Operating apparatus for elevator
First Claim
1. In an elevator having hall control panels installed in halls of a plurality of floors and having destination buttons, hall call registration means provided on said hall control panels for registering calls corresponding to destination floors requested by waiting passengers, cage call registration means for registering cage calls corresponding to the destination floors, and operation control means responsive to the hall calls and the cage calls for assigning a cage to serve the requested destination floors, an operating apparatus for controlling operation of the elevator comprising measurement means for tracking movement of the waiting passengers and for generating outputs representative thereof, and decision/control means responsive to the outputs of said measurement means for determining the destination floors to be serviced by said cage by the calls requested by the passengers.
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Abstract
In an elevator having destination buttons provided on halls of a plurality of floors for appointing destination floors requested by waiting passengers, an operating apparatus for controlling operations of the elevator which is capable of tracking movement of waiting passengers that have depressed the destination buttons. Upon detecting that a passenger has gotten into the cage, only the destination call requested by this passenger is automatically registered as a cage call, whereas the destination call of a passenger not having gotten into the cage is cancelled. A destination call requested by a passenger is also cancelled under the condition that this passenger has egressed from the elevator hall.
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- 1. In an elevator having hall control panels installed in halls of a plurality of floors and having destination buttons, hall call registration means provided on said hall control panels for registering calls corresponding to destination floors requested by waiting passengers, cage call registration means for registering cage calls corresponding to the destination floors, and operation control means responsive to the hall calls and the cage calls for assigning a cage to serve the requested destination floors, an operating apparatus for controlling operation of the elevator comprising measurement means for tracking movement of the waiting passengers and for generating outputs representative thereof, and decision/control means responsive to the outputs of said measurement means for determining the destination floors to be serviced by said cage by the calls requested by the passengers.
- 13. In an elevator having hall control panels installed in halls of a plurality of floors and including hall buttons, hall call registration means provided on said hall control panels for registering hall calls corresponding to destination floors requested by waiting passengers, cage call registration means for registering cage calls corresponding to desired destination floors, and operation control means responsive to the hall calls and the cage calls for assigning a cage to serve the requested destination floors, an operating apparatus for controlling operations of the elevator comprising measurement means for tracking movement of the waiting passengers and for generating outputs representative thereof, and decision/control means responsive to the outputs of said measurement means for determining whether or not the waiting passengers have egressed from the elevator hall and for cancelling the registration of the hall calls requested by the waiting passengers under at least a condition that the waiting passengers have egressed from the elevator hall.
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