KR20120101744A - Elevator with input output user equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An elevator with a user input and output device can provide detail information about the operation of the elevator by making a call button of the elevator as a touch screen mode. CONSTITUTION: An elevator with a user input and output device comprises a driving part, an operating information sensing part, a touch screen(300), and a control part. The driving part drives an elevator car. The operating information sensing part senses the operation information of the elevator car. The touch screen is installed in a platform of the elevator car to sense the touched input of users and indicate video information. The control part controls the driving part to move the elevator car to specific floors that the users select on the touch screen, and indicates the operation status of the elevator car detected by the operating information sensing part on the touch screen.

Description

Elevator with user input / output device {ELEVATOR WITH INPUT OUTPUT USER EQUIPMENT}

The present invention relates to an elevator having a user input and output device, and more particularly, to provide a variety of information to the user of the elevator by configuring the call button of the elevator in a touch screen method, and provides detailed information related to the operation of the elevator The present invention relates to an elevator having a user input and output device that can promote convenience of use.

An elevator is a device that moves an elevator car carrying people, cargo, etc. up and down along a pair of guide rails installed inside a vertical passage inside a building.

Each floor of the building is provided with a platform for boarding and unloading elevator cars. The platform of each floor is provided with an elevator call button for transmitting a user's intention to board a control circuit to a control circuit, and a display device for displaying a current position of the elevator car.

The conventional elevator call button is installed on the elevator door wall and has a simple configuration including a direction in which the user wants to move, i.e., up and down buttons. The display device is installed on the upper part of the elevator door and also displays the current floor using numbers.

Accordingly, the user may select a button in a desired direction by a push or touch method to move the elevator car to the floor where the user is currently waiting, and check the position of the elevator car through the display device.

As such, the conventional elevator call button and display device merely provide a function of transmitting a user's intention to board the vehicle and informing the position of the elevator car, thereby reducing its utility. Therefore, even if the additional function is to be added, only two inputs can be selected and the information that can be displayed is also limited, and the functions that can be provided using the current elevator input / output device are limited.

Meanwhile, a touch screen capable of simultaneously performing a user input / output function is widely used in various fields. The touch screen provides a graphic-based environment for use by children and the elderly. In addition, there is an advantage that a variety of input and output processing is possible.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, it is possible to provide a variety of information to the user of the elevator by configuring the call button of the elevator in a touch screen method, the convenience of use by providing detailed information related to the operation of the elevator There is a technical problem to provide an elevator having a user input and output device that can be improved.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a drive unit for driving an elevator car; A driving information detector for detecting driving information of the elevator car; A touch screen installed at a boarding point of the elevator car for detecting a user's touch input and displaying image information; And controlling the driving unit to move the elevator car to the floor selected by the user according to the user's input through the touch screen, and displaying the driving state of the elevator car detected by the driving information sensing unit on the touch screen. It characterized in that it comprises a control unit.

The controller may control the driving unit to move up and down the elevator car when an upward drag input is received from the touch screen, and control the driving unit to move down the elevator car when a down drag input is received. have.

The controller may further include a display mode of information displayed on the touch screen in an arrow mode for displaying driving information with numbers and arrows and a graphic information mode using graphics when a drag input is received from the touch screen. Can be controlled to switch.

The controller may control the display area of the information displayed on the touch screen to be expanded or contracted according to a user input through the touch screen.

In addition, the control unit, along with the position of the elevator car, at least one of the moving direction of the elevator car, whether the door is opened or closed, whether the occupants exceeded, the floor on which the boarding is selected, the driving direction of the elevator car is displayed on the touch screen Can be controlled.

The apparatus may further include a storage including at least one of advertisement display data, touch screen instruction manual display data, and floor guidance display data. The controller may control the display data stored in the storage to be displayed on the touch screen.

As described above, an elevator having a user input / output device of the present invention may provide a variety of information to a user of an elevator by configuring a call button of the elevator by a touch screen method, and provide detailed information related to operation of the elevator. It can promote convenience.

1 is a driving state diagram of an elevator having a user input and output device according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a control block diagram of a control device of an elevator having a user input / output device according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is an installation state diagram of a user input / output device of an elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 to 10 is a state diagram using the user input and output device of the elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a driving state diagram of an elevator having a user input and output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An elevator installation unit 100 including one or more elevators 120, 130, 150 may be installed in the building, and the elevator installation unit 100 may communicate with the remote management center 10 through the communication network 1. .

The remote management center 10 is connected to the elevator facility 100 and the communication network 1, and receives and processes information such as operation information, failure information transmitted from the elevator facility 100. When the remote management center 10 receives the failure information from the elevator facility unit 100, the remote management center 10 displays the information to the manager so that the manager can take measures for troubleshooting. The manager may dispatch a troubleshooting agent to the elevator facility 100 side where the failure information is received.

