JP6351847B2 - Elevator control device and elevator evacuation operation method when disaster occurs - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator control device for performing an evacuation operation operation when an elevator is used for evacuation when a disaster such as a fire occurs in a building where an evacuation guide is not resident, such as a high-rise house, and an emergency The present invention relates to an elevator evacuation operation method.

  Even if there are specific persons who are difficult to move on the stairs, such as disabled people or elderly people, for example, people who are left in the building, transport them to the evacuation floor. There is a conventional technique that can suppress a decrease in efficiency (for example, see Patent Document 1).

  Specifically, the floor determined under the specified conditions is set as the rescue floor, and during shared evacuation operation, the shared car is reciprocated between the rescue floor and the evacuation floor to suppress the reduction in transport efficiency. doing.

Japanese Patent No. 5523105

However, the prior art has the following problems.
The conventional technology such as Patent Document 1 is based on the assumption that the rescue floor and the evacuation floor are reciprocated. In an evacuation operation in a building where an evacuation guide is not resident, such as a high-rise residence, Absent. That is, there is a demand for an elevator control device that can execute an appropriate evacuation operation over a plurality of floors even in a building such as a high-rise house where an evacuation guide is not resident.

  The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-described problems. When an elevator is used for evacuation when a disaster such as a fire occurs even in a building where an evacuation guide is not resident. An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator control device that can execute an appropriate evacuation operation and an elevator evacuation operation method when a disaster occurs.

  An elevator control device according to the present invention is an elevator control device including a controller that executes and controls an evacuation operation for transporting a user left in a building provided with an elevator to an evacuation floor using the elevator. It is provided at one or more floor landings, and can be switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode when pressed, and an input device provided at each floor landing for the user. And a controller that can input a desired destination floor direction, and the controller reads the signal when the input device is pressed to switch the operation mode from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode and switch to the evacuation operation mode. For hall calls that have already been registered before switching, hall call registration that goes in the direction opposite to the preset evacuation floor direction is the hall that goes to the evacuation floor direction When the hall call signal is received by operating the hall button after rewriting and registering and switching to the evacuation operation mode, the hall heading toward the evacuation floor direction regardless of the direction of the hall call signal The landing call registration is executed on the assumption that the call signal is received, and the operation control for moving the passenger toward the evacuation floor is executed with priority.

  Further, the elevator evacuation operation method at the time of occurrence of a disaster according to the present invention is an elevator evacuation operation method at the time of a disaster that is executed by a controller provided in the elevator control device of the present invention, and a signal when the input device is pressed. By reading the, evacuation that has been set in advance for the first step of switching the operation mode from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode and starting the evacuation operation control, and the landing call that has already been registered before switching to the evacuation operation mode. The second step of rewriting the hall call registration for the direction opposite to the floor direction to the hall call registration for the evacuation floor direction, and when the hall call signal is received by operating the hall button after switching to the evacuation operation mode In this case, it is assumed that the hall call signal directed toward the evacuation floor is received regardless of the direction of the hall call signal. And a third step of executing a hall call registration, in the evacuation operation control, and executes with priority operation control to move the passengers safety floor direction.

  According to the present invention, the function that can be switched to the evacuation operation mode by the user's operation at the landing, and the switching to the evacuation operation mode allows the hall calls on all floors to be registered as a call registration toward the evacuation floor direction. It has a configuration that can realize a replacement function. As a result, even in buildings where evacuation guides are not stationed, when an elevator is used for evacuation in the event of a disaster such as a fire, an elevator control device that can perform an appropriate evacuation operation and a disaster An elevator evacuation operation method can be obtained.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of an elevator control device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is explanatory drawing which showed typically a series of evacuation driving operation | movement performed in the elevator control apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart regarding a series of evacuation operation operation | movement performed with the elevator control apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of an elevator control device and an elevator evacuation operation method when a disaster occurs according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an elevator control apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The controller 11 in the elevator control panel 10 controls the operation of the car 2 that moves up and down in the hoistway 1. FIG. 1 illustrates a configuration in which a landing button 20 is provided on each floor from the first floor to the fifth floor, and the first floor is an evacuation floor.

  The elevator control apparatus according to the first embodiment includes a hall button 20 having an UP button 20a and a DN button 20b for a user to input a direction of a destination floor from each hall, and is controlled by a user operation. An evacuation operation button 21 is provided as an input device capable of switching the mode from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode. Hereinafter, in this Embodiment 1, the case where the evacuation operation button 21 is provided is demonstrated as a specific example as a representative example of an input device.

