Group management control device for elevator

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9278828-B2
Application number	US-201113884459-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 26, 2011
Priority date	Jan 26, 2011
Publication date	Mar 8, 2016
Grant date	Mar 8, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a group management control device for elevator in which the occurrence of useless waiting time and lateness for boarding is reduced even when there is a difference in the distance from a hall call registration device to each car. For this purpose, the group management control device for elevator which manages a plurality of elevators as a bank includes a hall call registration device, a walking time prediction section which predicts the walking time of a user on the basis of the distance from the hall call registration device to each of the elevators, and a hall call assignment section which decides an elevator to be assigned to a hall call on the basis of an evaluation value calculated by using the predicted walking time. The plurality of elevators which are managed as a bank are divided into a plurality of groups according to the distance from the hall call registration device. The walking time prediction section predicts the walking time for each group by using the same value preset as the distance for the elevators belonging to the same group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A group management control device for elevator which manages a plurality of elevators as a bank, comprising:
a hall call registration device by use of which a user registers a hall call;
a walking time prediction section which predicts a walking time required by the user to reach the entrance to each of the elevators from the hall call registration device on the basis of the distance from the hall call registration device to the entrance to each of the elevator; and
a hall call assignment section which decides the elevator to be assigned to the registered hall call on the basis of an evaluation value calculated by using the walking time predicted by the walking time prediction section, wherein
the plurality of elevators managed as a bank are divided into a plurality of groups according to the distance from the hall call registration device, and
the walking time prediction section predicts the walking time for each of the groups by using the same value preset as the distance for the elevators belonging to the same group.

2. The group management control device for elevator according to claim 1 , wherein
the hall call registration devices are provided in a plurality of places on the same floor and divided into a plurality of hall call registration device groups according to installation places of each of the hall call registration devices, and
the walking time prediction section predicts the walking time for each of the hall call registration device groups by using a value preset as the distance for each of combinations of the plurality of hall call registration device groups and the plurality of groups.

3. The group management control device for elevator according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a waiting with open door controlling section which causes the elevator assigned by the hall call assignment section to wait, with the door kept open, on a hall-call-registered floor until the walking time predicted by the walking time prediction section elapses after the registration of the hall call.

4. The group management control device for elevator according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a waiting with open door controlling section which causes the elevator assigned by the hall call assignment section to wait, with the door kept open, on a hall-call-registered floor until the walking time predicted by the walking time prediction section elapses after the registration of the hall call.

Assignees

• Eto Masaharu
• Suzuki Naohiko
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Eto Masaharu
• Suzuki Naohiko

Classifications

• B66B1/34 Primary

  Details {, e.g. call counting devices, data transmission from car to control system, devices giving information to the control system} · CPC title

• B66B2201/211

  Waiting time, i.e. response time · CPC title

• B66B2201/232

  where the time needed for a passenger to arrive at the allocated elevator car from where the call is made is taken into account · CPC title

• B66B1/2458 Primary

  For elevator systems with multiple shafts and a single car per shaft · CPC title

• B66B1/18 Primary

  with means for storing pulses controlling the movements of several cars or cages {(B66B1/2458 takes precedence)} · CPC title