The elevator installation unit 100 controls the driving means for transferring the elevator car 102 and the elevator car 102 in the up and down direction, and controls the functions of the various input and output units installed in the elevator car 102 and the platform, and transmits the control result to the communication network (1). It includes a control device 200 for transmitting to the remote management center (10).

The control device 200 may control the overall operation of the elevator 120 by detecting a driving state of the elevator car 102 to detect a failure. In addition, the control apparatus 200 processes a user input input to the elevator 120 to display a processing result.

2 is a control block of the control device 200 of an elevator having a user input and output device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The controller 200 includes a driver 260, a driving information detector 265, a platform display unit 270, a platform touch panel 275, a car input / output unit 230, a communication unit 220, and a storage unit ( 240 and the control unit 210.

The communication unit 220 transmits and receives data with the remote management center 10 side. The failure state of the elevator 120 may be reported through the communication unit 220. In addition, the control unit 220 may receive control information, display data 245, etc. for the operation of the elevator 120 from the remote management center 10 and update existing data.

The input / output unit 230 in the car may include a floor selection button, a call button, a speaker for a call, and the like installed in the elevator car 102. The input / output unit 230 in the car receives the floor to be moved from the occupant and provides it to the controller 210.

The driving unit 260 may include various driving devices for providing an elevator function, such as a car driving device for elevating the elevator car 102 to a specific floor, a door opening and closing driving device for opening and closing a door, and the like.

The driving information detecting unit 265 detects various types of information related to the operation of the elevator 120, such as the driving state of the driving unit 260, the position of the elevator car 102, the moving speed, and whether the door is opened or closed and transmits the information to the control unit 210. do. Thus, the driving information detector 265 may include various sensors such as a floor sensor, a speed sensor, and a door sensor.

The storage unit 240 stores the display data 245 displayed on the platform display unit 270. The display data may include graphic information for displaying an image, data such as advertisements, a touch screen instruction manual, floor guidance, and the like.

The touch screen 300 including the platform display unit 270 and the platform touch panel 275 is installed at a boarding area where boarding and discharging of the elevator car 102 is performed to provide a user's selection input to the controller 210. On the other hand, various data are displayed under the control of the controller 210.

The controller 210 detects the position and state of the elevator car 102 through the driving information detector and displays the detection result on the boarding point display 270. That is, the current location of the elevator car 102, the direction of movement, whether the door is open or closed, and whether the number of occupants is exceeded may be displayed on the platform display unit 270. In addition, the boarding destination floor of the occupant input through the in-car input / output unit 230 may be displayed on the platform display unit 270.

The controller 210 displays data such as graphic information, advertisements, a touch screen instruction manual, floor guides, and the like stored in the storage unit 240 on the platform display unit 270.

The controller 210 processes a user's touch or drag input to the board touch panel 275 to control the information selected by the user to be displayed on the board display 270.

3 is an installation state diagram of the user input and output device of the elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

On the platform where the elevator car 102 is boarded and disembarked, the platform door 113 which is opened and closed according to the arrival or absence of the elevator car 102 and the operation information of the elevator car 102 are displayed and the user's input / output interface is provided. The touch screen 300 is installed.

The touch screen 300 includes a platform display unit 270 including a flat panel display such as an LCD and an OLED, and a platform touch panel 275 stacked on the front of the display.

The touch screen 300 may display the current time, each floor, building information, notices in the building, precautions for boarding the elevator, a user guide, and the like, along with the number of floors in which the elevator car 102 is currently moving and operation information of the elevator. .

4 to 10 is a state diagram using the user input and output device of the elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 (a) is a state diagram of the standby mode (standby mode) display of the touch screen 300 of the elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention. If there is no call in all floors, only the up / down direction buttons are displayed on the touch screen 300 as shown in (a).

If there is a call on another floor, the current elevator car 102's position (8th floor) and direction of movement are indicated by arrows as shown in (b).

5 illustrates a method of calling an elevator using a touch screen 300 of an elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A user who wishes to go upstairs in an elevator can call the elevator in two ways.

First, as shown in (a), when the touch and drag operation is performed upward with respect to the center line of the touch screen 300, a boarding intention to climb upstairs may be input.

Alternatively, as shown in (b), by touching an arrow displayed on the touch screen 300, the boarding intention to go upstairs can be input.

On the other hand, in the same principle, a user who wants to go downstairs performs a touch-and-drag operation in a downward direction around a center line of the touch screen 300, or touches an arrow shown below, and intends to climb downstairs. Can be entered.

After the up or down boarding is selected by the method of FIG. 5, as shown in FIG. 6, the screen changes in the order of a> b> c so that the current elevator car 102 is moved to the center area. Position and direction of movement are displayed. Through the screen displayed as described above, the user waiting for the platform can know that the elevator car 102 is currently descending from the eighth floor.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 7, when the moving state of the elevator car 102 is being displayed on the touch screen 300, the user touches and drags the display area 320 indicating the moving state to board. Can be entered.

