Transportation method associating an access story with a destination story
AssigneeInventio AG
InventorsLukas Finschi, Paul Friedli
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for transporting people in a building using an elevator installation (10) having at least one elevator cage (11). The elevator cage (11) is entered by people on at least one first or one second access floor (S1, S2). In order to increase the transport efficiency, at least one target floor (S3, S4, S5, S6, S7) is associated with each access floor (S1, S2) in a fixed manner, in such a way that the elevator cage (11) travels from the first access floor (S1) to the associated first target floor (S4, S5) and from the second access floor (S2) to the associated second target floor (S5, S6, S7).
Claims19
A method of using an elevator installation, the elevator installation comprising at least first and second elevator cages, the method comprising:
- fixedly allocating at least one destination story for the first elevator cage to a first access story;
- fixedly allocating at least one destination story for the second elevator cage to a second access story, the first and second access stories being different access stories;
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- assigning one or more passengers to the first access story to enter the first elevator cage, or to the second access story to enter the second elevator cage, according to respective destination stories of the one or more passengers.
An elevator installation comprising:
- at least first and second elevator cages;
- at least one control unit that assigns at least a first destination story to a first access story and at least a second destination story to a second access story, the first and second access stories being separate access stories, and that assigns one or more passengers to the first access story to enter the first elevator cage, or to the second access story to enter the second elevator cage, according to respective destination stories of the one or more passengers;
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- an indicating device for indicating an allocation of the first destination story and the second destination story to the first access story and the second access story, respectively.
An elevator installation building control unit that assigns an elevator passenger to one of a first access story and a second access story in a building for transportation to one of a first destination story and a second destination story in the building, wherein the assigning is based a passenger destination story, one of the first access story and the second access story being fixedly allocated to a respective one of the first destination story and the second destination story, the control unit coupled with an indicating device for indicating allocations of the first destination story and the second destination story.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.