JPS6019673A - Prearrangement operating device for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an improvement in a device for operating an elevator by reservation.

When guests use an elevator installed in a hotel, etc., they must walk from their room to the elevator platform, press the platform button there, and wait for the elevator car to arrive. At this time, if the waiting time until the car assigned to this hall call arrives becomes long, the passengers who are in a hurry will feel extremely impatient.

In order to improve this problem, reserved operation of elevators has been proposed, for example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 104563/1983. This is done by installing a landing button in a hotel room, and when the button is pressed, a car is allocated taking into account the walking time from the passenger room to the landing, and when the passenger arrives at the landing, it is determined whether the car has already arrived or if the car has already arrived. The car responds after a short period of time.

However, in this case, it is necessary to provide a landing button for each room, which results in a large number of buttons, which is not economical. In addition, the landing button in the passenger's room may be manipulated in a mischievous manner, which may disrupt the group control operation of the elevator. Furthermore, since there is variation in the time from when the passenger presses the landing button in his room until he actually leaves his room, the accuracy of arrival of the car is not necessarily high.

This invention improves the above-mentioned problem by inputting reservation information from the reception desk, etc., calculates the expected arrival time, and when the door to the room is locked, allocates a car taking into account the walking time from the room to the landing. The purpose of this invention is to provide an elevator reservation operation device that allows passengers to board the elevator in the shortest waiting time and prevents abuse due to mischief. An embodiment of the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG.

In Figure 1, (1) is the elevator car of Units 1 to 4Ji+, (2) is the elevator platform on the 10th floor of the hotel, and (3) is
, (4) are hotel rooms, and the walking time from room (3) to landing (2) is 15 seconds, and the walking time from room (4) is 30 seconds.

In Figure 2, (5) is an information input device installed at the reception on the entrance floor of the hotel to input reservation information (floor, room number, reservation time), (6) is the information input device for rooms (3), (4), etc. The locking device (7) emits a locking signal when the door is locked, and (7) is the first computing device. Calculate the expected arrival time. (8) are the reserved rooms (3) and (4)
When a locking signal is input from a locking device (6) such as a car, the car with the expected arrival time closest to the walking time stored in advance or input from the information input device (5) is reassigned. Output to the drive device (9). Furthermore, the locking signal is configured to be captured only when the door is once unlocked and then locked within a short period of time.

al is a second calculation device that calculates the expected arrival time calculated by the first calculation device (8) and the above-mentioned walking time and issues an output before the passenger arrives at the landing (2), which is built into the landing button. The hall call registration light α and the arrival forecast light Q installed at the hall for each car (1) are turned on.

In FIGS. 3 to 5, the first and second calculation means (7) in FIG. 2 are constructed by a microcomputer.

(The central processing unit (15A
), a read/write memory (hereinafter referred to as RAM) in which a reservation timetable A consisting of floor, room number and reservation time is stored as shown in FIG. 4, and a floor as shown in FIG.

A read-only memory c (hereinafter referred to as ROM) in which the landing arrival walking time table B1 consisting of the landing arrival walking time of room number 1 and the block diagram shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 are stored, a conversion device (15D) for converting the signal level ) to (15F). The converter (15D) is equipped with a drive device (9) shown in Figure 2.
)2 An elevator α consisting of a hall call registration light (11) and an arrival forecast light (6) is connected, and a conversion device (15E) is connected.
, (15F) are connected to an information input device (5) and a locking device (6), respectively.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained using FIGS. 6 and 7.

Currently, the hotel reception is in the rooms (3) and (4) on the 10th floor.
It is assumed that each person has made a reservation to leave the room at around 9:00 a.m. (Hereafter, the reservation time refers to this room (3) I
(4) shall mean the time of departure. ) During the procedure, the receptionist enters the floor, room number, and reservation time into the information input device (5). In step Iwa, the above data is input via the conversion device (15E) and is stored in the RAM.
DaB) and is transmitted to c P U (15A) in step Iwa.
Flag as reserved.

Next, in step 01) it is determined whether there is a reservation, and if there is no reservation, normal group management operation is performed in step 01).

