JPH0111650Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to an elevator landing notification device, and is particularly effective in a group control elevator in which a plurality of elevators are installed in parallel.

Generally, when a hall button installed at an elevator landing is pressed, it lights up a call response light to notify that the hall call has been registered, and when the elevator responds to the hall call and arrives, the call is canceled. The arrival of the elevator is notified by turning off the call answering light.

By the way, if the elevator responding to the floor where the landing button is pressed has already stopped, the call answering light will not turn on from the beginning and the door will be opened immediately to allow the passenger to board the car. . In this case, the call response light does not light up, so the customer actually sees the elevator door open and knows that he or she has responded to pressing the hall button. However, in group-controlled elevators, the landing button that is pressed may be far away from the elevator that responds to the call.
In such a case, if there is an elevator that has already stopped as described above, the customers may not be aware of its existence. This state will be explained with reference to FIG. Figure 1 is a top view of the landing of any floor when six elevators _of A to F are installed in _parallel . ,
This is a landing button with a built-in call response light. In Figure 1, if Car F is currently stopped on this floor and a waiting passenger presses the hall button _H1 , if Car F answers this call, the call answering light will not be turned on and the F car will respond to the call.
The doors of Car No. 1 open immediately, but because the landing button _H1 and Car F are far apart, passengers may not notice this. If the passenger does not notice the existence of Car F, he or she will feel doubtful whether or not pressing the landing button was effective, and will press the button again and again, resulting in the elevator's departure being delayed. There may be cases where you are blocked or even miss the train.

The present invention was developed in view of the above points, and if the landing button on the floor where the responding car is stopped is pressed, it is effective to press that landing button.
The feature is that the call response light is lit in a different manner than usual to notify both that the call has been registered and that there is an elevator on that floor that responds. be.

A case where an embodiment of the present invention is applied to a group control elevator will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flowchart of a program when the present invention is implemented using a microcomputer (hereinafter referred to as a microcomputer).

In FIG. 2, 201-206 indicate each step of the flowchart. First step 2
At step 01, the program starts when it is detected that a landing button on a certain floor has been pressed. In addition to signals from the hall buttons, the microcomputer receives operating information such as the car position and driving direction from the control device of each car. When a hall button is pressed, the call is registered and the elevator to which the call is to be answered is determined.Next, in step 202, it is determined whether the elevator to respond has stopped at the floor where the hall button was pressed. If the elevator to respond has not stopped at that floor, the process advances to step 203, and a command to turn on the call response light is issued. As a result, the call response light built into the hall button lights up to notify the passenger that the hall call has been registered, and continues in this state until the response elevator arrives at step 204. When the responding elevator arrives at the floor, it cancels the call registration and issues a command to turn off the call response light in step 205, and the program ends.

On the other hand, if the response elevator has already stopped at the floor where the hall button was pressed, the process proceeds from step 202 to step 206, where a command (pulse signal, etc.) to blink the call response light for a certain period of time is issued. For example, in the example described above with reference to FIG. 1, at least the call response light of the pressed hall button _H1 is turned on.
By flashing the call answering light, the passenger knows that pressing the hall button was valid and that the answering elevator has already arrived at that floor. The call answering light blinks for a certain period of time, then goes out, and the program ends.

In this way, the present invention turns on the call answering light even if the answering elevator has already stopped at the floor where the landing button is pressed, and also notifies passengers in a different manner than usual, such as blinking. Not only can you know that pressing the landing button was valid, but you can also immediately determine whether or not there is a responding elevator on that floor, and as mentioned above, if there is a responding elevator at a distance or behind the landing button. Even if there is
This eliminates the possibility of delaying the departure of the responding elevator due to missing the train without realizing it or pressing the landing button again.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a top view of a group control elevator landing, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a program for carrying out the present invention. A to F... Elevator units, G... Landing area,
H ₁ to _{H 4} ... landing button, 201 to 206 ... each step of the flowchart.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) When multiple elevators are installed side by side and a common landing button for these elevators is pressed, if the elevator responding to the landing call is not stopped at the floor in question, is an elevator hall notification device that registers the hall call and lights up a call response light, and if the elevator that responds to the hall call is stopped at the floor concerned, the response light of the pressed hall button is What is claimed is: 1. An elevator landing notification device characterized by comprising means for lighting in a manner different from normal. (2) The elevator landing notification device according to claim 1, wherein the unusual feature is to blink for a certain period of time.