CA1223379A - Elevator operating system - Google Patents
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Abstract
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
The disclosed elevator operating system comprises an abnormality detector for detecting an abnormal door opening of an elevator car, a response limiting circuit responsive to the detection of the abnormal door opening to limit the response to car calls and floor calls for the elevator car, a re-execution circuit for re-executing the door opening of the elevator car detected as being abnormal, and releasing circuit for releasing the limitation of the response to the car and floor calls in response to no detection of the abnormal door opening during its re-execution.
The disclosed elevator operating system comprises an abnormality detector for detecting an abnormal door opening of an elevator car, a response limiting circuit responsive to the detection of the abnormal door opening to limit the response to car calls and floor calls for the elevator car, a re-execution circuit for re-executing the door opening of the elevator car detected as being abnormal, and releasing circuit for releasing the limitation of the response to the car and floor calls in response to no detection of the abnormal door opening during its re-execution.
Description
1~2~379 ELEVATOR OPERATING SYSTEM
BACKGXOUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to improvements in an elevator operating system.
Elevator operating systems have the function of responding to the detection of an abnormality occurring in the operation of the elevator car to automatically take an emergency expedient. For example, after a command door-opening signal has been issued, the door of the elevator car is normally completed to open within a time interval of from two to three seconds. At that time even though, for example, eiyht second has elaped, the door may not open beyond a predetermined width. This is decided as the door opening disablement and the elevator car is caused to automatically travel to the next succeeding floor whereby a passenger or passengers is or are prevented from being confined in the elevator car. Then when the door opening disablement is again detected even at the next succeeding floor, the elevator car is put out of the control which is informed to the operator as by firing a fault lamp. Then the passenger or passengers confined in the elevator car is or are attempted to be capable of being urgently rescued from the elevator car.
However, where the door has been abled to open at the next succeeding floor, the elevator car is not put out of the control and calls continue to be put in normal service. Thus at that floor where the door opening has been detected to be disabled, the elevator car may again repeat ~ ~ 37~
the similar abnormal operation with a high possibility resulting in the fact that, each time the abnormal operation is performed, the passenger or passengers falls or fall into unesasiness, alternatively the deterioration of service is caused.
Also the door may open at the end of six seconds after a colNmand door opening signal has been issued.
Although such a door opening operation is clearly different from the normal door opening operation, any countermeasure may not be taken without detecting the door opening disablement. This causes a high possibility of repeating the similar abnormal operation resulting in the occurrence of objections that time is spent until the door opens thereby to cause the passenger or the passengers to be irritable or to be put in uneasiness.
In addition, the abnormal operations of the elevator car involve the departure disablement, the door closing disablement etc. The term "departure disablement" means that the elevator car not depart after the lapse of a specified time inyerval reckoned from~the issue of a command departure and the term "door closing disablement" means that a car door can not be closed after the lapse of a specified time interval reckoned from the issue of a command foor closing signal. Those abnormal operations cause objections similar to those resulting from the door opening disablement.
In order to eliminate the latter ob~ections, there have been already proposed the following counter measures:
a) Upon the occurrence of not less than a specified number of abnormal elevator operations within a predetermined ~ 3~3 time interval, which operations are returned back to the normal elevator operation before an automatic energency operation is performed, the elevator car is p~lt out of the control not to be responsive to calls occurring after that time.
b) Upon detecting an abormal elevator operation at a floor, the response to calls for that floor is limited.
However abnormalities of the operation of the elevator car may include temporal abnormalities resulting from causes that a passenger does mischief, a floor doorsill gets clogged by dust and so on. Upon detecting such a temporal abnormality, calls are permitted to be retu~ned back to the normal service only after the operator or the like has inspected the temporal abnormality and removed its cause. This results in new objections that service to passengers are correspondingly deteriorated and the operator or the like is forced to spend his or her labor.
