JP2009292566A - Landing car call automatic registration system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a car waiting time at an elevator landing. <P>SOLUTION: The landing car call automatic registration system 10 comprises a landing car call registration device 18 installed on a wall 16 of an elevator landing 12, a plurality of person detection sensors 26 provided on a passage 22 to the elevator landing 12 with an interval therebetween, and an elevator control panel which is electrically connected to the landing car call registration device 18 and the person detection sensors 26 to execute the car call registration at the landing 12. The elevator control panel executes the car call registration at its detection floor when detecting that a person 29 is moving to the elevator landing 12 on the passage 22 by the person detection sensors 26. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an elevator hall car call automatic registration system.

  Conventionally, elevators are widely installed in condominiums, hotels, office buildings, and the like. In general, a passenger who wants to use an elevator needs to perform car call registration by pushing a push button of a hall car call registration device installed on a wall of the elevator hall.

  However, if the passenger who came to the landing is an elderly person or a physically handicapped person with both hands occupied by luggage or handicapped, it is difficult to operate the push button for car call registration. Sometimes. In order to cope with such a case, for example, in Patent Documents 1 and 2, a passenger detection sensor is incorporated in a landing car call registration device, and a car call registration is automatically performed by detecting a passenger coming to the landing with this sensor. It is described.

JP 2000-38260 A JP-A-6-305651

  In recent years, high-rise condominiums and office buildings are increasing. In such high-rise buildings, depending on the number of elevators installed, there is a tendency for the waiting time until the car arrives after the car call is registered at the landing. In this case, as described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, the car waiting time cannot be shortened by executing the car call registration when the passenger comes to the landing.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a landing car call automatic registration system capable of shortening a waiting time for a car at an elevator hall.

  The present invention relates to a hall car registration device installed on a wall of an elevator hall, a plurality of human detection sensors provided at intervals in a passage leading to the elevator hall, a hall car registration device, a human detection sensor, and an electric A car call registration system that is connected to each other and executes car call registration at the elevator hall, wherein the control unit moves the person to the elevator hall through the passage by the person detection sensor. When it is detected that the car is registered, the car call registration at the detection floor is executed.

  In the hall car automatic registration system according to the present invention, the control unit may execute car call registration when detecting movement of a person in the elevator hall direction by at least two person detection sensors.

  In the hall car call automatic registration system according to the present invention, the control unit executes temporary car call registration when the movement of a person in the elevator hall direction is detected by two person detection sensors, and a third person Car call registration may be executed when the detection sensor detects a movement of a person in the same direction.

  Further, in the platform car call automatic registration system according to the present invention, the control unit performs upward car call registration when a movement of a person in the direction of the elevator platform is detected on the reference floor of the building where the elevator is installed. The downward car call registration may be executed when movement of a person in the direction of the elevator hall is detected on a floor other than the reference floor of the building.

  In the hall car call automatic registration system according to the present invention, one person detection sensor is provided immediately before reaching the elevator hall, and the other person detection sensors correspond to the entrances and exits of a plurality of rooms arranged along the passage. It may be provided at each position.

  In the hall car call automatic registration system according to the present invention, the human detection sensor may be installed on a ceiling, a side wall, or a floor of the passage.

  Furthermore, in the hall car automatic registration system according to the present invention, it is preferable that the control unit displays the car call registration completion state on the hall car call registration device when the car call registration is executed.

  According to the platform car call automatic registration system according to the present invention, when the movement of a person in the direction of the elevator platform is detected by the human detection sensor in the passage leading to the elevator platform, the passenger can enter the platform by executing the cage call registration. Registration of the car call can be completed before it arrives, and the car waiting time at the boarding can be shortened.

  Embodiments according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In this description, specific shapes, materials, numerical values, directions, and the like are examples for facilitating the understanding of the present invention, and can be appropriately changed according to the application, purpose, specification, and the like.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an elevator system 1 incorporating a hall car call automatic registration system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram showing a hall car call automatic registration system 10. is there. The elevator system 1 includes a car 2 that moves a passenger in the elevator up and down. The car 2 is moved up and down in the hoistway 4 by the rope 3 connected to the upper part being wound up or down by a hoisting machine (not shown).

  The car 2 is provided with a car door 5. The car door 5 is driven to open and close in a double-opening or single-opening manner when landing on the destination floor, and a landing provided in an elevator landing (hereinafter simply referred to as “landing”) 12 in conjunction with this. The door 14 is opened and closed.

