JPH10236745A - Elevator emergency contact device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Problem] Even when a passenger of language and hearing impaired is locked in a car due to a malfunction, etc., it is possible to respond by communicating with the inside of the car and easily take countermeasures. Obtain an elevator emergency contact. SOLUTION: When there is no voice response from a car in response to a call from a monitoring facility 10 to a signal by an operation of a passenger reporting means 6 when a passenger who is a language / hearing impaired person is confined in an accident. In response to the call of the transmitting means 12 from the monitoring facility 10 side, the visual display means 5 of the car
To be displayed. The passenger trapped in response to the call sends a reply by the car reply means 7. Thus, when a confinement accident occurs, the observer can mutually communicate with the passengers in the car and can grasp the situation in the car.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an elevator emergency communication device which is configured in a car and a monitoring facility and is mainly intended for a physically handicapped person who has difficulty in speech and hearing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As an elevator emergency notification device intended for a physically handicapped person with language and hearing disabilities (hereinafter referred to as a language and hearing disabled person), a structure disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-24662 has been conventionally known. is there. That is, by operating the button for the physically handicapped, the fact that the person is a language / hearing disabled person is notified to the monitoring facility via the audio device.

[0003] In the conventional elevator emergency notification device configured as described above, when a person who has language and hearing impairment who is not visually impaired is in the elevator car,
When the elevator breaks down and is trapped in the car, an emergency call is issued as described below. That is,
When the language / hearing disabled person in the car operates the report button provided in the car, the occurrence of an abnormality is notified to the monitoring facility of the elevator. Thereby, the observer of the monitoring facility immediately talks with the passengers in the car via the intercom provided in the car to listen to the situation in the car, and performs necessary rescue work and the like.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the conventional elevator emergency call system as described above, the language / hearing disabled person in the car cannot hear the interphone call with the supervisor, and can explain the situation in the car. Can not. For this reason, there has been a problem that obstacles to countermeasure work such as delay of rescue work occur.

In the above-mentioned Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 6-24662, at the time of an emergency call, a button for exclusive use of a physically handicapped person in the car and a content stored in advance by operating the dedicated button for a physically handicapped person are sent to a monitoring facility. An emergency notification activation device for activating the combination device is provided. Thereby, it is configured to determine that the passenger trapped in the car is a language / hearing disabled person.

In the configuration disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-24662, since one-way transmission is performed from the inside of the car to the monitoring facility, the passengers trapped in the car are notified by the above-mentioned voice synthesizer to the observer. It is not possible to know if it has arrived or if rescue operations have begun by notification. For this reason, an uneasy state will continue until it is rescued. Furthermore, since the situation in the car cannot be reported, there is a problem in that the response in the event of an injury or the like is delayed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and can easily cope with the occurrence of an abnormality even when a passenger of a language / hearing impaired person is trapped in a car due to a malfunction. The purpose is to obtain an elevator emergency contact device that can do.

[0008]

In an emergency communication device for an elevator according to the present invention, there is provided a monitoring facility connected to the elevator for remotely monitoring the elevator, and a monitoring facility located in the monitoring facility for notifying the elevator car. Transmission means connected to the communication means provided in the car by manual operation of the means, visual display means provided on the car to visually display the report items by operation of the transmission means, monitoring provided on the car Reply means connected to the facility and transmitting a reply to the report item of the visual display means by manual operation is provided.

