JPH06199481A - Operation controller of elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a passenger who has already been in an elevator car trans ferred to a priority operation service according to a particular hall call to transit an elevator without feeling unpleasant, and give an immediate service according to the particular hall call. CONSTITUTION:When a VIP call occurs from a VIP call button 11, a VIP operation control circuit 12 calculates an appropriate floor where a passenger can transit from a VIP operation elevator to another elevator, stop both the elevators, make the passenger in the VIP operation elevator transit to another elevator, and make another elevator perform the following car call service from the floor. It is thus possible to improve serviceability for the passenger who has been in the elevator car which is transferred to VIP operation and VIP call.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator operation control device, and more particularly, to improving the serviceability of a priority operation service for a specific hall call, for example, a VIP operation service, so that the operator can already get in the assigned car. TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an elevator operation control device capable of eliminating discomfort to a passenger who is present.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art VIP driving service, for example, is known as a priority driving service for a specific hall call, and operation control for performing this type of service is conventionally performed for passengers in a car for a specific hall call. When the passengers are gone, the direct driving to that floor is performed while the service is provided. Further, there is also known a technique of controlling a passenger who has already boarded a car to be directly driven to transfer to another elevator by a manual operation or the like.

As a prior art relating to an elevator operation control device for performing a priority operation service for a specific hall call of this kind, for example, a VIP operation service,
For example, the technique described in JP-A-61-114976 and the like is known.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The above-mentioned prior art, when performing a priority driving service for a specific hall call,
There is no consideration for automatically selecting a transfer floor for passengers who are already in the car assigned for that service and connecting to another car, There is a problem that it is difficult to eliminate discomfort for passengers who are already in the vehicle.

It is an object of the present invention, before arriving at a specific hall call, for a general passenger who is already in a car assigned to the call, before arriving at a specific hall floor. , Smoothly transfer to another elevator to continue the subsequent service to general passengers, and direct the car that has moved to the driving service for a specific hall call to the specific floor where the specific hall call was made and call that car. It is an object of the present invention to provide an elevator operation control device capable of promptly servicing.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the above object is to detect the presence or absence of a car call of an elevator to which a specific hall call is assigned when a particular hall call is generated. Immediately calculate the positional relationship between the elevator (transit elevator) and the elevator concerned, find the optimum floor between the current position of the elevator and the floor where the specific hall call occurred, and call that hall as the transfer floor. Registered to call another car to the floor and let the car assigned a specific hall call continue driving while servicing the car call between that floor and the current position, and registered the hall call After stopping at the floor and automatically registering the passenger's car call to another car for transit, connecting the passengers, the hall call is issued by direct operation Until floor that is achieved by such driving a car in which a particular hall call has been assigned.

[0007]

[Operation] When shifting from the normal driving to the priority driving service for a specific hall call, the passengers who are already in the car can be smoothly transferred to another car, which may cause discomfort to these passengers. Without giving the service, the service can be immediately executed even for the hall call on the specific floor.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of an elevator operation control device according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings assuming that the present invention is applied to VIP operation.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining its operation. In FIG. 1, 11 is a VIP call button and 12 is a VIP
Operation control circuit, 13 is VIP operation hall call control circuit,
14 is a VIP operation car call control circuit, 15 is a No. 1 elevator position / direction detection circuit, 16 is a No. 2 elevator position / direction detection circuit, 17 is an elevator hall call allocation circuit, 18 and 21 are hall call circuits, 19 , 22
A car call circuit, 20 is a No. 1 elevator car transit guide device, 23 is a No. 1 elevator control device, 24
Is a No. 2 elevator control device, 25 is a VIP operation control device, and 26 is a management operation elevator control device.

One embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG.
The VIP call button 11, the VIP operation control device 25, and the management operation elevator control device 26 are provided. V
The IP operation control device 25 includes the VIP operation control circuit 12, V
An IP operation hall call control circuit 13, a VIP operation car call control circuit 14, a No. 1 elevator position / direction detection circuit 15, and a No. 2 elevator position / direction detection circuit 16 are provided. Further, the management operation elevator control device 26 is configured to include a hall call allocation circuit 17, a No. 1 elevator control device, and a No. 2 elevator control device 24, and the elevator control devices 23 and 24 that control each car. Is the hall call circuit 1
8 and 21 and car call circuits 19 and 22 are provided,
The controller of the No. 1 car that serves VIP calls is provided with a transit guide device 20.

Next, one embodiment of the present invention configured as described above is applied to an elevator apparatus having two cars that service the 10th floor, and No. 1 is V
The operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described assuming that the elevator is an IP operation elevator and the VIP floor is the 7th floor.

Now, the No. 1 elevator is operating with passengers who want to go from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor to the 3rd and 4th floors, and the No. 2 elevator is waiting on the 6th floor. It is assumed that a VIP call is generated from the 7th floor in a certain state.

