Destination call-giving device for giving destination calls in an elevator system and method for operating the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9469502-B2
Application number	US-201314078115-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 12, 2013
Priority date	Nov 12, 2012
Publication date	Oct 18, 2016
Grant date	Oct 18, 2016

Abstract

A method for giving a destination call to the control system of an elevator system is provided, in which method one or more predetermined departure floor-destination floor pairs are presented on the touch-sensitive display of a destination call-giving device having a touch-sensitive display, in which each pair identifies for the user one predetermined departure floor and one predetermined destination floor, and the departure floor-destination floor pair selected by the user is determined on the basis of a touch detected with the touch-sensitive display, and a destination call signal is sent to the control system of the elevator system, which signal identifies the departure floor and the destination floor of the departure floor-destination floor pair selected by the user. A call-giving device, an elevator system and a computer program product are provided to implement the aforementioned method.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for giving a destination call to a control system of an elevator system, the method comprising the steps of:
presenting one or more departure floor-destination floor pairs on a touch-sensitive display of a destination call-giving device having the touch-sensitive display, wherein each pair identifies for the user one predetermined departure floor and one predetermined destination floor,
determining a departure floor-destination floor pair selected by the user on the basis of a touch detected with the touch-sensitive display,
sending a destination call signal to the control system of the elevator system, wherein the destination call signal identifies the departure floor and the destination floor of the departure floor-destination floor pair selected by the user.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein information about said one or more departure floor-destination floor pairs is recorded in a memory of the destination call-giving device, wherein the memory is long-lasting in such a way that the information does not disappear in connection with extinguishing the destination call-giving device.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of displaying a plurality of types of departure floor-destination floor pairs, wherein the departure floor-destination floor pair is selected from the plurality of types of departure floor-destination floor pairs by the user and is determined on the basis of the touch detected with the touch-sensitive display.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of receiving a response signal to the destination call signal from the control system of the elevator system, wherein the response signal contains information identifying the elevator car, and the information identifying the elevator car is presented to the user on the touch-sensitive display.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of identifying a departure floor and a destination floor from the one or more departure floor-destination floor pairs, wherein the departure floor and the destination floor correspond to the departure floor and the destination floor identified by the destination call signal sent earlier with the destination call-giving device to the control system of the elevator system.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of forming a new departure floor-destination floor pair, wherein the departure floor and the destination floor that are identified by the departure floor-destination floor pair to be formed are set to correspond to the departure floor and the destination floor identified by a destination call signal sent earlier with the destination call-giving device to the control system of the elevator system.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a departure floor input earlier by the user and a destination floor input earlier by the user are identified for the user from the one or more departure floor-destination floor pairs.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising the step of forming a new departure floor-destination floor pair is formed, wherein the user inputs a departure floor and a destination floor for identifying the new departure floor-destination floor pair, and the new departure floor-destination floor pair is recorded in a memory of the destination call-giving device.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein a touch-sensitive area on the touch-sensitive display is associated with each of the one or more departure floor-destination floor pairs presented on the touch-sensitive display, and the departure floor-destination floor pair selected by the user is determined on the basis of a point of the touch of the user.

10. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program commands for, when executed on a computer, instructing the computer to perform a method according to claim 1 , wherein the computer includes a touch-sensitive display and an output for communicating with a control system of an elevator system.

11. A destination call-giving device for giving destination calls in an elevator system, the elevator system comprising a control system, the destination call-giving device comprising:
an input device provided to a user for selecting a departure floor and a destination floor, and
an output for communicating the selected departure floor and destination floor to the control system of the elevator system,
wherein the input device comprises a touch-sensitive display for presenting to the user information related to the selection of a departure floor and a destination floor and for receiving input of the user, and
wherein the input device is configured to present one or more departure floor-destination floor pairs on the touch-sensitive display, in which each pair identifies for the user one predetermined departure floor and one predetermined destination floor, and to determine the departure floor-destination floor pair selected by the user on the basis of a touch detected with the touch-sensitive display, and to send a destination call signal to the control system of the elevator system, the destination call signal identifying the departure floor and the destination floor that are according to the selection of the user.

12. The destination call-giving device according to claim 11 , further comprising a memory, wherein the information of the one or more departure floor-destination floor pairs is recorded in the memory, and the memory is long-lasting in such a way that the information in question does not disappear in connection with extinguishing the destination call-giving device.

13. The destination call-giving device according to claim 11 , wherein the input device is configured to send to the control system of the elevator system a destination call automatically after detecting a selection.

14. An elevator system, comprising:
one or more elevator cars;
a control system; and
a destination call-giving device according to claim 11 ,
wherein the control system is configured to control the one or more elevator cars on the basis of destination calls of the destination call-giving device communicating with the control system.

15. The elevator system according to claim 14 , wherein the control system is arranged to allocate an elevator car in response to a destination call received from the destination call-giving device, and to communicate the allocated elevator car to the destination call-giving device, and the destination call-giving device is arranged to identify for the user the allocated elevator car with the touch-sensitive display.

16. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising the step of displaying a plurality of types of departure floor-destination floor pairs, wherein the departure floor-destination floor pair is selected from the plurality of types of departure floor-destination floor pairs by the user and is determined on the basis of the touch detected with the touch-sensitive display.

17. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising the step of receiving a response signal to the destination call signal from the control system of the elevator system, wherein the response signal contains information identifying the elevator car, and the information identifying the elevator car is presented to the user on the touch-sensitive display.

18. The method according to claim 3 , further comprising the step of receiving a response signal to the destination call signal from the control system of the elevat

Assignees

• Kone Corp

Inventors

• Parkkinen Jarmo
• Hiltunen Jussi
• Bergman Kim
• Salonen Tommi
• Miettinen Otto

Classifications

• B66B1/468 Primary

  Call registering systems · CPC title

• B66B3/006

  for guiding passengers to their assigned elevator car · CPC title

• B66B2201/4653

  wherein the call is registered using portable devices · CPC title