JPH0680332A - Elevator controller - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] Elevator control device that can guide passengers waiting at the hall so that passengers waiting at the hall can get on the elevator car without confusion by notifying the passengers waiting at the hall to the assigned car I will provide a. [Arrangement] An elevator car that responds to a hall call is assigned by a hall call assigning device 1d, and the number of passengers already on board the assigned elevator car is detected by a hall number detecting device 1b. The maximum number of passengers on the elevator car that can be boarded on the elevator car is calculated by the boarding personnel calculation device 1g, and the elevator car that responds to the hall call assigned to the elevator car and the waiting passengers waiting for the boarding passengers are boarded. Notification device 1
Notification is made from each floor hall alarm 1i via h.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is to provide an elevator control device capable of guiding passengers waiting in a hall so that they can get on an elevator car without confusion.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A group management control system for controlling a plurality of elevator cars at a time is such that when a hall call occurs, an elevator car most suitable for coping with the hall call is selected and immediately responded to the hall call. Assign elevators and prevent other elevators from responding to the hall calls, or when traffic demand increases such as work hours in the morning, leaving hours in the evening, lunch hours, and even at night or on holidays. The elevator is controlled to effectively operate while switching to a preset operation mode according to a traffic change peculiar to the building, such as when traffic is reduced.

For example, in the morning work hours, there is a large demand in the upward direction from the standard floor, and therefore the demand is controlled by an optimum method. That is, the elevators that have finished responding to the last call are pulled back to the standard floor one after another, and the operation at the time of going to work or the split operation at the time of going to work is added as an option in order to strengthen the transportation capacity at the standard floor.

Even in the normal operation mode, as one of the services for passengers left unloaded due to congestion, etc., an operation method of automatically allocating another elevator car is added as an option. There is.

[0005]

Even during the service operation as described above, a passenger waiting at the landing who does not know these driving operations is confused by rushing into the arriving elevator car or knowing the driving operations. Even passengers waiting at the landing have no idea how many people can get in the arriving elevator car, and also move toward the arriving elevator car, resulting in additional confusion at the elevator landing and reduced elevator operating efficiency. At the same time, there is a problem that passengers become more frustrated mentally.

The present invention has been made in view of the above,
The purpose is to provide an elevator control device that can guide passengers waiting at the hall so that passengers waiting at the hall can get on the elevator car without confusion by notifying the assigned passengers of the elevator car and the number of people who can board it. To do.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the elevator control device of the present invention is an elevator control device for assigning an elevator car that responds to a hall call, and an existing vehicle that is on board the assigned elevator car. Already-passenger-number detecting means for detecting the number of passengers, and the available-passenger-number calculating means for calculating the number of passengers already in the vehicle detected by the already-passenger-number detecting means and the maximum load capacity of the elevator car, and the number of passengers who can get on the elevator car, and the allocation. The gist is to have an elevator car assigned by the means and responding to a hall call, and an informing means for informing the waiting passengers waiting at the hall of the number of people who can board the elevator.

[0008]

In the elevator control device of the present invention, an elevator car that responds to a hall call is assigned, and the number of passengers who are already in the assigned elevator car is detected,
Calculate the number of passengers who can board the elevator car from the detected number of passengers and the maximum load of the elevator car,
The waiting passengers waiting at the hall are informed of the elevator car that is assigned and responds to the hall call and the number of people who can board the hall.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the construction of an elevator control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The elevator control device shown in the figure constitutes a group management control device that controls the operation of a plurality of elevators. In FIG. 1, a hall call generated at each hall is registered in the hall call registration device 1a, and each registered hall call signal is input to the hall call allocation device 1d. In addition, the number of waiting passengers at each hall detected by the hall number detection device 1b is also input to the hall call assignment device 1d.

The hall call assignment device 1d inputs the operation status of each elevator from the car destination call registration device 1e of each elevator, and selects an optimum elevator car from the hall call signals and the number of waiting passengers. Dispatch.

The elevator car number detecting device 1f distributed by the hall call assigning device 1d detects the number of passengers already in the car, and the boarding possible personnel calculating device 1 is detected.
The call registration device 1e for the destination in the car of the elevator car, which is input to g and is also dispatched by the hall call assignment device 1d, is capable of boarding the current destination floor.
To enter.

