JP2016088647A - Elevator apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an elevator apparatus that does not impair serviceability of a car, and can provide service at a landing floor without making a user feel uncomfortable so as to improve service to the user.SOLUTION: In the elevator apparatus, a door-reopen determining section 9 provided in a group management control device 3 that group-manages and controls cars 2A-2C in an elevator control device 1, when determining whether resumption of a door should be made effective or ineffective on the basis of determination factors of detection results of operation states of the cars 2A-2C in response to operation of landing call buttons 6A-6N by any user on landing floors 5A-5N, indicates the determination results to car-control devices 4A-4C by using a first determination factor based on whether or not car inside load values to be detected by car inside load detectors 13A-13C via the car control devices 4A-4C are equal to or more than predetermined values and a second determination factor based on whether or not a car that follows the cars 2A-2C arrives at a floor corresponding to the landing call on the landing floors 5A-5N within a predetermined time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  In the present invention, a group management control device that performs group management and controls each car of a plurality of cars when a landing call button is operated on any of the landing floors for each floor of the building corresponds to a landing call The present invention relates to an elevator apparatus having a function of instructing a car before departure to restart a door on a landing floor.

  Conventionally, as a well-known technology related to services for users at elevator platforms, whether a user restarts a car that is currently stopped and enters a car or registers a hall call for the next car that arrives “Elevator landing door opening device” (see Patent Document 1) can be easily selected.

JP 2000-219467 A

  The landing door opening device described in Patent Document 1 described above is provided at an elevator landing, and when a landing button for registering a landing call for the car is operated, the landing door opening device is moved in the same direction as the raising / lowering direction of the car by the landing call. It has the basic function of giving a door opening command to the car if the car has arrived at the boarding door and the door has not been closed. The user can easily determine whether he / she enters the currently stopped car by restarting the door or registers the hall call for the next car to arrive.

  However, when the landing door opening device with such a function is applied to an elevator device having a group management function in which the number of users at the landing is considerably large and a plurality of cars are arranged in parallel on each landing floor of the building. Assuming, for example, a user (passenger) who is already in the car, while the user at a certain landing floor grasps the situation in the car by resuming the door of the car that is currently stopped. If you choose not to board because of the large number of passengers, you will not be able to avoid situations where users on the landing floor feel awkward after meeting other users in the car, but the serviceability of the car will also be reduced. As a result, there is a problem that the service for users is not sufficiently taken.

  The present invention has been made to solve such problems, and its technical problem is not to impair the serviceability of the car and to provide services on the landing floor without the user's awkward feelings. It is possible to provide an elevator apparatus that can improve service for users.

  In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a group management control device that performs group management and control of each car of a plurality of cars and a platform provided on each landing floor for each floor of the building. A landing call button for registering a landing call for the car, and when the landing call button is pressed down at any of the landing floors, the group management control device has a car before departure at the landing floor corresponding to the landing call. In an elevator apparatus having a function of instructing to restart the door, the group management control apparatus determines whether to enable or disable the restart of the door based on a determination element as a result of detecting the operation state of the car A door opening determination unit is provided.

  According to the elevator apparatus of the present invention, with the above-described configuration, it is possible to provide services on the landing floor without impairing the serviceability of the car and without making the user feel awkward, so that the service for users is improved. Become. Problems, configurations, and effects other than those described above will be clarified by the following description of embodiments.

It is the figure which showed schematic structure of the elevator apparatus which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is the schematic which showed the mode of the landing floor in the elevator apparatus shown in FIG. 1 from the front direction. It is the flowchart which showed the operation | movement process including determination of validity / invalidity of the door restart in the elevator control apparatus with which the elevator apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is equipped.

  Hereinafter, an elevator apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an elevator apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, this elevator apparatus is provided at the landings of the landing floors 5A to 5N for each floor in the illustrated hoistway installed in the building, and a plurality of (here, three) cars 2A. Station call buttons 6A-6N for registering hall calls for 2B, 2C, and car control devices for individually controlling the cars 2A, 2B, 2C that move up and down between the floors 5A-5N in the hoistway 4A, 4B, 4C and an elevator control device 1 having a group management control device 3 that manages and controls the cars 2A, 2B, 2C.

