JPH0218274A - Monitoring device for elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve operation efficiency and security without memorizing the name of a picture for an elevator number and bank by composing in such a way that general indication picture is changed to an elevation indicating picture including that elevator only by designating the position of the elevator. CONSTITUTION:A condition signal taken from an elevator 11 through a condition inputting device 12 is processed to a display command by a general picture displaying means 14 and an elevation route picture displaying means 15, and the condition of the elevator is displayed in a display 16. A designated elevator detecting means 17 detects an elevator to be displayed based on the inputted and selected position information taken from a picture selecting device 18, and a display picture designation detecting means 19 detects a picture to be displayed. A picture selecting means 13 selects a picture determined by these detecting means 17, 19, and its command is sent to the general picture display means 14 or the elevation route picture display means 15. The display means 14 is started by a display command from the selecting means 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an improvement in an elevator monitoring device that monitors an elevator.

[Prior Art] A commonly used elevator monitoring device is mainly configured with a lamp display, and the position, direction, failure, etc. of the elevator are monitored by the lighting status of the corresponding lamp. There is.

In particular, when an elevator malfunctions, a buzzer or the like is used to alert the manager, and the manager checks the lighting status of the lamps to learn the nature of the abnormality and take necessary actions.

Furthermore, in recent years, with the development of microcomputers, CRTs have come to be used for display on monitoring devices.

As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, as a conventional elevator monitoring device using a CRT for the display of the monitoring device, for example, there is an elevator monitoring device shown in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 78978/1983. There is. FIG. 9 is a basic configuration block diagram of a conventional elevator monitoring device, and FIG. 1O is a monitoring display state diagram showing an elevator monitoring state of the conventional elevator monitoring device. In the figure, 91 is a CPU, and 92 and 93 are C and PU 91 via a data bus 94.
The ROM and RAM are connected to the ROM and RAM. Similarly, there is a CRT control circuit 96 that is connected to the CPU 91 via a data bus 94 and controls the display of information supplied from the CPU 91 on the CRT 95, and a screen name corresponding to the number of the screen displayed on the CRT 95. It is composed of an operation console 97 that selects and controls the elevator monitoring state by operating a desired selection switch (not shown) written on the screen. , failure information, etc., via the interface 99.
It is input from the data bus 94 to the CPtJ91. C
On the RT95, as shown in FIG. 10, car frames 101 of each elevator are displayed in a bank frame 100 in which four elevators are grouped together. Further, within the car frame 101, a car floor position 102, an arrow 103 indicating the driving direction of the car, and an elevator car number 104 displayed in the car frame 101 are displayed.

Further, a bank name 105 is displayed within the bank frame 100.

In the conventional elevator monitoring device configured as described above, the screen is normally switched by operating the desired selection switch (not shown) on the operation console 97 while checking the contents on the CRT 95. , the screen was switched and the elevator was monitored.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] Conventional elevator monitoring devices monitor the elevator by checking the contents on the CRT and switching the screen by operating the console, so disasters such as malfunctions and fires occur. In order to check the display status of the bank including the elevator where the disaster occurred, it was necessary to operate the image name switch on the operator console corresponding to the elevator number and bank number where the disaster occurred. For this reason, it is necessary to memorize the image names corresponding to machine numbers and banks, and there is also the problem that operational errors occur, reducing operational efficiency and reliability.

This invention was made to solve these problems, and it is an elevator that eliminates the need to memorize image names corresponding to car numbers and banks, eliminates operational errors, and improves operational efficiency and reliability. The purpose is to obtain a monitoring device.

[Means for Solving the Problems] An elevator monitoring device according to the present invention includes a status input device for taking in elevator status information from an elevator control panel or a group control panel, a display device for displaying the elevator status, and a display device for displaying the elevator status. A collective display screen display means for collectively displaying a plurality of elevator banks and cars on a display device; a hoistway display screen display means for moving a display symbol indicating a car in the hoistway to display the operating status of the car; A screen selection device for selecting a screen to be displayed, an instruction elevator detection means for detecting and instructing an elevator to be displayed corresponding to the collective display screen from the manually selected position information taken in by the screen selection device, and an instruction elevator detection means corresponding to the collective display screen. The apparatus includes display screen instruction detection means for detecting the screen to be displayed, and screen selection means for selecting the screen determined by these detection means.

