JPS6067376A - Operation reservation controller for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator operation reservation control device, and in particular to an elevator operation reservation control device that can automatically and easily operate an elevator in a desired mode at a scheduled date and time, and according to the standard of general service. Elevator operation reservation Sta! prevents service deterioration by disabling some operations of reservation operation! It is related to the device.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In recent years, with the rapid development of elevators, it has become possible to set various operation service modes. This operation service mode includes dispatching a car to the executive floor where the executive office is located, and dispatching the car to the main floor when dispatched.Switching of this operation service mode is controlled by the management. The SA issues a dispatch command by operating the mode switch provided in the MVC.

However, the staff member must operate the mode switch accurately at the scheduled time, which is an extremely troublesome task.

In addition to this mode switch, there are many switches such as a main collection operation switch and a service disconnection switch, and it is extremely difficult to remember to operate these switches accurately at the scheduled time. In this case, when the switch is scheduled to be turned on at the same time every day, such as when driving to work, a clock is used to automatically turn on the switch at a predetermined time, thereby eliminating the need for staff to operate the switch. .

However, in elevator operation control using the above-mentioned clock, it is suitable for switching control that is constant every day, but it is suitable for switching control that is constant every day, but when changing the time set on the clock or when an important customer comes to the office, etc. This has the problem that it is extremely difficult to set the time for a schedule where the time is not fixed. Also,
If there are many reserved trips to specific floors, there is a problem in that the general service will be significantly reduced, causing inconvenience.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the elevator operation reservation control device according to the present invention not only makes elevator operation reservations based on a time schedule, but also invalidates the reserved operation in which the elevator waits depending on the degree of partial service of the elevator. This prevents the decline in general services.

Embodiment of the Invention FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an elevator operation reservation control device according to the invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes an elevator service reservation input unit, which takes in reservation information for elevator service supplied from the input device 2. 3
is a reservation operation control unit which takes in the reservation information supplied from the elevator operation reservation input unit 1 and compares it with the time measurement information supplied from the time measurement unit 4 having an automatic calendar and time Wf to determine the current execution. It selects the reservation information to be requested and outputs it as an operation control signal.

5 is an elevator reservation operation section, which is a reservation operation control section 3;
It takes in the operation control signal supplied from the elevator 6 and issues a reservation operation command to the elevator 6 based on the human power information (hall call, in-car call, etc.) supplied from the elevator 6. On the other hand, the elevator 6 executes operations based on the reserved operation command supplied from the elevator reserved operation section 5. 7 Reservation operation invalidation control unit that detects the degree of partial service of the elevator 6 that operates according to instructions from the elevator reservation operation unit 5, and controls the reservation operation so as to limit the reservation operation of the elevator according to the detected value. Department 3 and elevator reservation operation department 5
control.

FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram for explaining one embodiment of the elevator operation reservation control device according to the present invention. In the figure, 10 is a car control device, and in particular only the car control device for one elevator is shown. The car control unit @10 central processing unit 11 is connected to the central processing unit 11 via the data bus 12, the transmission element 13, the memory 14, and the interface 15 that takes in information supplied from the external device 16. It is configured. 20 is a group control device for efficient operation by controlling the operation of each elevator,
A central processing unit @21 and transmission elements 23, 24, . . . connected to the central processing unit 21 via a data bus 22. It is constituted by a memory 259, an interface 28 that takes in the signal of the hall call button 27, and a clock 29. The transmission element 23 and the transmission element 13 transmit information in parallel. In addition, the clock 29 has an automatic calendar function, and automatically changes the date to January 9th on the calendar.
It is configured so that the date and time are updated.

Reference numeral 30 denotes a statistical device for statistically processing the operational status and service status of the elevator, which is operated by a central processing unit 31, transmission elements 33, 34, and memory 35 connected to the central processing unit @31 via a data bus 32. It is configured. The transmission element 33 and the transmission element 24 transmit necessary information in parallel. A 40-digit personal computer used as an input medium,
For example, Mitsubishi Electric's MULTI l (5) is used.

17) 40 personal computers, a central processing unit 41, and a data bus 4 connected to this central processing unit 41.
Transmission element 43.2 connected via transmission element 43.2. It is composed of a memory 44 and interfaces 45 to 47. The transmission element 43 serially transmits necessary information between the transmission element 34 and the interfaces 45 to 34.
47 A display device 50 as a peripheral device for the personal computer 40. They are connected to a floppy disk device 60 and a keyboard 70, respectively.

