JP3847841B2 - Elevator operation control device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a device for controlling the operation of an elevator, and in particular, adopts a specific floor passenger unoccupied operation system so that the elevator car is not full on a specific floor such as a reference floor, and is used from other floors. It is related with the elevator operation control apparatus which enabled it to perform smoothly.
[0002]
[Prior art]
For example, in a department store or the like, there is usually a main entrance on the first floor, so the movement of people on the first floor is the largest, and the number of people using the elevator is also the largest on the first floor. In addition, in a terminal building where a subway or a railway station is installed on the basement, there are more people moving on the basement than on the first floor, and the number of people using the elevator from the basement may be the highest. In addition, if a movie theater or theater is installed on the upper floor of a building, the number of people entering the elevator from that floor may be concentrated at the end of the movie or theater.
[0003]
In this way, if the floor where elevator users (passengers) usually concentrate is called the reference floor as the reference floor for elevator operation management, the reference floor is equipped with an elevator, department store, terminal Different in buildings, office buildings, etc., it is the first floor, the basement, or the 20th floor. Also, for example, if the department store is usually the first floor and there is an event hall on the top floor, and there are events that many people are interested in, the top floor is temporarily However, since elevator users are concentrated, such floors are called specific floors that conform to the standard floor.
[0004]
On these standard floors and specific floors that conform to the standard floors (hereinafter referred to as specific floors such as the standard floors), elevator users are concentrated, so the elevator car is full on the specific floors such as the standard floors. It often ends up. And, for example, if there are restaurants, event halls, etc. on the upper floor, and users who go to it from the standard floor are concentrated, or if there is a movie theater on the upper floor, from the upper floor to the first floor when the movie ends When users heading to the center are concentrated, place the user in the elevator car to the full capacity on a specific floor such as the standard floor, and bring the user to the target floor as soon as possible to improve the transportation efficiency of the user. In order to increase the operation efficiency of the elevator, a full-passage operation method has been conventionally used. In this full-passage operation method, even if a user registers a landing call from an intermediate floor, if the elevator car is full, the elevator call is ignored so that the landing call registration is ignored and the intermediate floor is passed. It controls the operation.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
As mentioned above, when the concentration of users causes the elevator car to become full on a specific floor such as the standard floor, etc. When there is a concentration of users, users who enter the elevator from a specific floor such as the standard floor rarely get off on the middle floor, making it difficult for users from the middle floor to use the elevator. A phenomenon will occur.
[0006]
In other words, if the elevator car is full on a specific floor such as the standard floor, users on other floors will be able to get off at that floor, no matter how much registration they make, However, as long as the passengers do not get off at the previous floor, the passengers will be driven through, so there was a problem that they could not get on the elevator indefinitely and waited indefinitely.
[0007]
Therefore, the present invention solves such a problem, and even in an elevator that is highly likely to be full on a specific floor such as a reference floor, the passage from the middle floor is prevented as much as possible so as to prevent the full passage on the middle floor. It is made for the purpose of providing the elevator operation control apparatus which employ | adopted the specific floor passenger full operation method which can provide a favorable service with respect to the user.
[0008]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
When the first invention determines that the floor carrying passengers in the elevator car is a specific floor such as a reference floor and the determination means determines that the floor is a specific floor such as a reference floor, Judgment means for detecting the load in the car and judging whether the number of passengers has reached the number of persons having a slight margin with respect to the maximum load of the elevator car; If it is determined that the maximum number of passengers in the elevator car has been exceeded, the notification means for notifying the passenger that the capacity has been exceeded, and the notification means for notifying the passenger Judgment that the number of passengers is less than the maximum capacity of the car's maximum loading capacity, and depart from a specific floor such as the standard floor with the number of passengers having a slight margin for the maximum number of passengers Control The first car call entered by the car call device in the car is compared with the landing call entered by the landing call registration device, and the landing call is a landing call in the same direction as the car. If the landing call is closer to a specific floor such as the reference floor than the first car call, the landing call responds to the landing call and the landing call specifies the reference floor or the like rather than the first car call. An elevator operation control means comprising response means for responding to the car call when the car is far from the floor .
[0009]
As a result, on the floors other than the specific floor such as the standard floor, a sufficient service can be provided to the users from the middle floor by allocating the margin to passengers waiting for the elevator. Become.
