| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 187382000 | Shared by plural load supports | 87 |
| 20120175195 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL SYSTEM - In a group control system which temporarily assigns a destination call registered from a hall destination call registration device to the car of each elevator and computes a plurality of prescribed kinds of evaluation values for each elevator, as one of the plurality of evaluation values, the priority is calculated whose value is determined according to ease with which the passenger who has registered a destination call from the hall destination call registration device moves in a hall and ease with which a passenger who later registers a destination call from the hall destination call registration device moves in the hall. Thereby, the degree of congestion in a hall is appropriately controlled also in consideration of the movement of the passengers in the hall. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20090120726 | Elevator Dispatcher - An elevator system ( | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100025163 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system, a group supervisory control apparatus selects a car responding to a destination call registration performed on a landing destination operating panel. A limit value of the number of destination call registrations for stop floors existing in the same direction from the same stop floor is set in the group supervisory control apparatus in a manner corresponding to the stop floor. The group supervisory control apparatus counts the number of destination call registrations for the stop floors existing in the same direction from the same stop floor in response to the destination call registration performed on the landing destination operating panel, and limits the number of destination call registrations to be allocated to the single car according to a limit value corresponding to the stop floor. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090301820 | Communication of Elevator Reassignment Information In a Group Elevator System - Elevator reassignment information is communicated to passengers in a group elevator system ( | 12-10-2009 |
| 20130056312 | ENERGY SETTINGS FOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS - Energy efficiency settings for an elevator installation can be determined based on, for example, a start floor for a trip, a destination floor for a trip, user identity information and/or a condition associated with one or more users. In at least some cases, portions of a building (e.g., one or more floors) are associated with one or more energy settings. In further cases, an occupant of a building is associated with one or more elevator energy settings. Some embodiments can be used with an escalator installation. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20110278101 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system in which a plurality of elevators are operated based on a destination floor registered from a destination floor registration device in an elevator hall, the optimal operation of elevator can be realized, and a user boarding the elevator car from the hall can surely confirm his/her registered destination floor. For this purpose, a destination floor indication device is installed in the elevator car, and the destination floor of the car is indicated on the destination floor indication device. Also, when a user boards the car from a hall, only the destination floor registered from that hall is indicated on the destination floor indication device. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110155515 | ELEVATOR GROUP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An elevator group management system improving operational efficiency in consideration of a situation change that has occurred after a destination floor registration in a hall. An assigned car review mechanism executes assigned car review processing in units of review registration information sets each including at least one piece of provisionally assigned car registration information managed by a registered destination floor hall call management section during a review period. After ending the assigned car review processing, the assigned car review mechanism modifies the contents of the provisionally assigned car registration information in the registered destination floor hall call management section based on the contents of the review registration information set after modification. That is, the assigned car review mechanism newly registers the provisionally assigned car registration information after review and erases the provisionally assigned car registration information before review at the same time. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110284329 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE THEREOF - Provided are a group control method and a group control device capable of efficiently controlling the operation of elevators in diversified traffic situations and under a variety of specification conditions required for a group management system. A plurality of elevators are placed in service for a plurality of floors, an evaluation index for a newly made hall call is calculated, and the best suited car is selected and assigned to the hall call based on the evaluation index in the group control method of elevators. A waiting time expectation value of all passengers on all floors for each direction, either that have already occurred or that are expected to occur within a predetermined time period, is taken as the evaluation index, the waiting time expectation value being the expectation value for the sum or the average of waiting time. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110198160 | ELEVATOR GROUP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A car-based running power computing mechanism computes running power values of each car in both cases including cases before and after a newly generated hall call is assigned. A car-based regenerative power computing mechanism computes regenerative power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based future running power computing mechanism computes future running power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based future regenerative power computing mechanism computes future regenerative power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based assigned total evaluation index computing mechanism obtains an in-travel power consumption value and an in-future-travel power consumption value based on the running power values, regenerative power values, future running power values, future regenerative power values and the like, to thereby compute assigned total evaluation indices of each car in the both cases. An assigned car deciding mechanism decides an assigned car based on the assigned total evaluation indices. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20080236956 | Method of Allocating a User to an Elevator Car - A method for allocation of a user to a elevator installation, which is provided with a plurality of elevator cars and with a destination call control unit, wherein the user lodges a destination call at the destination control unit using a communications unit. The destination call control unit determines a group of elevator cars for serving the destination call and makes the group known to the user by the communications unit. The user selects an elevator car from the group by the communications unit. In addition, information for guiding the user to the selected elevator car is communicated to the user by the communications unit. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080210492 | Communicating to Elevator Passengers Re Car Movement to Pit or Overhead - One of a plurality of cars ( | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090283368 | Elevator Group Supervisory Control System - An elevator group control system includes a reference route generating portion, which for each elevator, generates a reference route which the elevator should follow with respect to the time axis and position axis; and an assignment portion which selects an elevator for assignment to a generated hall call so as to make the actual trajectory of each elevator closer to its reference route. Reference routes which guide the cage's trajectory into temporally equal interval condition are generated, and car assignment is executed to allow the cages to settle in temporally equal interval condition over a long period of time. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20080289910 | Call Related Elevator Car Identification - Destination calls entered by means of buttons ( | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080289911 | Elevator Group Supervisory Control System - An elevator group control system includes a reference route generating portion, which for each elevator, generates a reference route which the elevator should follow with respect to the time axis and position axis; and an assignment portion which selects an elevator for assignment to a generated hall call so as to make the actual trajectory of each elevator closer to its reference route. Reference routes which guide the cage's trajectory into temporally equal interval condition are generated, and car assignment is executed to allow the cages to settle in temporally equal interval condition over a long period of time. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080264731 | Wireless, Self-Contained Elevator Call Request Entry System - A wireless, portable call request entry kiosk ( | 10-30-2008 |
