JPH04327473A - Destination floor manipulating device for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a destination floor manipulating device with which a call for a destination floor among all floors in a building can be registered through a manipulation panel in each of elevator cages, and which can serves for a final destination floor in a short time. CONSTITUTION:A cage manipulation panel 3 is disposed in each of cages within each service zone, through which a cage call for a service floor within a service zone and a cage call for a service floor in another service zone can be registered. Whether a cage call issued by the panel 3 is from the instant service zone or from another service zone is determined. If it is from another service zone, an input and transmission means 4 transmits the call to another service zone. A transit floor hall registering means 5 registers a call for a transit floor hall in the service zone in accordance with a signal the means 4, and a transit cage call registering means 6 registers the call from another service zone as a cage call which has responded to the transit floor hall call.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] The present invention is installed in an elevator in a high-rise building, etc., and the service zone is divided into, for example, a low floor and a high floor, and each service zone is operated by an independent elevator. , relates to a destination floor operating device for an elevator capable of registering a destination floor.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventionally, for example, in a 60-story skyscraper, it has been known that a single elevator can service from the bottom floor to the top floor, and that rope-type elevators have reached their limits in terms of efficiency. In order to provide good service, there is a shuttle elevator, for example, which is divided into a low-rise service zone and a high-rise service zone, and an elevator is provided for each service zone.

[0003] Figures 6(a) and 6(b) show examples of this. Figure 6(a) shows, for example, a 40-story building with low-rise service zones (hereinafter referred to as low-rise service zones) from the 1st floor (1F) to the 20th floor (20F). zone) and the 20th floor (20F) to the 40th floor (40F)
The low-rise zone is serviced by three elevators A, B, and C, and the high-rise zone is serviced by three elevators D, E, and F.
This is an example of a case where a service is provided in the zone and the standard floor 1F is shared by both zones.

FIG. 6(b) shows a 60-story building with 1st to 3rd floors.
This is an example in which the zone is divided into a low-rise zone of 0F and a high-rise zone of 30F to 60F, and the intermediate transfer floor 30F is shared by both zones and divided into two.

In the case of FIG. 6(a), it is possible to service all floors without transfer from the standard floor 1F, but when service is provided from other floors to the service floor in the high-rise zone, A layover is definitely required.

In the case of FIG. 6(b), transfers are always required for service between the low-rise zone and the high-rise zone. When making such a transfer, the process is to register the hall call for the first zone, wait for the car, go to the passenger transfer floor, register the hall call for the second zone, wait for the car, and arrive at the final destination floor. become.

[0007] Recently, in order to improve the convenience of users in halls, hall destination floor button operation panels described below are often installed, and it is now possible to register the destination floor in the hall. For example, in the case of FIG. 6(b), the destination floor button operation panel 1 having the destination floor call button 11 shown in FIG. 2(a) is installed on the 1F of the low-rise zone, and the destination floor call button 11 is pressed in the 1F hall. By doing so, all service floors from 2F to 30F in the low-rise zone can be registered as destination floors.

[0008] Also, on the 30th floor of the high-rise zone transfer floor,
A hall destination floor button operation panel 2 having a destination floor call button 21 shown in FIG. 2(b) is installed, and by pressing the destination floor call button 21 on the transfer floor 30F, the
All service floors of 0F can be registered as destination floors.

[0009]

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] As mentioned above, in the zoned elevator system of a skyscraper, if you want to go to a service floor in another zone, you must register the hall call more than once. Naturally, each time there is a waiting period in the hall waiting for the basket.

[0010] Thus, as the number of zones increases,
There has been a problem in that elevator services between multiple zones are inconvenient, as the time required to register a call increases and the time required to arrive at the final destination floor increases.

[0011] Therefore, the present invention provides an elevator destination floor operation device that can provide service to the destination floor in a shorter time by simply registering the call of the destination floor in a car once when providing elevator service between multiple service zones. The purpose is to

0012

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention divides a plurality of floors to be serviced by an elevator in a building into a plurality of service zones including its own service zone and other service zones. However, in an elevator that is capable of operating in each of these service zones, has a transfer floor between the service zones, and is thereby capable of servicing all of the floors to be serviced, the car of each of the service zones is Among them, a car call registration means that allows car call registration in the service zone of the car concerned and car call registration for other service zones other than the concerned service zone, and a car call registration means that allows car call registration in the service zone of the car concerned, and car call registration means that can register car calls for other service zones other than the concerned service zone. , a call registration means for registering the car call when the car is in a service zone other than the service zone of the car; and a transfer floor hall call for registering the hall call of the transfer floor of the service zone based on the registered call signal from the call registration means. The system comprises a registration means, and a transfer car call registration means for registering a call from the other service zone as a car call in response to the transfer floor hall call.

