JP7114780B1 - Elevator control device and elevator control method - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to ensure the irradiation time of light from a sterilization lamp necessary for sterilizing a destination floor button regardless of the operation timing of the destination floor button. An elevator control device according to an embodiment is an elevator control device for raising and lowering a car in response to a destination floor call registration by a destination floor button provided on a control panel in an elevator car, and comprising a lighting control unit. Prepare. The lighting control unit lights the sterilization lamp of the target floor button, which is the destination floor button of the destination floor whose call is registered, and turns on the target floor button when the car door is opened in response to the call to the destination floor. After turning off the germicidal lamp and closing the door, turn on the germicidal lamp of the target destination floor button. [Selection drawing] Fig. 1

Description

An embodiment of the present invention relates to an elevator control device and an elevator control method.

In order to prevent the spread of various viruses due to the influence of the new coronavirus, it is necessary to sterilize and disinfect objects that people touch. technology has been developed to Elevators are no exception, and elevators have a large number of buttons installed in the car, which need to be sterilized.

JP 2010-163231 A JP 2011-143994 A

However, when sterilizing the buttons in the elevator car with light from a germicidal lamp or the like, it is necessary to irradiate the buttons with light for a certain period of time. Occasionally, the irradiation time is insufficient.

An elevator control device according to an embodiment is an elevator control device that raises and lowers a car in response to a destination floor call registration by a destination floor button provided on a control panel in an elevator car, and includes a lighting control unit. The lighting control unit lights the sterilization lamp of the target floor button, which is the destination floor button of the destination floor whose call is registered, and turns on the target floor button when the car door is opened in response to the call to the destination floor. After turning off the germicidal lamp and closing the door, turn on the germicidal lamp of the target destination floor button.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of an elevator system to which an elevator control device according to a first embodiment is applied. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a control panel included in the elevator system according to the first embodiment; FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a control panel included in the elevator system according to the first embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of lighting processing of a germicidal lamp of a destination floor button in the elevator system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example of a germicidal lamp lighting process for a destination floor button in an elevator system according to Modification 2. In FIG.

An example of an elevator control device and an elevator control method according to the present embodiment will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of an elevator system to which an elevator control device according to a first embodiment is applied. 2 and 3 are diagrams showing an example of a control panel included in the elevator system according to the first embodiment. First, an example of the configuration of an elevator system 100 according to this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. FIG.

An elevator system 100 according to this embodiment includes a control device 10, a car 30, and operation panels 310 and 320, as shown in FIG. The control device 10 is also connected to a monitoring board 40 as shown in FIG.

The car 30 is an example of a car that moves up and down in a building and transports users who have boarded at landings provided on each floor of the building to other floors. A control panel 320 is installed inside the car 30 .

The operation panel 310 is provided at the elevator hall and has a plurality of buttons that can be operated by the user. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the operation panel 310 has up and down buttons 312 capable of accepting call registration for dispatching the car 30 to the hall (hereinafter referred to as hall call registration). The up and down buttons 312 include, for example, an up button 312u and a down button 312d. By pressing one of these buttons, the user can enter a hall call registration (UP call registration) that instructs the allocation of the car 30 bound for the upper floors or the hall that instructs the allocation of the car 30 bound for the lower floors. Call registration (DN call registration) can be performed.

In addition, the upper button 312u and the lower button 312d have germicidal lamps 313u and 313d that irradiate the upper button 312u and the lower button 312d with light to sterilize the upper button 312u and the lower button 312d. Further, the up button 312u and the down button 312d may have frame light sources 314u and 314d for lighting or blinking the frames of the up button 312u and the down button 312d.

The operation panel 320 has a plurality of buttons that can be operated by the user. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the operation panel 320 includes destination floor buttons 323a, 323b, 323c, and 323d provided for each destination floor and equipped with germicidal lamps 325a, 325b, 325c, 325d, 325e, and 325f. , 323e and 323f. In the following description, the destination floor buttons 323a, 323b, 323c, 323d, 323e, and 323f are referred to as the destination floor button 323 when not distinguished. In the following description, the germicidal lamps 325a, 325b, 325c, 325d, 325e, and 325f are referred to as germicidal lamps 325 when not distinguished from each other.

