Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100282544 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL SYSTEM - An elevator group control system is obtained which is improved in the operating efficiency of entire cars by determining an assigned car with the use of an evaluation value calculated from an increment of the number of floors to be stopped by each car when a hall destination call newly generated by a hall control panel is temporarily assigned to each car. The system includes a hall input unit which is installed in a hall and by which the registration of a destination floor call is able to be made, and an assignment evaluation value calculation unit which includes a plurality of evaluation value calculation units for calculating the respective evaluation values of a plurality of cars in an individual manner, determines a final evaluation value from the respective evaluation values, and selects an optimal assigned car. The assignment evaluation value calculation unit includes a stop number increment evaluation value calculation unit, and the stop number increment evaluation value calculation unit sets an increment variable from an increment of the number of floors to be stopped at the time when a new hall call newly generated and a new hall destination call representing a destination floor of the new hall call are temporarily assigned to each of the plurality of cars, and calculates a stop number increment evaluation value based on the increment variable thus set. | 11-11-2010 |
20100326773 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is an elevator group control system which is excellent in convenience and can prevent a decrease in operation efficiency even when an elevator is used by a group of a plurality of persons. For this purpose, there are installed in an elevator hall a destination operating panel by use of which users register their destination floors before boarding and a group boarding registering device for registering that users use an elevator as a group. The number of users expected when users use an elevator as a group is stored beforehand in a user head-count storage section. When registration of a destination floor by use of the destination operating panel has been performed at the same time with registration of a group use by use of the group boarding registering device, a car to be assigned to a hall car call is determined on the basis of the number of users stored in the user head-count storage section. | 12-30-2010 |
20110061977 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND GROUP MANAGEMENT CONTROL DEVICE - In an elevator system | 03-17-2011 |
20110132699 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - Provided is an elevator system which can perform an optimum assignment suited to the operation condition of elevators and can appropriately notify a user of accurate information. For this purpose, there are provided a call registration device which registers a destination call before boarding and a notification device which provides elevator information. Normally, immediately after registration of a destination call, the notification device provides information on an assigned car. On the other hand, when a prescribed assignment review condition is met, immediately after registration of a destination call, the notification device provides information to the effect that the registration has been accepted, thereafter the assignment of the elevator is reviewed, and the notification device provides information on an assigned car when the elevator responds to the destination call. | 06-09-2011 |
20110155514 | ELEVATOR GROUP MANAGEMNT SYSTEM - An elevator group management system capable of appropriately performing car assignment processing without leaving any one behind and enabling a passenger to recognize a car to board without fail. A fellow passenger group assignment section assigns fellow passenger groups to respective passengers based on the contents of hall call registration for each floor received from a hall operation panel, and causes the hall operation panel that has sent the hall call registration to display names of the assigned fellow passenger. A fellow passenger group car assignment section executes, on the fellow passenger groups assigned by the fellow passenger group assignment section, car assignment processing of assigning any of a plurality of cars as an assigned car and, in a case of determining the assigned car, provides car control sections with a passenger guide command containing at least combination information on this assigned car that has been determined and the fellow passenger group. | 06-30-2011 |
20110155515 | ELEVATOR GROUP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An elevator group management system improving operational efficiency in consideration of a situation change that has occurred after a destination floor registration in a hall. An assigned car review mechanism executes assigned car review processing in units of review registration information sets each including at least one piece of provisionally assigned car registration information managed by a registered destination floor hall call management section during a review period. After ending the assigned car review processing, the assigned car review mechanism modifies the contents of the provisionally assigned car registration information in the registered destination floor hall call management section based on the contents of the review registration information set after modification. That is, the assigned car review mechanism newly registers the provisionally assigned car registration information after review and erases the provisionally assigned car registration information before review at the same time. | 06-30-2011 |
20110198160 | ELEVATOR GROUP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A car-based running power computing mechanism computes running power values of each car in both cases including cases before and after a newly generated hall call is assigned. A car-based regenerative power computing mechanism computes regenerative power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based future running power computing mechanism computes future running power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based future regenerative power computing mechanism computes future regenerative power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based assigned total evaluation index computing mechanism obtains an in-travel power consumption value and an in-future-travel power consumption value based on the running power values, regenerative power values, future running power values, future regenerative power values and the like, to thereby compute assigned total evaluation indices of each car in the both cases. An assigned car deciding mechanism decides an assigned car based on the assigned total evaluation indices. | 08-18-2011 |
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 |
20120138390 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An elevator system including a push button type hall operating panel that allows a user to make destination floor call registration in an elevator hall, and a method for controlling the elevator system. To perform a special operation for a special user at a low cost, the hall operating panel includes a function button as a button for changeover between a mode of inputting a destination floor during a normal operation and a mode of inputting an ID number used to execute the special operation. The ID number is inputted by a destination floor input section, and the special operation related to the inputted ID number is executed. | 06-07-2012 |