In the apparatus configured in this manner, an attendant or the like operates the personal computer 40 and then operates the keyboard 70 to input the details of the reservation in accordance with a predetermined format. Of the input information and the corresponding information, only the necessary information is displayed on the display device 50.

On the other hand, the personal computer 40 reads the program stored in the 70TB disk device 60,
This program is stored in the memory 44 provided inside the personal computer 40, and predetermined processing is executed according to this program. The reservation information entered through the keyboard 70 is supplied to the statistical device 30 via the transmission element 43.34 and stored in the memory 35. In the statistical device 30, the central processing unit 31 operates according to the program stored in the memory 35, reads out the month, day, day of the week, and time of the current day by an automatic calendar program, and calculates the next date based on this information. Scan the reservation information stored in and select the corresponding reservation information.

That is, scanning the reservation information retrieves the reservation information corresponding to the date 1 time at which the date 1 time added to the reservation information is input. Next, the reservation contents of the retrieved reservation information are converted into a reservation entrainment control signal suitable for use by the group management device 20 and the car control device 10 and output. This reserved operation control signal is sent to either the transmission element 33 or the transmission element 24.
The data is supplied to the group management device 20 via the group management device 20 and stored in the memory 25. Here, the group control device 1#20 is a commonly used device, and is connected to the hall call button 2.
According to the information from 7, the optimum car is selected and the allocation process is executed. The group management device 20 immediately executes the given operation by constantly detecting the reserved operation control signal. Here, there are a wide variety of actions that can be performed, such as allocating a car, selecting a service pattern, changing the main floor, specifying or changing a specific floor (VIP floor, etc.), and specifying a service separation floor. However, in this explanation, only the assignment of an arbitrary number of cars to an arbitrary acid in the car will be explained. That is, the group management device 20 selects and brings the specified number of cars to the floor specified by the reservation operation control signal supplied from the statistical device 30. Further, for the selected car, a service command to the floor and a command including whether to wait with the door closed or to respond by opening the door are given. Then, this command is supplied from the transmission element 23 to the transmission element 13, so that the car control device 20 executes control on the selected car.

FIG. 3(a) is an explanatory diagram of a reservation table handled in the personal computer shown in FIG. After that, the data is stored in the floppy disk device 60 via the interface 46. And, in this example, 00
1 to 9990999 reservations can be made, and each reservation can be made by adding the fix j to the reservation table YT and making it to YTj (j=oo1 to 999) and TPP. As shown in FIG. 3(b), it is composed of columns 0 to 15 in which reservation contents are entered in each column. Each column is configured to correspond to one byte (8 bits) of memory, and each column contains numbers or letters using ASCII code.

FIG. 4 shows a program that is stored in the floppy disk device 6o and transferred to the memory 44 of the personal computer 40 when executed, and particularly shows a reservation input processing program.

First, when the personal computer 4o operates, the display device 5o displays "YOYAK" in step S1.
U? // is displayed. Next, use the keyboard 70 to input 'DYS', which represents the display, and step S
, the process moves to step S10, and as soon as the characters "YES" are input, the process moves to step S3. If any other character is input, the process moves from step S to step S.
will be returned to. If the determination in step S3 is YES, the process moves to step S4, where the reservation number is displayed. Then, when the 3-digit reservation number is input, step S5 to step s, ,
s7. After executing s, , s, again s-y-y
18. will be returned to. Here, step 87 is an input program with hH and time, S8 is a floor input program, S is an input program for reservation cart columns 14 and 15, and each of these programs is, for example, shown in FIG. b).

(C) As shown in K, these are prepared in advance as subprograms.

On the other hand, when the process moves from step S2 to step S+oK, a reservation number display process is executed, and when the reservation number is input next, the process returns from step 8+1 to step 81G. Then, step S1. In step SLI+, after setting the input reservation number to j. In step 813, the reservation details of the manually entered reservation number are displayed on the display device 50, and then 'CNCL
' is input, the process advances to step S16, where all the reservation details are cleared, and the process returns to step S1, ending the process with only display.
CL#.

If the result is other than "OK", the process returns to step S13 to display the reservation details.

FIGS. 5(a), (b), (C) f'i is a subprogram used in the program shown in FIG. 4,
For example, in step 7, when "HIZUKE" is displayed on the display device 50 and a 4-digit number is input from the keyboard 7, the process moves from steps S and b to step S7e. Then, steps S and c In step S7a, the input numbers are stored in the column for storing the date.
tt marks the start 11, steps S1 to S71 mark the end time, and steps S8. ~ Floor in S8e, step s9Il
-ws, , the number of cars, and steps 89t to So1 input the designated car number, respectively.