Then, when the user operates (presses) a destination floor button 323, the operation panel 320 accepts call registration of the destination floor corresponding to the operated destination floor button 323 (hereinafter referred to as car call registration). Here, the sterilization lamp 325 is an example of a sterilization lamp that irradiates the destination floor button 323 with light to sterilize the destination floor button 323 . Also, the destination floor button 323 may have frame light sources 326a, 326b, 326c, 326d, 326e, and 326f for lighting or blinking the frames of the destination floor button 323. FIG. In the following description, the frame light sources 326a, 326b, 326c, 326d, 326e, and 326f are referred to as frame light sources 326 when not distinguished.

The operation panel 320 also has car inner door open/close buttons 322 c and 322 d and a door open extension button 324 . Here, the car inner door open/close buttons 322c, 322d are buttons capable of instructing opening and closing of the door of the car 30, and have germicidal lamps 327c, 327d. Further, the door open extension button 324 is a button capable of instructing extension of the door open state of the door of the car 30 and has a germicidal lamp 328 .

The control device 10 is configured as a computer including, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), and the like. For example, the control device 10 reads out a program stored in a ROM or the like, develops it in a RAM, and executes it, thereby realizing the functions of the car elevation control unit 11 and the lighting control unit 12. Elevator control It is an example of a device.

The car elevation control unit 11 raises and lowers the car 30 according to the car call registration of the destination floor received by the operation panel 320, and responds to the call to the destination floor for which the car call registration has been received (hereinafter referred to as car call response). ) causes the car 30 to land on the destination floor. In addition, the car elevation control unit 11 raises and lowers the car 30 according to the hall call registration received by the operation panel 310, and responds to the hall call registered (hereinafter referred to as hall call response). , to land the car 30 on the landing.

The lighting control unit 12 lights the germicidal lamp 325 of the destination floor button 323 (hereinafter referred to as the target destination floor button) 323 for which the car call is registered by the destination floor button 323 of the operation panel 320 . Further, after the car 30 lands on the destination floor in response to the car call response to the registered car call and the door of the car 30 is opened, the lighting control unit 12 activates the target destination floor button 323. The germicidal lamp 325 is turned off. After that, the lighting control unit 12 functions as an example of a lighting control unit that lights the germicidal lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 after the door of the car 30 is closed.

As a result, regardless of the operation timing of the destination floor button 323, it is possible to maintain the irradiation time of the light from the sterilization lamp 325 to the destination floor button 323. The irradiation time of light from 325 can be secured.

For example, after the car 30 lands on the destination floor and the sterilization lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 is turned off, the lighting control unit 12 turns off the target destination floor button 323 to the predetermined level necessary for sterilization. Time (an example of the predetermined time) determines whether or not the germicidal lamp 325 has been able to irradiate the light. Then, if the target destination floor button 323 has not been irradiated with light from the sterilization lamp 325 for a predetermined time, the lighting control unit 12 determines that the target destination floor button 323 is irradiated with insufficient light for sterilization. Calculate the time shortage. Next, the lighting control unit 12 relights the germicidal lamp 325 for the calculated insufficient time after the door of the car 30 is closed.

At that time, if the target destination floor button 323 is lit in the same way as when the target destination floor button 323 is operated, the elevator user misunderstands that the car call registration for the destination floor has been erroneously performed. may give Therefore, the lighting control unit 12 may light or blink the frame light source 326 of the target destination floor button 323 in accordance with lighting of the germicidal lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 . As a result, the user of the elevator can recognize that the target destination floor button 323 is being sterilized. can be prevented.