| 20100243380 | MULTIFUNCTION CALL BUTTONS FOR AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The object of the present invention is to provide a method and elevator system ( | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100219024 | Landing display device for elevator - An elevator hall display device. A destination floor registration device includes destination buttons and assigned car display panels. An elevator group supervisory controller includes a hall destination call registration section that registers a hall destination call corresponding to an operation of a destination button, an assigned car decision section that decides an assigned car to respond to the hall destination call, an assigned car display mode controller that sets a display mode of the assigned car, and an assigned car display that makes the assigned car displayed on an assigned car display panel in the set display mode. The assigned car display mode controller sets the assigned car display to a first display mode until a predetermined time elapses from start of display of the assigned car on the assigned car display panel, and sets the display of the assigned car to a second display mode after the predetermined time elapses. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110174580 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system is obtained which is capable of assigning a suitable car by taking into consideration a change of a maximum speed or an acceleration according to the result of prediction of a change of a car load or a moving distance with respect to a hall call. In the elevator system having a group management control device ( | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110061977 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND GROUP MANAGEMENT CONTROL DEVICE - In an elevator system | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110147134 | METHOD OF HANDLING PASSENGER REQUESTS DURING ELEVATOR MODERNIZATION - An exemplary elevator system includes a first controller configured to recognize a hall call signal that indicates a passenger's desire to board an elevator car at a particular landing. The first controller is associated with at least one elevator car for assigning a hall call request to that elevator car. A second controller is configured to recognize a destination request that indicates a passenger's desire to be carried to a particular level. The destination request originates outside of an elevator car. The second controller is associated with at least one elevator car for assigning a destination request to that elevator car. The second controller is configured to determine whether a selected condition will be satisfied if a received destination request is serviced by an elevator car associated with the second controller. The second controller handles the received destination request in that manner if the condition will be satisfied. A cross dispatcher is configured to communicate with the second controller and to handle the destination request. If the condition will not be satisfied, the cross dispatcher provides an indication of a hall call signal corresponding to the received destination request to the first controller. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110155514 | ELEVATOR GROUP MANAGEMNT SYSTEM - An elevator group management system capable of appropriately performing car assignment processing without leaving any one behind and enabling a passenger to recognize a car to board without fail. A fellow passenger group assignment section assigns fellow passenger groups to respective passengers based on the contents of hall call registration for each floor received from a hall operation panel, and causes the hall operation panel that has sent the hall call registration to display names of the assigned fellow passenger. A fellow passenger group car assignment section executes, on the fellow passenger groups assigned by the fellow passenger group assignment section, car assignment processing of assigning any of a plurality of cars as an assigned car and, in a case of determining the assigned car, provides car control sections with a passenger guide command containing at least combination information on this assigned car that has been determined and the fellow passenger group. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110031070 | LIFT INSTALLATION, METHOD OF OPERATING SUCH A LIFT INSTALLATION AND METHOD OF RETROFITTING AN EXISTING LIFT INSTALLATION TO FORM SUCH A LIFT INSTALLATION - A method of controlling a lift installation with at least one lift car, at least one lift control and at least one mobile apparatus, and a control system for a controlling a lift installation. A reporting device near the lift installation receives at least one activation signal from a transmitting/receiving device of a mobile apparatus. The reporting device activates in response to the received activation signal. At least one network address of a recognition device of a lift control of the lift installation is transmitted from the activated reporting device to the transmitting/receiving device of the mobile apparatus. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110132699 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - Provided is an elevator system which can perform an optimum assignment suited to the operation condition of elevators and can appropriately notify a user of accurate information. For this purpose, there are provided a call registration device which registers a destination call before boarding and a notification device which provides elevator information. Normally, immediately after registration of a destination call, the notification device provides information on an assigned car. On the other hand, when a prescribed assignment review condition is met, immediately after registration of a destination call, the notification device provides information to the effect that the registration has been accepted, thereafter the assignment of the elevator is reviewed, and the notification device provides information on an assigned car when the elevator responds to the destination call. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20120037461 | USER SELECTION OF AN ELEVATOR - A method, an elevator system control unit, computer-readable media and an elevator installation for allocation of a user to the elevator installation, which is provided with a plurality of elevator cars and with a destination call control unit, wherein the user lodges a destination call at the destination control unit using a communications unit. The destination call control unit determines a group of elevator cars for serving the destination call and makes the group known to the user by the communications unit. The user selects an elevator car from the group by the communications unit. In addition, information for guiding the user to the selected elevator car is communicated to the user by the communications unit. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120000733 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM CONTROL - An elevator system having a double or multiple elevator cabins per elevator shaft can be controlled using a method, wherein at least one destination call is entered or at least one identification code is received on at least one call entry floor, said destination call or identification code designating an arrival floor; wherein at least one trip by at least one elevator cabin of the double or multiple elevator cabin from a departure floor to an arrival floor is determined for the destination call or identification code; wherein before determining a trip, it is determined whether at least one situation-specific parameter is fulfilled; and if said situation-specific parameter is fulfilled, at least one situation-compatible call assignment is determined for a trip having a floor difference of zero between the call entry floor and the departure floor or having a floor difference of zero between the destination floor and the arrival floor. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120055742 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an elevator group control apparatus performs group control of operations of cars. The apparatus includes a power consumption calculation unit that calculates power consumption when each of the cars is run according to the operation curve on the basis of object data stored in the object data storage unit and an operation curve created by the operation curve creation unit, a distributed waiting controller that sets a car in a waiting state among the cars as a distributed waiting target car and outputs a distributed waiting instruction to move the target car to a distributed waiting floor, and a distribution instruction controller that obtains, from the power consumption calculation unit, power consumption when the distributed waiting target car is moved to the distributed waiting floor and, on the basis of the power consumption, permits or inhibits a distributed waiting instruction output from the distributed waiting controller. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120012427 | ELEVATOR CONTROL OF AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION - An elevator control of an elevator installation with at least two elevator cars that move independently of one another in a common elevator shaft has a control device for fixing a first common direction of travel of the at least two elevator cars and for reversing this first direction of travel on the basis of at least one internal destination floor selection and/or an external conveying request and/or a destination call only when all of the internal destination floor selections and/or all of the external conveying requests and/or all of the destination calls in the first direction of travel have been processed. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120152661 | DOUBLE-DECK ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROLLER - A double-deck elevator group controller including a hall-installed car call registration device, cars of the first operation mode which are in charge of operation between even-numbered floors or between odd-numbered floors and cars of the second operation mode which serve all of the floors at which the cars can stop, are set, and in consideration of both combinations of boarding and alighting floors of registered from-hall car calls and an increment of the number of stops, the from-hall car calls are divided for assignment to the cars of the first operation mode and the cars of the second operation, whereby it is possible to meet from-hall car calls having arbitrary floors as the boarding and alighting floors and it is possible to improve the operation efficiency. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120305341 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - Disclosed is a solution for controlling an elevator system, which elevator system includes at least one elevator, call-giving appliances in the elevator lobbies, and also a device for detecting in the desired identification area contact patterns directed onto the floor surface of at least one elevator lobby. A user to be connected to a call given from the elevator lobby is classified on the basis of the contact pattern produced by the user, the type data of the call is connected to the call on the basis of the classification, and the call with its type data is transmitted to the control system of the elevator system for controlling the elevators. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20090133968 | Saturation Control for Destination Dispatch Systems - One version of this disclosure includes a system for assigning an elevator car to respond to a call signal wherein a controller is responsible for determining which elevator car will respond to a call signal. This version includes the controller receiving a hall call signal, receiving information regarding the elevator system, determining whether the call assignment can be made in view of a first rule associated with a banned call assignment, and eliminating the rule against banned call assignments when necessary to avoid saturation of the elevator system. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090133967 | Method and Apparatus to Reduce Waiting Times for Destination Based Dispatching Systems - Described is a method for assigning hall calls comprising the steps of receiving a hall call signal, receiving information regarding an elevator system, assigning a destination to the hall call signal, and calculating a call cost value for each elevator car using a handing capacity coefficient. The controller designates the elevator with the lowest call cost value to respond to a call signal. The handling capacity coefficient is a value that reflects the current traffic conditions of an elevator system. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20120255812 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR MODERNIZING AN ELEVATOR GROUP - The object of the invention is a method and an arrangement for modernizing an elevator group, in which method the elevators of the elevator group are modernized in turn such that both modernized elevators and unmodernized elevators can be simultaneously in use in the elevator group, of which elevators the modernized elevators are each provided with individualized identification marks while the old unmodernized elevators in use in the elevator group are each provided with a similar identification mark to each other. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120255813 | GROUP ELEVATOR SCHEDULING WITH ADVANCE TRAFFIC INFORMATION - A near-optimal scheduling method for a group of elevators uses advance traffic information. More particularly, advance traffic information is used to define a snapshot problem ( | 10-11-2012 |
| 20110120811 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN ELEVATOR GROUP - An elevator system and a method are provided for controlling an elevator group. The elevator system includes an elevator group, which includes at least two elevator cars, which elevator cars are fitted to be moved in the elevator hoistway according to the calls allocated by the control of the elevator group. The elevator system includes a power supply arrangement, for adjusting the power needed to move the elevator cars. An energy storage is connected to the power supply arrangement. The energy storage is fitted in the first operating situation to yield energy for use in moving the elevator car, and in the second operating situation to receive energy released by movement of the elevator car. The elevator system includes a determination of the charging status of the energy storage, and the control of the elevator group is fitted to determine the change in energy that would be caused by the movement according to an allocated call of the elevator cars belonging to the elevator group. The control of the elevator group is fitted to allocate a call by favoring in the allocation an elevator car, the determined change in energy caused by the movement of which best meets the allocation criterion. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20120318617 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a solution for adapting the control functions in elevator systems, wherein portable call terminals are used for the giving of calls. When the call terminals have been disposed in the desired locations in the building, the values of the control parameters that are dependent on the location of the call terminals and are used in the control of the elevator system are set. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120267201 | Method for Scheduling Cars in Elevator Systems to Minimizes Round-Trip Times - A set of cars in an elevator system are scheduled by assigning passengers to the cars such that a current schedule for each car does not exceed a predetermined maximum number of stops per round trip, and the car is filled as near as possible to a maximum capacity at a predetermined bottleneck. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120125719 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ELEVATORS IN AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM - System for controlling the elevators in an elevator system, which elevator system comprises a number of elevators ( | 05-24-2012 |
| 20110272220 | ELEVATOR CONTROL OF AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION - An elevator control of an elevator installation having at least two elevator cars movable independently of one another in a common elevator includes a control device for maintaining a defined minimum distance between two successive ones of the elevator cars and a defined maximum distance between two successive ones of the elevator cars. | 11-10-2011 |
| 187383000 | Assigns load supports to zones | 5 |
