JP6948598B2 - Elevator control system - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an elevator control system that prevents the elevator from forgetting to register the destination floor.

Conventionally, when a user who gets into an elevator car forgets to register a destination floor call such as pressing a destination floor button on the operation panel provided in the car, it means that the destination floor call is not registered. A guidance device that provides voice guidance is known (Patent Document 1). This guidance device has a motion sensor that detects that a passenger has boarded the car, a car control unit that determines whether or not a destination floor call is registered, and a car control unit that determines that the destination floor call is not registered. In some cases, it is provided with a voice guidance device that provides voice guidance to the effect that "the destination floor call is not registered". According to this guidance device, for example, even if a passenger gets into a car that has stopped in response to a landing call and forgets to press the destination floor button, the car is different by notifying by voice that the destination floor call is not registered. Passengers misunderstood that "the car moved to a different floor from the one you wish to arrive at" when you went up and down in response to the landing call, or the car moved to the reference floor in response to the recall. It is possible to prevent passengers from misunderstanding that they are "trapped in the car" when the door remains closed.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2005-206292

By the way, in the guidance device, since the motion sensor detects whether or not the inside of the car is manned, for example, when a passenger gets into the car, the motion sensor cannot erroneously detect a person in the car. In that case, even if the passenger in the car forgets to register the destination floor call, the unregistered destination floor call is not determined, and a voice guidance stating that the destination floor call is unregistered is performed. There was no fear. As a result, the passenger may not be aware of forgetting to register the destination floor call, and then forget to register the destination floor call again when using the elevator.

An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator control system that encourages users to be aware of forgetting to register on the destination floor.

The elevator control system of the present invention is an elevator control system provided with a notification unit in the car, and a predetermined time has passed since the car was closed without registration of the destination floor after the car door was opened and closed. At that time, an output that outputs a signal to the judgment unit that determines that the notification by the notification unit is necessary, and to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered when the judgment unit determines that the notification is necessary. Includes part and.

According to this configuration, when the elapsed time from the closing of the car without the registration of the destination floor by the user becomes long, the registration of the destination floor is forgotten and it is judged that the notification by the notification unit is necessary. Since it is possible to reliably notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered, it is possible to make the user aware of the occurrence of forgetting to register the destination floor.

Another elevator control system of the present invention is an elevator control system provided with a notification unit in the car, and when the car starts to move up and down after the car door is opened and closed without registration of the destination floor. A determination unit that determines that notification by the notification unit is necessary, and an output unit that outputs a signal to the notification unit to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered when the determination unit determines that the notification is necessary. ,including.

According to such a configuration, when a car stopped after ascending / descending starts ascending / descending again by calling or recalling a landing, for example, without the registration of the destination floor by the user, the notification of the destination floor is forgotten and the notification unit notifies. By determining that it is necessary, it is possible to reliably notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered, so that the user can be made aware of the occurrence of forgetting to register the destination floor.

Another elevator control system of the present invention is an elevator control system having a notification unit in the car, and the car is provided with a detection unit that detects an operation by a user in the car and responds to a recall. It is possible to move up and down to a preset reference floor, and when the detection unit detects an operation by a user in the car after the car starts moving up and down in response to a recall after opening and closing the car door, the notification unit A determination unit that determines that the notification is necessary, and an output unit that outputs a signal to the notification unit to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered when the determination unit determines that the notification is necessary. include.

According to this configuration, after the car starts to move up and down in response to the recall, the user operates when he / she notices that the car is heading to a floor different from the desired floor, or stops at the reference floor due to the recall. When there is an operation of a user who misunderstands that he / she is trapped, he / she can surely determine that he / she has forgotten to register the destination floor, so that he / she can surely notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered. It is possible to make the user aware of the occurrence of forgetting to register the destination floor.

Another elevator control system of the present invention is an elevator control system having a notification unit in the car, and the car is provided with a detection unit that detects an operation by a user in the car and opens and closes the car door. Later, when the detection unit detects an operation by a user in the car after the car starts ascending and descending in response to a landing call, a determination unit that determines that notification by the notification unit is necessary, and the determination unit that notifies the vehicle. Includes an output unit that outputs a signal to the notification unit to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered when it is determined that the system is necessary.

