KR20190055563A - Calling device for elevator car - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a calling device which provides calls for an elevator car and an arrival forecast of the car by outputting acoustic signals of which output patterns are set differently together with visual information, thereby enabling blind people as well as the general public to conveniently use the elevator car. The calling device for an elevator car comprises: an up call button (120) and a down call button (122), which call the elevator car; and an acoustic signal controller (110) for performing a control operation when operating the up call button (120) or the down call button (122) and performing the control operation so as to provide an arrival forecast of the elevator car in response to the button operation by outputting a differentiated acoustic signal. When the up call button (120) is operated by the acoustic signal controller (110), the acoustic signal is output once. When the down call button (122) is operated, the acoustic signal is output twice. In addition, upward arrival forecast of the car is provided as an acoustic signal of scale type such as do-mi-sol-do, and downward arrival forecast of the car is predicted by outputting an acoustic signal of a scale type such as sol-mi-do.

Description

[0001] CALLING DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR CAR [0002]

The present invention relates to a calling device for an elevator car, and more particularly, to a calling device for an elevator car, and more particularly to a calling device for an elevator car, which outputs a differentiated sound signal when a car arrives at a floor, And more particularly, to a calling device for an elevator car which is more convenient to use.

An elevator is a mechanism that moves the elevator according to the manner of winch / winch connection ropes. Such an elevator is configured to press the call button provided on the side of the elevator door of each floor so that the elevator arrives at the floor where the call button is pressed and the door can be opened when the door is opened. When the call button is pressed, the general elevator operation control device detects this, and informs the passenger of the fact that the floor is selected by lighting the call registration lamp, and carries out a service of guiding the passenger to the floor.

However, most of such elevator devices are designed on the basis of general users, so that a user with a disability has to take many inconveniences in using the elevator.

Accordingly, conventionally, various methods for the convenience of persons with disabilities have been proposed in the elevator apparatus. For example, Korean Registration Practice No. 20-0430655 discloses a configuration of a foot button so that a disabled person or a patient who is physically uncomfortable can easily call an elevator. Further, Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2010-0074895 discloses a device for displaying a braille for a visually impaired person to call an elevator to solve the inconvenience of a visually impaired person.

However, even though the use of the elevator can be said to be partially improved by such a configuration, the function of the elevator car call or the arrival of the car still does not completely solve the consideration for the disabled person in that it only provides visual functions. Especially in the case of the visually impaired. That is, the situation in which the elevator car call and the elevator car arrive still totally depends on the visual configuration such as lamp lighting, so that the visually impaired can not easily recognize the car call and the car arrival situation.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a calling device for an elevator car which makes it possible for a visually impaired person to more easily use the elevator by providing the calling and arrival status of the elevator car through auditory means together with the existing visual configuration .

And this purpose may provide the role of increasing the calling effect of the car to the general public without the disorder.

According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, there is provided an elevator car comprising: a rising call button and a descending call button for calling an elevator car; An acoustic signal controller for controlling the elevating call button or the descending call button and outputting the arrival forecast of the elevator car as a differentiated acoustic signal according to the operation of the button; An arrival forecast flasher for visually displaying an arrival forecast of the elevator car; And a wake-up communication control unit for turning on at least one of a call button lamp and an arrival forecast flasher when the acoustic signal controller outputs the acoustic signal.

A first sound signal output unit for outputting a first sound signal when the call button for calling up the elevator car is operated; and a second sound signal output unit for outputting a second sound signal for informing arrival forecast of the car when the called elevator car approaches the floor And the sound signal control unit controls the output of the first sound signal and the second sound signal.

The first sound signal output unit outputs the sound signal once when the up call button is operated, and outputs the sound signal twice when the down call button is operated.

The second sound signal output unit may be configured such that the elevator arrival forecast of the elevator car gradually increases from a low sound 'Do' to a 'Min' sound, a 'Sol' sound, and a High sound ' Of the elevator car is predicted by outputting a sound signal of the first scale type of the elevator car, and the elevator car arrival forecast of the elevator car gradually descends to a gradual slope of ' And outputs the sound signal of the second scale format.

According to the elevator car calling apparatus of the present invention, when the elevator user presses the up / down call button, the lamp integrally formed with the call button is turned on, and in addition, Or two times. In addition, the arrival forecast of the elevator car approaching the floor according to the operation of the call button also outputs an acoustic signal that is set differently from the ascending direction or the descending direction. When these sound signals are outputted, the call button lamp and the arrival forecast flasher are also turned on.

Therefore, the passenger waiting on the platform, particularly the visually impaired, can improve the reaction perception ability by operating the call button, and also can easily recognize the arrival forecast of the elevator car. In addition, since the elevator car can be conveniently used at the platform, the visually impaired person can prepare for boarding in advance. Therefore, a safety accident that may occur due to the closing operation of the door due to a late boarding It can be anticipated to be prevented from origin.