In the emergency communication device for an elevator according to the present invention, the response means is also used as a destination floor registration button provided on the car, and a signal from the destination floor registration button is converted into a response signal when necessary. A signal converter is provided.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Embodiment 1 FIG. 1 and 2 are views showing an example of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an elevator car. FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram conceptually showing the connection of electrical devices provided corresponding to the operation panel and the like in FIG. In the figure,
1 is an elevator car, 2 is an operation panel provided in the car 1, 3 is a plurality of destination floor registration buttons provided on the operation panel 2, 4 is a communication means comprising an intercom provided on the operation panel 2. is there.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a visual display unit comprising a text message display device provided on the operation panel 2 and arranged adjacent to the communication means 4, and constitutes a main part of the emergency communication device together with the communication means 4. Reference numeral 6 denotes a notification unit including a call button provided on the operation panel 2, 7 denotes a response unit including a reply button provided on the operation panel 2, 8 denotes a car-side communication unit provided on the operation panel 2, and 9 denotes a car. Side control device.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a monitoring facility for remotely monitoring an elevator, which monitors an elevator in the same building or monitors an elevator provided in each of a plurality of buildings via a communication line described later. 11 is a monitoring facility 10
, A transmitting means 12 comprising a telephone provided in the monitoring facility 10, a monitoring control device 13 provided in the monitoring facility 10, and a voice alert provided in the monitoring facility 10. Device, 15 is a visual display device provided in the monitoring facility 10, 16 is a character data file provided in the monitoring facility 10, 17 is a character message control device provided in the monitoring facility 10 and connected to the character data file 16, Reference numeral 18 denotes a communication line connecting the car-side communication means 8 and the monitoring-side communication means 11.

In the elevator emergency communication device configured as described above, if an elevator confinement accident occurs when a passenger consisting of a healthy person is in the car 1, the passenger presses the notification means 6. The signal from the reporting means 6 is transmitted from the communication means 4 to the car-side communication means 8,
The information is transmitted to the transmission means 12 of the monitoring facility 10 via the communication line 18 and the monitoring communication means 11.

As a result, the bell of the transmitting means 12 rings,
When the observer of the monitoring facility 10 picks up the transmitting means 12, it is possible to communicate with the trapped passenger via the communication means 4, that is, the interphone. As a result, the situation in the car 1 is heard, and necessary rescue work and other countermeasures are performed in accordance with the situation.

If the passenger in the car 1 is a speech / hearing impaired passenger and an elevator confinement accident occurs, the speech / hearing impaired person presses the notification means 6 and a signal resulting therefrom is transmitted to the communication means 4. The car side communication means 8,
The information is transmitted to the transmission means 12 of the monitoring facility 10 via the communication line 18 and the monitoring communication means 11.

Thus, when the bell of the transmitting means 12 rings and the supervisor of the monitoring facility 10 picks up the transmitting means 12, it is possible from the apparatus configuration to talk with the talking means 4, that is, with the passenger who is trapped via the interphone. Become. However, since the passenger is a speech / hearing disabled person, there is no response from the passenger by the communication means 4.

In such a case, the supervisor of the monitoring facility 10 uses the transmitting means 12, ie, the telephone input number button (not shown), to save the character data file 16 registered in advance corresponding to the input number. Send a text message. This text message is sent to the text message control device 1
7, via the monitoring-side communication means 11, the communication line 18, and the car-side communication means 8, are displayed on the visual display means 5 of the car operation panel 2.

The visual display means 5 includes, for example, "Does the customer have difficulty in speech and hearing? Yes: Reply means 7
Press once. No: Press the reply means 7 twice. Is displayed. The character message displayed on the visual display means 5 is a character data file 16.
Can be appropriately selected from a plurality of types registered in the transmitting means 12 by using the input number buttons of the transmitting means 12.

The passenger, who is a language / hearing impaired person who is confined, responds by operating the response means 7 in response to the text message displayed on the visual display means 5. This reply signal is output to the voice alert device 14 and the visual display device 15 via the car-side control device 9, the car-side communication means 8, the communication line 18, the monitoring-side communication means 11, and the monitoring-side control device 13.

As described above, when a confinement accident occurs, the observer of the monitoring facility 10 appropriately selects a transmission character message from the character data file 16 and transmits it. Then, it is possible to mutually communicate with the confined passenger by the response output to the voice alert device 14 and the visual display device 15.

As a result, the situation inside the car 1 can be grasped, and the best countermeasures such as necessary rescue work according to the situation can be quickly implemented. In addition, since the passengers in the car 1 can communicate with each other, the fear of the passengers due to the confinement can be reduced. Further, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of a secondary problem based on the confinement accident such as delay of countermeasure work.

