JP6096543B2 - Elevator that can register a rough number of users in advance - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a group management elevator including a group management control device that controls the operation of a plurality of elevators, and more particularly to a group management elevator including a destination floor reservation system.

  In general, the group management elevator has an elevator car that moves up and down in the hoistway, a drive device that raises and lowers the elevator car, an elevator control device that controls the drive device, and the elevator control device. A plurality of elevators comprising a hall call registration device provided on each floor for performing hall call registration and a destination floor registration device provided in the elevator car for performing destination floor registration. Equipped with a group management control device that controls the operation of one elevator within the same group, and performs group management control of the elevator.

  That is, the operation of the group management elevator is controlled by the elevator group management control device, and the group management control device controls a plurality of elevators as one group, so that an effective elevator operation service can be provided to users. I will provide a. Normally, in group management elevators, when a hall call is registered at the hall, the elevators in this group are subject to setting conditions such as a short waiting time for passengers and no congestion by passengers. A suitable elevator is selected and an elevator is assigned to the hall call.

  Further, the group management elevator sequentially determines the traffic flow and the degree of congestion by grasping the usage status of the elevator, and performs optimal elevator operation control at the time of congestion such as at work.

  In addition, in order to operate efficiently considering the traffic flow of the entire building, the group management elevator is equipped with a landing destination floor registration device that can make a reservation call for the destination floor and the destination floor at the landing. A destination floor reservation system that can be registered may be provided. In a group management elevator equipped with such a destination floor reservation system, in order to improve the operation efficiency of the elevator in the entire building, a group of users who ride on the elevator in a group are registered at one time using a simple means, and the group call is registered. It is described in Patent Document 1 below that the management control device controls the operation so that the vehicle is optimally dispatched.

  The elevator group management system disclosed in Patent Document 1 provides an elevator group management system that is excellent in convenience and can prevent a decrease in operation efficiency even when an elevator is used by a group of a plurality of users. A destination operation panel where the user registers the destination floor before boarding and a group boarding registration device for registering that the user uses the elevator as a group are installed at the elevator landing. . Moreover, the elevator of patent document 1 memorize | stores the number of users when a user uses an elevator in a group beforehand in a user number memory | storage part, and registration of a destination floor by a destination operation panel is group boarding registration. When it is performed together with registration of group use by the apparatus, it is an elevator group management system that determines a car assigned to a landing destination call based on the number of users stored in a user number storage unit. That is, when the elevator user uses the elevator in a group, the elevator of the patent document 1 determines the allocation of the elevator car based on the number of passengers previously determined for each destination floor by the group boarding registration device. The dispatch of a basket car.

International Publication No. W02009 / 141900 (Japanese Patent Application No. 2010-512882)

  In the operation control of the elevator group management system described in Patent Document 1, when the elevator user uses the elevator in a group, the number of users is registered in advance for each destination floor of the destination. Rather, the car is decided to be dispatched based on a certain value every time.

  That is, in the operation control of the elevator group management system described in Patent Document 1, in the hall call registration by the group management control device for the hall destination floor call of a group user, even if the number of groups is small, the number of people is large. However, for the group user's landing call, the elevator dispatch control is always performed with the same coefficient. For this reason, there is a case where the vehicle is not dispatched according to the actual use situation of the elevator. In some cases, even when it is crowded, multiple empty cars are given priority to a small number of group users, and there is no need to allocate enough cars to large group users. There was a concern that the elevator operation efficiency of the entire building would be reduced.

  An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, in a group management elevator that efficiently controls operation of a plurality of elevators within the same group, a group consisting of a plurality of users who ride on the same floor The purpose is to distribute elevators according to the approximate number of users, to perform optimal operation control in accordance with the usage status of the elevator, and to improve the operation efficiency of the elevator throughout the building.

  Although the present invention can be grasped from a plurality of viewpoints, typical elevators capable of registering a rough number of users in advance of the present invention are as follows. Moreover, the elevator which can register the rough number of users of the present invention preliminarily captured from other viewpoints will be further clarified by explanations of embodiments to be described below.

