WO2016185527A1

WO2016185527A1 - Elevator landing notification system

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Publication number: WO2016185527A1
Application number: PCT/JP2015/064086
Authority: WO
Inventors: 一樹辻
Original assignee: 三菱電機株式会社
Priority date: 2015-05-15
Filing date: 2015-05-15
Publication date: 2016-11-24
Also published as: DE112015006540T5; CN107531448A; KR20170140810A; JPWO2016185527A1; DE112015006540B4; KR102107534B1; JP6361823B2; CN107531448B

Abstract

Provided is an elevator landing notification system whereby it is possible to prevent a user from misidentifying the landing door corresponding to an allocated car. The elevator landing notification system is equipped with: a floor input unit (5) which is provided to a landing operation panel (2) of a landing and receives the inputting of information showing a destination floor; a car allocation unit (7) which allocates one of a plurality of cars to a call based on the information input to the floor input unit (5); a landing speaker (3) which is provided for each of the cars; a car position notification unit (9) which provides notification using the landing speaker (3); a notification order determination unit (14) which determines the order in which the notification of the car allocated by the car allocation unit (7) is made; and a notification order storage unit (10) which stores the order determined by the notification order determination unit (14). Until completion of the notification of one car, the car position notification unit (9) does not start the notification of another car, and provides the notification according to the order stored in the notification order storage unit (10).

Description

Elevator hall notification system

The present invention relates to an elevator hall notification system.

The following Patent Document 1 describes an elevator system. The elevator system causes a sound indicating the assigned car to ring from the hall operation panel when an operation is performed on the hall operation panel. In the elevator system, the same sound as that emitted from the hall operation panel is caused to ring from a speaker near the hall door corresponding to the assigned car. Thereby, the user is guided to the position of the landing door corresponding to the assigned car.

Japan Special Table 2007-537962

In the elevator system described in Patent Document 1, when sounds from a plurality of speakers overlap, it becomes difficult for the user to hear the sound. In this case, the user may misrecognize the landing door corresponding to the assigned car.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems. The purpose is to provide an elevator hall notification system that can prevent a user from erroneously recognizing a hall door corresponding to an assigned car.

An elevator hall notification system according to the present invention is provided on a hall operation panel of a hall provided with a hall door corresponding to each of a plurality of cars, and has a floor input unit that receives input of information indicating a destination floor, A car allocating unit that assigns one of a plurality of cars to a call based on information input to the floor input unit, a hall speaker arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of cars in the hall, and a car allocating unit A car position notifying unit for notifying information indicating the position of the landing door corresponding to the assigned car using the landing speaker corresponding to the car, and a notification information storage storing time required for notification by the car position notifying part When the car is assigned by the car allocating part, the car allocating part obtains the time when the car arrives at the floor where the hall is located, and the car allocating part. Is assigned, a travel time acquisition unit for acquiring a time required for the user to move from the position of the hall operation panel provided with the floor input unit to the position of the landing door corresponding to the car, and a notification Based on the time stored in the information storage unit, the time acquired by the arrival time acquisition unit, and the time acquired by the travel time acquisition unit, the order in which the car allocated by the car allocation unit is notified is determined. A notification order determination unit; and a notification order storage unit that stores the order determined by the notification order determination unit, and the car position notification unit notifies other cars until notification of one car is completed. Is started according to the order stored in the notification order storage unit.

In the elevator hall notification system according to the present invention, the car position notification unit does not start the notification about another car until the notification about one car is completed, and follows the order stored in the notification order storage unit. Notification. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to prevent the user from erroneously recognizing the landing door corresponding to the assigned car.

It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the boarding place provided in the building where the elevator hall notification system in Embodiment 1 of this invention is applied. It is a block diagram of the elevator hall notification system in Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the alerting | reporting order update process of the elevator hall alerting | reporting system in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the notification order determination processing of the elevator hall notification system in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the alerting | reporting process of the elevator hall alerting | reporting system in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram of the elevator hall notification system in Embodiment 2 of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows the alerting | reporting order update process of the elevator hall alerting | reporting system in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the alerting | reporting process of the elevator hall alerting | reporting system in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a block diagram of the elevator hall alerting | reporting system in Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the alerting | reporting order update process of the elevator hall alerting | reporting system in Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the alerting | reporting possibility determination process of the elevator hall alerting | reporting system in Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a hardware block diagram of a control panel.

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In each figure, the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals. The overlapping description will be simplified or omitted as appropriate.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a hall provided in a building to which the elevator hall notification system according to Embodiment 1 is applied. The elevator hall notification system is applied to a building (not shown) having a plurality of floors. The building is provided with a plurality of cars that move in different elevating paths. The hoistway is, for example, a hoistway formed so as to penetrate each floor of a building. The elevator hall is provided, for example, on each floor of a building.

As shown in FIG. 1, a landing door 1 corresponding to each of a plurality of cars is provided at the landing. FIG. 1 illustrates a case where a landing door 1a, a landing door 1b, and a landing door 1c are provided as landing doors 1 at the landing. A first elevating path (not shown) exists behind the landing door 1a. A second elevating path (not shown) exists behind the landing door 1b. A third elevating path (not shown) exists behind the landing door 1c. Hereinafter, the car moving along the first lifting path is also referred to as “car A”. The car moving along the second lifting path is also referred to as “car B”. The car moving along the third lifting path is also referred to as “car C”.