  Among these, the group management control device 3 in the elevator control device 1 is arranged in the landing call buttons 6A to 6N of the landing floors 5A to 5N and in the cars 2A, 2B and 2C, respectively, to register the destination floor. Are connected to destination floor registration devices 7A, 7B, and 7C having buttons for the respective floors, and liquid crystal displays 8A, 8B, and 8C for displaying the operation status of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C.

  Further, the number control devices 4A, 4B and 4C (the number control device 4A for the car 2A is the first unit system, the number control device 4B for the car 2B is the second number system, and the number control device 4C for the car 2C is the third number system. In order to obtain the in-car entry rate information of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C, the load in the car is detected by being arranged on the car floor in each of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C. In-car load detectors 13A, 13B, 13C, and landing reservation lights 10A to 10N, 11A to 11N for lighting up and down driving statuses of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C at the landing floors 5A to 5N, In addition to being connected to 12A to 12N, when the landing call buttons 6A to 6N of the landing floors 5A to 5N are pressed down by the user, they cooperate with the group management control device 3. Car 2A currently stopped on the same floor, 2B, 2C door resume function to resume its door before departure if is Motasa. Specifically, the detailed configuration here is connected to the reservation control lights 10A to 10N of the landing floors 5A to 5N to the number control device 4A, and the landing control lights 4A to 5N of the landing control floors 5A to 5N. The landing reservation lights 11A to 11N are connected, and the landing control lights 12A to 12N of the landing floors 5A to 5N are connected to the machine control device 4C.

  By the way, in the elevator apparatus which concerns on an Example, in the elevator control apparatus 1, in the group management control apparatus 3, according to pressing operation of landing call button 6A-6N by the user in any one of landing floors 5A-5N It is determined whether to enable or disable the restart of the door based on the determination element as a result of detecting the operation state of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C obtained via the control devices 4A, 4B, and 4C. A door reopen determination unit 9 is provided for instructing the determination results to the machine controller 4A, 4B, 4C. Here, as a determination element as a result of detecting the operation state of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C, the first determination element and the cars 2A and 2B related to the passenger boarding rate in the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C An example of using the second determination element based on whether or not the subsequent car of 2C (for either) arrives at the floor corresponding to the landing call at each of the landing floors 5A to 5N within a predetermined time can be exemplified. . Incidentally, the first determination element is whether or not the car load value of the car load detection result by the car load detectors 13A, 13B, and 13C provided in the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C is greater than or equal to a predetermined value. The case where it is based on this can be illustrated.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing the state of the landing floor 5N in the elevator apparatus according to the above-described embodiment from the front direction. Referring to FIG. 2, landing doors 14A, 14B, and 14C serving as outer doors for a plurality of cars 2A, 2B, and 2C are installed on the landing floor 5N, and an upper floor direction designation button is adjacent to them. A landing call button 6N provided with a lower floor direction designation button is provided. The other middle floors have the same installation form as the landing call button 6N, but the lower floor landing call button 6A is provided with only the upper floor direction designation button as shown in FIG. In the hall call button on the top floor, only the lower floor direction designation button is provided.

  In FIG. 2, for example, the user 15 presses the lower floor direction designation button of the landing call button 6N on the landing floor 5N, and resumes the landing door 14A in the currently stopped car 2A. At this time, the door resuming function by the machine control device 4A works for the car 2A. Whether the car door and the landing door 14A in the car 2A are resumed by actually using this door resuming function. The door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control device 3 determines the determination result of whether to enable or disable the resumption of the door.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation process including valid / invalid determination of door resumption in the elevator control apparatus 1 provided in the elevator apparatus according to the embodiment. However, the operation process shown in FIG. 3 is performed in cooperation with the group management control device 3 and the machine control devices 4A, 4B, and 4C, and the door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control device 3 performs the car operation. As a determination element of the result of detecting the operation state of 2A, 2B, 2C, the in-car load value of the detection result of the in-car load by the in-car load detectors 13A, 13B, 13C provided in the cars 2A, 2B, 2C The first determination element based on whether or not the vehicle is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and the subsequent cars of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C (with respect to any of them) call the landings at the landing floors 5A to 5N within a predetermined time It is assumed that the determination is made using the second determination element based on whether or not the vehicle arrives at the floor corresponding to.