That is, the elevator that can register the approximate number of users in advance of the present invention includes an elevator car that moves up and down in the hoistway, a drive device that raises and lowers the elevator car, and an elevator that controls the drive device A plurality of elevators including a control device and a landing destination floor registration device provided on each floor for performing landing destination floor registration for the elevator control device, and operation control of the plurality of elevators within the same group In a group management elevator having a group management control device, the landing destination floor registration device is capable of registering a destination floor input unit that allows an elevator user to register in advance at the landing and a general number of users who ride on the elevator. with a registration unit, the group number registration unit, the group toward the same line destination floor user Is a large number button to be pressed when it is a large number of people, a medium number button to be pressed when the number is a small number of people less than the large number of people, a small number of buttons to be pressed when the number is a small number of people less than the medium number of people, The group management control device uses the group number registration unit within a certain time after the destination floor is registered in the destination floor input unit. When the approximate number of users is registered, the elevator can be registered in advance according to the registered destination floor and the approximate number of users.

  According to the present invention, in a group management elevator that efficiently controls a plurality of elevators in the same group, the approximate number of users of a group of users who ride from the same floor is calculated as a landing destination floor. By entering the registration device and registering the approximate number of group users in advance, it is possible to perform optimal dispatch according to the actual elevator usage and improve the elevator operation efficiency of the entire building it can.

  In addition, if the group users are multiple users with the same destination floor, by registering the approximate number of users in advance, the optimal required number of dispatches in accordance with the actual elevator usage conditions Even if divided into multiple cars, the group users can move to the destination floor almost at the same time or without much delay in arrival time. Will increase.

Explanatory drawing which showed the destination floor input part and the group number registration part in the landing destination floor registration apparatus of the elevator which concerns on the Example of this invention. Explanatory drawing which showed the destination floor input part and the group number registration part in the landing destination floor registration apparatus of the elevator which concerns on the other Example of this invention. The flowchart which showed from the input of the rough number of users of the elevator which concerns on the Example of this invention to performing optimal dispatch. The control block diagram which showed from the input of the rough number of users of the elevator which concerns on the Example of this invention to performing optimal dispatch.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of an elevator capable of registering the approximate number of users in advance of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
The following description shows embodiments of the contents of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. Those skilled in the art within the scope of the technical idea disclosed in this specification. Various changes and modifications can be made.

  FIG. 1 shows an overview concept of a destination floor registration apparatus provided with an input unit for registering the approximate number of passengers of a plurality of users having the same destination floor in a landing destination floor registration apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. Note that FIG. 1 illustrates an input unit of a landing destination floor registration device. For example, a display unit such as a liquid crystal display device is provided on the upper part thereof to display an operation result of the input unit and various guidance. indicate. The touch screen is composed of a liquid crystal display device with a touch panel, including the input unit and display unit, and a notification screen for displaying the input unit screen and input operation results and various guidance displays is provided on the screen. It may be displayed by switching.

  In FIG. 1, a hall destination floor registration device denoted as a whole by reference numeral 10 includes a destination floor input unit having a destination floor input button 110 that allows an arbitrary destination floor to be input, and “many users to the same destination floor”. Alternatively, when the number of users to the same destination floor is a large number of users, the user number registration button 101 is pressed, and “a little number of users to the same destination floor” or “medium number of users to the same destination floor”. ”And the user number registration button 103 to be pressed when“ the number of users to the same destination floor is small ”or“ the number of users to the same destination floor is small ”. It has a group number registration unit that can register the approximate number of users in advance.

  In other words, the approximate number of users in the present invention is not a numerical value of the number of users, but a scale that approximates the number of elevator users such as “number of adults”, “medium number of people”, “small number of people”, etc. It is the number of users as an image, and does not ask the accuracy of the number of users.

  The user number registration buttons 101, 102, and 103 for registering the approximate number of users are provided with illustrations and guidance that can be recognized at a glance by the user on the button body or in the vicinity thereof. The illustration shown in FIG. 1 can give the same visual effect to the user even if the illustration is replaced with characters such as “many”, “medium”, and “small”.

  Rather than registering the approximate number of users as in the present invention, the number of users in the group is entered using the numeric keys in the group number registration unit, and the number of users is determined based on the number of people entered by the group management control unit. Although there is a method of determining the number of elevators to be dispatched by determining large, medium, or small, in the present invention, in consideration of user convenience, the user number registration buttons 101 and 102 for registering the approximate number of users. , 103 and so on. By using the number-of-users registration buttons 101, 102, 103, etc. for registering the approximate number of users, the group users can register the number of groups roughly, and the trouble of selecting and pressing the number keys one by one Absent. Further, the user number registration buttons 101, 102, 103 and the like can be selected with a visual image, and there is a convenience that the number registration is easy.