Embodiment 2 FIG. 3 and 4 are views showing an example of another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an elevator car. FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram conceptually showing connections of electrical devices provided corresponding to the operation panel and the like in FIG. In the figure, the same reference numerals as those in FIGS. 1 and 1 described above denote corresponding parts, 71 is a reply means also used as each of the destination floor registration buttons 3, and 19 is a signal conversion device provided on the operation panel 2. It is arranged between the reply means 71 and the car-side control device 9 and converts a signal from the destination floor registration button 3 into a reply signal.

In the emergency communication device for an elevator configured as described above, if a passenger composed of a healthy person is in the car 1 and an elevator confinement accident occurs, the passenger presses the notification means 6. The signal from the reporting means 6 is transmitted from the communication means 4 through the car-side communication means 8, the communication line 18, and the monitoring-side communication means 11 to the monitoring facility 1.
0 is transmitted to the transmitting means 12.

As a result, the bell of the transmitting means 12 rings,
When the observer of the monitoring facility 10 picks up the transmitting means 12, it is possible to communicate with the trapped passenger via the communication means 4, that is, the interphone. As a result, the situation inside the car is heard, and necessary rescue work or the like is performed according to the situation.

If the passenger in the car 1 is a speech / hearing impaired passenger and an elevator confinement accident occurs, the speech / hearing impaired person presses the notification means 6 and a signal generated by the speech / hearing impairment is transmitted to the communication means 4. The car side communication means 8,
The information is transmitted to the transmission means 12 of the monitoring facility 10 via the communication line 18 and the monitoring communication means 11.

Thus, when the bell of the transmitting means 12 rings and the supervisor of the monitoring facility 10 picks up the transmitting means 12, it is possible from the apparatus configuration to talk with the talking means 4, that is, with the passenger trapped via the interphone. Become. However, since the passenger is a speech / hearing disabled person, there is no response from the passenger by the communication means 4.

In such a case, the observer of the monitoring facility 10 uses the transmitting means 12, that is, the telephone input number button (not shown) to save the character data file 16 registered in advance corresponding to the input number. Send a text message. This text message is sent to the text message control device 1
7, via the monitoring-side communication means 11, the communication line 18, and the car-side communication means 8, are displayed on the visual display means 5 of the car operation panel 2.

The visual display means 5 displays, for example, "Does the customer have difficulty hearing and speaking? Yes: Press the lowest floor of the destination floor registration button 3. No: Display the top floor of the destination floor registration button 3. Press. "And other text messages are displayed. The text message displayed on the visual display means 5 is transmitted from the plurality of types registered in the text data file 16 by the transmission means 12.
Can be appropriately selected by using the input number buttons.

The passenger, who is a language / hearing impaired person who is confined, responds by operating the response means 71 in response to the text message displayed on the visual display means 5. This reply signal is output to the voice alert device 14 and the visual display device 15 via the car-side control device 9, the car-side communication means 8, the communication line 18, the monitoring-side communication means 11, and the monitoring-side control device 13.

In this way, as in the case of the above-described embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the observer of the monitoring facility 10 can communicate with the passengers who are trapped in the event of a trap accident. Therefore, although detailed description is omitted, the same operation as the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2 can be obtained in the embodiment of FIGS.

The signal from the destination floor registration button 3 is converted into a reply signal by the signal converter 19 only when an accident occurs, and is input to the car-side controller 9. As a result, the destination floor registration button 3 functions as the response means 71. Also, in the embodiment of FIGS. 3 and 4, the destination floor registration button 3 is also used as the reply means 71, so that the reply means 7 in the above-described embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2 is separately provided. Nothing. For this reason, it is possible to prevent a problem that occurs when the independent reply means 7 is unnecessarily operated.