  A landing button 20 provided on each floor and an evacuation operation button 21 provided on the fifth floor are connected to the controller 11. And the controller 11 reads the input from each button, and performs operation control of the car 1.

  Next, a series of evacuation operation operations performed by the controller 11 in the evacuation operation mode will be described. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a series of evacuation operation operations executed in the elevator control apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. This will be described in detail below in the order of procedures P1 to P9 shown in FIG.

(P1) Switching operation to evacuation operation mode The controller 11 switches the operation mode from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode when the evacuation operation button 21 is pressed. Furthermore, the controller 11 stops the elevator on the nearest floor. In FIG. 2, the case where it stops to the 3rd floor as the nearest floor is illustrated.

Furthermore, the controller 11 also performs the following four control operations P1-1 to P1-4.
P1-1: The controller 11 informs the passengers in the car 2 that the evacuation operation has been performed by an in-car display or announcement, and the passengers at the landing are evacuated by using the hall indicator lights. Let me know.

P1-2: Regarding the car call, the controller 11 cancels all the registered car calls and prohibits new car call registration.

P1-3: In the case of FIG. 2, the evacuation floor is the first floor of the lowest floor. Therefore, the controller 11 replaces all registered UP calls with DN calls for hall calls. Further, the controller 11 registers a new hall call as it is as a DN call when the DU button 20b is pressed, and also registers it as a DN call when the UP button 20a is pressed.

P1-4: The controller 11 registers the fifth floor where the evacuation operation button 21 is pressed as a DN call.

(P2) Starting the running operation from the nearest floor The controller 11 starts running the car 2 from the current stop floor toward the evacuation floor. In the example of FIG. 2, the controller 11 lowers the car 2 from the stopped third floor toward the first floor, which is an evacuation floor.

(P3) Correspondence to hall call during traveling When the car 2 is traveling toward the evacuation floor and there is an unanswered DN call registration on the floor during the traveling, the controller 11 Respond and place the passenger in the car 2. In the example of FIG. 2, the controller 11 stops the car 2 on the second floor and opens the door in response to the registration of the DN call from the passenger on the second floor while traveling from the third floor to the first floor which is the evacuation floor. By performing the door closing operation, the user on the second floor gets in the car 2.

(P4) Evacuation Operation at Evacuation Floor The controller 11 guides the car 2 to the first floor, which is the evacuation floor, and then opens the door to evacuate passengers in the car 2. As a result, it is possible to promptly guide passengers already in the car 2 during the operation of P1 and passengers who have already entered the car 2 during the operation of P3 to the evacuation floor.

(P5) Movement of the evacuation operation button 21 to the installation floor After the passenger in the car 2 has evacuated on the evacuation floor, the controller 11 closes the door and moves the car 2 to the installation floor of the evacuation operation button 21. In the example of FIG. 2, the controller 11 has not yet responded to the DN call registration on the fifth floor of the uppermost floor where the evacuation operation button 21 is installed, so the empty car 2 is moved from the first floor to the fifth floor. Move and open after arrival.

(P6) Starting the running operation from the floor where the evacuation operation button 21 is installed The controller 11 closes the door after the passenger is placed on the floor where the evacuation operation button 21 is installed, and starts running the car 2 toward the evacuation floor. . In the example of FIG. 2, the controller 11 lowers the car 2 from the fifth floor toward the first floor, which is an evacuation floor.

(P7) Correspondence to hall call during traveling When the car 2 is traveling toward the evacuation floor and there is an unanswered DN call registration on the floor during the traveling, the controller 11 Respond and place the passenger in the car 2. In the example of FIG. 2, the controller 11 stops the car 2 on the 4th floor and opens the door in response to the registration of the DN call from the passenger on the 4th floor while traveling from the 5th floor to the first floor which is the evacuation floor. By performing the door closing operation, the user on the fourth floor gets in the car 2.

(P8) Evacuation Operation on Evacuation Floor The controller 11 guides the car 2 to the first floor, which is the evacuation floor, and then opens the door to evacuate passengers in the car 2. In this way, by performing the operations of P5 to P8, the user who is on the floor above the third floor that is the nearest floor at the time of the P1 operation can evacuate using the car 2.

(P9) Continuation of subsequent evacuation operation After the first evacuation operation by P1 to P4 and the second evacuation operation by P5 to P8 are completed, the landing button 20 and the evacuation operation button 21 are further pressed. The controller 11 causes the car 2 to travel to the floor where the button is pressed and repeats the evacuation operation to the evacuation floor.

