JPH0217467B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an improvement in an elevator call registration device.

Conventionally, in an elevator, a hall call is registered using an up button and a down button provided at the hall, and a car is called by the hall call.
Then, passengers who board the arriving car register the car call using the destination button installed inside the car.
Drive the car to the desired floor.

However, there are cases where it is possible to predict the registration of car calls in advance depending on the use of each floor of a building and the relationship between each floor depending on the use.

For example, during lunch time in an office building, etc., the up button (or down button) on the first floor used as an office is pressed and a landing call is registered.
When a car responds, the car call on the floor above (or below) where the cafeteria is located is always registered.

In such a case, it would be convenient if the car call for that specific floor is automatically registered when a car responds to a hall call, saving passengers on that floor the trouble of operating the destination button inside the car. .

Recently, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 55-80659, a destination button similar to that in the car is provided at the landing of a floor, and when the destination button above the above floor is operated, If you register an up call for a floor and operate a destination button below the above floor, a down call for the above floor will be registered, and when the car arrives, the car call will automatically be sent to the floor corresponding to the operated destination button. are now being registered.

Therefore, similarly to the above case, the passenger can save the effort of operating the destination button inside the car.

However, when the car call was automatically registered, the car call button light suddenly turned on, giving a strange impression to the passengers in the car and causing them to feel suspicious.

In addition, passengers waiting at the platform after pressing the destination button usually have some sense of anxiety as to whether the car call for their destination floor will actually be registered; Because the display on the car operation panel for the car calls that had been registered is the same, there was a problem in that there was a delay in checking the car call registration status of the car call on the destination floor, which caused a delay in resolving the feeling of anxiety.

Furthermore, even if a car call is registered on a floor with an up or down button that can automatically register a car call on a specific floor, or on a floor with a destination button, passengers may not always board the car. do not have.

For example, if a car that responds to a hall call is crowded, passengers at the hall may board another car or wait for another car to arrive because they don't want to be crowded, or they may press the hall button but the car does not arrive. It is also possible that there are no passengers already at the landing because they are using the stairs because it is late.

In this case, automatically registered car calls become wasteful calls, resulting in problems such as reduced elevator operation efficiency such as waiting time for passengers on other floors.
It has been considered to provide a reset button that allows passengers in the car to cancel the registration of car calls automatically registered in the car at the discretion of the passengers in the car.

However, when the car arrives at the landing, it is not possible to distinguish between the car call that was already registered before the car arrived and the car call that was registered by the newly arrived hall operation panel. For this reason, little effort has been made to prevent wasteful operation of elevators.

This invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks, and when a car responds or is determined to respond to a hall call registered by a hall button operated at a hall, a predetermined message corresponding to the hall call is sent to the car. An elevator that automatically registers the car call of a floor, and that makes the elevator friendly and easy to use for passengers in the car by displaying the automatically registered car call in an easy-to-understand manner to the passengers in the car. The purpose of this project is to provide a call registration device.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7.

In Figure 1, X and Y are the landing doors of No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, Z is the landing, and 1A to 7A are the landing doors of No. 1 and No. 2, respectively.
This is a destination button that registers the destination call corresponding to the 7th floor in both the 1st and 2nd cars, and these buttons are arranged on the landing operation panel 10 installed in the landing on the 3rd floor.

1B to 7B are destination buttons 1A to 7th floors, respectively.
Destination button lights built into 7A that light up when a destination call for the 1st to 7th floors is registered, 11DX, 11
DY is the down hall lantern installed at the landing on the 3rd floor of Units 1 and 2 respectively, 11UX, 11
UY is also an uphole lantern.

In Figure 2, 8X is the car operation panel installed in the car of No. 1, 9X is the call reset button installed on the car operation panel 8X, and 21BX to 27BX are for registering car calls on the 1st to 7th floors, respectively. The car call buttons 21LX to 27LX are built into the car call buttons 21BX to 27BX on the 1st to 7th floors, respectively, and are car call button lights that turn on when a car call on the 1st to 7th floors is registered.