That is, the user who wants to go upstairs may touch the display area 320 and drag upward, and the user who wants to go down the floor may input the boarding intention by dragging downward.

In addition, the boarding intention may be input by directly touching the arrow displayed at the top or the arrow displayed at the bottom.

8 illustrates a case in which the touch screen 300 of an elevator according to an embodiment of the present invention displays a driving state of an elevator.

As shown in Figures 4 to 7, the mode of displaying the driving information by the number and the arrow may be referred to as the arrow mode (arrow mode), as shown in Figure 9, the operating state of the elevator for all floors The mode for displaying may be referred to as a graphic info mode. The arrow mode and the graphic information mode may be converted between modes by a user's touch input. For example, the mode may be configured to be switched when the user performs a drag or touch input in the left and right directions.

When operating in the graphic information mode, the touch screen 300 may display the driving state of the elevator in a matrix graphic. In the case of the floor where the elevator car 102 is stopped, the display color of the corresponding area is differentiated so that the user can recognize the position of the elevator car 102. In addition, on the floor where the elevator boarding is selected, the lifting or lowering mark selected on the floor may be displayed.

Through the touch screen 300 illustrated in FIG. 8, it can be recognized that the elevator car 102 is located on the seventh floor, the lift is selected on the sixth floor, and the descending is selected on the first and fourth floors.

9 illustrates various embodiments of a graphical information mode.

(a) exemplifies the case where the copper wire of the elevator is indicated by an arrow. When the screen as shown in (a) is displayed, it can be seen that the elevator will be elevated from the first basement floor B1 to the eighth floor.

(b) illustrates the case where the state of the door 113 of the elevator is displayed. If the screen as shown in (b) is displayed, it can be seen that the elevator stopped on the fifth floor and the door 113 is currently open. The graphic of the door 113 can provide the user with accurate information about the elevator operation by displaying the open or closed state in an animation linked with the operation of the real door 113.

On the other hand, both (c) and (d) indicate that the elevator car 102 is stopping on the 10th floor, and colors indicating that the vehicle is stopped are displayed differently from each other. This is a color indicating whether the elevator car 102 is in excess of the number of persons, and may be set to be different from each other to indicate that the vehicle is stopped.

10 illustrates a display state when image information such as an advertisement is displayed on a touch screen.

The touch screen 300 may display data such as an advertisement, a touch screen instruction manual, a floor guide, and the like. The storage unit 240 of the control device 200 stores display data 245 such as advertisements, user manuals, floor guides, etc. Thus, the controller 210 stores the display data 245 stored in the storage unit 240, That is, data such as advertisement may be displayed on the touch screen 300.

When image information is displayed on the touch screen 300, the current position of the elevator car 102 may be displayed on one side of the image information.

If you want to finish viewing the video information, or if you want to check the current location of the elevator in a larger area, it can be extended by dragging the area indicating the current location.

Thus, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. It is therefore to be understood that the embodiments described above are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

The present invention provides a user input / output device for configuring a call button of an elevator to provide a variety of information to the user of the elevator, and to provide detailed information related to the operation of the elevator to enhance the convenience of use. It can be used for the elevator which has.

1: communication network 10: remote management center
100: elevator equipment 102: elevator car
113: door 120, 130, 150: elevator
200: control device 210: control unit
220: communication unit 230: input and output unit in the car
240: storage unit 245: display data
260: driving unit 265: driving information detection unit
270: platform display unit 275: platform touch panel
300: touch screen

Claims (6)

A drive unit for driving an elevator car;
A driving information detector for detecting driving information of the elevator car;
A touch screen installed at a boarding point of the elevator car for detecting a user's touch input and displaying image information;
The controller controls the driving unit to move the elevator car to the floor selected by the user according to the user's input through the touch screen, and displays a driving state of the elevator car detected by the driving information sensing unit on the touch screen. Elevator having a user input and output device comprising a.
The method of claim 1,
The control unit,
And control the driving unit to move the elevator car up and down when an upward drag input is received from the touch screen, and control the driving unit to move down the elevator car when a down drag input is received. Having an elevator.
The method of claim 1,
The control unit,
When a left and right drag input is received from the touch screen, the display mode of the information displayed on the touch screen is controlled to switch between the arrow mode for displaying driving information by numbers and arrows and the graphic information mode using graphics. An elevator having a user input / output device.
The method of claim 1,
The control unit,
Elevator according to the user input and output device, characterized in that for controlling the display area of the information displayed on the touch screen is expanded or reduced in accordance with the user input through the touch screen.
The method of claim 1,
The control unit,
Along with the location of the elevator car, at least one of the moving direction of the elevator car, whether the door is opened or closed, whether or not the number of occupants, boarding is selected, the driving direction of the elevator car is displayed on the touch screen Elevator with user input and output device.
The method of claim 1,
A storage unit including at least one of advertisement display data, touch screen instruction manual display data, and floor guidance display data;
And the control unit controls the display data stored in the storage unit to be displayed on the touch screen.

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