JPH08231140A - Control unit of double-deck elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a control unit of a double-deck elevator, capable of making improvements in driving efficiency and arbitrary usage. CONSTITUTION: This control unit is provided with a hall destination call registering means 14 registering a destination floor being desired by a waiting passenger at an elevator hall as a.hall, destination call, a vertical car response selecting means 16 operating a condition evaluation at an upper car 3AH and a lower car 3AL to the hall destination call, and selecting an adequate responsive car, and a car transfer means 17 transferring the hall destination call to an inner part of the car as the call of an upper departure reference floor if the selected responsive car is the upper car 3AH, but the call of a lower departure reference floor if it is the lower car 3AL.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a control system for a double-deck elevator that connects two upper and lower cars to control the operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a double-deck elevator, an upper cab (hereinafter,
An operation (hereinafter, referred to as "double operation") is performed in which a lower car room (hereinafter, referred to as "lower car") is serviced for a hall call on an odd floor (hereinafter referred to as "upper car"). This double operation can be used just like a normal elevator for passengers going from even floor to even floor or from odd floor to odd floor, but passengers going from even floor to odd floor or from odd floor to even floor. For this reason, it is necessary to go up and down only the first floor by using the stairs after getting off the elevator, which results in inconvenience to the latter passengers. Therefore, such double driving is applied only during rush hours such as when going to work or during lunch, and in a time zone other than this, a semi-double driving is performed. This semi-double operation means that passengers going to even floors and passengers going to odd floors are divided into upper and lower cars only at the departure standard floor, and after leaving the departure standard floor, both upper and lower cars can be stopped at any floor. It is a driving like this. This semi-double operation is convenient for passengers because it can move directly to any floor, but it corresponds to any destination floor of passengers in the upper and lower cars, resulting in lower operating efficiency as a whole system than double operation. .

As described above, both the double operation and the semi-double operation have advantages and disadvantages in use. Therefore, the double operation and the semi-double operation are actually switched by operating at each time zone. Under these circumstances,
In the time zone where semi-double operation is applied, with regard to traffic demand from the general floor to the departure standard floor, operational efficiency will be improved if car calls and landing calls can be serviced with one stop, or if both upper and lower cars respond. In consideration of the above, the upper car is not made to respond to the even floors and the lower car is made to respond to the odd floors. When viewed from the general floor, the response car is not fixed, but either the upper or lower car responds.

On the other hand, the structure of the departure standard floor is 1F (1st floor)
And B1 (1st basement) up and down, or 2F
Generally, (2nd floor) and 1F (1st floor) are up and down, so that in the traffic demand from the departure standard floor to the general floor, it is inconvenient for either the even-numbered or odd-numbered residents. In order to prevent such a situation, an escalator is placed on the flow line from the outside of the building, and it is common to have an elevator facility configuration that can move freely between the standard floors for departure and departure.

[0005]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Based on the above background,
An elevator system equipped with a hall destination call registration device for registering a desired destination floor as a hall destination call at a hall has been proposed mainly for the purpose of improving driving efficiency and usability in semi-double operation. In the general floor above the departure standard floor, if the hall destination calls of the upper departure standard floor and the lower departure standard floor are registered at the same time, the general floor to board,
Either the lower car responds to respond to a landing destination call on the lower departure standard floor, and then the upper car responds to respond to a landing destination call on the upper departure reference floor, or either up or down at the boarding floor. The car, and if it is a lower car, make it respond in the order of the upper departure standard floor and then the lower departure standard floor.If it is an upper car, make it respond to the upper departure standard floor, then move the lower car to the lower plunge floor. Will cause the upper car to respond to the lower departure standard floor. In both cases, although there are differences between the general floor and the departure reference floor, it is necessary to respond twice on either side. Even when the hall call of at least one of the upper departure standard floor and the lower departure standard floor is registered on the general floor above the departure standard floor, the upper car or If there is a restriction that only one of the lower cars can respond, and even if it is a priority response case such as simultaneous response of upper and lower cars including the general floor of the call target, due to the above restrictions, priority response cannot be performed Can happen.