[0010]
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided input means for inputting that an elevator car is likely to be full on a specific floor such as a reference floor, and when the elevator car is called back to a specific floor such as a reference floor, the elevator car When a plurality of landing call registrations are performed in the opposite direction to the operation , a landing call number determining means for determining that the plurality of landing call numbers is less than a predetermined number, and the landing call number determining means When it is determined that the number of the plurality of landing calls is less than a predetermined number, landing means for responding elevator cars to all the plurality of landing calls, and when the car is made to respond by the landing means in respect passengers the landing call registration in the floor, the car of the elevator, a notification unit temporarily informing to become operational in the desired direction since recalled to a specific floor such as the standard floor, the A elevator operation control device which is characterized in that.
[0011]
As a result, when the elevator car is likely to become full on a specific floor such as the standard floor, when the call was returned to the specific floor such as the standard floor, the landing call registration in the direction opposite to that direction was made Since the passengers are boarded first, it is possible to provide a good service to the user waiting for the elevator on a floor other than the specific floor such as the reference floor.
[0012]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Embodiments of an elevator operation control apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to FIGS.
[0013]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a general elevator operation control apparatus. First, the basic operation of the elevator operation control apparatus will be described.
[0014]
When a user (passenger) wants to use the elevator, he / she presses a landing call button in the direction he / she wants to go at the landing on each floor. When the landing call button is pressed, this is registered in the landing call registration device 1, and information on which floor and in which direction the passenger is going is sent to the operation control device 2. Then, the operation control device 2 operates the elevator car to the floor where the landing call is generated based on the landing call signal and causes the elevator car to land.
[0015]
When the elevator car reaches the desired floor, the operation control device 2 outputs a door opening command for opening the elevator car and the landing door to the door control device 3, and the door control device 3 operates. Open the door. At this time, the operation control device 2 outputs a call deletion signal to the landing call registration device 1, and the landing call registration device 1 deletes the call on the response floor.
[0016]
On the other hand, a passenger in the elevator car designates a destination floor by pressing a destination floor button provided in the car. This is called car call registration, and when the destination floor button is pressed, this is registered in the car call registration device 4, and as in the case of the landing call registration, information on the floor at which there is a passenger getting off is displayed. , Input to the operation control device 2. Then, the operation control device 2 operates the elevator car to the floor where the car call is generated based on the car call signal and causes the car to land.
[0017]
When the elevator car reaches the floor designated by the car call registration, the door operation command is output from the operation control device 2 to the door control device 3. Then, upon receiving the door opening command, the door control device 3 moves to the door opening operation. At this time, the operation control device 2 outputs a call deletion signal to the car call registration device 4, and the car call registration device 4 deletes the call on the response floor.
[0018]
Further, in the elevator, the load capacity of the car is defined for safety considerations, and therefore the load in the car is detected by the load detection device 5. Therefore, the load in the car detected by the load detection device 5 is also input to the operation control device 2, and the load in the car detected by the load detection device 5 when the user is on boarding at the landing, When the maximum load in the car (hereinafter referred to as the rated load) is exceeded, a notification command such as a buzzer is output from the operation control device 2 to the notification device 6, and the notification device 6 that receives the command sounds a buzzer. It notifies the passengers in the car that they are riding too much by voice.
[0019]
According to the notification from the notification device 6, the operation control device 2 continues to output the door opening command to the door control device 3 until the user gets out of the elevator car and the load in the car falls below the rated load. After the load falls below the rated load, the door control device 3 releases the door opening command and cancels the notification command to the notification device 6. Then, the door control device 3 detects that the door on the car and the landing side is closed and notifies the operation control device 2, and the operation control device 2 operates the elevator car based on the above-mentioned landing call and car call.
[0020]
Some elevators have a full-passage operation function and an overload operation function. For an elevator with a full-passage operation function, for example, the load in the car is about 80% of the rated load. When the overload operation function is provided, the operation control device 2 operates to operate the elevator at, for example, about 105% of the rated load. When these functions are not provided, operation is controlled within a range where the load in the car does not exceed the rated load.
[0021]
Therefore, in the present invention, when there are many users and the elevator car is likely to be full on a specific floor such as the standard floor, the standard floor is considered in order not to inconvenience users on other floors. The number of passengers on specific floors is limited so that the elevator car is not full.
[0022]
That is, on a specific floor such as the reference floor, when the load in the elevator car is about to reach the rated load if, for example, a few more passengers ride, the operation control device 2 notifies the notification device 6 such as a buzzer. A notification command is output, and the notification device 6 that has received the command notifies the passenger in the car that the passenger is riding too much by sounding a buzzer or by voice. And according to the alert | report from this alerting | reporting apparatus 6, while a user gets out of a cage | basket | car and the load in a cage | basket falls below a rated load by 2 or 3 persons, The notification command to the notification device 6 is canceled.
