KR101915004B1 - Hall lantern capable of directly supplying common power and quickly grasping each arrival of plurality of elevators - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a hall lantern capable of directly supplying commercial power and quickly grasping arrivals of a plurality of elevators. The hall lantern according to the present invention is a hall lantern which pairs with a call button for calling an elevator corresponding to an upward direction or a downward direction, is installed in plural in each floor of a building corresponding to the elevators, and flickers at a specific floor in accordance with an order of arrivals of the elevators at the specific floor when the elevators are called via the call button installed in the specific floor among the floors, comprising: a communication portion receiving location information including at least one among current location, status, and proceeding direction from each elevator, and receiving a call signal from at least one of the call buttons installed in the specific floor and other floors; a sequence determining portion determining a sequential order of elevators starting from an elevator arriving at a first at the specific floor among the elevators, when the call signal is received from at least one of the call buttons installed in the specific floor; and an arrival information output portion outputting arrival information including at least one of an arrival time and an arrival order in accordance with the determined order until each of the elevators arrives at the specific floor.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a hall lantern which directly supplies commercial power and can quickly ascertain the arrival of a plurality of elevators.

[0001] The present invention relates to a hall lantern which directly supplies a commercial power source and can quickly grasp the arrival of a plurality of elevators. More particularly, the present invention relates to a hall lantern which can supply commercial power directly, And allows the waiters to quickly ascertain which elevator will arrive first for a plurality of elevators.

Generally, an elevator is installed in a relatively high building of five or more floors. Especially, the higher the number of buildings, the more the number of passengers entering the building.

However, in general, the number of elevators that can be installed is limited even if a large number of passengers go in and out due to problems such as the area of the building, the installation cost of the elevator, and the installation space of the elevator.

Therefore, the passenger often has to wait until the next elevator can not get on the elevator even if the elevator reaches the elevator after the elevator is reached, or it is often necessary to wait a considerable time until the elevator arrives after the elevator is called do. Such a waiting time becomes longer as the number of floors of the building is higher and the number of the elevator stops.

On the other hand, most buildings have hall lanterns corresponding to elevators for waiting for elevators in the hall of each floor, and indicate the arrival of the elevator according to the elevation direction of the elevator. Generally, when the elevator approaches within the set range, the elevator and the power supply are connected to each other, and the hall lantern is supplied with power from the elevator located within the set range and blinks. That is, a typical hall lantern is dependent on an elevator and flashes according to an elevator command.

However, recently, hall lanterns are not only indicating the arrival of an elevator, but also various attempts have been made to decorate the inside of the building and make waiting people easily recognize the arrival of the elevator.

However, since the existing flame control method of the hall lantern is dependent on the elevator, the remaining power is used except for the main power required for the elevator among the power supplied to the elevator, so there is a limit to the power that can be supplied from the elevator , There is a problem in that there is a limitation in attempting to decorate the interior of the building so that the waiting person can easily recognize the arrival of the elevator.

In addition, since the power supply between the elevator and the hall lantern is connected only when the elevator approaches the hall lantern within a predetermined distance, the communication between the elevator and the hall lantern is completely prevented There is no problem.

On the other hand, in the case of a tall building of ten or more stories, it generally has two or more elevators for the quick movement of the passengers. Thus, in the case of a building having two or more elevators, the waiters must grasp the elevator to arrive in real time for the fastest boarding. However, the method in which the hall lantern blinks in response to the existing elevator has a limitation in grasping the elevator to arrive at the earliest. Especially, in a high-rise building having a large number of elevators, the waiting person must constantly check which elevator arrives first, and there is a problem that the elevator must be moved to the elevator every time the elevator arrives.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 10-2000-0009733 (Publication date: Feb. 15, 2000)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for supplying elevator In order to provide a hall lantern.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a hall lantern, which is paired with a calling button for calling up corresponding elevators in an upward direction or a downward direction, and corresponding to a plurality of elevators, In a hall lantern which is installed and flickers at a specific floor according to the order of elevators arriving at a specific floor when the elevator is called through at least one call button installed in a certain floor, A communication unit for receiving position information including at least one of a position, a state, and a traveling direction, and receiving a call signal from at least one of a plurality of call buttons provided on a specific floor and another floor; An order determining unit for sequentially determining an order from an elevator capable of first arriving at a specific floor with respect to a plurality of elevators when a call signal is received from at least one of a plurality of call buttons provided on a specific floor; And an arrival information output unit for outputting arrival information including at least one of an arrival time and an arrival order until each elevator arrives at a specific floor in accordance with the determined order.

In this case, the communication unit may include: a first call signal receiving unit that receives a first call signal including a call direction from at least one call button installed in a specific layer; An input layer information receiving unit for receiving input layer information input from each elevator; And a second paging signal receiver for receiving a second paging signal including layer information and a paging direction from a paging button installed in at least one other layer other than the specific layer.