  As an operation method for registering the number of users who actually use the same destination floor using the landing destination floor registration device 10, for example, the procedure for registering the number of users on the 25th floor with “low” is first a destination floor input button. 110, input in the order of “2” and “5”. Although not shown, the display device provided at the upper part of the landing destination floor registration device 10 displays the 25th floor of the destination floor, and the user confirms the input destination floor. Next, the user number registration button 103 to be pressed when “the number of users to the same destination floor is small” or “the number of users to the same destination floor is small” within a certain time (for example, within 5 seconds) is displayed. Press to complete registration.

  It should be noted that even if the user number registration button 102 is pressed when the user makes a mistake and “a few users to the same destination floor” or “the number of users to the same destination floor is a medium number”, it is constant. By pressing the number-of-users registration button 103 that is pressed within the time (eg, within 5 seconds) when “the number of users to the same destination floor is small” or “the number of users to the same destination floor is small” It shall be possible to correct. That is, the approximate number of users of the user number registration button that was last pressed within a certain time is registered.

  FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a group number registration unit that can register a rough number of users in advance in an elevator landing destination floor registration device according to another embodiment of the present invention. The number of users registration button 104 when the elevator user is not a group but a single person is added to the group number registration unit of the landing destination floor registration apparatus of FIG. In the landing destination floor registration apparatus of FIG. 1, it is determined that one person is used if the group number registration section is not input within a certain time after the input of the destination floor as the destination floor, but the landing destination floor of FIG. The registration apparatus is provided with a single user number registration button for the convenience of the user. Even if the button for single use is not pressed, if the group number registration unit is not input within a certain time after the destination floor is input, it is determined that the single use is made.

In addition, instead of providing a single user button as shown in FIG. 2, the button is pressed when “the number of users to the same destination floor is small” or “the number of users to the same destination floor is small” in FIG. The number-of-users registration button 103 may be used instead of the one-person use button.
That is, the number of users registration button of the group number registration unit is not limited to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. Can do.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing from the rough number of users input in the group number registration unit to the elevator group management control device performing optimal dispatch in the landing destination floor registration device of the embodiment of FIG. is there.

  The procedure will be described. First, the destination floor of the group user is input by the user arbitrarily operating the destination floor input button 110 of the landing destination floor registration device 10 in FIG. 1 (201). Next, the approximate number of users of the group heading to the same destination floor within a certain time (for example, within 5 seconds) is displayed as a large number button 101, a medium number button 102, a small number button 103 among the number of user registration buttons. It is determined that there are a plurality of users by pressing any of the buttons (202). When any one of the large number button 101, the medium number button 102, and the small number button 103 is pressed, the number of users is roughly determined by the type of the pressed button. (203-208). If none of the user number registration buttons 101, 102, 103 is pressed, it is determined that there is a single user (209).

  The elevator group management control device performs calculation processing to perform the most efficient vehicle allocation (allocation) from the input destination floor and the approximate number of users (210), and determines the car 1 based on the calculation result. One or a plurality of units (for example, two or three units) will be dispatched (211).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a control block of the group management control device that performs optimal dispatch by registering the number of group users. Reference numeral 300 denotes a group management control device that efficiently controls a plurality of elevators within the same group. The group management control device is composed of an optimal vehicle allocation calculation unit 301, a vehicle allocation command unit 302, a learning unit 303, a usage status storage unit (storage unit for date, place, number of people information, etc.) 304, and other control circuit units.

The destination floor and the number of users of the group user input by the landing destination floor registration device 10 are input to the optimum dispatch calculation unit 301 of the group management control device, and are calculated by a preset algorithm and the calculation result is output. Is done.
The output calculation result is transmitted to the dispatching command unit 302, and the allocation of a plurality of cars is determined according to the optimal car and the situation calculated and determined from the calculation result. A dispatch command is output to the elevator control device 310 based on the processing on the group management control device side.

  In FIG. 4, only one elevator control device 310 is shown. However, the group management elevator is a system that efficiently operates a plurality of elevators in consideration of the traffic flow of the entire building. Devices (generally 3 to 8) are controlled in response to a command from the group management control device.

  The elevator control device 310 receives a car load detection signal from a car load detection device (not shown) provided at the bottom of the car 320 in order to grasp the approximate number of passengers in the car. 311 is provided. This car load detecting device is generally composed of a load sensor, and the car load detecting unit 311 can detect with high accuracy how many people are in the car.