  More specifically, with reference to FIG. 3, first, the group management control device 3 performs an initial process (step S1), and the assigned car 2A is stopped at the lowest floor 5A. A passenger (passenger) gets into the car 2 and the landing door 14A is being closed. At this time, another user presses the landing call button 6A on the same lowest floor 5A. It is assumed that the landing call registration (step S2) is performed.

  Therefore, in such a case, when the pressing operation of the landing call button 6A is detected, the group management control device 3 determines whether or not the car 2A exists on the landing floor 5A based on the control signal from the number control device 4A. This is performed by determining whether there is an elevator at the landing (step S3). If there is no elevator as a result of this determination, it is determined that the car 2A has already shifted to the ascending operation and the door cannot be restarted, and the process shifts to a process for performing the subsequent elevator guidance (step S7). The voice processing is performed after prompting the voice output device such as a speaker (not shown) provided near the landing doors 14A, 14B, 14C on the landing floor 5A to use the elevator machine that arrives next. However, if there is an elevator, the door resuming function of the machine control device 4A is not immediately activated as in the case of ordinary well-known technology, and the landing door 14A of the car 2A still stopped is not resumed. The car load detector of the car 2A is used as a judgment element as a result of the door reopen judgment unit 9 of the group management control device 3 detecting the operating state of the car 2A. Using car load value of the detection results of the car load from 3A as the first determination element, car load values do whether more than a predetermined value determined (step S4).

  As a result of this determination, if the car load value is less than the predetermined value, the door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control device 3 indicates that a user (passenger) who has already entered the car 2A from the car load value. At least there is room in the car 2A, and even if the car door related to the car 2A and the landing door 14A are resumed, it is judged that the influence on the users in the car 2A is small, and the landing call registration reopening (resumption) ) Carrying out permission (step S8) and instructing the machine control device 4A to enable the restart of the door, the car related to the car 2A currently stopped by the door control function 4A The door reopening process (step S9) for resuming the door and the landing door 14A is performed, and the operation process is terminated after the process proceeds to the process for starting the elevator guidance (step S10). To. In the door opening process (step S9), the user who has registered the landing call at the landing floor 5A can enter the car 2A. For example, the user carries a large belonging such as luggage. In such a case, whether to actually get into the currently stopped car or to register a landing call for the next car that arrives is left to the user's own choice as usual. By the way, in the car 2A, when the reopening of the door is validated by a command from the door reopen determination unit 9 and the car door related to the car 2A and the landing door 14A are resumed, a voice attached to a speaker or the like is provided. A voice guidance for resuming the door is performed from the output device.

  On the other hand, if the car load value is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control device 3 basically uses the car door and the landing door 14A related to the car 2A with the car load value. When restarting, it is determined that the service to the users in the car 2A will be reduced, and then the car (the car 2B or 2C) that follows the car 2A based on the control signal of the car controller 4B or 4C. 2) is used to determine whether the subsequent elevator is within a predetermined time until arrival (step S5).

  The predetermined value of the car load relating to the car user boarding rate of the first determination element described above can be arbitrarily set, but the normal car 2A is not overloaded, but the user who has already boarded the car When there are many (passengers), it sets so that it may become more than a predetermined value. In such a case, when the door reopen determination unit 9 resumes the car door and the landing door 14A related to the car 2A from the load value in the car, The door restart function by the machine control device 4A is not immediately permitted because it is judged that the influence of the service deterioration on the users in the car 2A is great.