On the other hand, since the escalator can freely move between the upper and lower departure reference floors, the passengers from the general floor will not experience much inconvenience in terms of usability regardless of which departure reference floor is the upper or lower departure reference floor. Has become.

As described above, when the hall destination call registration device is installed on the general floor, the operation efficiency is lowered although it is intended to improve the operation efficiency, and it is used for moving between the upper and lower departure reference floors. It means that the escalator is not being effectively used, and the total elevator system including the elevator and escalator is not being effectively used.

Although the above is assumed to be a general normal time zone from the office hours to the office hours, here, the peak hours after the office hours will be considered. In such a time zone, the traffic demand for elevators will decrease to some extent, and the downward demand from the general floor will generally remain after a fixed time due to overtime work, etc. Become. In such a situation, when the hall destination call registration device is installed on the general floor as described above, it is a quiet time and it is not necessary to consider operating efficiency. By registering the destination call for the floor (usually 1F)
With the configuration of B1, the upper car can be made to respond,
This allows passengers to leave the building without the use of escalators or stairs. However, when the general floor is a landing call in the vertical direction, except for the case where the car call and the landing call can be answered at once or the cases where the upper and lower cars are simultaneously answered, the even car is the upper car and the odd car is the lower car. Will respond, so even if the student is on an even or odd floor (an odd floor if the departure floor is 1F / B1), he or she will always use the escalator or stairs even when it is quiet. , The floor may cause inconvenience or inconvenience.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and provides a control device for a double-deck elevator, which can achieve operation that improves operation efficiency and operation that improves usability as much as possible. The purpose is to do.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the invention according to claim 1 is a controller for a double-deck elevator that operates by connecting two upper and lower cars. A hall destination call registration means for registering the destination floor desired by the customer as a hall destination call, and an upper and lower car response selection means for performing an evaluation calculation for each of the upper and lower cars for the hall destination call and selecting an appropriate car , In the landing destination call, transfer the destination call of the upper and lower departure standard floor to the car call in the car as the call of the upper departure reference floor if the response car is the upper car, or the lower departure reference floor if it is the lower car A car call transfer means is provided.

The invention according to claim 2 is, in the control device according to claim 1, wherein the hall destination call registration means is a hall destination call for at least one departure standard floor of the upper and lower cars from above the departure standard floor. On the other hand, it is characterized by including means for simultaneously registering the upper and lower departure reference floors and deleting the registration at the same time when the car responds.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the control device according to the first aspect, the hall destination call registration means is a hall destination call for at least one of the departure standard floors from above the departure standard floor. On the other hand, it is characterized in that the destination call of the departure standard floor that is not registered is not registered and is processed as the upper and lower departure standard floor calls.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the control device according to the first aspect, the hall destination call registration means calls the upper and lower departure reference floors when calling the upper and lower departure reference floors from above the departure reference floor. Is functionally processed as one button.

According to the invention of claim 5, in the control device for the double deck elevator, the hall call registration means for registering the vertical call at the hall and the downward hall call from the floor above the departure reference floor. At least the time,
A specific car priority response that gives priority to the car to stop at the departure standard floor that is directly connected to the outside of the building according to predetermined conditions including downward demand, the presence or absence of manual operation, and the presence or absence of parallel escalator And a selection means.