According to such a configuration, when there is an operation when the user notices that the car is heading to a floor different from the desired floor after the car starts to move up and down in response to the landing call, the registration of the destination floor is performed. By surely determining the forgetting, it is possible to surely notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered, so that the user can be made aware of the occurrence of the destination floor forgetting to register.

Further, in the elevator control system, the output unit may notify the occurrence of the forgotten registration and output a signal to the notification unit to notify the operation status of the car.

According to such a configuration, it is possible to notify the user who has forgotten to register the destination floor of the operation status of the car, for example, the elevating direction of the car, the floor to which the car moves, and the like.

From the above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an elevator control system that encourages the user to be aware of forgetting to register the destination floor.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of an elevator to be controlled by the control system according to the present embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the vicinity of the entrance / exit inside the car of the elevator. FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the elevator and the operation control device. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flow for explaining the processing of the determination unit and the output unit of the control system. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flow for explaining the processing of the determination unit and the output unit of the control system according to the modified example.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4. In the elevator control system according to the present embodiment, for example, when a predetermined time has elapsed from the closing operation of the car door with respect to the elevator 1 as shown in FIG. 1, the fact that the destination floor has not been registered has occurred. It is a notification system that notifies. The elevator 1 includes a hoistway 2 extending in the vertical direction across a plurality of floors in the building, and a car 3 for raising and lowering the hoistway 2. As shown in FIG. 3, the elevator 1 is provided with an operation control device 4 that controls the operation of the elevator 1. The car 3 is arranged in the hoistway 2 and can move up and down in the hoistway 2 and stop at the landing 5 provided on each floor of the building (see FIG. 1). The landing 5 has a landing door 51 that opens and closes in conjunction with the car door 32, which will be described later, and a call button 52 that calls the car 3 (calls the landing for the car 3). The building of this embodiment has eight floors.

In this elevator 1, when the user presses the landing call button 52 (the landing call is entered) at the landing 5 on any floor of the building, the car 3 stops (arrives) at the landing 5 and the car door 32 and The landing door 51 opens. As a result, users can board the car 3 from the floor where the landing call is entered, and the user who gets into the car 3 registers the destination floor (the car call is entered), so that the car 3 is registered. Go up and down to the destination floor.

In the elevator 1 of the present embodiment, the car door 32 is closed (fully closed) by the opening / closing operation in the "car 3 stopped in response to the landing call" and the "car 3 stopped in response to the final car call". After a certain period of time, the car 3 moves up and down. For example, in the recall operation, the car 3 descends to the reference floor (for example, the first floor) and stops regardless of which floor the car 3 is stopped on.

The operation control device 4 functionally includes an operation control unit 40 that detects information related to the landing call to the car 3, for example, the elevating direction of the car 3 and the position of the car 3, and outputs the information related to these to the car 3. (See FIG. 3). For example, the operation control unit 40 outputs the arrival floor information regarding the arrived floor to the car 3 every time the car 3 arrives at any of the floors.

The operation control device 4 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory) or an EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Program) that stores various programs executed by the CPU and data necessary for the execution in advance. It is composed of a board or a microcomputer provided with a non-volatile memory element such as Read Only Memory), a volatile storage element such as RAM (Random Access Memory) which is a so-called working memory of the CPU, and peripheral circuits thereof.

As shown in FIG. 2, the car 3 has a doorway 311 and a car body 31 for users to get on and off from the doorway 311, a car door 32 for opening and closing the doorway 311 of the car body 31, and the inside of the car body 31. The detection unit 36 included in the operation panel 33 that can be operated by the user, and the notification device 34 that is a notification unit that can notify the user of the fact that the destination floor has not been registered in the car body 31. It has a car control device 35, which is a control unit that controls the car 3.

The detection unit 36 detects the operation by the user in the car 3. The detection unit 36 of the present embodiment includes a plurality of (for example, eight) destination floor buttons 331, an open button 332 that opens the car door 32, and a close button 333 that closes the car door 32. The detection unit 36 detects a pressing operation by the user.

