JPH08231142A - Group control unit (dnc) of elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To make an elevator operable according to the request of users by installing a display in an elevator hall, displaying the degree of congestion in a car at each elevator with a character or figure, and installing a device for making the users select the displayed elevator. CONSTITUTION: Each of hall displays HD is installed in the upper parts and suchlike of each door of elevators at respective floors, making them perform so as to do various display guides on the basis of each command of a group control unit and a No. machine controller. Display contents of the displays HD are outputted from an information controller 6, namely, the following messages are displayed that 'this elevator will accommodate how many persons in addition', 'you are not going to the first floor in this elevator', and 'this elevator will not for wheelchairs and the like', by way of example. Accordingly, users grasp the congested status upon seeing the display contents being displayed in the display HD at each elevator, and they operate the hall button pertaining to the uncongested elevator car, whereby the elevator is made so as to be called.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to elevator call registration, and more particularly to an elevator group management control device for calling an elevator of a condition desired by a user from a plurality of elevators.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a call registration device for a group control elevator is constituted by a pair of upper and lower buttons. When this button is operated, an elevator with a short waiting time is selected from a plurality of elevators. Is selected, and the reservation light of the elevator is turned on.

In many cases, the elevator with a short waiting time is pleasing to the user, but in the following cases, dissatisfaction remains even if an elevator with a short waiting time is selected.

(1) When an elevator is called to carry a wagon or the like, but the assigned elevator is almost full and the wagon cannot be loaded.

(2) When it is desired to go to an underground parking lot in a building where the elevator that serves the basement floor of all elevators is part 1, and is assigned to a unit that does not service the basement floor.

[0006] To deal with such a situation, conventionally, a special call button has been proposed. The special call button is installed separately from a general call button, and when the button is operated, an elevator according to a request of the button is called. Specifically, a button to call an elevator for wheelchairs, a button to instruct VIP operation, a button to call an elevator when the car is not crowded, and want to go to a floor where only some elevators service There are buttons (buttons for non-uniform floors), etc. for inputting intentions
51-7653).

[0007]

In the above prior art, 1
Since one button is required for each function, a button with multiple functions is required in the elevator hall on the same floor,
There is a drawback that the number of wirings and the number of control devices increase, and equipment costs increase.

In order to solve this problem, JP-A-59-11
Japanese Patent No. 4271 discloses that a special call command is issued by operating the hall button (a so-called cipher call device).

However, this cryptographic call device cannot be used by anyone except those who know the operation method. Furthermore, since many functions are designated by combining the length of operation time of one button, there is a disadvantage that erroneous operations increase.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator group management control device which can call an elevator satisfying special conditions by a simple operation, and can operate the elevator according to a request (individuality) of a user getting on and off the elevator. About.

[0011]

An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for providing a display at a landing, displaying the degree of congestion in a car for each elevator as a condition for selecting a call-in elevator, and selecting the displayed elevator. It is achieved by providing.

In order to call in elevators that are not crowded in the car, the congestion status is displayed in order by characters or figures for each elevator, and when the hall button is operated while the elevator is displayed, the elevator is selected. And

[0013] With the above configuration, even an unskilled user can select an elevator that satisfies special conditions, thereby realizing a true personalization for the user.

As an application of this, when the hall button is operated, an elevator with a short waiting time is immediately assigned and displayed, and then the operation information of the assigned elevator, for example,
(1) The basket is crowded. (2) Do not go to the basement floor.
And the like may be displayed on the display of the elevator, and after that, when the user is dissatisfied, please re-operate the hall button.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will now be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the present invention. For the sake of explanation, the group management consists of three elevators. Units 1 and 2 have floors 1 to 16 and Unit 3 has floors 1 to 1
The 6th floor shall be serviced. Unit 1 is a wheelchair-only elevator.

