JPH11171410A - Elevator device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator device that is easy for a disabled or aged person to operate and is suitable for use in an individual house owing to its simplified controller for cost reduction. SOLUTION: An elevator device has only one button in its car 3 or an emergency alarm button 5 for external communication that is set unused in the normal operation, as well as only one button in each landing on the first and second floors or a call registration button 1 or 2 as the elevator-operating button. The automatic elevator operation is allowed only by one depression by a user of the car registration button 1 or 2 in the landing. This elevator device thus is easy for even a disabled or aged person to operate, and allows simplification of its controller for cost reduction owing to the decommission of any car call registration button placed in the car 3 followed by a reduction in the number of tail code conductors and signal input circuits.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator apparatus, and more particularly to an elevator apparatus suitable for use in a two-story private house, a two-story apartment house, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, an elevator apparatus is provided with a call registration button on a landing side and a destination floor registration button in a car. And usually,
When using the elevator to go to another floor, the customer calls the elevator by pressing the hall call registration button, and after the elevator arrives, board the car and register the destination floor in the car operation panel You must press the button.

As described above, when using an elevator, a passenger needs to perform at least two operations of pressing the call registration button at the landing and pressing the destination floor registration button again in the car. There is.

[0004] An elevator for a private house is intended to help a physically handicapped person or an elderly person who has difficulty moving up and down stairs and to contribute to the independence of daily life. And must be. Therefore, a destination floor registration button is provided at the landing, and by simply operating this destination floor registration button, the driver can automatically drive to the destination floor without pressing the destination floor registration button in the car, 2. Description of the Related Art A conventional technology relating to a simple elevator device that can be easily operated even by an elderly person is described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 59-79773.

[0005]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, since a plurality of operation buttons still need to be installed, a physically handicapped person or an elderly person must select the buttons, and the disabled person needs to operate the buttons. There is a problem that the operation is not easy for elderly and elderly people.

[0006] Further, since the above-mentioned prior art is provided with a large number of operation buttons, it is necessary to provide a control device corresponding thereto, and there is a problem that the cost is high as an elevator device for a private house. ing.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art and to make it easier for a physically handicapped person or the elderly to operate the apparatus and to simplify the control device, thereby enabling a low-cost elevator device. Is to provide.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, an object of the present invention is to provide an elevator apparatus for servicing between two floors, wherein only one call registration button is provided at the landing on each floor as an operation button for operating the elevator. In addition, the present invention is achieved by performing all operations automatically only by operating the call registration button provided at each landing.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an elevator apparatus for servicing between floors on the second floor, which is provided with only one call registration button at the landing on each floor as an operation button for the operation of the elevator. This is achieved by providing only an alarm button operated to communicate with the outside of the elevator.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of an elevator apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an elevator apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining an operation. The present invention is an elevator apparatus for servicing the second floor, and FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a hall call registration button and a car operation panel. 1 and 2
, 1 and 2 are call registration buttons provided on the first and second floor landings, 3 is a car, 4 is an operation panel provided in the car, and 5 is an emergency contact alarm button provided in the operation panel. It is.

As shown in FIG. 1, in the elevator apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention, only an emergency external communication alarm button 5 which is not used in a normal driving operation is provided in a car 3 to operate the elevator. Buttons on the first and second floors for registration
Is provided only in each case.

Although not shown, the elevator device takes in signals from the call registration buttons 1 and 2 and also takes in a signal from the emergency alert button 5 in the car to take the car. Needless to say, an elevator control device including a microcomputer that performs operation control and performs processing such as performing emergency communication to the outside, and a mechanism for driving the car in accordance with instructions from the control device are provided. Absent.

Next, with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. 2, the operation of the elevator traveling between the second floors will be described by taking as an example the case where the user moves from the first floor to the second floor.