The boardable personnel calculation device 1g predicts the number of remaining passengers remaining in the car when it arrives at the landing from the input signal, and dispatches it from the maximum load of the elevator that is preset in the elevator car. The maximum load of the elevator car is selected, and the number of passengers who can get on at the landing is calculated from the maximum accumulated load and the number of remaining passengers. Then, the calculated boardable passengers are notified to passengers waiting at the hall from each floor hall annunciator 1i via the boarding alert device 1h.

The number of passengers allowed to board is fed back to the hall call allocating device 1d and compared with the number of passengers waiting at the hall, and the number of passengers waiting at the hall is larger than the total number of passengers allowed to board the elevator at the hall. In this case, the car that is most suitable for the other elevators is selected again and the additional car is allocated.

In the same manner as above, the number of passengers who can board the elevator additionally allocated is also determined, and the passengers waiting at the hall are notified from the floor hall annunciator 1i of each floor via the boarding annunciator 1h.

Further, the operation mode switching device 1c can be used, for example, for work hours from 8:00 am to 9:00 am, lunch hours from 0:00 pm to 1:00 pm, and leaving hours from 5 pm to 6:00 pm. A switching signal for switching to an operation mode peculiar to each time zone is supplied to the hall call assignment device 1d. The hall call assignment device 1d determines the departure reference floor for each operation mode, and sequentially pulls back each elevator car to the determined departure reference floor from the car that has finished service regardless of the generation of other hall calls to the floor. Dispatch to.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG.

First, the operation mode switching device 1c determines a time zone such as work time, lunch time, leaving the office, or other normal time (step 210). In some cases, the operation modes for these time zones are set, the departure reference floor corresponding to each of these operation modes is determined, and the elevator car which has finished the service to the departure reference floor is irrespective of the hall call generation. Are sequentially dispatched, and the process proceeds to step 230. In the other normal mode, the process proceeds to step 220, and when it is confirmed that the hall calls are registered by the hall call registration device 1a, the step is executed. Proceed to 230.

In step 230, the hall number detecting device 1
The number of passengers at the hall on the floor call registration floor is detected by b. Then, information about the destination floor of each elevator car is obtained by the car destination call registration device 1e (step 240), and the optimal elevator car for the hall call is allocated by the hall call allocation device 1d to allocate the car (step 250). ).

In the elevator car to which the vehicle is allocated, the number of passengers in the car is detected by the in-car number-of-cars detecting device 1f (step 260), and the maximum load is supplied to the boardable personnel calculating device 1g (step 270). Here, the number of people who can board the vehicle at the arrival at the landing is calculated (step 28).
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The information on the number of people who can board the vehicle is transmitted to the hall notification device 1h, and the boarding notification device 1h informs the hall notification device 1 of each floor.
The number of passengers who can board is notified to the landing via i (step 290).

Further, the number of passengers waiting for landing is compared with the number of passengers waiting for boarding, and if the number of passengers waiting for landing is larger than the number of passengers waiting for boarding, the optimal car is again dispatched from another elevator (step 300).

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing the state of waiting passengers at a certain landing in the embodiment shown in FIGS. Further, FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing a situation similar to that of FIG. 3 by a conventional method. In both figures, 3a, 3b, 3c are elevator cars, 3d, 3e, 3f are counterweights, 3
g, 3h, 3i are deflecting sheaves, 3j, 3k, 3l are hoisting machines, 3r, 3s, 3t are hall arrival indicators such as lanterns, 3m, 3n are hall detectors, 3u, 3v, 3w
Is a hall caller, 3x is a crowd of waiters at the hall. Further, 3Q, 3p, 3q shown only in FIG. 3 are the same as those of the hall notification device 1i.

In both figures, the hall calls 3u, 3v, 3
The upward direction is generated in w, and the place where the elevator car 3b arrives at the landing is shown. The one on the upper side of the hall arrival indicator 3s is in a blinking state. In addition, the passenger number detector 3 indicates that passengers waiting at the hall cannot fully board.
m, 3n has detected, and at this point the next elevator 3a has already been detected.
The landing arrival indicator 3r indicating that the vehicle has been dispatched is illuminated.

