JPH11139698A - Driving device of elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To let a user reach an exclusive floor area quickly in the case of riding on a car to serve common floor areas by an elevator with different floors to serve. SOLUTION: It is defined that 1st-14th floors are made as common floor area, and B1-B4 floors are made as exclusive floor areas. Wide area service cars A, E serve the common floor areas and the exclusive floor areas, and narrow area service cars B-D, F-H serve the common floor areas. Now, when a user who registers a down call 11d on an 11th floor rides on the car D and operates a destination button of a 1st floor in the car, an empty car or a down- traveling car is selected from the general cars A, E and it is made to stand by at the 1st floor (transit floor). Consequently, it is possible to transfer in a short period of time in the case where the user of the car D desires to go to B1-B4 floors.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for operating an elevator on a common floor and a dedicated floor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as shown in FIG. 1, an elevator is sometimes operated on different floors of a service (service) floor. In FIG. 1, the 1st to 14th floors have cars A to 1 to 8 of the car A to
H is a common floor where service is possible, and floors B1 to B4 are dedicated floors where only cars A and E of the first and fifth cars can service. Therefore, even if the passengers descend on the cars B to D and F to H, they cannot go to the B1 to B4 floors.

[0003] Therefore, for example, when descending on the car D, get on the first floor which is a connecting floor, get off on the first floor, register a down call with the landing button, and bring in the car A or the car E. To B1 to B4 floors. Also, B1
-Provide a dedicated button to go to the B4 floor or limit the car assigned to the registered hall call by operating the general hall button to a specific car (a car that can provide maximum service in the direction of the hall call) Or

[0004]

In the case of a transfer at a connecting floor as shown in the conventional elevator operating apparatus as described above, it takes time for connecting and arrives at a target floor. It is inevitable to spend a lot of time before. Further, in the case of assigning to a specific car, there is a problem that the operation efficiency is reduced because the assignment is concentrated on the specific car.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an elevator operating device capable of shortening the time required to reach a target floor without lowering operating efficiency. With the goal.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an elevator operating apparatus comprising: a common floor including a predetermined floor; and a dedicated floor connected to a predetermined one of the common floors. If the wide area car is commissioned to the common floor and the dedicated floor, and the narrow area car is commissioned to the common floor, the narrow car is connected to the exclusive floor of the common floor. When traveling in the direction of the next floor, a wide area car is made to wait at the transfer floor.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the elevator driving apparatus according to the first aspect, a narrow area car is called by a hall call, and the direction of the hall call is in a direction of a connecting floor and is narrow. When a destination call for a transfer floor is registered in the car, the wide area car is made to wait at the transfer floor.

The elevator operating device according to a third aspect of the present invention is the elevator operating device according to the first or second aspect of the present invention, wherein the wide-area car to be on standby at the connecting floor is an empty car with no passengers.

The elevator operating device according to a fourth aspect of the present invention is the elevator operating device according to the first or second aspect, wherein the wide-area car to be on standby at the connecting floor is a car in the same traveling direction as the traveling direction of the narrow-area car. It was done.

A fifth aspect of the present invention is the elevator operating device according to the first or second aspect of the present invention, wherein the wide area car arriving at the connecting floor earlier than the narrow area car even if there is no wide area car to be on standby. If there is a car, the wide area car is made to wait at the transfer floor.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiment 1 1 to 3 show one embodiment of the first to fourth inventions of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the relationship between floors and elevators, FIG. 2 is a block diagram, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an assignment control operation.

In FIG. 1, floors 1 to 14 are common floor areas where elevators of units 1 to 8 can be serviced, and B1 to B4.
The floor is a dedicated floor where only the elevators of Units 1 and 58 can service. A to H are 1 to 8 respectively
In the car of the unit, A is climbing the third floor, B is waiting for door closing on the first floor, C is waiting for door closing on the seventh floor, D is descending on the 12th floor, and E is waiting for door closing on the sixth floor. , F indicates that the ascending operation is set and the door is open on the eighth floor, G indicates that the ascending operation is set and the door is open on the first floor, and H indicates that the ninth floor is waiting for the door to be closed. Here, baskets A and E are B
Wide-area cars serving the 1st to 4th floors and 1st to 14th floors, and cars B to D and FH are narrow-area cars serving only the 1st to 14th floors.

