Elevator call registration system

• US 20060144644A1
• Filed: 04/07/2004
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Chiba, Yuji
• Granted Patent: US 7,162,233 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/380
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/34 Details , e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/3415 Control system configuration and the data transmission or communication within the control system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/3446 Data transmission or communication within the control system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/3461 between the elevator control system and remote or mobile stations
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4615 Wherein the destination is registered before boarding
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4653 wherein the call is registered using portable devices
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/00 Applications of devices for indicating or signalling operating conditions of elevators
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 3/008 Displaying information not related to the elevator, e.g. weather, publicity, internet or TV

Abstract

In an elevator call registration system, elevator-related information is constantly transmitted from an elevator call registration server, and a call registration reservation for a desired elevator can be made by selecting contents from the information. Therefore, it is not necessary for the user to access a site where necessary contents are stored, enabling an easy call registration reservation. Further, since the call registration detects that the user is approaching the reserved elevator, the car is positioned at a good time and the user can smoothly go to a desired floor.

Claims

1. An elevator call registration system comprising:

a portable terminal carried by a user;

a plurality of base stations that exchanges signals with the portable terminal in respective communication areas;

an elevator call registration server that manages an elevator call registration requested via the base station by the user who carries the portable terminal; and

an elevator control device that registers an elevator call registration based on an instruction from the elevator call registration server, wherein

the portable terminal transmits registration information to one of the base stations based on a various-service guide menu constantly transmitted from the elevator call registration server, and periodically transmits its own portable terminal identification information to the base station,

each base station comprises

a wireless transmission unit that transmits the various-service guide menu to the portable terminal, and

an output unit that transmits additional registration information, in which own base station identification information is added to the registration information received, to the elevator call registration server and outputs portable-terminal position information, in which the own base station identification information is added to the portable terminal identification information received, to the elevator call registration server, and

the elevator call registration server

constantly transmits the various-service guide menu to the portable terminal,

identifies a corresponding elevator based on the registration information added and transmitted from the portable terminal via the base station,

stores, as reservation registration information, base station identification information of the base station that is provided in a communication area in which a building, having installed therein the elevator identified, is located, and the portable terminal identification information of the portable terminal,

determines, from the portable-terminal position information concerning the portable terminal and the reservation registration information, whether the portable terminal is in the communication area in which the building is located, and

instructs, when the portable terminal is in the communication area, the elevator control device that the user is approaching and transmits elevator call data.

2. The elevator call registration system according to claim 1, wherein the base station is located in the building.

3. The elevator call registration system according to claim 1, wherein the various-service guide menu transmitted from each of the base stations is different.