JPH09132356A - Device and method for operating elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To constitute an elevator operating device so as to prevent a physically weak person from using an elevator by himself alone. SOLUTION: A physically weak person has previously received a card in which data indicating a specified person and a destination floor are stored. During the use of an elevator by a special person, the content of the card is read by a person identification device 2, and a specified person detecting part 3 determines whether the person is a specified one or not. Further, such a fact that a call registration is present is stored in a call registering part 9 in response to manipulation of a hall button 8. Meanwhile a car load detecting device 5 detects a load of a car, and a passenger detecting part 6 detects the presence of a person in the car in accordance with a value detected by the detecting device 5. An allocating means computes an allocation of a car in which a person is present, in accordance with the above-mentioned detected results. If a registration of a call by a specified person is present, the allocating means allocates the specified person to a car in which a person is present, and accordingly, the specified person rides on the car, thereby it is possible to prevent the specified person from riding on the car by himself alone.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator driving apparatus, and more particularly, to safely driving a specific customer (for example, a user having a physical handicap, a child, an elderly person, etc.) who is not suitable to use the elevator alone. The present invention relates to an elevator driving device that is sent to a destination floor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as an elevator to be provided to a specific customer as described above, for example, when a push button dedicated to a wheelchair user is pushed, the number of users in the elevator basket is detected, and there are many users. In such a case, the general user is informed to get out of the basket (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-25550).
No.), or a basket with a large number of users to pass through (JP-A-7-117939), or a push button dedicated to a wheelchair user, which assigns a basket with a low congestion degree to the user (JP-A-5-117939). No. 294565) is known.

[0003]

According to these elevators, it is possible for a specific customer to use more comfortably,
However, there is a problem that it is difficult to prevent the inconvenience when a specific customer uses it alone. In other words, if a child, an elderly person, a customer with a physical handicap, etc., uses the elevator alone, it is difficult to respond if the driving operation is unknown or if the car suddenly becomes ill, It is desirable that these disadvantages be ameliorated.

For this reason, the present invention has an object to provide an elevator operating device or operating method capable of preventing one person from using the elevator alone when the specific customer tries to use the elevator. To do.

[0005]

To this end, the invention according to claim 1 is an elevator driving apparatus for allocating at least one car from a double-row car, in which the user is a specific customer. Specific detection means for detecting the presence, passenger detection means for detecting the presence or absence of passengers in each car, call registration means for registering a call for a car from the hall, and call registration for this call registration means and When the specific detection means detects the specific passenger, the allocation detecting means is provided for allocating the calling from the car in which the passenger detected by the passenger detection means exists.

Further, in the invention according to claim 2, the allocating means selects and allocates a car having a relatively small number of passengers among the double-row cars to the call of the call registering means. To do.

Further, the invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that the passenger detecting means detects the presence or absence of the passenger by detecting whether or not the destination registering means for registering the destination floor of the passenger is registered.

Further, in the invention according to claim 4, there is provided an elevator operating method for allocating at least one car out of a double-row car, wherein a specific passenger is detected and the car is called from the hall. When there is a car, the feature is that a car is assigned from the cars in which passengers exist to this call.

Further, in the invention according to claim 5, an elevator driving apparatus for allocating at least one car out of a double-row car, and a specific detection means for detecting a specific customer, Specific destination registration means for registering the destination floor of a specific passenger, destination registration means for registering the destination floor of a general passenger, and comparison means for comparing the destination floors registered in each of the destination registration means and the specific destination registration means. As a result of this comparison, there is provided allocation means for allocating a car, which specifies the same floor as the destination floor of the specific customer or a floor farther than the destination floor of the specific customer, to the specific destination registration.

Further, in the invention according to claim 6, there is provided an elevator driving device for allocating at least one car out of the double-row cars, and a specific detection means for detecting that the car is a specific customer. It is equipped with a destination registration means for registering the destination floor of general passengers and a specific destination registration means for registering the destination floor of a specific passenger, and compares the destination registration means with the destination floor registered in the specific destination registration means to identify the specific passenger. When there is no registration specifying the same floor as the destination floor or the floor farther than the destination floor of the specific customer, there is a staff contact means for notifying the staff.

