Elevator – industrial lift truck – or stationary lift for vehicle – With monitoring – signalling – and indicating means – Monitors passengers
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-22
2001-07-10
Salata, Jonathan (Department: 2837)
Elevator, industrial lift truck, or stationary lift for vehicle
With monitoring, signalling, and indicating means
Monitors passengers
C187S392000, C187S387000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06257373
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to an administrative controlling apparatus for elevators, and to a controlling apparatus for effectively operating an elevator by calling an elevator cage before passengers manipulate calling buttons.
BACKGROUND ART
Conventionally, in the case where a plurality of elevators are concentratedly disposed as one group, a group administrative controlling apparatus is used in which passengers who come to an elevator hall manipulate hall call buttons provided commonly for the group of elevators so that the call is registered, and a cage to respond to the call is selected and allocated.
Recently, it is proposed in Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open (Jikkai-Sho No. 55-46480) that, in order to enhance convenience for the passengers, the passenger who comes to the elevator hall is detected without the passenger's manipulation of the hall call button and a hall call in a predetermined direction is registered. Also, a group administrative controlling apparatus is proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (Tokkai-Hei No. 1-203185), which is characterized in that, when the passenger who comes to the elevator hall is detected, a predetermined call is tentatively registered, the cage to respond to the call is selected and allocated, and doors are opened when the cage to respond thereto is stopped or as soon as the cage has been stopped, whereby the cage that will respond to the call is notice early by the passenger.
However, the passenger who comes to the elevator hall does not always register the call in the predetermined direction. There are cases where the predetermined direction is different from a direction in which the passenger would like to go. There is a fear that the passenger would get on a wrong cage when the doors are opened. Also, since the call for the direction in which the passenger would like to go is not registered even if the passenger waits for the cage for a very long time, there is a case where the cage could not be called. Furthermore, in such a case, there is a problem in which an unnecessary call is registered in allotting the cage by the group administrative controlling apparatus so that the service of the group of the elevators would be worse.
Also, all the people who come to the elevator hall are not the passengers for the elevators, and there is a case where some people leave the elevator hall without getting on the elevators. If the predetermined call is registered in such a case, the elevator is called in spite of the fact that no passenger uses the elevator. For a while, the elevator stops at that floor with the doors open. As a result, the operation efficiency of the elevators is deteriorated, and the waiting time for other passengers is elongated, resulting in deterioration of the service of the group of the elevators.
Accordingly, an object of the invention is to provide an administrative controlling apparatus for elevators, in which the directions which are registered by the passengers who come to the elevator hall are learned so that an optimum tentative registration is intended, and at the same time the tentative registration is corrected by the buttons manipulated by the passengers, if necessary, whereby the passengers' waiting time is shortened, and the operation efficiency of all the group of elevators is enhanced so that the service for all the users may be enhanced.
Also, another object of the invention is to provide an administrative controlling apparatus for elevators which may ensure the like effect even if the invention is applied not only to the group of elevators but also a single elevator.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention, since the hall button in a direction which would be designated at the time when the passenger comes to the elevator hall is predicted with high precision based on the past learned history before the passenger manipulates the hall button, and the tentative allocation is performed, it is possible to call the cage while having the cage have a direction in an early stage before the passenger makes a hall call. Accordingly, it is possible to shorten the passenger's waiting time at the elevator hall and at the same time the direction may be exhibited upon the arrival of the cage, whereby the next start may smoothly be effected.
Also, according to the invention, since the people who come to the elevator hall after the tentative allocation are not the passengers at all for the elevators, it is determined that they are not the passengers in the case where they do not manipulate the hall buttons, there is no arrival forecast or arrival alert in the elevator hall and also the doors are not to be opened, whereby the unnecessary operations are obviated, and any unusual feeling would not be given to the people who come to the elevator hall and are not the passengers.
Furthermore, according to the invention, the direction of hall call which has been forecasted and tentatively allocated is not always identical with the direction of hall call which has been manipulated by the passenger, and in such a case, the direction is corrected in accordance with the passenger's intention.
According to the invention, since the hall button in a direction in which the passenger would manipulate the button at the time the passenger comes to the elevator hall is predicted and tentatively allocated before the passenger manipulates the hall button on the basis of the past leaned history, it is possible to call the cage while having the cage have a direction in an early stage before the passenger makes the call. Accordingly, it is possible to shorten the passenger's waiting time at the elevator hall and at the same time the next start may smoothly be effected.
Also, according to the invention, the tentative allocation is effected on the basis of the past learned result. However, since all the people who come to the elevator hall are not always the passengers, it is determined that they are not the passengers in the case where they do not manipulate the hall buttons, there is no arrival forecast or arrival alert in the elevator hall and also the doors are not to be opened, whereby the unnecessary operations are obviated, and furthermore any unusual feeling would not be given to the people who come to the elevator hall and are not the passengers.
Furthermore, according to the invention, the direction of the hall call which has been forecasted and tentatively allocated on the basis of the past learned result is not always identical with that of hall call which has been manipulated by the passenger, and in such a case, the direction is corrected in accordance with the passenger's intention. The tentative allocation is canceled and a new optimum cage is selected and the call therefor is allocated.
Also, according to the invention, the tentative allocation is effected by the forecast on the basis of the past leaned result. It is possible to predict the optimum tentative allocation call in the same time slot on the floor in accordance with the simple accumulation of data in the past.
According to the invention, the passenger who approaches the elevator hall is detected to thereby perform the parking allocation to call the elevator, and when the passenger manipulates the hall call button, the elevator responds to the call to disable the parking allocation. Accordingly, since the parking allocation is performed at the time when the passenger comes into the elevator hall before the passenger manipulates the hall button, the cage may be called in an early stage before the passenger makes the call. Accordingly, it is possible to shorten the waiting time of the passengers at the elevator hall.
Also, according to the present invention, the parking allocation is performed at the time when the passenger approaches the elevator hall but in the case where the passenger has not manipulate the hall call button, the arrival forecast or arrival alert is not effected upon the arrival of the elevator. Accordingly, since all the people who come into the elevator hall ar
Hikita Shiro
Uetani Kenichi
Leydig , Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
Mitsubishi Denki & Kabushiki Kaisha
Salata Jonathan
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