As shown in FIG. 1, a hall operating panel 2 is provided at the hall. The hall operating panel 2 is installed on one or more floors. One or a plurality of hall operation panels 2 are installed for each hall. The hall operating panel 2 is disposed on, for example, a wall surface of the hall. FIG. 1 illustrates a case where a hall operation panel 2a, a hall operation panel 2b, and a hall operation panel 2c are provided as the hall operation panel 2. The hall operation panel 2a, the hall operation panel 2b, and the hall operation panel 2c are arranged on the wall surface of the hall.

As shown in FIG. 1, a hall speaker 3 is provided at the hall. The hall speaker 3 is arranged corresponding to each of the hall doors 1 in the hall. That is, the hall speaker 3 is arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of cars in the hall. The hall speaker 3 is, for example, disposed on the wall surface in the vicinity of the corresponding hall door 1. FIG. 1 illustrates a case where a hall speaker 3a, a hall speaker 3b, and a hall speaker 3c are provided as the hall speaker 3. The hall speaker 3a is provided corresponding to the car A. The hall speaker 3a is disposed on the upper wall surface of the hall door 1a. The hall speaker 3b is provided corresponding to the car B. The hall speaker 3b is disposed on the upper wall surface of the hall door 1b. The hall speaker 3c is provided corresponding to the car C. The hall speaker 3c is disposed on the upper wall surface of the hall door 1c.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the elevator hall notification system according to the first embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 2, the elevator hall notification system includes a hall operation panel 2, a hall speaker 3, and a control board 4. One control panel 4 is provided for a plurality of cars. The control panel 4 manages the operation of a plurality of cars.

As shown in FIG. 2, the hall operation panel 2 is provided with a floor input unit 5 and an operation panel speaker 6. The floor input unit 5 is operated by, for example, an elevator user. The floor input unit 5 is, for example, a floor button, a touch panel, a microphone that receives voice input, and the like. The floor input unit 5 receives input of information indicating a destination floor. When information indicating the destination floor is input to the floor input unit 5, a call for moving from the installation floor of the hall operating panel 2 provided with the floor input unit 5 to the destination floor is generated.

As shown in FIG. 2, the control panel 4 includes a car assignment unit 7, an assigned car notification unit 8, a car position notification unit 9, a notification order storage unit 10, a notification information storage unit 11, an arrival time acquisition unit 12, and a travel time acquisition. Unit 13 and notification order determination unit 14.

The car assignment unit 7 assigns one of a plurality of cars to the call based on the information input to the floor input unit 5. Hereinafter, the car assigned to the call by the car assignment unit 7 is also referred to as “assigned car”.

The assigned car notifying unit 8 notifies information indicating the assigned car. The assigned car notifying unit 8 notifies the user of, for example, a car name indicating the assigned car. The assigned car notifying unit 8 notifies information using the operation panel speaker 6. The notification by the assigned car notifying unit 8 is, for example, broadcasting an announcement from the operation panel speaker 6.

The car position notifying unit 9 notifies information indicating the position of the landing door 1 corresponding to the assigned car. The car position notifying unit 9 notifies information using the hall speaker 3. The notification by the car position notification unit 9 is, for example, broadcasting an announcement from the hall speaker 3.

The notification order storage unit 10 stores the list L1. Table 1 below shows an example of the list L1. As shown in Table 1, the list L1 includes “car name”, “notification start time limit”, and “notification order”. The “car name” in the list L1 indicates the currently assigned car. The “notification start time limit” is a limit time at which notification by the car position notification unit 9 regarding the assigned car indicated by “car name” must be started. The “notification order” is the order in which the car position notifying unit 9 notifies the assigned car indicated by the “car name”. In other words, the list L1 represents the order of preferential notification of the position of the landing door 1 for getting into any of the currently assigned cars.

The notification information storage unit 11 stores a list L2. Table 2 below shows an example of the list L2. As shown in Table 2, the list L2 includes “car name”, “used speaker”, and “notification time”. The “car name” in the list L2 indicates, for example, a car whose operation is managed by the control panel 4 regardless of whether the car is currently assigned. “Used speaker” indicates the hall speaker 3 used for notification of the car indicated by the “car name” in the list L2. The “notification time” indicates a time during which a sound is emitted from the “used speaker” for notification of the car indicated by the “car name” in the list L2. That is, the list L2 indicates the time required for notification by the car position notification unit 9 and the hall speaker 3 used for the notification for each car. The contents of the list L2 are set in advance, for example. The unit of “notification time” in the list L2 is, for example, second.

The arrival time acquisition unit 12 acquires the “arrival time” of the car when the car assignment unit 7 assigns the car to the call. The “arrival time” is the time at which the car arrives at the installation floor of the hall operating panel 2 used for inputting information indicating the destination floor. The “arrival time” is calculated based on, for example, information such as the current position of the car, the floor where the car is scheduled to stop, and the moving speed of the car.

The travel time acquisition unit 13 stores a list L3. The travel time acquisition unit 13 acquires the “travel time” of the user from the list L3 when the car allocation unit 7 allocates a car to the call. “Movement time” is the time required for the user to move from the position of the hall operating panel 2 used to input information indicating the destination floor to the position of the landing door 1 corresponding to the car.

