Elevator system

• US 8,091,687 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2006
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Hamaji, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US12/444,769
• Publication Number:
  US 20100006379A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,903 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187/248, 187380-389, 187391-393, 187/396
• US Class Current: 187/384
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/468 Call registering systems
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4615 Wherein the destination is registered before boarding
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/463 Wherein the call is registered through physical contact with the elevator system
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 2201/4676 for checking authorization of the passengers

Abstract

In an elevator system, an operation of a car is controlled by an operation control section. When a specific user in the car is certified by personal authentication of a personal authentication section after a landing call registration operation is performed by a user through a landing call operation section provided on a landing, the operation control section counts registered specific floors present in a traveling direction of the car according to the landing call registration operation in the registered specific floors based on registered floor information received from the personal authentication section, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered specific floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered specific floors is one.

Claims

1. An elevator system used for a building including a plurality of specific floors usable by a specific user acquiring personal identification information in advance, comprising:

an operation control section for controlling an operation of a car;

an intra-car input section provided in the car, to which the personal identification information is input by the specific user;

a personal authentication section for making personal authentication of the specific user based on the personal identification information received from the intra-car input section; and

a registered information extracting section capable of being registered with information of a registered specific floor corresponding to the specific floor pre-designated by the specific user as registered floor information in association with the personal identification information, for extracting the registered floor information corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication based on the personal identification information received from the personal authentication section,

wherein, upon the personal authentication of the specific user in the car by the personal authentication section while the operation control section causes the car to wait on a landing in response to a landing call registration operation performed on the landing, the operation control section counts the registered specific floors present in a traveling direction of the car according to the landing call registration operation in the registered specific floors based on the registered floor information received from the registered information extracting section, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered specific floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered specific floors is one.

2. An elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the operation control section presets to disable a destination floor registration operation for the specific floor, which is performed through a car operation section provided in the car to be operated by a user, and permits the destination floor registration operation for the registered specific floor corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication in response to the personal authentication of the specific user by the personal authentication section.

3. An elevator system according to claim 1, wherein the operation control section presets to disable a destination floor registration operation for the specific floor, which is performed through a car operation section provided in the car to be operated by a user, and permits the destination floor registration operation for all the specific floors in response to the personal authentication of the specific user by the personal authentication section.

4. An elevator system according to claim 1, wherein:

the building further includes at least one general floor usable by a general user in addition to the specific floors;

the registered floor information contains information of a registered general floor corresponding to the general floor pre-designated by the specific user in addition to the information of the registered specific floor; and

upon the personal authentication of the specific user in the car by the personal authentication section while the operation control section causes the car to wait on the landing in response to the landing call registration operation performed on the landing, the operation control section counts registered floors present in the traveling direction of the car according to the landing call registration operation in the registered floors including the registered specific floors and the registered general floor in the registered floor information received from the registered information extracting section, and performs the destination floor registration with the registered floor being the destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered floors is one.

5. An elevator system according to claim 1, wherein:

the building further includes at least one general floor usable by a general user in addition to the specific floors;

the elevator system further includes a landing input section provided on the landing, to which the personal identification information is input by the specific user; and

the operation control section presets to disable the landing call registration operation through a landing call operation section provided on a landing of the general floor of the building, and permits the landing call registration operation performed through the landing call operation section provided on the same landing as that provided with the landing input section upon the personal authentication of the specific user made by the personal authentication section based on the personal identification information received from the landing input section.

6. An elevator system according to claim 1, wherein:

the building further includes at least one general floor usable by a general user in addition to the specific floors; and

the operation control section counts the general floors present in a raising/lowering direction of the car according to the landing call registration operation in response to the landing call registration operation performed through the landing call operation section provided on the landing of the specific floor, and performs the destination floor registration with the general floor being the destination floor of the car if the number of the counted general floors is one.

7. An elevator system according to claim 1, wherein:

information of an operating condition indicating whether or not to implement the destination floor registration in response to the personal authentication of the specific user made by the personal authentication section is settable in the operation control section, the operating condition being a condition settable for at least any one of the personal identification information, a landing floor and a time zone; and

the operation control section performs the destination floor registration based on the operating condition in response to the personal authentication of the specific user by the personal authentication section.

8. An elevator system used for a building including a plurality of specific floors usable by a specific user acquiring personal identification information in advance, comprising:

an operation control section for controlling an operation of a car;

a landing input section provided on each of a plurality of landings, to which the personal identification information is input by the specific user;

a personal authentication section for making personal authentication of the specific user and specifying a landing floor at which the personal identification information is input based on the personal identification information received from the landing input section; and

a registered information extracting section capable of being registered with information of a registered specific floor corresponding to the specific floor pre-designated by the specific user as registered floor information in association with the personal identification information, for extracting the registered floor information corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication based on the personal identification information received from the personal authentication section,

wherein, upon the personal authentication of the specific user on the landing by the personal authentication section, the operation control section judges in which of an upward direction and a downward direction from the landing floor specified by the personal authentication section all the registered specific floors based on the registered floor information received from the personal authentication section are present, and performs a landing call registration with a traveling direction of the car from the specified landing floor being the direction in which the registered specific floors are present if the all the registered specific floors are present in only one of the upward direction and the downward direction.

