REMOTE INFORMING SYSTEM FOR ELEVATOR

• US 20090071762A1
• Filed: 01/24/2006
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Amano, Masaaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,789,204 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/390
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/0025 for maintenance or repair

Abstract

It is possible to build a remote alarming system with a relatively simple structure, and to handle an abnormality promptly in a case where abnormality occurs in an elevator. The remote alarming system for an elevator includes: an elevator control device (2); a wireless alarming device (3) provided independently of the elevator control device (22), for transmitting failure information of an elevator from the elevator control device through wireless communication; a management device (4) remotely provided from a building in which the elevator is installed, and which is capable of performing wireless communication; and a portable terminal (5) which is capable of performing the wireless communication with the wireless alarming device (3) and the management device (4) via a base station (6). The management device (4) includes: a database (42) in which management information corresponding to each of the elevators is registered in advance; communication information creating means (45) for determining an alarm destination based on the management information registered in the database (42) at a time of reception of the failure information, and for creating a telegraphic message to be transmitted based on contents of the failure information; and wireless communication means (41) for transmitting the created telegraphic message to the portable terminal which is the determined alarm destination. The wireless alarming device (3) includes in-car communication means (33) which makes possible the communication from the portable terminal (5) as the alarm destination to a passenger in a car by connecting with a speaker (11) provided in the car (1) of the elevator.

Claims

1. A remote alarming system for an elevator, comprising:

an elevator control device including failure information detecting means for detecting failure information of an elevator,

a wireless alarming device provided independently of the elevator control device, for transmitting the failure information of the elevator from the elevator control device through wireless communication;

a management device remotely provided from a building in which the elevator is installed, and which is capable of performing wireless communication; and

a portable terminal which is capable of performing the wireless communication with the wireless alarming device and the management device via a base station, wherein;

the management device includes;

a database in which management information corresponding to each of the elevators is registered in advance;

communication information creating means for determining an alarm destination based on the management information registered in the database at a time of reception of the failure information, and for creating a telegraphic message to be transmitted based on contents of the failure information; and

wireless communication means for transmitting the created telegraphic message to the portable terminal which is the determined alarm destination; and

the wireless alarming device includes in-car communication means which makes possible the communication from the portable terminal as the alarm destination to a passenger in a car by connecting to a speaker provided in the car of the elevator.

2. The remote alarming system for an elevator according to claim 1, wherein the elevator control device further includes voice notification means for notifying by voice through the speaker that an alarm has been transmitted to the outside at a time of transmission of the failure information.