Elevator remote-control apparatus

• US 4,673,911 A
• Filed: 12/18/1985
• Issued: 06/16/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Levy, Stewart J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROSKOS, JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US06/810,184
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 340/19 R, 340/20, 340/21, 340/696, 340/539, 340/825-872, 455/603
• US Class Current: 187/380
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4623 Wherein the destination is registered after boarding
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4653 wherein the call is registered using portable devices

Abstract

When a desired call has been registered with the up button or down button of a remote controller, an acceptance signal is delivered from an elevator control device, to turn `on` the up button or down button of the hall button device. At the same time, a response signal corresponding to the acceptance signal is sent from the transmitter of the hall button device to the remote controller, and it is received by the receiver of the remote controller so as to turn `on` the response lamp in correspondence with the call registration. Owing to such an arrangement, the ascent or descent call registration of an elevator can be reliably acknowledged on the remote controller side.

Claims

1. In an elevator remote-control apparatus wherein a call registration of an elevator is performed with a remote controller at a position remote from a hall button device of the elevator;

an elevator remote-control apparatus comprising a transmitter which is disposed in said remote controller and which transmits a remote control signal for the call registration of the elevator, a receiver which is disposed in said hall button device and which receives the remote control signal transmitted from said transmitter and sends a signal for a predetermined call registration to an elevator control device, a transmitter which is disposed in said hall button device and which transmits a predetermined reponse signal to said remote controller on the basis of an acceptance signal that has been sent in accordance with the call registration by said elevator control device, a receiver which is disposed in said remote controller and which receives the response signal from said transmitter of said hall button device, and response lamps for displaying the call registrations, which are disposed in said remote controller and which are respectively turned `on` in accordance with the corresponding response signals that have been received by said receiver of said remote controller.

2. An elevator remote-control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said remote controller comprises manipulation buttons which serve to register an ascent hall call and a descent hall call of the elevator, respectively, and an encoder which, when the ascent and descent manipulation buttons have been depressed, produces different signals corresponding to the depressed manipulation buttons, and wherein said transmitter of said remote controller outputs the control signals in accordance with the produced signals of said encoder.

3. An elevator remote-control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said receiver of said hall button device receives the signal transmitted from said transmitter of said remote controller and thereafter supplies the received content to a decoder, said decoder delivers the signal expressive of the ascent hall call or the descent hall call to said elevator control device for the call registration in accordance with the received content, and an output portion of said decoder is joined to connection leads between said elevator control device and hall buttons of said hall button device.

4. An elevator remote-control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said hall button device comprises display means to receive the hall call registration signal sent from said elevator control device for the call registration and to display the registration, and an encoder which, upon receiving the registration signal, decides whether the registration is of an ascent hall call or a descent hall call and delivers a signal expressive of the content of the call to said transmitter of said hall button device, and wherein a portion of said encoder for receiving the registration signal is joined to connection leads between said elevator control device for the call registration and said display means.

5. An elevator remote-control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said receiver of said remote controller comprises a decoder which decodes the content of the signal from said transmitter of said hall button device, and which outputs a signal for lighting up said response lamp corresponding to the content, in accordance with the decoded result.