FIG. 6 shows a program stored in the memory 35 of the statistical device 30, which creates a reservation operation control signal from the reservation table transmitted from the personal computer 40 and the date and time read from the automatic calendar. It is assumed that this program is repeatedly processed once every minute, and reading of the date and time has already been read by another program. Then, in step S1, a clearing process is executed to erase the previously created reservation operation control signal before it is created this time, and the process moves to step S. Then, step 82~
S. In this step, the reservation table is scanned from 001 to 999 to create a reservation operation control signal. However, in step S4, it is determined whether the reservation content is not '0'', and in step Ss, the date is determined and the date r=
If J is O' in total, it is assumed that the process is to be processed every day and the process moves to step S7. Further, if the determination in step Ss is NO, the process moves to step S, where it is determined whether the date is the current day, and if it is not the current day, step S, which will be described later. to move to. Also,
If the determination in step S6 is YES, the process proceeds to step S7, where the start time and end time are determined, and it is determined whether or not the reserved operation is selected only once. And 1
If the current time is not within the reservation time range, proceed to step SsK to determine whether the current time is included in the reservation time range, and if it is within the range, the Jth reservation details (columns 12 to 15) are
0, it is converted into a control signal. Further, if the determination in step S7 is YES, the process moves to step S0 only if the current time and the reserved time match. Note that if you select only one operation, the control signal will continue to be generated for one minute, and there is a concern that the operation may continue many times, but under normal conditions, the operation is completed in one minute. Since there is no such problem, this kind of problem does not occur at all. Then, in step S, the program for creating the reservation control signal for the first one is called, and after such processing is executed, step S. Execute the operation to return to H8B.

Note that FIG. 7 is a subprogram of the scan reservation number update program shown in step S3 in FIG. In step S3, a process to clear the specified number of cars with the door closed and waiting is performed.Furthermore, in step S4, the operation of clearing the designated car with the door closed and waiting is performed for all floors.

FIG. 8 shows step S9 of the flowchart shown in FIG.
This is a sub-quadgram of the part indicated by , and a reservation operation control signal is created from the jth reservation contents. Then, in step S, , step S0. determines whether reserved operation is prohibited or not, and if NO, step S9. Step S0. Set the floor m of the reservation. In step So, the designated number of cars is set to YCDm, and if there is a designated car, the designated car number is set to YCKm in step So.

In Figure 9, when the number of cars is specified for waiting with the door closed, it is checked whether the number of allocated cars for the specified floor satisfies the specified number, and if it is not satisfied, the allocation program This signal is issued by adding the door closing. Then, as shown in FIG. 9, the Zabup quadrature scans all floors in steps S, .

Further, in step S4, it is determined whether the designated number of vehicles with the door closed satisfies the designated number of vehicles with the door closed, and in step SR, an additional allocation signal for the door closed is generated.

In addition, in Figure 9, the number of designated units for waiting to close the door to the m floor of YCD, the additional allocation signal for closing the door to the m floor of A T C, and the number of units commanding the door closing service of the m floor of A K C. This means that a car with the door closing service command D Cm n on the m floor scanned to L and %1/F for all cars is installed.

FIG. 10 shows an allocation program for the door-closed standby service, and this program includes an additional allocation process when specifying the number of cars in the door-closed standby service and an allocation process for the designated car number. Then, in steps s, -s, , all floors are scanned, and steps Sll→SI, →S are the parts that execute the allocation process for the designated car number, and in step S4, the designated car number is The presence or absence of the specified car is determined, and if there is a designated car, the process proceeds to step SII.
At this point, it is determined whether a command (assignment) for the designated car has already been issued. If the specified car has not been specified, the process moves to step S12, and in order to make the specified car a commanded car, step S executes a process for selecting the specified car.

to move to. However, it goes without saying that the designated car command must be processed prior to the car number command.