Further, in response to car call registration by the target destination floor button 323, the lighting control unit 12 controls the direction of movement (first 2 movement direction), the sterilization lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 may be turned off.

Further, the lighting control unit 12 controls the case where car call registration is not performed by the destination floor button 323 (including the case where the hall call registration is performed by the up/down button 312 of the operation panel 310 and the car 30 is running). , the sterilization lamps 327c, 327d, 328 of the car inner door opening/closing buttons 322c, 322d and the door opening extension button 324 of the operation panel 320 are turned on. At this time, since there is no user in the car 30, the lighting control unit 12 does not need to light the frame light sources of the car inner door opening/closing buttons 322c and 322d and the door opening extension button 324.

Further, when the up/down button 312 is operated and the hall call registration is accepted, the lighting control unit 12 turns on the germicidal lamps 313u and 313d of the up/down button 312 . Although the user frequently operates the up/down button 312 of the operation panel 310, if the sterilization lamp 325 is turned on again after the car 30 responds to the car call to the destination floor like the destination floor button 323 of the operation panel 320. , there is a possibility that elevator users may misunderstand that the hall call registration has already been performed.

Therefore, the lighting control unit 12 may turn on the germicidal lamps 313u and 313d of the up/down button 312 when it is determined that there are no users at the hall using a camera or the like installed at the hall. Alternatively, the lighting control unit 12 may temporarily turn on the sterilization lamps 313u and 313d of the up/down button 312 when receiving a sterilization command instructing sterilization from an external device such as the monitoring panel 40 or the like.

The monitoring board 40 is configured as a computer including, for example, a CPU, a ROM, and a RAM. The monitoring board 40 implements the functions of the monitoring unit 41 and the command unit 42 by, for example, having the CPU read a program stored in a ROM or the like, develop it in a RAM, and execute it.

The monitoring unit 41 acquires from the elevator system 100 various information regarding the operation status of the elevator system 100 and monitors the elevator system 100 based on the information. Based on the information acquired from the elevator system 100 , the monitoring unit 41 determines whether or not control operation such as fire control operation of the elevator system 100 is required.

The command unit 42 issues various commands to the control device 10 of the elevator system 100 based on the monitoring by the monitor unit 41 . For example, when the monitoring unit 41 determines that the controlled operation of the elevator system 100 is necessary, the command unit 42 instructs the control device 10 to perform the controlled operation. Further, for example, the command unit 42 transmits a sterilization command for instructing sterilization of the up/down button 312 of the operation panel 310 for each preset period.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of lighting processing of a germicidal lamp of a destination floor button in the elevator system according to the first embodiment. Next, an example of lighting processing of the germicidal lamp 325 of the destination floor button 323 in the elevator system 100 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

For example, at time t1 when the car 30 is stopped on the first floor, the operation panel 310 of the second floor hall accepts a hall call registration (UP call registration), or the operation panel 320 provided in the car 30 When the second floor destination floor button 323b is pressed and the car call registration is accepted, the car elevation control unit 11 raises the car 30 from the first floor to the second floor. Next, at time t2 when the elevator car 30 lands on the second floor and responds to the elevator call (second-floor elevator car call response), the elevator elevator control unit 11 opens the doors of the elevator car 30 . At that time, the lighting control unit 12 turns off the germicidal lamp 325b of the second floor destination floor button 323b of the operation panel 320 .

After the user gets on the car 30 , the car elevating control unit 11 closes the door of the car 30 . At time t3 when the door of the car 30 is closed, the lighting control unit 12 relights the germicidal lamp 325b of the second floor destination floor button 323b of the operation panel 320 .

Further, when the destination floor button 323e of the fifth floor of the operation panel 320 is pressed and the car call registration is accepted, the car elevation control unit 11 raises the car 30 from the second floor to the fifth floor and arrives at the fifth floor. lay on the floor Then, at time t4 when the elevator car 30 has landed on the fifth floor (5th floor elevator car call response), the elevator elevator control unit 11 opens the door of the elevator car 30, and then closes the door. Close. At time t5 when the door of the car 30 is closed, the lighting control unit 12 turns on the germicidal lamp 325e of the fifth floor destination floor button 323e of the operation panel 320. FIG.