  A building car call registration device 18 is installed on the building wall 16 located on the side of the landing door 14. The landing car call registration device 18 includes two push buttons 20a and 20b for upward and downward use. When the passenger who uses the elevator pushes one of the push buttons 20a and 20b, the car call registration is executed and the push buttons 20a and 20b pushed to show the car call registration completion state are lit. It is like that.

  The hall car registration device 18 shown in FIG. 1 has two push buttons 20a and 20b for going up and down, but the top floor and the top of the building where the elevator system 1 is installed. At each landing on the lower floor, there is only one push button for going down or going up.

  A plurality of rooms or residences are arranged along a passage or hallway 22 leading to the hall 12, and an entrance / exit 24 of these rooms is installed facing the passage 22. A plurality of human detection sensors 26 are installed on the ceiling 23 of the passage 22 at intervals. An infrared sensor can be preferably used as the human detection sensor 26, but any sensor (for example, an optical sensor including a light emitting / receiving element) can be used as long as it can detect a person in the passage 22. May be used. The human detection sensor 26 is preferably provided on the ceiling 23 of the passage 22, but is not limited thereto, and may be installed on the side wall or floor of the passage 22.

  One of the plurality of human detection sensors 26 is disposed at a position immediately before reaching the landing 12 in the passage 22, and this sensor is hereinafter referred to as a first human detection sensor 26. In addition, the human detection sensors 26 other than the first human detection sensor 26 are provided at positions corresponding to the entrance / exit 24 facing the passage 22, and in the following, these sensors are arranged in order from the one closest to the landing 12 to the second person. The detection sensor 26, the second person detection sensor 26,. Thus, by providing the second and third person detection sensors 26 and the like at positions corresponding to the entrance / exit 24, it is possible to detect the person who has exited the room at the earliest timing, and as will be described later, It works effectively by reducing the waiting time of the car.

  As shown in FIG. 2, each person detection sensor 26 is electrically connected to an elevator control panel 28 as a control unit, and transmits a person detection signal. The elevator control panel 28 has a function of performing overall control of the elevator system 1, and temporarily stores a CPU that executes a control program, a ROM that stores a control program, human detection data, and the like. It is composed of a readable RAM or the like. In the present embodiment, the elevator control panel 28 is used as a control unit in the elevator car call automatic registration system 10. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, an elevator car call registration device is provided separately from the elevator control panel. A control unit may be incorporated into 18.

  Next, the operation of the hall car call automatic registration system 10 configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control procedure executed in the elevator control panel 28. This control procedure starts when any one of the person detection sensors 26 detects a person in the passage 22. First, it is determined whether or not the movement of a person in the direction toward the hall 12 is detected by the two person detection sensors 26 (step S10). For example, when the person 29 shown in FIG. 1 walks along the passage 22 in the direction of the landing, the person is detected by the second person detection sensor 26 after being detected by the third person detection sensor 26 first, thereby the direction of the landing The movement of a person to is detected. Alternatively, a person who comes out of the entrance / exit 24 in the room closest to the hall 12 is first detected by the second person detection sensor 26 and then detected by the first person detection sensor 26, so that the hall It is detected that the passage 22 is moving in the direction. On the other hand, when the person 30 indicated by the dotted line in FIG. 1 is moving in the reverse direction, that is, away from the landing 12, the person detection by the second person detection sensor 26 is performed following the person detection by the first person detection sensor 26. Or when a person who has exited from the entrance 24 in the middle of the passage 22 moves in the direction opposite to the landing 12, for example, the human detection is performed by the third human detection sensor 26 following the human detection by the second human detection sensor 26. Therefore, in such a case, a NO determination is made in step S10, and the process ends.

  On the other hand, when movement of a person in the direction of the landing is detected in the passage 22 (YES in step S10), landing car call registration is executed (step S12). At this time, if the first floor where the entrance is located is the standard floor, it is assumed that many passengers will register for the downward car call at the hall 12 on the second floor or higher. Car call registration is executed, and the downward push button 20b is lit in order to inform the passenger of the registration completion state.

  On the first floor, which is the reference floor, the passage from the entrance to the elevator landing in front of the landing door corresponds to a passage in which a plurality of human detection sensors are provided. When it is detected that the vehicle is moving in the landing direction, the upward car call automatic registration is executed contrary to the above case.

  Thus, according to the landing car call automatic registration system 10 of the present embodiment, since the car call automatic registration is executed before the passenger moving in the landing direction reaches the landing, the waiting time of passengers at the landing is reduced. It can be shortened.