Accordingly it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved elevator operating system ~i~ arranged to be automatically returned back to the norn!a~
operation after the detection of an abnormality of the elevator operation when the detected abnormality is determined as resulting from a temporal cause.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides an elevator operating system responsive to the detection of an abnormality of the operation of an eIevator car to take an emergency measure which system comprisesl an elevator car, abnormality detector 3~
means for detectin~ an abnormality of the operation of the elevator car and generating a signal indicating the detected abnormality; and c~ll register means for registering car calls due to destination pushbut-tons disposed on the elevator car and floor calls due to floor pushbuttons and releasing the registration of the car and floor calls; the call register means including response limiting means responsive to the abnormality indicating signal from the abnormality detector means to limit the response to at least one sort of the car calls anclsaid calls, re-e~ecution means responsive to saiclelevator car p~lt.;.lla predetermined state to ~enerate a command re-execution signal Eor re-executing the operation identical to that detected as including the abnormality, and releasing means for releasing the limitation of the response by the re-execution means when the abnormality detector means does not de-tect the abnormality included in the operation performed with the command re-execution signal.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention the abnormality detector means may include a timer for counting a time interval for which a selected one of the door opening, door closing and departure operations of the eleva'or car is fully performed to generate a counted time interval, a first comparator for comparing the counted time interval with a first reference time interval to produce an abnormality indicating signal in response to the counted time interval not shorter than the first reference time interval, and a second comparator for comparing the counted time interval with a second reference time interval shorter than the first reference ~ime interval to produce an .
~ 7~3 abnormality indicating siynal in response to the counted time interval not shorter than the second reference time interval.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention will become more readily apparent ~rom the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment according to the elevator operating system of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a block diagram of the abnormality detector circuit shown in Figure l;
Figure 3 is a circuit diagram of the call register shown in Figure 1 and formed of logic elements for a floor of a building served b~ the elevator operation system;
Figure 4 is a diagram similar to Figure 2 but illustrating a modification of the arrangement shown in Figure 2; and Figure 5 is a diagram similar to~l-Figure 2 but illustrating another modification of the arrangement shown in Figure 2.
DESCRIPTI~N OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring now to Figure 1 of the drawings, there is illustrated one embodiment according to the eLevator operating s~stem of the present invention. For a better understanding of the present invention, the description will now be made in conjunction with an elevator system as shown ~ 3~
in the righthand portion in Figure 1 the operation of which is controlled the present invention. The elevator system is shown as serving a building including six floors designated hy lF, 2F, ..., 6F starting with the lowermost floor lF and comprises an elevator car 100 including a car door 102 and an electric door motor 104, a hoisting rope 106 connected at one end to the elevator car 100 and at the other end to a counterweight 108, a hoist motor 110, a sheave 112 connected to the hoist motox llO and having the hoisting rope 106 trained over the same, and an endless rope 114 connected at both ends to the elevator car lO0 and spanned between a tensioning wheel 116 disposed at the lower end of a hoistway (not shown) and a rotary disc 118 disposed in a machine room (not shown) located above the upper end of the hoistway.
The disc 118 includes a plurality of small holes 118a disposed at predetermined equal angular intervals on the peripheral portion thereof. A position detector 120 of the conventional structure is disposed to detect the small holes 118a on the disc 118 rotated in synchronism with the travel of the elevator-car lO0 through the endless rope 114 to generate pulses one for each of the small holes 118a. The position detector 1~4 also adds the pulses to one another during the up travel of the elevator car 100 and subtracts them durin~
a down travel thereof to count the actual position of the elevator car 100 whereby the same selectively delivers car position signals 120-1, 120-2~ ..., 120-6, corresponding to the actual positions of the elevator car lO0 on the floors lF through 6F respectively.