In Figure 3, 13 is an elevator group control device;
13A is a hall call registration circuit provided in the group control device 13 and registers the hall calls for each floor (up calls, down calls, destination calls), and 13B selects the best car to service the hall calls. This is a well-known allocation circuit that calculates, for example, a predictive calculation of the time required for each car to respond to a hall call on each floor, and allocates the car with the minimum time.

14X and 14Y are the car control devices for the first and second cars, and 14AX and 14AY are provided in the car control devices 14X and 14Y, respectively, and are hall call cancellation circuits that output a hall call cancellation command signal (described later) for each floor, 14BX, 14BY also has a car call registration circuit for registering car calls for each car, 14CX,
14CY is a well-known hall lantern control circuit that controls the lighting of the hall lanterns on each floor of each car, and 14DX and 14DY are circuits that control the running and stopping of each car in order to make each car respond to car calls and assigned hall calls. The well-known operation control circuits 14EX and 14EY that control basic operations are also well-known door control circuits that control the opening and closing of the doors of each car.

4 and 5 show the circuits corresponding to the third floor among the hall call registration circuit 13A and the hall call cancellation circuit 14AX of the first car, and FIGS.
The figure shows the circuit corresponding to the 5th floor of the car call registration circuit 14BX of the first car, and the circuits corresponding to the other floors and the circuits corresponding to the second car are similarly configured.

In the figure, 25X is a car call signal that becomes "H" when a car call on the 5th floor of car No. 1 is registered, and is set by the car call registration circuit 14BX.

301 to 307 are the hall operation panel 1 on the 3rd floor, respectively.
Destination call signal that becomes "H" when the destination call of the 1st to 7th floor is registered by 0, 105, 205, 4
05, 605, 705 are also on the 1st floor and 2nd floor respectively.
The 5th floor destination call signal is set by the hall call registration circuit 13A using the hall operation panels on the 4th, 6th, and 7th floors.

33U will display "H" when the 3rd floor up call is registered.
The up call signal 33D is a down call signal that becomes "H" when the third floor down call is registered, and is set by the hall call registration circuit 13A. 31UX~3
4UX is for 1st to 4th floor up call 31U to 34U [3
When unit 1 is assigned to 3U only], the uplink assignment signal becomes "H", 33DX, 36DX,
and 37DX are 33rd, 6th, and 7th floor down calls.
When the first machine is allocated to D, 36D, and 37D (only 33D is shown), the downlink allocation signal becomes "H" and is set by the allocation circuit 13B, respectively.

41X to 47X are car position signals that become "H" when car No. 1 is on the 1st to 7th floors, and 50X is a car position signal of 1.
51UX and 51DX are up and down signals that become "H" when No. 1 car is running in the up and down directions, and are car position signals. 41X
~47X, stop signal 50X, direction signal 51
UX and 51DX are each set by the operation control circuit 14DX.

54X is a door switch signal that becomes "H" when the car door of No. 1 car is completely closed. 55UX and 55DX are up call cancellation signals that become "H" when No. 1 car cancels the up call and down call from the 3rd floor. Command signal and down call cancellation command signal, 55
UY and 55DY are the same uplink call canceling command signals for the second machine 56UX and 56DX are the uplink destination call (=
4th to 7th floor destination calls 304 to 307) and downbound destination calls (=1st floor, 2nd floor destination calls 301, 302)
The up and down destination call cancellation command signals 56UY and 56DY, which become "H" when canceling, are the up and down destination call cancellation command signals of the second car, respectively, and the hall call cancellation circuit 14AX. , 14AY.

61X is a call answering signal that becomes "H" when the No. 1 machine is responding to a call (the period from when the stop is decided until the door opens and the door starts closing again), and is set by the door control circuit 14EX. .

25RX is a regular car call signal for the 5th floor that becomes "H" when it is registered as a car call for the 5th floor of car No. 1, and 25TX is a car call signal for the 5th floor that is activated by the 5th floor destination button on the hall operation panel on each floor. This is the temporary car call signal for the 5th floor, which becomes "H" when it is automatically registered and "L" when it is registered as a regular car call for the 5th floor. If it is not registered as a regular car call, press the reset button. 9X makes it possible to cancel.

