Abstract:
An evacuation support system for a double-deck elevator allows people stranded in a building to evacuate to an evacuation floor upon an occurrence of a fire in the building including a plurality of floors. The evacuation support system includes an evacuation support apparatus including rescue floor setting means, and a double-deck elevator including a connected car including an upper car and a lower car which are vertically connected to each other. The rescue floor setting means determines two adjacent floors among respective floors satisfying a predetermined condition as candidate rescue floors and sets, based on a floor on which the fire occurs, at least any one of the candidate rescue floors as the rescue floor. The double deck elevator performs an evacuation operation for moving the connected car in a reciprocating manner between the rescue floor and the evacuation floor based on a command from the evacuation support apparatus. Further, the double-deck elevator stops at least any one of the upper car and the lower car at the rescue floor to allow the people to get on and off in a case of the evacuation operation and then stops the car selected from the upper car and the lower car, which has been stopped at the rescue floor to allow the people to get on and off, at the evacuation floor to allow the people to get on and off.
Abstract:
Verfahren zum Betreiben einer Aufzugsanlage (10), die eine obere Aufzugskabine (DU) und eine untere Aufzugskabine (LU) umfasst, die im selben Aufzugsschacht (11) angeordnet und voneinander unabhängig antreibbar sind. Ein oberster Halt (13.n) ist nur durch die obere Aufzugskabine (DU) und ein unterster Halt (13.1) nur durch die untere Aufzugskabine (LU) erreichbar. Die Aufzugsanlage (10) kann in einem Normalmodus und in einem Ersatzmodus betrieben werden. Im Normalmodus wird die untere Aufzugskabine (LU) für die Passagiere bereitgestellt, die mittels Zielruf (Z.1) angezeigt haben, dass sie den untersten Halt (13.1) erreichen möchten. Z.B. in dem Abwärtsersatzmodus wird temporären die obere Aufzugskabine (DU) für einen Teil der Passagiere bereit gestellt, die den untersten Halt (13.1) erreichen möchten. Diese Passagiere werden dann in der oberen Aufzugskabine (DU) befördert, wobei erst während des Beförderns den Passagieren zur Kenntnis gebracht wird, dass die Aufzugskabine (DU) im Moment nur einen Halt (13.2) oberhalb des untersten Halts (13.1) anfährt.
Abstract:
A method and a system for entering a destination floor call, for storing the call data of a destination floor call entered by the user, for allocating an elevator car to the user on the basis of the landing call data of the destination floor call and for transmitting a car call to the elevator car when the elevator is arriving at the landing. In the method, the user inputs a destination floor call using a destination call device. The destination floor call can be stored in the memory of the destination call device, in which case the call data transmitted to the control system comprises only the landing call, i.e. information specifying the user's starting floor and whether the destination floor given by the user is in the upward or downward direction. The destination floor call can also be transmitted directly to the elevator control system, which stores the call data of the destination floor call in the memory of the control system. The control system allocates an elevator suited to the user's requirements on the basis of the landing call data of the destination floor call. When the elevator car allocated to the user arrives at the floor, the control system transmits the a car call to the elevator serving the user.
Abstract:
A rule base in which control rule sets are stored is created. By applying a rule set in the rule base to the current traffic, the elevator cars are operated, and the behavior of each car is simulated in real time by scan assignment till reverse. Thus, a group control performance when the rule set is applied is predicted. According to the results of the performance prediction, an optimum rule set is selected. In such a way, real time simulation is made during group control, and accordingly group control of elevator cars is effected by applying an optimum rule set at all times, thus providing favorable service.
Abstract:
Multiple elevators are installed as a group in a building and are equipped with destination floor boarding location buttons (7), (8), (9) and (10) that are provided on the lobby floor. Multiple car controllers (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) are input car data for each elevator so that the controllers control the operations of each elevator. A higher level controller (6) is provided with input data from the multiple car controllers and call data and that efficiently operates multiple cars while accommodating changes in traffic demand. When it is determined that higher level controller (6) is in service, all the floors are divided up into sectors and cars are quickly dispatched to the aforementioned sectors in response to the aforementioned destination floor boarding calls, and the sequencing of service in each sector will be in the order in which each destination floor boarding call has occurred.
Abstract:
An elevator system for up-peak servicing of a building having a dual lobby. The system includes a controller having an electronic processor coupled to a memory, a plurality of elevator cars controllably connected to the controller, and a dual lobby routine stored within the memory. The dual lobby routine includes instructions for dispatching (125) at least one of the elevator cars to a lower lobby during up-peak, indicating (130) a sector assigned to the car, nudging (150) (if needed) the car if a lower lobby time-out is exceeded (135,145), dispatching the car to the upper lobby if a load weight threshold is not exceeded (155), and then indicating the sector assigned to the car while the car is located at the upper lobby.
Abstract:
To assign a car to a hall call such that cars A, B, C, D tend to be equally spaced apart and so that bunching of cars is avoided, the position of each car is predicted over a given period by estimating where it will arrive and leave each of its committed stops over that period for a given set of hall call/car call assignments, a bunching measure is calculated and a car to hall call assignment is made in response to the bunching measure.
Abstract:
A plural elevator system having a group controller 17 for controlling the joint response of a plurality of elevator cars 3,4 to the needs of a building, employs a microprocessor- based group controller 17 for providing up peak, down peak and other zone-controlled elevator functions. The group controller provides a variable interval between dispatching of elevator cars from the lobby during up peak, the dispatching interval being controlled by the approximate round trip time of an elevator being dispatched from the lobby in serving the car calls registered within it and returning to the lobby, or the average of the approximate round trip times for two or three most recently dispatched elevator cars. The dispatching interval is determined by the approximate round trip time divided by the number of elevator cars serving the up peak traffic. In addition, the dispatching interval can be further reduced in dependence upon the number of cars standing at the lobby, the reduction being greater in case the last car leaving the lobby is not more than half full than in the case when the last car leaving the lobby is more than half full.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for processing a call inputs of a user by an elevator controller of an elevator system, in which a user either inputs an outside call and an inside call, or a target call into the elevator controller, wherein the elevator controller generates at least two partial calls in response to the inside call or to the target call, wherein the partial calls comprise at least one outside call and/or at least one inside call, the target floor whereof is different to the target floor of the inside call input by the user. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method in which an elevator controller generates a target call or an inside call in response to an outside call. The invention also relates to corresponding elevator systems, which are configured for implementing this method.