[0015]

According to the present invention, with the above configuration, when the landing destination call registration means is installed on the general floor for traffic demand from the general floor to the departure standard floor,
Improves operating efficiency by treating the destination calls on the upper and lower departure standard floors as one destination call during normal hours that give priority to operating efficiency, and prioritizes usability when the hall up / down direction calling means is installed on the general floor During the nighttime, the car that is directly connected to the outside of the building is given priority to respond, so that the usability can be improved.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a control device according to the inventions described in claims 1 to 4. A control device 10 is provided for controlling a double deck elevator to which the present invention is applied. The control device 10 includes operation control means 11 for controlling running and stopping of the upper and lower cars, operation direction control means 12 for determining the operation direction of the upper and lower cars according to the call registration status of the hall and the car, and opening and closing of the upper and lower car doors. Door control means 13 for controlling each of the above, hall destination call registration means 14 for registering hall destination buttons 201 to 212 (in this embodiment, an example of the 12th floor is shown) installed in each hall, and an upper car A car call registration means 15 for registering respective car calls of the lower car and the lower car, and an upper or lower car for selecting an appropriate car among the upper and lower cars based on the destination floor information and the car call information registered by the landing destination call Response selecting means 16, the destination call registered at the time of car response to the car 3
It is composed of a car call transfer means 17 for performing automatic registration as a car call of A (general term for upper and lower cars). Basket 3A
It consists of an upper car 3AH and a lower car 3AL.

Next, the operation of the double deck elevator according to the embodiment of the invention described in claims 1 and 2 will be described with reference to FIGS.
Will be described with reference to. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the hall destination call registration means 14 of the control device 10, FIG. 3 is a state diagram showing the action of the hall destination call of 8F (8th floor), and FIG. 4 is a car call of the control device 10. Transfer means 17
It is a flow chart which shows an operation of. Hereinafter, a case where the hall destination call registration device on the 1st floor (first floor) is registered in the hall destination call registration device on the 8th floor and the upper car 3AH is selected as the response car will be described as an example.

In the flowchart of FIG. 2, the variable H representing each of the destination floors 1F to 12F is reset as an initial setting, that is, after H = 0 is processed (step 30),
As H = H + 1 (step 31), the process for the hall destination call of 1F starts. When there is a request for a 1F hall destination call from the 8F hall destination button 208, the hall destination call registration means 14 registers the 1F destination call. When the push button gate is input according to the flowchart of FIG. 2 (step 32) and the input of the gate of the upper / lower departure reference floor is detected, the opposite reference floor, that is, the gate of the lower / upper departure reference floor is virtually generated. By turning on (steps 33 and 34 and steps 35 and 36), the same state as when the gates are simultaneously pressed is generated. After that, the gate input information is input to the hall destination call registration table that internally latches and stores the state in the current hall destination call lamp.
R logic synthesis is performed, and the hall destination call registration table is updated (step 37). Next, if the elevator response door is open, the registration above or below the car position is reset in the hall destination call registration table according to whether the car is upward or downward (steps 38, 39 to 41), and the hall destination. The call registration table is output to the hall destination call lamp, the hall destination call lamp is deleted when the car responds, the final update processing of the hall destination call registration table is completed, and this information is output via the output buffer. Output as a lamp (step 42).

As described above, the gate of 2F is virtually turned on when the gate of 1F is detected, so that the destination call lamps of 1F and 2F are turned on at the same time (see FIG. 3 (a) before registration).
(B) after registration). Since the destination calls of 1F and 2F correspond to downward calls as hall calls, they are input to the upper and lower car response selecting means 16 as 8F downward hall calls.

The above series of processing is repeatedly executed for each hall destination call of 2F to 12F (step 43,
31-42).

