WO2004058616A1 - Économie d'espace de location par communication intergroupe - Google Patents

Économie d'espace de location par communication intergroupe Download PDF

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WO2004058616A1
WO2004058616A1 PCT/US2002/041514 US0241514W WO2004058616A1 WO 2004058616 A1 WO2004058616 A1 WO 2004058616A1 US 0241514 W US0241514 W US 0241514W WO 2004058616 A1 WO2004058616 A1 WO 2004058616A1
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Zuhair S. Bahjat
Theresa M. Christy
Richard Pulling
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Otis Elevator Company
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66B—ELEVATORS; ESCALATORS OR MOVING WALKWAYS
    • B66B1/00—Control systems of elevators in general
    • B66B1/02—Control systems without regulation, i.e. without retroactive action
    • B66B1/06—Control systems without regulation, i.e. without retroactive action electric
    • B66B1/14—Control systems without regulation, i.e. without retroactive action electric with devices, e.g. push-buttons, for indirect control of movements
    • B66B1/18—Control systems without regulation, i.e. without retroactive action electric with devices, e.g. push-buttons, for indirect control of movements with means for storing pulses controlling the movements of several cars or cages
    • B66B1/20—Control systems without regulation, i.e. without retroactive action electric with devices, e.g. push-buttons, for indirect control of movements with means for storing pulses controlling the movements of several cars or cages and for varying the manner of operation to suit particular traffic conditions, e.g. "one-way rush-hour traffic"

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  • the present invention relates to an elevator system which decreases the amount of hoistway space required to move people through a building and provides the building owner with more rentable space.
  • a building 10 is divided into low rise banks 12 and high rise banks 14 having an express zone 16.
  • Each bank 12 and 14 has a certain number of cars and all cars, for each group in the building, reach the lobby to allow entry and exit of passengers.
  • a lot of hoistway core space is utilized for elevators instead of for customer rental space.
  • An elevator system in accordance with the present invention broadly comprises a first bank of elevator cars for servicing a first set of floors from a lobby, a second bank of elevator cars for servicing a second set of floors but not from said lobby, and at least one shuttle car for moving people between said lobby and at least one of said second set of floors.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a conventional approach for moving people through a building
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a first embodiment of an elevator system in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of a second embodiment of an elevator system in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of a third embodiment of an elevator system in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of a fourth embodiment of an elevator system in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic representation of a fifth embodiment of an elevator system in accordance with the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an elevator system 20 in accordance with the present invention.
  • a first bank or low rise bank 22 of elevator cars 23 which service the lobby L and lower floors in the building and a second bank or high rise bank 24 of elevator cars 25 which service higher floors in the building but not the lobby L.
  • shuttle cars 26 which move people from one rise of the building to another. The shuttle cars 26 move people from the bank of elevators in one rise to the bank of elevators in the other rise so that all hoistways 28 do not need to reach the lobby L.
  • the core space savings result from the fact that although there may be the same number of hoistways 28 as in a conventional system, some of the hoistways 28 are shorter, resulting in less overall hoistway space used to move the same number of people throughout the same building.
  • the other cars in the banks 22 and 24 will only have hoistways extending the distance of the portion of the building it serves .
  • the hoistway space normally used to allow all cars in the high rise bank to travel to the lobby can be used instead for rentable space.
  • the only cars requiring full size hoistways are the shuttle cars 26 themselves.
  • the shuttle cars 26 can be designed to have an increased capacity to handle traffic as compared to the other cars in the banks 22 and 24. This can be accomplished by using bigger cars for the shuttle cars 26, by increasing the size of the shuttle cars 26, by using faster shuttle cars 26, by using double deck shuttle cars, or by some combination of these attributes. By increasing the shuttle car capacity, the system can insure adequate throughput of passengers from the lobby L to and from the high bank 24 of elevator cars.
  • the present invention will operate optimally to minimize passenger travel time when the low rise elevator bank 22 and the high rise elevator bank 24 are able to communicate with each other. This may be done using a wide variety of communication medium including, but not limited to, Ethernet, CAN, LonWork and RS 485/422. Thus, when a hall call is registered at the lobby L for a high rise floor, both the low rise group and the high rise group are immediately aware of the call. It should be noted, however, that absent such communication, the present invention will still function and decrease hoistway space.
  • a shuttle car will be selected to serve the demand from the lobby L and another car will be waiting for the passenger at the transfer floor T for the passenger to board. If some type of destination entry is used for entering calls at the lobby or elsewhere, then the high rise dispatcher will automatically include the upcoming car call in its calculations and the hall call will be automatically transferred to the car assigned to the call.
  • the high rise dispatcher will have a car at the transfer floor T to pick up passengers transferring to the lobby L, there will be no change in passenger waiting time as compared with conventional systems.
  • the service time will be impacted by the amount of time needed to actually transfer from the shuttle car to the car specifically serving the high rise. This added time may be mitigated by the fact that the shuttle car 26 is faster than the other cars.
  • the shuttle car 26 may bring people directly to their destination floor, usually the shuttle car 26 will bring people to the transfer floor T requiring them to move from one car to another to get to their final destination.
  • the present invention is well suited to be used in conjunction with the channeling feature, if desired.
  • the low rise bank 22 of elevators may operate channeling in the traditional fashion, while the shuttle cars 26 move people to the high rise.
  • channeling sectoring can be applied to the high rise bank 24 of elevators.
  • the high rise sector assignments can be displayed at the lobby so that passengers know in advance which elevator car they need to board in order to get to their final destination.
  • the shuttle car(s) 26 may communicate with the high rise elevator bank 24 to make sure that the appropriate cars are available as people arrive at the transfer floor T.
  • FIGS. 3 - 5 illustrate elevator systems where the shuttle cars 26 can serve either or both banks 22 and 24, depending on the traffic demands of each bank.
  • the shuttle cars 26 can serve either or both banks 22 and 24, depending on the traffic demands of each bank.
  • five hoistways 28 reach the lobby L with one of the shuttle cars 26 serving as a low rise car and the other of the shuttle cars 26 servings as a high rise car.
  • five hoistways 28 reach the lobby L and both shuttle cars 26 serve as low rise cars.
  • five hoistways 28 reach the lobby and both shuttle cars 26 serve as high rise cars.
  • Each transfer floor T may have openings to both banks 22 and 24 of elevators or to only one bank 22 or 24 depending on which floor (s) the shuttle cars are configured to stop at.
  • the shuttle cars 26 may be configured to stop at the highest floor of the low rise and the lowest floor of the high rise or to only one of these floors depending on the needs of the building. Similarly, this applies if there are multiple transfer floors.
  • the shuttle cars 26 and the intergroup communication approach described herein may be used to facilitate certain conditions.
  • the shuttle cars 26 will come into use.
  • the dispatchers will take into account the amount of time it will take a passenger to arrive at a transfer floor for the opposite rise and will schedule a car to be waiting for the passenger there. If some type of destination entry is used for entering calls at the lobby or elsewhere then the dispatcher will automatically include the future car call for that rise in its calculations. The hall call with destination entry will be automatically transferred to the car assigned to that call.
  • the building may have a low rise bank 22 of elevator cars 23, a high rise bank 24 of elevator cars 25, a mid rise bank 30 of elevator cars 31, and three shuttle cars 26.
  • the hoistways 28 for the shuttle cars 26 and the low rise bank can reach the lobby L.
  • the shuttle cars 26 can be configured to stop at any combination of rises.
  • the shuttle cars 26 may act to shuttle people between rises during up-peak, down-peak and two-way traffic.
  • the shuttle cars 26 may be used to serve local traffic within a rise.
  • the present invention allows the shuttle cars to operate as local cars as well during all different type modes to help improve traffic handling performance.
  • the elevator systems of the present invention offer customers acceptable dispatching performance while saving core space over traditional approaches.
  • the present invention offers improved traffic handling during two way traffic due to the ability to use certain cars in one group or another as needed through the use of intergroup communication.

