Elevator device including evacuation operation mode request switch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10150646-B2
Application number	US-201315022312-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 17, 2013
Priority date	Sep 17, 2013
Publication date	Dec 11, 2018
Grant date	Dec 11, 2018

Abstract

An elevator device enabling efficient evacuation of people left in a building is provided. The elevator device includes: an evacuation operation mode request switch provided in a hall of an elevator on a rescue floor; a car that if the evacuation operation mode request switch is kept in an operated state, keeps operating in an evacuation operation mode in which the car moves between the rescue floor and an evacuation floor; and an operation control device that is provided in the hall of the elevator on the rescue floor, and if the operation control device is operated when the car is stopped at the rescue floor, moves the car to the evacuation floor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An elevator device comprising:
an evacuation operation mode request switch provided in a hall of an elevator on a rescue floor;
a car that, when the evacuation operation mode request switch is kept in an operated state, keeps operating in an evacuation operation mode in which the car moves between the rescue floor and an evacuation floor; and
an operation control device that is provided in the hall of the elevator on the rescue floor and, when the operation control device is operated while the car is stopped at the rescue floor, moves the car to the evacuation floor,
wherein the evacuation operation mode request switch and the operation control device are accessible by a user of the elevator device, and
wherein the car is operable using the operation control device when the evacuation operation mode request switch is not in the operated state.

2. The elevator device according to claim 1 , wherein the operation control device closes a door of the elevator when the operation control device is operated when the car is stopped at the rescue floor.

3. The elevator device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a rescue floor indicator that is provided in a hall of the elevator and indicates a number corresponding to the rescue floor on which the evacuation operation mode request switch has been operated; and
a movement direction indicator that is provided in the hall of the elevator and indicates a direction of movement of the car.

4. The elevator device according to claim 1 , comprising an evacuation guidance indicator that is provided in the hall on the rescue floor or inside the car and indicates that the car can be used for evacuation.

5. The elevator device according to claim 1 , comprising a use state indicator that is provided in a hall on the evacuation floor and indicates that the car is in use for evacuation.

6. The elevator device according to claim 1 , comprising a first no-entry indicator provided in a hall of the elevator on a floor other than the rescue floor and when the evacuation operation mode request switch is kept in an operated state, indicates that no entry to the car is allowed.

7. The elevator device according to claim 1 , comprising respective report devices provided in the hall on the rescue floor and the hall on the evacuation floor and the inside of the car, the respective report devices enabling intercommunication with one another.

8. The elevator device according to claim 1 , comprising a forced return operation mode request switch provided in the hall on the evacuation floor,
wherein when the forced return operation mode request switch is operated, the car returns to the evacuation floor.

9. The elevator device according to claim 8 , comprising respective second no-entry indicators that are provided in the hall on the rescue floor and the hall on the evacuation floor and when the forced return operation mode request switch is operated, indicates that no entry to the car is allowed.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Koba Yoshimasa
• Kuroda Shinichi
• Ueda Takaharu
• Rahman Ashiqur
• Offerhaus David Willem Lodewijk

Classifications

• B66B5/021 Primary

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