(1) When the user presses the call registration button 1 installed at the landing on the first floor, which is the only operation when using the elevator, the call registration button 1 is placed inside or adjacent to the button 1 A lamp (not shown) provided is lit to notify the user that the call has been registered (steps 201 and 202).

(2) Check whether the elevator car 3 is on the floor where the call registration button is pressed, in this example, on the first floor, and if the car 3 is on the first floor, call registration button 1
The lamp lit by the operation of is turned off and the door is opened immediately. When the elevator car 3 is on the second floor, the car 3 is driven to the first floor, and upon arrival, the lamp lit by the operation of the call registration button 1 is turned off and the door is opened (steps 203 to 203). 206).

(3) When the door is opened, the door is automatically closed after a predetermined time has elapsed, so that the user gets on the car 3 during that time. Then, the door is closed and the car 3 starts operating toward the second floor (steps 207 and 208).

(4) When the elevator car 3 is driven toward the second floor and arrives at the second floor, the door is automatically opened, and the user gets off the vehicle (209 to 211).

(5) When a predetermined time has elapsed after the user gets off the vehicle, the door is automatically closed, and a series of operations of the elevator is completed. Car 3 waits for the next call (steps 212 and 213).

In the above description, the driving operation in the case where the user goes from the first floor to the second floor is described as an example. However, the same applies to the case where the user goes from the second floor to the first floor. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the user operates the elevator only by operating a single button provided at the landing, and does not need to perform any button operation in the car 3. be able to. For this reason, the embodiment of the present invention can be configured without providing any other operation buttons required during normal operation.

Further, according to the above-described embodiment of the present invention, all operations of the elevator car 3 are automatically performed only by operating the call registration button 1 or 2 provided at each landing once. Can be.

In one embodiment of the present invention, a control device constituted by a microcomputer or the like not shown in FIG. 1 has a function of setting a door open time, and by changing this setting, In the series of car driving described above,
The opening time of the door can be adjusted according to the user's boarding and dismounting conditions, and the convenience of the elevator device can be improved.

In one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, an emergency alert button 5 is provided in a driving operation panel 4 in a car 3 so that a user can be in an emergency. By operating this button 5, it is possible to communicate with the outside, and it is possible to ensure safety such as rescue in an emergency.

Further, according to one embodiment of the present invention, the destination floor registration button in the car can be eliminated, so that the number of cords of the tail cord and the signal input circuit can be reduced, and the control device can be reduced. Can be simplified, and a low-cost elevator device can be provided.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, 2
In an elevator apparatus for service between floors, it is possible to provide only one call registration button at each landing, eliminating the need to provide any driving operation buttons in the car. Thus, the user can automatically drive the elevator by operating the call registration button provided at the landing only once, and even a physically handicapped person or an elderly person can easily operate the elevator.

Further, according to the present invention, since the destination floor registration button in the car can be eliminated, the number of tail cord cores and signal input circuits can be reduced, and the control device can be simplified. Thus, it is possible to provide an elevator device which is extremely suitable for low-cost private home use.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of an elevator apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a driving operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Call registration button for the floor on the first floor 2 Call registration button for the floor on the second floor 3 Riding car 4 Operation panel in the car 5 Alarm button for emergency communication in the operation panel

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Teruka Asazawa 1-6-6 Kandanishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Inside Hitachi Building System Co., Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An elevator apparatus for providing service between floors on the second floor, wherein only one call registration button is provided at a landing on each floor as an operation button for operation of the elevator. 2. The elevator apparatus according to claim 1, wherein all operations are automatically performed only by operating a call registration button provided at each of the landings. 3. An elevator apparatus for providing service between floors on the second floor, wherein only an alarm button operated by a user to communicate with the outside of the elevator is provided in the elevator car. apparatus. 4. An elevator apparatus for providing service between floors on the second floor, wherein only one call registration button is provided at a landing on each floor as an operation button for operation of the elevator,
An elevator apparatus wherein only an alarm button operated by a user to communicate with the outside of the elevator is provided in the car.