Elevator system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12012301-B2
Application number	US-201616309138-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 4, 2016
Priority date	Oct 4, 2016
Publication date	Jun 18, 2024
Grant date	Jun 18, 2024

Abstract

An elevator system that allows a plurality of autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged in an alighting order in a car. The elevator system includes processing circuitry to move and stop an elevator car based on information indicating destination floors transmitted from autonomous mobile bodies, to select an autonomous mobile body in the car and an autonomous mobile body that will board the car as targets to be rearranged. The processing circuitry is further to determine an alighting order of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged based on the destination floor of each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and to transmit information indicating the alighting order to each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged so that the autonomous mobile bodies are arranged one by one in the alighting order.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for use with an elevator, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
move and stop an elevator car based on information indicating destination floors transmitted from autonomous mobile bodies that can board and alight from the car,
select an autonomous mobile body in the car and an autonomous mobile body that will board the car as targets to be rearranged,
determine an alighting order of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged based on the destination floor of each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and
transmit information indicating the alighting order to each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged so that the autonomous mobile bodies are arranged one by one in the alighting order.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the processing circuitry selects an autonomous mobile body whose destination floor is not a next stop floor among the autonomous mobile bodies in the car as a target to be rearranged, and does not select an autonomous mobile body whose destination floor is the next stop floor among the autonomous mobile bodies in the car as a target to be rearranged.

3. The system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the processing circuitry estimates an autonomous mobile body that prevents another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car among the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and
the processing circuitry transmits an instruction to wait outside the car to the autonomous mobile body estimated to prevent another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the autonomous mobile body changes a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information transmitted from the processing circuitry.

5. The system according to claim 2 , wherein:
the processing circuitry estimates an autonomous mobile body that prevents another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car among the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and
the processing circuitry transmits an instruction to wait outside the car to the autonomous mobile body estimated to prevent another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car.

6. The system according to claim 2 , wherein:
the autonomous mobile body changes a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information transmitted from the processing circuitry.

7. The system according to claim 3 , wherein:
the autonomous mobile body changes a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information transmitted from the processing circuitry.

8. The system according to claim 5 , wherein:
the autonomous mobile body changes a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information transmitted from the processing circuitry.

9. A method, comprising:
moving and stopping an elevator car based on information indicating destination floors transmitted from autonomous mobile bodies that can board and alight from the car,
selecting an autonomous mobile body in the car and an autonomous mobile body that will board the car as targets to be rearranged,
determining an alighting order of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged based on the destination floor of each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and
transmitting information indicating the alighting order to each of the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged so that the autonomous mobile, bodies are arranged one by one in the alighting order.

10. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
selecting an autonomous mobile body whose destination floor is not a next stop floor among the autonomous mobile bodies in the car as a target to be rearranged, and not selecting an autonomous mobile body whose destination floor is the next stop floor among the autonomous mobile bodies in the car as a target to be rearranged.

11. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
estimating an autonomous mobile body that prevents another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car among the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and
transmitting an instruction to wait outside the car to the autonomous mobile body estimated to prevent another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car.

12. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
changing a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information which has been transmitted.

13. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
estimating an autonomous mobile body that prevents another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car among the autonomous mobile bodies to be rearranged, and
transmitting an instruction to wait outside the car to the autonomous mobile body estimated to prevent another autonomous mobile body from boarding the car.

14. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:
changing a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information which has been transmitted.

15. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
changing a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information which was transmitted.

16. The method according to claim 12 , further comprising:
changing a position of the autonomous mobile body relative to positions of other autonomous mobile bodies based on the information which was transmitted.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Machida Koki
• Kanda Junshiro
• Aikawa Masami

Classifications

• G05D1/69

  Coordinated control of the position or course of two or more vehicles · CPC title

• B66B2201/4653

  wherein the call is registered using portable devices · CPC title

• B66B2201/4615

  Wherein the destination is registered before boarding · CPC title

• B66B2201/103

  Destination call input before entering the elevator car · CPC title

• B66B11/006

  Applications of loading and unloading equipment for lifts associated with buildings (of general application B65G; for paternoster lifts B65G17/00; for mine lifts B66B17/14) · CPC title