  The group management control device further includes a learning unit 303, which uses the elevator usage status stored in the usage status storage unit (date / time, place, number of people information storage unit) 304, and the car load detection unit. The information on the number of passengers in 311 is taken in, and the learning result from the use status of the elevator so far is reflected in the dispatching command section 302. The dispatching command unit 302 transmits the learning result of the learning unit 303 to the optimum dispatching calculation unit 301, reflects it in the coefficient setting in the optimum dispatching calculation, acquires the computation result, and determines the dispatch of the elevator.

  In other words, “On a certain date, day of the week, and time”, “When a certain destination floor to a certain destination floor is registered with a certain number of users”, “How many vehicles are delivered to the ○ floor”, “○ people have boarded” That is what we always learn.

  Advantages performed by the learning unit 303 will be described below. Whether it is a company-occupied building or a tenant building, the number of people on each floor is not constant, and the usage pattern of the floors is also different. For example, in a company-occupied building, when a certain floor is a meeting room floor, many employees head for the meeting room floor at a time determined by a regular meeting or the like. Then, past learning data “according to a certain date and time”, “from a certain boarding floor to a certain destination floor”, and “registered with a large number of people” are accumulated. From this accumulated learning data, the user number registration button 101 to be pressed when “there are many users to the same destination floor” or “the number of users to the same destination floor” is “to the same destination floor” If the number of users is “multiple” or “the number of users to the same destination floor” is the number of users registration button 102 and “the number of users to the same destination floor is small” or “to the same destination floor” For the number of users registration button 103 to be pressed when the number of users is "small number of users", the optimal allocation calculation unit of the group management control device according to the pressed date, day of the week, time zone, boarding floor, destination floor, etc. It is possible to vary the weighting of the coefficient of the operation.

  Therefore, in the present invention, the calculation is not based on a fixed value such as “10 people” for the user number registration button 101 to be pressed when “the number of users to the same destination floor is a large number”. Depending on the registration floor, the optimal vehicle allocation calculation unit 301 performs calculation flexibly, and the vehicle allocation command unit 302 issues a vehicle allocation command to the elevator control unit in response to the calculation result.

Specific examples are described below.
The 25th floor of the building is a meeting room floor, and there are several meeting rooms including a large meeting room. Every Monday (or the first day of every month, etc.) from 10:00 am to 11:00 am A meeting with a number of people shall be held in a large conference room. Because the meeting ends at 11:00 and the conference participants return to the floor of each section, the landing destination floor call is made on the 25th floor, and “Many users to the same destination floor” or “ It is assumed that the user number registration button 101 to be pressed when the number of users to the same destination floor is “large number of people” is pressed.

  At this time, from the past learning results, the group management control device recognizes that about 50 users will register at the landing destination floor as a group at 11:00 am on Monday, and a plurality of elevators (for example, four) To manage the elevators so that group users can return to the workplace smoothly.

  On the other hand, at 11:00 on the next Tuesday, a landing destination floor call is made on the 25th floor, and "Group of people to the same destination floor" or "A large number of users to the same destination floor" in the group number registration section is displayed. Assume that the user number registration button 101 to be pressed is pressed. At this time, from the past learning result, the group management control device is not aware that a large number of users will register as a destination destination floor in the group at 11:00 am on Tuesday, so an elevator for a large number of group users Elevator operation management is performed only for vehicle dispatch (for example, two vehicles).

  As in the case described above, when the user number registration button of the group number registration unit is pressed, the group management control device determines the allocation of the elevator based on the past learning result, and the efficient elevator Perform operation management.

  In the above embodiment, a case has been described in which a group user with a plurality of people moves from the same landing floor to the same destination floor by an elevator, but some users of the group users are from the same landing floor. Even when moving to a different destination floor by an elevator, the present invention can be applied. In this case, some users in the group enter the destination floor input device in the car after entering the car. Even in the case of such group users with different destination floors, the group management control device determines the elevator allocation based on the past learning result when the user number registration button of the group number registration unit is pressed. To efficiently manage elevator operations.

  In other words, according to the present invention, in the group management elevator, the rough number of users of a group of users who ride from the same floor is input and registered in the landing destination floor registration device, so that the elevator It is possible to improve the operating efficiency of elevators throughout the building by optimally dispatching vehicles according to the usage conditions.

  In addition, when a group user is a plurality of users having the same destination floor, by registering a rough number of users in advance, an optimal necessary number of vehicles according to the usage status of the elevator can be allocated. Even if divided into multiple cars, the group users can move to the destination floor almost at the same time or without much delay in arrival time, increasing convenience for elevator users .