The order determining unit may include an arrival time predicting unit for predicting a predicted arrival time from the current position of each elevator to the arrival at a specific floor; A first step including at least one of a stop layer, a stop count, a moving time, a deceleration time, and an acceleration time from a current position of each elevator to a specific floor, based on input layer information corresponding to each elevator A first delay time predicting unit for predicting a delay time; A second delay time including at least one of a stopping layer, a stop count, a moving time, a deceleration time, and an acceleration time from a current position of each elevator to arrival at a specific floor on the basis of a second calling signal 2 delay time predicting unit; An arrival time calculating unit for calculating at least one of a first delay time and a second delay time corresponding to each elevator at a scheduled arrival time corresponding to each elevator to calculate an arrival time for each elevator; And a specific order determination unit for determining the order of the elevator for the specific floor according to the arrival time for each elevator calculated by the arrival time calculation unit.

The arrival information outputting section may display the identification information of the elevator arriving at a specific floor according to the determined order, and may also display the identification information of the elevator arriving at the earliest time from the present time.

The above-described hall lantern is a call for canceling a call to a specific floor for an elevator moving to a specific floor if a first call signal is not received from a certain floor within a set time interval after at least one elevator arrives at a certain floor And further includes a cancellation section.

In addition, the order determining unit determines, from the input layer information received by the input layer information receiving unit or the second calling signal received by the second calling signal receiving unit, between the traveling direction at the current position of each elevator and the calling direction in the specific floor And a layer information analysis unit for analyzing the layer information corresponding to the layer information.

According to the present invention, it is possible to supply the commercial power directly and decorate the interior of the building with high voltage, and waiters can quickly ascertain which elevator arrives first for a plurality of elevators.

Further, according to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the elevator from consuming power in an empty state by moving to a specific floor even though the occupant's transportation has been completed in response to the elevator call in the specific floor.

1 is a view for explaining a hall lantern to which the present invention is applied.
2 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a hall lantern according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a view schematically showing the configuration of the communication unit shown in Fig. 2. Fig.
4 is a diagram for explaining the communication range of the communication unit shown in Fig.
5 is a diagram showing an example of an input window inside the elevator.
FIG. 6 is a view for explaining the switching unit shown in FIG. 2. FIG.
FIG. 7 is a view schematically showing the configuration of the control unit shown in FIG. 2. FIG.
8 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a hall lantern according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is a view schematically showing the configuration of the communication unit shown in Fig. 8. Fig.
10 is a diagram for explaining the communication range of the communication unit shown in Fig.
11 is a view schematically showing the configuration of the order determining unit shown in Fig.
12 is a diagram showing an example of displaying arrival information of an elevator for a plurality of elevators.
13 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a hall lantern according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to exemplary drawings. In describing the components in the drawings, the same components are denoted by the same reference numerals whenever possible, even if they are displayed on other drawings. In the following description of the embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the difference that the embodiments of the present invention are not conclusive.

In describing the components of the embodiment of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected, coupled, or connected to the other component, It is to be understood that another element may be "connected "," coupled ", or "connected" between elements.

1 is a view schematically showing a general hall lantern.

Referring to FIG. 1, a hall lantern 30 generally has a flashing light emitting portion (not shown) using low power and is installed beside the elevator door 10 of each floor. At this time, the hall lantern 30 is paired with a call button 20 for calling up the elevator, for notifying that the elevator is approaching within a certain range, and the hall lantern 30-2 Direction hall lantern 30-4 and when the elevator arrives at the corresponding floor in the direction corresponding to whether the call button 20-2 in the upward direction or the call button 20-4 in the downward direction is called , And the hall lantern 30 in the direction corresponding thereto flashes.

At this time, since the conventional hall lantern 30 is simply used to notify whether or not an elevator arrives at a specific floor, a low-power power supply may be supplied through an elevator approaching within a set range.

However, there is a problem in that only the hall lantern 30 having a low-power flicker is limited in order to be able to use the hall lantern 30 to decorate the interior of the building by light-emitting various forms.

In addition, since the general hall lantern 30 is electrically connected to the elevator only when the elevator approaches within a certain range, communication between the elevator and the hall lantern can not be made at all if the elevator is out of a certain range, There is a problem in that various services described later can not be provided using the service provider 30.

2 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a hall lantern according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the hall lantern 100 includes a communication unit 110, a switching unit 120, a communication power supply unit 130, and a control unit 140. 1, the hall lantern 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention is installed in the vicinity of the elevator door 10 of each floor in pairs with the call button 20, And the corresponding direction flickers depending on whether or not the elevator arrives in the direction corresponding to the calling direction. Here, the arbitrary hall lanterns of the plurality of hall lanterns 100 installed on each floor of the building will be described with reference to the drawings.

The hall lantern 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention has a high power blinker (not shown) using a commercial power source of 100 V or more to realize various light emitting modes. When the elevator approaches within a certain range, But may be directly connected to a commercial power source.

The hall lantern 100 also communicates directly with the elevator and the call button 20 installed on each floor of the building to perform the various functions described below.

In addition, the hall lantern 100 prevents excessive power consumption due to connection of a commercial power source, and operates under optimal conditions.

Hereinafter, the configuration and functions of the hall lantern 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

The communication unit 110 communicates wired or wirelessly with the elevator 12 and receives position information from the elevator 12 including at least one of the current position, That is, the communication unit 110 receives the position information including at least one of the current position, the state of being moved or stopped, and the traveling direction of the movement when moving from the elevator 12. At this time, the communication unit 110 receives the elevator call event from the elevator 12 at a predetermined period from the time when the elevator call event is generated by the call button 20 installed in the specific floor, And can receive position information including at least one of them. Here, the specific layer is defined to be the same layer as the layer in which the optional hall lantern 100 is installed.