The notification device 34 has a speaker 340 capable of notifying the fact that the destination floor has not been registered by voice and driving information of the car 3, and a display 341 capable of notifying the driving information of the car 3 by characters and images. Have. The speaker 340 makes a voice announcement (for example, a voice announcement such as "The destination floor button was not pressed") to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered, and opens / closes the arrival floor of the car 3 and the car door 32. Make voice announcements to notify. The display 341 notifies the elevating direction of the car 3, the position of the car 3, and the like by characters and images.

The car control device 35 is a notification system (control system) 350 that notifies a user who has forgotten to register the destination floor of the fact that unregistration has occurred, and a car control that controls the raising and lowering of the car 3 and the opening and closing of the car door 32. It functionally has a unit 353 and a timer unit 354 that measures the current time like a clock (see FIG. 3). Similar to the operation control device 4, the car control device 35 is, for example, a CPU, a non-volatile storage element such as a ROM or an EEPROM that stores various programs executed by the CPU and data necessary for the execution in advance. It is composed of a board, a microcomputer, or the like provided with a volatile storage element such as RAM, which is a so-called working memory of the CPU, and peripheral circuits thereof.

The car control unit 353 of the present embodiment controls the opening / closing operation of the car door 32 in the car 3 and controls for raising and lowering the car 3.

The notification system 350 outputs a signal to the determination unit 351 that determines whether or not notification by the notification device 34 is necessary, and the notification device 34 that prompts the registration of the destination floor when it is determined that notification is necessary. The output unit 352 and the output unit 352 are functionally included.

The determination unit 351 determines whether or not notification by the notification device 34 is necessary under various conditions. The determination unit 351 of the present embodiment notifies the notification device 34 when a predetermined time (for example, 5 to 10 seconds) has elapsed from the closing of the car door 32 without registration of the destination floor after the opening / closing operation of the car door 32. It is judged that notification by is necessary. Specifically, when the closing operation of the car door 32 is completed, the determination unit 351 inquires the timer unit 354 about the time until the car is called, and a predetermined time elapses after the door is closed without the car being called. Then, it is determined that the notification by the notification device 34 is necessary.

When the determination unit 351 determines that notification by the notification device 34 is necessary, for example, the determination unit 351 outputs a notification required signal to the effect that notification is necessary to the output unit 352.

When the determination unit 351 determines that notification is necessary (for example, when a notification required signal is output from the determination unit 351), the output unit 352 notifies the notification device 34 to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered. Outputs an unregistered notification signal to.

A series of processes related to "notification of the fact that the destination floor has not been registered" by the car control device 35 will be specifically described below with reference to FIG.

When the car 3 arrives at the landing 5, the car door 32 starts to open and is in the open state (fully open state). That is, the opening of the car door 32 is completed (step S1). Further, when the close button 333 is pressed by the user who got into the car 3 or a certain period of time (for example, 3 minutes) has passed since the car door 32 was opened, the door closing of the car door 32 starts. Then, the car door 32 is closed (fully closed). That is, the door closing is completed (step S2).

After the closing of the car door 32 is completed, the determination unit 351 determines whether or not the car is called, and if there is no car call (step S3: No), waits for the car call until a predetermined time elapses (step). S4: No). If there is no car call (step S3: No) and the predetermined time has elapsed (step S4: Yes), the determination unit 351 determines that notification by the notification device 34 is necessary. At this time, the determination unit 351 of the present embodiment outputs the notification required signal to the output unit 352. When the determination unit 351 determines that notification is necessary, the output unit 352 outputs an unregistered notification signal to the notification device 34 so as to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered. As a result, a voice announcement (for example, a voice announcement such as "the destination floor button was not pressed") is played from the speaker 340 (step S5), and the process ends.

If there is a car call (step S3: Yes), the determination unit 351 in step S4 "determines the elapsed time from the closing of the car door 32" and the "unregistered notification signal by the output unit 352" in step S5. "Voice announcement by the output of" is not performed, and the process ends.

According to the above notification system 350, by measuring the elapsed time from the closing of the car door 32 without the registration of the destination floor by the user, the user boarding without the registration of the destination floor By measuring the elapsed time of and determining that the destination floor has been forgotten to be registered when this elapsed time becomes long, it is possible to reliably notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered. It is possible to be aware of the occurrence of forgetting to register the destination floor.