The upper and lower car response selecting means 16 treats it as one departure reference floor call as the destination call information, calculates the number of stops for each upper car or lower car, and selects an appropriate car. Here, since there are no special cases such as simultaneous upper and lower car responses and matching car calls and destination calls, the upper car is selected as the response car because it is an even floor. In accordance with this, direction selection is executed for the operation control means 11 and the traveling direction control means 12 as a downward landing call for the upper car 3AH, and the car 3A operates for 8F. A deceleration command is issued to the 8F by the operation control means 11 and the upper car responds to the 8F. A door opening command is issued by the door control means 13 to start the opening operation of the door. When the door is opened, the hall destination call registration means 14 erases the 1F and 2F hall destination calls, and at the same time, the car call transfer means 17 automatically executes the car call as a car call into the car. According to the flow chart of FIG. 4, for a hall call in the downward direction at the door opening start timing, the car call registration means 15 is instructed to transfer the call to a car other than the departure standard floor of 1F and 2F, and the departure standard floor of the departure standard floor. Regarding the call, depending on whether the responding car is the upper car or the lower car (see steps 51 and 62), if the car is an upper car (C = 1), it is processed as a call for the upper departure standard floor (steps 51 to 56, 58 to 60). ), Lower basket (C =
If it is 2), it is processed as a call for the lower departure standard floor (steps 51 to 57, 58 to 61). Step 5 with C = 0
0 is an initialization process for the variable C indicating whether the responding car is the upper car or the lower car. According to this processing, the car call is registered in the car 3A through the car call registration means 15. In this case, since the upper car responds to 8F, only 2F, which is the upper departure standard floor, is registered as a car call (see FIG. 3 (c)).

Next, the operation of the double deck elevator according to the third embodiment of the invention having the structure shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is similar to FIG. 2, and the same reference numerals represent the same or similar functions. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the hall destination call registration means 14 of the control device 10.
FIG. 8 is a state diagram showing the operation of an 8F hall destination call. Here again, a case where the 1F hall destination call is registered and the upper car 3AH is selected as the response car will be described as an example.
With reference to FIGS. 2 to 4, a detailed description of the already-described description will be omitted.

When there is a request for a landing destination call on the 1st floor using the landing destination button 208 on the 8th floor, the hall destination call registration means 14
The destination call of 1F is registered by. In the flowchart of FIG. 5, the meanings of steps 70, 71, and 83 are the same as steps 30, 31, and 43 in FIG. 2, respectively. The push button gate is input according to the flowchart of FIG. 5 (step 72), and when the input of the gate of the upper and lower departure reference floors is detected, the destination call push button of the other departure reference floor is always reset (steps 73 to 76). , Disable the gate input function. Therefore, in this case, 1F
Since the lower departure standard floor which is 2 is registered first, the registration of the upper departure standard floor which is 2F is always prohibited. The subsequent operation of the hall destination call registration means (steps 77 to 82) is the same as the description of the operation (steps 37 to 42) of FIG.

According to the control mode of FIG. 5, even if the 2F hall destination call is registered as shown in FIG. 6, the call is not permitted and does not light up (see FIGS. 6A to 6D). Since the landing destination call on the 1st floor is equivalent to a downward call as a landing call, 8
It is input to the upper and lower car response selecting means 16 as a downward hall call of F.

Then, the upper car 3AH responds to the 8F according to the operation of the upper and lower car response selecting means 16, and the car call transfer means 1
4, the car call is registered as a car call on the upper departure standard floor due to the action of the flowchart of FIG. 4 because of the car response, and is therefore processed as a car call on the second floor and registered in the car 3A through the car call registration means 15. I do.

Next, an embodiment of the invention described in claim 4 having the configuration of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a state diagram for explaining the configuration and operation of the 8F hall destination call. When a hall passenger having a destination floor of 1F or 2F calls a hall destination on 8F, the hall destination floor buttons on the departure reference floor are 1F and 2 as shown in FIGS. 7 (a) to 7 (c).
F are jointly considered as one floor group, 1F and 2
The destination button of F is registered, and the landing destination buttons of 1F and 2F are registered (see (b) of the same figure). Here as well,
As in the case of the embodiments of claims 1 and 2 described with reference to FIG. 6, by the upper car 3AH responding to 8F,
Car call on the 2nd floor as a car call on the upper departure standard floor 3
Registered in A.