  Next, another control procedure executed in the elevator control panel 28 will be described with reference to FIG. In this control, first, when a person is detected by any one of the human detection sensors 26, it is determined whether or not the first human detection sensor is the second human detection sensor 26 (step S14). If it is determined that the sensor is the second person detection sensor 26 (YES in step S14), it is subsequently determined whether the first person detection sensor 26 has detected a person (step S16). Here, if a person is detected by the first person detection sensor 26 (YES in step S16), it is determined that the person is moving in the direction of the landing in the passage 22, so the landing car call registration is executed (step S1). S26). The platform car call “book” registration here is distinguished from the platform car call “provisional” registration, which will be described later. The platform car call registration is confirmed by this main registration, and the push button is lit.

  On the other hand, if the first person detection sensor is not the second person detection sensor 26 (NO in step S14), the person in the direction toward the landing 12 with the two person detection sensors 26 is the same as described with reference to FIG. It is determined whether or not the movement is detected (step S18). When a movement of a person in the direction of the landing is detected (YES in step S18), temporary hall call registration is executed (step S20). In this hall car call “provisional” registration, when the car 2 is located more than a predetermined floor (for example, the fifth floor, etc.) from the floor where the movement of the person in the hall direction is detected, the hall car call book Start moving the car in preparation for registration.

  Subsequently, it is determined whether or not movement of a person in the direction of the landing is detected by the third person detection sensor 26 (step S22). When the third person detection sensor 26 detects a person movement in the landing direction (YES in step S22), the landing car call registration is executed (step S26), and the car call registration is confirmed and pressed. The button 20b is turned on.

  On the other hand, when the movement of the person in the direction of the landing is not detected by the third human detection sensor 26 (NO in step S22), the temporary hall call registration is canceled (step S24). If the car 2 that has started moving in preparation for the landing car call registration is not yet on the destination floor (that is, the destination floor set at the time of temporary car call registration) The car 2 is stopped at the nearest floor that can be stopped in the middle of movement.

  In this way, in the control procedure shown in FIG. 4, since the movement of the car in the direction of the landing is detected by the three human detection sensors 26 and the landing car call registration is confirmed and executed, the determination is made based on the detection signals from the two human detection sensors 26. The detection accuracy of the person movement in the direction of the landing is further increased than in the case, and the operation efficiency of the automatic landing car call registration system 10 is improved.

  In the control procedure described above, if no person is detected by the next human detection sensor 26 even after a predetermined time has elapsed since the first human detection sensor 26, the control procedure may be terminated or reset. The “predetermined time” in this case can be appropriately set according to the interval between the two adjacent human detection sensors 26.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an elevator system including a hall car call automatic registration system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the platform car call automatic registration system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows a control procedure. It is a flowchart which shows another control procedure.

Explanation of symbols

  1 elevator system, 2 car, 3 rope, 4 hoistway, 5 car door, 10 landing car call automatic registration system, 12 elevator hall, 14 landing door, 16 building wall, 18 landing car call registration device, 20a, 20b Button, 22 passage or corridor, 24 doorway, 26 person detection sensor, 28 elevator control panel, 29,30 person.

Claims (7)

It is electrically connected to the hall car registration device installed on the wall of the elevator hall, a plurality of human detection sensors provided at intervals in the passage to the elevator hall, and the hall car registration device and the human detection sensor. An elevator car call registration system comprising a control unit for executing car call registration at an elevator hall,
The control part performs a car call registration on the detection floor when the person detecting sensor detects that a person is moving to the elevator hall in the passage. . In the platform car call automatic registration system according to claim 1,
The hall car automatic registration system, wherein the control unit performs car call registration when detecting movement of a person in the elevator hall direction by at least two person detection sensors. In the platform car call automatic registration system according to claim 2,
When the control unit detects the movement of the person in the elevator hall direction with the two human detection sensors, the temporary call registration is performed, and when the movement of the person in the same direction is detected with the third human detection sensor A hall car call automatic registration system characterized by executing a car call book registration. In the platform car call automatic registration system according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The control unit performs upward car call registration when movement of a person in the elevator hall direction is detected on the reference floor of the building where the elevator is installed, and the elevator hall direction is set on a floor other than the reference floor of the building. A landing car call automatic registration system that performs downward car call registration when a movement of a person is detected. In the platform car call automatic registration system according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
One person detection sensor is provided immediately before reaching the elevator hall, and the other person detection sensors are provided at positions corresponding to the entrances and exits of a plurality of rooms arranged along the passage. Automatic registration system. In the platform car call automatic registration system according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
A hall car call automatic registration system, wherein the human detection sensor is installed on a ceiling, a side wall or a floor of the passage. In the platform car call automatic registration system according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
The control unit displays a car call registration completion state on the car call registration device when the car call registration is executed.

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