JPH10120325A - Control operation method of elevator during earthquake - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Problem] To provide an elevator capable of smoothly evacuating a passenger from a car to a landing side even if there is a passenger who is late in the car during a control operation during an earthquake and is trapped in the car. The purpose of this study is to obtain a control operation method during an earthquake. The object of the present invention is to determine the presence or absence of a landing in a car 3 and to prompt the passenger to operate a door open button 15 when the passenger is in the car, and to make the landing door 10 and the car door 11 available. Is opened, the announcement that prompts the user to get out of the car 3 is made by the broadcast device 16 to achieve the control method during an earthquake.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for controlling an elevator during an earthquake.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in an elevator, when a P wave (initial tremor) of an earthquake is detected by an initial tremor sensor (V sensor), the vehicle enters an earthquake control operation. Passengers are evacuated to the nearest floor and maintain their position when stopped.

[0003] As a control method during an earthquake during elevator running, a landing door and a car door are opened after the car is stopped on the nearest floor, and when the opened state has been kept for about 15 seconds, the landing is stopped. The door and the car door are closed, and the lights in the car are turned off so that the car is on standby at the nearest floor. Therefore, if the passenger does not get off the car while the landing door and the car door are open, the passenger is locked in the car. In order to release the locked state, a car open button is provided on the operation panel in the car, and the landing door and the car door are opened by operating the car open button. Also, when a car is on standby at the nearest floor, even if a passenger is left behind in the waiting car, it is necessary to inform the passenger of the position of the car open button. An illuminating means is provided, and the illuminating means is made to blink.

[0004]

In the above prior art,
When the landing door and the car door are closed and the lighting in the car is turned off, the passengers in the car are confused, so the presence of the car open button and the function of the car open button are determined by the lighting means of the car open button. There is a problem that it is extremely difficult to smoothly evacuate the passengers from the waiting car because it cannot be grasped only by the blinking of the car.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an elevator control operation method for an elevator capable of smoothly evacuating passengers to the nearest floor even if passengers are left in a waiting car. To provide.

[0006]

The object of the present invention is to provide an announcement that a car will stop on the nearest floor when a strong earthquake occurs, and to stop the car on the nearest floor to change the landing door and the car door. The car exit recommendation process that prompts the passengers to exit the car by opening the car, and after a predetermined time elapses after the completion of the car exit recommendation process, the landing door and the car door are closed and the lighting in the car is turned off. A standby step of blinking or turning on a door open button illuminating means for notifying the position of the door open button in the car while waiting the car on the nearest floor;
When the waiting process is started, the presence of a passenger in the car is detected, and when there is a passenger, a door open button operation recommendation process for giving an announcement to prompt the operation of the door open button, and a door open button operation recommendation process Is completed, the landing doors and the car doors are again opened for a predetermined period of time so that the passengers in the car can be evacuated to the landing side.

According to the above evacuation method, since the passengers in the car are notified in advance that the car will stop at the nearest floor, it is possible to prevent the passengers from being shaken, and the landing door and the car are opened. After that, the passenger gets off the car smoothly. Also, if there is a passenger left behind in the waiting car on the nearest floor, there will be an announcement to prompt the operation of the door open button, so be sure to inform the passenger of the presence of the door open button. Therefore, the passenger can open the landing door and the car door without any confusion, and can easily evacuate to the landing side.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 2, 1 is an elevator shaft,
2 is a machine room formed at the top of the hoistway 1, 3 is a car that moves up and down in the hoistway, 4 is a counterweight that is connected by a main rope 5 and moves up and down in the hoistway 1, and 6 is a machine. A hoisting machine provided in room 2, 7 is an earthquake sensor provided in machine room 2, 8 is a control panel for controlling various devices of the elevator, 9 is a landing, 10 is a landing door provided at the entrance of landing 9. Reference numeral 11 denotes a car door provided at the entrance of the car 3, and reference numeral 12 denotes a door opening / closing device that opens and closes the landing door 10 and the car door 11.

[0010] In the car 3, the ceiling lighting 1
3 and an in-car operation panel 14 is provided on a side wall thereof. The in-car operation panel 14 is provided with a door open button 15. A broadcasting device 16 is provided on the ceiling of the car 3. A passenger detection device 17 is provided on the outer bottom of the car 3. The passenger detection device includes, for example, a weighing mechanism, and performs load detection using the mechanism. The load detection device issues a command to the broadcast device 16 except when the detected load is no load, and “ Please press the car open button 15. The door will open. "

When the earthquake detector 7 detects, for example, an earthquake with a seismic intensity of 5 or more, it issues a command to the broadcasting device 16 to execute a stop announcement indicating that "the car 3 stops on the nearest floor." It is like that.