[Function] According to the present invention, when a displayed elevator is specified on a collective display screen that displays a plurality of banks and cars at once, the user can move up or down to the next elevator of the specified elevator without being aware of the car name, etc. You can switch to the elevator display screen that includes the operation, so even if you want to display a specific elevator,
There is no need to remember the correspondence between the name on the display screen and the actual elevator. Therefore, even people who are not familiar with elevator monitoring can quickly switch and select the display screen of the elevator they wish to monitor.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of the present invention, in which numeral 11 represents an elevator and numeral 12 represents a human-powered device for the elevator. This status input device 12 is the elevator 11
It takes in the status signal supplied from the . The status signals taken in by the status input device 12 are displayed on the display device 16 by the collective screen display means 14 and the hoistway screen display means 15 to display the elevator status.

Further, the instruction elevator detection means 17 includes the screen selection device 1
The elevator to be displayed is detected from the manual selection position information taken in from 8, and the display screen instruction detection means 19 detects the screen to be displayed. The screen selection means 13 selects the screen determined by these detection means and sends a command to the batch screen display means 14 and the hoistway screen display means 15.

Note that the - dry mountain surface display means 14 is activated by a display command from the screen selection means 13. In order to display the elevator status information inputted by the status human power device 13 on the display device 16 as a -karesan surface, parameters for batch screen display are used, and the command is converted into a command suitable for control of the display device and output. The hoistway screen display means 15 is a - dry mountain surface display means 14
The same processing as above is performed and output to the display device 16.

FIG. 2 shows a specific example for realizing the basic configuration shown in FIG. 1 above. In the figure, 20 is an elevator control device, the details of which are not shown. An elevator drive control circuit 21 is connected to this elevator control device 20 so that signals are sent and received between the two, and the drive control circuit 21 drives a hoisting motor 22 of the elevator. The signal is output,
By controlling the hoisting motor 22, the car 23 and the counterweight 24 are controlled to move up and down.

30 is a transmission slave station device which receives the elevator status signal from the elevator control device 20 and further transmits this status signal to the transmission master station device 40 by serial transmission;
PU30a, conversion transmission program and CPU30a
a storage device 30b that stores processing results, etc., a conversion device 30c that converts a status signal from the elevator control device 20 into a signal suitable for internal digital processing, and a CPU.
30a and a transmission device 30d that transmits status signals to the transmission master station device 40. 31 and 32 are transmission slave station devices corresponding to other elevators.

Reference numeral 40 denotes a transmission master station device that receives signals sent from each of the transmission slave station devices 30, 31, and 32, and the transmission slave station device 3
0, it is equipped with a CPU 40a, a storage device 40b, and a transmission device 40d, and further includes a display device (composed of a CRT and corresponding to the display device 16) 6 that displays the status of the elevator.
0 and a transmission device 40c that controls the 0.

Further, connected to the display device 60 are a light pen 61, which is a human-powered device for specifying display switching, and a keyboard 62.

A batch display screen as shown in FIG. 6 and a hoistway display screen as shown in FIG. 7 are displayed on the display device 60 by switching. In this hoistway display screen, 5 indicates the name of each machine, 6 indicates the bank name, and 8 indicates the hoistway.In the hoistway 8, a car 11, a car call IO, and an assigned call 9 are displayed.
Furthermore, 12 is the service floor name of this elevator, I3
indicates a hall call.

Although only three transmission slave station devices are shown in FIG. 2, in this embodiment, a slave station device corresponding to a group management device that manages a bank of six elevators in groups of four is provided. There is.

Next, before explaining the operation of this embodiment, an outline thereof will be described. The elevator status signal of the elevator control panel 20 is input to the transmission slave station device 30, and is stored therein in the storage device 30c as elevator status data. After being processed by the CPU 30a, the transmission device 3
0d, and is output toward the transmission master station device 40.

At the same time, transmission slave station bag ff30 (or 31°32
) is stored in the storage device 40b by the CPU 40a via the transmission device 40d of the transmission master station device 40,
Furthermore, the transmission device 40 is processed by the CPU 40a.
From c, the status of the elevator is displayed on the screen of the display device, that is, the CRT 60.

Furthermore, status signals from the transmission slave station devices 31, 32 and others are similarly sent to the transmission master station device 40 and displayed on the CRT 60.

