JP5260484B2 - Group management elevator - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a group management elevator which is provided with a plurality of elevators (3A-3E). Logging of a target storey is performed before entering an elevator hall. The group management elevator further comprises the following components: a blocking brake (1) which is provided with a blocking brake wall that has a preset depth dimension and limits an advancing direction of the passenger to a direction that is oriented to the elevator hall; a reading device (4) which is provided at an inlet part of the blocking brake (1) while the target storey can be easily logged on through the reading device; and a display device (7) which is provided at an outlet part of the blocking brake (1) for displaying an elevator (3) that is configured to the target storey that is logged on through the reading device (4). Therefore, in the group management elevator which performs target storey logging, a passenger can easily confirm the passenger for being taken by himself and is smoothly guided into the elevator for taking.

Description

  The present invention relates to a group management elevator including a plurality of elevators and performing destination floor registration before heading to an elevator hall.

  Conventionally, the destination floor registration of port-type group management elevators is done by installing a destination floor registration device on the hall side, and the elevator user registers the destination floor and designates the destination floor, so that the elevator control device installs the elevator system. In order to operate efficiently, the optimal allocation to each elevator for destination floor designation is performed.

  As the destination floor registration device, a numeric keypad is known, and the destination floor registration device is equipped with a numeric keypad so that the user can quickly confirm the registration of the floor he wants to go to and the elevator car he should ride. It is known that a display is provided, and the destination floor and the assigned car number are displayed on the display.

  In addition, in order to visually guide passengers to the unit corresponding to the destination floor, the passenger floor registration device displays a color-coded display for each unit, and also displays a color-coded display on the hall lantern near each unit in the hall. It is known to visually recognize the color displayed on the floor registration button, and to recognize the machine that goes to the target floor along the same color of the hall lantern, which is described in Patent Document 2, for example.

  Furthermore, it is known to use the resident authentication performed at the entrance of an apartment house for destination floor registration of an elevator car, which is described in Patent Document 3.

JP 2001-287876 A JP 2004-250193 A JP-A-2005-320152

  In the above-described prior art, when the elevator user performs destination floor registration on the hall side, the destination floor registration is performed using a numeric keypad, so there is a possibility that useless assignment of elevators may occur due to user input errors. In addition, since each user performs input work, it takes time to recognize the elevator assignment display and go to the elevator after the input, and congestion of the elevator user occurs during congestion.

  Furthermore, a system in which user authentication and destination floor registration are simply linked at the entrance cannot smoothly guide the user in a system with a large number of elevators. Furthermore, it is not sufficient to color-code the machine number display to find a designated elevator from a plurality of elevators.

  The object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, reduce the waiting time of the user and reduce the work burden on the user, enable the user to easily determine the boarding machine, and the user until getting into the elevator The purpose is to guide the flow more smoothly.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a group management elevator that includes a plurality of elevators and performs destination floor registration before heading to the elevator hall. The elevator is installed at the entrance of the elevator hall and has a predetermined depth dimension. A gate serving as a wall that regulates the direction in which the person should travel in the direction of the elevator hall, a reader installed at the entrance of the gate and capable of registering a destination floor, and installed at the exit of the gate A display device that displays the elevator assigned to the destination floor registered by the reader while the user passes through the gate, the display device combining colors, numbers, symbols, and alphabetic characters with user from the entrance of the elevator hall and an exit portion of the gate is allocated is the to be boarding And displays an arrow to guide the direction towards the serial elevator instructs the next necessary action by the user, is intended to create a traveling direction of the user from the entrance of the elevator hall.

According to the present invention, the gate restricts the user to the direction of the elevator hall, allows the destination floor to be registered at the entrance of the gate, and is the elevator assigned to the exit and the exit of the gate, which is the entrance of the elevator hall. user to display the arrows to guide the direction toward the elevator should be boarding instructs the next necessary action by the user from, because produce the traveling direction of the user from the entrance of the elevator hall, easily the user The boarding machine can be identified and the flow of the user up to the elevator can be guided more smoothly.

1 is a block diagram showing the entirety of an embodiment according to the present invention. The top view which shows the flapper gate vicinity of one Embodiment. The top view which shows the example of a display of one Embodiment. The time chart of the flapper gate passage processing of one embodiment.

