JP3435348B2 - Elevator equipment - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to improvement of an elevator system serving a plurality of floors, and more particularly to an elevator system suitable for home use.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art It is desirable to set a waiting floor for an elevator car so that when there are no calls, the elevator car is on standby at a floor that is frequently used. The waiting floor is a floor for returning an elevator that has finished service and has no service, and is also called a reference floor, but here it is called a waiting floor.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-25551 discloses that an elevator apparatus uses existing switches to set the waiting floor.
As disclosed in the publication, it is known that when the door open button and the door close button are kept pressed at the same time, the standby floor setting mode is set, and the destination button is pressed to set the corresponding floor to the standby floor.
Further, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-277620 discloses that if a hall button is continuously pressed at a landing on a floor where the passenger gets off, that floor is set as a standby floor.

[0004]

When the above-mentioned prior art is applied to a domestic elevator, in any case, it may happen that the standby floor is unexpectedly set or changed due to, for example, mischief of a child. There's a problem. It is common for a child to mischief by pressing the door open button and door close button at the same time, or by continuing to press the landing button. If the settings and changes are made, the reliability is impaired, which is not preferable.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator system which is capable of setting a highly reliable standby floor by using existing switches for the elevator system.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the elevator stop key switch provided at the elevator hall is used to enter the standby floor setting mode, and the other elevator buttons are used to set the standby floor. It is characterized in that it is configured as follows.

According to the present invention having such a configuration, it is possible to perform highly reliable registration of the waiting floor by using the existing switches provided in the elevator hall and the car.

In another aspect of the present invention, the elevator stop key switch and the hall button provided at the elevator hall are used to shift to the standby floor setting mode, and the destination button in the elevator car is used to handle the situation. It is characterized in that the floor to be set is set as a standby floor.

According to the present invention having such a configuration, it is possible to perform easy-to-understand and highly reliable registration of the waiting floor by using the existing switches provided in the elevator hall and the car.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.
It will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view of an elevator entrance / exit seen from a landing showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a front view of an in-car operation control panel.

In the figure, 1 is a hall button for calling an elevator from a hall, 2 is a car operation control panel, 3 is a car floor, 4 is a door, 5 is a mechanical door safety device (safety shoe), As is well known, when a person or an object presses a shoe at the front end of a door, a built-in switch is turned on to stop the door closing or open the reversing door. As shown in FIG. 2, the in-car operation control panel 2 is provided with destination buttons 61 to 63, door opening buttons 71, and door closing buttons 72 for designating the first to third floors as destinations, respectively. Reference numeral 8 is a car position indicator. Reference numeral 9 is a pause key switch for suspending the elevator. When this switch is turned on, the elevator car returns to the floor where the pause switch is located, once opens the door, and then closes the door and pauses. ing.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for setting the waiting floor of the microcomputer provided in the elevator controller. In order to execute this flow, the above microcomputer performs on / off information of the sleep key switch,
Position information of elevator car, door opening / closing information,
By inputting information such as landing button press information, car destination button press information, registered standby floor information, or switch on / off information for the mechanical door safety device 5, standby floor setting mode command, door open continuation command, destination button lighting , Turn off command, standby floor registration,
Although it is configured to output a release command, a standby floor setting mode release command, a sleep mode request command, a door closing command, a normal operation restoration request command, a return operation command, etc., they are not shown.

Based on the above flow chart,
A description will be given of (1) registration of the waiting floor, (2) cancellation of the waiting floor, (3) changing the waiting floor, and (4) ending the standby floor setting mode.

(1) Registration of the waiting floor To set the waiting floor when the waiting floor is not set, the pause key switch 9 is turned on and the landing button is pressed with the door open.
Press and hold for at least 2 seconds to enter standby floor setting mode. In this state, it can be set by pushing the destination button in the car corresponding to the floor desired to be the standby floor. After that, if the pause switch is turned off, the operation is restarted.

To explain this in a flow, first, at step 10, it is judged whether or not the pause key switch 9 is turned on. If it is off, the routine proceeds to step 20, where a normal operation restoration request command is issued and the processing ends. If it is on, the process proceeds to step 30 and it is determined whether the elevator has landed on the rest floor. If the person has not landed, the process proceeds to step 40, and a return instruction is given to wait for the return. If the car has landed on the rest floor, the routine proceeds to step 50, where it is determined whether the door is open, and if the door is open the routine proceeds to step 60 where it is determined whether the hall button 1 is pressed for 3 seconds or more. If it has been pressed for 3 seconds or more, the routine proceeds to step 70, and the waiting floor setting mode is entered to continue the door opening. If it has not been pressed, the process proceeds to step 80, waits for 15 seconds, and if 15 seconds elapses, the normal sleep mode is set, the door is closed, and the operation is ended.