Also, the communication unit 110 can communicate with the call button 20 provided corresponding to a specific layer not only in the wired or wireless manner, but also in the wired or wireless manner with the call button 20 installed in another layer. Here, the other layer is defined as a layer different from the layer in which any hole lantern 100 is installed. In this case, the communication unit 110 receives the elevator call signal from the call button 20 provided corresponding to the specific floor, or receives the elevator call signal from at least one call button 20 installed on the other floor. At this time, the communication unit 110 receives an elevator call signal at the time when an event of an elevator call is generated from each of the call buttons 20.

3, the communication unit 110 may include a first paging signal receiving unit 112, an input layer information receiving unit 114, and a second paging signal receiving unit 116.

The first paging signal receiving unit 112 receives a first paging signal including a paging direction from a paging button installed in a specific layer. 4, the first call signal receiving unit 112 receives an elevator call signal including the calling direction of the elevator from the call button 20 provided corresponding to the elevator door 10 of the specific floor do. At this time, it is assumed that the first call signal receiving unit 112 knows the layer information of a specific layer, recognizes that the first call signal is a signal received from the call button 20 installed in a specific layer, The layer information of the layer can be determined.

The input layer information receiving unit 114 receives the input layer information input from the elevator 12. That is, after the passenger boarded the elevator 12, the input layer information receiving unit 114 receives the destination from the elevator input window 14 through the input window 14 shown in Fig. 5, Lt; / RTI > input layer information.

The second call signal receiving unit 116 receives the second call signal including the layer information and the call direction from the call button 20 installed in at least one other layer other than the specific layer. That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the second call signal receiving unit 116 receives, from the call button 20 installed in at least one other floor, the floor information of the other floor and the calling direction Lt; / RTI >

The switching unit 120 switches the connection between the commercial power supply terminal for supplying commercial power and the flashing light emitting unit 30. That is, the hall lantern 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention can directly supply a commercial power source with an AC voltage of 100 V or more to the flashing light emitting unit. In this case, the switching unit 120, as shown in FIG. 6, The connection between the commercial power supply terminal for supplying commercial power and the flashing light emitting portion 32 is switched.

The communication power supply unit 130 supplies communication power for driving the communication unit 110. At this time, the communication power supply unit 130 always supplies communication power having a DC voltage of 25 V or less to the communication unit 110 at all times. In this case, the communication power supply unit 130 monitors the voltage or current supplied to the communication unit 110, determines whether the supplied voltage or current is out of the set range, determines that the supplied voltage or current is out of the set range The voltage or current of the set range can be controlled to be supplied to the communication unit 110 at all times. Also, the communication power supply unit 130 may output a message, an alarm signal, or the like so that the communication power supplied to the communication unit 110 may be changed, when the voltage or current supplied to the communication unit 110 is out of the set range.

The control unit 140 controls the switching unit 120 so that the commercial power source is supplied to the flashing light emitting unit 32 when the elevator 12 approaches the specified layer within a predetermined distance. At this time, the controller 140 calculates the distance between the current position of the elevator 120 and the specific layer based on the position information received from the elevator 12, and determines whether the calculated distance is within a set distance value , And controls the switching unit 120 according to the determined result.

7, the control unit 140 includes an arrival time predicting unit 142, a layer information analyzing unit 144, a delay time predicting unit 146, an arrival time calculating unit 148, and a switching control unit 149).

The arrival time predicting unit 142 predicts the estimated arrival time from the current position of the elevator 12 to the arrival at the specific floor. At this time, the arrival time predicting unit 142 assumes that there is no stopping until arriving at a specific floor from the current position of the elevator 12, and calculates an acceleration time required to accelerate from the current position to the normal speed, And a deceleration time required until the vehicle stops at a normal speed. For example, if the current position of the elevator 12 is stopped on the second floor and the elevator 12 travels one layer to accelerate at a normal speed in the ascending or descending direction, consuming 10 seconds, Consuming 6 seconds for moving one layer at a speed and consuming 10 seconds for moving one layer to stop at a normal speed in the ascending or descending direction and moving the elevator 12 upward in the specific layer 14 The arrival time predicting unit 142 estimates the arrival time of the elevator 12 from 10 seconds (acceleration time) + 6 seconds × 10 floors (normal speed movement) + 10 seconds (deceleration Time) = 80 seconds (1 minute 20 seconds).

The layer information analyzing unit 144 analyzes the layer information corresponding to the traveling direction at the current position of the elevator 12 and the calling direction in the specific layer from the input layer information received by the input layer information receiving unit 114 . Assuming that the input layer information received by the input layer information receiving unit 114 is the 5th layer and the 16th layer in the above example, the layer information analyzing unit 144 determines that the elevator 12 is in the ascending direction , It is analyzed that the layer information corresponding to the elevation direction in the current location 12 layer and the elevation direction in the specific layer 14 layer of the elevator 12 has five layers.