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and includes various modifications. For example, the above-described embodiments have been described in detail for easy understanding of the present invention, and are not necessarily limited to those having all the configurations described. Further, a part of the configuration of a certain embodiment can be replaced with another configuration, and another configuration can be added to the configuration of the embodiment. Further, it is possible to add, delete, and replace other configurations for a part of the configuration of each embodiment.

  In addition, each of the above-described configurations, functions, processing units, processing means, and the like may be realized by hardware by designing a part or all of them with, for example, an integrated circuit. Each of the above-described configurations, functions, and the like may be realized by software by interpreting and executing a program that realizes each function by the processor. Information such as programs, tables, and files that realize each function can be stored in a recording device such as a memory, a hard disk, or an SSD (Solid State Drive), or a recording medium such as an IC card, an SD card, or a DVD.

  In addition, the control lines and information lines and their connections are those that are considered necessary for the explanation, and not all control lines and information lines and their connections on the product are necessarily shown. In practice, it may be considered that almost all or many configurations are related and connected to each other.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Destination floor registration apparatus 110 Destination floor input button 101 Number of users of group number registration part "Number of adults" registration button 102 Number of users of group number registration part "Medium number of people" registration button 103 Number of users of group number registration part “Small number” registration button 104 Number of users in the group number registration unit “1” registration button 300 Group management control device 301 Optimal vehicle allocation calculation unit 302 Vehicle allocation command unit 303 Learning unit 304 Usage time storage unit 310 Elevator control device 311 Ride car Load detector 320 Elevator car

Claims (7)

Each elevator car that goes up and down in the hoistway, a drive device that raises and lowers the elevator car, an elevator control device that controls the drive device, and landing destination floor registration for the elevator control device In a group management elevator having a plurality of elevators provided with landing destination floor registration devices provided on each floor, and a group management control device that controls operation of the plurality of elevators in the same group,
The landing destination floor registration device includes a destination floor input unit that allows elevator users to pre-register destination floors at the landing and a group number registration unit that can register the approximate number of users who get on the elevator,
The group number registering unit is a large number button that is pressed when the number of users of the group heading to the same destination floor is a large number of people, a medium number button that is pressed when the number of users is a smaller number than the large number of people, Each button has a small number of buttons to be pressed when the number of people is smaller than the middle number, and each button has a visual image displayed.
The group management control device, when the destination floor is registered in the destination floor input section, and when the approximate number of users is registered in the group number registration section within a certain time, the registered destination floor and rough An elevator that can register a rough number of users in advance, characterized by dispatching elevators according to the number of users. In the elevator of claim 1,
The group management control device is registered last when a rough number of users is registered in the group number registration unit within a certain time after a rough number of users is registered in the group number registration unit. An elevator capable of registering a rough number of users in advance, wherein elevators are dispatched according to the approximate number of users. In the elevator of claim 1,
The group management control device judges that one person is used when a rough number of users is not registered in the group number registration unit within a certain time after the destination floor is registered in the destination floor input unit. An elevator capable of registering a rough number of users in advance, characterized in that the elevator is dispatched according to the registered destination floor. The elevator according to claim 1 , wherein the input means including at least one of the buttons and the touch screen of the landing destination floor registration device is provided with a display means for displaying a rough number of users in the input means or in the vicinity thereof. Elevator that can register the approximate number of users in advance. The elevator according to any one of claims 1 to 4 , wherein an approximate number of users who ride on the destination floor of the elevator user and the elevator to the destination floor that are input to the landing destination floor registration device are the group management control device. The group management control device is based on accumulated learning data including at least one of the month, day, day of the week, time zone, and destination floor of the elevator usage status by the learning unit of the group management control device. An elevator capable of registering a rough number of users in advance, characterized by determining the allocation of elevators. In the elevator according to claim 5 , when the landing destination floor registration device is registered with a destination floor of the elevator user and a rough number of users who ride on the elevator to the destination floor, the group management control device An elevator capable of registering a rough number of users in advance, which determines the allocation of elevators based on accumulated learning data in which the day of the week, the time zone, and the destination floor in the elevator usage situation match. In the elevator according to claim 5 , when the landing destination floor registration device is registered with a destination floor of the elevator user and a rough number of users who ride on the elevator to the destination floor, the group management control device An elevator capable of registering a rough number of users in advance, which determines the allocation of elevators on the basis of accumulated learning data in which the date and time and destination floor in the elevator usage situation match.

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