Next, an embodiment of the invention described in claim 5 will be described with reference to FIGS. 8 and 9. FIG. 8 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the control device 20 according to the fifth aspect of the invention, and FIG. 9 is a flow chart showing the operation of the specific car priority response selecting means 18 in the control device 20.

In the control device 20, the hall destination buttons 201 to 212, the hall destination call registration means 14 and the car call transfer means 17 in FIG. 1 are omitted, and instead, the halls that call only upward or downward. Call buttons 401 to 412 (also in this embodiment, the 12th floor of F1 to F12),
The hall call registration means 21 for registering the call contents by the hall call button, the priority time zone, for example, from 6 pm to 11 pm
Timer 22 and timer 2 that are set by time
The specific car priority response selection means 23 is provided for selectively referring to the setting information of No. 2 to preferentially respond to a predetermined car for a specific car.

Hereinafter, a case where a downward hall call is registered from 7F at 7 pm during the night time zone will be described as an example. In accordance with the downward call registration operation of the 7F hall call button 407, the hall call registration means 21 registers the downward hall call. The registered call is evaluated by the upper and lower car response selecting means 16 for each car (upper car 3AH or lower car 3AL), and the simultaneous response by the upper and lower cars and the response by matching the car call and the landing call are evaluated. In the case described here, since the conditions to be met are not satisfied, the upper car 3AH is selected as an even car and the lower car 3AL is selected as an odd car due to the priority condition of responding to the odd car. Next, after the determination of the lower car 3AL made by the upper and lower car response selecting means 16, the specific car priority response selecting means 23 executes it according to the flowchart of FIG. This specific car priority response selection means 23 is assumed to be in a quiet time after the peak time of leaving work, and the priority time zone is set as an overtime time zone in a normal office building, for example, from 6 pm to 11 pm It is common to keep it. This time zone The time of 7:00 pm in this case is included in the priority time zone (step 91).
Therefore, if the lower car 3AL is a car to be answered (determined in step 93) in response to a downward call from the upper floor (determined in step 92), the upper car 3AH may be full on the target floor. (Not determined at step 94), simultaneous upper / lower car response is not determined (determined at step 95), and there is no priority due to the car call and hall call coincidence response (step 96).
If it is determined as a response car, the car to be responded to the upper car 3AH that responds to the upper departure standard floor, which is the flow line with the outside of the building, is corrected as the response car (step 97). Below, lower basket 3AL
Is to respond to the 7F downward call,
This is similar to the description of the embodiments of claims 1 and 2, and is omitted here.

As described above, in the embodiments of claims 1 to 4, in the system in which the hall destination call registration means 14 is installed on the general floor, the normal time zone excluding the peak hours of morning, noon and evening. With regard to the above, since the destination call of the upper and lower departure standard floors can be transferred to the car call according to the answering car, efficient operation management can be realized. In the embodiment of claim 5, the departure standard floor response car, which is a flow line with the outside of the building, can be preferentially made to respond to the movement demand when returning home from the upper floor after the peak of leaving work toward the departure standard floor. Therefore, it is possible to get out of the building without moving due to stairs or an escalator that has stopped.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the departure reference floors of the building are 1F and 2F, but in some cases, B1,1
The case of F can be handled in the same way. Further, although the case where the hall destination call registration means is installed on all floors has been described, it is obvious that the present invention can be applied to the case where the hall destination call registration means is installed only on a specific floor and mixed with vertical direction calls. Further, as the specific car priority response means, a method may be used in which individual evaluation elements are weighted with respect to the priority evaluation and the evaluation calculation is performed by the evaluation formula. In the above-mentioned embodiment, a case where the time is given as an example of the predetermined condition is given, but the traffic demand is learned, and the flow of passengers is detected statistically and quantitatively.
Obviously, the same can be applied to the case of performing a manual operation with the monitoring panel.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the number of elevators installed is one has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and two elevators are installed.
Even in the case of more than one car (arbitrary plural cars), it is obvious that the upper and lower cars can be treated in the same manner by evaluating multiple elevators.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention,
In response to traffic demand from the upper general floor to the departure standard floor, during normal times, when priority is given to operating efficiency, the destination calls on the upper and lower departure standard floors are treated as one destination floor, and the car that responds is handled. Accordingly, by transferring as a car call in the car, it is possible to eliminate unnecessary stop and reduce the waiting time of each floor. In addition, even if you respond to a destination floor that is different from the registered floor, you can easily move to the destination floor with the parallel escalator, so there is no reduction in service, and you can use the elevator system including the double deck elevator and escalator. It can be used comprehensively.