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Then an up pushbutton lG is disposed on a flatform of the first floor lF while a down push~utton 6G is disposed on a platform of the sixth floor 6G. Also an up and a down pushbutton 2G, 3G, 4G or 5G are provided on a platform of each of the floors 2F, 3F, 4F or 5F. When depressed, the up pushbutton generates an up pushbutton signal at its high level H and the down pushbutton generates a down pushbutton signal at its high level H. lGu, 2Gu, 3Gu, 4Gu and 5Gu designate the up pushbutton signals from pushbutton Gl, G2, G3, G4 and G5 respectively and 2Gd, 3Gd, 4Gd, ~G_ and 6G_ designate the down pushbutton signals from the pushbuttons G2, G3, G4, G5 and G6 respectively.
Further a speed detector 122 in the form of a tachometer generator well known in the art is mechanically connected to the sheave 112 to detect the actual speed of the eleva-tor car 100 to deliver an actual speed signal 112a to a drive control 124 of the conventional structure connected to the hois* motor 110.
Also a floor selector 126 of the well known structure is provided to determine that floor on which the elevator car 100 is predetermined to be stopped and deliver a stoppage predetermined floor signal 126a to a velocity pattern generator 128 well known in the art. The velocity pattern generator 128 is responsive to a command travel signal 12a or 12b at its high level H as will be described later applied thereto to deliver a velocity pattern 128a to the drive control 124. The drive control 118 is operative to compare the velocity pattern 122_ with the actual car speed signal 122a to control the operation of the hoist motor 118 so as to render a difference between the velocity pattern 128a and the actual speed signal 122 null. The velocity pattern 128a is one of an acceleration pattern, a constant velocity pattern and a deceleration pattern.
All the components as described above are well known in the art and the details thereof need not be described here.
In order to control the operation of the elevator car 100, the arrangement of Figure 1 comprises an abnormality detector circuit ].0, an operation control circuit 12 connected to the abnormality detector circuit 10, a call register circuit 14 connected to the abnormality sensor circuit 10 and also connected in two ways to the operation controI
citcuit 12 and a door control circuit 16 connected in two ways to the abnormality detector circuit 10 and also connected to the door motor 104 on the elevator car 100.
The abnormality detector circuit 10 is operative to detect abnormalities of the elevator operation and to be responsive to the detection of the door opening disablement to deliver a door opening disablement signal lOa at its high level H to the door control circuit 16 and responsive to the detection of an abnormal door opening to deliver an abnormal door opening signal lOb at its high level H to the call register circuit 14.
The operation control circuit 12 is operative to control the operation of the elevator car 100 such as a departure, a travel, the determination of a stoppage etc. in order to cause the elevator car to respond to a calls. For example, when the elevator car 100 is caused travel in the 3~
up direction, the operation control circuit 12 delivers a command up travel signal 12a at its high level H to the velocity pattern generator 128 and when the elevator car is caused to travel in the down direction the same delivers a command down travel signal 12_ at its high level H to the veloci.ty pattern generator 128. Also ths operation control ci.rcuit 12 delivers an on-stoppage signal 16d and a direction setting signal 16f to the call register circuit 14. The on~
stoppage signal l~d is at. its low level L during the travel of the elevator car 100 and at its high level H during -the stoppage of the elevator car 100. The direction setting signal 14E is at its high level H when the elevator car 100 is set to travel in the up or down direction.
The operation control circui-t 12 is described, for example, in Japanese laid-open patent application No.
107,050/1978 with reference to Figure 1.
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.-The call register circuit 14 is operative to register and .release car calls due to a plurality of :,-destination pushbuttons (not shown) disposed in the elevator car 100 and floor calls due to the floor pushbut-tons lG
through 6G. The call register circuit 14 is responsive to calls registered thereon to deliver associated call signals to the operation control circuit 12. More specifically, when the call register circuit 14 receives car call signals 100-1_ through 100-6 for the first through sixth floors from the destination pushbuttons within the elevator car to register associated car calls for those floors, the same ~ 3~
delivers to the operation control circuit 12 associated car call signals 14-la through 14-6a at their high level H.