Hereinafter, an embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the vicinity of an elevator hall of a group management elevator having a plurality of elevators 3 (A to E). At the entrance of the elevator hall, a flapper gate provided with a flapper serving as an open / close door on the gate body 8 1 is installed. FIG. 2 shows the details of the flapper gate 1. The elevator user registers the destination floor at the flapper gate 1, and designates the elevator to which he / she should ride while passing through the gate body 8 ( (Designated boarding number) and proceed to the elevator hall. Then, the elevator number display 2 of the designated boarding number is confirmed and selected, and one of the elevators 3 is boarded to the destination floor.

  In FIG. 2, the flapper gate 1 has a master gate and a slave gate as walls that have a predetermined depth dimension and restrict the direction in which the user should travel toward the elevator hall. The right side of the flapper gate 1 is a master gate provided with a non-contact type card reader (reading device) 4 and a display device 7, and the left side is a slave gate that is not provided when entering. The card reader 4 is provided at the entrance, immediately before the flapper gate 1 in the direction of travel, and a flap 6 that restricts entrance by opening and closing next is installed at approximately the center with respect to the direction of travel of the master gate. The display device 7 is installed on the exit side at the innermost side. Note that the card reader (reading device) 4 is only required to be able to register the destination floor at the entrance, and may be one in which the destination floor is recorded on the card in addition to the numeric keypad method.

  In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, authentication is performed by a user holding a security card carrying a chip in which personal identification information is registered over the card reader 4. That is, the personal identification information read by the card reader 4 is transmitted to the building information management server 21, and residence information (in the case of an apartment floor or the like) or office for each individual from the building information management server 21. Information (floor with office: in the case of an office building, etc.) is accessed in the personal information database 20 in which the information is recorded in advance. Destination floor information is acquired from the information.

  Further, the flap 6 is opened by the controller 5 in conjunction with the authentication, and it is possible to enter the elevator hall. The acquired destination floor information is transmitted to the group management control unit 22, and the number of elevators (elevators) to be assigned to the user is determined from among the plurality of elevators 3 (A to E), and the operations of the plurality of elevators 3 are controlled. The Furthermore, the assigned car information determined together with them is transmitted to the display device 7 to display the elevator car to be ridden by the user, and the user recognizes the car to be boarded by the display, for example, the display “A”. Then, go to the elevator hall, check the boarding number on the elevator number display 2 and wait for the elevator to arrive before boarding. The personal identification information can also be read by reading the personal identification information from a passenger's fingerprint, vein, iris, or the like.

  Since all users pass through the flapper gate 1, the group management control unit 22 can accurately know the number of users by destination floor, can be assigned more appropriately, and can reduce the number of stop floors of the elevator. It is possible to improve transportation capacity and save energy. Furthermore, since the flapper gate 1 is used for the destination floor registration, not only the destination floor registration procedure is reduced, but also the length of the gate composed of the master gate and the slave gate in the traveling direction at all times by the elevator user. (The average step length for an adult male is 72cm or more, 2 to 3 steps), and it leads to the elevator hall directly connected to the gate, that is, when the user leaves the gate, the elevator hall It has become. Further, since the display of the boarding number is displayed at the gate exit, the guidance from the elevator hall to the numbering machine to be boarded becomes smooth, and it is possible to eliminate the occurrence of traffic jams during congestion.

  Destination floor registration ID card with destination floor information and personal information is taken in by the card reader 4, and the display of the boarding station assigned by the destination floor registration is displayed in the color and number Combine symbols and letters and use arrows to indicate the direction to the boarding aircraft. On the side of each elevator hall, a combination of colors, numbers, symbols, and alphabetic characters displayed on the display device 7 or something reminiscent of it is written.

  FIG. 3 shows specific examples 9 to 12 of the screen display of the display device 7, and a liquid crystal panel is used for display of the boarding aircraft, and information displayed on the screen can be customized. The background display 9a, 10a, 11a, 12a, English letters / numbers / symbols 9c, 10c, 11c, 12c, explanations 9d, 10d, 12d, etc. Visibility is improved by expressing with alphabetic characters, numbers, and symbols, and the destination direction and the user instruct the next necessary action with explanatory texts and arrows. In particular, the arrow matches the direction in which the user goes from the exit of the flapper gate 1 to the boarding machine. For example, it is possible to guide the boarding machine only in the straight, right and left directions. As a result, the elevator user can easily reach the boarding machine, the work load can be reduced and the boarding machine can be identified, and the flow of the user until getting into the elevator becomes smoother even during congestion.