Also, 6a and 12a are destination calls on the 6th and 12th floors registered in car A, 13a are destination calls on the 13th floor registered in car F, and 11d is registered on the landing on the 11th floor. Indicates a down call.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 denotes a landing button installed at a landing on each floor, 22 denotes a group management device for managing a plurality of cars A to H as one group, and 23 denotes a landing button provided on the group management device 22. An assignment control device that assigns any of the cars A to H to the hall call (up call and down call) registered by the operation, and 24 is an elevator control device that drives the assigned car.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In step S1, the system waits for a hall call (up and down calls) to be registered by the hall button 21. Now, when the down call 11d is registered at the landing on the 11th floor, the allocation control device 23 calculates the car that can service the down call 11d earliest in step S2, and assuming that this is the car D of the fourth car, In step S3, an assignment command is issued to the car D. In step S4, the car D is operated by the elevator control device 24 of the fourth car, and the car D arrives at the 11th floor.

In step S5, it is determined whether or not the elevator user can go to the floor to which the elevator user wants to go (hereinafter referred to as the destination floor) by car D. If the destination floor is 1 to 10 floors (common floor), the process proceeds to step S6. By operating the destination button in step SD, the vehicle travels to the destination floor. If the destination floor is the B1 to B4 floors (dedicated floor area), the process proceeds to step S7, and the destination button of the first floor (transit floor), which is the lower terminal floor where car D can provide maximum service, is operated. Drive to the first floor.

Here, the condition that the traveling direction of the car D responding to the call 11d on the eleventh floor in step S8 is the same as that of the car D responding to the call, and the destination button of the terminal floor (the first floor) in this direction is operated. To establish. Thus, in step S9, B
It is determined whether there is an empty car or a car having the same traveling direction among the cars A and E that can be serviced to the first to fourth floors (dedicated floor areas). In step S10, an empty car E is selected from the cars A and E, and the car E is made to stand by on the first floor.

Here, if the car D arrives at the first floor in step S11, the process proceeds to step S12, where it is possible to transfer to the waiting car E on the first floor and head to the target floor of the B1 to B4 floors. Become. However, in step S9, B1 to B4
When a car that can be serviced on the floor is calculated, if both the responsive cars A and E are traveling in the upward direction, that is, if there is no empty car or car D in the same traveling direction as the empty car, the conventional 1 in car D in step S13
Arrive at the first floor, get off at the first floor, and get off at the landing button 21
Operate. Then, in step S12, the vehicle waits for the arrival of the car A or the car E and then heads to the B1 to B4 floors.

Here, step S8 constitutes a standby condition detecting means, and steps S9 and S10 constitute first waiting means. Thus, at the connecting floor (first floor), B1 to B4
Since the car E that can be serviced waits on the floor, the waiting time at the time of transfer at the connecting floor and the time until going to the B1 to B4 floors are shortened. It is not necessary to provide a dedicated button or the like for going to the floors B1 to B4. Furthermore, since the condition for waiting at the connecting floor is set, it is possible to immediately respond to the standby command and prevent the operation efficiency from being reduced.

Embodiment 2 FIG. 4 is an allocation control operation flowchart showing one embodiment of the fifth invention of the present invention, and the same parts as in FIG. 3 are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG.
2 are also used in the second embodiment. FIG. 4 is obtained by adding step S14 to FIG.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.
Steps S1 to S9 are the same as those in FIG. Step S9
It is determined which of the cars that can be serviced to the B1 to B4 floors is an empty car or a car having the same traveling direction. If there is no corresponding car, the process proceeds to step S14. In step S14,
It is determined whether a car capable of providing service to the B1 to B4 floors can arrive first on the first floor.
And put the car on the transfer floor. If it is determined that it cannot be performed, the process proceeds to step S13. Here, step S14
Constitutes a second waiting means.

