JPH08282944A - Domestic elevator and its construction method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a domestic elevator and its construction method wherein setting up can be easily and inexpensively performed relating to an existing house. CONSTITUTION: In an external wall surface 2 vertically correspondingly positioning a space utilizable as a gate in an upper/lower floor in an existing house 1, in/out openings 3, 4 having a bottom surface almost flush with a floor surface of each floor are formed, and an elavator unit 5 comprising a prefabricated lift car and elevator shaft case is built so as to vertically connect the in/out openings 3, 4 of each floor also so as to stop the lift car in the in/out openings 3, 4.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a domestic elevator, and more particularly to a domestic elevator that can be easily installed in an existing house and a method for constructing the same.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in a multi-storey house, it is possible to extend the movable area of the elderly and the physically handicapped people who have difficulty or difficulty to go up and down stairs to the second floor or higher so that they can live a comfortable life. In addition, the demand for houses with elevators is increasing.

[0003] A conventional home-installed house is installed with an elevator in advance at the time of new construction. In addition, when installing an elevator in an existing house, large-scale renovation work is required.

[0004]

However, it is only possible for a limited number of people, who are very financially blessed, to build an expensive house with an elevator due to the elderly or the disabled. There is a problem.

Therefore, a method of reconstructing an existing house and installing an elevator is conceivable. Even in that case, however, the large-scale extension and renovation work is required as described above, and thus enormous expenses are required, which is for home use. At present, it is an obstacle to the widespread use of elevators and it is not possible to improve the lives of the elderly and the physically disabled, and there is a demand for the development of a domestic elevator that can be installed at low cost.

In view of the above conventional problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a domestic elevator that can be easily and inexpensively installed in an existing house and a method for constructing the elevator.

[0007]

A domestic elevator according to the present invention comprises an entrance / exit opening formed on the outer wall surface of an existing house so as to be substantially flush with the floor surface of the upper and lower floors, and an elevator car and a hoistway case. And an elevator unit installed along the outer wall surface so as to vertically connect the entrances and exits of each floor.

[0008] Preferably, the hoistway case is provided with a doorway to the outside of the house, the frame of the elevator car is a U-shaped frame, and the turntable is provided on the floor of the elevator car. An elevating and lowering drive unit is arranged on the back of the frame.

Further, in the method of constructing a domestic elevator of the present invention, the space available as an entrance and exit on the upper and lower floors of an existing house is located on the outer wall surface corresponding to the upper and lower sides, and the bottom surface is substantially flush with the floor surface of each floor. An elevator unit, which is formed with an entrance / exit opening, and is composed of a prefabricated elevator car and a hoistway case is connected to the entrance openings on each floor in the vertical direction, and is assembled so that the elevator car stops at the entrance / exit opening.

[0010]

According to the domestic elevator of the present invention, a house with an elevator can be realized by forming an entrance / exit opening at an appropriate position on the outer wall surface of an existing house and installing an elevator unit along the outer wall surface. It becomes cheaper, and the elevator unit itself is standardized and mass-produced at the factory, so that the elevator can be manufactured at low cost, and therefore, the domestic elevator can be installed at very low cost.

Further, if the elevator case of the elevator unit is provided with an entrance to the outside of the house, it is possible to enter and exit from the entrance of a house with a step even if it is difficult to enter and exit by itself.

Further, if the frame of the elevator car of the elevator unit is constituted by a U-shaped frame, not only can it move between the first floor and the second floor indoors through the entrance / exit opening, but also the hoistway case can be used to Even when the doorway is provided, the elevator car of the same structure can be applied.

Further, if a turntable is provided on the floor surface of the elevator car, the direction can be arbitrarily changed even when the elevator car is narrow and the elevator car can be safely moved in and out.

Further, when the elevating and lowering drive section is provided on the back of the U-shaped frame, the elevating and lowering car is moved up and down by itself, so that the structure of the hoistway case is simplified and the drive section is provided above and below the hoistway case. Since it is not necessary to do so, the overall structure can be made compact and the elevator unit can be inexpensively constructed.

Further, according to the method of constructing a domestic elevator of the present invention, the space that can be used as an entrance / exit on the upper and lower floors of an existing house is formed by forming an entrance / exit opening on an outer wall surface corresponding to the top and bottom. The structure itself requires little or no modification, and by using an elevator unit consisting of a prefabricated elevator car and hoistway case, it is only necessary to assemble and adjust the factory produced one in the field. Therefore, it can be installed at a low cost in a short construction period.