The layer information analyzing unit 144 analyzes the layer information corresponding to the layer between the advancing direction at the current position of the elevator 12 and the calling direction in the specific layer from the second calling signal received by the second calling signal receiving unit 116, Analyze the information. Assuming that the second call signal received by the second call signal receiving unit 116 is the upward direction of the 9th floor and the downward direction of the 15th floor, the floor information analyzing unit 144 analyzes the floor information of the elevator 12 It can be analyzed that the layer information corresponding to the current position 2 layer and the rising direction in the specific layer 14 layer is 9 layers.

Assuming that the calling direction in the specific layer 14 layer is the downward direction instead of the upward direction, the layer information analyzing unit 144 determines that the 5th layer and the 16th layer of the input layer information are all the elevator It is analyzed that it corresponds to the direction of travel at the current position of the base station 12 and the direction of call at the specific layer. The floor information analyzing unit 144 also determines whether the 9th floor and the 15th floor, which are the second calling signals received by the second calling signal receiving unit 116, are the current position of the elevator 12 And the call direction in the specific layer.

Meanwhile, the input layer information receiving unit 114 can receive the input layer information further input by the passengers of the ninth and fifteenth layers as described above. Accordingly, the layer information analyzing unit 144 analyzes the input layer information The information on the current direction of the elevator 12 and the calling direction in the specific floor may be analyzed according to the current position of the elevator 12 at the current position of the elevator 12,

Based on at least one of the input layer information received by the input layer information receiving unit 114 and the second call signal received by the second paging signal receiving unit 116, the delay time predicting unit 146 predicts, The delay time including the stop layer, the number of stops, the deceleration time, and the acceleration time until reaching a specific floor from the position is predicted. At this time, the delay time predicting unit 146 predicts the delay time corresponding to the layer information analyzed by the layer information analyzing unit 144. [ For example, in the above-described example, the layer information analyzing unit 144 determines the five layers of the input layer information received by the input layer information receiving unit 114 as the traveling direction at the current position of the elevator 12, And the ninth layer of the second call signal received by the second paging signal receiving unit 116 as the layer information corresponding to the traveling direction at the current position of the elevator 12, The delay time predicting unit 146 will start the elevator 12 from the current position 2 floor in accordance with the call in the specific floor 14 floor and the 5th floor and the 9th floor The arrival time predicted by the arrival time predicting unit 142 is delayed by 4 seconds x 2 times and 4 seconds x 2 times, that is, a total of 16 seconds is delayed .

The arrival time calculating unit 148 calculates the arrival time by adding the delay time predicted by the delay time predicting unit 146 to the estimated arrival time predicted by the arrival time predicting unit 142. [ For example, in the above-described example, the arrival time calculating unit 148 calculates the arrival time estimated by the arrival time predicting unit 142 at 80 seconds, the delay time predicted by the delay time predicting unit 146 Can be added to calculate the arrival time of the total of 96 seconds. At this time, the arrival time calculating unit 148 may calculate the arrival time in consideration of the boarding time of the passenger when the elevator 12 stops in the middle of arriving at a specific floor after starting from the current position. For example, assuming that the average stopping time after the elevator 12 stops is 20 seconds, in the above example, the arrival time calculating section 148 calculates the arrival time calculating time of 20 seconds in the 5th and 9th floors, It is possible to calculate the arrival time of a total of 136 seconds by adding the delay time. In addition, the arrival time calculating unit 148 receives the door open signal and the door close signal from the door 10 of each floor, and may add the boarding time between the door open signal and the door close signal to the arrival time.

Here, the arrival time calculating unit 148 may calculate the arrival time to a specific floor periodically through the communication unit 110 or according to the position information of the elevator 12, which is received every time an event occurs, . Here, the event may include the case where additional input layer information is received from the inside of the elevator 12, an additional call signal is received from at least one of the plurality of call buttons 20, and the like.

When the arrival time calculated by the arrival time calculating unit 148 is within the set time and the distance between the current position of the elevator 12 and the specific layer is equal to or less than the set number of floors, The control unit 30 controls the switching unit 120 to be connected to the commercial power supply terminal. For example, the switching control unit 149 determines that the arrival time calculated by the arrival time calculation unit 140 is within the minimum time (for example, 10 seconds) required for the elevator 12 to decelerate at the normal speed , The switching section 120 is controlled so that the flashing light emitting section 30 is connected to the commercial power supply terminal when the current position of the elevator 12 is within one layer or one layer below the specific layer can do.

When the arrival time calculated by the arrival time calculating unit 148 is larger than the set time, the switching controller 149 switches the current position of the elevator 12 and the specific layer within the set number of layers, The controller 120 waits for the control of the switching unit 120 and starts controlling the switching unit 120 when the calculated arrival time is within the set time.

Thus, the hall lantern according to the embodiment of the present invention can be directly connected to a commercial power source to decorate the inside of the room with various luminosity, and it is also possible to stop the elevator by the passenger of the elevator or other floor It is possible to accurately estimate the arrival time in the case where the arrival is delayed due to the stoppage of the call, and to prevent the commercial power from being wasted by properly supplying the commercial power.

In addition, the hall lantern according to the embodiment of the present invention is a hall lantern according to an embodiment of the present invention in which when an elevator arrives within a predetermined distance from a specific floor but arrival is delayed due to a boarding delay of passengers in another floor, It is possible to prevent the commercial power from being wasted by waiting for the blinking.