801 to 810 are memories consisting of flip-flops, and unless an "H" signal is input to the R point, when an "H" signal is input to the S point, the contents of the memory are set to "H", and the R point is set to "H". When an "H" signal is input to the memory, the contents of the memory are reset to "L".

811 is a pulse generator that generates a short-term "H" pulse signal (for example, 0.5 seconds) when the input signal at point I changes from "L" to "H", and 811a is used to convert a temporary car call into a regular car call. The conversion timing signal 812, which becomes "H" during registration, is a temporary car call reset circuit, which is activated by the reset button 9X and functions as a reset means for resetting the temporary car call. 812a is a temporary car call "L"
813 is the car call button light 25LX on the 5th floor.
Car call button light lighting circuit for lighting, 814
821-836 are AND gates; 840-836 are AND gates; 821-836 are AND gates;
850 is an OR gate, and 860 to 862 are NOT gates.

In the structure configured as above, now 1
Assuming that Car No. 2 is on the 1st floor in the up direction and Car No. 2 is on the 7th floor in the down direction, the 3rd floor car position signal 43X of the landing call cancellation circuit 14AX of Car 1 (Fig. 5) is L”, so AND gate 82
The outputs of 1,824,825 are all "L", and the uplink destination call cancellation command signal 56UX and the downlink destination call cancellation command signal 56DX are both "L".
is output. Also, AND gates 822, 823
Since the output of is also "L", the up call cancellation command signal 55UX and the down call cancellation command signal 55DX are also output at "L". The same applies to the No. 2 unit, and the uplink and downlink destination call cancellation command signals 56
UY, 56DY are also output as "L", and up call and down call cancellation command signals 55UY, 55DY are also output as "L".

Now, if a passenger who has entered the landing on the third floor for the first time presses the destination button 5A on the landing operation panel 10, the cancellation command signals 55UX, 55UY and 56UX, 56
Since UY is "L", OR gate 840,
Both outputs of 841 are "L", so the contents of the memory 806 are set to "H" by the destination button signal 5A (= "H") and the 5th floor destination call signal 3 is output.
05 becomes "H", and the 5th floor destination button light 5B on the hall operation panel 10 lights up to notify passengers that the 5th floor destination call has been registered, and at the same time, when the car arrives, it is automatically registered as a car call. I will also let you know.
In addition, since the output of OR gate 844 also becomes "H", the contents of memory 804 are set to "H".
The third floor up call signal 33U becomes "H" and the third floor up call is registered. Then, in the allocation circuit 13B, the No. 1 car that is expected to be able to respond to the 3rd floor up call in the shortest time is allocated.
The uphill hall lantern 11UX of the machine was lit and 3
Inform the customers waiting on the floor that Unit 1 will be serving them.

When Unit 1 departs from the 1st floor with passengers going to the 4th floor and reaches the 3rd floor, the car position signal 43X on the 3rd floor becomes "H", and it responds to the up call 33U from the 3rd floor and calls when it has decided to stop. The response signal 61X becomes "H", and the up hall lantern 11UX changes from a lighting state to a blinking state to inform waiting customers of the arrival of the car. On the other hand, the car call registration circuit 14 of the first car
In the circuit for the 5th floor of BX (Fig. 6), the car call for the 5th floor is not registered, so memories 809 and 810 are used.
Both contents are "L" and temporary car call signal 25TX
And the regular car call signal 25RX is set to "L". And the output of AND gate 834 is "L",
OR gate 849 when reset button signal 9X is also “L”
Therefore, the temporary car call reset signal 812a is also set to "L". Then, when Unit 1 responds to the call going up to the 3rd floor, the call answering signal 61X becomes "H", and when the door starts opening after stopping, the door switch signal 5
When 4X becomes "L", the output of AND gate 835 becomes "H" via NOT gate 862, and 3
Since the upstairs assignment signal 33UX is "H", the 5th floor destination call signal 305 is "H", and the upstream direction signal 51UX is "H", the output of the AND gate 828 is "H",
The output of OR gate 846 becomes "H".

Therefore, the contents of the memory 809 are set to "H" and the temporary car call signal 25TX becomes "H".
5th floor car call signal 25 via OR gate 848
X becomes "H".

