Remote informing system for elevator

• US 7,789,204 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2006
• Issued: 09/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Amano, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US11/816,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20090071762A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,687 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187/248, 187391-396, 187/313
• US Class Current: 187/393
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/0025 for maintenance or repair

Abstract

A remote alarming system for an elevator includes: an elevator control device; a wireless alarming device provided independently of the elevator control device, for transmitting failure information of an 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 performs wireless communication; and a portable terminal which performs the wireless communication with the wireless alarming device and the management device via a base station. The management device includes a database in which management information corresponding to each of the elevators is registered in advance, determines an alarm destination based on the management information registered in the database at a time of reception of the failure information, creates a telegraphic message to be transmitted based on contents of the failure information, and transmits the created telegraphic message to the portable terminal which is the determined alarm destination. The wireless alarming device allows the communication from the portable terminal as the alarm destination to a passenger in a car by connecting with a speaker provided in the car 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, the wireless alarming 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, the management device being capable of performing wireless communication; and

a portable terminal 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, determines an alarm destination based on the management information registered in the database at a time of reception of the failure information, creates a telegraphic message to be transmitted based on contents of the failure information, and transmits the created telegraphic message to the portable terminal which is the determined alarm destination; and

the wireless alarming device allows 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 notifies by voice through the speaker that an alarm has been transmitted to the outside at a time of transmission of the failure information.