  As a result of the determination (step S5), if there is no plan to arrive at the landing 5A within a predetermined time until the arrival of the subsequent elevator, the door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control device 3 is somewhat a user in the car 2A. Even if the service is reduced to the service level, it is determined that the service should be provided to the user who registered at the landing floor 5A, and the landing call registration reopening (resumption) permission (step S8) is performed. The controller 4A is instructed to enable the restart of the door, and the door control unit 4A thereby opens the car door and the landing door 14A related to the currently stopped car 2A by the door restart function (door reopening ( After step S9) is performed, the operation process is terminated after the process proceeds to a process for further starting elevator guidance (step S10). By the way, here again, whether the user actually gets into the currently stopped car or registers the landing call for the next arriving car is left to the user's own choice, In the car 2A, when the resumption of the door is validated by the command from the door reopen determination unit 9 and the car door related to the car 2A and the landing door 14A are resumed as in the case described above, the door resumption is performed. Voice guidance is provided.

  On the other hand, if the next elevator is scheduled to arrive at the landing 5A within a predetermined time until arrival, the door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control device 3 provides a service to users who are already in the car 2A. The landing call registration reopening (restart) is not permitted (step S6) so as not to decrease the number, and a command to invalidate the reopening of the door is issued to the unit control device 4A. After shifting to the ascending operation without restarting the door of the stopped car 2A, the operation process is terminated after the process shifts to a process for performing the subsequent elevator guidance (step S7).

  The predetermined time related to the second determination element described above can also be arbitrarily set. However, in the flow of the processing here, it is assumed that the elevator of the next elevator (the car 2B or 2C is within the predetermined time). If it is scheduled to arrive at the landing floor 5A, the door reopen determination unit 9 invalidates the resumption of the door without resuming the car door and the landing door 14A related to the car 2A with respect to the landing call registration. The landing call registration reopening (resumption) disapproval (step S6) is performed. In the process of performing the subsequent elevator guidance (step S7) thereafter, as in the case described above, a speaker (not shown) provided near the landing doors 14A, 14B, 14C on the landing floor 5A for the users on the landing floor 5A After the voice guidance is given to the voice output device to use the elevator machine that will arrive next, the operation process is terminated.

  Incidentally, the operation processing including the validity / invalidity of the door resumption in the elevator control device 1 described in FIG. 3 is performed after another user has already boarded the car 2A at the lowest floor 5A. The situation in which the person performs the landing call registration by depressing the landing call button 6A is exemplified, but there are various actual operation situations, for example, the cars 2B and 2C are targeted, or others The same applies to the situation in which the users on the landing floors register for the landing call in the same manner.

  As described above, in the elevator apparatus according to the embodiment, the cars 2A and 2B that are the targets of the door resumption that the door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control apparatus 3 of the elevator control apparatus 1 uses as the first determination element. 2C, the load value in the car is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and the second elevator car (for either) of the elevators 2A, 2B, and 2C (for either one) calls the landing within a predetermined time When arriving at any of the registered landing floors 5A to 5N, the main function is to give permission to reopen (resume) the landing call registration, and the load in the car is less than a predetermined value, or the car 2A Even if the load value in the car of any one of 2B and 2C is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, the elevator of the next elevator reaches any one of the landing floors 5A to 5N where the landing call registration is made within the predetermined time. If not, we will give permission to reopen (resume) the landing call registration, so that the serviceability of the cars 2A, 2B and 2C will not be impaired, and the users will not be awkward at the landing floors 5A to 5N Services can be provided, and as a result, services for users are improved.

  That is, in the door reopen determination unit 9 of the group management control device 3 according to the embodiment, a large number of users are already in any of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C. If you arrive at any of the landing floors 5A to 5N where you registered the landing call within the time, service for users who have already boarded in any of the cars 2A, 2B, 2C with the reopening of the door disabled Priority is given to reducing the time delay due to the reopening of the door, so that more efficient service can be performed. This is a situation related to a drop in the service for users that occurs when the door resumption function is only automatically operated by the elevator control devices 4A, 4B, and 4C of the elevator device, and from any of the landing floors 5A to 5N It seems that there are many users who have already boarded in any of the cars 2A, 2B, 2C and registered in the boarding call, and are trying to get into any of the cars 2A, 2B, 2C. In such a case, it is possible to avoid a situation in which the driver feels reluctant to give up boarding after reopening the door.