  Next, a series of evacuation operation operations by P1 to P9 will be described using a flowchart. FIG. 3 is a flowchart relating to a series of evacuation operation operations executed by the elevator control apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In step S301, the controller 11 determines whether or not the evacuation operation button 21 has been pressed.

  And the controller 11 repeats the determination process of step S301 until the evacuation operation button 21 is pressed. If the controller 11 determines that the evacuation operation button 21 has been pressed, the controller 11 switches the operation mode to the evacuation operation mode, and proceeds to step S302.

Next, in step S302, the controller 11 performs the following control operations (1) to (6).
(1) The controller 11 stops the car 2 on the nearest floor.
(2) The controller 11 informs the passengers in the car 2 that the evacuation operation has been performed by an in-car display or an announcement, and the passengers in the hall have been evacuated by using the hall indicator lights. Let them know.

(3) The controller 11 cancels all the car calls that have already been registered before switching to the evacuation operation mode.
(4) The controller 11 prohibits new car call registration after switching to the evacuation operation mode.

(5) The controller 11 replaces all UP calls with DN calls for registered hall calls.
(6) The controller 11 registers a new hall call as a DN call when the DU button 20b is pressed, and also registers it as a DN call when the UP button 20a is pressed.
(7) The controller 11 registers the floor where the evacuation operation button 21 is pressed as a DN call.

  Next, in step S303, the controller 11 starts the traveling of the car 2 toward the evacuation floor.

  Next, in step S304, the controller 11 determines whether there is an unanswered DN call registration on the floor in the middle of traveling while the car 2 is traveling toward the evacuation floor. If the controller 11 determines in step S304 that there is an unanswered DN call registration on the floor in the middle of traveling, the process proceeds to step S305.

  And when progressing to step S305, the controller 11 stops the car 2 according to the unanswered DN call registration on the floor in the middle of traveling, and performs the door opening and closing operations, so that the middle of traveling A user on the floor of the car gets in the car 2. And controller 11 repeats processing after Step S303 after performing this Step S305.

  On the other hand, if the controller 11 determines in step S304 that there is no unanswered DN call registration on the floor in the middle of traveling, the process proceeds to step S306. And when progressing to step S306, the controller 11 evacuates the passenger in the cage | basket | car 2 by opening the door after the cage | basket | car 2 arrives at an evacuation floor.

  Next, in step S307, the controller 11 determines whether there is an unanswered DN call registration. And the controller 11 repeats the determination process of step S307 until it determines with there being an unanswered DN call registration. If the controller 11 determines that there is an unanswered DN call registration, the controller 11 proceeds to step S308.

  In step S308, the controller 11 moves the car 2 toward the top floor among the floors corresponding to the unanswered DN call registration. After the car 2 arrives at the top floor, the controller 11 opens and closes the door to guide the user on the top floor into the car 2. And controller 11 repeats processing after Step S303 after performing this Step S308.

The correspondence relationships between steps S301 to S308 in FIG. 3 and operations P1 to P8 in FIG. 2 are summarized as follows.
The operations in step S301 and step S302 correspond to the operation in P1 in FIG.
The operation of step S303 corresponds to the operations of P2 and P6 in FIG.
The operation of step S304 and step S305 is P3 in FIG. This corresponds to the operation of P7.
The operation of step S306 corresponds to the operations of P4 and P8 in FIG.
The operations in steps S307 and S308 correspond to the operations in P5 and P9 in FIG.

  In the first embodiment, in a five-story building from the first floor to the fifth floor, an example in which the first floor is an evacuation floor and the evacuation operation button 21 is installed on the fifth floor is shown in FIGS. A series of evacuation operation operations have been described with reference to FIG. However, the present invention is not limited to such a configuration. For example, the following modifications a to d are conceivable.

[Modification a] Variation on Evacuation Floor In the example of FIG. 2, the evacuation floor is the first floor, but the present invention can be applied to a building whose other floor is an evacuation floor. . For example, in the configuration of FIG. 2, when the evacuation floor is the third floor, the controller 11 performs all registered UPs for the fifth floor and the fourth floor in the operation of P1-3 during the evacuation operation mode. Replace the call with a DN call. For the first and second floors, replace all registered DN calls with UP calls. That is, the controller 11 performs a process of replacing with a call in the evacuation floor direction.

  Furthermore, the controller 11 registers the new hall calls on the 5th and 4th floors as DN calls when the DU button 20b is pressed, and also when the UP button 20a is pressed. Register as a call. On the other hand, the controller 11 registers the new hall calls on the first floor and the second floor as UP calls when the UP button 20a is pressed, and also when the DN button 20b is pressed. Register as a call. That is, the controller 11 performs a process of registering as a call in the direction of the evacuation floor.

