Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
187384000 | Having security or priority preemption feature | 35 |
20080196978 | Elevator system - In the method of the present invention an evacuation mode is presented in an elevator system, which receives destination calls i.e. operates in accordance with so-called destination control. In the method the destination floor calls given on the evacuation floors of the building are changed in the event of an exceptional incident such that the destination floor becomes an exit floor of the building. In the method the elevator car is filled as full as possible on one floor and the travel time to the exit floor is minimized by directing the elevator car to the escape floor without intermediate stops. The passengers to be evacuated are shown information relating to the evacuation on a display located on the destination call panel and/or inside the car of the evacuation elevator. | 08-21-2008 |
20080202861 | FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELEVATOR - In a fire control system for an elevator, the time for the fire and smoke to reach the elevator hall of each floor of a building during fire is pre-calculated as the evacuation time of the floor. When the evacuation time of a floor is longer than the time for making a car respond to a rescue call from the evacuation floor, the floor is judged as a rescue floor, and when shorter, the floor is judged as a non-rescue floor. Furthermore, the order in which the rescue is carried out among the rescue floors is determined. Accordingly, it is possible to rescue remainders on a rescue floor using an elevator as an evacuation means. Moreover, since rescue operation by the elevator is performed with the order of rescue determined, rescue operation suitable for the conditions of the fire can be realized. | 08-28-2008 |
20090020372 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - An elevator control system high in security and capable of enhancing operation efficiency is realized. In a system in which an elevator group management device which manages a plurality of elevators as a group is installed, a validation device is installed at a security gate installed at an entrance of a building, and when validation is made by the validation device, the security gate opens to allow a validated person to move to an elevator hall of an entrance floor, the elevator control system includes validation information transmission means which transmits validation information to a corresponding bank out of a plurality of banks of the elevator hall based on destination floor validation information of the validation device, indoor population counting means which counts indoor population of each floor from the validation information, car assigning means which assigns a car to each destination floor of a passenger from the validation information, destination floor display means which displays a destination floor on the entrance floor hall for each assigned car, and call automatic registration means which automatically registers a destination call of the destination floor in the car when detecting riding of the passenger. | 01-22-2009 |
20090308695 | LARGE ITEM TRANSPORT IN A GROUP ELEVATOR SYSTEM - Elevators ( | 12-17-2009 |
20100006379 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system, an operation of a car is controlled by an operation control section. When a specific user in the car is certified by personal authentication of a personal authentication section after a landing call registration operation is performed by a user through a landing call operation section provided on a landing, the operation control section counts registered specific floors present in a traveling direction of the car according to the landing call registration operation in the registered specific floors based on registered floor information received from the personal authentication section, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered specific floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered specific floors is one. | 01-14-2010 |
20110048865 | SECURITY-BASED ELEVATOR CONTROL - An exemplary method of controlling a plurality of elevator cars includes determining that there is a security violation condition involving at least one of the elevator cars at a landing. That elevator car is prevented from moving from the landing until the condition is resolved. The other elevator cars are controlled such that they do not provide elevator service to or from the landing until the condition is resolved. | 03-03-2011 |
20110100762 | METHOD OF USING AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM, ELEVATOR SYSTEM FOR SUCH A METHOD AND METHOD OF RETROFITTING SUCH AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DOOR TRIM - The invention relates to a method of operating an elevator system in a building with at least two storeys ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110114424 | ELEVATOR RESCUE OPERATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, there is provided an elevator rescue operation system to be used in a building in which a plurality of elevators are installed in parallel. The system includes a disaster detection unit configured to detect, when a disaster has occurred in the building, an occurrence site of the disaster, a zone setting unit configured to set a plurality of zones to which all the elevators are caused to respond on the basis of the disaster occurrence site detected by the disaster detection unit, and a rescue operation unit configured to individually cause an elevator to respond to floors in each zone set by the zone setting unit, the elevator being corresponding to the zone, thereby carrying out a through-car operation up to a refuge floor. | 05-19-2011 |
20110120812 | ELEVATOR RESCUE OPERATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, there is provided an elevator rescue operation system to be used in a building in which a plurality of elevators are installed in parallel. The system includes a disaster detection unit configured to detect, when a disaster has occurred in the building, an occurrence site of the disaster, a priority response floor setting unit configured to set a priority response floor on the basis of the disaster occurrence site detected by the disaster detection unit, and a rescue operation unit configured to cause a corresponding elevator for a rescue operation among the plurality of elevators to respond to the priority response floor set by the priority response floor setting unit, thereby carrying out a through-car operation up to a refuge floor. | 05-26-2011 |