The elevator control device 1 is composed of a group management control device 2 and each unit control device 3. Each unit control device 3 inputs the signal of the car call button 5 provided in the car 4, and communicates with the group management control device 2 together with the elevator position signal and direction signal. The group management control device takes in signals from the hall call buttons 1H to 16H provided on each floor 1F to 16F, assigns the generated hall call to any of the above-mentioned units, and transmits a separately assigned signal to the unit control device. , Display guidance. A hall display HD is mounted above the elevator doors on each floor and near the hall call button, and provides various kinds of display guidance according to commands from the group management control unit and the unit control unit. The group management control device 2,
The unit control device 3 and the landing display HD adopt a known microcomputer control, and the transfer of information data and designation of the landing display HD for display and the like can be freely added and changed by the configuration of the display control program. It is like that.
The registration of the graphic / character information to be displayed and the display control program can be freely added or changed by the information control device 6.

FIG. 2 shows a hall indicator H of the group supervisory control device 2.
D shows a data table configuration to be displayed in D.
Contents input from the information control device 6 are recorded in an IC card, a RAM backed up by a battery, or the like. Table T1 is data displayed at the time of call registration, and table T2 is data displayed at the time of reselection.
First, the table T1 will be described. Data No. 1-3
Is the data that displays the information "How many more people can ride in this elevator?", And data No.4 is the information that "This elevator cannot go to the first floor."
Data No. 5 is the information that the elevator is not for wheelchair driving, and data No. 6 is the message data that “If you are troubled with this elevator, press the button again.” Next, the table T2 will be described. Data Nos. 1 and 2 are "unmanned" and "10-seater"
For displaying the two images of
o.3 is "unmanned" graphic display data, data No. 4 is "1"
The graphic display data of "going to the floor" and data No. 5 are the graphic display data of "wheel chair".

FIGS. 3 and 4 are software flowcharts of the group management control device 1 relating to the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows a program for checking the operation of the hall call button on all floors and up and down directions, and is started periodically every 100 ms.

First, in step A10, a floor and a direction to be processed first are set. In step A20, it is determined whether or not the hall button has been operated. If the hall button has not been operated, the process jumps to step A120 and shifts to the processing of the next floor. In step A30, it is determined whether or not the call is a new call. If the call is a newly registered call, the processes in steps A40 to A110 are performed. When the call button on the registered floor is operated again,
Jump to step A140.

If the call is a newly registered call, first, in step A40, an element having a short waiting time is selected and an assignment is displayed. Next, in steps A50 to A60, the congestion in the car upon arrival is predicted, and if it is congested, one of the display messages No. 1 to 3 is selected according to the number of people who can board. In steps A70 to A80, it is determined whether the allocation is in the descending direction (DN) of the second car, and if so, the display message No. 4 is additionally selected. Step A9
From 0 to A100, it is determined whether the assigned element is the first car. If not, the display message No. 5 is additionally selected. Then, Step A110 includes Step A60,
The presence / absence of the display message selected in A80 and A100 is checked, and if one or more display messages are selected, the display message No. 6 is additionally selected, and this information is transmitted to the machine control device for display and output. By performing the processing of steps A40 to A110, for example, (1) If the ninth floor DN call is assigned to the third car, and the number of persons who can enter the car when the third car arrives is predicted to be two or three The selected message No. is No. 1 and No. 4.
No. 5 and No. 6, and the corresponding message is scrolled and displayed on the ninth-floor display of the third unit.

(2) When the second floor is assigned a DN call on the 9th floor and it is predicted that the number of passengers who can arrive at the second truck will be 10 people, the selected message No. is No. 3, N.
It becomes o.5 and No.6, and this message is scrolled and displayed on the 9th floor display of Unit 2.

(3) When the DN call of the 9th floor is assigned to the No. 1 machine and the number of cars in the car at the arrival of the No. 1 machine is predicted to be 0, no message is selected and the 9th floor of the No. 1 machine is selected. Only the allocation display is displayed on the display.

On the other hand, step A140 is a process when the call button of the registered floor is operated again. It is determined whether or not the reselection process has been started. If not, the process proceeds to step A150. Output a start command.

FIG. 4A is a flowchart of the reselection process.

Here, a DN call on the ninth floor is assigned to the third unit described with reference to FIG. 3, and messages No. 1, No. 4, and N
A specific description will be given by taking as an example a case where a person who wants to go to the first floor operates the hall button again under the condition that o.5 and No. 6 are selectively displayed.