The notification system of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and it goes without saying that various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, the configuration of one embodiment can be added to the configuration of another embodiment, and a part of the configuration of one embodiment can be replaced with the configuration of another embodiment. In addition, some of the configurations of certain embodiments can be deleted.

In the notification device 34 of the above embodiment, whether or not notification by the notification device 34 is necessary is determined based on the elapsed time from the completion of closing the car door 32 without registration of the destination floor. It may be determined by the elapsed time from the start of closing the car door 32 or the elapsed time from other processing in the state where the car door 32 is not registered. Further, the determination unit 351 of the above embodiment may determine whether or not notification by the notification device 34 is necessary by detecting the elevating state of the car 3 or the operation by the user. Even if the judgment conditions by the judgment unit 351 are different, the output unit 352 is not registered in the notification device 34 so as to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered when the judgment unit 351 determines that notification is necessary. Output a notification signal.

For example, the determination unit 351 may determine that notification by the notification device 34 is necessary when the car 3 starts to move up and down without registration of the destination floor after the opening / closing operation of the car door 32. Hereinafter, a series of processes in this case will be described with reference to FIG.

When the car 3 arrives at the landing 5 and the door opening of the car door 32 is completed (step S11) and the door closing of the car door 32 is completed (step S12), the determination unit 351 determines whether or not the car is called. , Whether or not the car is called is determined, and if there is no car call (step S13: No), the car is waited until the predetermined time elapses (step S14: No). When the car 3 starts to move up and down (step S14: Yes) when there is no car call (step S13: No), the determination unit 351 determines that notification by the notification device 34 is necessary, and outputs, for example, a notification required signal. Output to unit 352. When the determination unit 351 determines that notification is necessary, the output unit 352 outputs an unregistered notification signal to the notification device 34 so as to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered. A voice announcement (for example, a voice announcement such as "The destination floor button was not pressed") is played (step S15), and the process ends. If there is a car call (step S13: No), it depends on the "determination of whether or not the car 3 has started to move up and down" by the determination unit 351 in step S14 and the "output of the unregistered notification signal by the output unit 352" in step S15. No "voice announcement" is made and the process ends.

In such a notification system 350, when the car 3 stopped after ascending / descending starts ascending / descending again by calling or recalling the destination floor without the registration of the destination floor by the user, it is determined that the destination floor has been forgotten to be registered. By doing so, it is possible to reliably notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered, so that the user can be made aware of the occurrence of forgetting to register the destination floor.

For example, the determination unit 351 notifies when the detection unit 36 detects an operation by the user in the car 3 after the car door 32 is opened and closed, and after the car 4 starts to move up and down in response to the recall. It may be determined that notification by the device 34 is necessary. Further, when the detection unit 36 detects the operation by the user in the car 3 after the car 3 starts ascending / descending in response to the landing call after the car door is opened / closed, the notification device 34 needs to be notified. You may judge.

In such a notification system 350, when the user notices that the car 3 is heading to a floor different from the desired floor in response to a recall or a landing call, the user forgets to register the destination floor. By surely determining, the fact that the destination floor has not been registered can be reliably notified, so that the user can be made aware of the occurrence of forgetting to register the destination floor.

When the determination unit 351 determines that notification is necessary, the output unit 352 of the above embodiment outputs an unregistered notification signal to the notification device 34 so as to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered, and as a result, the output unit 352 outputs an unregistered notification signal. The fact of this unregistered occurrence has been notified from the notification device 34, but when it is determined that the notification is necessary, the fact of the unregistered occurrence and the operation status of the car 3 may be notified. For example, the output unit 352 notifies the occurrence of forgetting registration (for example, outputs an unregistered notification signal to the notification device 34 so as to notify the fact that unregistration of the destination floor has occurred), and also regarding the operation status of the car. An operation status notification signal may be output to the notification device 34 so as to notify. In this case, for example, when the destination floor is unregistered and the car 3 moves up and down by recalling, a voice announcement such as "The destination floor button was not pressed, so the user will move to the lobby floor" is played from the speaker 340. .. Also, for example, if the destination floor is unregistered and the car 3 goes up due to a landing call from the 5th floor, the speaker 340 says, "Because the destination floor button was not pressed, it goes up to the 5th floor." A voice announcement is played.

