JPS6164681A - Guide apparatus for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to an elevator guide device, and in particular:
The present invention relates to an improvement of a guidance device for a reservation type elevator having a voice guidance device.

[Background of the invention]

Reservation-based elevators use a system that lights up the reservation light of the elevator serving that hall call the moment you press the hall call button to guide you. If you wait in front of the elevator, you will be able to board the elevator without missing it. However, there are usually two types of reservation lights: an upper white light and a lower white light, and when both upward and downward directions are reserved, or when the reservation light is on and you are reversing in the opposite direction. When an elevator stops at a car call at a particular floor, there is a drawback that passengers who have been waiting in the hall may be confused as to whether or not they can sit in the arriving elevator.

Conventionally, for example, as proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 55-40150, a voice guidance device installed in the elevator car was used to notify the elevator of the elevator as soon as it arrived at the destination and the door opened. Informational announcements such as ``I'm heading to the station'' or ``I'm heading downstairs'' were made.

However, the contents of the announcement broadcast include not only guidance on the exit direction, but also guidance on the arrival floor for passengers in the car, such as "We are on the 4th floor," and emergency messages such as "It's an earthquake. Please get off when the door opens." To provide guidance as well.

Speakers for announcement announcements are installed toward the inside of the car, and the volume is set to a level that does not make the people inside the car feel too noisy. As a result, there was a problem in that the volume was low and difficult for passengers waiting to board the train to hear.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and its purpose is to prevent passengers waiting at the first platform from feeling anxious and to prevent them from accidentally boarding an elevator heading in the opposite direction. The purpose is to provide elevator guidance.

[Summary of the invention]

A feature of the present invention is that the vehicle is equipped with a volume changing means that increases the volume of the audio guidance provided to passengers waiting at the landing from the audio guidance device installed in the car when a predetermined condition is met.

[Embodiments of the invention]

The present invention will be explained in detail below using the embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 to 4.

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing one embodiment of an elevator guide device of the present invention. In FIG.

IF~4F indicates the landing area on each floor, and each floor landing area IF~4F
Each hall is equipped with a hall call button HB and a reservation light LT for calling the elevator. C is a passenger car, and one-carrier car C is a counterweight W via a sheave S.
The car C is equipped with a call button CB for instructing the elevator to go ahead, and a voice guidance system SP. Although other machines are not shown,
They have the same appearance. When car call button CB is operated,
The signal is taken into the corresponding machine control device MAL, for example, and communicated to the group management control device MMA. Also, when the hall call button HB is operated, the signal is sent directly to the group management control device i! ! Input to MMA.

The group management control device MMA determines which elevator should service the newly generated hall call on the floor, and communicates the result to the corresponding machine control device MAi (there is an elevator number n, and the explanation will be given below). For simplicity, 1
(assigned to the machine number). No. Orange system 'In device MA
L turns on the reservation light LT of the assigned floor and direction. Then, a few seconds before Unit 1 arrives at the relevant floor and direction, the reservation light LT for the relevant floor will be flashed, and upon arrival, the voice guidance system SP will provide the first-class audio guidance of "I'm going up" or "I'm going down." Let it be broadcast. Here, since it is a well-known technology that the machine control devices fil M A 1 to M A n and the group management control device MMA shown in FIG. do.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the software of the portion related to the present invention of the microcomputer of each machine control device shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, slap PRIO, PR1'20°PR130 indicates step PR20, which indicates that processing is performed on all floors and directions.
It is determined whether the current elevator retraction direction and floor match the processing technique, and if they do not match, the process jumps to step PR100. If they match, it is determined in step PR30 whether the elevator is decelerating. If deceleration is in progress, the process jumps to step PR80. If the vehicle is not decelerating, it is determined in step PR40 whether the vehicle has stopped at the above floor and opened the door. If the door is not open yet, jump to step PR80. Step PR if the door is open
At step 50, the reservation light for the reversing direction is turned off, and step PR6
At 0, it is determined whether or not there is an assigned hall call in the opposite direction to the retreating direction, and if there is an assigned hall call in the opposite direction, the voice guidance for the retreating direction will go up r or go down in step PR90. By raising the tone 6 of ``, a guidance announcement will be made to the passengers waiting for the ride.If there is no call for the assigned hall in the opposite direction to the retreating direction, the same low volume as before in step PR70 will be made. In Step PR80, the reservation light for the exit direction is flashed to inform waiting customers that the elevator will arrive. In step PR100, it is determined whether or not there is an assigned hall call for the floor and direction being processed.
If there is a hall call, a reservation light is turned on in step PR110 to notify waiting customers that the elevator in question is reserved.