Further, in the invention according to claim 7, when there is no registration in the destination registration means designating the same floor as the destination floor of the specific customer or a floor farther than the destination floor of the specific customer, registration in the destination registration means. It is characterized in that it is provided with a temporary passing means for temporarily passing the designated destination floor.

[0012]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Embodiment 1 In this embodiment, when a specific passenger (all passengers other than the specific passenger are general passengers) use an elevator, an elevator operating apparatus and method for avoiding use by one person alone Will be explained. In this embodiment, the problem is solved by assigning an elevator car with another user to a specific customer. It should be noted that the configurations indicated by the same reference numerals below indicate the same or corresponding configurations.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and shows the overall construction of an elevator operating device. In the figure, 1 is a specific detection means for detecting that the customer is a specific customer. The specific detection means 1 distributes an identification card to at least a specific customer in advance, the personal identification device 2 receives a signal emitted from the identification card, and the content received by the personal identification device 2 is registered in advance in a specific manner. The specific customer detection unit 3 may be configured to determine whether or not the customer. The identification card should be operated within a certain distance, such as by inserting it into a card reader, etc. installed near the car call button at the elevator hall, or by having the identification card constantly send out an identification signal. The card reader may receive and detect.

Reference numeral 4 denotes passenger detection means for detecting the presence or absence of passengers in the car. For example, a car load detection device 5 for measuring the weight of the car is provided under the floor of the car, and a passenger detection unit 6 detects the weight of the car. If it is 0 or less than a certain value, it is recognized that there is no passenger, and if the weight is more than a certain value, it is recognized that there is a passenger. In short, the passenger detection unit 6 may be any one that detects whether the car is an empty car (no passenger is present) or a non-empty car (passenger is present). Reference numeral 7 is a call registration means for registering that a car has been called by a specific passenger. For example, when the hall button 8 installed on the wall of the elevator hall is pressed, the call registration section 9 is used for the floor. It should be remembered that there was a call to.
However, the call registration means 7 may be replaced by reading and registering the card owned by the specific customer with the card reader at the landing as described above. It is preferable that the card of the specific customer can store the specific customer and the call registration means 7 together if the specific customer and the floor to go to are stored. The specific detection means may be configured to detect a specific customer by pressing the hall button 8 several times or pressing the hall button 8 multiple times at fixed time intervals.

Numeral 10 is an allocating means for allocating a car containing passengers to a call of a car by a specific passenger.
Based on the information from the specific detection means 1, the passenger detection means 4, and the call registration means 7, the passenger car is assigned to the floor where the call is registered by calculation. Reference numeral 11 denotes an attendant contact device, which is used to contact the attendant who manages the elevator when there is no passenger in any of the cars. Reference numeral 12 is an operation control device for controlling the lifting movement of the elevator.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the hardware of the elevator operating apparatus having the above configuration. Reference numeral 13 denotes a microcomputer, which is an input circuit 1 for processing signals from the personal identification device 2, the car load detection device 5, and the hall button 8.
4, a CPU 15 for processing signals from this input circuit, a memory 16 in which various data and programs are stored,
The operation control device 12 that receives a signal from the CPU 15 and the output circuit 17 that outputs a signal to the staff contact device 11 are provided. The specific passenger detection unit 3, the passenger detection unit 6, and the call registration unit 7 shown in FIG. 1 are realized by the program processing of the microcomputer 13.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the operation by the program of the microcomputer 13, and this embodiment having the above-mentioned configuration will be explained with reference to FIG.
First, in step S1, the call registration unit 9 determines whether or not the call registration is performed by the hall button 8, and if the call registration is performed, the specific customer detection unit 3 determines whether or not the specific customer is detected in step S2. to decide. If a specific passenger is detected, the passenger detection unit 6 determines whether or not there is a non-empty car in step S3. If there is a non-empty car (there are passengers), one of the non-empty cars is assigned to the floor of the landing button 8 where the push button operation was performed by the operation of the assigning means 10 in step S4, and the operation control device is operated. Stop the car at the hall assigned by 12.