In this case, since there is a reservation, proceed to step (to), determine whether the reserved operation process is completed, and if it is completed, proceed to step)
If it is not completed yet, proceed to step (goods). Based on the data entered into the information input device (5) in step -, the reservation timetable A (
Figure 4). 11 to reservation timetable A in step (to)
A reservation timetable C (not shown) is created with a width of 0 minutes. This is to provide a margin of time since the time when the customer leaves the room (3), (4) to use the elevator does not necessarily coincide with the reserved time.

On the other hand, in group control elevators, for example,
As shown in Publication No. 84'7, the expected arrival time to each floor and each landing is calculated for each aircraft (details are omitted).
. In step (g), the expected arrival time of each car at the reserved boarding area is extracted from the above calculation results.

Follow step (b) to find your room (3) within the time listed in the reservation timetable B.
It is determined whether the locking signal in (4) has been input, and if it has not been input, proceed to step e, and if it has been input, proceed to step (c). Procedure H-c ROM (15c) K stored room (
3) Read the walking time to the landing (2) from (4) and allocate the car with the closest expected arrival time.

Right now, the lock signal for room (3) goes off at exactly 9:00 o'clock.
) is input at 9:00 OO, minute 10 seconds.

Also, 1 of each unit at 9:00 and 9:00:10.
Assume that the expected arrival time of the 0th floor down call is as follows.

The walking time from room (3) is based on reservation timetable B (Figure 5).
2Jj+ aircraft has the closest expected arrival time. Therefore, 29 aircraft are assigned to the lower call on the 10th floor. Thereafter, the assignment of the 2J8 aircraft to new landing calls will be restricted (detailed explanation will be omitted).

In step (to), it is determined whether the passenger will arrive at landing (2)K before a certain period of time (for example, 5 seconds). This can be done by determining whether the time (hereinafter referred to as lighting time) is a certain period of time earlier than the time after the above-mentioned walking time has elapsed since the locking signal for the room (3) was input.

If this lighting time has not been reached, the process proceeds to step (2), and if it has reached the time, the process proceeds to step (a), where the hall call registration light 0η and the arrival forecast light (2) are turned on. Now, it is assumed that a passenger who temporarily leaves his/her room (3) at 9:00 will arrive at the landing (2) 15 seconds later. On the other hand, if the above fixed time is set to 5 seconds, then at 9:00:10, 5 seconds before the passenger arrives at the landing (2), the hall call registration light Ql)
And when the arrival forecast light 0'4 lights up, it becomes K. Therefore, when a passenger arrives at the hall (2) K, the hall call registration light αυ and the arrival forecast light H are turned on, so that the passenger can safely wait in front of the corresponding elevator without pressing the hall button. The basket will arrive at approximately 9:00:20, so
Passengers will only have to wait about 5 seconds to board Kato (1).

On the other hand, if the lock signal for room (4) is input at 9:00:10, the walking time in this case is 30 seconds, so Unit 3, which has the closest expected arrival time, will call the 10th floor down. When assigned to , it becomes K. From then on, Unit 3 was restricted from allocating to new landing calls, with high accuracy (28
controlled to arrive (seconds later). In addition, 5 seconds before the passenger arrives at the landing (2) (9:00 minutes 35 seconds), the landing call registration light αυ and the arrival forecast light (6) of K3 are turned on.
Unit 3 was opened 2 seconds before the arrival of passengers, that is, at 9:00 o'clock 38 minutes.
Arrive in seconds.

Therefore, the passenger can immediately board the car K with the door open. In this case, the door of the cage (1) starts to close 2 to 4 seconds after it is opened. In the above, there is no problem because the customer arrives before the door opening time expires, but if it is calculated that the customer will arrive only after the door opening time expires,
It is also possible to easily extend the door opening time by a predetermined time (3 to 4 seconds).

In this way, when the reserved operation process is completed in step (b), the series of operations ends.

In addition, if the above-mentioned fixed time has to be longer than, for example, 5 seconds, please allocate another car instead of that car.
It is also possible to do so.

In the embodiment, a case has been described in which the expected arrival time is accurate, but the traffic condition of the elevator changes from time to time. Calculation of the expected arrival time is always performed at a predetermined cycle (several tens of milliseconds), so even after the assignment has been made, if the landing has not yet been forecasted, the system will respond to changes in the expected arrival time. Changes in the allocated baskets can also be made at any time.