In this way, even if there is no empty car or a wide-area car having the same traveling direction to stand by on the first floor (transit floor), if there is a car arriving on the first floor, it is put on standby on the first floor. As a result, it is possible to make it easier to go to the floors B1 to B4.

In each of the above embodiments, the exclusive floor area is designated as B1 to B1.
B4 floor, that is, it is set in the lower floor area,
Obviously, it can also be used when the exclusive floor is set as the upper floor.

[0024]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, as the narrow area car travels toward the connecting floor, the wide area car is made to stand by at the connecting floor. It is possible to reduce the waiting time when transferring at a new floor and the time required to go to a dedicated floor area.

Further, in the second invention, the narrow area car is called by the connecting floor, and the direction of the hall call is the direction of the connecting floor, and the destination call of the connecting floor in the narrow area car. Once registered, the wide-area car will be placed on standby at the transfer floor, so the waiting time when transferring at the transfer floor and the time to go to the dedicated floor can be shortened, and the transfer floor will be By setting the conditions for standby, it is possible to prevent a decrease in operating efficiency.

Further, in the third invention, the wide-area car to be placed on standby at the connecting floor is a vacant car with no passengers, and in the fourth invention, the car is in the same traveling direction as the traveling direction of the narrow-area car. , And it is possible to further improve time reduction and prevention of a decrease in operation efficiency.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, even when there is no wide area car to be on standby, if there is a wide area car arriving at the connecting floor before the narrow area car, the wide area car is made to wait on the connecting floor. As a result, in addition to the effects of shortening the time and preventing the operation efficiency from lowering, it is possible to further easily access the dedicated floor area.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a floor and an elevator, showing a first embodiment of the present invention and a conventional elevator operating device.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an assignment control operation according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an allocation control operation flowchart according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

A, E wide area car, BD, FH area car, 21
Landing button, 23 allocation control device, 24 elevator control device, S8 standby condition detecting means, S9, S10
First waiting means, S14 Second waiting means.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A car having a common floor consisting of a predetermined floor and a dedicated floor consisting of a predetermined floor connected to a predetermined one of the common floors. The above-mentioned common floor and the exclusive floor are commissioned, and the inner narrow car of the above-mentioned car is commissioned to the above-mentioned common floor, and the floor adjacent to the above-mentioned exclusive floor of the above-mentioned common floor is connected. In the device that is set on the floor and drives each of the cars to the respective floor area according to the registered destination call and the assigned hall call, the traveling of the narrow area car in the direction of the connecting floor is performed. An elevator operating device, comprising: a first standby unit that causes the wide area car to wait at the transfer floor. 2. A car having a common floor consisting of a predetermined floor and a dedicated floor consisting of a predetermined floor connected to a predetermined one of the common floors. The above-mentioned common floor and the exclusive floor are commissioned, and the inner narrow car of the above-mentioned car is commissioned to the above-mentioned common floor, and the floor adjacent to the above-mentioned exclusive floor of the above-mentioned common floor is connected. In a device that is set on a floor and drives each of the cars to the respective floor area according to the registered destination call and the assigned hall call, the narrow area car is called by the connecting floor and the direction of the hall call Is in the direction of the connecting floor, and the standby condition detecting means that operates when a destination call of the connecting floor is registered in the narrow area car, and the wide area car is operated when the standby condition detecting means operates. First waiting means for waiting at the connecting floor. Elevator driving device. 3. The elevator operating device according to claim 1, wherein the wide-area car waiting at the connecting floor is an empty car with no passengers. 4. The elevator operating device according to claim 1, wherein the wide-area car to be on standby at the connecting floor has the same traveling direction as the traveling direction of the narrow-area car. 5. Even if there is no wide area car to be made to stand by by the first standby means, if there is a wide area car arriving at the connecting floor before the narrow area car, the wide area car is made to stand by at the connecting floor. The elevator operating device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising a second standby unit for performing the operation.