[0023]
Therefore, on specific floors such as the standard floor, the rated load in the elevator car, that is, the number of persons with a slight margin in the maximum load capacity (not limited to the above two or three persons, if determined appropriately according to the rated load of the car) The number of passengers is limited as being full, and the elevator car is departed from a specific floor such as the standard floor so that it can respond to landing call registrations on other floors. Is.
[0024]
In an elevator equipped with a full-passage operation function, for example, when the load in the car is about to exceed 80% of the rated load by a few people, and an overload operation function is provided. If it is, for example, about 105% of the rated load is likely to be exceeded by a few more people.
[0025]
Next, various embodiments embodying the present invention as described above will be described with reference to flowcharts.
[0026]
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the first embodiment of the present invention. In step 1, the operation control device 2 determines whether or not the floor on which passengers are placed in the elevator car is a specific floor such as a reference floor. If the floor is a specific floor such as a reference floor, the process proceeds to step 3 (there is no operation in step 2 here), and the load detecting device 5 detects the total weight of passengers in the car. Next, the operation control device 2 determines whether or not the total weight in the car input from the load detection device 5 in step 4 reaches the rated load when two or three people ride.
[0027]
For example, when the weight per passenger is 65 kg, the load that reaches the rated load when two or three people ride is about 520 kg corresponding to about 80% of the rated load in a 10-seater elevator, This is called a desired load. In addition, in a known elevator with a full-passage operation function, the load that activates the full-passage operation function when two or three people ride is the same as above, and the weight per passenger is 65 kg, and a 10-seater elevator Then, about 390 kg, which is about 60% of the rated load, is referred to as a desired load. In addition, in this invention, since it is not related whether it has a full-passage operation function, it demonstrates as a desired load including the case of both below.
[0028]
When it is determined in step 4 that the rated load (desired load) is reached when another two or three people ride, the operation control device 2 outputs a notification command such as a buzzer or announcement to the notification device 6. In step 5, the alarm device 6 is overriding the passengers in the car, for example, by sounding a buzzer or sending a message such as "I can't ride anymore on this floor". To warn passengers who get on the board later. At this time, as shown as step 6, the operation control device 2 outputs a door opening command to the door control device 3, and the door control device 3 continues the door opening upon receiving the door opening command, and returns to step 4.
[0029]
Then, when the total weight in the elevator car becomes less than the desired load in step 4 (or when it is determined that there is a surplus in the number of passengers (weight)), the operation control device 2 proceeds to step 7. Since the notification command to the notification device 6 is canceled to stop the notification from the notification device 6 and the door opening command is also canceled from the operation control device 2 to the door control device 3, the door control device 3 in step 8. Performs a door closing operation, and the elevator car departs from a specific floor such as a reference floor.
[0030]
Next, in step 9, the first car call (destination floor) input by the car call registration device 4 is compared with the landing call input by the landing call registration device 1. Here, if there is a landing call on a floor near the specific floor, such as the reference floor, in the direction ahead of the first car call along the direction of the elevator car, in step 10, the specific floor such as the reference floor Respond to the boarding call closest to and land the car on that floor. If the first car call is closer to a specific floor such as the standard floor in the direction of elevator operation than the landing call, pass step 10 and below, and respond to the car call to land the car on that floor. Then, a series of operation operations are terminated.
[0031]
In step 10, after responding to the landing call closest to the specific floor such as the reference floor, and landing the car on that floor, in step 11, the load detecting device 5 detects the total weight in the car. When it is determined that the weight is less than the desired load in Step 12, Steps 8 to 12 are repeated, and when it is determined that the desired load is reached, the series of operation operations are terminated.
[0032]
The series of operation operations described above is a control for preventing the elevator car from becoming full on a specific floor such as the standard floor and preventing users waiting on other floors from getting on. This will be referred to as the passenger-unoccupied driving method. However, it is not always necessary to perform such control at all times. For example, if a time zone is determined automatically or manually by a switch operation as needed, excessive service can be avoided.
[0033]
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the second embodiment of the present invention. Since this embodiment is the same as the first embodiment shown in FIG. 2 up to step 9, the description thereof will be omitted, and step 10 and subsequent steps will be described.