If the hall call is not registered in step S1, step S1 is repeated. If no specific customer is detected in step S2, normal allocation is performed in step S5.
If there is no non-empty car in step S3, the clerk contact device 11 informs the clerk in the building that the specific customer is going to use it alone, and the allocating means 10 performs normal allocation.

According to the above configuration, when the specific passenger pushes the hall button 8 and tries to use the elevator, the specific detecting means 1 informs the allocating means that the specific passenger is in use, and the allocating means transmits the passenger. Since a passenger car is selected and assigned, a specific passenger only rides in a car in which a passenger is present, and a car without passengers is never assigned to a specific passenger. It can be prevented from using. Therefore, even if an emergency situation occurs for a specific passenger, it is possible to expect immediate response from other passengers who are on board, and it is possible to give the specific passenger a sense of security and move to the destination floor.

Second Embodiment In the first embodiment, one of the non-empty cars is arbitrarily selected in step S4 of FIG. 3, but it is more preferable that the number of passengers of the assigned car is small. For that purpose, the passenger detection means 4a shown in the block diagram of FIG. 4 may be adopted in place of the passenger detection means 4 of FIG. 1 (the specific detection means 1 and the call registration means 7 are omitted in FIG. 4). ).
The passenger detecting means 4a has a car load detecting device 5 and a passenger detecting unit 6 as in FIG. 1, but a crowded car detecting unit 18 is further provided. The crowded car detection unit 18 detects the crowded state in the car and causes the allocating means 10a to allocate the car with less congestion. The degree of congestion can be judged by, for example, what percentage of the capacity is the weight. If, for example, 50% or less of the passenger weight is suitable as an uncrowded car, any car may be assigned as long as it is a car corresponding to this determination. This judgment is used to judge whether the car is a crowded car or a non-crowded car.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart when FIG. 4 is applied. Since steps up to step S2 are the same as those in FIG. 3, description thereof will be omitted. In FIG. 5, when there is a non-empty car in step S3, it is determined whether or not there is a non-congested car in the non-empty car based on the information from the crowded car detection unit 18, and if there is, the allocation means 10a in step S4 Allocate one out of the non-crowded cars in the non-empty cars. However, in step S4, the car with the least congestion may be assigned, and the degree of congestion may be determined according to the installation location of the elevator or the like. In FIG. 5, when it is determined in step S3 that there is no non-congested car in the non-empty car, step S6 is executed to ask the staff to take appropriate measures. May be. Further, in step S4, it is desirable to allocate the car with the least congestion.

By operating in this manner, the specified passenger can ride in the car with relatively low congestion, and even if an emergency occurs to the specified customer, there is no delay in responding, and the specified customer does not have to be delayed. Also, other passengers can comfortably ride without hesitation. Therefore, it is suitable when a large floor area is required such as a wheelchair user or a user who uses a stick.

Embodiment 3 In the elevator operating apparatus and method described above, the passenger detecting means 4 detects the presence or absence of passengers by the car load detecting device 5 or the like, but in the present embodiment, the presence or absence of passengers is determined. The configuration of is realized by another means. FIG. 6 is an overall block diagram, and FIG. 7 is a hardware configuration diagram thereof. In the figure, reference numeral 21 is a destination registration means for registering a destination floor of a general customer, and a destination floor designating device 19 such as a button for designating a destination floor in a car, and that the destination floor designating device 19 has been designated. It comprises a car call registration unit 20 for registration. Other configurations are the same as the configurations of FIG. 1 described above.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart of this embodiment. The difference from FIG. 3 described above is that the passenger detection means 4 does not detect passengers in step S3, but the general call registration means 22 registers the call of the car. It is to determine whether or not the above has been done, and other determinations are similarly performed. If there is call registration in step S3, step S3
In 4, the allocating means 10b allocates one car out of the cars registered by the general customer to the car call of the specific customer. Further, if there is no car call registration car in step S3, the person in charge may be contacted and normal allocation may be performed in step S6. According to this configuration, the same effect as that of the first embodiment can be expected.