In addition, the hall lantern according to the embodiment of the present invention monitors the call status through the call button of the elevator and other floors in real time by separating the supply power of the communication unit and the supply power of the flash unit for flashing, The power supply to the light emitting portion can be controlled.

8 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a hall lantern according to a second embodiment of the present invention. The hall lantern according to the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to the configuration and function of the hall lantern described with reference to Figs. 2 to 7, and a duplicate explanation will be omitted here.

The hall lantern 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to a building having a plurality of elevators 12 and is paired with a call button 20 corresponding to each elevator 12, When the elevator 12 is called through at least one call button provided on a specific floor, the elevator 12 is flickered in a specific layer in the order of the elevator 12 arriving at a specific floor .

Referring to FIG. 8, a hall lantern 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 210, an order determination unit 220, an arrival information output unit 230, and a call cancellation unit 240.

The communication unit 210 communicates wired or wirelessly with each elevator 12 and receives position information from each elevator 12 including at least one of the current position, At this time, the communication unit 210 can receive the location information from the elevator 12 at a predetermined cycle from the time when the event of the elevator call is generated by the at least one call button 20 installed in the specific floor or whenever an additional event occurs .

Also, the communication unit 210 communicates with a plurality of call buttons 20 provided in a specific layer and another layer by wire or wireless, and receives a call signal called from the corresponding layer from at least one of the plurality of call buttons. At this time, when the elevator call event occurs through at least one of the plurality of call buttons provided on at least one other floor, the communication unit 210 receives the elevator call signal from the corresponding call button 20. [

The communication unit 210 may include a first paging signal receiving unit 212, an input layer information receiving unit 214 and a second paging signal receiving unit 216 as shown in FIG.

The first call signal receiving unit 212 receives a first call signal including a call direction from at least one of the plurality of call buttons 20 installed in a specific layer. That is, as shown in FIG. 10, the first call signal receiving unit 212 receives, from at least one calling button 20 provided in the vicinity of each elevator door 10 of the same floor, And receives an elevator call signal. In this case, it is assumed that the first call signal receiving unit 212 knows the layer information for a specific layer, and the first call signal received from at least one call button 20 of the specific layer is received It is sufficient if it can recognize that the signal is a signal.

The input layer information receiving unit 214 receives the input layer information input from each of the elevators 12. That is, when the passenger of each elevator 12 inputs a destination through the input window 14, the input layer information receiving unit 214 receives the input layer information inputted by the passenger from each elevator input window 14 .

The second call signal receiving unit 216 receives the second call signal including the layer information and the call direction from the call button 20 installed in at least one other layer other than the specific layer. That is, as shown in FIG. 10, the second call signal receiving unit 216 receives, from the call button 20 provided in at least one other floor, the floor information of the other floor and the calling direction Lt; / RTI >

When the call signal is received from at least one of the plurality of call buttons provided in the specific floor, the order determining unit 220 sequentially determines the order from the elevator that can arrive at the specific floor with respect to the plurality of elevators 12 . At this time, even when the calling signal is received from one of the plurality of calling buttons provided in the specific floor, the order determining unit 220 notifies the ordering unit 220 that all the elevators including other elevators as well as the elevator corresponding to the calling button The order is determined sequentially from elevators that can arrive first in a particular floor.

11 is a view schematically showing the configuration of the order determining unit shown in Fig.

11, the ordering unit 220 includes an arrival time predicting unit 221, a layer information analyzing unit 222, a first delay time predicting unit 223, a second delay time predicting unit 224, A time calculating unit 225 and a specific order determining unit 226. [

The arrival time predicting unit 221 predicts the estimated arrival time from the current position of each elevator 12 until each elevator 12 arrives at a specific floor. At this time, the arrival time predicting unit 221 assumes that there is no stop until arriving at a specific floor from the current position of each elevator 12, and calculates an acceleration time required to accelerate from the current position to the normal speed, And a deceleration time required to stop the vehicle at a normal speed.

For example, assume that the current position of the A elevator 12 is rising at a normal speed in the second floor, the current position of the B elevator 12 is descending at a normal speed in the 8th floor, and the current position of the C elevator 12 The current position is rising at a normal speed in the fifth floor and the acceleration time of each elevator 12 is shifted one layer at a time of 10 seconds and consumes 6 seconds to move one layer at a normal speed, Assuming that the acceleration time, the normal speed and the deceleration time of each elevator 12 are equal to each other and the elevator is called in the elevation direction at the 14th floor, the arrival time predicting unit 221 ) Predicts that it will take 6 seconds x 11 layers (normal speed movement) + 10 seconds (deceleration time) = 76 seconds (1 minute 16 seconds) to reach the 14th floor for the A elevator, 6 seconds x 8 to arrive on the 14th floor It is predicted that it takes time to open (normal speed movement) + 10 seconds (deceleration time) = 58 seconds. At this time, since the traveling direction of the B elevator is opposite to that of the B elevator, the arrival time predicting unit 221 can hold the prediction of the estimated arrival time until receipt of at least one of the input layer information and the second call signal is confirmed .

