Double-deck elevator group controller
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorNaohiko Suzuki
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Abstract
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.
Claims8
A double-deck elevator group controller which controls the operation of a plurality of cars of an elevator system having cars vertically connected to each other in the same shaft, comprising:
- a hall-installed destination floor input device which is installed in a hall of each floor, by use of which a passenger registers a from-hall car call by inputting his or her destination floor;
- operation mode storage means which stores, for each car of the plurality of connected cars, two operation modes:
- a first operation mode in which an upper car of the connected cars serves an upper lobby floor and even-numbered service floors and a lower car of the connected cars serves a lower lobby floor and odd-numbered service floors and a second operation mode in which the upper car and lower car of the connected cars serve all floors at which the cars can stop;
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- from-hall car-call assigned candidate car selection means which, upon registration of a from-hall car call by the hall-installed destination floor input device, regards a car whose operation mode is the first operation mode as an assigned candidate car for the from-hall car call when a combination of boarding and alighting floors of the from-hall car call corresponds to any one of operation between an upper lobby floor and an even-numbered service floor, operation between an even-numbered service floor and an even-numbered service floor, operation between a lower lobby floor and an odd-numbered service floor and operation between an odd-numbered service floor and an odd-numbered service floor and a minimum value of an increment of the number of stops obtained when the from-hall car call is assigned to a car of the first operation mode is not more than or less than a minimum value of an increment of the number of stops obtained when the from-hall car call is assigned to a car of the second operation mode.
A double-deck elevator group controller which controls the operation of a plurality of cars of an elevator system having cars vertically connected to each other in the same shaft characterized by comprising:
- a hall-installed destination floor input device which is installed in a hall of each floor, by use of which a passenger registers a from-hall car call by inputting his or her destination floor;
- operation mode storage means which stores, for each car of the plurality of connected cars, two operation modes:
- a first operation mode in which an upper car of the connected cars serves an upper lobby floor and even-numbered service floors and a lower car of the connected cars serves a lower lobby floor and odd-numbered service floors and a second operation mode in which the upper car and lower car of the connected cars serve all floors at which the cars can stop;
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- from-hall car-call assigned candidate car selection means which, upon registration of a from-hall car call by the hall-installed destination floor input device, regards a car whose operation mode is the second operation mode as an assigned candidate car for the from-hall car call when a combination of boarding and alighting floors of the from-hall car call corresponds to operation between an even-numbered service floor and an odd-numbered service floor, or when a combination of boarding and alighting floors of the from-hall car call corresponds to operation between an even-numbered service floor and an even-numbered service floor and operation between an odd-numbered service floor and an odd-numbered service floor and a minimum value of an increment of the number of stops obtained when the from-hall car call is assigned to a car of the second operation mode is less than a minimum value of an increment of the number of stops obtained when the from-hall car call is assigned to a car of the first operation mode.
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