By pressing the landing button 1 for 3 seconds or more,
In step 70, the standby floor setting mode command is issued to continue the door opening, and the routine proceeds to step 90, where it is determined whether or not the standby floor is registered. If it is not registered, the process proceeds to step 100, and it is determined whether any of the destination buttons has been pressed. If it is pressed, the routine proceeds to step 110, where the destination floor of the pressed destination button is set as the standby floor and the pressed destination button is illuminated to inform that the floor has been set as the standby floor.
When the pause switch 9 is turned on, the destination button does not light up even if the normal destination button is pressed, so that the setting of the standby floor can be confirmed by lighting in the standby floor setting mode. Step 110
If the standby floor is set in step 100, or if the destination button is not pressed in step 100, it is determined in step 120 whether the pause switch 9 is turned off.
0 cancels the standby floor setting mode. If the pause switch 9 is not turned off in step 120, the process proceeds to step 140 and waits for 3 minutes after pressing the hall button to cancel the standby floor setting mode after 3 minutes have elapsed.

(2) Releasing the standby floor In the standby floor setting mode, the destination button corresponding to the preset standby floor lights up. If this button is pressed, this destination button goes out and the standby floor setting is canceled.

In the flow chart, if it is determined in step 90 that there is a registered waiting floor, the process proceeds to step 150, the destination button corresponding to the registered waiting floor is lit, and step 160 Go to. In step 160, it is checked whether or not the destination button corresponding to the registered floor has been pressed. If it is pressed, the process proceeds to step 170, and if it is not pressed, the process proceeds to step 110.

When the lit destination button is pressed, the lit destination button is extinguished in step 170 to notify the deregistration of the standby floor, and in step 180 the registration of the standby floor is released. As a result, the waiting floor is cancelled, and the elevator is changed to a driving specification in which the elevator is abandoned as it is on the floor where the service has been finished with the final call.

(3) Change of waiting floor To change from the existing waiting floor to the new waiting floor, the destination button corresponding to the floor newly desired as the waiting floor may be pressed subsequent to the release of the waiting floor.

In the flow chart, after canceling the already registered waiting floor in step 180, the process returns to step 120 to check whether the sleep switch is turned off. If the pause switch is not turned off, the routine proceeds to step 140, where it is judged whether or not 3 minutes have elapsed since the hall button was pressed, and if not, the routine returns to step 90. Since the waiting floor has just been released and there is no registered waiting floor, the process proceeds to step 100, and if a new destination button is pressed, the destination button pressed in step 110 is lit and the corresponding floor is newly waited. Set as the floor. In this way, the change of the waiting floor is completed.

(4) Termination of the standby floor setting mode When the setting, cancellation or change of the standby floor is completed in this way, the standby floor setting mode can be terminated by turning off the pause key switch 9.

The flow will be described. In step 120, it is confirmed that the pause switch is off, in step 130 the standby floor setting mode is released, and in step 190, the state of the pause switch is reconfirmed. The flow ends and the elevator returns to normal operation.

If the rest operation switch is turned on again in step 190, the original rest mode is entered this time, and the door is closed to stop the operation.

According to the above embodiment, no additional device is required for setting the waiting floor, and the elevator waiting floor can be set, released and changed easily and reliably.

Furthermore, by setting the standby floor to the corresponding floor by using the destination button, it is possible to set the standby floor which is easy to understand without waste.

[0028]

According to the present invention, it is possible to set the standby floor (return floor after the end of service) of the elevator with reliability and easily by using the existing switches of the elevator.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a car doorway seen from a landing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a car operation control panel according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for setting a waiting floor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... landing button, 2 ... in-car operation control panel, 3 ... car floor, 4 ...
Door, 5 ... Mechanical door safety device, 8 ... Car position indicator, 9
... Pause key switches, 61-63 ... Destination (floor) buttons,
71 ... Door open button, 72 ... Door close button.

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Kenfumi Kuragane 2-832 Horiguchi, Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Hitachi System Plaza Katsuta Hitachi Mito Engineering Co., Ltd. (56) Reference JP-A-7-25551 (JP, A) ) JP-A-4-317965 (JP, A) JP-A-5-8952 (JP, A) JP-A-56-48374 (JP, A) JP-A-7-157223 (JP, A) (58) Field (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B66B 1/00-1/52

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] Claims: 1. An elevator that serves a plurality of floors, a hall button arranged at each hall to call the elevator, a destination button arranged in a car to indicate a destination floor, and these elevators. In an elevator system equipped with means for returning an elevator car whose service has ended due to no call to the elevator to the set waiting floor, operation of the elevator stop key switch installed at the elevator hall and other elevator buttons are planned. An elevator apparatus comprising: means for shifting to a standby floor setting mode in response to an operation; and means for setting a standby floor in accordance with a scheduled operation of an elevator button in the standby floor setting mode. 2. An elevator that serves a plurality of floors, a hall button arranged at each hall to call an elevator, a destination button arranged in a car to indicate a destination floor, and these elevators. In an elevator device equipped with means for returning an elevator car whose service has ended due to no call to the standby floor, means for shifting to the standby floor setting mode in response to the scheduled operation of the elevator switches, Means for clearly indicating the destination button in the car corresponding to the registered standby floor in the standby floor setting mode, and means for releasing the standby floor corresponding to this destination button in response to the destination button being pressed, The method is provided with means for setting a floor corresponding to a destination button pressed in a state where there is no registered waiting floor as a new waiting floor. Beta apparatus.