When up calls for the first through fifth floors are registered due to the up pushbutton signals lGu through 5Gu resulting from the up pushbuttons lG through 5G, up call signals 14-lb through 14-5b at their high level H are delivered to the operation control circuit 12. Similarly down call signals 14-2 through 14-6c at their high level H
are delivered to the operation control circuit 12 in response to the registration of down calls at the second through sixth dloors.
The door control circuit 16 is operative to control the opening and closure of the elevator door 102 The door control circuit 16 delivers to the abnormality detector circuit 10 a command door opening/c]osure signal 16_ put at its high level H when the car door 102 is closed and at its high level L when the door 102 is opened. The circuit 16 receives a door opening switch signal 16b put at its high level H from the elevator car 100 when the door 102 has opened beyond a-predetermined width and a door closing switch signal 16c put at its high level H from the elevator car 100 when the door 102 has fully closed. Those two signals are also applied to both the abnormality detector circuit 10 and the operation con~rol circuit 12. Furthermore the door control circuit 16 selectively supplies a command door opening signal 16g and a command door closing signal 16_ to the door motor 104. The command door opening signal 16_ put at its high level H is operative to drive the door motor 104 in a direction to open the door 102 while the 3~
command door closing signal 16h put at its high level H is operative to drive the door motor 104 in a direction to close the door 102.
In Figure 1 a resetting signal 16e shown as being applied to the call register circuit 14. The resetting signal 16e is put at its high level H when a resetting switcll 130 disposed on a control board (not shown) is depressed to reset a re-execution diablement signal as will be described la-ter.
The door control circuit 16 is described, for example, in Japanese laid-open patent application No.
107,050/1978 in conjunction with Figure 1.
Figure 2 shows the details of the abnormality detector circuit 10. The arrangement illustrated is operative to detect the abnormal door opening and comprises a pair of "NOT" gates 20 and 22 including respective inputs receiving the command door opening signal 16a and the door opening switch signal 16b respectiveiy and outputs-connected to a pair of inputs to an "~ND" gate 24 subse~uently connected at the output to a timer 26, and a pair of comparators 28 and 30 including respective inputs X connected to the output of the timer 26. Each of the comparators 28 or 30 includes another input Y receiving a first constant magnitude signal 32 having a first reference duration in this case of eight seconds for the purpose of detecting the door opening disablement or a second constant magnitude signal 54 having to a time interval in this~case, second reference durat'on ~ 3'7~
shorter than the first reference duration, in this case of four seconds for the purpose of detecting an abnormal door opening.
The timer 26 is operative to count a time interval for which the output from the "AND" gate 24 is at its high level H to deliver an output to the inputs X to the comparators 28 and 30 and to deliver a null output to the inputs X to the comparators 28 and 30 in response to the output from the "AND" gate 26 put at its low level ~. When the output from the timer 26 applied to the input X is equal to or greater than the constant magnitude signal 32 or 34 applied to the input Y, the comparators 28 or 30 can produce the door opening disablement signal 10_ at its high level H
or the abnormal door opening signal 10_ at its high level H
respectively. Otherwise the comparators 28 and 30 produce the door opening disablement signal 10a and the abnormal door opening signal 10_ at their low level L respectively.
Figure 3 shows in the logic foxm the cali register circuit 14 for the third floor. The arrangement illustrated comprise-s a call registration inhibiting circuit section .
