Elevator monitoring terminal and elevator monitoring apparatus with multiple display screens displaying operational data, in-car image data and communication request data

• US 7,419,032 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2004
• Issued: 09/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamakawa, Shigeki
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US10/541,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20060144645A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,646 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187/248, 187391-396, 187/313, 187/316, 187/317, 187/413
• US Class Current: 187/247
• 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 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
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/0018 Devices monitoring the operating condition of the elevator system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/0031 for safety reasons

Abstract

An elevator monitoring terminal includes a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores screen-displayed data including monitor-related screens related to an elevator monitoring operation, and the processing unit displays the monitor-related screens in the screen-displayed data read from the storage unit on a display unit.

Claims

1. An elevator monitoring terminal, comprising:

a storage unit storing screen-displayed data including a plurality of monitor-related screens related to an elevator monitoring operation; and

a processing unit for displaying the plurality of monitor-related screens in the screen-displayed data read from the storage unit on a display unit, wherein the plurality of monitor-related screens comprise

a display screen of monitoring information regarding an operation of an elevator,

a display screen of image data indicative of an in-car condition, and

a connection request screen for issuing a request to connect communication lines between a car interphone unit and a monitoring-room interphone unit.

2. The elevator monitoring terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit displays the screen-displayed data including the display screen of the image data and the connection request screen on the display unit when a call button provided inside the car is depressed.

3. The elevator monitoring terminal according to claim 2, wherein, when the processing unit issues the request to connect the communication lines, to an elevator monitoring apparatus, based on an operation made on the connection request screen, via a communication network, communication between the car interphone unit and the monitoring-room interphone unit can be made via the communication network by converting talking voices into digital signals.

4. An elevator monitoring apparatus, comprising:

a storage unit storing screen-displayed data including a plurality of monitor-related screens related to an elevator monitoring operation; and

a processing unit for selectively incorporating any one of the plurality of monitor-related screens into the screen-displayed data and sending the screen-displayed data to a monitoring terminal via a communication network in response to an instruction from an external device, wherein the plurality of monitor-related screens comprise

a display screen of monitoring information regarding an operation of an elevator,

a display screen of image data indicative of an in-car condition, and

a connection request screen for issuing a request to connect communication lines between a car interphone unit and a monitoring-room interphone unit.