The floor information analyzing unit 222 extracts floor information corresponding to the traveling direction at the current position of each elevator 12 and the calling direction in the specific floor from the input floor information received corresponding to each elevator 12 . In the above example, the input layer information corresponding to the A elevator is 5 layers and 16 layers, the input layer information corresponding to the B elevator is 6 layers, and the input layer information corresponding to the C elevator is 9 layers, 12 layers and 15 layers Layer information analyzing section 222 analyzes that the layer information corresponding to the current stop position 2 layer and the specific layer 14 layer of the A elevator 12 is five layers and the current state of the B elevator 12 The layer information corresponding to the current rising position 5 layer of the C elevator 12 and the specific layer 14 layer are analyzed to be the 9th layer and the 9th layer, It is analyzed that it is the 12th floor.

The layer information analyzing unit 222 determines whether or not the second call signal received by the second call signal receiving unit 216 corresponds to the difference between the traveling direction at the current position of each elevator 12 and the calling direction at the specific floor To analyze the layer information. For example, assuming that the second call signal is received from the first layer by the second call signal receiving unit 216, the layer information analyzing unit 222 analyzes the second call signal received by the second call signal receiving unit 216 The layer information corresponding to the current elevation position between the A elevator in which the current elevation position is the second floor and the calling direction in the specific floor and the floor information corresponding to the calling direction in the C elevator having the current elevation position of five floors and the calling direction in the specific floor And one layer can be analyzed with the layer information corresponding to the current descending position 8 of the B elevator 12 and the calling direction in the specific layer.

Based on the input layer information corresponding to each elevator 12, the first delay time predicting unit 223 predicts the number of times of stopping, the number of stops, the moving time, A first delay time including at least one of a deceleration time and an acceleration time is predicted. At this time, the first delay time predicting unit 223 predicts the first delay time corresponding to the layer information analyzed by the layer information analyzing unit 222.

For example, in the above-described example, with respect to the A elevator 12, the layer information analyzing unit 222 extracts, from the input layer information received through the input layer information receiving unit 214, the current stop position 2 layer and the specific layer 14 The first delay time predicting unit 223 predicts that the A-elevator 12 starts from the current location 2 and reaches the 5th floor according to the call from the specific floor 14, It is predicted that the vehicle will arrive at the 14th floor after stopping, so that the estimated arrival time estimated by the arrival time predicting unit 221 is 4 seconds x 1 deceleration time and 4 seconds x 1 acceleration time, Is predicted to be delayed.

The layer information analyzing unit 222 analyzes the layer information corresponding to the layer information between the current descending position 8 layer and the specific layer 14 among the input layer information received through the input layer information receiving unit 214, The first delay time predicting unit 223 estimates that the B elevator 12, which is descending from the 8th floor, stops at the 6th floor, then gets off the passenger at the 6th floor, and then rises again to arrive at the 14th floor (Normal speed movement) + 10 seconds (deceleration time) + 10 seconds (acceleration time) + 6 seconds x 6 layers (normal speed movement) + 10 seconds (deceleration time) = 72 Estimate the expected arrival time and delay time of seconds (1 minute 12 seconds).

The layer information analyzing unit 222 of the C elevator 12 receives the layer information corresponding to the current elevated position 5 layer and the specific layer 14 among the input layer information received through the input layer information receiving unit 214 The C elevator 12 has to stop at the ninth and twelfth floors to arrive at the 14th floor of the specific floor. In order to reach the eleventh floor of the specific floor, the deceleration time of 4 seconds x 2 and the acceleration time of 4 seconds x 2, We expect a total delay of 16 seconds.

The second delay time predicting unit 224 estimates the second delay time based on the second call signal and determines the number of stopping layers, the number of stops, the travel time, the deceleration time, and the acceleration time from the current position of each elevator 12, And predicts a second delay time including at least one. At this time, the second delay time predicting unit 224 predicts the second delay time corresponding to the layer information analyzed by the layer information analyzing unit 222.

For example, in the above-described example, the layer information analyzing unit 222 determines whether or not the second call signal received through the second call signal receiving unit 216 is a current elevation position There is no corresponding floor information between the C elevator having five floors and the calling direction of a specific floor and one floor is analyzed with the floor information corresponding to the current lowering position 8 of the B elevator 12 and the specific floor 14 , The second delay time predicting unit 224 starts from the first floor in order to reach the specific floor 14 after descending to the first floor after the B elevator 12 stops at the sixth floor, It is predicted that the delay time of 4 seconds x 1 time, the delay time of 4 seconds x 1 times, and the movement time of 6 seconds x 8 layers, that is, a total of 56 seconds, will be delayed for the scheduled time and the first delay time.

The arrival time calculating unit 225 calculates the arrival time of each elevator 12 predicted by the arrival time predicting unit 221 based on the first delay time predicted by the first delay time predicting unit 223, 2 delay time predicted by the second delay time predicting unit 224 to calculate the arrival time.