[0034]
As a result of comparing the first car call and the landing call in Step 9, if it is determined that there is a landing call on a floor closer to a specific floor such as the reference floor in the direction of elevator operation than the first car call, In step 10, the earliest call out of a plurality of hall calls is answered, and the car is landed on that floor. The first car call is on a specific floor in the direction of elevator operation than the hall call. If it is near, step 10 and the subsequent steps are passed to respond to the car call, and the series of operation operations is completed.
[0035]
Steps 11 and 12 are also the same as those in the first embodiment, so the description thereof will be omitted. If it is determined in step 12 that the total weight in the car is less than the desired load, the process proceeds to step 13, where In the elevator operation direction, it is determined whether there is a landing call on a floor closer to the floor that responded in step 10 than the first car call. Respond to the floor closest to the response floor and land the car on that floor. However, when the first car call is closer to a specific floor such as a reference floor than the landing call, a series of operation operations are terminated in response to the car call.
[0036]
If the total weight in the car detected in step 15 is determined to be less than the desired load in step 16 after responding to the landing call in step 14, step 13 to step 16 are repeated to obtain the desired load. If it is determined that it has reached, a series of operation operations are terminated.
[0037]
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the third embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is different from the first embodiment shown in FIG. 2 only in the response at step 10, and the other is the same, so only step 10 will be described.
[0038]
That is, as a result of comparing the first car call and the landing call in Step 9, it was determined that there was a landing call on a floor closer to a specific floor such as a reference floor in the direction of elevator operation than the first car call. In this case, the process proceeds to step 10, where a car is landed on the floor in response to the earliest landing call among a plurality of landing calls.
[0039]
Next, the fourth, fifth, and sixth embodiments of the present invention shown in FIGS. 5, 6, and 7 will be described.
[0040]
In these embodiments, the operation of Step 2 is added to the first, second, and third embodiments, respectively. FIG. 5 is shown in FIG. 2, FIG. 6 is shown in FIG. FIG. 7 corresponds to the embodiment shown in FIG. That is, after determining whether or not the floor on which passengers are put in the elevator car in step 1 is a specific floor such as a reference floor, as step 2, the landing call registration device 1 is in another floor in the elevator operation direction, It is determined whether or not the landing call is registered. Here, when there is a landing call on the other floor in the elevator operation direction, the process proceeds to step 3 and the same operation control as in the first, second, and third embodiments is performed.
[0041]
On the other hand, when there is no landing call on the other floor in the direction of elevator operation, passengers may be boarded in the elevator car on a specific floor such as the standard floor until the passengers are full, so pass step 3 and later, It is prohibited to operate on the specific floor passenger-unoccupied driving method. By doing so, excessive service is prevented.
[0042]
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the seventh embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is different from the above-mentioned specific floor passenger unoccupied driving method in the first to sixth embodiments described above, and when the elevator car is likely to be full on a specific floor such as a reference floor, the standard The elevator car that is being called back to a specific floor, such as a floor, tries to put a user who is calling for a landing on another floor first.
[0043]
That is, as shown in FIG. 8, in step 1, the operation control device 2 determines whether the elevator car is performing a recall operation to a specific floor such as a reference floor. It is determined whether or not the call registration device 1 has a landing call on the other floor in a direction opposite to the call back operation direction. If there is a landing call on another floor, proceed to Step 3 and answer the landing call closest to the specific floor such as the reference floor among the current elevator car position and the specific floor such as the reference floor. , Land the basket on that floor.
[0044]
Next, in step 4, after the user who called the landing on the floor where the floor was landed is placed in the car, in step 5, the operation control device 2 outputs a notification command such as an announcement to the notification device 6, and the notification device 6 For example, a message such as “This elevator will return to the first floor and then go up” is provided to passengers in the car. At this time, as a step 6, the operation control device 2 prohibits the car call registration device 4 from performing reverse cancellation (a known technique, a function of deleting a car call in the direction opposite to the elevator operation direction when landing). Is output. After that, the elevator car is landed on a specific floor such as a reference floor and returns to normal operation.
[0045]
In addition, when step 4 and step 5 are reversed, when the car lands, the user waiting at the landing will say, "This elevator will return to the first floor and then go up." The user may be boarded after providing the message.
[0046]
Also, if it is determined in step 1 that the recall operation is not being performed, or if it is determined in step 2 that there is no landing call on the other floor in the direction opposite to the recall operation direction, the subsequent steps are passed, This operation control is terminated.
[0047]
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the eighth embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is different from the seventh embodiment shown in FIG. 8 only in the response in step 3, and the other is the same, so only step 3 will be described below.