[0013]

[Operation] According to the present invention, destination floor calls can be registered for all floors in a building using the car call registration means installed in each car in each service zone, eliminating the need to register calls that were conventionally performed for each transfer. Since the destination floor call for the next transit service zone is registered while traveling in a car in a certain service zone, the total time required from making the first call to arriving at the destination floor is significantly reduced, and therefore, A highly convenient elevator destination floor operating device is obtained.

[0014]

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Here, the service floor is the 60th floor, and the service zone is the first floor from 1F to 30F as shown in FIG. 6(b). Zone (1st zone or own zone) and 30F
The case of the second zone (2nd zone, other zone, or transfer zone) of ~60F will be explained.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an embodiment of the destination floor operation device of the present invention, which has a hardware configuration including a car call registration means, for example, an in-car operation panel 3, and a call registration unit. The means include, for example, destination floor call input/transfer means 4, transfer hall call automatic registration means 5, transfer car call automatic registration means 6, and transfer floor hall button 7.

[0016] The in-car operation panel 3 is 1s shown in Fig. 2(c).
The car on the t-zone and 2nd zone sides is each equipped with a destination floor call button 31 for all floors, and the 1st zone side car is capable of registering the service floors of its own zone and other zones as destination floors. Inner operation panel 3 (1),
It has an in-car operation panel 3 (2) on the 2nd zone side.

The destination floor call input/transfer means 4 receives a destination floor call signal (hereinafter referred to as KCX) generated when the destination floor call button 31 of the in-car operation panel 3(1), 3(2) is pressed. 3a, determine whether this KCX3a is the 1st zone call signal or the 2nd zone call signal, and then input 2n.
In the case of a d zone call, a function of transmitting the transfer zone destination call signal 4b to the 2nd zone group management control device;
If the call is not from your own zone, the estimated travel time T to the transfer floor, that is, the top floor or bottom floor in the relevant zone.
A and outputs predicted operation time data 4c to the 2nd zone group management control device. 4a is an all-destination call registration signal output from the destination floor call input/transfer means 4.

The transfer hall call automatic registration means 5 sends the predicted hall call time TB at the 2nd zone transfer floor to the transfer zone destination floor call signal 4b transferred from the input/transfer means 4 to the transfer zone group management control device.
By calculating TA and TB, a hall call for the 2nd zone transfer floor is automatically generated and registered.

The transfer car call automatic registration means 6 automatically transmits the destination call transferred from the above-mentioned input transfer means 4 as a car call signal 5a to the car that has responded to the hall call from the hall call automatic registration means 5. Occur and register. Transfer floor hall button 7 is similar to conventional elevators,
Call registration for all service floors is possible in the transfer floor hall. A LAN (Local A) is connected between the means 4, 5, and 6 so that information can be communicated with each other.
rea Network).

The operation of the destination floor operating device configured as described above will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 3 to 5. Now, the KCX 3a input from the in-car operation panel 3 (1) is input to the group management control device of the 1st zone in the destination floor call input/transfer means 4, and is input to the group management control device of the 1st zone.
Based on this, the KCX3a determines whether the call is within the 1st zone (own car service floor) or whether the call requires a transfer to the 2nd zone, and also calculates the predicted operation time TA until the transfer floor is reached. .

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the operation of the destination floor call input/transfer means 4. In step (hereinafter referred to as S) 1, check the destination floor, that is, the KC that has occurred.
It is determined whether or not X3a is a call that requires a transfer, and if a transfer is not required, that is, in the case of zone division as shown in FIG. 6(b), and if KCX3a is x≦30F, S
Proceed to step 5. In S5, normal car call response operation is performed.

[0022] In S1, if the KCX3a requires a transfer (x≧31F), the process advances to S2. In S2, since a transfer is required, the transfer floor KCX3a is generated as a dummy call, and in the example of FIG. 6(b), the transfer floor KCX3a is
Performs normal car call response operation.

[0023] In S3, the predicted travel time TA for the 1st zone own car to the transfer floor is calculated. This predicted operation time TA is generally used for group management control, and a calculation request signal 43 for the predicted operation time TA is output. This predicted operation time TA may be the same as the predicted operation time (arrival time), and is used as data when determining the registration timing of the hall call for the 2nd zone transfer floor, which will be described later.

[0024] In S4, the predicted operation time TA and KCX3
Transfer a to the 2nd group management control device as a 2nd zone destination floor call signal, proceed to S6, and when the car call response is completed in S6 and S7, the corresponding car call or dummy car call for transfer KC30 Erase.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the transfer floor hall call automatic registration means 5. This hall call automatic registration means 55 is added to the general group management control means, and performs automatic registration of hall calls for the 2nd transfer floor. In S11, the destination floor call input/transfer means 4
The KCX 3a transferred by and the predicted operation time TA are input, and in S12, the predicted waiting time TB for the 2nd zone transfer hall call at that time is calculated. This predicted waiting time TB is also the same as the waiting time for a hall call, which is generally used for group management control. In S13, already 2n
It is determined whether the hall call for transferring to the d zone has been registered, and if it has been registered, it is determined in S16 to S20.
Therefore, if a car that responds to a hall call on the 2nd zone transfer floor arrives faster than a car in the 1st zone due to a difference in predicted time, etc., the car in the 2nd zone will be held at the door until the car in the 1st zone arrives. This shows the case where the system is set to open standby.

