispatch delay detecting means for detecting
Is activated, the dispatch request button for the above non-priority car
An elevator driving device comprising a button function invalidating means for invalidating a function . 3. An apparatus having an elevator in which a plurality of cars are vertically connected, and causing one of the cars to respond to the hall call when a hall call is registered at the hall, Priority dispatch request button to register landing calls corresponding to both of the above cars at the landing, and only one of the cars
A general vehicle dispatch request button for registering the corresponding hall call is installed, and the response to the hall call by the above general vehicle dispatch request button
From the response to the hall call by the above priority dispatch request button
The priority setting means for delaying a predetermined time and the car corresponding to this when the vehicle allocation request button is operated are set to the priority
Elevator operation device characterized by comprising a vehicle allocation means to dispatch the floor where the vehicle allocation request button has been operated in accordance with the setting by means. 4. have a plurality of elevators car are connected vertically, to correspond to each of the plurality of cars to hall
Install a dispatch request button to register the hall call
When the car request button is operated, the car corresponding to this is specified
According to the priority of the
Above in the equipment you dispatch, traffic conditions, by the commissioned status, etc.
An elevator operating device comprising priority changing means for changing the priority .