JP6958977B2 - Elevator system - Google Patents

Description

Embodiments of the present invention relate to elevator systems.

Conventionally, elevators are equipped with various functions that are intended for use by people with physical disabilities. For example, there is an elevator equipped with an operation panel exclusively for wheelchair users, assuming the use of wheelchair users. By installing an operation panel dedicated to wheelchair users, wheelchair users can easily perform operations for using the elevator.

In addition, there is an elevator that sounds a chime and outputs voice guidance when a car arrives at the elevator landing, assuming the use of visually impaired people. This allows the visually impaired to recognize the arrival of the car.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2-18273 Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2002-37552

However, even if the chime sounds or the voice guidance is output, the visually impaired cannot judge the direction in which the elevator is installed. In particular, when a plurality of elevators are installed in one landing, even if the output chime or voice guidance is recognized, it is not possible to recognize in which direction the car has arrived.

Therefore, when using the elevator, it is necessary to support a caregiver and healthy people around it, and there is a problem that it is still difficult to use.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an elevator system for making an elevator easily available to visually impaired people.

According to the embodiment for achieving the above object, the elevator system is connected to a plurality of elevators, and at the elevator landing on each floor, a vibrating device that vibrates the floor near the landing door installed for each elevator. When it is detected that the wheelchair-only landing call button installed in the elevator landing on any floor has been operated and the car of the corresponding elevator has landed on the floor and opened the door, the above Increase or continuously change the emission brightness of at least one of the car lighting device in the car or the landing lighting device near the landing door of the elevator landing, and operate the vibrating device near the landing door of the relevant elevator. It is equipped with an elevator control device.

The whole view which shows the structure of the elevator system by 1st Embodiment. The flowchart which shows the operation of the elevator control device by 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the car ceiling lighting apparatus used for the elevator system by 1st Embodiment. The whole view which shows the structure of the elevator system by 2nd Embodiment. The flowchart which shows the operation of the elevator control device by 2nd Embodiment.

<< First Embodiment >>
<Elevator system configuration according to the first embodiment>
The configuration of the elevator system according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The elevator system 1A according to the present embodiment includes an elevator E car 2 installed in the building, a landing operation panel 31, a landing door 32, a landing lighting device 33, and a landing installed in the elevator landing 3 in the building. It includes a camera device 34, an elevator control device 5A connected to the car 2 via a tail cord 4, a landing operation panel 31, a landing lighting device 33, and a landing camera device 34 via a signal line. In FIG. 1, only one elevator landing 3 is shown, but in reality, the landing 3 is provided on each floor in the building, and the elevator control device 5A has a landing operation panel of the landing 3 on each floor. 31, the landing lighting device 33, and the landing camera device 34 are connected.

The car 2 includes a car door 21 that is openable and closable on the side plate in the direction of the landing 3, a car ceiling lighting device 22 that is installed on the ceiling, and a car side plate lighting device 23 that is installed on the side plate at the back of the car. Have.

The landing operation panel 31 has a general landing call button 311 for a general user to perform a landing call operation, and a wheelchair-only landing call button 312. The landing lighting device 33 is installed on the ceiling near the landing door 32 of the landing 3. The landing camera device 34 photographs the area near the landing door 32 of the landing 3.

The elevator control device 5A includes an operation status information acquisition unit 51, an operation information acquisition unit 52, and an equipment control unit 53A. The driving status information acquisition unit 51 acquires driving status information in the elevator E, for example, information such as the current position of the car 2, the moving direction, and the door open / closed state of the car door 21. The operation information acquisition unit 52 acquires button operation information by the user on the landing operation panel 31. When the device control unit 53A detects that the car 2 has landed on the floor on which the wheelchair-only landing call button 312 has been operated and the door has been opened, the car ceiling lighting device 22, the car side plate lighting device 23, and the landing lighting device Controls the light emission state of at least one of 33.

<Operation of the elevator system according to the first embodiment>
The operation of the elevator system 1A according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. During the operation of the elevator E, information on the current position of the car 2, the moving direction, and the door open / closed state of the car door 21 is obtained as the driving status information by the operating status information acquisition unit 51 of the elevator control device 5A at predetermined time intervals. Has been acquired.

During normal operation of the elevator E (S1), when a visually impaired person X enters the landing 3 on one of the floors (for example, the first floor) and operates the wheelchair-only landing call button 312 on the landing operation panel 31 (S2). “YES”), the operation information is acquired by the operation information acquisition unit 52 of the elevator control device 5A.