At time t6 when the car 30 is waiting on the 5th floor, when the user does not get on the car 30 even though the hall call for the upper floor direction is registered on the 5th floor, the lighting control unit 12 , the sterilization lamp 325e of the destination floor button 323e of the fifth floor of the operation panel 320 may continue to be lit. A transition from time t6 to time t7, which will be described later, indicates a case where a passenger does not board the car 30 although a hall call registration has occurred on the fifth floor where the car 30 is waiting.

At time t5 or time t6, when a hall call registration (DN call registration) is accepted by the operating panel 310 of the hall on the floor above the second floor (for example, the sixth floor), the car elevation control unit 11 moves the car 30 is raised from the 5th floor to the 6th floor. At time t7 when the car 30 moves from the 5th floor to the 6th floor, the lighting control unit 12 continues lighting the germicidal lamps 325b and 325e of the destination floor buttons 323b and 323e of the 2nd and 5th floors of the operation panel 320. . In this case, time t7 in FIG. 4 is a diagram assuming a transition from time t6, and the car 30 is in the open state. When there is a transition from time t5 to time t7, the elevator car 30 is closed because no hall call registration has occurred at the waiting floor of the elevator car 30 .

After that, at time t8 when the car 30 lands on the 6th floor and responds to the hall call (6th floor DN call response), the car lift control unit 11 opens the door of the car 30 . After the user gets on the car 30, the car elevating control unit 11 closes the door of the car 30 and moves the car 30 down from the sixth floor. At that time, since the moving direction of the car 30 is reversed from the upward direction to the downward direction in response to the sixth floor DN call response, the lighting control unit 12 operates the second and fifth floor destination floor buttons on the operation panel 320. The germicidal lamps 325b, 325e of 323b, 323e are extinguished.

As described above, the elevator system 100 according to the first embodiment can maintain the irradiation time of the light from the germicidal lamp 325 to the destination floor button 323 regardless of the operation timing of the destination floor button 323. , the irradiation time of light from the sterilization lamp 325 required for sterilization of the destination floor button 323 can be ensured.

(Modification 1)
In this modification, when the lighting time of the germicidal lamp of the target floor button has passed a predetermined time after closing the door of the car at the destination floor and before switching from the moving direction of the car, the germicidal lamp is turned off. This is an example of turning off the light. In the following description, description of the same configuration as in the first embodiment will be omitted.

In this modification, when the door of the car 30 is opened by the car call response that causes the car 30 to land on the destination floor, and then the door of the car 30 is closed, the lighting control unit 12 , the sterilization lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 on the operation panel 320 is turned on again. At that time, the lighting control unit 12 may light or blink the frame light source 326 of the target destination floor button 323 .

Then, when the lighting time of the sterilization lamp 325 of the target floor button 323 has passed a predetermined time before the moving direction of the car 30 is switched, the lighting control unit 12 turns off the sterilization lamp 325 of the target floor button 323. Let Thus, it is possible to prevent the sterilization lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 from continuously lighting until the moving direction of the car 30 is reversed even though the target destination floor button 323 has been sterilized.

(Modification 2)
In this modified example, when the moving direction of the car changes to the moving direction opposite to the moving direction of the car when responding to the car call to the destination floor or when responding to the hall call, the sterilization lamp of the target destination floor button lights up. In this example, when the predetermined time has not passed, the sterilization lamp of the target destination floor button is turned on again after the car passes the destination floor for which the car call is registered by the target destination floor button. In the following description, description of the same configuration as in the first embodiment will be omitted.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining an example of a germicidal lamp lighting process for a destination floor button in an elevator system according to Modification 2. In FIG. For example, at time t8 shown in FIG. 2, when the moving direction of the car 30 is reversed and the sterilization lamps 325b, 325e of the destination floor buttons 323b, 323e of the 2nd and 5th floors of the operation panel 320 are turned off, The lighting control unit 12 determines whether the lighting time of the germicidal lamps 325b and 325e has passed a predetermined time.