Further, it is also possible to easily hold one or more cars as available for use from a predetermined time before the time when the car should arrive at the corresponding landing.

Note that if the elevator is used from all rooms on a certain floor by the above-mentioned reserved operation (for example, on a floor where an executive office is located), there is no need to install a landing button at the landing on this floor. Furthermore, even if a landing button is installed, it is possible to completely disable it and similarly disable the destination button (on the control panel) for that floor to serve important customers.

Furthermore, in the embodiment, the walking time from the living rooms (3), (4), etc. is stored in the ROM (IJ5C), but this may also be entered using the information input device (5).

In addition to the above, in this invention, when reservation information is input from a place far from the landing, the expected arrival time for the landing call on that floor is calculated, and when the door of the room is locked, the arrival time from the room to the landing is calculated. Since the car is assigned by comparing the walking time, the passenger can board the car in the shortest waiting time without having to operate the hall button, and abuse can be prevented.

In addition, since the landing area where the car will arrive is displayed a certain amount of time after the above-mentioned walking time has elapsed after the locking signal is input, it is possible to freely change the assignment before displaying, improving the accuracy of arrival and improving utilization. When passengers arrive at the platform, they can know which car will respond, giving them peace of mind.
You can get in or wait.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of the 10th floor of a hotel showing an embodiment of the elevator reservation operation system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram, FIG. is the content diagram of the RAM in Figure 3, and Figure 5 is the same (R
The contents diagram of OM, FIGS. 6 and 7, are flowcharts of operations performed by the group management device of FIG. 3. (1)... Elevator car, (2)... Landing area, (
8) , (4)... Living room, (5)... Information input device, (6)... Locking device, (7)... First computing device, (15A)... CPU, (15B)...RA
M, (15C)...ROM Note that the same reference numerals in the figures indicate the same parts. Agent Masuo Oiwa 1st Figure 2 Locking Device 2 Information), % 7 Hama Tsu 11th Horse i Power Fold L Counter Hand + Su Length Fold! Iθ! ! 2nd performance. Figure 5 (S Figure Entrance I/Y Le Pressure), force value y (5) 1. 2 Upper iB-D RA/1CI5B)+= Procedural amendment (spontaneous) 1930, July 11, Mr. Commissioner of the Patent Office Box 1, Indication of the case, Patent application 1972-za6alo 'ij2
・Name of the invention Elevator reservation operation device 3, To the representative of the person making the amendment, Katayuni Kata (1) 5. Column 6 for detailed explanation of the invention in the specification to be amended, Details of the contents of the amendment as follows. correct. (2)

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) In an elevator in which a plurality of cars are operated by a group control device, an information input device installed at a location away from the landing and inputting reservation information for each room into the group control device; a locking device that emits a locking signal when the car is locked; and a locking device installed in the group management device that calculates the estimated arrival time until each car responds to the floor indicated in the reservation information when the reservation information is input. 1 calculation means,
and when the locking signal provided in the group control device is input, the expected arrival time is stored in advance, or is input from the information input device from the room to that floor.
An elevator reservation operation device characterized by comprising an allocation means for comparing the walking time to the Yuki landing and allocating the floor to the floor indicated by the locking signal. (2) In an elevator in which multiple cars are operated by a group control device, an information input device is provided at a location away from the landing and inputs reservation information for each room into the group control device, and the door of the room is locked. a locking device that emits a locking signal when the car is locked, and a first locking device installed in the group management device that calculates the expected arrival time until each car responds to the floor indicated in the reservation information when the reservation information is input. calculation means,
When the lock signal provided in the group control device is input, the expected arrival time is compared with the walking time from the room to the landing on that floor, which is stored in advance or input from the information input device. an allocating means for allocating the floor to the floor indicated by the locking signal; a second calculating means for generating an output at a predetermined time before a time after the walking time after the locking signal is input; 2nd above
1. A reservation operation device for an elevator, characterized in that the device is operated by the output of the calculation means and is equipped with a display device which indicates the landing place where the above-mentioned car will arrive.