| 20090159374 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - A method for allocating destination calls in an elevator system, the system including at least one multi-deck elevator, where the passenger gives his/her destination floor by means of a destination call device at the beginning of the journey route, thereby defining the starting point and final point of the passenger's journey route in the elevator system. The method includes the steps of generating possible route alternatives from the starting point to the final point of the journey route, determining a cost function containing at least one travel time term, determining the value of the travel time term corresponding to each route alternative in the cost function, calculating the total cost of each route alternative by using the cost function, allocating for the passenger the route alternative that gives the minimum total cost, and guiding the passenger to a waiting lobby and/or elevator consistent with the route alternative allocated. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20080245618 | Elevator Traffic Control Including Destination Grouping - A elevator traffic control technique includes destination grouping that is selectively implemented during selective traffic conditions by a system controller ( | 10-09-2008 |
| 20110000747 | DISPATCHING SYSTEM FOR CAR ASSIGNMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - The present invention is related to a dispatching system for car assignment method. The method includes: (a) setting a set number based a history data, wherein the history data records a time and a location of each dispatching car event happening, the set number is an average number of dispatching car events that happen in a special time segment and in the region; (b) determining whether or not the first number is larger than the set number; (c) not issuing a dispatching car information when the first number is larger than the set number; and (d) issuing a dispatching car information and assigning a second number of cars to the region when the first number is less than the set number. Moreover, a dispatching apparatus to perform the dispatching car method is also disclosed in the disclosure. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110209950 | Elevator system - The invention relates to elevator systems, in which a number of elevators operate in the same hoistway. The elevator system comprises at least one shuttle elevator and at least two local elevators, the elevator-cars of which are arranged to travel in the same elevator hoistway such that they can serve at least one shared transfer floor of a transfer level. The control system of the elevator system receives destination calls given from a destination call appliance, forms a plurality of route alternatives and allocates a destination call to one or more elevators by selecting the best route alternative. When allocating a destination call, the control system takes into account that the elevator cars of the local elevators that travel in the same elevator hoistway cannot simultaneously be at a shared transfer floor in cases in which the route alternative comprises a part-trip with a local elevator and a change of elevator at a shared transfer floor. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20100294600 | ELEVATOR CAR ASSIGNMENT CONTROL STRATEGY - An exemplary method of assigning calls to elevator cars includes ensuring that a passenger separation requirement is satisfied. The passenger separation requirement is satisfied when a passenger belonging to one service group is not carried in the same elevator car simultaneously with another passenger belonging to a different service group, for example. A call is assigned to an elevator car to carry a passenger belonging to the one service group while the elevator car is assigned to carry or is already carrying another passenger belonging to the different service group. | 11-25-2010 |
| 187384000 | Having security or priority preemption feature | 25 |
| 20090308695 | LARGE ITEM TRANSPORT IN A GROUP ELEVATOR SYSTEM - Elevators ( | 12-17-2009 |
| 20120160613 | ELEVATOR ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM - An elevator access control system monitors a secure area, including an elevator landing, and controls an elevator system with at least one elevator car that is accessible from the elevator landing. Each elevator car of the elevator system has a door at the landing that provides access between the elevator car and the landing. The system includes an access monitoring device that detects the presence of non-authorized individuals within the secure area and produces a breach signal upon detecting one or more non-authorized individuals within or entering the secure area. Upon receiving the breach signal, an access system controller in communication with the access monitoring device initiates a security alert phase. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20100006379 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system, an operation of a car is controlled by an operation control section. When a specific user in the car is certified by personal authentication of a personal authentication section after a landing call registration operation is performed by a user through a landing call operation section provided on a landing, the operation control section counts registered specific floors present in a traveling direction of the car according to the landing call registration operation in the registered specific floors based on registered floor information received from the personal authentication section, and performs a destination floor registration with the registered specific floor being a destination floor of the car if the number of the counted registered specific floors is one. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20080196978 | Elevator system - In the method of the present invention an evacuation mode is presented in an elevator system, which receives destination calls i.e. operates in accordance with so-called destination control. In the method the destination floor calls given on the evacuation floors of the building are changed in the event of an exceptional incident such that the destination floor becomes an exit floor of the building. In the method the elevator car is filled as full as possible on one floor and the travel time to the exit floor is minimized by directing the elevator car to the escape floor without intermediate stops. The passengers to be evacuated are shown information relating to the evacuation on a display located on the destination call panel and/or inside the car of the evacuation elevator. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20120097486 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system, a security gate includes a gate box body, an opening/closing member, an input section for inputting identification information of a user, a display section, and a gate control section connected to an elevator group supervisory device. The gate control section controls opening/closing of the opening/closing member in accordance with the identification information input to the input section and controls the display section to display elevator information of elevators. The display section is provided on a side surface of the gate box body on a passage side and includes a display screen provided so as to be inclined with respect to a direction of passage of the user so as to be oriented to an entrance side of the security gate. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20110168498 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL DEVICE - Provided is an elevator group control device which enables any special operation to be selected from a plurality of kinds of special operations by an operation in an elevator hall or in a place distant from the elevator hall. For this purpose, special operation input means for inputting information to the effect that any special operation is to be performed in the hall or in a place distant from the hall, a notification device which provides prescribed information by indications or sounds are installed in the elevator hall or in a place distant from the elevator hall. An elevator group control panel is provided with special operation storage means in which a plurality of kinds of special operations are stored. When information to the effect that a special operation is to be performed is inputted from the special operation input means, a special operation corresponding to the input information is selected from special operations stored in the special operation storage means, and information about the selected special operation is provided by the notification device. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110203879 | ELEVATOR CONTROL DEVICE - There is provided an elevator control device that performs fire emergency operation based on a contact signal sent from a fire detector having a contact B, wherein even in the case where, for example, when the elevator is being installed, the contact signal sent from the fire detector cannot be used, the normal operation of elevator can be performed. For this purpose, the elevator control device includes an operation selection control section that causes the normal operation to be performed when a contact signal sent from the fire detector is received, and causes the fire emergency operation to be performed when the contact signal sent from the fire detector is cut off, and a function judgment section for judging, based on predetermined conditions, whether or not a fire emergency operation function of the elevator is valid. When it is judged, by the function judgment section, that the fire emergency operation function of the elevator is invalid, the operation selection control section causes normal operation to be performed regardless of the presence or absence of the contact signal sent from the fire detector. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120193173 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system including an authentication device by which a user before boarding an elevator car performs personal authentication, a destination floor registration device which automatically performs destination floor registration when personal authentication has been performed by the authentication device, a group controller which assigns an elevator to the registered destination floor, and an indication device which indicates the assigned machine number. When the machine number of the elevator assigned by the group controller is successively indicated, the indication device provides indications to each user by a prescribed method which permits discrimination between preceding and succeeding indications even when the machine number is the same. Thereby, the registration of a destination floor is performed during passage of a prescribed place, and a user who passes the above-described prescribed place can recognize the machine number of the elevator assigned to the user. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20110127117 | ELEVATOR CONTROL DEVICE - In an elevator control device in which, when a verified person is authenticated as a registered person by an person authentication device, a security gate is opened to enable the movement into an elevator hall, even when a user cannot ride on an assigned car for some reason after passing through the security gate, the user is enabled to use an elevator, and convenience can be prevented from becoming poor. For this purpose, a hall destination floor registration device is provided in the elevator hall so that the user who is present in the hall registers his/her destination floor. A destination call is always registered automatically interlocking with the security gate, and when a predetermined condition is met, the destination floor registration of user made using the hall destination floor registration device is validated. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110120813 | DYNAMIC ELEVATOR CAR DISPATCHING DURING AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM MODERNIZATION - An exemplary method is useful for handling passenger requests during an elevator system modernization that includes modernizing elevator cars over time. The modernized elevator cars are capable of servicing destination requests placed outside of an elevator car. Such destination requests include an indication of a desired destination. The exemplary method includes assigning an elevator car to respond to a new pending destination request according to a selected criterion for selecting between a modernized elevator car and an elevator car that has not yet been modernized. The method includes automatically updating the selected criterion responsive to a change in a number of modernized elevator cars. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20120241259 | ELEVATOR SECURITY SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a method of controlling access to floor within a building via elevator. The method includes receiving a passenger input indicating a desired destination floor a passenger seeks to travel to in an elevator, accessing a stored database containing data about which floors passengers are allowed to access via elevator when coming from the floor of the passenger input, determining if access is allowed based upon the desired destination floor and the data, and controlling operation of the elevator to deliver the passenger to the desired destination floor if access is allowed. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20110100762 | METHOD OF USING AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM, ELEVATOR SYSTEM FOR SUCH A METHOD AND METHOD OF RETROFITTING SUCH AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DOOR TRIM - The invention relates to a method of operating an elevator system in a building with at least two storeys ( | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110048865 | SECURITY-BASED ELEVATOR CONTROL - An exemplary method of controlling a plurality of elevator cars includes determining that there is a security violation condition involving at least one of the elevator cars at a landing. That elevator car is prevented from moving from the landing until the condition is resolved. The other elevator cars are controlled such that they do not provide elevator service to or from the landing until the condition is resolved. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110155516 | Method of Operating Elevators During Emergency Situations - An elevator system having at least two elevators, wherein at least one of the elevators is designated as an emergency personnel elevator, can be operated to allow a firefighter to commandeer a second elevator for the purpose of ferrying persons to a safe evacuation floor. The elevator system is configured to determine if a request for an evacuation elevator originates from the firefighter elevator car positioned at one of several floors of a building. In response to the request, an elevator car other than the emergency personnel elevator car is designated as the evacuation elevator car. Further, the evacuation elevator car is dispatched to the floor the emergency personnel elevator car is positioned, and the evacuation elevator car is dispatched to a predefined evacuation floor upon receipt of an evacuation request made by the firefighter. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20080202861 | FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELEVATOR - In a fire control system for an elevator, the time for the fire and smoke to reach the elevator hall of each floor of a building during fire is pre-calculated as the evacuation time of the floor. When the evacuation time of a floor is longer than the time for making a car respond to a rescue call from the evacuation floor, the floor is judged as a rescue floor, and when shorter, the floor is judged as a non-rescue floor. Furthermore, the order in which the rescue is carried out among the rescue floors is determined. Accordingly, it is possible to rescue remainders on a rescue floor using an elevator as an evacuation means. Moreover, since rescue operation by the elevator is performed with the order of rescue determined, rescue operation suitable for the conditions of the fire can be realized. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20110114424 | ELEVATOR RESCUE OPERATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, there is provided an elevator rescue operation system to be used in a building in which a plurality of elevators are installed in parallel. The system includes a disaster detection unit configured to detect, when a disaster has occurred in the building, an occurrence site of the disaster, a zone setting unit configured to set a plurality of zones to which all the elevators are caused to respond on the basis of the disaster occurrence site detected by the disaster detection unit, and a rescue operation unit configured to individually cause an elevator to respond to floors in each zone set by the zone setting unit, the elevator being corresponding to the zone, thereby carrying out a through-car operation up to a refuge floor. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110303495 | ELEVATOR CONTROLLER - An elevator controller which enables a stop to be made at the nearest floor in the event of a disaster and can prevent users from being shut up in an emergency landing entrance floor. The elevator controller includes an operation mode controller, a door open/close controller which causes the elevator to open the elevator door at the nearest emergency landing entrance floor for a given time when the operation mode controller has returned an operation mode from an emergency operation mode to a normal operation mode, and an informing controller which causes an informing device, which is provided in a hall of an emergency landing entrance floor for which the door open/close controller causes the door to be opened for a given time or provided in the car, to provide information to the effect that the elevator can be used when the operation mode-controller has returned the operation mode from the emergency operation mode to the normal operation mode. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120118677 | CONTROLLING AN ELEVATOR INSTALLATION - The disclosure relates to a method of controlling a elevator installation with several elevator cages per elevator shaft, wherein a destination call to a desired destination story is actuated on a call input story by at least one passenger and at least one most favorable call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story is determined for the destination call by at least one destination call control. If at least one disadvantage parameter is set, at least one disadvantage-free call allocation for transport of the passenger by the elevator cage from a start story to a destination story is determined by the destination call control, in which it is possible the start story and call input story or the destination story and desired destination correspond. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20090020372 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - An elevator control system high in security and capable of enhancing operation efficiency is realized. In a system in which an elevator group management device which manages a plurality of elevators as a group is installed, a validation device is installed at a security gate installed at an entrance of a building, and when validation is made by the validation device, the security gate opens to allow a validated person to move to an elevator hall of an entrance floor, the elevator control system includes validation information transmission means which transmits validation information to a corresponding bank out of a plurality of banks of the elevator hall based on destination floor validation information of the validation device, indoor population counting means which counts indoor population of each floor from the validation information, car assigning means which assigns a car to each destination floor of a passenger from the validation information, destination floor display means which displays a destination floor on the entrance floor hall for each assigned car, and call automatic registration means which automatically registers a destination call of the destination floor in the car when detecting riding of the passenger. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20120228065 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The present invention is provided with: a personal authentication device provided in a destination call registration device adapted to obtain authentication information from a user; an access control device adapted to, when the personal authentication device obtains the authentication information, obtain verification information comprised of a plurality of pieces of permitted floor information corresponding to the authentication information and position information of the destination call registration device; and a supervisory controller adapted to determine, based on the verification information, whether a destination floor inputted into the destination call registration device is a permitted floor, and, based on the registration, control an elevator car. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20110120812 | ELEVATOR RESCUE OPERATION SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, there is provided an elevator rescue operation system to be used in a building in which a plurality of elevators are installed in parallel. The system includes a disaster detection unit configured to detect, when a disaster has occurred in the building, an occurrence site of the disaster, a priority response floor setting unit configured to set a priority response floor on the basis of the disaster occurrence site detected by the disaster detection unit, and a rescue operation unit configured to cause a corresponding elevator for a rescue operation among the plurality of elevators to respond to the priority response floor set by the priority response floor setting unit, thereby carrying out a through-car operation up to a refuge floor. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20120267202 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The invention presents a method and a system for evacuating a building or a part of it using an elevator system, which comprises one or more elevators. In the method an evacuation state is activated, the number of people awaiting evacuation on specific floors is determined, the number of elevator cars and/or of evacuation times needed for the evacuation of specific floors is calculated on the basis of the capacity of the aforementioned one or more elevator cars and of the number of people awaiting evacuation, and floor-specific evacuation is controlled to one or more predefined exit floors. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20110272221 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system capable of an efficient evacuation using an elevator in case of a fire, and capable of confirming an evacuee remaining status in a case that an evacuation operation using the elevator is discontinued. An evacuation-call response-order setting section sets a priority order of a response to an evacuation special call registered in an evacuation special call registration section, based on fire occurrence information received by a fire situation reception section. A responding floor is selected based on the priority order. The evacuation operation running section controls an operation of the elevator so as to direct a car to the responding floor selected in this manner. In a case that the evacuation operation availability determination section determines that the evacuation operation is not available, the evacuation operation terminating section causes an evacuation special call remaining floor display section to display a remaining evacuation special call registration floor. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20120279807 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM OPERATION - An elevator system includes at least one elevator, at least one call input device and a call controller. The call input device transmits a call to the call controller. For a transmitted normal operation signal, at least one elevator car of an assigned elevator is activated to drive to the call input floor by at least one elevator controller of the assigned elevator. In a peak-time mode of the elevator system, at least one main operation signal is transmitted to at least one elevator. For a main operation signal transmitted to an elevator, at least one elevator car of said elevator is activated to drive between at least two main operation floors by at least one elevator controller of said elevator. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20110308896 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL APPARATUS - Provided is an elevator group control apparatus which brings distributed standby control into action when the movement of users is heavy in one direction in an unbalanced manner in time zones which account for large proportions of an elevator use condition of a day, for example, in off-hour zones and time zones in which traffic demand is relatively small, thereby improving the waiting time of users, and does not bring distributed standby control into action when there is no unbalanced condition of the movement of the users, whereby it is possible to perform energy savings by reducing power consumption during runs without greatly worsening the waiting time of the users. | 12-22-2011 |
| 187385000 | Dispatches load supports from designated landing | 2 |
| 20080308361 | Method and System for Determining Instantaneous Peak Power Consumption in Elevator Banks - A method and system determine peak power consumption over time by a bank of elevator for servicing a set of passenger hall calls and delivery requests, and selecting elevator schedules that keep peak power consumption below a predetermined threshold. For each car in response to receiving a hall call, a set of all possible paths to service all hall calls assigned to the car are determined, in which each path includes a set of all possible segments. A peak power consumption for each possible segment is also determined. The peak power consumptions for the set of all possible segments for each time instant are added to determine a total peak power consumption for each time instant, and a particular path is selected as a schedule to operate the bank of elevator cars, if the total peak power consumption for any instant in time while operating according to the selected schedule is below a predetermined threshold. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20120168261 | ELEVATOR GROUP SUPERVISORY CONTROL SYSTEM AND ELEVATOR GROUP SUPERVISORY CONTROL METHOD - According to the present invention, when a parking floor is set as a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor, the parking floor can be canceled. As a result of this, during the movement of a passenger from a remote hall operating panel to an elevator hall, it is possible to prevent a car from being on standby at a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor. Therefore, because a car to which a remote hall registration has been assigned can effectively use the moving time of the passenger and hence it is possible to improve the operation efficiency of the whole group supervisory control system. Furthermore, it is possible to reduce useless runs and hence to reduce power consumption. | 07-05-2012 |