generally designated by the reference numeral 14-3A and a call register circuit section generally designated by the reference numeral 14-3B. The call registration inhibiting circuit section 14-3A is operative with calls for the door opening signal because the comparator 38 determines that the output at its high level H from the timer 26 is equal in duration to the second constant magnitude signal 34. If the output at its high level ~ from the timer is equal in duration to or greater than the first constant magnitude signal 32 applied to the comparator 28 then the comparator 28 produces the door opening disablement signal 10a at its high level H. The abnormal door opening signal 10b at its high level H causes the output from the "AND" gate 40 (see Figure 3) to be put at its high level H. Thus the third floor comprises an "AND" gate 40 inciuding one input receiving the abnormal door opening signal 10b and an output connected to a setting input to an S-R FLIP-FLOP 42 which is called hereinafter a memory and arranged to deliver a call registration inhibiting signal 42a for the third floor to a first one of five inputs to an "AND" gate 44. The "AND"
gate 44 includes an output connected to a pulse generator 46 and a setting input to an S-R FLIP-FLOP or a memory 48. The pulse generator 46 generates a pulse signal 46a put at its high level H for about 0.5 second when the output from the "AND" gate 44 rises to its high level H from its low level~
The pulse signal 46a is applied to a resetting input to the memory 42. The memory 48 is arranged to generate a signal 48a indicating that the door opening operation on the third floor is being re-executed which signal is called hereinafter an on-re-operation signal.
~ n "AND" gate 50 includes one input receiving the door opening switch signal 16b and, other input connected to the other input to the AND gate 40 and an output connected to a resetting input to the memory 48.
Also an "AND" gate 52 includes one input connected to the output of the memory 48, the other input connected to the output of the "AND" gate 40 and an output connected to a setting input to an S-R FLIP-FLOP or a memory 54. The ~ 37~
memory 54 includes a resetting input applied with the resetting signal 16e and delivers to input to a "NOT" gate 56 a re-e~ecution disablement signal 54a for disabling re-execution of the door opening operation.
The "AND" ~ate 44 includes further a second input applied with the on-stoppage signal 16d, a third input applied with the direction setting signal 16f through a "NOT" gate 58, a fourth input applied with the door closing switch signal 16c and a fifth input connected to the output of the "NOT" gate 56.
The call resister circuit section 14-3B is also operative with calls for the third floor and comprises an "AND" gate 60 including a pair of inputs receiving the on-stoppage signal 16d and the car position signal 120-3 respectively and an output connected to the other inputs to the "AND" gate 42 and 50. An "OR" gate 62 includes one input connected to the output of the memory 42, the other input connected to the output of the "AND" gate 60, and output connected to a resetting input of an S-R FLIP-FLOP 62 or a memory. Also an "OR" gate 66 includes one input receiving the designation switch signal 100-3 for the third floor, the other input connected to the output of the pulse generator 46 and an output connected to a setting input to the memory 64 which, in turn, produces the car call signal 14-3_.
Each of the second through sixth floors is operatively associated with the arrangement similar to that shown in Figure 3.
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The operation of the arrangements shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 will now be described. It is now assumed that the elevator car lies on the first floor and the door thereof is in its open position. Under the assumed conditions, the car position signal 120-3 for the third floor is at its low level and therefore the output from the "AND" gate 60 is at its low level L. Also assuming that the elevator car is operated in the normal mode, the memory 42 is reset to deliver the call registration inhibiting signal 42a put at its low level L to the "OR" gate 62. Thus the output from the "OR" gate 62 is put at its low level L. Under these circumstances, when a passenger on the first floor gats into the elevat~r car and depresses the distination pushbutton for the third floor to register car call for the third floor, the resulting distination pushbutton signal 100-3 is put at its high level H and also the ou-tput from the "OR"
gate 66 is put at a high level H to reset the memo~y 64.
Thus the car call signal 14-30 is also put at its high l~el H. Also it is assumed that a car call for the fifth floor is similarly registered by another passenger and then the elevator car has departed from the first floor.
When the elevator car lands at the third 100r in response to the car call for the third floor, ~he car position signal 120-3 is put at its high level H and the on-stoppage signal 16d is also put at its high level H. Thus the "AND"
gate 60 delivers the output at its high level H to put the output from the "OR" hate 62 at its high level H ~esulting in the resetting of the memory 64. As a result, the car call signal 14a-3a is put at its low level L.