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A home elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, reference numeral 1 is an existing house of two floors, and the outer wall surface 2 thereof has floors 3a and 4 on the first and second floors.
The access openings 3 and 4 are formed so as to be substantially flush with the surface a. Preferably, these entrance / exit openings 3 and 4 are formed in portions of the outer wall surface 2 of the existing house 1 where spaces usable as entrances and exits on the first floor and the second floor are located at upper and lower positions. If the positions of the entrances / exits 3 and 4 are selected in this way, the internal structure of the existing house 1 need not be modified at all.
Furthermore, if an opening such as a window provided on the outer wall surface 13 is used and is modified so as to form both or either of the access openings 3 and 4, the access openings 3 and 4 are formed. The construction itself is easy.

Reference numeral 5 is an elevator unit consisting of a hoisting car 6 and a hoistway case 7, which is installed along the outer wall surface 2 so as to vertically connect the entrances and exits 3 and 4 of each floor. The hoistway case 7 has an entrance / exit 8 to and from the outside of the house.
Is provided. The entrance / exit 8 can be selectively formed on any of the three sides of the hoistway case 7 that face the outside, and can be entered / exited in either direction of arrows A, B, and C shown in FIG. Has been done.

As shown in FIG. 4 and FIG.
The frame is composed of a U-shaped frame 9 and a panel 10 that closes an arbitrary opening side surface among the three opening side surfaces, and depending on the arrangement position of the panel 10, FIGS.
As shown by the arrow in (c), the entering / exiting direction can be arbitrarily selected and corresponds to the entering / exiting direction of arrows A, B, and C in FIG. 3. Further, the lifting drive unit 1 is provided on the back of the U-shaped frame 9.
1 is provided, and a turntable 12 is provided on the floor surface.

A drive gear 13 which is rotationally driven in synchronization is disposed on both upper sides of the elevation drive unit 11, and the drive gear 13 is vertically moved along the inner surface of the hoistway case 7 as shown in FIG. It is meshed with the extended rack 14, and the drive car 13 is driven to rotate, so that the elevator car 6 is elevated. Further, guide rollers (not shown) arranged at appropriate positions on both sides of the lifting drive unit 11 are engaged with guide rails 15 extending vertically in the hoistway case 7, so that the lifting car 6 moves up and down. It is supported freely.

As shown in FIG. 7, the lift drive unit 11 includes a drive motor 16, a speed reducer 17, and a control unit 1.
8 and the drive gear 13 is fixed to both ends of the rotary drive shaft 19 extending from the reduction gear 17 to both sides.

When constructing the domestic elevator having the above-mentioned structure, first, on the outer wall surface 2 of the portion of the existing house 1 on the first and second floors where the space available as an entrance corresponds vertically, the bottom surface is Forming the entrances / exits 3 and 4 that are substantially on the same plane as the floors 3a and 4a of each floor, and then assembling the elevator unit 5 manufactured in advance in the factory so that the entrances / exits 3 and 4 of each floor are connected vertically, and then moved up and down. It suffices to adjust the car 6 to stop at each of the access openings 3 and 4, and the construction is completed in a short construction period.

According to this domestic elevator, a house with an elevator can be realized by a simple construction without substantially modifying the internal structure of the existing house 1 as described above, so that the construction cost is low and the elevator unit 5 itself. Can be manufactured at low cost by standardizing and mass-producing in a factory, and therefore, a domestic elevator can be installed at very low cost.

Further, when using this domestic elevator, since the hoistway case 7 of the elevator unit 5 is provided with the entrance / exit 8 for the outside of the house, it is difficult to enter / exit from the entrance of the house with steps by itself. In some cases, you can go in and out without any problems. In addition, the entrance 8 is the floor 3 on the first floor.
When it is set to the same level as the ground surface lower than a, when going in and out from this entrance 8 as shown by the solid white arrow in FIG. 2, the elevator car 6 is placed at a position corresponding to the ground surface. It is necessary to enter and exit after stopping the descent. On the other hand, FIG.
As shown by the phantom line, when the slope 20 connected from the ground surface to the entrance / exit 8 is formed, the elevator car 6 is stopped at the entrance / exit opening 3 on the first floor as shown by the white arrow on the phantom line and outside the house. You can come and go. In addition, lifting basket 6
Set the third stop position as the stop position of the
May be lowered to the position of the ground line 30.