In this case, the VIP call is made by the VIP call button 1
From 1 to the VIP operation control circuit 12, the VIP hall call control circuit 13 is operated. The VIP hall call control circuit 13 assigns this VIP call to the hall call allocation circuit 17
It registers in the hall call circuit 18 via and the No. 1 elevator is shifted to VIP operation. At the same time, the VIP hall call control circuit 13 causes the hall call assignment circuit 17 to
The hall call registered in No. 1 elevator is called N
o.2 A command to change the allocation to the elevator is issued, and if there is a hall call which the hall call circuit 18 was in charge of, the call is transferred to the hall call circuit 21.

Further, the VIP car call control circuit 14 operates according to the operation command of the VIP operation control circuit 12, and the VIP car call control circuit 14 operates.
The car call control circuit 14 checks the car call already registered in the car call circuit 19 and determines the estimated arrival time at the VIP floor. This judgment is made, for example, by judging that the number of calls to the existing car is short when it is up to three places and long when it is four or more places.

In this example, since the existing car calls are at two floors before the VIP floor, the VIP of the No. 1 elevator is
It is determined that the estimated arrival time on the floor is short, and the VIP operation control circuit 12 causes the No. 2 elevator to continue the stopped state,
o. Control the elevator to the VIP floor while servicing the third and fourth floors.

Further, in the above description, it is assumed that when a VIP call occurs, the No. 1 elevator is carrying passengers who want to go to each of the four places on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors.

In this case, it is determined that the estimated time of arrival at the VIP floor is long, and the VIP operation control circuit 12 controls the No. 1 elevator from the 3rd floor to the 6th floor while performing the ascending operation control while servicing the car. .2 Calculate the floor where both elevators meet in the shortest time when the elevator is controlled to descend from the 6th floor.

If the result of this calculation is the fourth floor, VI
The P operation control circuit 12 is the VIP hall call control circuit 1
3. Issue an operation command to the hall call allocation circuit 17, register the rising hall call on the 4th floor in the hall call circuit 21, No.
2 Call the elevator to the 4th floor.

When the No. 1 elevator arrives on the 4th floor,
The transfer guidance device 20 installed in the car is operated by a command from the VIP operation control circuit 12 so that the passengers going to the 5th and 6th floors can receive N
Guidance is provided to change from the o.1 elevator to the No.2 elevator. Immediately thereafter, the No. 1 elevator goes straight to the VIP floor to provide services for VIP calls.

At this time, the No. 2 elevator is VIP
By the operation command issued from the operation control circuit 12 to the VIP car call control circuit 14, the car calls to the 5th and 6th floors registered in the car call circuit 19 are automatically registered in the car call circuit 22. Continue the car call service operation with passengers going to the floor.

Further, in the above description, it is assumed that when the VIP call occurs, the No. 1 elevator is carrying passengers who want to go to the 10th floor.

In this case, since the car is called to the VIP floor and thereafter, the VIP operation control circuit 12 is No. 1 as described above.
Calculate the floors where 1 elevator and No. 2 elevator meet in the shortest time. Assuming that the calculation result is the sixth floor, which is the floor before the VIP floor, the VIP operation control circuit 12 is
o. Register the 6th floor ascending hall call to the 1 elevator, N
o. Control the same as above with the first and second elevators as the transfer floor on the sixth floor.

As another condition, the No. 1 elevator is in the ascending operation and stopped at the 8th floor with passengers who want to go to the 10th floor, and the No. 2 elevator goes from the 5th floor to the 4th floor. It is assumed that a VIP call is generated during a descent operation with passengers who want to go to the floor.

In this case, the call from the VIP call button 11 is registered in the hall call circuit 18 of the No. 1 elevator control device 23 via the VIP operation control circuit 12, the VIP hall call control circuit 13, and the hall call allocation circuit 17. If there is a hall call which the hall call circuit 18 was in charge of, the hall call is transferred to the hall call circuit 21 of the No. 2 elevator control device 24.

At the same time, the VIP operation control circuit 12 is
P hall call control circuit 13, hall call allocation circuit 17
Is activated to register an ascending hall call in the hall call circuit 21 of the No. 2 elevator control device 24, and passengers of the No. 1 elevator are guided to transit and get off.
The VIP car call control circuit 14 cancels the car call on the 10th floor of the car call circuit 19 to direct the car to the VIP floor.

On the other hand, since the No. 2 elevator is already assigned the hall call on the 8th floor, the No. 2 elevator will service the ascending hall call on the 8th floor after servicing the 1st floor. Upon arrival, the car call on the 10th floor is automatically registered and transit operation is performed.

Further, in the above description, it is assumed that when the VIP call occurs, the No. 1 elevator is in the ascending operation from the 8th floor to the 9th floor with passengers who want to go to the 10th floor.

In this case, the VIP operation control circuit 12 has N
o.1 Stop the elevator on the 9th floor and perform the same operation control as above.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the general operation of the above-described embodiment of the present invention, and the operation of the present invention will be described again with reference to this flow.

(1) VIP for No. 1 elevator
When a call is generated, the hall call assigned to the No. 1 elevator at this time is moved to the No. 2 elevator, and registration of a new car call to the No. 1 elevator after that is disabled (steps 101 to 103). .

(2) No. 1 It is checked whether the elevator is heading toward the VIP floor, and if it is heading toward the VIP floor, it is checked whether a car call is registered (steps 104, 105). ).