Next, in step S8, an assignment command for ascending and descending the m floors and a door closing service command are given to the selected car. However, if a landing call for going up or down to floor m is registered in step S8, the process moves to step 818 to clear the door closing service command for floor m for all cars. Execute. This is so that when a hall call for the mth floor is registered, the service can be immediately assigned and executed. Further, in step 5LI-88, it is determined whether or not a door closing additional allocation signal has been issued in step S in response to an additional command for the specified number of cars, and in step S6, it is determined whether or not a door closing service command has been issued for the m floor. Which selection is made and the basket is imported into KAGA. The car selected in this way receives an allocation and door closing service command in step S, and furthermore, in step S, additional allocation is prohibited for the car to which a door closing service command has been given. , subsequent allocation processing is prohibited so that the door can be placed on standby with the door closed on the designated floor. Note that the prohibition on additional allocation to cars for which there is no door closing service command on all floors (σ) must be canceled immediately after the process shown in the flowchart shown in FIG. 10, and the flowchart is shown in FIG. It will look like this. In addition, in step S2°, the prohibition of reserved operation is detected, and 'YE' is detected.
In the case of S, the process always moves to step SI3 to clear the door closing service command. Further, step S21 is provided between steps S8 and S, and when the prohibition of additional allocation is invalid, even if a door closing service command is given, additional allocation is enabled and service is also provided to general calls. Let it run. In this Figure 10, A T Cm is an additional assignment signal for closing the door to floor m, AKUmn is an assignment command for machine n going up floor m, and A K D m n is an assignment command for machine n going down floor m. The command DCmn indicates a door closing service command for car No. n on the m floor, NASKn indicates an additional allocation prohibition signal for car No. n, and YCKm indicates the mF1 door closing standby command car number.

Figure 11 shows step S of the 70-chart shown in Figure 10.
6 is a flowchart showing the subprogram -N used in step 6, and is for selecting a car to which a door closing service command is given.

In other words, the purpose is to select the car that is expected to be able to wait with the door closed on the mth floor as soon as possible, and to compare the car with the longest expected arrival time on the up and down trips for each car. The shortest one is selected, and first step S0. In , the selection basket is first cleared. Next, in step S6b, the expected arrival time of the selected item is set to the maximum value, and step S6. At S6°, all the cars are scanned. In this case, in step S06,
The n-th machine determines whether additional allocation is prohibited, and the process proceeds to step S6. In this case, it is determined whether or not floor m is receiving the door closing service, and in step S6J, one of the higher expected arrival times for going up and going down is selected, and if the expected arrival time is longer, go to step S6 hr s, l. If the upstream is small, +Saj is processed in step 6. Then, in step S
6. In this case, it is determined whether or not the expected arrival time of the nth car to the mth floor is smaller than the value of the previous car.
Set the value again. Then, step S61. Such an operation in S61 is similar to Stellar 7S, h, S, .

FIG. 12 is for creating an additional allocation prohibition invalidation signal that invalidates a part of the reserved operation and a reserved operation prohibition signal that completely invalidates reservation continuation.

The criterion for signal setting is based on the waiting time of the longest waiting call, and step S...
In step S8, the call with the longest waiting time among the currently registered calls is selected. A predetermined value K is set in advance for this maximum waiting time.

If it is longer than (K2>Kl), the additional allocation prohibition is invalidated in step S10, and further, in step S11, if it is determined that the maximum waiting time is longer than (K2>Kl),
In step S12, control is executed to invalidate the reserved service. In this Fig. 12, MAXT is the current maximum waiting time of a long call, MTUm is the duration of a call going up to m floors, and W T D m is! Indicates the duration of the nth floor down hall call.

Figure 13 shows the cancellation of the up and down assignment commands A K U m and A K D m for the car to which the door close standby command has been given, and the additional assignment prohibition signal set in Figure 10 as the door close service command. This is valid while the is displayed.In steps S to S13, all the cars are scanned one by one. Then, in steps S to S6, the allocation command is canceled, and in steps 87 to S and 2, the prohibition of additional allocation is enabled. Next, in step S3, the car position floor is set as the scanning floor m, and in step S4, it is determined whether or not there is a door closing service command for the car position, and if YES, the process moves to step Sl+. Then, it is determined whether the car is stopped or not, and if YES, the process moves to step S6 and the allocation command is canceled.

Next, in step S7, the processes of steps 86 to S12 are executed only when additional allocation is prohibited. If it is determined in steps 88 to S11 that there is no door closing service command on all floors, step SI
In step 2, the prohibition on additional allocation is lifted.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing only the main part of the door opening/closing command program, in which the car position floor is set as the scanning floor in step S1, steps S, to S7. S1o~8
At step 14, a door open/door close command is determined, and depending on the result, the process proceeds to either step S8o or step S9. Further, if the determination of the assigned floor in steps S and 1 is NO, the process moves to step S9 and the door closes. In addition,
Even if there is an allocation, the determination in step S7 is YES.
If so, proceed to step S, and if NO, proceed to step S to stop the door opening. In this way, when the waiting time of a car that has received a door-closed standby command exceeds a predetermined time, the door-closed standby command and the prohibition of additional allocation for that car are invalidated.