| 187387000 | Assigns calls to load supports on predetermined basis | 17 |
| 20090178890 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELEVATOR - A control system for elevators is provided with a landing call registration device provided at each of landing floors so as to be operable thereat, a landing call automatic registration portion for setting that one of the landing floors at which the landing call registration device is operated as a car call floor and registering a car call to stop one of cars at the car call floor, a response selection portion for selecting that one of elevator apparatuses which responds to a registered car call as a selected elevator, a passenger traveling time period calculation portion for setting that one of elevator doorways of the selected elevator which is provided at the car call floor as a selected doorway and calculating a passenger traveling time period corresponding to the selected doorway, and an opening/closing control portion for controlling the opening/closing operation of the selected doorway based on information from the selected elevator and information from the passenger traveling time period calculation portion. When the selected doorway is already in a door-open state at the time of registration of the car call, the opening/closing control portion continues to hold the selected doorway in the door-open state until the passenger traveling time period elapses after registration of the car call. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20130048436 | AUTOMATED ELEVATOR CAR CALL PROMPTING - A method for automatically prompting a car call in an elevator system, determining the number of passengers, allocating the elevator car alternatives as serving elevator cars for the passenger. The elevator system including the door sensing device and the surveillance device for monitoring passenger actions, thereby defining the starting point and the final point of a passenger's traveling path. The method also includes calculating a passenger traveling time period, thereby yielding a time forecast of the passenger's arrival time at the waiting lobby. A cost function containing at least one landing time factor is determined for calculating the cost value of each elevator car alternative. The alternative that gives the lowest cost value is allocated as the serving elevator car for the passenger. The elevator system also receives information from external devices via one or more communicative linkages for system operation. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20110214948 | Elevator system - The present invention discloses a method and a system for dividing destination calls in an elevator system, which comprises at least two elevator groups, which elevator groups have one or more shared floors and also destination call appliances on at least the aforementioned shared floors for receiving destination calls given by passengers. The destination call appliances are connected to the group controls of the elevator groups, and the destination calls given by passengers are divided between the elevator groups on the basis of the defined division criteria. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20080210493 | Elevetor system - 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. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090050417 | INTELLIGENT DESTINATION ELEVATOR CONTROL SYSTEM - An intelligent destination elevator control system streamlines the efficiency and control of destination elevators. The system monitors a building's population and predicts elevator traffic conditions. The system may monitor attributes of the destination elevators. Based on the monitored data, the system may generate a data structure that renders time-tables and target elevator service quality parameters that may control the destination elevators. A time-table and target elevator service quality parameters may be selected to control destination elevators according to one or more customer selectable mode of operation parameters. The data structure may be processed to control UP and/or DOWN transportation capacities of the destination elevators while satisfying the one or more customer selectable mode of operation parameters. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100219025 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The invention relates to a solution for the allocation of destination calls in an elevator system comprising one or more single-deck elevators and one or more multi-deck elevators, in which system the passenger enters a destination call via a destination call device. The destination call entered by the passenger is received, an elevator type to serve the destination call is selected on the basis of an elevator type selection criterion, and the destination call is allocated to an elevator consistent with the elevator type thus selected. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110056772 | METHOD OF DISPATCHING AN ELEVATOR CAR - An elevator system includes a plurality of cars and destination entry devices located some distance from the elevator cars. A controller dispatches an elevator car to a requested destination entered by a passenger before the passenger enters an elevator car. In one example, the controller uses an expected arrival time corresponding to the time it is expected to take for a passenger to travel from the location where the destination request is entered to the location of the elevator car to decide how to dispatch a car to service that request. In one example, the controller dispatches an elevator car to the requested destination on a next trip of that car if the expected arrival time of the passenger near that car occurs at or before the departure time for that next trip. Otherwise, the controller dispatches the car to the requested destination on a subsequent trip after the next trip. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20090038892 | EVACUATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE FOR ELEVATOR - In a building, a service zone including a plurality of floors is set. The building is provided with an elevator that is assigned to the floors in the service zone as service floors. In an event of a fire in the building, an evacuation support apparatus for the elevator controls the operation of the elevator to convey those stranded in the building to an evacuation floor. The evacuation support apparatus has an emergency control device and an evacuation guidance device. The emergency control device has a rescue floor setting portion for setting at least a predetermined one of the service floors as a rescue floor, and an evacuation operation command portion for controlling the elevator such that evacuation operation is performed to vertically reciprocate a car between the rescue floor and the evacuation floor. The evacuation guidance device is installed in the building to impart to those stranded in the building evacuation information including information for specifying the rescue floor, based on information from the emergency control device. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090127030 | DEVICE FOR MANAGING ELEVATOR IN EVACUATION - A building is provided with a plurality of service zones each including a plurality of floors, and elevators each assigned to the floors included in a corresponding one of the service zones as service floors. The service zones are provided such that the floors included in each of the service zones are at least partially different from the floors included in each of the other service zones. In an event of a fire in the building, an evacuation control apparatus for the elevators controls the elevators to convey those stranded in the building to a common evacuation floor. The evacuation control apparatus has a rescue floor setting portion for setting predetermined one of the service floors as rescue floors as to each of the service zones, and an evacuation operation command portion for controlling each of the elevators based on information from the rescue floor setting portion such that evacuation operation is performed to vertically reciprocate a corresponding one of cars between a corresponding one of the rescue floors and the evacuation floor. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090014255 | ELEVATOR DISPLAY SYSTEM - An elevator target floor registration unit, which displays an estimated amount of time until an assigned elevator car arrives, reduces feelings of uneasiness. Various target floor registration units by which a user may register a target floor are installed on respective floors of a building. The target floor registration units are connected to an elevator controller via an interface. The elevator controller: (a) assigns a most suitable elevator car corresponding to a user's target floor registered using the target floor registration unit; (b) computes an expected waiting time for the elevator assigned to arrive at the floor of the aforementioned registration; and (c) sends said pieces of information on the elevator assignment and the expected waiting time to aforementioned target floor registration unit in order to display them. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20080196979 | Control System For Elevator - A control system for elevators controls the operations of a plurality of elevator apparatuses. The elevator apparatuses have cars and elevator doorways provided at each landing floor. The control system for the elevators is equipped with a landing call registration device, a landing call automatic registration portion, a response selection portion, a passenger traveling time period calculation portion, and an opening/closing control portion. The landing call registration device is provided at the landing floor to be operable at the landing floor. The landing call automatic registration portion sets as a car call floor the landing floor whose landing call registration device is operated, and makes a car call registration for stopping one of the cars at the car call floor. The response selection portion selects as a selected elevator that one of the elevator apparatuses which responds to the car call registration, based on information from the elevator apparatuses and information from the landing call automatic registration portion. The passenger traveling time period calculation portion sets as a selected doorway that one of the elevator doorways of the selected elevator, which is provided at the car call floor, based on information from the response selection portion, and calculates a passenger traveling time period corresponding to the selected doorway. The opening/closing control portion controls opening/closing operations of the selected doorway based on information from the selected elevator and information from the passenger traveling time period calculation portion. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20110048866 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - An elevator system including a car call registration device by which an elevator user registers a car call before riding on a car and a group supervisory controller with a building specification data storage section in which building specification data including specially-assigned floors is stored. Further, a specially-assigned floor judgment section judges whether a departure floor is a specially-assigned floor when a car call is registered, and a traffic condition judgment section judges the traffic condition of elevators within a building. A car assignment is performed based on the traffic condition judgment section judging by the specially-assigned floor judgment section that the departure floor is a specially-assigned floor, and a car assignment is performed based on a building specification stored in the building specification data storage section when the specially-assigned floor judgment section judges the departure floor is not a specially-assigned floor. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20120018257 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - In an elevator system in which a user registers a destination call by inputting his or her personal information before boarding an elevator car, it is ensured that information on an assigned car can be appropriately provided, and that the user is able to easily make sure of the elevator car to board even after the registration of a destination call. For this purpose, there are installed in an elevator hall or the like a destination call registration device with which a user registers a destination call before boarding the elevator car and an assigned car confirming device with which a user makes sure of an assigned car by inputting his or her personal information. When an elevator has been assigned to a destination call registered from the destination call registration device, regarding the destination call for which the assignment has been performed, information on an assigned car and personal information of a user are stored in storage means by associating these pieces of information with each other. When personal information of a user has been inputted, the assigned car confirming device provides information on the assigned car of the user on the basis of the personal information and the memory content in the storage means. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20100270110 | ELEVATOR SYSTEM - The present invention discloses a method and a system for modernizing at least one elevator group, which comprises a plurality of elevators, a group control that controls the elevator group as well as call-giving appliances connected to the group control via the landing appliance bus. According to the solution a new group control, new call-giving appliances for the floor levels and also a new landing call bus are installed in the elevator group; a new group control is connected to the pushbutton interface of the old call-giving appliances for transmitting calls given by passengers from the new group control to the old group control. The elevator calls given by passengers are divided between the modernized subgroup and at least one unmodernized subgroup on the basis of the given selection criterion, and a call addressed to the modernized subgroup is allocated in the new group control to the modernized elevators or a call addressed to the unmodernized subgroup is transmitted via the pushbutton interface to the unmodernized subgroup. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100326773 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL SYSTEM - Provided is an elevator group control system which is excellent in convenience and can prevent a decrease in operation efficiency even when an elevator is used by a group of a plurality of persons. For this purpose, there are installed in an elevator hall a destination operating panel by use of which users register their destination floors before boarding and a group boarding registering device for registering that users use an elevator as a group. The number of users expected when users use an elevator as a group is stored beforehand in a user head-count storage section. When registration of a destination floor by use of the destination operating panel has been performed at the same time with registration of a group use by use of the group boarding registering device, a car to be assigned to a hall car call is determined on the basis of the number of users stored in the user head-count storage section. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20080296099 | Elevator system - The present invention discloses an extension to a prior-art genetic algorithm, with which the routing of elevators based on the calls given in an elevator system is formed. A new type of gene, a so-called run type gene, is connected to the chromosome of the genetic algorithm according to the invention, with which gene the desired speed profile for the elevator trip can be set. In this way e.g. an upper limit can be set for the acceleration or for the maximum travel speed of the elevator. By means of the run type gene a kinetic energy term is included in the optimization. The energy consumed by the system can thus be minimized more effectively by means of the algorithm, because the varying travel speeds of the elevators create more freedom of choice for the chromosomes of the algorithm. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20100230213 | ELEVATOR GROUP CONTROL APPARATUS - An elevator group control apparatus includes a parameter calculating unit for determining a weighting factor for an item to be evaluated, which is calculated from a running distance estimated by an estimation arithmetic operation unit by taking into consideration a relation between a running distance of an elevator and a passenger average waiting time, and an evaluation arithmetic operation unit for calculating a total evaluated value from an item to be evaluated of a passenger waiting time, an item to be evaluated of the running distance, and the weighting factor determined by the parameter calculating unit. The elevator group control apparatus selects an elevator whose total evaluated value is the best from among the plurality of elevators, and assigns a hall call to the selected elevator. | 09-16-2010 |