For example, in the above example, the arrival time calculating unit 225 calculates the arrival time estimated by the arrival time predicting unit 142 for 76 seconds and the first delay time predicting unit 223 The estimated delay time of 8 seconds can be added to calculate the total arrival time of 84 seconds. The arrival time calculating unit 225 adds 72 seconds combined with the estimated arrival time and the first delay time and the delay time 56 seconds predicted by the second delay time predicting unit 224 to the B elevator, An arrival time of 128 seconds can be calculated. The arrival time calculating unit 225 calculates the arrival time 58 seconds predicted by the arrival time predicting unit 142 and the delay time 16 seconds predicted by the first delay time predicting unit 223 And the total arrival time of 74 seconds can be calculated. At this time, the arrival time calculating unit 225 may calculate the arrival time in consideration of the boarding time of the passenger when the elevator 12 stops in the middle of arriving at a specific floor after departing from the current position have. The arrival time calculating unit 225 receives the door open signal and the door close signal from the door 10 of each layer and may add the boarding time between the door open signal and the door close signal to the arrival time.

The specific order determining unit 226 determines the order of the elevator for the specific floor according to the arrival time for each elevator 12 calculated by the arrival time calculating unit 225. [ For example, in the above example, the arrival time of the A-elevator is 84 seconds, the arrival time of the B-elevator is 128 seconds, and the arrival time of the C-elevator is 74 seconds, You can determine each order in the order of A-elevator-> B-elevator. At this time, since the specific order determining unit 226 determines the arrival order of each elevator for a specific floor (in the case of the above-mentioned example, the 14th floor), the order may vary depending on each floor.

The arrival information output unit 230 may output arrival information including at least one of an arrival time and an arrival order until each elevator arrives at a specific floor in accordance with the order of each elevator determined by the order determining unit 220 Output. At this time, the arrival information output unit 230 may display the arrival time and arrival order of the elevator corresponding to each elevator for each floor of the building.

The arrival information output unit 230 displays the identification information of an elevator arriving at a specific floor according to the order determined by the specific order determination unit 226 and displays the identification information of the elevator arriving at the earliest time from the current time You may. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, the arrival information output unit 230 is installed in each of the layers, and according to the arrival order of each elevator determined by the specific order determining unit 226, It is possible to display the identification information 40 of the elevator arriving within a predetermined time from the elevator.

This allows not only the waiters waiting for boarding the elevator in a particular floor to quickly determine how much time to wait for each of a plurality of elevators, but also to quickly determine the elevator to arrive first You will be able to prepare for boarding.

The call cancellation unit 240 cancels the call to the specific floor for the elevator being moved to the specified floor if the first call signal is not received from the specific floor within the set time interval after at least one elevator arrives at the specific floor . For example, in the above-described example, the C elevator arrives at the specific floor 14 first according to the order of the C elevator-> A elevator-> B elevator determined by the specific order determining unit 226, If the calling signal of the elevator is not received from the elevator 14, the call canceling unit 240 judges that all waiting queues in the specific floor 14 are boarded in the C elevator, and the elevator A and the elevator B The call to the specific layer 14 layer is canceled.

This makes it possible to prevent the elevator from wasting power by moving to a particular floor, even though the occupant's transportation has been completed in response to the elevator call in a particular floor.

13 is a view schematically showing a configuration of a hall lantern according to a third embodiment of the present invention. The hall lantern according to the embodiment of the present invention can directly apply the configuration and the function of the hall lantern explained in Figs. 8 to 12, and a duplicate explanation will be omitted here.

However, the hall lantern 200 according to the embodiment of the present invention satisfies the occupant waiting for the elevator by moving the elevator to a specific floor in an optimal way for a plurality of elevators 12 when a call is made at a specific floor At the same time, the power consumption of the elevator is minimized.

13, a hall lantern 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 210, an order determining unit 220, a paging command transmitting unit 250, and a paging command canceling unit 260. Here, the configurations and functions of the communication unit 210 and the order determination unit 220 are the same as those of the communication unit 210 and the order determination unit 220 described with reference to FIG. 8, and therefore, detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

The paging command transmitting unit 250 transmits the paging command corresponding to the specified layer to the elevators up to the set rank among the orders determined by the order determining unit 220. [ That is, in the case of the second embodiment of the present invention, the call command is transmitted to each elevator. In the case of the third embodiment, in the order determined in the order determined by the order determining unit 220, And transmits a call command corresponding to a specific floor to some elevators.

At this time, the call command transmission unit 250 receives a waiting image from a camera installed in a specific layer among cameras (not shown) installed around the elevator door 10 of each floor, and, based on the received waiting image, And determine the number of elevators to transmit the paging command in accordance with the determined number of persons. Here, the method of determining the number of people in the waiting room from the image may be a technique of extracting a minutiae from the image, judging a person based on the extracted minutiae, or other known techniques, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted here.

In addition, the call command transmission unit 250 stores information on the boarding gates corresponding to the respective elevators, determines the number of boarding passengers and the number of passengers getting off each time the respective elevators stop, The number of passengers currently on board for each elevator may be determined according to the number of passengers and the number of passengers getting off. In this case, the paging instruction transmitting unit 250 can accurately determine the number of waiters in a specific floor and the number of present occupants in each elevator, so that it is possible to accurately determine the number of elevators to be called into a specific floor.