According to the embodiment of the present invention described above, there is a hall call that is assigned in the direction opposite to the direction in which the elevator is leaving, and a waiting customer at the arrival hall waits only when there is a possibility that he or she will accidentally board the elevator going in the opposite direction. Since the volume of the information broadcast to the passengers is increased, it is possible to prevent passengers from boarding the car by mistake without increasing the eL party of noisy passengers in the car.

Next, other embodiments will be described. FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining another embodiment of the present invention, and in FIG.
As shown in the same figure (a), the voice guidance device S
In addition to P, there is also a guidance speaker S for waiting passengers at the boarding area.
A voice guidance system SP is provided for passengers in the car, and only the guidance speaker SP2 has a particularly high volume.

By doing this, as shown in Figure (b), the elevator whose reservation light LT is already turned on (3 in the figure)
If you go to the relevant cylinder before the other elevator (
When elevator No. 2 (in the figure) arrives, the announcement will be made in a loud voice from the guidance speaker SP2 of that elevator, "We are coming up to R.", so turn on the reservation light LT and wait in front of the elevator of No. 3. It is possible to attract the attention of waiting passengers, and while they are waiting, they can be guided to the elevator by calling ahead of them.

Furthermore, in this case, if the group management control device MMA adopts the algorithm shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4, the condition shown in the example shown in FIG. Turn off the reservation light LT in the elevator of Unit 3, which had been turned on.
Group management efficiency can be improved by reducing wasteful retreat.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the software of the portion of the group management control device MMA of FIG. 1 related to FIG. 3. This program is started synchronously, and steps PR200, PR250 and PR260 indicate that all group control elevators are processed. In step PR210, it is determined whether or not the elevator has stopped due to a car call. If the elevator has stopped due to a car call, the process jumps to step PR250. If it has stopped due to a car call, in step PR220, a hall call in the same direction as the retraction direction is Determine whether it is assigned to an elevator.

And if it is not assigned to another elevator,
The process jumps to step PR250, and if the elevator is assigned to another elevator, the hall call assignment for the cylinder and the direction is reset in step PR230, and the door of the elevator that has arrived by car call is opened in step PR240. Extend the time by a predetermined amount of time.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, when a predetermined condition is met, the volume of the announcement to guide the boarding area is increased, so that the passengers waiting at the boarding area are not made to feel anxious. This also prevents people from accidentally boarding an elevator heading in the opposite direction.

This has the effect of improving serviceability.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is an overall diagram showing an embodiment of the elevator guide system of the present invention, and Fig. 2 is an implementation of the software of the part related to the present invention of the microcomputer of each machine control device shown in Fig. 1. A flowchart showing an example, FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the software of the part related to FIG. 3 of the group management control device in FIG. 1. 1 is a flowchart showing the flowchart shown in FIG. 1F to 4F... boarding area, HB... hall call button, LT... reservation light, C... car, CB... car call button. sp...voice guidance device, MAL~MAn...number control device, MMA...group/l? Management control device, SP2...
・Guidance speaker for boarding area.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a reservation system elevator guidance device having a voice guidance device installed in a car, when a predetermined condition is met, the volume of voice guidance from the voice guidance device to passengers waiting at a boarding point is adjusted. An elevator guide device characterized by comprising means for changing a volume to a higher volume. 2. The elevator guidance device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is that the floor where the elevator has stopped has a hall call in a direction opposite to the exiting direction of the elevator and a reservation display. . 3. The elevator guide device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is that another elevator arrives at the floor by car call before the reserved elevator. 4. The elevator guidance device according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein the audio guidance device includes a guidance speaker for passengers in the car and a guidance speaker for passengers waiting at the platform. .