(3) If it is determined in step 105 that there is no car call, it is determined that no passenger is in the No. 1 elevator, the No. 1 elevator is directly moved to the VIP floor, and the service for the VIP call is executed. (Steps 114 to 116).

(4) If it is determined in step 105 that there is a car call, it is checked whether or not there is a car call after the VIP floor. If there is no such car call, service is provided to the car call up to the VIP floor. It is checked whether the estimated arrival time at the VIP floor is within the set time (step 1).
06, 107).

(5) If it is determined in step 107 that the estimated arrival time at the VIP floor is within the set time, the No. 1 elevator continues to operate while servicing the car call. Go straight to VIP
Perform service for call (steps 108, 1)
09, 114-116).

(6) When it is determined in step 106 that there is a car call after the VIP floor, or in step 10
If it is determined in 7 that the expected arrival time on the VIP floor exceeds the set time, the transit floor is determined and the hall call for this transit floor is automatically registered. This hall call is assigned to another elevator and calls that elevator to the transfer floor (step 110).

(7) The No. 1 elevator continues to operate while servicing car calls before the transfer floor, and when it arrives at the transfer floor, it provides transfer guidance and drops passengers on this floor, and then the VIP floor. To execute the service for the VIP call (steps 111 to 11).
6).

(8) When the transit elevator arrives at the transit floor, the car call of the transit passenger is automatically registered in the elevator, and the elevator services the transit passenger (steps 124 to 126).

(9) When it is determined in step 104 that the No. 1 elevator is not heading toward the VIP floor,
It is checked whether the No. 1 elevator is running, and if it is stopped, it is checked whether there is a car call (steps 117 and 118).

(11) If it is determined in step 118 that there is no car call, the service for the VIP call in step 114 and subsequent steps is executed. If it is determined that there is a car call, the registered car call is canceled, the hall call at the current stop floor is registered, control is performed to call another elevator, and transfer guidance is provided Step 113
The subsequent processing is executed (step 119).

(12) If it is determined in step 117 that the No. 1 elevator is running, it is checked whether or not there is a car call, and if there is no car call, it is considered that there is no passenger and the nearest floor After the stop, the No. 1 elevator is caused to go straight to the VIP floor and the service for the VIP call is executed by the processing from step 114 (steps 120 and 123).

(13) When it is determined in step 120 that there is a call, the hall call on the nearest floor is registered, control is performed to call another elevator, and the No. 1 elevator is stopped at the nearest floor. The processing from step 113 onward, which provides transit guidance, is executed (steps 121, 1).
22).

The above-mentioned embodiment of the present invention relates to the present invention.
Although the present invention has been described as being applied to the IP driving service, the present invention is not limited to the VIP driving, but can be applied to the case of performing the priority driving service for a specific hall call.

[0043]

As described above, according to the present invention, a passenger who has already boarded an elevator that has shifted to the priority driving service for a specific hall call can make a transfer without causing discomfort. Therefore, it is possible to immediately provide a service even for a specific hall call, and it is possible to improve serviceability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 VIP call button 12 VIP operation control circuit 13 VIP operation hall call control circuit 14 VIP operation car call control circuit 15 No. 1 elevator position / direction detection circuit 16 No. 2 elevator position / direction detection circuit 17 elevator hall call assignment circuit 18 , 21 Hall call circuit 19, 22 Car call circuit 20 No.1 Elevator cab transit guide device 23 No.1 elevator control device 24 No.2 Elevator control device 25 VIP operation control device 26 Management operation elevator control device

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Mitsunobu Hirayama 1070, Moe, Katsuta City, Ibaraki Prefecture Hitachi Ltd. Mito Plant

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An elevator operation control device in which a plurality of cars are commissioned in association with each other to cause a specific car to perform a priority driving service for a specific hall call, when the specific hall call occurs. By the time the specific car arrives at the specific floor, passengers in the specific car can transfer from that elevator to another elevator and set the transit floor as the transit floor. The elevator operation control device is characterized in that a hall call for the transit floor is set to call another elevator to the transit floor. 2. In an elevator operation control device in which a plurality of cars are activated in association with each other and a specific car is provided with priority operation service for a specific hall call, a specific car is directed to a specific floor. When the specific hall call is generated during driving, the expected arrival time at the specific floor exceeds the specified time, or there is a car call after the specific floor, the specific car arrives at the specific floor. In the meantime, passengers in a particular car can transfer from that elevator to another elevator and set the floor on the way to the destination floor as the transfer floor, and set the hall call for this transfer floor. Elevator operation control device characterized by calling other elevators to the transfer floor. 3. In an elevator operation control device in which a plurality of cars are activated in association with each other and a specific car is given priority service for a specific hall call, a specific car is opposite to a specific floor. When the specific hall call is generated while driving in the direction, the nearest floor is set as a transit floor where passengers in a specific car can transfer from the elevator to another elevator and reach the destination floor. An elevator operation control device characterized by setting a hall call for the transit floor to call another elevator to the transit floor. 4. The car is provided with a guide device for guiding the passengers in the car from the specific elevator to another elevator.
The operation control device for the elevator according to 2 or 3.