  In the elevator apparatus according to the embodiment, the door re-open determination unit 9 of the group management control apparatus 3 in the elevator control apparatus 1 has an in-car load value of any of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C according to the first determination element. Is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and when the elevator of the subsequent elevator according to the second determination element arrives at any of the landing floors 5A to 5N where the landing call registration is made within a predetermined time, the landing call registration reopening ( (Resume) Although the case where the non-permission is given has been described, the order of the first determination element and the second determination element here may be changed, or any one of them may be used. By the way, even if the order of the judgment elements is changed, almost the same function is maintained, but if any one is used, the processing function becomes simple and the control burden is reduced, but the service for users Will drop somewhat. Further, in the elevator apparatus according to the embodiment, the car internal load provided in the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C with respect to the first determination element related to the user boarding rate in any of the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C. The detection result of the load in the car by the detectors 13A, 13B, and 13C is based on whether or not the load value in the car is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. Instead, the cars 2A, 2B, and 2C are not shown. It may be based on whether the number of users boarding obtained from the analysis result of in-car imaging (in-car image data) by the imaging means (camera) is greater than or equal to a predetermined number, and in this case, the same effect can be obtained. . Furthermore, in the elevator apparatus according to the embodiment, a configuration in which three passenger cars 2A, 2B, and 2C are arranged in parallel and are managed in groups by the group management control apparatus 3 is exemplified. It is possible to apply equally as a structure. As described above, the elevator apparatus according to the present invention can be variously changed with respect to the detailed configuration and the processing function, and thus is not limited to the mode disclosed in the embodiments.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Elevator control apparatus 2A-2C Car 3 Group management control apparatus 4A-4C Unit control apparatus 5A-5N Landing floor 6A-6N Landing call button 7A-7C Destination floor registration apparatus 8A-8C Liquid crystal display 9 Door open (door Resume) determination unit 10A to 10C, 11A to 11C, 12A to 12C Landing reservation light 13A to 13C Car load detector 14A to 14C Landing door 15 User

Claims (6)

A group management control device for group-controlling and controlling each of the cars of a plurality of cars, a landing call button provided at a landing on each landing floor for each floor of the building, for registering a landing call for the car, And when the landing call button is pressed down at any of the landing floors, the group management control device instructs the landing car corresponding to the landing call to restart the door before the departure In elevator equipment with function,
The group management control device includes a door reopen determination unit that determines whether to enable or disable the restart of the door based on a determination element as a result of detecting the operation state of the car. Elevator equipment. The elevator apparatus according to claim 1,
An elevator control device having a plurality of car control devices that individually control each car of the plurality of cars and the group management control device;
The plurality of machine control devices have a door restart function for executing restart of the door when receiving an instruction to enable the restart of the door as a determination result from the door reopen determination unit. Elevator device. The elevator apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
The door reopen determination unit has, as the determination element, a first determination element related to a user boarding rate of the passenger car in the car, or a car that becomes the next car in the car within a predetermined time at each landing floor. The elevator apparatus using the 2nd determination element by whether it arrives at the landing floor corresponding to the said landing call. The elevator apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
The door reopen determination unit includes, as the determination element, a first determination element related to a user boarding rate of the passenger car in the car, and a car that is the next car in the car within a predetermined time at each landing floor. The elevator apparatus using the 2nd determination element by whether it arrives at the landing floor corresponding to the said landing call. The elevator apparatus according to claim 3 or 4,
The first determination element is based on whether or not an in-car load value as a result of detecting an in-car load by a car in-car load detecting means provided in the car is greater than or equal to a predetermined value. Elevator device. The elevator apparatus according to claim 3 or 4,
The first determination element is based on whether or not the number of passengers in the vehicle obtained from the analysis result of in-car imaging by the imaging means provided in the car is a predetermined number or more. apparatus.