Table 3 below shows an example of the list L3. As shown in Table 3, the list L3 represents “movement time” for each combination of the hall operating panel 2 and the car. The unit of “movement time” is, for example, second. The “movement time” in the list L3 is calculated in advance, for example.

When the car assignment unit 7 assigns a car to a call, the notification order determination unit 14 determines the “notification start time limit” based on the “notification time”, “arrival time”, and “movement time”. Is calculated. The “notification start time limit” is a time that is traced back from the “arrival time” by a time that is a sum of “notification time” and “travel time”. The “notification start time limit” is calculated by the following equation.
“Notification start deadline time” = “arrival time” − “travel time” − “notification time”

The notification by the car position notification unit 9 is started, for example, by the “notification start time limit” at the latest. Therefore, even when the user starts moving after listening to the end of the information indicating the position of the car, the user moves to the position of the landing door 1 corresponding to the car at the latest before the car arrives. it can.

The notification order determination unit 14 determines the “notification order” for all the assigned cars so that the “notification order” becomes higher as the “notification start time limit” is earlier. That is, the notification order determination unit 14 determines the order of preferential notification of the position of the landing door 1 for getting on which assigned car based on the “notification start time limit”. The “notification order” determined by the notification order determination unit 14 is reflected in the list L1 stored in the notification order storage unit 10. That is, when a car is assigned to a newly generated call, the notification order stored in the notification order storage unit 10 is updated.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing notification order update processing of the elevator hall notification system according to the first embodiment. The notification order update process is started each time information indicating a destination floor is input to the floor input unit 5 provided on the hall operation panel 2. That is, the notification order update process is performed every time a new call occurs.

Hereinafter, a first specific example of the notification order update process will be described with reference to FIG. In the first specific example, it is assumed that the hall operation panel 2b is operated by the first user at the hall shown in FIG. That is, in the first specific example, it is assumed that a call is generated in a state where no information is registered in the list L1. In the first specific example, the car A is assigned to the call.

When the first user inputs information indicating the destination floor to the floor input unit 5 provided on the hall operation panel 2b, a call is generated. The car assignment unit 7 assigns the car A to the call (step S101). The arrival time acquisition unit 12 acquires the “arrival time” of the car A assigned in step S101 (step S102). Here, it is assumed that the “arrival time” of the car A is 12:00:14.

The travel time acquisition unit 13 acquires the “travel time” of the first user to the landing door 1a corresponding to the car A assigned in step S101 (step S103). Here, from the list L3 shown in Table 3, 4 seconds, which is the “movement time” for the combination of the hall operating panel 2b and the car A, is acquired.

The notification order determination unit 14 acquires “notification time” for the car A assigned in step S101 (step S104). Here, from the list L2 shown in Table 2, 3 seconds, which is the time for the sound to sound from the hall speaker 3a, is acquired.

The notification order determination unit 14 calculates the “notification start time limit” based on the “arrival time” acquired in step S102, the “movement time” acquired in step S103, and the “notification time” acquired in step S104 ( Step S105). Here, the “notification start time limit” is 12:00:07 by the following calculation.
12: 00: 14-4-3 = 12: 00: 07

The notification order determination unit 14 determines “notification order” based on the “notification start time limit” calculated in step S105 and reflects it in the list L1 (step S106). Here, since no information is registered in advance in the list L1, the contents of the list L1 are as shown in Table 1.

The assigned car notifying unit 8 notifies the information indicating the car A assigned in step S101 using the operation panel speaker 6 of the hall operating panel 2b (step S107). Thereby, the first user grasps that the assigned car to be ridden is the car A.

Hereinafter, a second specific example of the notification order update process will be described with reference to FIG. In the second specific example, the hall operation panel 2a is operated by the second user at the hall shown in FIG. 1 following the operation of the hall operation panel 2b and the assignment of the car A in the first specific example. And In the second specific example, the car C is assigned to the call.

When the second user inputs information indicating the destination floor to the floor input unit 5 provided on the hall operation panel 2a, a call is generated. In step S101, the car assignment unit 7 assigns a car C to the call. In step S <b> 102, the arrival time acquisition unit 12 acquires the “arrival time” of the car C. Here, it is assumed that the “arrival time” of the car C is 12:00:15.

In step S103, the travel time acquisition unit 13 acquires the “travel time” of the second user to the landing door 1c corresponding to the car C. Here, from the list L3 shown in Table 3, 10 seconds, which is the “movement time” for the combination of the hall operating panel 2a and the car C, is acquired.

In step S104, the notification order determination unit 14 acquires “notification time” for the car C. Here, from the list L2 shown in Table 2, 3 seconds, which is the time for the sound to sound from the hall speaker 3c, is acquired.

In step S105, the notification order determination unit 14 calculates “notification start time limit”. Here, the “notification start time limit” is 12:00:02 by the following calculation.
12: 00: 15-10-3 = 12: 00: 02

In step S106, the notification order determination unit 14 determines “notification order” based on the “notification start time limit” and reflects it in the list L1. Here, the contents of the list L1 are as shown in Table 4 below. In this way, the notification order stored in the notification order storage unit 10 is updated by reflecting the “notification order” in the list L1. That is, when a car is assigned to a new call, the list L1 is updated.