Then, when the lighting time of the germicidal lamps 325b and 325e has not passed the predetermined time, at time t9, the first floor destination floor button 323a on the operation panel 320 is pressed and car call registration (first floor car call registration) is performed. When accepted, the car elevation control unit 11 starts moving the car 30 downward. Then, at time t10 when the car 30 has passed the fifth floor, the lighting control unit 12 relights the germicidal lamp 325e of the destination floor button 323e of the fifth floor. Further, at time t11 when the car 30 has passed the second floor, the lighting control unit 12 relights the germicidal lamp 325b of the second floor destination floor button 323b. As a result, when the moving direction of the car 30 is reversed and the sterilization lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 is turned off, if the sterilization of the target destination floor button 323 is not completed, the sterilization lamp 325 is turned on again. to sterilize the target destination floor button 323.

At that time, the lighting control unit 12 may light or blink the frame light sources 326b and 326e of the destination floor buttons 323b and 323e on the second and fifth floors of the operation panel 320. FIG. As a result, when the sterilization lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 is turned on again after the moving direction of the car 30 is reversed, the user can easily know that the target destination floor button 323 is being sterilized. recognizable.

(Modification 3)
This modified example is an example in which the germicidal lamps of all the destination floor buttons on the control panel are turned on when the controlled operation of the elevator is activated. In the following description, descriptions of the same configurations as those of the above-described embodiment and modifications will be omitted.

In this modification, when the command unit 42 of the monitoring panel 40 instructs the execution of the controlled operation of the elevator system 100, the lighting control unit 12 turns on the germicidal lamps 325 of all the destination floor buttons 323 of the operation panel 320. light up. As a result, the destination floor buttons 323 can be sterilized when the elevator system 100 is in controlled operation and there are no users.

At that time, the lighting control unit 12 may light or blink the frame light source 326 of the destination floor button 323 . After that, until the instruction to execute the controlled operation of the elevator system 100 from the command unit 42 of the monitoring panel 40 is canceled, in other words, until the elevator system 100 returns from the controlled operation to the normal operation, the lighting control unit 12 The sterilization lamps 325 of all the destination floor buttons 323 of the operation panel 320 continue to light up or blink.

Further, while the elevator system 100 is under control operation, the elevator car 30 lands on the nearest floor or the evacuation floor and stops, and the doors of the elevator car 30 are closed. The germicidal lamps 327c, 327d and 328 of the car inner door opening/closing buttons 322c and 322d and the door opening extension button 324 of the operation panel 320 may be turned on.

(Modification 4)
In this modification, while the germicidal lamp of the target destination floor button is lit, the destination floor call registration by the target destination floor button is disabled, and when the target destination floor button is pressed, the destination floor call registration cannot be performed. This is an example of notifying In the following description, descriptions of the same configurations as those of the above-described embodiment and modifications will be omitted.

In this modification, the lighting control unit 12 prohibits (disables) car call registration for the destination floor by the target destination floor button 323 while the germicidal lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 of the operation panel 320 is on. Here, since the lamps of the target destination floor button 323 including the germicidal lamp 325 are turned on when it is not possible to respond in the current moving direction of the car 30, car registration of the destination floor by the target destination floor button 323 is prohibited. However, no particular problem arises.

Further, when the target destination floor button 323 is pressed while the sterilization lamp 325 of the target destination floor button 323 is on, the lighting control unit 12 notifies that the destination floor button 323 of the operation panel 320 is being sterilized. . Thereby, the user of the elevator system 100 can easily recognize that the car call registration for the destination floor cannot be performed because the target destination floor button 323 is being sterilized. For example, the lighting control unit 12 outputs, from a speaker provided in the car 30, a voice (for example, "Sterilizing") to notify that the destination floor buttons 323 of the operation panel 320 are being sterilized.