20110120813 | DYNAMIC ELEVATOR CAR DISPATCHING DURING AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM MODERNIZATION - An exemplary method is useful for handling passenger requests during an elevator system modernization that includes modernizing elevator cars over time. The modernized elevator cars are capable of servicing destination requests placed outside of an elevator car. Such destination requests include an indication of a desired destination. The exemplary method includes assigning an elevator car to respond to a new pending destination request according to a selected criterion for selecting between a modernized elevator car and an elevator car that has not yet been modernized. The method includes automatically updating the selected criterion responsive to a change in a number of modernized elevator cars. | 05-26-2011 |
20110127117 | ELEVATOR CONTROL DEVICE - In an elevator control device in which, when a verified person is authenticated as a registered person by an person authentication device, a security gate is opened to enable the movement into an elevator hall, even when a user cannot ride on an assigned car for some reason after passing through the security gate, the user is enabled to use an elevator, and convenience can be prevented from becoming poor. For this purpose, a hall destination floor registration device is provided in the elevator hall so that the user who is present in the hall registers his/her destination floor. A destination call is always registered automatically interlocking with the security gate, and when a predetermined condition is met, the destination floor registration of user made using the hall destination floor registration device is validated. | 06-02-2011 |
20110155516 | Method of Operating Elevators During Emergency Situations - An elevator system having at least two elevators, wherein at least one of the elevators is designated as an emergency personnel elevator, can be operated to allow a firefighter to commandeer a second elevator for the purpose of ferrying persons to a safe evacuation floor. The elevator system is configured to determine if a request for an evacuation elevator originates from the firefighter elevator car positioned at one of several floors of a building. In response to the request, an elevator car other than the emergency personnel elevator car is designated as the evacuation elevator car. Further, the evacuation elevator car is dispatched to the floor the emergency personnel elevator car is positioned, and the evacuation elevator car is dispatched to a predefined evacuation floor upon receipt of an evacuation request made by the firefighter. | 06-30-2011 |
20110168498 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is an elevator group control device which enables any special operation to be selected from a plurality of kinds of special operations by an operation in an elevator hall or in a place distant from the elevator hall. For this purpose, special operation input means for inputting information to the effect that any special operation is to be performed in the hall or in a place distant from the hall, a notification device which provides prescribed information by indications or sounds are installed in the elevator hall or in a place distant from the elevator hall. An elevator group control panel is provided with special operation storage means in which a plurality of kinds of special operations are stored. When information to the effect that a special operation is to be performed is inputted from the special operation input means, a special operation corresponding to the input information is selected from special operations stored in the special operation storage means, and information about the selected special operation is provided by the notification device. | 07-14-2011 |
20110203879 | ELEVATOR CONTROL DEVICE - There is provided an elevator control device that performs fire emergency operation based on a contact signal sent from a fire detector having a contact B, wherein even in the case where, for example, when the elevator is being installed, the contact signal sent from the fire detector cannot be used, the normal operation of elevator can be performed. For this purpose, the elevator control device includes an operation selection control section that causes the normal operation to be performed when a contact signal sent from the fire detector is received, and causes the fire emergency operation to be performed when the contact signal sent from the fire detector is cut off, and a function judgment section for judging, based on predetermined conditions, whether or not a fire emergency operation function of the elevator is valid. When it is judged, by the function judgment section, that the fire emergency operation function of the elevator is invalid, the operation selection control section causes normal operation to be performed regardless of the presence or absence of the contact signal sent from the fire detector. | 08-25-2011 |
20110272221 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system capable of an efficient evacuation using an elevator in case of a fire, and capable of confirming an evacuee remaining status in a case that an evacuation operation using the elevator is discontinued. An evacuation-call response-order setting section sets a priority order of a response to an evacuation special call registered in an evacuation special call registration section, based on fire occurrence information received by a fire situation reception section. A responding floor is selected based on the priority order. The evacuation operation running section controls an operation of the elevator so as to direct a car to the responding floor selected in this manner. In a case that the evacuation operation availability determination section determines that the evacuation operation is not available, the evacuation operation terminating section causes an evacuation special call remaining floor display section to display a remaining evacuation special call registration floor. | 11-10-2011 |
20110303495 | ELEVATOR CONTROLLER - An elevator controller which enables a stop to be made at the nearest floor in the event of a disaster and can prevent users from being shut up in an emergency landing entrance floor. The elevator controller includes an operation mode controller, a door open/close controller which causes the elevator to open the elevator door at the nearest emergency landing entrance floor for a given time when the operation mode controller has returned an operation mode from an emergency operation mode to a normal operation mode, and an informing controller which causes an informing device, which is provided in a hall of an emergency landing entrance floor for which the door open/close controller causes the door to be opened for a given time or provided in the car, to provide information to the effect that the elevator can be used when the operation mode-controller has returned the operation mode from the emergency operation mode to the normal operation mode. | 12-15-2011 |