In step S107, the assigned car notifying unit 8 notifies information indicating the car C using the operation panel speaker 6 of the hall operation panel 2a. Thereby, the second user grasps that the assigned car that the user should ride is the car C.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing notification order determination processing of the elevator hall notification system in the first embodiment. The notification order determination process shows details of the process performed in step S106 of FIG. In the following description, the list L1 [i] indicates information stored in the i-th list L1. N indicates the total number of elements in the list L1.

Hereinafter, a first specific example of the notification order determination processing will be described with reference to FIG. The first specific example of the notification order determination process is the notification order determination process in the first specific example of the notification order update process described above.

The notification order determination unit 14 determines whether information about the same car is already registered in the list L1 and whether it has been assigned to a new call in step S101 (step S201). Here, it is determined whether or not the information about the car A assigned in step S101 is registered in the list L1. If it is determined in step S201 that the information about the same car has already been registered in the list L1, the notification order determination unit 14 performs the process of step S202.

In step S202, the notification order determination unit 14 determines whether or not the new “notification start time limit” is earlier than the registered “notification start time limit”. The new “notification start time limit” refers to the “notification start time limit” calculated in step S105. That is, in step S202, the previously registered “notification start time limit” is compared with the newly calculated “notification start time limit” for the same car.

If it is determined in step S202 that the new “notification start time limit” is not earlier than the registered “notification start time limit”, the notification order determination unit 14 ends the notification order determination process. In this case, the new “notification start time limit” is not registered in the list L1. This means that if an earlier “notification start time limit” has already been registered for a car assigned to a new call, it is determined that the notification will be performed before the new “notification start time limit”. It is because it is doing. Also, if the new “notification start time limit” is the same as the registered “notification start time limit”, it is not necessary to register again in the list L1.

In Step S202, when it is determined that the new “notification start time limit” is earlier than the registered “notification start time limit”, the notification order determination unit 14 deletes the registered information from the list L1 (step S202). S203). This is because it is necessary to notify the car assigned to the new call at a time earlier than the already registered “notification start time limit”.

Subsequent to step S203, the notification order determination unit 14 performs the process of step S204. If it is determined in step S201 that information about the same car is not registered in the list L1, the notification order determination unit 14 performs the process of step S204. Here, since the information about the car A assigned in step S101 is not registered in the list L1, the process of step S204 is performed following step S201.

In step S204, the notification order determination unit 14 substitutes 1 for i. i is an index of an element of the list L1. Subsequent to step S204, the notification order determination unit 14 substitutes the total number of elements in the list L1 for N (step S205). Here, since no element is registered in the list L1, N = 0.

Subsequent to step S205, the notification order determination unit 14 determines whether i is larger than N (step S206). That i is larger than N means that L1 [i], which is the i-th element, does not exist in the list L1. On the other hand, that i is not larger than N means that L1 [i] exists in the list L1. Here, since i = 1 and N = 0, N <i, so L1 [1] does not exist.

When it is determined in step S206 that i is greater than N, the notification order determination unit 14 inserts information on the car assigned to the new call into L1 [i] (step S207). Here, A is inserted as the “car name” in L1 [1], and 12:00:07 is inserted as the “notification start time limit”. Thereby, the contents of the list L1 are as shown in Table 1. After the process of step S207, the notification order determination unit 14 ends the notification order determination process.

When it is determined in step S206 that i is not greater than N, the notification order determination unit 14 sets “notification start time limit” for the car assigned to the new call to “notification” of L1 [i]. It is determined whether or not it is earlier than the “start deadline time” (step S208). That is, in step S208, the “notification start time limit” for the car assigned to the new call is compared with the “notification start time limit” of the i-th element in the list L1.

If it is determined in step S208 that the “notification start time limit” for the car assigned to the new call is earlier than the “notification start time limit” of L1 [i], the notification order determination unit 14 Information about the car is inserted into L1 [i] (step S209). When the process of step S209 is performed, the element originally stored in L1 [i] becomes L1 [i + 1]. Similarly, elements originally stored below L1 [i + 1] are also below L1 [i + 2].

When it is determined in step S208 that the “notification start time limit” for the car assigned to the new call is not earlier than the “notification start time limit” of L1 [i], the notification order determination unit 14 , I is incremented by 1 (step S210). After the process of step S210, the notification order determination unit 14 performs the comparison in step S206 again. In this way, in order from the first element of the list L1, it is compared with the “notification start time limit” for the car assigned to the new call.

Hereinafter, a second specific example of the notification order determination process will be described with reference to FIG. The second specific example of the notification order determination process is the notification order determination process in the second specific example of the notification order update process described above.

In step S201, the notification order determination unit 14 determines whether or not information about the car C assigned in step S101 is registered in the list L1. Here, since the information about the car C is not registered in the list L1, the notification order determination unit 14 performs the process of step S204 following step S201.

In step S204, the notification order determination unit 14 substitutes 1 for i. In step S205, the notification order determination unit 14 substitutes the total number of elements in the list L1 for N. Here, since one element is registered in the list L1, N = 1.

In step S206, the notification order determination unit 14 determines whether i is larger than N. Here, since i = 1 and N = 1, N <i does not hold, so the notification order determination unit 14 performs the process of step S208.

