JPH0157038B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[Technical Field of the Invention] This invention relates to an improvement in a device for reserving elevator service. [Prior art] Conventionally, when an elevator car installed in a building was to be dispatched to the main floor when going to work, or to an executive floor when necessary, an employee in the control room would issue a dispatch command using a switch. That's what I do. However, in this case, the attendant must operate the switch at the scheduled time, and there are also switches to dispatch the vehicle to the meeting room, a switch to disconnect the service, etc., and many switches must be operated at the scheduled time. It is necessary to remember to perform the operations, which places a mental burden on the user. Therefore, for example,
As shown in Publication No. 141944, it is proposed that a clock be used to generate a calendar date signal, which will automatically perform tasks such as driving to work that are constant every day, eliminating the need for staff operations. has been done. However, it is often necessary to change the scheduled time set by the clock, and the problem has not yet been resolved. Not only that, but in recent years many special operation requests have emerged, such as the delivery of baskets to banquet halls and exhibition halls. Further, after a building is in operation, the main floor is often changed or executive floors are moved, and more flexible elevator operation is required. Therefore, recently, in order to allocate cars to executive floors and floors that are expected to be crowded, personal computers (hereinafter referred to as PCs), which are currently in widespread use, are used as input devices to arbitrarily determine the number of cars to be allocated, the waiting floor, etc. It has been proposed to set or cancel the time, etc. However, once staff members were able to arbitrarily designate waiting cars, the number of waiting cars increased.
There is a risk that general elevator service will deteriorate significantly. Therefore, the staff takes advantage of setting the number of waiting machines to a small number in consideration of general service, which is inconvenient. On the other hand, recently, in order to save power, many elevators are equipped with an energy-saving pause operation in which the car is paused. Therefore, it is desired to reserve and dispatch vehicles in a way that saves power while maintaining a constant standard of general service. [Summary of the Invention] This invention satisfies the above-mentioned needs, and uses an input device that is manually operated to reserve and dispatch cars in advance, and to ensure that the number of cars that are allowed to stop does not exceed a preset number. By regulating the number of reserved and dispatched cars and the number of idle cars, it is possible to eliminate the need for staff to operate a switch each time, and the number of reserved and dispatched cars can be automatically set to achieve power savings. An object of the present invention is to provide an elevator operation reservation device that is configured as described above. [Embodiment of the Invention] An embodiment of the invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 19. In Figures 1 to 3, 1 is an input button made up of a large number of buttons arranged, 2 is a reservation dispatch signal input means for inputting a car reservation dispatch signal from the output of the input button 1, and 3 is a means for inputting a reservation dispatch signal using a clock. It consists of one year's worth of months,
4 is an automatic calendar that outputs an output corresponding to the day and time, updates the day every time midnight passes, and repeatedly updates the day of the week every seven days; 4 is the reservation dispatch signal input means 2; Reservation dispatch control signal generation means 5 generates a reservation dispatch control signal from the output of the automatic calendar 3 and the output of the automatic calendar 3; Reservation dispatch means 7 issues a reservation dispatch command to the elevator 6 based on the reservation dispatching means; 7 determines the required number of cars to be put out of service for energy saving, and selects a car to be put out of service; 8 indicates the car selected by the outage car selection means 7; A suspension means for supplying information on the number of cars to the elevator 6 to suspend the cars; 9 is a reservation standby regulation means for regulating the number of reserved and dispatched cars according to the required number of idle cars selected by the idle car selection means 7; and 10 is a microcomputer ( A car control device (only one unit is shown) consisting of a microcomputer (hereinafter referred to as a microcomputer), for example,
It is disclosed in Publication No. 53354, and includes a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 10A, a read-only memory (hereinafter referred to as CPU) in which programs and fixed value data are stored.
(hereinafter referred to as ROM) and read/write memory (hereinafter referred to as RAM) that temporarily stores data such as calculation results.
It has a storage device 10B consisting of a storage device 10B, a transmission device 10C that transmits and receives data, and a conversion device 10D that is connected to the drive control device 6B and converts input and output signal levels. 11 is also composed of a microcomputer, and similarly includes a CPU 11A, a storage device 11B, and a transmission device 1.
1C, 11D and a group management device having a conversion device 11E connected to the landing button 6A; 12 is also composed of a microcomputer, and is also a statistical device having a CPU 12A, a storage device 12B, transmission devices 12C, 12D, and an automatic calendar 3; Reference numeral 13 denotes an input device also constituted by a personal computer, which similarly has a CPU 13A, a storage device 13B, and a transmission device 13C, and also includes a conversion device 13D and a display device 13 connected to the input button 1.
The converter 13F is connected to a storage device 13H which is composed of a magnetic disk, usually called a floppy disk, and stores a program. In addition, transmission device 1
0C, 11C, 11D, and 12C are responsible for parallel transmission and transmit 8 bits of information at a time, and transmission devices 12D and 13C are responsible for serial transmission and transmit 8 bits of information at a time.
It transmits bit information. YT is a reservation table stored in the storage device 13H, which has reservation contents corresponding to reservation numbers 001 to 999 as shown in FIG. 3a, and each reservation contents are classified as shown in FIG. 3b. There is. Each section consists of one or more columns, and each column has a 1-byte storage area reserved for storing ASCII characters or numbers. Each column and its contents are shown below.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, in this invention, an elevator reservation dispatch signal is generated by an input button that is manually operated, and from this reservation dispatch signal, a reservation dispatch control signal is generated corresponding to the date and time, and the car is operated according to this signal. Vehicles are allocated to designated floors, while the number of reserved and dispatched cars and the number of idle cars are regulated so that they do not exceed a preset number of cars that are permitted to be idle. This saves the staff the trouble of operating the elevator each time, and makes it easy to reserve and dispatch elevators.In addition, when power-saving operation is required, the upper limit for the number of reserved vehicles is automatically set, allowing reserved operation while maintaining the general service level. can do.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of an elevator service reservation device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of the same, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of the storage device of the input device of FIG. 2. 4 and 5 are flowcharts of the operation by the input device of FIG. 2, FIGS. 6 to 8 are flowcharts of the operation of the statistical device of FIG. FIGS. 18 and 19 are flowcharts of operations performed by the group management device. FIGS. 18 and 19 are flowcharts of operations performed by the car control device shown in FIG. 2. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Input button, 2...Reservation dispatch signal input means, 3...Automatic calendar, 4...Reservation dispatch control signal generation means, 5...Reservation dispatch means, 6...Elevator,
7... Pausing car selection means, 8... Pausing means, 9...
... Reservation standby regulation means, 10 ... Car control device, 1
1... Group management device, 12... Statistical device, 13...
input device. Note that the same reference numerals in the figures indicate the same parts.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Reservation dispatch signal input means for reserving the dispatch of a car to a designated floor and setting the reserved dispatch time through an input button that is manually operated; Reservation contents of the reservation dispatch signal input means a reservation dispatching means for dispatching the above-mentioned car to a designated floor and waiting there at the reserved dispatching time based on the reserved dispatching time; a suspension car selection means for selecting a car to be put into an energy-saving pause; and a suspension means for suspending the car selected by the suspension car selection means. , The reservation dispatching means and the suspension are arranged so that the sum of the number of cars selected by this suspension means and the number of cars selected by the reservation dispatching means does not exceed the preset number of cars that should be allowed to be suspended. An elevator operation reservation device comprising a regulating means for regulating the operation of a car selecting means.