9. An elevator system according to claim 8, wherein, upon the landing call registration in response to the personal authentication of the specific user by the personal authentication section, the operation control section counts the registered specific floors present in the traveling direction of the car in the registered specific floors corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered specific floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered specific floors is one.

10. An elevator system according to claim 8, wherein the operation control section monitors a ride status of a user in the car, counts the registered specific floors present in the traveling direction of the car in the registered floors corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication upon detection of a ride of the user on the car, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered specific floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered specific floors is one.

11. An elevator system according to claim 8, wherein the operation control section presets to disable a destination floor registration operation for the specific floor, which is performed through a car operation section provided in the car to be operated by a user, monitors a ride status of the user in the car, and permits the destination floor registration operation for the registered specific floor corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication upon detection of a ride of the user on the car.

12. An elevator system according to claim 8, wherein the operation control section presets to disable a destination floor registration operation for the specific floor, which is performed through a car operation section provided in the car to be operated by a user, monitors a ride status of the user in the car, and permits the destination floor registration operation for all the specific floors upon detection of a ride of the user on the car.

13. An elevator system according to claim 8, wherein:

information of an operating condition indicating whether or not to implement the landing call registration in response to the personal authentication of the specific user made by the personal authentication section is settable in the operation control section, the operating condition being a condition settable for at least any one of the personal identification information, the landing floor and a time zone; and

the operation control section performs the landing call registration based on the operating condition in response to the personal authentication of the specific user by the personal authentication section.

14. An elevator system used for a building including at least one general floor useable by a general user and a plurality of specific floors usable by a specific user acquiring personal identification information in advance, comprising:

an operation control section for controlling an operation of a car;

a landing input section provided on each of a plurality of landings, to which the personal identification information is input by the specific user;

a personal authentication section for making personal authentication of the specific user and specifying a landing floor at which the personal identification information is input based on the personal identification information received from the landing input section; and

a registered information extracting section capable of being registered with information of a plurality of registered floors including the general floor pre-designated by the specific user and a registered specific floor corresponding to the specific floor pre-designated by the specific user as registered floor information in association with the personal identification information, for extracting the registered floor information corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication based on the personal identification information received from the personal authentication section,

wherein, upon the personal authentication of the specific user on the landing by the personal authentication section, the operation control section judges in which of an upward direction and a downward direction from the landing floor specified by the personal authentication section all the registered floors based on the registered floor information received from the personal authentication section are present, and performs a landing call registration with the direction in which the registered floors are present being a traveling direction of the car from the specified landing floor if the all the registered floors are present in only one of the upward direction and the downward direction.

15. An elevator system according to claim 14, wherein the operation control section presets to disable a landing call registration operation performed through a landing call operation section provided on a landing of the general floor, and permits the landing call registration operation performed through the landing call operation section provided on the same landing as that provided with the landing input section in response to the personal authentication by the personal authentication section.

16. An elevator system according to claim 14, wherein, upon the landing call registration in response to the personal authentication of the specific user by the personal authentication section, the operation control section counts the registered floors present in the traveling direction of the car in the registered floors corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered floors is one.

17. An elevator system according to claim 14, wherein the operation control section monitors a ride status of a user in the car, counts the registered floors present in the traveling direction of the car in the registered specific floors corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication upon detection of a ride of the user on the car, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered floors is one.

18. An elevator system according to claim 14, wherein the operation control section presets to disable a destination floor registration operation for the specific floor, which is performed through a car operation section provided in the car to be operated by a user, monitors a ride status of the user in the car, and permits the destination floor registration operation for the registered specific floor corresponding to the specific user certified by the personal authentication upon detection of a ride of the user on the car.

19. An elevator system according to claim 14, wherein the operation control section presets to disable a destination floor registration operation for the specific floor, which is performed through a car operation section provided in the car to be operated by a user, monitors a ride status of the user in the car, and permits the destination floor registration operation for all the specific floors upon detection of a ride of the user on the car.

20. An elevator system according to claim 14, wherein:

information of an operating condition indicating whether or not to implement the landing call registration in response to the personal authentication of the specific user made by the personal authentication section is settable in the operation control section, the operating condition being a condition settable for at least any one of the personal identification information, the landing floor and a time zone; and

the operation control section performs the landing call registration based on the operating condition in response to the personal authentication of the specific user by the personal authentication section.