In step S208, the notification order determination unit 14 compares 12:00:02, which is the “notification start time limit” for the car C, and 12:00:07, which is the “notification start time limit” of L1 [1]. To do. Here, since 12:00:02 <12:00:07, the notification order determination unit 14 performs the process of step S209.

In step S209, the notification order determination unit 14 inserts information about the car C into L1 [1]. Here, C is inserted as the “car name” in L1 [1], and 12:00:02 is inserted as the “notification start time limit”. The information about the car A that was originally registered goes down to L1 [2]. As a result, the contents of the list L1 are as shown in Table 4. After the process of step S207, the notification order determination unit 14 ends the notification order determination process.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the notification process of the elevator hall notification system according to the first embodiment. The notification process is started when the floor input unit 5 starts accepting input of information indicating the destination floor.

Hereinafter, a specific example of the notification process will be described with reference to FIG. In the specific example of the notification process, the car position notification unit 9 performs notification in the order shown in Table 4. In the specific example of the notification process, the notification by the car position notification unit 9 is performed by sounding an announcement from the hall speaker 3.

The car position notification unit 9 determines whether or not an element is stored in L1 [1] of the list L1 (step S301). That is, in step S301, it is determined whether there is information to be notified using the hall speaker 3. If it is determined in step S301 that an element is stored in L1 [1], the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S302. Here, since the information about the car C is stored in L1 [1], the car position notifying unit 9 performs the process of step S302.

In step S302, the car position notification unit 9 determines whether or not there is a hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement. If it is determined in step S302 that there is a hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement, the car position notification unit 9 repeats the process of step S302. That is, the car position notification unit 9 waits until the announcement from the hall speaker 3 is completed.

If it is determined in step S302 that there is no hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement, the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S303. Here, since there is no hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement, the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S303.

In step S303, the car position notification unit 9 acquires the car stored in L1 [1] of the list L1. Here, the car position notifying unit 9 acquires the car C stored in L1 [1] in Table 4.

Following step S303, the car position notification unit 9 sounds an announcement from the hall speaker 3 corresponding to the car acquired in step S303 (step S304). Here, the car position notification unit 9 notifies information indicating the position of the landing door 1 corresponding to the car C using the landing speaker 3c corresponding to the car C. In step S304, the car position notification unit 9 acquires information indicating the hall speaker 3 corresponding to the car acquired in step S303 from the list L2 stored in the notification information storage unit 11.

Following step S304, the car position notification unit 9 deletes the element of L1 [1] from the list L1 (step S305). Here, the information about the car C that has been notified is deleted from the list L1. In step S305, the car position notifying unit 9 rearranges the element of L1 [2] to L1 [1]. Here, the information about the car A stored in L1 [2] in Table 4 is carried up to L1 [1]. After the process of step S305, the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S301.

In step S301, the car position notification unit 9 determines whether or not an element is stored in L1 [1] of the list L1. Here, since the information about the car A is stored in L1 [1], the car position notifying unit 9 performs the process of step S302.

In step S302, the car position notification unit 9 determines whether or not there is a hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement. Here, since the announcement is ringing from the hall speaker 3c, the car position notification unit 9 waits until the ringing of the announcement is completed. Thereafter, the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S303.

In step S303, the car position notification unit 9 acquires the car A stored in L1 [1]. In step S304, the car position notifying unit 9 notifies the information indicating the position of the landing door 1a corresponding to the car A using the landing speaker 3a corresponding to the car A.

In step S305, the car position notification unit 9 deletes the element of L1 [1] from the list L1. Here, the information about the car A for which the notification has been completed is deleted from the list L1. After the process of 305, the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S301.

In step S301, the car position notification unit 9 determines whether or not an element is stored in L1 [1] of the list L1. If it is determined in step S301 that no element is stored in L1 [1], the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S306. That is, if there is no information to be notified using the hall speaker 3, the process of step S306 is performed. Here, since no element is stored in L1 [1], the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S306.

In step S306, the car position notification unit 9 determines whether or not the floor input unit 5 has received input of information indicating the destination floor by the user. In step S306, when it is determined that the floor input unit 5 accepts input, the car position notifying unit 9 performs the process of step S301. In this case, the car position notification unit 9 waits until a new element is stored in the list L1.

In step S306, when it is determined that the floor input unit 5 has not accepted the input, the car position notification unit 9 ends the notification process. This is because no new element is added to the list L1 in the future.

In the first embodiment, the car position notifying unit 9 notifies information indicating the position of the landing door 1 corresponding to the car assigned by the car assigning unit 7 using the landing speaker 3 corresponding to the car. The notification order determination unit 14 determines the order in which notification about the car assigned by the car assignment unit 7 is performed based on the “notification time”, “arrival time”, and “travel time”. The notification order storage unit 10 stores the notification order determined by the notification order determination unit 14. The car position notification unit 9 performs notification according to the order stored in the notification order storage unit 10. In addition, the car position notification unit 9 does not start the notification for the other cars until the notification for one car is completed. According to the first embodiment, the sounds from the plurality of hall speakers 3 do not overlap. For this reason, it can prevent that a user becomes difficult to hear a sound. As a result, in the elevator hall notification system, the user can be prevented from erroneously recognizing the hall door 1 corresponding to the assigned car.