On the other hand, the command door closing signal 16a changes from its high level H to its low level L to put the output from the ~NOT~ gate 20 at its high level H (see Figure 2). Since the car door is not yet opened, the door opening switch signal 16b is kept at its low level L and the output from the "NOT" gate 22 is at its high level H. Thus the output from the "AND" gate 24 is put at its high level El. Thus the timer 26 counts a time interval lapsed immediately after the issue of the command door opening signal. When the car door has opened beyond the predetermined width, the door opening switch signal 16b is put at its high level H to put the output from the "NOT" gate 22 at its low level L. This causes the output from the "AND" gate 22 to be at its low level L and the output from the timer 26 is of a zero second.
Assuming that the door opening operation is normally completed for two seconds, the door opening disablement signal 10a and the abnormal door opening signal 10 which are the outputs from the comparators 28 and 30 respectively are maintained at their low level L. However if~the floor door on the third floor is in its abnormal state for some reason and prevented from opening up to the predetermined width then the the abnormal door opening signal 10b from the comparator 30 is put at its high level H at a time point when four seconds have lapsed after the issue of the command door opening signal. This causes the output from the "A~D"
gate 40 (see Figure 3) to be put at its high level H. Thus the memory 42 is set to change the call registration inhibiting signal 42_ for the third floor therefrom to its ~ 3~
hiyh level H. Accordingly, resetting signals continue to enter the resetting input to the memory 6~ through the "OR"
gate 62 with the result that the car call for the third floor can not be registered in the call register circuit section 14~3B. This is true in the case of up and down floor cal.ls on and for the third floor because those floor calls are registered by repeating the process similar to that described above.
Assuming that the door has been able to open beyond the predetermined width at the end of seven seconds reckoned from the issue of the command door opening signal, the door opening disablement is not detected so that the door opening switch signal 16b is at its high level H to put the output from the "NOT" gate 22 at its low level L.
Thus the "AND" gate 24 has the output at its low level L and the timer 26 delivers an output of zero second to the comparators 28 and 30. Therefore the outputs from the comparators 28 and 30 are put at their low level L. This means that the abnormal door opening signal 10b is put at its low lèvel L. However the call registration inhibiting signal 42_ is maintained at its high level H because the memory 72 is in its set position.
It is assumed that, after its departure from the third floor, the elevator car has landed at the fifth floor in response to the car call therefor and the car door has normally opened on the fifth floor. ~fter the passenger has left the elevator car and the car and floor doors have been completed to be closed, a car call and a floor call for another floor may be absent. In that case, the elevator car ~ 337~
has no destination direction and is on standby with its door closed. At that time the direction setting signal 16f is put at its low level L, the output from the "NOT" gate 58 is at its high level H, the on-stoppage signal 16d is at its high level H, the door closing swltch signal 16c is at its high level ~I, and the output from the memory 54 is at its low level L because of its resetting. Also the output from the "NOT" gate 56 and the call registration inhibiting signal 42a are put at their high level H. Thus the output from the "AND" gate 44 is put at its high level H to set the memory 48. Accordingly the no-re-operation signal 48a is put at its high level H. On the other hand, the pulse generator 46 is operated to produce the pulse signal 46_ at its high level H. Thus the memory 42 is reset to put the call registration inhibiting signal 42a at its low lev~l L.
At that time the output from the "OR" gate 62 is put at its low level ~ because the car position signal 120-3 is put at its low level L to put the output from the "AND" gate 60 at its low level L. Also the output from the "OR" gate 66 is put at its high level H to set the memory 64. Thus the car call signal 14-3_ from the memory 64 for the third floor is put at its high level ~I. Accordingly the elevator car is set to travel in the down direction and departs from the fifth toward the third floor.