Embodiment 4 For example, when a specific passenger goes from the 1st floor to the 10th floor and all other passengers get off on the 5th floor, the specific passenger uses the subsequent 5th floor by only one person. There will be a situation that will happen.
An elevator driving apparatus and method that prevent such inconvenience and prevent only one specific customer from being provided will be described below.

FIG. 9 is an overall block diagram showing this embodiment, and the corresponding hardware configuration diagram is the same as FIG. 7 described above. In the figure, reference numeral 1a is a specific detection means for detecting a specific customer, the personal identification device 2a reads a signal from a card or the like held by the specific customer, and a specific destination floor detection unit 24 as a specific destination floor detection means. Register which floor a specific customer goes to. This destination information is transmitted to the comparison means 25. Further, the destination information about the floor to which the general customer goes is transmitted from the destination registration means 21 to the comparison means 25. The comparing means 25 compares the destination information and compares whether or not there is a car that specifies the same floor as the destination floor of the specific customer or a floor farther than the destination floor of the specific customer. Information from the comparison means 25 and the call registration means 7 is transmitted to the allocation means 10c,
The allocating means 10c allocates a car that specifies the same floor as the destination floor of the specific customer or a floor farther than the destination floor of the specific customer to the specific destination registration.

This operation will be described again with reference to the flowchart of FIG. It is to be noted that steps up to step S2 are the same as those in the above-described embodiment, and therefore will be omitted. It is detected in step S2 that the customer is a specific customer, and the destination floor of the specific customer and the destination floor of the general customer obtained by the specific destination floor detection unit 24 and the destination registration means 21 are compared in step S3 with the comparison means 25 to determine the specific customer. It is determined whether or not a car call that is the same as or far from the destination floor is registered, and if registered, the allocating means allocates one of the applicable cars in step S4. If NO in step S3, the staff contact device 11 contacts the staff in step S6, and seeks good treatment.

According to the above configuration, when a specific customer goes from the 1st floor to the 10th floor and is not registered by a general customer who has designated the 10th floor or more, it is expected that the staff will do a good job. Further, if there is a registration of the corresponding general customer, one of the registered general customers is allocated, so it is possible to prevent one specific customer from being alone in all the processes even when going to the 10th floor.

Fifth Embodiment In the fourth embodiment, when a floor farther than the destination floor (10th floor) of a specific customer is not registered by a general customer (for example, only the fifth floor is registered), a staff member is in charge. In this case, in this case, priority is given to the destination floor of the specific customer (10th floor) to arrive the car first, and after that arrival, the destination floor of the general customer (5th floor). To arrive at. Therefore, by the comparison means 25 and the allocation means 10c,
The configuration is the same as that of the fourth embodiment until it is determined whether a car call that is the same as or far from the destination floor of a specific customer is registered, and if it is registered, one car is assigned.

FIG. 11 shows a block diagram therefor, which is the same as that of FIG. 9 except for the temporary passing means 26, and FIG. 12 shows its flowchart, which is the same as that of FIG. 10 except step S6. Is omitted. Step S
In 3, it is determined by the comparison means 25 whether or not a car call that is the same as or far from the destination floor of the specific customer has been registered. If it is determined that the car call has not been registered, in step S6, the temporary passage means 26 causes the car One of the cars with call registration is assigned, and the car call of the general customer of the car is assigned to the operation control device 12
To pass through temporarily. Therefore, the destination floor (for example, 10
The priority is given to the floor, and the car arrives at the destination floor (for example, the fifth floor) of a general customer who has passed through the destination floor of a specific customer and then passes through temporarily.

According to the above-mentioned structure, the specific passenger can not only ride in the car on which the general customer is a passenger, but also
Since passengers exist up to the destination floor of a specific customer, it is possible to prevent passengers from riding alone.

[0032]

According to the invention of claim 1, since the allocating means allocates a car with a passenger to the call of the car of the specified passenger, the specified passenger can get on the elevator alone. It has the effect that it can be prevented and can be used with confidence.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since a car having a passenger and a small number of passengers is assigned to a call for a car of a specific passenger, both general passengers and specific passengers will not be disturbed. There is an effect that can be used comfortably.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the presence / absence of the passenger is registered by detecting the presence / absence of registration of the passenger's destination floor.