When the car 3 stops at the nearest floor, a command is issued from the control panel 8 to the broadcasting device 16 and a car drop-off announcement stating "Earthquake. Please get out of the car when the door is opened." Be executed.

The in-car light 13 is turned off when the landing door 10 and the car door 11 are closed during the control operation during an earthquake. The car opening button illuminating means of the car opening button 15 may be one that causes the car opening button 15 itself to blink or light, or one that illuminates the car opening button 15 like a spotlight. The car open button illuminating means blinks or lights up when the landing door 10 and the car door 11 are closed during the control operation during an earthquake.

Next, an example of a control operation method during an earthquake will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

First, when an earthquake having a seismic intensity of 4 or more occurs and the earthquake detector 7 is operated in step S1, the operation is switched to an earthquake control operation in step S2 to determine whether the elevator car 3 is running. If the car is in the middle, an announcement that "the car stops at the nearest floor" is executed in step S3, the car 3 stops at step S4 on the nearest floor, and the landing door 10 and the car at step S5. The door 11 is opened, and a car is released and an announcement such as "earthquake. Please get down when the door is opened." Until this state is reached, it is referred to as a car dropping recommendation process. When the earthquake detector 7 does not operate in step 1, the car 3 continues normal operation in step S6.

Next, when 15 seconds have passed after the completion of the car dropping recommendation process, the landing door 1 is determined in steps S5 and S7.
0 and the car door 11 are closed, the in-car light 13 is turned off, and the car open button illuminating means is turned on and off, and the car is kept on standby at the nearest floor. The process until this state is reached is called a standby process.

Next, if the car open button 15 is operated during the standby process, the car unloading recommendation process is executed again in step S8, and if the car open button 15 is not operated, the presence or absence of an in-car passenger is determined in step S9. Is determined by activating the passenger detection device 17, and when there is a passenger in the car 3, the operation of the door open button 15 is prompted. "If the passenger is late, press the car open button 15. The door opens. The state is such that a door open button operation recommendation announcement with a content of "Is." The process up to this state is called a door opening operation recommendation process. When it is determined that there is no passenger in the car 3 by operating the passenger detection device 17, the elevator operation is stopped in step S11, that is, the hall door 10 and the car door 11 are closed, and the car lighting lamp 1 is turned off.
3 is turned off.

Next, the door open button operation recommendation process is completed,
When the car open button 15 is pressed in step S12, the hall door 10 and the car door 11 are opened again for a predetermined time, and a state in which a passenger who has fallen behind the car 3 can be evacuated to the hall 9 side is enabled. The process for achieving this state is called an evacuation process. If the car open button 15 is not pressed in step S12, the process returns to step S10, the door open button operation recommendation announcement is executed again, and the passenger who has lately got out of the car 3 is prompted to operate the door open button 15. When the car open button 15 is pressed in step S12, the process returns to step S5, where the landing door 10 and the car door 11 are opened, and the announcement of the getting off the car and the announcement of the door opening button operation recommendation are repeatedly executed. Door open button 15 for passengers who got late in the car
And the function of the door opening button 15 are surely notified.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, even when there is a passenger who is late in getting out of the car during the traffic control operation during an earthquake, the passenger is prompted to operate the car open button and gets out of the car. An announcement of nodding will be given,
An elevator control operation method for an elevator that can smoothly evacuate the passengers to the landing without disturbing the passengers can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a control operation during an earthquake showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural explanatory view of an elevator showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a process diagram of an elevator control operation method for an elevator showing an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Hoistway 2 Machine room 3 Car 4 Balancing weight 5 Main rope 6 Hoisting machine 7 Earthquake detector 8 Control panel 9 Landing 10 Landing door 11 Car door 12 Door opening and closing device 13 In-car lighting lamp 14 In-car operation panel 15 Door opening Button 16 Broadcasting device 17 Passenger detection device

Claims (2)

[Claims] When a strong earthquake occurs, an announcement is made to notify that the car will stop at the nearest floor, and the car will be stopped at the nearest floor to open the landing door and the car door, and the passengers will be notified. After a predetermined time has elapsed after the completion of the car unloading recommendation process, the landing door and the car door are closed, and the lighting inside the car is turned off, and the position of the door open button in the car is changed. A door opening button for notifying the standby step of waiting the car on the nearest floor while blinking or lighting the illuminating means, and detecting the presence or absence of a passenger in the car when the standby step is started, and opening the door when there is a passenger. Door open button operation recommendation process for making an announcement to prompt the operation of the above, and when the door open button operation recommendation process is completed, the landing doors and the car doors are again opened for a predetermined time to bring the passengers in the car to the landing side. An elevator control operation method for an elevator including at least an evacuation process for enabling an evacuation state. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined time in the evacuation step is set longer than the predetermined time in the standby step.