In such a notification system 350, it is possible to notify the user who has forgotten to register the destination floor of the operation status of the car 3, for example, the elevating direction of the car, the floor to which the car moves, and the like. .. Therefore, it is possible to secure a sense of security for the user regarding the operation of the elevator.

The detection unit 36 of the above embodiment has detected a button operation such as a destination floor button 331. However, for example, when a user holds a card key in the car 3 to register a car call, the card key is used. You may detect the operation of holding the.

In the notification device (notification unit) 34 of the above embodiment, the speaker 340 has notified the fact that the destination floor has not been registered, but both the speaker 340 and the display 341, or only the display 341, or in the car 3. A lamp or the like provided may notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered. As this notification, the display 341 displays character information such as "The destination floor button was not pressed". The lamp is provided in close proximity to the display 341, for example, and blinks to notify the fact that the destination floor has not been registered.

Although the notification system 350 of the above embodiment controls one elevator 1, it may control a plurality of elevators 1 each including a car 3. When the notification system 350 controls a plurality of elevators 1, the determination unit 351 may determine for each car 3 whether or not notification by the notification device 34 is necessary.

The determination unit 351 and the output unit 352 of the above embodiment are both provided in the car 3, but at least one of them may be provided in a car other than the car 3. For example, at least one of the determination unit 351 and the output unit 352 may be provided in the operation control device 4.

When the notification system 350 controls a plurality of elevators 1, the operation control unit 40 may perform operation management (so-called group management) in which landing calls are assigned to the plurality of cars 3. In the operation management by group management, when a landing call is made at a landing on a predetermined floor, a car 3 corresponding to the landing call is selected from a plurality of cars 3 so as to increase the transportation efficiency of the user. The selected car 3 heads for the landing 5 containing the landing call. Although the elevator 1 of the above embodiment is provided with one car 3, the elevator 1 may be provided with a plurality of cars 3.

1 ... elevator, 2 ... hoistway, 4 ... operation control device, 5 ... landing, 31 ... car body, 32 ... car door, 33 ... operation panel, 34 ... notification device (notification unit), 35 ... control device, 36 ... Detection unit, 40 ... Operation control unit, 51 ... Landing door, 52 ... Landing call button, 311 ... Doorway, 331 ... Destination floor button, 332 ... Open button, 333 ... Close button, 340 ... Speaker, 341 ... Display, 350 ... Notification system (control system), 351 ... Judgment unit, 352 ... Output unit, 353 ... Car control unit, 354 ... Timer unit

Claims (4)

It is an elevator control system equipped with a notification unit in the car.
After opening and closing the car door, when the car starts to move up and down without registration of the destination floor, the judgment unit that determines that notification by the notification unit is necessary, and
An elevator control system including an output unit that outputs a signal to the notification unit to notify the fact that an unregistered destination floor has occurred when the determination unit determines that the notification is necessary. It is an elevator control system equipped with a notification unit in the car.
The car is equipped with a detector that detects the operation by the user in the car, and can move up and down to the preset reference floor according to the recall.
After the car door opens and closes , the car starts moving up and down in response to the recall without registration of the destination floor, and when the detection unit detects an operation by the user in the car, the notification unit needs to notify. Judgment department to judge and
An elevator control system including an output unit that outputs a signal to the notification unit to notify the fact that an unregistered destination floor has occurred when the determination unit determines that the notification is necessary. It is an elevator control system equipped with a notification unit in the car.
The car is equipped with a detector that detects operations by users in the car.
When the detection unit detects an operation by a user in the car after the car starts to move up and down in response to a landing call after opening and closing the car door, a judgment unit that determines that notification by the notification unit is necessary, and a judgment unit.
An elevator control system including an output unit that outputs a signal to the notification unit to notify the fact that an unregistered destination floor has occurred when the determination unit determines that the notification is necessary. The elevator control system according to any one of claims 1 to 3 , wherein the output unit outputs a signal to the notification unit to notify the operation status of the car when the destination floor is unregistered. ..

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