As described in detail, the elevator operation reservation control device according to the present invention reserves elevator operation according to a time schedule, and also invalidates a part of the reserved operation when the acid service falls below a predetermined level. , If the acid service deteriorates further, all reserved operations will be invalidated, so it has an excellent effect of preventing extreme service deterioration of the acid service.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an elevator operation reservation control device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the elevator operation reservation control device according to the present invention, and FIGS. 141st...Elevator operation reservation input unit, 2...Input device, 3...Reservation operation control unit, 4...Timekeeping unit, 5...Elevator reservation operation unit, 6
-...Elevator, 7...Reservation entrainment invalidation control unit, 1
0... Car control device, 11, 21, 31° 41...
Central processing unit, 13, 23.24.33, 34°43
...Transmission Shiko, 14, 25. -35.44...Memory, 15.28, 45, 46.47...Interface, 16...External device, 2o...Group management device P'
/ , 27... Hall call button, 29... Clock, 3
o: Statistical device, 4o: Personal computer, 5o: Display device, 60: Floppy disk device, 7o: Keyboard device. Agent Masuo Oiwa (and 2 others) Age 711 5CL 8tm YC3M Procedural correction (voluntary) q1 Office Director's Palace (Kaku I. 1, Incident display 〒; Y Gan Sho 58-153747 No. 2
, Invention (') Name: Elevator operation reservation control device 3, To the representative of the person making the amendment, Kata Yuhito: -X-5, Subject of amendment (1) Detailed description of the invention in the specification (2) ) Drawing 6, Contents of amendment (1) Page 6 of the specification tube, line 1, "Parallel transmission"
Correct as "serial transmission". (2) On page 9, line 12, it says, “In Figure 3.”
Correct it to ``in the figure''. (3) On page 11, line 14 of the same page, replace "When input" with "
"Until it is input," it is corrected. (4) On page 11, line 15, "Step 515J" is corrected to "Step S12." (5) In the second line of page 12, the phrase ``Display only'' should be corrected to ``Only display and clear reservation details.'' (6) On page 12, line 7, "Step 7R" is corrected to "Step S7,1." (7) Page 12, lines 15-16 “Step S7.
~S9f...S9I'' is corrected to [Step 'Pa-''9c is the number of units, step S9.~S?f'' is corrected. (8) Monthly page 14, line 17, “Step 83J”
Correct in steps S and J. (9) Delete "Step S, 6" on page 15, line 9. (11, p. 15, lines 18 to 3) “Due to the addition...
...The subprogram is to issue an additional warning.Then,'' should be corrected. Qυ On page 16, line 3, "designated number of vehicles" is corrected to "assigned number of vehicles." 02 On page 16, line 9 of the same text, "indicates the number of vehicles," is corrected to "indicates the number of vehicles (discounted number of vehicles)." Gang, page 16, line 11 [This means that the basket is closed. " is corrected to "Estimating the number of cars (program omitted)." 04) Page 17, lines 4 to 5 “Put the designated basket...”
...Delete the text "In order to execute". 05 Page 17, line 11 [Step S8J]
Step Ss Correct as J. (16) Page 18, line 2 “KAGAJ and aru wo rl (
A.G. and correct it. a7) Page 19, line 18 “Step S6゜~S6゜”
It says "step" 6a-s6. ” he corrected. θQ On page 20, line 1, the phrase ``rrn floor is'' is corrected to ``the nth car is on the m floor.'' aI, page 20, line 10 [Step S/lh, l 5
6tJ is corrected to [Step "bh% S11 J. CI'l Same page added, line 11 [Steps S, h, S6
．． J is corrected to 1116tJ in step 86. Qυ Same page 21, line 5 rMTUmJ and rWTU
Correct as mj. (2nd page 22, line 18 - page 1 line ``This way K
,······To disable. ” will be deleted. (23) Drawings 3, 4, 6, 8, 13
Figure 14 has been corrected as shown in the attached sheet. 7. Attached documents (1) One amended drawing

Claims (1)

[Claims] an elevator operation reservation input section that inputs elevator operation reservation information manually; a reservation operation control section that selects reservation information to be currently executed from the output of the elevator operation reservation input section and outputs it as an operation control signal; an elevator reservation operation unit that controls the elevator according to the operation control signal; and detects a partial service level of the elevator;
By providing a reserved operation invalidation control section that controls the reserved operation control section and the elevator reservation entrainment section so as to reduce or invalidate the operation reservation when the value decreases beyond a predetermined value, An elevator operation reservation control device characterized by preventing deterioration of general service.