In addition, since the visual effect of the lamp lighting and the auditory effect of the acoustic signal are provided together with not only the visually impaired but also the general user, it is easy to know the car call and the arrival information so that the use environment of the existing elevator car There is also an effect to improve.

1 is a configuration diagram showing a calling device of an elevator car according to the present invention
2 is a flowchart showing an output process of an acoustic signal when a call button is operated in a calling apparatus of an elevator car according to the present invention.
3 is a flowchart showing an output process of an acoustic signal according to the arrival state of a car in a calling apparatus of an elevator car according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. As shown in Fig. 1, a wake-up communication control unit 100 connected to an elevator car is provided. It can be said that such a winning communication control unit 100 substantially manages the functions provided by the present invention.

The audio signal control unit 110 is connected to the victory communication control unit 100. The acoustic signal controller 100 controls the call of the car and the output of a predetermined sound signal through the speaker when the car approaches the corresponding floor. Here, the provision of the sound signal controller 110 means that a sound signal is output rather than a general sound signal, and that the sound signal can provide notification information more effectively than a sound signal. This makes it easier for the visually impaired to recognize the calling and arrival information of the elevator car. That is, in the case of a voice signal, there is a problem in that it can not hear certain information accurately depending on the magnitude of ambient noise.

Such an acoustic signal includes a first acoustic signal output when the call button 120, 122 for calling the elevator car is operated, a second acoustic signal indicating the arrival of the car when the called elevator car approaches the floor, A first sound signal output unit (also referred to as a call sound signal output unit) 112 and a second sound signal output unit (also referred to as an arrival forecast sound signal output unit) 114 are provided for this purpose . The first sound signal output unit 112 and the second sound signal output unit 114 are controlled by the sound signal controller 110.

In the present invention, the first sound signal and the second sound signal are set to have different output patterns of the sound signals according to the driving direction of the car. Specifically, in the case of the first sound signal, one sound signal is output when the up call button 120 is operated, and two times when the down call button 122 is operated. At this time, the lamps 120a and 122a integrally provided with the rising call button 120 and the descending call button 122 are also illuminated to provide a visual effect.

In the case of the second sound signal, the arrival forecast function of the car is provided. The upcoming arrival forecast is a scales in which the height (sound) of the sound gradually increases. For example, And the elevation car arrival forecast of the elevator car gradually becomes a scales in which the height (sound) of the sound gradually decreases. , For example, a sound signal having a feeling of descending in the form of 'sole', 'mi', 'low', and 'low' sounds. Here, the ascending direction arrival forecast and the descending arrival forecast simply differ in the number of notes in addition to increasing or decreasing the pitch of the sound. At this time, each of the lamps 120a and 122a of the up call button 120 and the down call button 122, the up direction arrival forecasting flasher 130 and the downward direction arrival forecasting lamp 130 described below are provided to provide a visual effect when a scaled acoustic signal is output. The descending arrival forecast flashing lamp 132 is also turned on.

According to the present invention, the ascending direction arrival forecasting flasher 130 and the descending arrival forecasting flasher 132 are installed on the platform to operate when the elevator car enters the door open area. Since the rising direction arrival forecasting flashing light 130 and the falling direction arrival forecasting flashing light 132 are also lighted together with the call button lamps 120a and 122a, it is possible to sufficiently provide a visual effect to the general user, The output of the signal enables the visually impaired person to know the arrival direction of the car.

The ascending direction arrival forecasting flashing light 130 and the descending arrival forecasting flashing light 132 may vary their lighting states. For example, when the cage enters the open area of the door, the flashing light is simply turned on. In response to the output of the second sound signal, the number of the flashing lights is changed according to the scale of the scale, . It can provide a visual effect as well as an aesthetic function.

Reference numeral 140 denotes a display section for displaying a traveling layer and a direction.

Next, the operation of the calling apparatus of the elevator car constructed as described above will be described. In the present invention, when the calling buttons 120 and 122 are directly operated by the calling device and when the car arrives at the corresponding floor according to the calling button operation, the sound signals are outputted differently, respectively. Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3 together .

First, referring to FIG. 2, the process of outputting an acoustic signal when the call buttons 120 and 122 are operated in the calling apparatus of the elevator car of the present invention. A general person or a blind person operates the call buttons 120 and 122 on the platform (S100). The call button operation of the visually impaired person will be able to use the dot or protrusion formed on the button.

The call button is divided into an up call button 120 and a down call button 122. When the rising call button 120 is operated (S101), the first sound signal output unit 112 outputs the sound signal once as preset (S103). Accordingly, the visually impaired person can easily recognize that the up call button 120 of the car has been operated due to the auditory effect due to the sound signal output. On the other hand, when the descending call button 122 is operated (S102), the first sound signal output unit 112 outputs the sound signal twice as preset (S104). Therefore, it can be compared with the one-time output state, and it can be easily recognized that the descending call button 122 of the car has been operated.