When the operation information acquisition unit 52 acquires the operation information of the wheelchair-only landing call button 312, it is determined that the operation is performed by a person requiring assistance including a visually impaired person in the device control unit 53A. Then, based on the operation status information acquired by the operation status information acquisition unit 51, when the device control unit 53A detects that the car 2 has landed on the first floor and the door has opened (“YES” in S3). ), An instruction to increase the emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 is output (S4).

The emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 is increased based on the instruction output from the device control unit 53A, and as a result, the illuminance in the area in front of the car 2 of the landing 3 is increased. By recognizing the direction in which the illuminance is high in the landing 3, the visually impaired person X determines that the elevator E car 2 in that direction has arrived and opened the door, and can board the car 2. can.

After that, when the car 2 is closed (“YES” in S5), the device control unit 53A outputs an instruction to return the emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 to the normal state (S6). Based on the instruction output from the device control unit 53A, the emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 returns to the normal state, and returns to the normal operation (S1).

According to the above first embodiment, a visually impaired person who can recognize the brightness can recognize the direction of the elevator where the car arrives at the elevator landing from the change in the brightness, and it is easy to use the elevator. Become.

In the first embodiment described above, the case where the device control unit 53A of the elevator control device 5A controls the emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 in the car 2 has been described, but under the same conditions, the back of the car 2 The emission brightness of the car side plate lighting device 23 installed on the side plate or the landing lighting device 33 installed on the ceiling near the elevator E of the landing 3 may be controlled.

In this case, after the wheelchair-only landing call button 312 is operated, when the car 2 on the floor is landed and the door is opened, the car side plate lighting device 23 or the landing lighting device 33 is controlled by the device control unit 53A. The emission brightness is increased. By controlling in this way, the visually impaired person X can recognize the arrival of the car 2 and the direction of the car 2 as in the first embodiment described above.

Further, in the above-described first embodiment, the case where the device control unit 53A of the elevator control device 5A raises the light emission brightness when controlling the light emission state of the car ceiling lighting device 22 has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. The light emitting state may be changed by blinking the car ceiling lighting device 22 or by continuously changing the light emitting brightness to output a video animation.

For example, as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B, the light emitting bodies 221 are installed in a ring shape to form a car ceiling lighting device 22, and a plurality of locations in the light emitting body 221 are sequentially continuous as shown by arrows. By emitting light while moving the light, the light emitting state can be changed in an animation manner.

<< Second Embodiment >>
<Elevator system configuration according to the second embodiment>
As shown in FIG. 4, the elevator system 1B according to the second embodiment of the present invention is the first embodiment except that it further includes a vibrating device 35 that vibrates the floor near the landing door 32 of each landing 3 on each floor. Since it has the same configuration as the elevator system 1A described above, detailed description of the portion having the same function will be omitted.

In the present embodiment, the device control unit 53B of the elevator control device 5B has the operation status information of the elevator E acquired by the operation status information acquisition unit 51 and the button operation information of the landing operation panel 31 acquired by the operation information acquisition unit 52. The operating state of the vibrating device 35 is controlled based on the above.

<Operation of the elevator system according to the second embodiment>
The operation of the elevator system 1B according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

During normal operation of the elevator E (S11), when a visually impaired person X enters the landing 3 on one of the floors (for example, the first floor) and operates the wheelchair-only landing call button 312 on the landing operation panel 31 (S12). “YES”), the operation information is acquired by the operation information acquisition unit 52 of the elevator control device 5B.

Then, when it is detected that the car 2 has landed on the first floor and the door has been opened based on the driving status information acquired by the driving status information acquisition unit 51 (“YES” in S13), the device control unit 53B , An instruction to increase the emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 and an instruction to operate the vibration device 35 are output (S14).

The instruction to increase the emission brightness output from the device control unit 53B is transmitted to the car ceiling illumination device 22, and the emission brightness of the car ceiling illumination device 22 is increased. As a result, the illuminance in the area in front of the car 2 of the landing 3 is increased. Further, the instruction to operate the vibration device 35 output from the device control unit 53B is transmitted to the vibration device 35, and the vibration is started. As a result, the floor in the area in front of the car 2 of the landing 3 vibrates.

The visually impaired person X has a high illuminance in a predetermined direction in the landing 3, and the floor in the waiting landing 3 vibrates, so that the car 2 of the elevator E in the direction arrives and the door opens. Judging that it has been done, it is possible to board the car 2.

After that, when the car 2 is closed (“YES” in S15), the device control unit 53B outputs an instruction to return the emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 to a normal state and an instruction to stop the vibration device 35. (S6).