That is, in S16, TA < TB
If it is not TA < TB, it is determined in S17 whether the 2nd zone transfer floor hall call response car has arrived, and if it is determined that this is the case, the process advances to S18 and the door of the arrival car is Outputs a standby command. Next, in S19, it is determined whether the 1st zone car has arrived at the transfer floor and has passed for several seconds, and if it has passed for several seconds, the door open standby command for the arrival car is cleared in S20. The steps S16 to S20 described above are methods often used when VIPs such as distinguished guests transit, and it is not always necessary to use this method.

[0027]In S13, it is determined whether or not the hall call for transferring to the 2nd zone has been registered.If it has not been registered, in S14, TA < T
B, and from the comparison process in S15, the 2nd
A zone hole call is registered and then normal group management control is performed.

In other words, if TA < TB, that is, the waiting time at the transfer floor hall is longer than the travel time required for the 1st zone elevator to arrive at the transfer floor, the 2nd zone transfer floor hall call is immediately made in S15. The hall call button is registered, and the hall call button is displayed as a registration display, for example, by lighting a lamp, and general group management control is performed. Then, in S14, if TA≦TB, S11 to S1
TA, TB that changes from time to time on the route from 3 to S14
, and loops until TB > TA.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the transfer floor car call automatic registration means 6. This car call automatic registration means 6 performs a function of automatically registering a car destination floor call signal KCX in response to a 2nd zone transfer floor hall call. In S21, it is determined whether or not the 2nd zone transfer floor hall call response car has arrived. If the car has arrived, the process proceeds to S22, where the destination floor call input/transfer means 4 All the destination floor call signals KCX transferred from the car are automatically registered as calls for that car, normal car call response operation control is performed in S23, and this routine is ended. In S21, if the 2nd zone transfer floor hall call response car has not arrived yet, the function of the transfer car call automatic registration means 6 ends.

In this way, the in-car operation panel 3(1),
3 (2) of course calls the 1st zone service floor,
You can also register the 2nd zone service floor call.
A new call registration operation at the transfer floor can be made unnecessary. Furthermore, since the call for the 2nd zone can be registered before the 1st zone elevator arrives at the transfer floor, the waiting time can be reduced as much as possible.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the in-car operation panel 3 having buttons 31 for all floors was used as the car call registration means, but the car call registration means is not limited to this. There may be. In addition, as a call registration means, the destination floor call input/transfer means 4 has been mentioned, but it is not limited to this.For example, among the car calls from the in-car operation panel 3, other than the service zone of the car Any device may be used as long as the car call can be registered in the service zone. Furthermore, the transfer hall call automatic registration means 5,
Although the call registration for the transfer floor hall is performed based on the magnitude relationship between the predicted operation time TA and the predicted waiting time TB, the transfer floor hall in the service zone is not limited to this. Any method for registering hall calls may be used.

[0032]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention,
When providing elevator service between multiple service zones, the car call registration means installed in each car allows the destination floor calls for all floors in the building to be registered, eliminating the need to register calls for each transfer, which was previously required. As a result, the destination floor call for the next connecting service zone is registered while moving in a car in a certain service zone, which greatly reduces the total time required from making the first call to arriving at the destination floor. Destination floor operations can be provided.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of an elevator destination floor operating device according to the present invention.

[Fig. 2] (a) and (b) show the conventional in-car operation panel,
(c) is a diagram showing an in-car operation panel of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the destination floor call input/transfer means 4 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the transfer floor hall call automatic registration means 5 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the transfer car call automatic registration means 6 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a method of dividing service zones within a building.

[Explanation of symbols]

3... In-car operation panel, 4... Destination floor call input/transfer means, 5
... Transfer floor hall call automatic registration means, 6... Transfer car call registration means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Claim 1: A plurality of floors to be serviced by an elevator in a building are divided into a plurality of service zones including the own service zone and other service zones, and the elevator can be operated for each service zone, and In an elevator that has a transfer floor between service zones, thereby making it possible to service all the floors to be serviced, in the car of each service zone, car call registration for the service zone of the car concerned and the service concerned. A car call registration means that can also register car calls for other service zones other than the car call registration means; a call registration means for registering a car call; a transfer floor hall call registration means for registering a hall call on a transfer floor in a service zone based on a registered call signal from the call registration means; and a car call in response to the transfer floor hall call. , a transfer car call registration means for registering a call for the other service zone.