Further, in this embodiment, the elevator unit 5
Since the frame of the elevator car 6 of the above is configured by the U-shaped frame 9, the elevator car 6 of the same structure can be applied even when the doorway 8 inside and outside the house is provided in the hoistway case 7 as described above.
It can be manufactured at low cost by standardization, and since the turntable 12 is provided on the floor surface of the elevator car 6, it is possible to change the direction arbitrarily even when the elevator car 6 is narrow when riding on a wheelchair. It is possible to safely go in and out, and since the raising / lowering drive unit 11 is arranged on the back of the U-shaped frame 9, the raising / lowering car 6 can be raised / lowered by itself, which simplifies the structure of the hoistway case 7. Since it is not necessary to dispose a drive unit on the upper or lower portion of the hoistway case 7, the overall structure can be made compact and the elevator unit 5 can be manufactured at low cost.

[0026]

As described above, according to the domestic elevator of the present invention, the entrance / exit opening is formed at a proper position on the outer wall surface of the existing house, and the elevator unit is installed along the outer wall surface of the existing house. Since it can be realized, the construction cost is low and the elevator unit itself can be standardized and mass-produced at a factory, so that it can be manufactured at a low cost, and thus a household elevator can be installed at a very low cost.
The range in which the elderly and the physically handicapped can move on their own expands,
You can have a comfortable life.

Further, by providing the hoistway case of the elevator unit with a doorway to the outside of the house, even if it is difficult to go in and out by itself from the entrance of the house with steps, it is possible to go in and out without trouble.

Further, if the frame of the elevator car of the elevator unit is constructed by a U-shaped frame, not only can it move between the first floor and the second floor indoors through the entrance / exit opening, but also the hoistway case can Even when the door is provided, the elevator car having the same structure can be applied, and the elevator car can be manufactured at low cost by standardizing the elevator car.

Further, if a turntable is provided on the floor surface of the elevator car, the direction can be arbitrarily changed even when the elevator car is narrow and the elevator car can be safely moved in and out.

Further, when the elevating and lowering drive section is provided on the back of the U-shaped frame, the elevating and lowering car is moved up and down by itself, so that the structure of the hoistway case is simplified and the drive sections are arranged above and below the hoistway case. Since it is not necessary to do so, the overall structure can be made compact and the elevator unit can be inexpensively constructed.

Further, according to the method of constructing a domestic elevator of the present invention, the space available as a doorway on the upper and lower floors of an existing house is formed by forming an entrance / exit opening on an outer wall surface corresponding to the top and bottom. The structure itself requires little or no modification, and by using an elevator unit consisting of a prefabricated elevator car and hoistway case, it is only necessary to assemble and adjust the factory produced one in the field. Therefore, it can be installed at a low cost in a short construction period.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state immediately before installation of an elevator unit in an embodiment of a domestic elevator of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a vertical flow line in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a flow line in a horizontal direction in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a schematic configuration of an elevator car according to the same embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a side view of the installation state of the elevator car according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing an assembling procedure corresponding to a horizontal flow line of the elevator car in the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a schematic configuration of a lifting drive unit for a lifting car in the same embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Existing house 2 Outer wall surface 3 Entry / exit opening 4 Entry / exit opening 5 Elevator unit 6 Elevating car 7 Hoistway case 8 Entry / exit 9 C-shaped frame 11 Elevating drive part 12 Turntable

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An exit / entrance formed on the outer wall of an existing house to be substantially flush with the floors of the upper and lower floors, and an elevator car and a hoistway case to connect the upper and lower openings of each floor up and down. An elevator for home use, comprising: an elevator unit installed along an outer wall surface of the elevator. 2. The elevator for home use according to claim 1, wherein the hoistway case is provided with an entrance to and exit from the outside of the house. 3. The elevator for home use according to claim 1, wherein the frame of the elevator car comprises a U-shaped frame. 4. The domestic elevator according to claim 1, wherein a turntable is arranged on the floor surface of the elevator car. 5. The elevator for home use according to claim 3, wherein an elevating / lowering drive unit is provided on the back of the U-shaped frame. 6. A prefabricated elevator which has an opening / closing opening whose bottom surface is substantially flush with the floor surface of each floor on the outer wall surface of the upper and lower floors of an existing house that can be used as a doorway in the upper and lower floors. A method for constructing a domestic elevator, characterized in that an elevator unit including a car and a hoistway case is connected so that the entrances and exits of each floor are vertically connected and the elevator car is stopped at the entrance and exit.