First, when the hall button is operated, the reselection display data corresponding to the message No. is selected from the table T2 in step B10 and displayed on the display. This is shown in FIG. Next, in step B20, one figure is displayed in a display form different from the others. Here, it is assumed that bright and dark inverted flicker display is performed, and the display of the inverted diagram is shown in (c). Next, in step B30, it is determined whether or not the hole button has been operated. If it has been operated, the process jumps to step B60, and if not, the process proceeds to step B40. In step B40, the elapsed time from the start of display is checked, and if the same display continues for a predetermined time or more, the process moves to step B50, the symbol for changing the display form is updated, and the process returns to B20. This state is shown in (d). Step B
If the display time is less than the predetermined time at 40, the process is terminated. In step B60, a call assignment process corresponding to the currently displayed symbol is performed. This is because the person who wants to go to the first floor presses the hall button when the image of (d) is displayed, and the assigned elevator is determined from the elevators (No. 1 or No. 2) going to the first floor. Processing. Then, in step B70, additional assignment or assignment change is performed for the selected elevator, and the process ends.

In this embodiment, when only one message is displayed, for example, "this elevator is 1
Do not go to the floor. If you are in trouble with this elevator, please press the button again. Is displayed, when the hall button is pressed, it is not necessary to newly instruct the cause of the dissatisfaction. Therefore, it is needless to say that the process may immediately proceed to the elevator selection processing of step B60 in FIG. .

Also, in a building where there are many opportunities to carry a wagon like a hotel employee elevator or to call a direct elevator for room service, there is dissatisfaction after selecting an elevator with a short waiting time described in FIG. If there is, it is possible to omit the process of performing reselection and to always perform the assignment condition input display for the assigned elevator described with reference to FIG.

If the user can select only one type of selection condition (for example, the congestion degree is displayed only when an elevator with a crowded car is selected. An elevator that does not go to an uneven floor is selected. When the hall call button is operated again, there is an advantage that the elevator that meets the conditions can be immediately reselected when the hall call button is operated again.

Further, the contents displayed at the time of reselection shown by T2 in FIG. 2 are not limited to the method of directly specifying the elevator selection conditions. For example, the contents are used with a wagon as shown in FIG. . Use in the large conference room with only one person ending the meeting. The elevator selection condition can be indirectly designated by designating the state of the landing as shown in FIG.

[0033]

According to the present invention, in an elevator hall,
By providing an indicator, displaying conditions that can be selected by the user among the conditions for selecting the call-in elevator, and providing a device for selecting the displayed conditions, with a simple operation,
An elevator that satisfies special conditions can be summoned, and the user can be truly personalized.

According to the present invention, a display is provided at the landing, and when an elevator is assigned, the operation information of the assigned elevator is displayed and a reselection can be instructed. Is an elevator that does not satisfy the user's request, it is possible to call for an elevator that satisfies the request by instructing reselection.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a data table displayed on a hall display HD.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a portion of the group management control device 1 relating to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a part related to the present invention of the group management control device 1;

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of display contents according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Elevator control device, 2 ... Group management control device, 3 ...
Unit control device, 5 ... Car call device, 1H to 16H ... Hall call device, HD ... Hall display device.

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Toshimitsu Tobita 4026 Kuji Town, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Research Laboratory (72) Inventor Soshiro Katsunuki 4026 Kuji Town, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture Hitsuru Corporation Hitachi Research Laboratory (72) Inventor Yuzo Morita 4026 Kujicho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of elevators for servicing a plurality of floors, a hall call device for calling the elevators at each floor, a car call device for indicating a destination in a car, and a generated hall. A control device for allocating calls to one or more elevators is provided with a display at the landing and the degree of congestion in the car for each elevator is sequentially or switched and displayed by character or graphic for selecting elevators to call. An elevator group management control device, further comprising a device for allowing a user to select the displayed elevator. 2. The device according to claim 1 in which the user selects an elevator is a hall calling device, and the device is operated by operating the hall calling device when the congestion degree in the car is displayed. Elevator group management control device to select elevators.