On the other hand, in the car call button light lighting circuit 813, when the periodic pulse signal 814a becomes "H"
The output of the AND gate 836 becomes "H", and the car call button light 25LX on the 5th floor is passed through the OR gate 850.
lights up, and when the periodic pulse signal 814a becomes "L", the output of the AND gate 836 becomes "L".
Since the car call button light 25LX next to it goes out, the car call button light 25LX on the 5th floor repeats blinking every 0.5 seconds, indicating that the car call on the 5th floor has been automatically provisionally registered in the car of No. 1. Inform passengers inside. Therefore, when a passenger going to the 5th floor gets into the car from the 3rd floor, the car call for the 5th floor has already been registered, so the passenger does not need to press the destination button in the car.

When boarding and alighting on the third floor is completed and the door of the car starts to close, the call response signal 61X becomes "L" and the up hall lantern 11UX turns off. At the same time, in the 3rd floor circuit of the landing call cancellation circuit 14AX of Unit 1,
The door switch signal 54X is "L", the output of the NOT gate 860 is "H", and the call answering signal 61
X is “L” and the output of NOT gate 861 is “H”
Therefore, the output of the AND gate 821 becomes "H". Therefore, the up direction signal 51UX is "H" and the third floor up assignment signal 33UX is also "H", so AND
The gate 822 outputs the third floor up call cancellation command signal 55UX as "H".

Therefore, in the third floor circuit of the hall call registration circuit 13A, the output of the OR gate 841 becomes "H", the contents of the memory 804 are reset to "L", and the third floor up call signal 33U is reset to "L". Since the OR gate 840 also becomes "H", the contents of the memory 805 are also reset to "L", the 5th floor destination call signal 305 becomes "L", and the hall operation panel 10
The 5th floor destination button light 5B is turned off. With the cancellation of the registration of the third floor up call 33U, the assignment circuit 13B resets the assignment signal 33UX of the first car to "L". Then, the third floor up call cancellation command signal 55UX becomes "L" again, and a new call can be registered on the third floor.

When Unit 1 completes closing its doors and departs from the third floor, it responds to the car call 24X on the fourth floor and decides to stop on the fourth floor. At this time, the call answering signal 61X changes from "L" to "H", but the pulse generator 811
As a result, the conversion timing signal 811a becomes "H" for a moment (0.5 seconds), so the output of the AND gate 832 becomes "H" during this time and the OR gate 84
7, the contents of the memory 810 are set to "H", and as soon as the regular car call signal 25RX becomes "H", the output of the AND gate 834 becomes "H", and the temporary car call reset signal is set via the OR gate 849. 812a also becomes "H", the contents of the memory 809 are reset to "L", and the temporary car call signal 25TX on the fifth floor becomes "L".

In addition, in the car call button light lighting circuit 813, since the regular car call signal 25RX becomes "H", the output of the OR gate 850 is always "H", and the car call button light 25LX on the 5th floor changes its display form from blinking to lighting. changes to notify passengers in the car that the car call for the 5th floor has been officially registered.

In this way, when the next call is answered, the temporary car call on the 5th floor is registered as a regular car call, and the registration as a temporary car call is immediately canceled.

After Unit 1 answered the car call on the 4th floor, it responded to the car call on the 5th floor, stopped on the 5th floor, and signaled the stop signal 50X.
When becomes "H", the fifth floor car position signal 45X is "H", so the output of the AND gate 833 becomes "H". Therefore, the content of memory 810 is "L"
Therefore, the regular car call signal 25RX on the 5th floor also becomes "L", and the output of OR gate 848 also becomes "L".
As a result, the car call 25X on the 5th floor is canceled, and the car call button light 25LX on the 5th floor is also turned off, informing the passengers in the car that the car call on the 5th floor has been answered.

The above is the normal operation.

If a passenger going to the 5th floor on the 3rd floor presses the destination button 5 on the 5th floor.
Suppose that even though you pressed A, you used the stairs or otherwise disappeared from the landing on the third floor.

When Unit 1 responds to the up call from the 3rd floor, the car call button light 25LX on the 5th floor starts blinking, indicating that the passengers in the car (passengers going to the 4th floor) are on the 3rd floor when the passengers going to the 5th floor board the car. At the same time, the user can also know that the car call on the 5th floor can be canceled by pressing the reset button 9X.

