JPH0157040B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] This invention relates to an improvement in a guide device in an elevator.

[Prior art]

As a prior art related to this invention, Jikkosho
53-40843, when using an elevator, first operate the up button or down button provided at the landing in order to go to the desired place on the desired floor. The system registers a landing call, and uses this landing call to summon the car. When the car arrives, the user gets into the car and registers a car call using a destination button installed inside the car, thereby moving the car to the desired floor. When the car reaches the destination floor, the user gets off the car and heads to the destination.

In this case, if the passenger who gets off the elevator knows the route from the elevator landing to the above-mentioned destination, there will be no problem, but for example, if the passenger is looking for a room in a hotel, or if the passenger is in a department store, etc. It often takes a long time to find a store in an unfamiliar place, such as finding a sales floor for a particular product or finding a place to visit in an office building.

[Summary of the invention]

Therefore, this invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem, and by effectively utilizing the wasted time when passengers are riding in the car,
By providing directions to the desired location,
To provide an elevator guide device capable of shortening route search time.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIGS. 1 to 9 are circuit diagrams showing an embodiment of an elevator guide system according to the present invention, and particularly show a case where one car is installed in a five-story building. In Figure 1, A is the landing area on the 3rd floor, and B is the landing area A.
Door C is a car position indicator installed at the landing to indicate the position of the car by lighting a lamp;
Reference numeral 10 is a destination designation device installed at the landing on the third floor to designate the destination of the passenger, and the name 10a to 10g of each location and the floor are written, and the designation is written on the side of each marking position. Specified buttons 1A to 7 for
A is arranged. 1B to 7B are built in designation buttons 1A to 7A, respectively, and are designated button lights that light up when a destination designation is registered. 3U and 3D are up and down buttons for registering up and down calls, respectively, and 3UL and 3DL is an up button light and a down button light that are built into the up button 3U and down button 3D, respectively, and turn on when an up call and a down call are registered. Note that the destination designation device 10 has a designation button 1.
It is also designed to be used as a hall destination button device for automatically registering a car call for a specified floor on the car when buttons A to 7A are operated. That is, when one of the location designation buttons 1A to 3A on a floor below the third floor is operated, a down call is registered and the car is called, and when the car arrives, it is moved to the designated location 10a to 10c. The car call for a certain floor is automatically registered in the car. Therefore,
Passengers no longer need to board the car and operate destination buttons inside the car. In addition, when any of the location designation buttons 4A to 7A on floors above the third floor is operated, an up call is registered and the car is called, and when the car arrives, it is moved to the designated location 10d to 7A.
The car call for floor 10g is automatically registered in the car.

Figure 2 shows the inside of the car, where D is the car, E is the car door, F is the car operation panel where destination buttons etc. are installed, and G is the car position that can be determined by lighting the lamp. The car position indicator 11 is a cathode ray tube display (hereinafter referred to as CRT) installed above the car door B, and the display screen shows directions to the location specified by the passenger. Display and guide.

FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram showing an example of a car control device. In the figure, 14A is a hall call registration circuit that registers and cancels hall calls (up calls, down calls, and destination floor calls) and destination location designations for each floor;
14B is a generally known car call registration circuit, 14C
14D is a well-known operation control circuit that controls basic operations such as running, stopping, and driving direction setting of the car in order to make the car respond to car calls and landing calls; 14D is a well-known door that controls the opening and closing of the car door; control circuit, 1
4E is a guide circuit that controls the alarm 11 in the car.

FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram corresponding to the third floor of the hall call registration circuit 14A, and FIG. 5 is a circuit diagram showing details of the guidance circuit 14E, in which 1c to 7c are destination designation buttons 1A to 3rd floor. Destination designation registration signal that becomes “H” when destination designation is registered by 7A, 30
1, 302, 304, and 305 are destination call registration signals 33U that become "H" when destination calls for the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th floors are registered using the destination designation buttons 1A to 7A on the 3rd floor. , 33D are each 3
These are the up call registration signal and the down call registration signal which become "H" when the up call and down call of the floor are registered. 41 to 45 are car position signals that become "H" when the car is on the 1st to 5th floors, respectively, 51U, 51D
The basket has an up direction signal and a down direction signal, 61
When the cage is responding to a call (the period from when the door is decided to stop, when the door is opened, and when the door is closed again until just before the door closes), the operation is controlled by the call answering signal that becomes "H". It is set by circuit 14C. Reference numeral 62 is a door closing signal which becomes "H" when the door of the car is closed, and is set in the door control circuit 14D. 55U and 55D are the 3rd floor upbound landing calls (upbound calls and upper floor destination calls)
and an up call cancellation signal and a down call cancellation signal that become "H" when canceling the registration of a landing call in the down direction (down call and lower floor destination call), 80
1 to 803 are memories constituted by R-S flip-flop circuits, 821 to 827 are memories in which image information indicating directions to locations 10a to 10g are stored, respectively, and 831 to 837 are memories constituted by R-S flip-flop circuits; A well-known selection circuit 838 outputs the input signal of point I from point P only when the signal is ``H'', and 838 superimposes the input signals (image information) of points _I1 to _I7 and outputs an image signal 828a from point P. Well-known synthesis circuit, 841
-860 are AND gates, and 861-865 are OR gates.

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the fifth floor of the building, with reference numeral 91 showing the locations of the elevator, 92 the restaurant, and 93 the shoe shop.

Figures 7 to 9 show the restaurant on the 5th floor, respectively.
This screen shows the screen showing directions to the shop, the restaurant, and the shop on the CRT of the alarm 11. In the figure, 92a is an arrow indicating the route to the restaurant, and 93a is the direction to the shop. This is an arrow indicating. Note that information for displaying the images in FIGS. 7 and 8 is stored in memories 827 and 826, respectively.

In the elevator guide system configured in this way, if the car is currently moving in the up direction and is on the first floor, the third floor circuit of the hall call registration circuit 14A will determine the car position on the third floor. Signal 43 is “L”
, and gates 841 and 842
The up call cancellation signal 55U and the down call cancellation signal 55D become "L" via. Further, the output signals of AND gates 844 to 846 are also at "L". Suppose that a passenger entering the landing on the third floor for the first time (assuming a passenger going to the restaurant on the fifth floor) presses the designated button 7A on the landing operation panel 10.
The contents of the memory 813 are set to "H" and the restaurant destination designation registration signal 7C becomes "H".

On the other hand, since the output signal of OR gate 865 is "H", the output signal of OR gate 862 is also "H".
Therefore, the contents of memories 806 and 802 are set to "H" and the destination call registration signal 3 for the 5th floor is output.
At the same time that 05 becomes "H", the third floor up call registration signal 330 also becomes "H". At this time, the output signal of the AND gate 860 becomes "H", so the designated button light 7B lights up to notify that the destination designation has been registered, and the up button light 3UL also lights up to alert the passenger to an upbound call. Notify that you have been registered.

When the car arrives at the third floor in response to the third floor up call, the third floor car position signal 43 becomes "H" and the call response signal 61 becomes "H". At this time, in the car call registration circuit 14B, the 5th floor destination call registration signal 3
05 is "H", the 5th floor car call is registered, the 5th floor destination button light (not shown) provided on the car operation panel F in the car lights up, and the 5th floor car call is registered. Informs you that the call has been automatically registered. Therefore, when a passenger on the third floor who is going to the restaurant on the fifth floor boards the car, the passenger does not need to press the destination button in the car because the car call for the fifth floor has already been registered.

On the third floor, when boarding and alighting are completed and the door of the car starts to close, the door closing signal 62 becomes "H" and the up direction signal 51U is "H", so the AND gate 842 in FIG. 4 is activated. The uplink cancellation signal 55U becomes "H" through the memory 802, 80.
6 are reset to "L", the third floor up call registration signal 33U becomes "L", and the up button light 3UL goes out. Further, the 5th floor destination call registration signal 305 is also reset to "L", and the designated button light 7B for the restaurant is sent via the AND gate 860.
Control lights off.

Next, when the car reaches the 5th floor after closing the door and leaving the 3rd floor, the 5th floor car position signal 45 becomes "H".
becomes. When it is decided to stop the car in response to the car call on the 5th floor, the call answering signal 61 becomes "H" and the output signal of the AND gate 853 shown in FIG. The output signal of the memory 827 in which image information indicating the route to the restaurant is stored is sent to the synthesis circuit 83 via the selection circuit 837.
8. Also, and gate 847-8
Since the output signals of 52 points are all "L", the synthesis circuit 838 outputs the input signals of ₇ points as is as an image signal 838a, so that the image shown in FIG. 7 is displayed on the alarm 11 in the car. Display. Therefore, a passenger going to the restaurant on the fifth floor can know the route to the restaurant 92 by the arrow 92a before leaving the car.