[0048]
That is, in this embodiment, when it is determined in step 2 that there is a landing call on another floor in the direction opposite to the elevator call back direction, in step 3, the current elevator car position and reference floor, etc. The floor call is made to respond to the earliest landing call, and the car is landed on that floor.
[0049]
FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the ninth embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, for example, it is assumed that a specific floor such as a reference floor is the first floor, and it is determined in step 2 that there is a landing call on another floor in a direction opposite to the elevator call back operation direction. If, it is determined whether the number of hall call is the third floor bed following step 3. If the determination result is yes (YES), all floors registered for landing call are responded, and a car is landed on each floor, and the same operation control as in the seventh and eighth embodiments up to step 7 is performed. I do. And if the determination result in step 3 is no (NO), step 4 and the subsequent steps are passed to end this operation control, or the operation after step 3 in the seventh and eighth embodiments. Apply control.
[0050]
The operation control systems described as the seventh, eighth, and ninth embodiments can be adopted independently, or these can be used as passengers on the specific floor as in the first to sixth embodiments described above. By using it together with the non-full operation method, serviceability to elevator users can be further improved.
[0051]
【The invention's effect】
As described above in detail, according to the present invention, even when there are many users and the elevator car is likely to be full on a specific floor such as a standard floor, landing users from other floors use the elevator. And you do n’t have to wait long. Therefore, serviceability to elevator users can be greatly improved.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a general elevator operation control apparatus.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a first embodiment of an elevator operation control apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a second embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a third embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a sixth embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a seventh embodiment of an elevator operation control apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an eighth embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a ninth embodiment of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 landing call registration device 2 operation control device 3 door control device 4 car call registration device 5 load detection device 6 notification device

Claims (5)

A determination means for determining whether a floor on which passengers are placed in an elevator car is a specific floor such as a reference floor;
If the determination means determines that the floor is a specific floor, such as a reference floor, the load in the car is detected, and whether the number of passengers has reached the number of persons with a slight margin relative to the maximum load capacity of the elevator car A judging means for judging
When it is determined by the determination means that the number of persons having a slight margin has been reached, the notification means for notifying the passenger that the number of persons that can be boarded in the elevator car has exceeded the maximum number of passengers,
By notifying passengers with the notification means, it was determined that the number of passengers with a slight margin with respect to the maximum load capacity of the elevator car was reduced, and the upper limit of the number of passengers allowed was slightly marginal. Control means for departing a specific floor such as the reference floor by the number of passengers;
And the first car call entered by the car call device in said car, comparing the hall call input by the landing call registration device, the hall call is not more hall call to said car in the same direction, the If the landing call is closer to a specific floor such as the reference floor than the first car call, the landing call is answered and the landing call is farther to a specific floor such as the reference floor than the first car call A responding means for responding to the car call ;
An elevator operation control device comprising: The response means compares the first car call input by the car call device in the car with a plurality of landing calls input by the landing call registration device, and the plurality of landing calls are in the same direction as the car. If it is determined that the plurality of landing calls are closer to a specific floor such as the reference floor than the first car call, the call is generated earliest from the plurality of landing calls A platform call is selected and responded, and when it is determined that the plurality of platform calls are farther from a specific floor such as the reference floor than the first car call, the car call is answered. The elevator operation control apparatus according to claim 1. An input means for inputting that the elevator car is likely to be full on a specific floor such as a reference floor;
When the elevator car is called back to a specific floor, such as a reference floor, and there are a plurality of landing call registrations in the opposite direction to the elevator car operation, the plurality of landing call numbers is less than a predetermined number. A landing call number determination means for determining whether or not
Landing means for responding elevator cars to all the plurality of landing calls when the number of landing calls is determined to be less than a predetermined number by the landing call number determining means;
When the car is made to respond by the landing means, the elevator car is temporarily called back to a specific floor such as the reference floor for passengers who registered for landing call on the floor, and then moved in the desired direction. An informing means for notifying driving;
An elevator operation control device comprising: The landing means is closest to a specific floor of the reference floor among all of the plurality of landing calls when the landing call number determining means determines that the plurality of landing call numbers is less than a predetermined number. 4. The elevator operation control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein an elevator car is made to respond to the landing call. When the landing means determines that the plurality of landing call numbers is less than a predetermined number by the landing call number determination means, the landing call that is generated earliest among all the plurality of landing calls is 4. The elevator operation control device according to claim 3 , wherein a car is caused to respond.

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