The status data inputted from each elevator includes the elevator car position, direction of operation, earthquake, fire start signal and operation completion signal in case of power outage, failure signal, etc. Signals from the group management control device include earthquake, fire, etc. , power outage disaster occurrence signal and recovery signal, group management function failure signal, etc.

Based on the above configuration, the screen display operation will be explained based on the flowchart of FIG. 3. This flowchart is the second
This is a screen display program stored in the storage device 40b shown in the figure.

In this FIG. 3, in step S1, it is determined whether there is human power by the screen selection device 18, and in step S2, it is determined whether there is human power by the screen selection device 18.
Check the screen displayed on the screen. When the screen displayed on the display device is a batch screen, processing is performed by the instruction elevator detection means. Step S3 initializes the counter for selecting the hoistway display screen to be displayed, step S6 updates the counter, and step S4 checks the end of the counter. Step S5
uses the table shown in FIG. 4, which is created using the human coordinate range matrix on the screen shown in FIG. 5, to determine whether there is a screen at the location specified by the screen selection device. The hoistway display screen processing in step S7 is a program that enters the hoistway screen display means 15 in FIG.
5 or step S9, the hoistway display screen number is input, and the hoistway display is performed based on the hoistway display screen number and elevator status information from the status input device, and the hoistway display corresponding to the hoistway display screen number is displayed. Create a command to display on the display device using the parameters for and output it to the display device.

In addition, if the hoistway display screen is already displayed (step S1) or if there is no corresponding hoistway display screen according to the instruction elevator detection means (step S4), step S8
Detection processing of the display screen is performed. The display screen instruction detection means in step S8 is the display screen instruction detection means 1 of FIG.
For example, the program stored in 9 determines in which position of the screen selection column positions shown in FIG. Detected using , and output to the next step. In steps S9 and 310, a screen to be displayed is selected from the processing result of step S8. Step S11 is a process for performing batch screen display, in which a display screen number is input in step S10 by the program that enters the batch screen display means 14 in FIG. 1, and the display screen number and elevator status information from the status human-powered device are A command for displaying on the display device is created using parameters for displaying the screen corresponding to the display screen number, and output to the display device. That is, switching the display screen from the hoistway display screen or the like is performed by detecting instruction information in the screen selection device 18 by the display screen instruction detection means 19 and sending a command to the screen selection means 13.

In this embodiment, a monitoring device is described in which a screen changeover switch is provided on the operation console, but as shown in FIG.
The same method is used in which a selection menu is displayed at the bottom of the display screen and the screen is switched by specifying its position with a light pen or the like.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, by simply specifying the position of the displayed elevator from the collective display screen without worrying about the screen name, it is possible to switch to the elevator display screen that includes the elevator. Since the screen can be switched, it is possible to switch to the desired screen without having to remember the screen name corresponding to the elevator, and even in the event of a disaster such as a breakdown, the screen can be switched quickly without making a mistake. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an easy-to-use monitoring device that is suitable for monitoring conditions.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram of an elevator monitoring device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram showing a specific example of the elevator monitoring device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 shows the operation of this embodiment. Flowchart to be explained, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a table of vertical display screen numbers that displays the input coordinate range in step S5 of the flowchart in FIG. 3, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the input on the screen to create the table in FIG. 4. A diagram showing a coordinate range matrix, FIGS. 6 and 8 a diagram showing a batch display screen displayed on the display device shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. Figure 9 is a system configuration diagram of a conventional elevator monitoring device;
The figure shows a screen of a display device on which each bank is sequentially displayed. In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an elevator monitoring device that monitors multiple elevators, a status input device for importing elevator status information from an elevator control panel or a group control panel, a display device for displaying the elevator status, and a display device for displaying elevator status A collective display screen display means for displaying banks and cars at once; a hoistway display screen display means for moving a display symbol indicating a car in the hoistway to display the operating status of the car; and selecting a screen to be displayed on the display device. a screen selection device; an instruction elevator detection means for detecting and instructing an elevator to be displayed in correspondence with the collective display screen from input selection position information taken in by the screen selection device; detecting a screen to be displayed in correspondence with the collective display screen; Display screen instruction detection means, screen selection means for selecting a screen determined by these detection means, and selecting and displaying a hoistway display screen obtained from the instruction elevator detection means and containing the elevator to be displayed. Features: Elevator monitoring equipment.