Next, when the passenger gets off the car and the car starts closing,
Since the door closing operation signal 62 becomes "H", the fourth
The output signal of the AND gate 846 in the figure becomes "H", the memory 813 is reset, and the restaurant destination designation registration signal 7c becomes "L". Therefore, the output signal of the AND gate 853 shown in FIG.
The output signal No. 7 is no longer output, and accordingly, the screen of the notification board 11 disappears, and the guidance ends.

Here, if the destination designation registration signals 7c and 6c for the restaurant and the shop shop are both "H" when the car arrives at the 5th floor, the points _I7 and _I6 of the combining circuit 838 are Since image signals as shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 are inputted, these are superimposed and the output signal 838a of the synthesis circuit 838 is an image signal displaying an image as shown in FIG. 9. Become. This operation is the same even when the car arrives at another floor; image information guiding the route to the designated location is retrieved from the respective memories 821 to 825, and this image information is sent to the alarm 11. Guide by displaying information.

In this way, a destination designation device is installed at the landing to designate the destination of the passenger, and when the location is designated by this device, when the car arrives at the floor where the designated location is located, the designated destination is sent from the elevator hall. Since the route to the destination is shown using images, passengers can easily get to the desired location in a short time without getting lost even in unfamiliar locations. Furthermore, by operating the destination designation device, a car is called, and the car call on the floor where the designated location is located is automatically registered, so that it also functions as a landing destination button. In addition, the elevator can be used more easily with an inexpensive configuration.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the case where the destination designation device is installed on the third floor has been explained, but it goes without saying that it can also be applied when it is installed on other floors or when it is installed on all floors. . Further, in the above embodiment, a case has been described in which the destination designation device is provided at the landing, but it goes without saying that it may be provided inside the car and also serve as an in-car destination button, for example. Furthermore, in the above embodiment,
Although the directions are provided from the time when the car stops to the time when the door starts closing, the guidance period is not limited to this and may be any time from when the passenger gets on the car to when the passenger gets off the car. Furthermore, it is also easy to provide directions for each floor or destination by providing two or more alarms in the car. Furthermore, 1
You can also split the screen into two screens to display directions to each destination. Furthermore, arrows showing directions,
Any display format that makes the directions easier to understand, such as changing the color of the designated location or flashing that portion, may be used. Furthermore, in the above embodiment, a case has been described in which a cathode ray tube is used as an alarm to provide image guidance to a designated place. Any type of alarm that uses visual display elements such as tubes or LEDs to provide text or graphic guidance, or audio guidance may be sufficient. Also,
In the above embodiment, a single elevator has been described, but the invention is also applicable to a case where a plurality of elevators are arranged side by side and managed in groups.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the elevator guidance device according to this application focuses on the fact that the elevator car is the starting point of the traffic flow line on each floor of the building, and allows the designation means to specify the route from the elevator car to the destination. As the notification is made selectively, even people who are unfamiliar with the building can choose the desired destination from among many other locations within a short period of time between the start and stop of the elevator. It has the effect of being easily recognized.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a landing showing an embodiment of an elevator guide device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view showing the interior of the elevator car shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a front view of an elevator guide according to this invention. FIGS. 4 and 5 are block diagrams of a control circuit showing one embodiment of the device; FIGS. 6 and 6 are block diagrams showing a specific example of the circuit shown in FIG.
9 to 9 are diagrams showing display examples. A... Landing, B... Door, C... Car position indicator, D... Car, E... Door, F... Destination button,
10... Destination designation device, 11... Alarm, 14A
. . . Hall call registration circuit, 14B . . . Car call registration circuit, 14C . . . Operation control circuit, 14D .

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A designation means provided in an elevator landing or in a car for passengers to designate a destination in a building, a memory that stores the route from the car to the destination, and the purpose specified by the designation means. a selection circuit for selecting the route corresponding to the location from the memory; and a selection circuit provided in the car, at least during the period from when the car leaves for the floor where the destination place is located as the next destination floor until the car arrives at the floor where the destination place is located. and notification means for notifying the selected route.