In the first embodiment, the notification order determination unit 14 combines the time stored in the notification information storage unit 11 and the time acquired by the travel time acquisition unit 13 among the cars allocated by the car allocation unit 7. The order in which the notification is performed is determined so that the notification of the earlier time from the time acquired by the arrival time acquisition unit 12 is performed earlier. In other words, the notification order determination unit 14 determines the order in which notification is performed so that notification regarding the “notification start time limit” is performed earlier. For this reason, it is possible to secure the time for the user to move from the landing operation panel 2 to the position of the landing door 1 while preventing the user from hearing the sound.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
Hereinafter, the configuration of the elevator hall notification system will be described focusing on the differences from the first embodiment. Parts that are the same as or equivalent to those in the first embodiment are given the same reference numerals, and a part of the description is omitted. In the following description, notification by the car position notification unit 9 is performed by sounding an announcement from the hall speaker 3. In addition, the notification by the assigned car notification unit 8 is performed by sounding an announcement from the operation panel speaker 6.

FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram of the elevator hall notification system according to the second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 6, in the second embodiment, information indicating the notification status is exchanged between the assigned car notification unit 8 and the car position notification unit 9.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the notification order update process of the elevator hall notification system according to the second embodiment. Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 7, the notification order update processing in the second embodiment will be described.

The processing from step S401 to step S406 in FIG. 7 is the same as the processing from step S101 to step S106 in FIG.

In step S407, the assigned car notifying unit 8 determines whether or not there is a hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement based on information obtained from the car position notifying unit 9. If it is determined in step S407 that there is a hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement, the assigned car notifying unit 8 repeats the process of step S407. That is, the assigned car notifying unit 8 stands by until the sound of the announcement from the hall speaker 3 is completed.

When it is determined in step S407 that there is no hall speaker 3 that is making an announcement, the assigned car notifying unit 8 performs the process of step S408. The process of step S408 is the same as the process of step S107 in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the notification process of the elevator hall notification system according to the second embodiment. Hereinafter, the notification process in Embodiment 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

The processing from step S501 to step S503 in FIG. 8 is the same as the processing from step S301 to step S303 in FIG.

In step S504, the car position notifying unit 9 determines whether there is an operation panel speaker 6 that is making an announcement based on the information obtained from the assigned car notifying unit 8. If it is determined in step S504 that there is an operation panel speaker 6 that is making an announcement, the car position notification unit 9 repeats the process of step S504. That is, the car position notification unit 9 waits until the sound of the announcement from the operation panel speaker 6 is completed.

When it is determined in step S504 that there is no operation panel speaker 6 that is making an announcement, the car position notification unit 9 performs the process of step S505. The processing from step S505 to step S507 in FIG. 8 is the same as the processing from step S304 to step S306 in FIG.

In the second embodiment, the car position notifying unit 9 does not notify while the assigned car notifying unit 8 is informing. The assigned car notifying unit 8 does not notify while the car position notifying unit 9 is reporting. According to the second embodiment, the ringing from the hall speaker 3 and the ringing from the operation panel speaker 6 do not overlap. For this reason, a user can make sound easier to hear. As a result, in the elevator hall notification system, the user can be prevented from erroneously recognizing the hall door 1 corresponding to the assigned car.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
Hereinafter, the configuration of the elevator hall notification system will be described focusing on the differences from the first embodiment. Parts that are the same as or equivalent to those in the first embodiment are given the same reference numerals, and a part of the description is omitted.

FIG. 9 is a configuration diagram of the elevator hall notification system according to the third embodiment. As shown in FIG. 9, the control panel 4 includes a notification enable determination unit 15.

The notification possibility determination unit 15 performs notification possibility determination processing. The notification possible determination process is to determine whether notification can be performed according to the order stored in the notification order storage unit 10. Specifically, the notification possible determination unit 15 does not delay the notification start from the “notification start time limit” and does not overlap the sounds from the plurality of hall speakers 3 for all the cars registered in the list L1. It is determined whether it is possible to complete the notification.

When the stored content of the notification order storage unit 10 is changed, the notification enable determination unit 15 performs notification enable determination processing based on the storage content of the notification order storage unit 10 and the storage content of the notification information storage unit 11. That is, the notification possible determination unit 15 performs notification possible determination processing when the order stored in the notification order storage unit 10 is updated due to the car being assigned to a new call. The car allocating unit 7 allocates another car to the new call when the result of the reportable determination process by the reportable determination unit 15 indicates that the notification cannot be completed.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the notification order update process of the elevator hall notification system according to the third embodiment. Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 10, the notification order update processing in the third embodiment will be described.

The processing from step S601 to step S606 in FIG. 10 is the same as the processing from step S101 to step S106 in FIG.

In step S607, notification possible determination processing by the notification possible determination unit 15 is performed. In step S608, it is determined whether or not the result of the notification possibility determination process indicates that notification completion is not possible. If it is determined in step S608 that the result of the notification enable determination process indicates that the notification cannot be completed, the process of step S609 is performed. In step S609, another car is assigned to the call to which the car was assigned in step S601. After step S609, the process of step S602 is performed.