Further, in the off-hours after the time of leaving work,
The use of elevators for returning home becomes dominant, but even for the general call system where the landing destination call registration means is not installed for the lower calls on the upper floor, the car going to the floor directly connected to the outside of the building Since priority can be given to the response, even if the escalator is already stopped at night, it is possible to go outside the building directly without using the stairs or escalator. This leads to improvement of service performance.

In summary, according to the present invention, it is possible to operate the double-deck elevator and escalator in a well-balanced manner of operation efficiency and usability in consideration of the traffic demand of the entire building.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of an embodiment of a control device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of a hall destination call registration means in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an operating state of a hall destination button in FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the car call transfer means in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart similar to FIG. 2, showing the operation of the hall destination call registration means according to another embodiment.

6 is an explanatory diagram showing an operating state of a landing destination button according to the flowchart of FIG. 5. FIG.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an operating state of a landing destination button according to another embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of another embodiment of the control device according to the present invention.

9 is a flow chart showing the operation of one embodiment of the specific car priority response selecting means in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 control device 11 operation control means 12 operation direction control means 13 door control means 14 landing destination call registration means 15 car call registration means 16 upper and lower car response selection means 17 car call transfer means 20 control device 21 landing call registration means 22 timer 23 specific Car priority response selection means 201 to 212 Landing destination button 3A Upper and lower cars 3AH Upper car 3AL Lower car 401 to 412 Landing call button

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A double-deck elevator control device for controlling operation by connecting two upper and lower cars, which are an upper car and a lower car, to a landing destination for registering a destination floor desired by a waiting passenger at the landing as a landing destination call. Call registration means, upper and lower car response selection means for performing an evaluation calculation for each of the upper and lower cars for the landing destination call, and selecting one of the appropriate response cars, and selection by the upper and lower car response selection means If the responded car is an upper car, it is provided with a car call transfer means for transferring the landing destination call into the car as a call for the upper departure standard floor and for a lower car as a call for the lower departure standard floor. Control device for double-deck elevator characterized by. 2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the landing destination call registration means is a vertical departure standard floor for a landing destination call of at least one of the departure standard floors of the upper and lower cars from above the departure standard floor. A control device for a double-deck elevator, characterized in that it includes means for simultaneously registering the vehicle and deleting the registration at the same time when the car responds. 3. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the hall destination call registration means is registered with respect to a hall destination call on at least one departure standard floor of an upper and lower cars from above the departure standard floor. A control device for a double-deck elevator, characterized in that a destination call of a departure standard floor that does not exist is unregistered and is processed as an upper and lower departure standard floor call. 4. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the hall destination call registration means functionally provides a call button for the upper and lower departure reference floors when calling the upper and lower departure reference floors from above the departure reference floor. A control device for a double deck elevator, characterized by being processed as a button. 5. A controller for a double-deck elevator that operates by connecting two upper and lower cars, and a hall call registration means for registering a vertical call at a hall, and a downward hall from a floor above the departure standard floor. For calls, priority is given to a car that stops on the departure standard floor that is directly connected to the outside of the building, according to predetermined conditions including at least the time of day, downward demand, the presence or absence of manual operation, and the presence / absence of parallel escalator. A control device for a double deck elevator, comprising: a specific car priority response selecting means for responding dynamically.