In addition, the paging instruction transmitting unit 250 may transmit a paging instruction only to the elevator of the first rank among the elevator orders for the specific floor determined by the specific order determining unit 226. [ For example, as in the above-described example, when the order of the elevator for the specific floor 14 layer is determined by the specific order determining unit 226 as C elevator-> A elevator-> B elevator, ) Can send a paging command for a particular floor 14 layer only to the C elevator.

As a result, in the upper layer of the high-rise building, only the elevator that can arrive at the earliest is called, and the other elevators are moved in the empty space to consume electric power because the number of waiters waiting at the same time in the specific floor is not large.

When the paging command is transmitted to the at least one elevator by the paging command transmitting unit 250, the paging command canceling unit 260 receives the first paging signal from the specific layer within a predetermined time interval after the at least one elevator arrives at the specific floor If it is not received, the call command which has already been transmitted to the elevator moving to the specific floor is canceled according to the call command. For example, in the above-described example, the order of the specific layer 14 is determined by the specific order determining unit 226 in the order of C elevator-> A elevator-> B elevator, When the call command is transmitted to the C elevator and the A elevator, the call canceling unit 240 can not receive the call signal of the elevator from the specific floor 14 within a predetermined time after the C elevator first arrives at the specific floor 14 It is judged that all waiting queues in the specific floor 14 are boarded in the elevator C and cancel the call command for the elevator in the specific floor 14 with respect to the elevator moving to the specific floor 14.

This makes it possible to prevent the elevator from being moved in an empty state when a call command for a specific floor is transmitted to two or more elevators but all the waiters are aboard the elevator arriving first or when the call of the elevator becomes unnecessary.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Accordingly, the scope of protection of the present invention should be determined by the following claims, as well as equivalents thereof.

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The elevator is paired with a calling button that calls up the corresponding elevator in the upward or downward direction and is provided in plurality for each floor of the building corresponding to the plurality of elevators and the elevator is called through at least one calling button A hall lantern which blinks in the specific layer according to the order of the elevator arriving at the specific floor,
A communication unit for receiving position information including at least one of a current position, a state, and a traveling direction from each of the elevators, and receiving a call signal from at least one of a plurality of call buttons provided on the specific floor and the other floor;
An order determining unit for sequentially determining an order of the plurality of elevators from an elevator capable of arriving first in the specific floor when a call signal is received from at least one of a plurality of call buttons provided on the specific floor;
An arrival information output unit for outputting arrival information including at least one of an arrival time and an arrival order until each of the elevators arrive at the specific floor according to the determined order;
A switching unit for switching connection between a commercial power supply terminal for supplying commercial power and a flashing light emitting unit;
A communication power supply unit for supplying communication power for driving the communication unit; And
And a control unit for controlling the switching unit so that the commercial power is supplied to the flashing light emitting unit when the corresponding elevator of the plurality of elevators approaches the specified layer within a predetermined distance,
Wherein the commercial power source is an AC voltage of 100 V or more, the communication power source is a DC voltage of 25 V or less,
Wherein,
A first call signal receiving unit for receiving a first call signal including a call direction from at least one call button provided in the specific layer;
An input layer information receiving unit for receiving input layer information input from each of the elevators; And
And a second call signal receiving unit for receiving a second call signal including a layer information and a call direction from a call button provided on at least one other layer other than the specific layer,
Wherein the order-
An arrival time predicting unit for predicting a predicted arrival time from the current position of each of the elevators to the arrival at the specific floor;
A stop time, a moving time, a deceleration time, and an acceleration time from the current position of each elevator to the arrival at the specific floor, based on the input layer information corresponding to each of the elevators A first delay time predicting unit for predicting a first delay time to be performed;
A second delay time including at least one of a stop layer, a stop count, a travel time, a deceleration time, and an acceleration time from a current position of each of the elevators to arrival at the specific floor on the basis of the second call signal A second delay time predicting unit for predicting the second delay time;
An arrival time calculation unit for calculating at least one of a first delay time and a second delay time corresponding to each of the elevators at a scheduled arrival time corresponding to each of the elevators to calculate an arrival time for each of the elevators; And
And a specific order determining unit for determining an order of elevators for the specific floor according to the arrival time for each of the elevators calculated by the arrival time calculating unit,
Wherein,
When the arrival time for the corresponding elevator calculated by the arrival time calculating section is within a set time and the distance between the current position of the corresponding elevator and the specific layer is equal to or less than the set number of floors, And a switching control unit for controlling the switching unit to be connected to the commercial power supply terminal,
Wherein the switching control unit comprises:
Waiting for control of the switching unit when the arrival time of the corresponding elevator is within a set number of layers but the distance between the current position of the corresponding elevator and the specific layer is greater than the set time, And controls the switching unit at a time when the time is within a set time.
The method according to claim 1,
The arrival information output unit,
Displays the identification information of the elevator arriving at the specific floor according to the determined order, and displays the identification information of the elevator arriving at the earliest time from the current point of view.
The method according to claim 1,
For an elevator moving to the particular floor if the first call signal is not received from the particular floor within a set time interval after at least one elevator arrives at the specific floor, Further comprising a canceller.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the order-
From the input layer information received by the input layer information receiving unit or from the second calling signal received by the second calling signal receiving unit, between the traveling direction at the current position of each elevator and the calling direction in the specific floor And a layer information analyzing unit for analyzing layer information on the layer information.

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