If it is determined in step S608 that the result of the notification possibility determination process indicates that the notification can be completed, the process of step S610 is performed. The process of step S610 is the same as the process of step S107 in FIG.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a notification possibility determination process of the elevator hall notification system according to the third embodiment. FIG. 11 shows details of the processing performed in step S607 of FIG.

Hereinafter, the notification possibility determination process will be described with reference to FIG. T1, T2, and T3 in the following description are variables stored in the notification possible determination unit 15. A time assumed to be the notification start time for each car registered in the list L1 is substituted for T1.

When the notification enable determination process is started, the notification enable determination unit 15 substitutes the current time for T1 (step S701). Subsequent to step S701, the notification possibility determination unit 15 substitutes 1 for i (step S702). i is an index of an element of the list L1. Subsequent to step S702, the notification possibility determination unit 15 substitutes the total number of elements in the list L1 for N (step S703).

Subsequent to step S703, the notification possibility determination unit 15 determines whether i is larger than N (step S704). The process of step S704 is performed to determine whether or not L1 [i] that is the i-th element exists in the list L1.

When it is determined in step S704 that i is not larger than N, the notification possible determination unit 15 substitutes “notification start time limit” of L1 [i] into T2 (step S705). Following step S705, the notification enable determination unit 15 determines whether T1 is earlier than T2 (step S706). That is, in step S706, the notification start time for the car of L1 [i] is compared with the “notification start time limit” for the car.

In Step S706, when it is determined that T1 is earlier than T2, the notification possible determination unit 15 substitutes “notification time” for the car of L1 [i] into T3 (Step S707). In step S <b> 707, the notification possibility determination unit 15 acquires the “notification time” for the car of L <b> 1 [i] from the list L <b> 2 stored in the notification information storage unit 11.

Subsequent to step S707, the notification possibility determination unit 15 sets a time obtained by adding T3 to the current T1 as a new T1 (step S708). That is, in step S708, T1 is updated to the notification start time for the car of L1 [i + 1]. Subsequent to step S708, the notification possibility determination unit 15 increases the value of i by 1 (step S709). After the process of step S709, the notification possibility determination unit 15 performs the process of step S704. As a result, the determination in step S706 is performed for all elements of the list L1.

In Step S706, when it is determined that T1 is not earlier than T2, the notification possible determination unit 15 determines that the notification cannot be completed (Step S710). That is, when it is predicted that the notification start time for at least one of the cars registered in the list L1 will pass the “notification start time limit” for the one car, the notification enable determination unit 15 cannot complete the notification. Is determined. After the process of step S710, the notification possibility determination unit 15 ends the notification possibility determination process.

In step S704, when it is determined that i is larger than N, the notification possible determination unit 15 determines that notification can be completed (step S711). After the process of step S711, the notification possibility determination unit 15 ends the notification possibility determination process.

In the third embodiment, when the order stored in the notification order storage unit 10 is updated because the car is assigned to a new call, the notification possibility determination unit 15 determines that the car position notification unit 9 It is determined whether or not notification is impossible according to the order. The car allocating unit 7 allocates another car to the new call when it is determined by the notification possible determination unit 15 that the car position notification unit 9 is unable to perform notification according to the order. According to the third embodiment, when a car is assigned such that it is impossible to complete the notification for all the assigned cars, the car is assigned again. For this reason, time for alerting | reporting to a user and time for a user to move can fully be ensured. As a result, in the elevator hall notification system, it is possible to prevent the user from becoming difficult to hear sound and the user from failing to get on the assigned car.

In the first, second, and third embodiments, the assigned car notifying unit 8 may perform notification by causing a sound such as a buzzer sound or a melody from the operation panel speaker 6, for example. The car position notification unit 9 may perform notification by, for example, sounding a buzzer sound or a melody from the hall speaker 3. In this case, by making the sound ringed from the operation panel speaker 6 of the hall operation panel 2 operated by the user the same as the sound ringed from the hall speaker 3 corresponding to the assigned car, it is possible to get on the assigned car. The user can be notified of the position of the landing door 1.

In

Embodiments

1, 2, and 3, the travel time acquisition unit 13 may store a plurality of types of lists L3. When there are a plurality of types of lists L3, the control panel 4 may switch and use the list L3. For example, the control panel 4 may switch the list L3 according to the congestion level of the hall. The congestion level of the hall is detected based on, for example, an input frequency for the floor input unit 5. In addition, the control panel 4 may switch the list L3 depending on, for example, whether the user is a healthy person or a person with a disability. The determination is made based on, for example, the input content to the floor input unit 5. In these cases, it is possible to secure sufficient time for the user to move by changing the “movement time” according to the situation. Thereby, it can prevent that a user misses a car.

FIG. 12 is a hardware configuration diagram of the control panel.

The car assignment unit 7, the assigned car notification unit 8, the car position notification unit 9, the notification order storage unit 10, the notification information storage unit 11, the arrival time acquisition unit 12, the travel time acquisition unit 13, and the notification order determination unit 14 in the control panel 4. Each function of the notification capability determination unit 15 is realized by the processing circuit 16. The processing circuit 16 may include a processor 17 and a memory 18. Further, the processing circuit 16 may be dedicated hardware.