When the sound signals are output in steps 103 and 104, the lamps 120a and 122a integrally formed with the up call button 120 and the down call button 122 are also turned on. Therefore, the general public can visually confirm the auditory effect.

Thus, when the call buttons 120 and 122 are operated on the platform, only the call button lamps 120a and 122a are conventionally turned on to output differentiated sound signals as compared with those for providing a visual effect, The response recognition ability is improved. This means that the visually impaired can use the elevator car comfortably.

The following is the sound signal output according to whether or not the elevator car arrives. When the elevation call button 120 or the descending call button 122 is operated on the platform as described above, the elevator car will start to operate on the operated floor. At this time, conventionally, only the current number of floors and the traveling direction are displayed in the traveling floor and direction display unit 140, so that the public can easily confirm this, while the visually impaired can not recognize the arrival state of the elevator car at all.

Therefore, visually impaired people ask the people around the car after the elevator car arrives and then board the vehicle. In this case, the time for boarding becomes longer and the car door is closed when boarding. I was slaughtering.

In order to solve such a problem, the present invention allows the visually impaired person to easily recognize the arrival of the car at the platform and prepare for boarding. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, after the operation of the call buttons 120 and 122, the elevator car runs in the ascending or descending direction, and approaches the corresponding floor according to the operation (S110).

Then, the winning communication control unit 100 determines the driving direction in which the elevator car approaches the corresponding floor (that is, the floor where the call button is operated), and in accordance with the determination, the acoustic signal controller 110 controls to output different sound signals do. For example, when the elevator car approaching the floor arrives in the elevation direction (S111), the second acoustic signal output unit 114 outputs a sound signal of a low sound level, a non-sol-high sound level, (S113). On the other hand, when the elevator car arrives in the downward direction (S112), the second sound signal output unit 114 outputs the sound signal of the soul-less-low sound level with a feeling that the sound gradually decreases (S114). Therefore, the visually impaired can know which direction the elevator car arrives from the current floor in the waiting area, and prepare for boarding the elevator car in the direction that the visually impaired person wants to go.

In addition, in addition to the fact that the call button lamps 120a and 122a in the upward and downward directions are turned on when the scaled sound signals are output in steps 113 and 114, the winning communication control unit 100 controls the call button lamps Direction arrival forecast flashing light 130 or the descending-direction arrival forecasting flashing light 132, which are separately configured from the lightening-up forecasting flashing lights 120a and 120a. Therefore, the passengers waiting at the platform can know the arrival of the car through the lamps 120a and 122a and the flashers 130 and 132 together with the acoustic signal.

As described above, the present invention provides the elevator car call and the arrival state of the car only by a visual means such as lamp lighting, so that the visibility of the visually impaired person can be reduced. So that the visually impaired can use the elevator car safely and conveniently.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. It will be apparent that modifications, variations and equivalents of other embodiments are possible. Therefore, the true scope of the present invention should be determined by the technical idea of the appended claims.

100: win /
110: acoustic signal controller
112: first sound signal output section
114: Second sound signal output section
120: Lift call button
122: descending call button
120a: rising call button lamp
122a: call down
130: rising direction arrival forecast flashing light
132: Falling arrival forecast blinking light

Claims (4)

An elevation call button 120 and a descending call button 122 that call the elevator car;
An acoustic signal controller 110 for controlling operation of the up call button 120 or the descending call button 122 and outputting an arrival forecast of the elevator car as a differentiated acoustic signal according to the operation of the button;
An arrival forecast flasher (130, 132) for visually displaying an arrival forecast of the elevator car; And
And a winning communication control unit (100) for lighting at least one of the call button lamps (120a, 122a) and the arrival forecast blinkers (130, 132) when the sound signal controller (110) outputs the sound signal Of the elevator car. The method according to claim 1,
A first acoustic signal output unit (112) for outputting a first acoustic signal when the call button (120, 122) for calling the elevator car is operated,
Further comprising a second acoustic signal output section (114) for outputting a second acoustic signal indicating an arrival forecast of the car when the called elevator car approaches the floor,
And the acoustic signal controller (110) controls the output of the first acoustic signal and the second acoustic signal. 3. The method of claim 2,
The first acoustic signal output unit 112 outputs,
When the up call button 120 is operated, the sound signal is output once,
When the descent call button (122) is operated, outputs an acoustic signal twice. 3. The method of claim 2,
The second acoustic signal output unit 114,
The elevator arrival forecast of the elevator car is predicted by outputting an acoustic signal of a first scales type in which a loud sound is gradually increased,
The arrival forecast of the elevator car in the downward direction predicts the output of the acoustic signal of the second scale type gradually decreasing the sound of the sound,
Wherein the first musical scale type is a musical scale type in which the musical scale is raised in a form of a low-level 'Do' sound, a 'Min' sound, a 'Sol' sound and a high- The calling device of the elevator car is composed of a musical scale with a feeling of descending in the form of a 'soul' sound of a downward scale, a 'mi' sound, and a low sound '

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