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La présente invention concerne un système d'ascenseur permettant d'augmenter l'espace de location dans un bâtiment. Le système d'ascenseur comprend un premier groupe (22) de cabines d'ascenseur (23) desservant un premier groupe d'étages, tel que les niveaux inférieurs, à partir d'un hall d'entrée H; un second groupe (24) de cabines d'ascenseur (25) desservant un second groupe d'étages, tel que les niveaux supérieurs, mais pas à partir du hall d'entrée; et au moins une cabine-navette (26) pour acheminer les gens entre le hall d'entrée et au moins un étage du second groupe d'étages.
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US7198136B2 (en) * 2003-09-11 2007-04-03 Otis Elevator Company Elevator device for a multi-sky-lobby system
US11292690B2 (en) 2018-07-25 2022-04-05 Otis Elevator Company Capacity shifting between partially-overlapping elevator groups
US12084308B2 (en) 2018-07-31 2024-09-10 Otis Elevator Company Super group architecture with advanced building wide dispatching logic—distributed group architecture

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US5663538A (en) * 1993-11-18 1997-09-02 Sakita; Masami Elevator control system
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US7198136B2 (en) * 2003-09-11 2007-04-03 Otis Elevator Company Elevator device for a multi-sky-lobby system
US11292690B2 (en) 2018-07-25 2022-04-05 Otis Elevator Company Capacity shifting between partially-overlapping elevator groups
US12084308B2 (en) 2018-07-31 2024-09-10 Otis Elevator Company Super group architecture with advanced building wide dispatching logic—distributed group architecture

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