Car No. 1 stopped on the 3rd floor and no passengers boarded the car even if the door was opened, so after confirming that there were no passengers in the car, press the reset button 9 on the car operation panel 8X.
When you press X, the up direction signal 51UX is "H" in the 3rd floor circuit of the landing call canceling circuit 14AX of the first car,
The third floor ascending assignment signal 33UX is "H", the car position signal 43X is "H", and the call answering signal 61X is "H"
Therefore, the uplink destination call cancellation command signal 56UX is set to "H" through the AND gate 824 only while the reset button 9X is pressed, and the output of the OR gate 840 becomes "H" in the hall call registration circuit 13A. The contents of the memory 806 are reset to "L", and the fifth floor destination call signal 305 becomes "L".

On the other hand, in the car call registration circuit 14BX of the first car, when the reset button 9X is pressed, the OR gate 84
Since the temporary car call reset signal 812a becomes "H" through the OR gate 848, the contents of the memory 809 are reset to "L", and the temporary car call signal 25TX for the 5th floor becomes L, and the temporary car call signal 25TX for the 5th floor is reset to "H" via the OR gate 848. The call signal 25X becomes "L", the output of the AND gate 836 becomes "L", the output of the OR gate 850 also becomes "L", the 5th floor car call button light 25LX on the car operation panel 8X also goes out, and the 5th floor Inform the passengers in the car that the registration of the destination call has been cancelled.

Therefore, even if the conversion timing signal 811a becomes "H" when the first car departs from the third floor and responds to the car call on the fourth floor, the tentative car call signal 2 on the fifth floor has already been sent.
Since 5TX has been reset to "L", it will not be registered as a regular car call.

One, 5th floor destination call 305 and car call 25
When a passenger who is going to the 5th floor gets on board after canceling the TX, press the car call button 25 in the car.
You can press BX and directly register the regular car call for the 5th floor via the OR gate 847, or you can press the 5th floor destination button 5A on the hall operation panel 10 and register the 5th floor destination call 305 again before boarding. You can also register temporary car call number 25TX on the 5th floor.

In this way, in the above embodiment, when a car call is automatically temporarily registered using the landing destination button, the car call button light for that call is displayed (flashing) in a different way than usual, and the passenger inside the car is shown. I decided to let you know,
The problem of the car call button light suddenly turning on and causing passengers in the car to feel suspicious is reduced, and passengers who board the car can also see at a glance that the car call for their destination floor has been registered. So you can quickly get rid of your anxiety. Furthermore, since the car calls that can be canceled by the reset button are made clear, passengers in the car can easily decide to press the reset button.

In the above embodiment, a case was described in which two elevators were installed in a seven-story building, but the number of floors of the building and the number of elevators installed are not limited.

8 and 9 show other embodiments of the present invention, with FIG. 8 corresponding to FIG. 2 and FIG. 9 corresponding to FIG. 7.

In the diagram, 21CX to 27CX are indicator lights corresponding to the 1st to 7th floors, 837 is an AND gate, and 837 is an AND gate.
63 is a NOT gate.

For example, if a car call on the 5th floor is automatically provisionally registered when Car No. 1 is on the 3rd floor, the temporary car call signal 25TX for the 5th floor becomes "H" in the car call button light lighting circuit 813 (regular car call signal 25TX becomes "H"). Call signal 25
RX is set to "L") and the output of the AND gate 837 becomes "H", the indicator light 25CX lights up, and 5
Inform passengers in the car that the car call for the floor has been provisionally registered. When Car No. 1 responds to a call from another floor, the regular car call signal 25RX on the 5th floor becomes "H" and the temporary car call signal 25TX becomes "L", and the car call button light 25LX on the 5th floor lights up. Indicator light 25CX goes out.

In this way, in this embodiment, the automatically provisionally registered car call is displayed separately from the regular car call that has been previously registered until it is registered as a regular car call, and passengers The same effect as in the first embodiment can be obtained. In addition, in this embodiment, when the automatically provisionally registered car call is already registered as a regular car call, the car call button lights 21LX to 27
LX is turned on, and indicator lights 21CX to 27CX are not lit to clarify which car calls can be canceled by pressing the reset button, but of course, indicator lights 21CX to 2 are automatically registered as car calls that have been temporarily registered.
Along with lighting up 7CX, the car call button light 21LX~
27LX can also be configured to light up.