In such a state, the hall indicator 3p in FIG. 3 informs, for example, that "10 people can ride." Elevator will come. You can ride about 10 people. ”By notifying you, like the crowd 3x in Figure 6, you will not be crowded in the elevator 3b that arrived first,
As in the crowd 3x in FIG. 3, the passengers can get on smoothly and comfortably, and the serviceability of the elevator itself can be improved.

The hall number detectors 3m and 3n are
For example, it may be an image processing person detector such as an ITV camera, or may be a load detector for in-work at the floor of the hall. Further, the hall notification devices 3Q, 3p, 3q may notify by voice or may output characters.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the construction of an elevator controller according to another embodiment of the present invention. The elevator control device shown in the figure is different from the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 in that the hall detection device 1b is removed. Since this passenger detection device is relatively expensive, the in-car passenger detection device 1f can be used instead of this passenger detection device. This device 1f for detecting the number of people in a car is indispensable for constructing an elevator system.

The operation will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG.

When the operation mode switching device 1c determines the time zone such as work time, lunch time, leaving the office, or other normal time (step 410), when it is the time zone during work, lunch, or leaving the office. , The operation modes for these time zones are set, the departure reference floors corresponding to each of these operation modes are determined, and the elevator cars that have finished the service are sequentially accessed to the departure reference floors regardless of the hall call generation. After allocating the vehicle and proceeding to step 440, in the case of other normal modes, the procedure proceeds to step 420, and when it is confirmed that the hall calls are registered by the hall call registration device 1a, the routine proceeds to step 440. move on.

In step 440, the information about the destination floor of each elevator car is obtained by the in-car destination call registration device 1e, and the optimal elevator car for the hall call is allocated by the hall call allocation device 1d to allocate the car (step). 450).

The elevator car thus dispatched detects the number of passengers in the car by means of the in-car passenger number detecting device 1f (step 460), and supplies the maximum load to the boardable personnel calculating device 1g (step 470). Here, the number of people who can board the vehicle at the arrival at the landing is calculated (step 48).
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The information on the number of people who can board the vehicle is transmitted to the boarding informing device 1h, and the boarding informing device 1h informs each floor hall informing device 1h.
The number of passengers who can board is notified to the landing via i (step 490).

It is checked whether or not the elevator car has arrived at the landing and the waiting passengers have boarded (step 510). When the elevator car has boarded or unloaded, it is checked whether the load in the elevator car exceeds the maximum load. It is detected by the number-of-cars detecting device 1f (step 520). If the maximum load is exceeded, it is determined that there are unloaded passengers waiting for the landing, and the optimal car is dispatched from another elevator again.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention,
An elevator car that responds to a hall call is assigned, the number of passengers already on board the assigned elevator car is detected, and the detected number of passengers and the maximum load capacity of the elevator car are used to determine the number of passengers who can board the elevator car. The number of passengers waiting at the hall can be calculated, and the number of passengers waiting at the hall can be calculated, and the number of passengers waiting at the hall can be calculated and notified. Since it is possible to know which elevator car will come next, it is possible to get on the elevator smoothly without confusion, and it is also possible to alleviate the emotional distress of the passengers waiting at the hall, which makes the service It is possible to improve.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an elevator control device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of the elevator control device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a state of waiting passengers at a certain landing in the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of an elevator control device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the elevator control device shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view showing the same situation as in FIG. 3 by a conventional method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a hall call registration device 1b hall number detection device 1c operation mode switching device 1d hall call assignment device 1e car destination call registration device 1f car number detection device 1g boardable personnel calculation device 1i each floor hall annunciator

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An allocation means for allocating an elevator car that responds to a hall call, a means for detecting the number of passengers who have already boarded in the allocated elevator car, and a means for detecting the number of people who have already boarded the elevator car. The passenger capacity calculation means for calculating the number of passengers who can board the elevator car from the already loaded passengers and the maximum load of the elevator car, and the elevator car that is assigned by the allocation means and responds to the hall call and the passenger capacity An elevator control device, comprising: an informing unit for informing a waiting customer waiting at. 2. The number of waiting passengers detecting means for detecting the number of waiting passengers waiting at the hall, and the number of waiting passengers detected by the waiting person number detecting means and the unloaded passengers from the number of passengers that can be boarded. 2. The elevator control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an unloaded product detecting means for detecting; and an additional vehicle allocating device for additionally allocating an elevator car when the unloaded product is detected by the unloaded product detecting means.