20120168261 | ELEVATOR GROUP SUPERVISORY CONTROL SYSTEM AND ELEVATOR GROUP SUPERVISORY CONTROL METHOD - According to the present invention, when a parking floor is set as a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor, the parking floor can be canceled. As a result of this, during the movement of a passenger from a remote hall operating panel to an elevator hall, it is possible to prevent a car from being on standby at a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor. Therefore, because a car to which a remote hall registration has been assigned can effectively use the moving time of the passenger and hence it is possible to improve the operation efficiency of the whole group supervisory control system. Furthermore, it is possible to reduce useless runs and hence to reduce power consumption. | 07-05-2012 |
20120175195 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL SYSTEM - In a group control system which temporarily assigns a destination call registered from a hall destination call registration device to the car of each elevator and computes a plurality of prescribed kinds of evaluation values for each elevator, as one of the plurality of evaluation values, the priority is calculated whose value is determined according to ease with which the passenger who has registered a destination call from the hall destination call registration device moves in a hall and ease with which a passenger who later registers a destination call from the hall destination call registration device moves in the hall. Thereby, the degree of congestion in a hall is appropriately controlled also in consideration of the movement of the passengers in the hall. | 07-12-2012 |
20120181115 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system which performs group control of plural elevators, a hall call registration device allows a user to perform registration of a hall call before arriving at an elevator hall, and an assigned car is determined for a remote hall call registered from this hall call registration device. When a remote hall call is registered, measurement of a first time is started, and in the period from the stop of the assigned car at the hall to an elapse of the first time, a door close button of the assigned car is made ineffective. After that, when the first time has elapsed, the door close button is made effective. The assigned car is caused to wait with its door open at the hall until the second time elapses after arrival of the assigned car at the hall or an elapse of the first time, whichever is later. | 07-19-2012 |
20120228066 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL SYSTEM - A group control system includes a destination operating panel by use of which a user registers a destination floor by manual operation before boarding an elevator car and an authentication device by use of which a user performs personal authentication by inputting personal identification information. The destination floor registration from the destination operating panel is prohibited with respect to prescribed prohibited floors and when personal authentication has been carried out by the authentication device, the prohibition of destination floor registration with respect to prohibited floors is canceled. The group controller assigns an optimum car from a plurality of elevators to the destination floor registered from the destination operating panel. In the elevator group control system, it becomes possible for a user to register his or her destination floor before boarding an elevator car without lowering the level of security of the system. | 09-13-2012 |
20130264150 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL SYSTEM - There is provided an elevator group control system, in which even after an assigned car has been determined, the assigned car can be changed as necessary, and therefore comfortable service can be offered to a user. This group control system includes a call registration device by the use of which a user registers a hall destination call before getting into a car, a car position detection part for detecting the car position of each elevator, and a call registration storage part for storing, for each elevator, a hall destination call having been registered. When a hall destination call having the same contents as those of an already registered hall destination call stored in the call registration storage part is registered newly from the call registration device, if a non-assigned car has already arrived at the floor on which the call registration device is installed, the newly registered hall destination call is assigned to the non-assigned car. | 10-10-2013 |
20140060978 | ELEVATOR CONTROL DEVICE - An elevator control device includes a non-service function prohibiting registration of call to each of floors and a non-service level setting part which sets two non-service levels of level 1 and level 2 for each floor, a call registration part for a user to perform a call registration operation for a desired floor, and a call registration control part in which when the call registration part is operated, in the case level 1 or level 2 has been set for the desired floor, prohibits a registration of call to that floor, and in the case neither level 1 nor level 2 has been set for the desired floor, performs the registration of call to that floor. Even if level 1 has been set for the desired floor, in the case a temporary cancel signal designating that floor has been inputted, the call to that floor is registered. | 03-06-2014 |
20140231178 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system, upon registration of a hall destination call from a call registration device, a group control device determines an assigned car caused to respond to the hall destination call. An assigned car notification device indicates information on the determined assigned car correlating the information to a service floor of the assigned car. The group control device determines whether or not a hall destination call registered from the call registration device meets a prescribed review condition, and if affirmative, the group control device does not perform a final determination of an assigned car immediately after registration. Upon final determination of an assigned car for a hall destination call meeting the review condition by the group control device, the assigned car notification device indicates only information on the assigned car and a service floor corresponding to the hall destination call on the indicator for a prescribed period of time. | 08-21-2014 |
20140371914 | ELEVATOR GROUP MANAGEMENT CONTROL DEVICE - An elevator group management control device that can set standby actions executable when services of one-shaft multicar system elevators have been completed. The elevator group management control device includes a determination section which, for plural elevators including a one-shaft multicar system elevator in which plural cars are arranged in a same shaft, determines whether services to elevator calls have been completed and an instruction section in which, in a case services of plural cars of the one-shaft multicar system elevator have been completed, as floors where plural cars in question are on standby, a pattern is set among a first pattern in which a main floor in the vicinity of a bottom floor and a floor lower than the main floor are set, a second pattern in which the main floor and an upper floor are set, and a third pattern in which upper floors are set. | 12-18-2014 |