When the processing circuit 16 includes at least one processor 17 and at least one memory 18, the car assignment unit 7, the assigned car notification unit 8, the car position notification unit 9, the notification order storage unit 10, the notification information storage unit 11, and the arrival time The functions of the acquisition unit 12, the travel time acquisition unit 13, the notification order determination unit 14, and the notification possibility determination unit 15 are realized by software, firmware, or a combination of software and firmware. Software and firmware are described as programs and stored in the memory 18. The processor 17 reads out and executes the program stored in the memory 18, thereby realizing the function of each unit. The processor 17 is also referred to as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a central processing unit, a processing unit, an arithmetic unit, a microprocessor, a microcomputer, and a DSP. The memory 18 corresponds to, for example, a nonvolatile or volatile semiconductor memory such as a RAM, a ROM, a flash memory, an EPROM, and an EEPROM, a magnetic disk, a flexible disk, an optical disk, a compact disk, a mini disk, and a DVD.

When the processing circuit 16 is at least one dedicated hardware, the processing circuit 16 is, for example, a single circuit, a composite circuit, a programmed processor, a parallel programmed processor, an ASIC, an FPGA, or a combination thereof. Is applicable. Car assignment unit 7, assigned car notification unit 8, car position notification unit 9, notification order storage unit 10, notification information storage unit 11, arrival time acquisition unit 12, travel time acquisition unit 13, notification order determination unit 14, and notification enable determination The functions of the respective units of the unit 15 may be realized by the processing circuit 16, or the functions of the respective units may be collectively realized by the processing circuit 16.

In addition, the car allocation unit 7, the allocated car notification unit 8, the car position notification unit 9, the notification order storage unit 10, the notification information storage unit 11, the arrival time acquisition unit 12, the travel time acquisition unit 13, the notification order determination unit 14, and the notification About each function of the possibility determination part 15, you may make it implement | achieve part by exclusive hardware and implement | achieve part by software or firmware. For example, the car allocating section 7 is realized by a processing circuit 16 as dedicated hardware, and the allocated car notifying section 8, the car position notifying section 9, the notification order storing section 10, the notification information storing section 11, the arrival time The functions of the acquisition unit 12, the travel time acquisition unit 13, the notification order determination unit 14, and the notification possibility determination unit 15 can be realized by the processor 17 reading and executing a program stored in the memory 18. .

As described above, the processing circuit 16 can realize the above-described functions by hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof.

The elevator hall notification system according to the present invention can be applied to a building provided with a plurality of cars.

1, 1a, 1b,

1c hall doors

2, 2a, 2b, 2c

hall operation panel

3, 3a, 3b, 3c hall speaker 4 control panel 5 floor input unit 6 operation panel speaker 7 car allocation unit 8 car allocation unit 9 Car position notification unit 10 Notification order storage unit 11 Notification information storage unit 12 Arrival time acquisition unit 13 Travel time acquisition unit 14 Notification order determination unit 15 Notification enable determination unit 16 Processing circuit 17 Processor 18 Memory

Claims

A floor input unit that is provided on a hall operation panel of a hall provided with a hall door corresponding to each of a plurality of cars, and that receives input of information indicating a destination floor;
A car assignment unit for assigning one of the plurality of cars to a call based on information input to the floor input unit;
A hall speaker arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of cars in the hall;
A car position notifying unit for notifying information indicating a position of a landing door corresponding to the car assigned by the car assigning unit using a landing speaker corresponding to the car;
A notification information storage unit storing time required for notification by the car position notification unit;
An arrival time acquisition unit for acquiring a time at which the car arrives at the floor on which the hall is provided when a car is allocated by the car allocation unit;
When a car is assigned by the car assignment unit, the time required for the user to move from the position of the hall operation panel provided with the floor input unit to the position of the landing door corresponding to the car is acquired. A travel time acquisition unit;
Based on the time stored in the notification information storage unit, the time acquired by the arrival time acquisition unit, and the time acquired by the travel time acquisition unit, notification of the car allocated by the car allocation unit A notification order determination unit for determining an order to be performed;
A notification order storage unit for storing the order determined by the notification order determination unit;
With
The elevator position notification system that performs notification according to the order stored in the notification order storage unit without starting notification of other cars until the notification of one car is completed.
The notification order determination unit includes the arrival time corresponding to a time obtained by combining the time stored in the notification information storage unit and the time acquired by the travel time acquisition unit among the cars allocated by the car allocation unit. The elevator hall notification system according to claim 1, wherein the order of notification is determined so that notification about earlier time from the time acquired by the acquisition unit is performed earlier.
An operation panel speaker provided on a hall operation panel provided with the floor input unit;
An assigned car notifying unit for notifying information indicating a car assigned by the car assigning unit using the operation panel speaker;
With
The car position notifying unit does not notify while the notification by the allocated car notifying unit is performed,
3. The elevator hall notification system according to claim 2, wherein the assigned car notification unit does not perform notification while the notification by the car position notification unit is performed.
When the order stored in the notification order storage unit is updated due to a car assigned to a new call, is it impossible for the car position notification unit to perform notification according to the order? A notification determination unit that determines whether or not,
The said car allocation part allocates another car with respect to the said new call, when it determines with the said car position alerting | reporting part being unable to alert | report according to the said order by the said alerting | reporting possibility determination part. The elevator hall notification system according to 2.