  FIG. 4 shows the system processing when passing through the flapper gate 1 in the form of a time chart in which the horizontal axis represents time. The information in the security card is taken out by the card reader 4 and the destination floor information is output to the elevator control device (county management control unit 22) and the flap 6. The flap 6 opens the gate together with the input signal. Done. The assigned car information is once output from the elevator control device to the controller 5 and is output to the display device 7 to display the car number.

  Flapper gate 1 extends the depth of the housing from that used for normal authentication, so that the user's passing speed and system function processing (card authentication processing, elevator control unit designation processing, display processing) linked error Reduce. That is, when the card authentication process is completed, the gate opening by the flap 6 and the machine designation process by the elevator control device are started, and the display process is performed until the machine designation process is completed. Complete the opening of.

  The average step length for Japanese adult males is 72cm, and the walking speed is 4km / hour (= 110cm / second), so it is about 0.7 seconds / step, (card authentication processing + elevator control device designation processing + The display processing time is set to about 0.7 seconds for one step.

  As described above, the card reader 4 and the display device 7 of the boarding station are accommodated in the flapper gate 1, thereby creating a traveling direction for the user, preventing the stop by the guidance, and mitigating the user congestion at the time of congestion. Further, not only display numbers and alphabets of the machine number but also combinations of colors, symbols, etc., and explanations can be added to the display of the display device 7 to improve visibility and improve usability.

  Therefore, the traffic congestion of the user is alleviated, the destination floor registration input work becomes easy, and useless elevator assignment due to the destination floor input mistake can be eliminated. Furthermore, it is possible to eliminate mistakes in boarding machines and to forget the number of cars and to promptly recognize them, thereby preventing delays in boarding.

1 Flapper gate 2 Elevator number display 3 Elevator 4 Card reader (reading device)
5 Controller 6 Flap 7 Display device

Claims (5)

In the group management elevator that has multiple elevators and performs destination floor registration before heading to the elevator hall,
A gate that is installed at the entrance of the elevator hall and has a predetermined depth dimension and serves as a wall that regulates the direction in which the user should travel in the direction of the elevator hall;
A reader installed at the entrance of the gate and capable of registering a destination floor;
A display device that displays the elevator assigned to a destination floor installed at the exit of the gate and registered by the reader while the user passes through the gate;
With
The display device combines colors, numbers, symbols, and alphabetic characters, and is an arrow that guides a direction from the entrance of the elevator hall, which is an exit portion of the gate, to the elevator that is assigned by the user to be boarded displayed and instructs the next necessary actions by the user and group management elevator, characterized in that to produce the traveling direction of the user from the entrance of the elevator hall. In the thing of Claim 1, it is provided in the elevator hall side of each of the elevators, and includes an elevator number display that allows the same notation as the display device,
The display device is a liquid crystal panel in which information to be displayed can be customized, and the assigned elevator display is represented by the same color code and letters, numbers, and symbols as the elevator machine display to improve visibility, and an explanation is added. A group management elevator characterized by the user instructing the next necessary action . The flap according to claim 1, which is installed at substantially the center of the reading device and the display device with respect to the traveling direction of the gate, and restricts entrance of the user by opening and closing; The card reader, and the predetermined depth dimension is 2 to 3 steps of an average length of an adult male, and when the user is permitted through the card reader, A group management elevator characterized in that when the card authentication process is finished, the flap opening and assignment process is started, the assigned elevator is displayed, and the flap opening is completed when the display is finished. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, comprising: the reading device capable of reading personal identification information; and a personal information database in which a destination floor is recorded for each individual, wherein the read personal identification information is the individual. The user is authenticated based on whether or not it is registered in an information database, and if registered, the information on the destination floor is obtained from the personal information database and the destination floor is registered. Group management elevator.   The group management elevator according to claim 1, wherein the reading device is a numeric keypad.

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