20110308896 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL APPARATUS - Provided is an elevator group control apparatus which brings distributed standby control into action when the movement of users is heavy in one direction in an unbalanced manner in time zones which account for large proportions of an elevator use condition of a day, for example, in off-hour zones and time zones in which traffic demand is relatively small, thereby improving the waiting time of users, and does not bring distributed standby control into action when there is no unbalanced condition of the movement of the users, whereby it is possible to perform energy savings by reducing power consumption during runs without greatly worsening the waiting time of the users. | 12-22-2011 |
20120097486 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system, a security gate includes a gate box body, an opening/closing member, an input section for inputting identification information of a user, a display section, and a gate control section connected to an elevator group supervisory device. The gate control section controls opening/closing of the opening/closing member in accordance with the identification information input to the input section and controls the display section to display elevator information of elevators. The display section is provided on a side surface of the gate box body on a passage side and includes a display screen provided so as to be inclined with respect to a direction of passage of the user so as to be oriented to an entrance side of the security gate. | 04-26-2012 |
20120118677 | CONTROLLING AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION - The disclosure relates to a method of controlling a elevator installation with several elevator cages per elevator shaft, wherein a destination call to a desired destination story is actuated on a call input story by at least one passenger and at least one most favorable call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story is determined for the destination call by at least one destination call control. If at least one disadvantage parameter is set, at least one disadvantage-free call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story is determined by the destination call control, in which it is possible the start story and call input story or the destination story and desired destination correspond. | 05-17-2012 |
20120160613 | ELEVATOR ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM - An elevator access control system monitors a secure area, including an elevator landing, and controls an elevator system with at least one elevator car that is accessible from the elevator landing. Each elevator car of the elevator system has a door at the landing that provides access between the elevator car and the landing. The system includes an access monitoring device that detects the presence of non-authorized individuals within the secure area and produces a breach signal upon detecting one or more non-authorized individuals within or entering the secure area. Upon receiving the breach signal, an access system controller in communication with the access monitoring device initiates a security alert phase. | 06-28-2012 |
20120193173 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system including an authentication device by which a user before boarding an elevator car performs personal authentication, a destination floor registration device which automatically performs destination floor registration when personal authentication has been performed by the authentication device, a group controller which assigns an elevator to the registered destination floor, and an indication device which indicates the assigned machine number. When the machine number of the elevator assigned by the group controller is successively indicated, the indication device provides indications to each user by a prescribed method which permits discrimination between preceding and succeeding indications even when the machine number is the same. Thereby, the registration of a destination floor is performed during passage of a prescribed place, and a user who passes the above-described prescribed place can recognize the machine number of the elevator assigned to the user. | 08-02-2012 |
20120228065 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The present invention is provided with: a personal authentication device provided in a destination call registration device adapted to obtain authentication information from a user; an access control device adapted to, when the personal authentication device obtains the authentication information, obtain verification information comprised of a plurality of pieces of permitted floor information corresponding to the authentication information and position information of the destination call registration device; and a supervisory controller adapted to determine, based on the verification information, whether a destination floor inputted into the destination call registration device is a permitted floor, and, based on the registration, control an elevator car. | 09-13-2012 |
20120241259 | ELEVATOR SECURITY SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method of controlling access to floor within a building via elevator. The method includes receiving a passenger input indicating a desired destination floor a passenger seeks to travel to in an elevator, accessing a stored database containing data about which floors passengers are allowed to access via elevator when coming from the floor of the passenger input, determining if access is allowed based upon the desired destination floor and the data, and controlling operation of the elevator to deliver the passenger to the desired destination floor if access is allowed. | 09-27-2012 |
20120267202 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The invention presents a method and a system for evacuating a building or a part of it using an elevator system, which comprises one or more elevators. In the method an evacuation state is activated, the number of people awaiting evacuation on specific floors is determined, the number of elevator cars and/or of evacuation times needed for the evacuation of specific floors is calculated on the basis of the capacity of the aforementioned one or more elevator cars and of the number of people awaiting evacuation, and floor-specific evacuation is controlled to one or more predefined exit floors. | 10-25-2012 |
20120279807 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM OPERATION - An elevator system includes at least one elevator, at least one call input device and a call controller. The call input device transmits a call to the call controller. For a transmitted normal operation signal, at least one elevator car of an assigned elevator is activated to drive to the call input floor by at least one elevator controller of the assigned elevator. In a peak-time mode of the elevator system, at least one main operation signal is transmitted to at least one elevator. For a main operation signal transmitted to an elevator, at least one elevator car of said elevator is activated to drive between at least two main operation floors by at least one elevator controller of said elevator. | 11-08-2012 |