[Variation b] Variation on installation floor of evacuation operation button 21 In the example of FIG. 2, the evacuation operation button 21 is installed on the fifth floor of the top floor, but the evacuation operation button 21 is installed on other floors or a plurality of floors. The present invention can also be applied to the case of doing so.

[Modification c] Variation Regarding Number of Elevators In the example of FIG. 2, the case where the controller 11 controls one car 2 has been described in order to simplify the explanation. However, there are a plurality of elevator cars 2. The present invention can also be applied to cases.

  In this case, for example, passengers who have a certain number of cars on the top floor and have missed the elevator car that has been evacuated, that is, passengers who have registered a hall call after the elevator has passed. On the other hand, a car waiting on the top floor may respond.

[Modification d] Variation on Stopped Floor After Depressing Evacuation Operation Button 21 In the example of FIG. 2, the case where the controller 11 stops the car 2 at the nearest floor as the operation of P1 has been described. The present invention can also be applied to the case of stopping on the floor.

  For example, the controller 11 may dispatch the car 2 to the top floor of the floor where the hall call is registered or the floor where the evacuation operation button 21 is pressed instead of the nearest floor. As another example, the controller 11 may first dispatch the car 2 to the floor where the evacuation operation button 21 is pressed instead of the nearest floor.

As described above, the elevator control apparatus according to the first embodiment that has the configuration of FIG. 1 and performs a series of evacuation operation operations illustrated in FIG. 2 can achieve the following excellent effects.
(Effect 1) The elevator control apparatus according to the first embodiment has a function of replacing hall calls on all floors as call registrations directed toward the evacuation floor by switching to the evacuation operation mode. As a result, it is possible to realize an elevator control device capable of executing a quick and appropriate evacuation operation even in a building where an evacuation guide is not resident.

(Effect 2) Further, the elevator control apparatus according to the first embodiment is provided with an input device so that a signal for switching the operation mode from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode can be given from the landing. As a result, anyone can easily start evacuation operation when a disaster such as a fire occurs even in a building where an evacuation guide is not resident.

Claims (5)

An elevator control device comprising a controller for executing and controlling an evacuation operation for transporting a user left in a building provided with an elevator to an evacuation floor using the elevator,
An input device that is provided at one or more floors and can be switched from a normal operation mode to an evacuation operation mode when pressed;
A hall button provided at the hall of each floor and allowing a user to input a desired destination floor direction;
The controller is
By reading the signal when the input device is pressed, the operation mode is switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode,
Rewrite the hall call registration in the direction opposite to the preset evacuation floor direction to the hall call registration in the evacuation floor direction with respect to the hall call already registered before switching to the evacuation operation mode,
After receiving the hall call signal by operating the hall button after switching to the evacuation operation mode, the hall call heading toward the evacuation floor direction regardless of the direction of the hall call signal. Perform hall call registration as having received the signal,
An elevator control device that preferentially executes operation control for moving passengers toward the evacuation floor. The controller is
Cancel all registered car calls before switching to the evacuation mode,
The elevator control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a new car call registration is prohibited after switching to the evacuation operation mode. The controller is
If there is an unanswered hall call registration on the floor in the middle of traveling to the evacuation floor during the evacuation operation mode, stop at the floor corresponding to the unanswered hall call registration. The elevator control device according to claim 1, wherein after the user gets on the vehicle, the elevator operation control is executed so as to travel toward the evacuation floor. The controller is
In accordance with a predetermined rule, the destination floor of the elevator immediately after the operation mode is switched from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode is any of the nearest floor, the top floor, and the floor where the input device is installed. The elevator control device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the elevator operation control is performed. An elevator evacuation operation method at the time of a disaster that is executed by the controller provided in the elevator control device according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
A first step of switching the operation mode from the normal operation mode to the evacuation operation mode by reading a signal when the input device is pressed, and starting evacuation operation control;
A second step of rewriting a hall call registration in a direction opposite to a preset evacuation floor direction to a hall call registration in the direction of the evacuation floor with respect to a hall call already registered before switching to the evacuation operation mode;
After receiving the hall call signal by operating the hall button after switching to the evacuation operation mode, the hall call heading toward the evacuation floor direction regardless of the direction of the hall call signal. An elevator evacuation operation in the event of a disaster, wherein priority is given to operation control for moving passengers in the direction of the evacuation floor in the evacuation operation control. Method.

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