Elevator monitoring system including automatic passenger detection

• US 7,823,702 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2005
• Issued: 11/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Hirade, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US11/817,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20080123826A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,793 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187391-393, 187380-388, 187/901
• US Class Current: 187/392
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/0012 Devices monitoring the users of the elevator system
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 187/901 Control modified for use by disabled individual

Abstract

In an elevator monitoring system, an operation monitoring apparatus receives operation condition data from a group supervisory control device so as to display operation conditions of elevators on a monitor. The operation monitoring apparatus and the interphone base device can telephone-communicate with each other. The operation monitoring apparatus detects that a passenger within a car of at least one of the elevators cannot perform an interphone communication based upon the operation condition data and information of communication conditions with respect to the interphone terminal devices, which are received from the interphone base device.

Claims

1. An elevator monitoring system, comprising:

an interphone base device telephone-communicating with a plurality of interphone terminal devices; and

an operation monitoring apparatus that receives operation condition data from a group supervisory control device which controls operations of a plurality of elevators and displays operation conditions of the elevators on a monitor, wherein;

the interphone base device and the operation monitoring apparatus telephone-communicate with each other; and

the operation monitoring apparatus detects that a passenger within a car of at least one of the elevators cannot perform an interphone communication based upon the operation condition data and information of communication conditions with respect to the interphone terminal devices, which are received from the interphone base device.

2. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein when a disaster operation is carried out for a time duration equal to or longer than a preset time under such a condition that passengers are in the cars and the interphone communication is not detected, the operation monitoring apparatus judges that the passengers cannot perform the interphone communication.

3. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein car load information and disaster operation information are contained in the operation condition data.

4. An elevator monitoring system, comprising:

an interphone base device telephone-communicating with a plurality of interphone terminal devices; and

an operation monitoring apparatus that receives operation condition data from a group supervisory control device which controls operations of a plurality of elevators so as to display operation conditions of the elevators on a monitor, wherein;

the interphone base device and the operation monitoring apparatus telephone-communicate with each other;

the operation monitoring apparatus detects that a passenger within a car of at least one of the elevators cannot perform an interphone communication based upon the operation condition data and information of communication conditions with respect to the interphone terminal devices, which are received from the interphone base device; and

when the operation monitoring apparatus detects that the passengers cannot perform the interphone communication, the operation monitoring apparatus executes a calculation for evaluating degree of emergency with respect to each of the cars and displays a result of the calculation on the monitor.

5. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 4, wherein the calculation for evaluating the degree of emergency corresponds to a calculation for obtaining a total value of evaluation values for a plurality of evaluation items.

6. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 4, wherein the calculation for evaluating the degree of emergency corresponds to a calculation for obtaining a total value of products between evaluation values for a plurality of evaluation items and evaluation coefficients used to weigh each of the evaluation items.

7. The elevator monitoring system according to claim 6, wherein the operation condition data contains physically handicapped person operation information, and the evaluation items contain an evaluation of the physically handicapped person operation information.