According to the fourth aspect of the invention, since the passenger is assigned with a certain car in response to the calling of the car by the particular passenger, the particular passenger can be prevented from riding alone in the elevator, which is safe. It has an effect that can be used with care.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, when the car of the specific customer is called, the destination floor of the general customer and the destination floor of the specific customer are compared, and the same or more than the destination floor of the specific customer. Since a car with a designated far floor is assigned, it is possible to prevent specific passengers from getting on the elevator alone.
Moreover, since the final destination floor is not alone, there is an effect that it can be used with peace of mind.

According to the invention of claim 6, when the car of the specific customer is called, the destination floor of the general customer and the destination floor of the specific customer are compared, and the same or more than the destination floor of the specific customer. When there is no car with a designated far floor, the staff will contact you so that you can ask the staff to take good measures.

According to the invention of claim 7, when the car of a specific customer is called, the destination floor of the general customer and the destination floor of the specific customer are compared, and the same or more than the destination floor of the specific customer. When there is no car with a designated far floor, the destination of the general customer is temporarily canceled and the destination floor of the specific customer is given priority, so there is always a passenger while the specific customer is on the elevator, It has the effect that it can be used with confidence.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a hardware configuration diagram according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a partial block diagram according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a hardware configuration diagram according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 is a specific detection means, 2 is a personal identification device, 3 is a specific detection device, 4 and 4a are passenger detection means, 5 is a car load detection device,
6 is a passenger detection unit, 7 is a call registration means, 8 is a landing button,
Reference numeral 9 is a call registration unit, 10 and 10a are allocation means, 11 is a staff contact device, 12 is an operation control device, 18 is a congested car detection unit, 19 is a destination designation device, 20 is a car call registration unit, and 21 is a car call registration unit.
Is a general call registration means, 25 is a comparison means, and 26 is a temporary passage means.

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. An elevator driving apparatus for allocating at least one car from a double-row car, and specific detection means for detecting that the user is a specific customer, and each of the cars in each car. Passenger detection means for detecting the presence / absence of passengers, call registration means for registering a call for a car from the hall, and call detection when the call registration means is registered and the specific detection means detects a specific passenger An elevator operating apparatus, comprising: an assigning unit that assigns to a call from a car in which passengers are detected by the unit. 2. The elevator according to claim 1, wherein the allocating means selects and allocates a car having a relatively small number of passengers among the double-row cars to the call of the call registering means. Driving device. 3. The elevator driving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the passenger detecting means detects the presence or absence of the passenger by detecting whether or not the destination registering means for registering the destination floor of the passenger is registered. 4. An elevator driving system in which at least one car is assigned from a double-row car, and when a specific passenger is detected and a car is called from the hall, A method of operating an elevator characterized by allocating a car from among the cars in which passengers exist. 5. An elevator driving apparatus for allocating at least one car from a double-row car, wherein specific detection means for detecting a specific customer and a destination floor of the specific customer are registered. Specific destination registration means, destination registration means for registering the destination floor of general passengers, comparison means for comparing the destination floor registered in each of the destination registration means and the specific destination registration means, and the result of this comparison, identification An elevator operating apparatus comprising: an allocation unit that allocates a car, which is on the same floor as a customer's destination floor or a floor farther than a specific customer's destination floor, to specific destination registration. 6. An elevator driving apparatus for allocating at least one car from a double-row car, wherein specific detection means for detecting a specific passenger, and destination floors of general passengers are registered. The destination registration means and the specific destination registration means for registering the destination floor of the specific customer are provided, and the destination registration means and the destination floor registered in the specific destination registration means are compared, and the same floor as the destination floor of the specific customer or An elevator operation device having a staff contact means for notifying a staff member when there is no registration specifying a floor farther than a destination floor of a specific customer. 7. The destination floor registered in the destination registration means is temporarily set when there is no registration in the destination registration means specifying the same floor as the destination floor of the specific customer or a floor farther than the destination floor of the specific customer. The elevator driving apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a temporary passage unit that allows passage.