20130126277 | TIMER FOR SHABBAT ELEVATOR - Apparatus and methods are provided for use with a Shabbat-elevator inside a building, including an elevator transmitter configured to be placed in a vicinity of the elevator and to transmit a signal. At least one repeater is placed on a given floor of the building, the repeater including a receiver that is configured to receive the signal from the transmitter, when the elevator is at the given floor. A control unit is configured, in response to the signal, to determine a time interval until the elevator is predicted to next be at the given floor. A display unit displays an indication of when the elevator is predicted to next be at the given floor, based upon the determined time interval. Other applications are also described. | 05-23-2013 |
20130220741 | ALLOCATION OF CALLS IN A LIFT INSTALLATION - A method of allocating calls of a lift installation with at least one lift and at least one car per lift to move passengers in a journey from at least one input floor to at least one destination floor, a system for executing the method and a computer readable memory with instructions for executing the method. The method includes receiving input calls from passengers travelling from an input floor to a destination floor, each call identifying at least one floor as an input floor or a destination floor. A start zone with identified input floors and a destination zone with identified destination floors are determined from the input calls and destination calls. Each identified floor within a corresponding zone is considered using at least one selection criterion and a stopping floor is selected which satisfies the criterion. The car is caused to stop at fewer than all the identified input floors and identified destination floors during the journey. | 08-29-2013 |
20140166409 | ELEVATOR CAR ASSIGNMENT STRATEGY THAT LIMITS A NUMBER OF STOPS PER PASSENGER - An exemplary method of controlling an elevator system includes determining that a new passenger requests elevator service a departure floor to a destination floor. Any candidate elevator cars are ranked. A number of stops for each assigned passenger for a ranked candidate elevator car is determined if the new passenger were assigned to that car. A determination is made whether any ranked candidate elevator car is a qualified car that can accept the new passenger and limit a number of stops for each passenger assigned to that car to a desired maximum number of stops. The new passenger is assigned to a qualified car that has a most favorable ranking of any qualified cars. | 06-19-2014 |
20140231185 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a method and an elevator system for allocating elevators to passenger groups. Passengers have access cards, the identification data of which is read, a passenger group is formed on the basis of the identification data, the destination calls to be connected to the passenger group are registered and an elevator is allocated for the use of the passenger group. | 08-21-2014 |
20150068848 | ELEVATOR PASSENGER INTERFACE INCLUDING IMAGES FOR REQUESTING ADDITIONAL SPACE ALLOCATION - An exemplary elevator destination entry system includes a passenger interface device that presents a visual representation of at least one item that will accompany a passenger on an elevator car. The passenger interface allows the passenger to select the visual representation. A controller is configured to receive indications of passenger requests for elevator service and an indication from the passenger interface device regarding a selected visual representation. The controller determines an amount of space within an elevator car required to accommodate the item based on predetermined space information corresponding to the selected visual representation. The controller assigns a car to a passenger request based on a determination that the assigned car will have adequate space to accommodate the passenger and the item. | 03-12-2015 |
20150068849 | METHOD FOR HANDLING ERRONEOUS CALLS IN AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM - Method for handling erroneous calls in an elevator system, which comprises at least one elevator, call-giving devices for registering calls on the floor levels and/or in the elevator car, and also a control system that responds to the aforementioned calls one or more calls given by a passenger are registered, it is assessed on the basis of at least one criterion whether some call is erroneous, and at least one corrective action is performed for removing a call, or for rectifying the call data of a call, if the call is ascertained to be erroneous on the basis of the aforementioned criterion. | 03-12-2015 |
20150090534 | CONTROLLING AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION USING A DISADVANTAGE PARAMETER OR A DISABILITY INDICATOR - A method of controlling an elevator installation with several elevator cages per elevator shaft, wherein a destination call to a desired destination story is actuated on a call input story by at least one passenger and at least one most favorable call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story, is determined for the destination call by at least one destination call control. If at least one disadvantage parameter is set, at least one disadvantage-free call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story is determined by the destination call control, in which it is possible the start story and call input story or the destination story and desired destination correspond. | 04-02-2015 |
20150329316 | SMART ELEVATOR CONTROL DEVICE - A smart elevator control device of this invention is disclosed, comprising: a sensor, mounting aside by the elevator door to sense the number of passengers waiting for the elevator; a central control system, controlling the rise and fall of the elevators. The central control system further comprises a storage and record unit and a setting unit, where the storage and record unit records and stores the number of passengers at every floor at every moment while the setting unit is to adjust the number of passengers waiting for the elevator sensed by said sensor and to set the number of elevators to operate. By means of the central control system and accompanying sensor to sense the number of passengers waiting for the elevator, an elevator is dispatched to the desired floor to carry the passengers, to shorten the waiting time. | 11-19-2015 |
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