As described above, according to the first embodiment and modifications 1 to 4, the irradiation time of light from the sterilization lamp 325 necessary for sterilizing the destination floor button 323 is ensured regardless of the operation timing of the destination floor button 323. can do.

Note that the program executed by the control device 10 of the present embodiment is preinstalled in a ROM (Read Only Memory) or the like and provided. The program executed by the control device 10 of the present embodiment is a file in an installable format or an executable format, and can be installed on a computer such as a CD-ROM, flexible disk (FD), CD-R, DVD (Digital Versatile Disk). It may be configured to be recorded on a readable recording medium and provided.

Further, the program executed by the control device 10 of this embodiment may be stored in a computer connected to a network such as the Internet, and may be provided by being downloaded via the network. Also, the program executed by the control device 10 of the present embodiment may be configured to be provided or distributed via a network such as the Internet.

The program executed by the control device 10 of the present embodiment has a module configuration including the above-described units (car lifting control unit 11, lighting control unit 12), and the actual hardware is a CPU (Central Processing Unit) By reading and executing the program from the ROM by the processor such as there is

While several embodiments of the invention have been described, these embodiments have been presented by way of example and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are included in the scope of the invention described in the claims and equivalents thereof.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10... Control apparatus (elevator control apparatus), 11... Car raising/lowering control part, 12... Lighting control part, 30... Car (car), 40... Monitoring board, 41... Monitoring part, 42... Command part, 100... Elevator system , 310, 320... operation panel.

Claims (8)

An elevator control device for raising and lowering the car in response to a destination floor call registration by a destination floor button provided on a control panel in the elevator car,
The sterilization lamp possessed by the target destination floor button, which is the destination floor button of the destination floor whose call is registered, is turned on, and when the door of the car is opened in response to the call to the destination floor, the sterilization lamp of the target destination floor button is turned on. is turned off, and after the door is closed, the sterilization lamp of the target destination floor button is turned on,
An elevator controller comprising: 2. The elevator control device according to claim 1, wherein said lighting control unit lights or blinks a frame light source of said target destination floor button in accordance with lighting of a germicidal lamp of said target destination floor button. The lighting control unit turns on the germicidal lamp of the target floor button when the moving direction of the car switches to a second moving direction opposite to the first moving direction of the car when responding to a call to the destination floor. 3. The elevator control device according to claim 1, wherein the light is extinguished. When the lighting time of the germicidal lamp of the target floor button has elapsed after the door is closed at the destination floor and before the moving direction of the car is switched, the germicidal lamp is turned on. 4. The elevator control system according to claim 3, which turns off the lights. The lighting control unit turns on the germicidal lamp of the target floor button when the moving direction of the car is switched to the second moving direction opposite to the first moving direction of the car when responding to the call to the destination floor. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the lighting time has not passed a predetermined time, the germicidal lamp of the target destination floor button is relighted after the car passes the destination floor called and registered by the target destination floor button. elevator controller. The elevator control device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the lighting control unit lights the germicidal lamps of all the destination floor buttons of the control panel when the controlled operation of the elevator is activated. The lighting control unit disables the destination floor call registration by the target destination floor button while the germicidal lamp is on, and notifies that the destination floor call registration cannot be performed when the target destination floor button is pressed. 7. An elevator control system as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6. An elevator control method executed by an elevator control device for raising and lowering the car in response to a destination floor call registration by a destination floor button provided on a control panel in the elevator car,
The lighting control unit
a step of turning on a germicidal lamp possessed by a target destination floor button, which is the destination floor button of the destination floor for which the call is registered;
extinguishing the germicidal lamp of the target destination floor button when the door of the car is opened in response to a call to the destination floor;
After closing the door, turning on the germicidal lamp of the target destination floor button;
Elevator control method including.

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