An instruction to return the emission brightness output from the device control unit 53B to the normal state is transmitted to the car ceiling lighting device 22, and the light emission brightness of the car ceiling lighting device 22 returns to the normal state. Further, the instruction to stop the vibration device 35 output from the device control unit 53B is transmitted to the vibration device 35, and the vibration is stopped. After that, the elevator E returns to normal operation (S1).

According to the second embodiment described above, a visually impaired person can recognize that the car has arrived at the elevator landing and the direction of the arriving elevator, which makes it easier to use the elevator.

In the first and second embodiments described above, a visually impaired person at the landing 3 on the corresponding floor is obtained by acquiring the operation information of the wheelchair-only landing call button 312 installed at the landing 3 on any floor. The case of detecting is described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the white cane of a visually impaired person can be detected by analyzing the imaging information taken by the landing camera device 34 of the landing 3 on any floor or by other means, or the visually impaired person. To receive a signal indicating that the person is visually impaired, which is output from a signal output device (not shown) carried by the camera, at a signal receiver (not shown) installed at the elevator landing on one of the floors. Then, a visually impaired person at the landing 3 on the corresponding floor may be detected.

Further, in the first and second embodiments described above, the case where one elevator E is installed in one landing 3 has been described, but a plurality of elevators may be installed in one landing. In this case, a landing operation panel, a landing lighting device, and a vibration device are installed for each elevator in each landing.

When each device is installed in this way, the wheelchair-only call button on one of the landing operation panels is operated, and the car of the corresponding elevator lands on the floor and opens the door, the car ceiling lighting of the corresponding car The light emission state of at least one of the device, the car side plate lighting device, or the landing lighting device near the landing door of the relevant elevator in the elevator landing can be changed. As a result, the visually impaired person can recognize which direction of the elevator car has arrived from among the plurality of elevators. In addition, when a visually impaired person at the elevator landing on one of the floors is detected and the car of one of the elevators lands on the floor and the door is opened, the ceiling lighting of the car of the corresponding car is also the same. The light emission state of at least one of the device, the car side plate lighting device, or the landing lighting device near the landing door of the relevant elevator in the elevator landing can be changed.

Although some embodiments of the present invention have been described, these embodiments are presented as examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These novel embodiments can be implemented in various other embodiments, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the gist of the invention. These embodiments and modifications thereof are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are also included in the scope of the invention described in the claims and the equivalent scope thereof.

1A, 1B ... Elevator system, 2 ... Car, 3 ... Landing, 4 ... Tail cord, 5A, 5B ... Elevator control device, 21 ... Car door, 22 ... Car ceiling lighting device, 23 ... Car side plate lighting device, 31 ... Landing operation panel, 32 ... landing door, 33 ... landing lighting device, 34 ... landing camera device, 35 ... vibration device, 51 ... driving status information acquisition unit, 52 ... operation information acquisition unit, 53A, 53B ... equipment control unit, 221 ... Luminescent body, 311 ... General landing call button, 312 ... Wheelchair-only landing call button

Claims (4)

Connected to multiple elevators
At the elevator landing on each floor, a vibrating device that vibrates the floor near the landing door installed for each elevator,
When it is detected that the wheelchair-only landing call button installed in the elevator landing on one of the floors has been operated and the car of the corresponding elevator has landed on the floor and opened the door, the above Increase or continuously change the emission brightness of at least one of the car illuminators in the car or the landing illuminators near the landing doors of the elevator landing, and operate the vibrating devices near the landing doors of the relevant elevators. An elevator system characterized by being equipped with an elevator control device. Connected to multiple elevators
At the elevator landing on each floor, a vibrating device that vibrates the floor near the landing door installed for each elevator,
When a visually impaired person at the elevator landing on any floor is detected and it is detected that the elevator car has landed on the floor and the door is opened, the car lighting device in the car or the elevator landing is detected. The elevator is provided with an elevator control device that increases or continuously changes the emission brightness of at least one of the landing lighting devices near the landing door of the elevator and operates a vibrating device near the landing door of the corresponding elevator. system. The elevator control device is a visually impaired person who detects a white cane carried by a visually impaired person at an elevator landing on any floor, or is output from a signal output device carried by a visually impaired person. The second aspect of claim 2, wherein a visually impaired person at the elevator landing on the corresponding floor is detected by receiving the signal indicating the above with a signal receiver installed at the elevator landing on any floor. Elevator system. The elevator system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the car lighting device is installed on at least one of the ceiling and side plates of the car.

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