ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND GROUP MANAGEMENT CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20110061977A1
• Filed: 05/21/2008
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Koba, Yoshimasa
• Granted Patent: US 8,505,693 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/382
• 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 2201/4661 for priority users
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 50/00 Energy efficient technologies in elevators, escalators and moving walkways, e.g. energy saving or recuperation technologies

Abstract

In an elevator system 1000, an elevator-hall-call/destination-floor-call registration devices 100A and 100B provided at an elevator hall include, besides a destination floor registration button 101 such as a numeric keypad, etc. formed by buttons having respective numbers of 0 to 9 for registering a destination floor, a disabled person button 102 declaring that a customer is a disabled person. For example, in the elevator-hall-call/destination-floor-call registration device 100A, when the disabled person button 102 is pressed and as well the destination floor call is inputted, a group management control device 300 registers the destination floor call, and as well determines a car to be assigned for the destination floor call, rings a chime and further turns on a hall lantern corresponding to the determined assigned car. Like the above, the group management control device 300 rings the chime and turns on the hall lantern only when the disabled person button 102 is pressed.

Claims

1. An elevator system comprising:

a call receiving device provided at an elevator hall having a destination floor receiving unit receiving a destination floor call for an elevator and a disabled-person-declaration receiving unit, when operated, receiving a declaration of being a disabled person and outputting a disabled person signal showing to be the disabled person; and

a group management control device registering the destination floor call received by the destination floor receiving unit, and as well, if the disabled person signal is outputted by the disabled-person-declaration receiving unit when the destination floor call is received by the destination floor receiving unit, determining an elevator car to be assigned for the destination floor call registered out of a plurality of elevator cars, and further operating a notifying device notifying of determined assignment of the elevator car provided corresponding to a door of the elevator car determined at an elevator hall side which is the door of the elevator hall at the elevator hall side at which the call receiving device is provided.

2. The elevator system of claim 1,

wherein the group management control device

when the destination floor call is received by the destination floor receiving unit, if the disabled person signal is outputted by the disabled-person-declaration receiving unit, determines the elevator car to be assigned for the destination floor call registered out of at least one elevator car for a disabled person'"'"'s use which has been previously set as the disabled person'"'"'s use.

3. The elevator system of claim 1,

wherein the notifying device is a sound generating device generating predetermined sound as the notice.

4. The elevator system of claim 1,

wherein the notifying device is a light emitting device emitting light as the notice.

5. The elevator system of claim 1,

wherein the notifying device is a display device displaying predetermined information as the notice.

6. A group management control device comprising:

an inputting unit inputting a destination floor call and a disabled person signal from a call receiving device provided at an elevator hall and having a destination floor receiving unit receiving and outputting the destination floor call for an elevator and a disabled-person-declaration receiving unit, when operated, receiving a declaration of being a disabled person and outputting the disabled person signal showing to be the disabled person; and

a call registering unit registering the destination floor call inputted by the inputting unit, and as well, if the disabled person signal is inputted when the destination floor call is inputted, determining an elevator car to be assigned for the destination floor call registered out of a plurality of elevator cars, and further operating a notifying device notifying of determined assignment of the elevator car provided corresponding to a door of the elevator car determined at an elevator hall side which is the door of the elevator hall at the elevator hall side at which the call receiving device is provided.