Elevator door control apparatus

• US 5,329,075 A
• Filed: 09/29/1992
• Issued: 07/12/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Kodera, Toshiyuki, Tawada, Masanori, Hirabayashi, Terumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NAPPI, ROBERT E
• Application Number:
  US07/953,023
• Time in Patent Office: 651 Days
• Field of Search: 187/103, 187/104, 318/284, 49/120, 49/117, 49/118
• US Class Current: 187/316
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 13/143 electrical

Abstract

An elevator door control apparatus includes at least one door safety device for detecting whether elevator doors are safe; an elevator control circuit for outputting a door-open/close command; and a door control circuit for controlling the opening/closing of doors on the basis of a door-open/close command issued from the elevator control circuit and for outputting a door reversal request to the elevator control circuit on the basis of the operation signal of the door safety device, wherein the door control circuit outputs a door reversal request to the elevator control circuit upon reception of the operation signal of the door safety device while the doors are being closed on the basis of a door-close command from the elevator control circuit, switches the door speed command pattern to a brake pattern from the door-close command speed pattern and thereafter switches the door speed command pattern from the brake pattern to the door-open command speed pattern when the door-open command is received from the elevator control circuit instead of the door-close command.

Claims

1. An elevator door control apparatus comprising:

at least one door safety device for detecting whether elevator doors are safe;

an elevator control circuit for outputting a door-open/close command; and

a door control circuit for controlling the opening/closing of doors on the basis of a door-open/close command issued from the elevator control circuit and for outputting a door reversal request to the elevator control circuit upon reception of the operation signal of the door safety device while the doors are being closed on the basis of a door-close command speed pattern from the elevator control circuit, for switching the door speed command pattern to a brake pattern from the door-close command speed pattern, for thereafter switching the door speed command pattern from the brake pattern to the door-open command speed pattern when the door-open command is received from the elevator control circuit and for generating a constant speed door-close command speed pattern when a door-open command is not generated by said elevator control circuit within a predetermined time period beginning when the door speed command pattern is changed from the door-close command speed pattern to the brake pattern and ending when the doors reach a predetermined low speed.

2. An elevator door control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the door safety device uses any one of a door safety switch, a photoelectric sensor, an ultra-sonic wave sensor, an infrared ray sensor and a pyroelectric sensor.

3. An elevator door control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the door control circuit outputs, to the elevator control circuit, a communication signal indicating which door safety device the operation signal is received from when the door reversal request is output to the elevator control circuit.

4. An elevator door control apparatus comprising:

at least one door safety device for generating an operation signal;

an elevator control circuit for outputting a door-open/close command; and

means for controlling the opening/closing of doors on the basis of a door-open/close command issued from the elevator control circuit and for outputting a door reversal request to the elevator control circuit upon reception of the operation signal from said door safety device, said means for controlling the opening/closing of doors generating a constant speed door-close command speed pattern when a door open command is not generated by said elevator control circuit within a predetermined time and switching door-close command pattern to a brake pattern upon detection of the operation signal wherein the predetermined time is defined as the time period between which the door-close speed command pattern is switched to the brake pattern and the doors reach a predetermined low speed.