In the first embodiment, the car call button light or flashing distinguishes the previously registered car call from the automatically provisionally registered car call. In the example, separate indicator lights are used to distinguish between the two, but the means for changing the display form is not limited to this. For example, the color of the button light may be changed or the brightness may be changed. Further, the display means may be constructed from a device that displays images and graphics, such as a cathode ray tube. Further, guidance may be provided using an auditory display such as a sound device or an announcement device.

In addition, in the second embodiment, the automatically provisionally registered car call is displayed on the car operation panel, but the display location is not limited to this. It can be anywhere in the throat. For example, if it is displayed at the top of the back wall of the car, it will be very easy for passengers to understand when boarding the car.

In addition, in the above embodiment, a destination button is provided at the boarding point,
The car call on the floor corresponding to the operated landing destination button is automatically registered, but the conventional up button and down button are provided at the landing, and when these buttons are operated, the car call on a predetermined specific floor is automatically registered. Needless to say, it can also be applied to methods.

Furthermore, in the above embodiment, when a car responds to a hall call, the car call is automatically temporarily registered and immediately displayed. is not limited to this, for example, when a car is assigned to a hall call, the car call may be automatically temporarily registered and displayed immediately, or when the car is assigned to the passenger at an appropriate time. It may be at any time between the time the call is received and the time the call is answered before the call is answered, or during the period during which the call is answered.

Further, although the timing for automatically canceling the display of a temporarily registered car call is set to the time when a call on another floor is answered (that is, the time when the car call is registered as a regular car call), the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the display of the temporarily registered car call may be automatically canceled when the car starts closing its door, or when it completes closing its door and departs from that floor.

As described above, the present invention is capable of displaying a newly registered car call to a predetermined floor to distinguish it from a previously registered car call, based on the hall call of the landing to which the car has responded. In addition, we made it possible to reset a newly registered car call to a predetermined floor, so even if a new car call was registered at a newly answered landing, no passengers boarded the car. In this case, by resetting a new car call, it is possible to prevent unnecessary operation and to improve the operating efficiency of the elevator.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 7 show an embodiment of the present invention,
Figure 1 is a front view of the hall, Figure 2 is a front view of the car operation panel, Figure 3 is a block connection diagram of the electric circuit of the elevator group control device, Figure 4 is a connection diagram of the hall call registration circuit, and Figure 4 is a connection diagram of the hall call registration circuit. Figure 5 is a connection diagram of the hall call cancellation circuit.
FIG. 6 is a connection diagram of the car call registration circuit, FIG. 7 is a connection diagram of the car call button light lighting circuit, FIGS. 8 and 9 show other embodiments of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 9 is a diagram equivalent to FIG. 7. In the figure, Z is the landing, 1A, 2A, 4A to 7
A is the destination button, 8X is the car operation panel, 9X is the reset button, 10 is the hall operation panel, 21CX to 27CX are the display means, 21LX to 27LX are the car call lights (display means), and 812 is the temporary car call reset circuit (reset). means). Note that the same reference numerals in the figures indicate the same or equivalent parts.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Call registration means for registering a car call to a predetermined floor in response to a landing call; 1. A call registration device for an elevator, comprising: a display means for displaying the car call to distinguish it from a previously registered car call; and a reset means for resetting the newly registered car call to a predetermined floor. 2. The call registration means for registering a car call to a predetermined floor in response to a hall call performs a hall call that specifies the destination floor using a destination button provided at the hall, and uses this hall call to send the car to the above-determined destination. 2. The elevator call registration device according to claim 1, wherein the elevator call registration device registers a car call to a floor. 3. The call registration means for registering a car call to a predetermined floor in response to a hall call is to make a hall call using an up or down call button provided at the hall, and to register a car call to a predetermined floor by this hall call. 2. The elevator call registration device according to claim 1, wherein the elevator call registration device is for registering car calls.