[0032]

As described above, the present invention provides a monitoring facility which is connected to an elevator to remotely monitor the elevator, and which is located in the monitoring facility and which is manually operated by a notification means in the elevator car. A transmitting means connected to the provided calling means, a visual display means provided on the car for visually displaying a notification item by operation of the transmitting means, and a visual display provided on the car and connected to a monitoring facility to be visually operated by an artificial operation And a reply means for transmitting a reply to the report item of the display means.

In this way, when an accident occurs in which a passenger of language / hearing impairment is locked in a car, a voice response from the car side is given to a call from a supervisor at a monitoring facility for a signal by operating the passenger's notification means. If not, a call from the monitoring facility will be made as described below. That is, the signal from the operation of the passenger's notification means causes the monitoring facility's transmission means connected to the communication means provided in the car to display the monitoring facility's notification information on the car's visual display means. You.

In response to the message displayed on the monitoring facility side by the visual display means, the passenger of the confined language / hearing impaired can transmit a reply by the reply means provided in the car. Therefore, in the event of a confinement accident, the surveillance staff at the surveillance facility can communicate with the confined passengers to understand the situation inside the car, and perform the best rescue work required for that situation. This has the effect of facilitating the implementation of countermeasure work. In addition, since the passengers in the car can communicate with the supervisor, the fear of the passengers due to the confinement can be alleviated, and further, there is an effect of preventing the occurrence of a secondary trouble due to the confinement accident.

Further, as described above, the present invention provides a signal conversion device which also uses a reply means as a destination floor registration button provided on a car and converts a signal from the destination floor registration button into a reply signal when necessary. It is provided.

In this way, when an accident occurs in which a passenger of a language and hearing impaired is locked in a car, a voice response from the car side is issued to a call from a guard at a monitoring facility for a signal by operating the passenger's notification means. If not, a call from the monitoring facility will be made as described below. That is, the signal from the operation of the passenger's notification means causes the monitoring facility's transmission means connected to the communication means provided in the car to display the monitoring facility's notification item on the car's visual display means. You.

Then, in response to the report item on the monitoring facility side by the visual display means, the passenger of the confined language / hearing handicapped sends a reply by the reply means which is also used as the destination floor registration button provided on the car. Can be. Therefore, in the event of a confinement accident, the surveillance staff at the surveillance facility can communicate with the confined passengers, grasp the situation inside the car, and perform the best rescue work required for that situation. This has the effect of facilitating the implementation of countermeasure work.

Further, since the passengers in the car can communicate with the guards, the fear of the passengers due to the confinement can be alleviated, and the effect of preventing the occurrence of the secondary trouble due to the confinement accident can be prevented. is there. Further, since the destination floor registration button is also used as a reply means, there is no need to provide a separate reply means. For this reason, there is an effect of preventing a problem caused by a tampering operation of the independent reply means beforehand.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 shows the first embodiment of the present invention, and is a perspective view of the inside of a car of an elevator.

FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram conceptually showing connections of electrical devices provided corresponding to the operation panel and the like in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the second embodiment of the present invention, and is a perspective view of an elevator car.

FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram conceptually showing connections of electrical devices provided corresponding to the operation panel and the like in FIG. 3;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 car, 4 communication means, 5 visual display means, 6 notification means, 7 reply means, 71 reply means, 10 monitoring facilities, 12 transmission means, 19 signal conversion device.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A monitoring facility connected to an elevator for remotely monitoring the elevator, and a communication means disposed in the monitoring facility and provided in the car by manual operation of a notification means in the elevator car. A transmitting means connected to the car, a visual display means provided on the car for visually displaying a notification item by the operation of the transmitting means, and the visual display provided on the car and connected to the monitoring facility by an artificial operation An emergency communication device for an elevator, comprising: a reply means for transmitting a reply to a report item of the means. 2. A signal conversion device, wherein a reply means is also used as a destination floor registration button provided on a car, and a signal conversion device for converting a signal from the destination floor registration button into a reply signal when necessary. The emergency communication device of the elevator according to 1.