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US 7,114,595 B2Granted
Method of assigning elevators for sky lobbies
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorMasazumi Urata
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Abstract
An elevator operation system and apparatus reduce the round trip time of an elevator, by determining a target floor that corresponds to the destination floor requested by a passenger; and assigning the target floor to one of a plurality of elevators for service exclusively to the target floor.
Claims7
An elevator system for operating a plurality of elevators in a building comprising;
- a call registration device for entering a destination floor request;
- a target floor determining means that determines a target floor corresponding to the destination floor request;
- a target floor assigning means for assigning the target floor to one of the plurality of elevators for service exclusively to the target floor, and;
- a first-arriving elevator predicting means that predicts a first arriving elevator among said plurality of elevators to arrive at a building ground floor lobby and wherein said target floor assigning means assigns said target floor to the first arriving elevator.
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An elevator operation method for operating plural elevators in a building comprising the steps of;
- registering a destination floor request;
- determining a target floor that corresponds to the destination floor request;
- assigning the target floor to one of the plurality of elevators for service exclusively to the target floor, predicting a first arriving elevator from among said plurality of elevators to arrive at a building ground floor lobby;
- and,
- assigning said target floor to the first arriving elevator.
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