Then the elevator car reaches the third floor to be stopped thereon. At that time the abovementioned car call signal 14-3_ for the third fIoor is reset to its low level L. ~hen the door opening operation is re-executed on the third floor it is assumed that the door re-opening ~8 spends a time interval of not less than four seconds. The assumed conditions are detected as an abnormality. Thus the abnormal door opening signal 10b is put at its high level H
to put the output from the "AND~ gate 40 at its high level H
thereby to again set the memory 42. Accordingly the call registration inhibiting signal 42a is put at its high level H. Also since the on-re-operation signal 48a remains at its high level H, the output from the "AND" gate 52 is put at its high level H to set the memory 64. Thus the re-execution disablement signal 54_ is put at its high level H to put the output from the "NOT" gate 56 at its low level L. Therefore the output from the "AND" gate 44 is put at its low level L
and the pulse generator 46 is disabled to produce its output.
Thus the car call signal 14-3a for the third floor is not put at its high level H. This causes the door opening operation to be disabled to be re-executed. As a result, it is required to operate the resetting switch 130 (see Figure 1) by the operator to put the resetting signal 16e at its high level H to reset the memory 54 after which the calls for the third floor can be registered.
On the other hand it is assumed that when the door opening operation has been again executed to permit the door to open normally. Under the assumed conditions the abnormal door opening signal 10b is at its low level L to left the memory 42 reset. Thus it is possible to register calls for the third floor. Thus passengers can he served. Also since the door opening switch signal 16b is put at its high level H, the output from the "AND" gate 50 is put at its high level H to reset the memory 48 to put the on-re-operation ~ 3~
signal 48a at its low level L resulting in the return-back to the normal mode of operation.
When the door control circuit 16 (see Figure 1) has been actually failed to disable the door opening operation even though eight seconds would elaped after the issue of the command door opening signal, the comparator 28 causes the door opening di.sablement signal 10a therefrom to be put at its high level H. Under these circumstances the elevator car is caused to travel to the next succeding floor on which whether or not the door opening operation is detected to be disabled. Upon detecting the door opening disablement, the elevator car is put out of the control and the response to calls for the third floor are inhibited until the operator can completely remove causes for which the door is diabled to open. ~egarding the measure as described above, reference may be made to the above-cited Japanese laid-open patent application No. 107,050/1978.
While the present invention has been discribed in conjunction with an disablement occurring in the door opening operation it is to De understood that the same is equally applicable to disablement in the departure operation, the door closing operation etc.
In Figure 4 wherein like reference numerals designate the components identical to those shown in Figure
BACKGXOUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to improvements in an elevator operating system.
Elevator operating systems have the function of responding to the detection of an abnormality occurring in the operation of the elevator car to automatically take an emergency expedient. For example, after a command door-opening signal has been issued, the door of the elevator car is normally completed to open within a time interval of from two to three seconds. At that time even though, for example, eiyht second has elaped, the door may not open beyond a predetermined width. This is decided as the door opening disablement and the elevator car is caused to automatically travel to the next succeeding floor whereby a passenger or passengers is or are prevented from being confined in the elevator car. Then when the door opening disablement is again detected even at the next succeeding floor, the elevator car is put out of the control which is informed to the operator as by firing a fault lamp. Then the passenger or passengers confined in the elevator car is or are attempted to be capable of being urgently rescued from the elevator car.
However, where the door has been abled to open at the next succeeding floor, the elevator car is not put out of the control and calls continue to be put in normal service. Thus at that floor where the door opening has been detected to be disabled, the elevator car may again repeat ~ ~ 37~
the similar abnormal operation with a high possibility resulting in the fact that, each time the abnormal operation is performed, the passenger or passengers falls or fall into unesasiness, alternatively the deterioration of service is caused.
Also the door may open at the end of six seconds after a colNmand door opening signal has been issued.
Although such a door opening operation is clearly different from the normal door opening operation, any countermeasure may not be taken without detecting the door opening disablement. This causes a high possibility of repeating the similar abnormal operation resulting in the occurrence of objections that time is spent until the door opens thereby to cause the passenger or the passengers to be irritable or to be put in uneasiness.
In addition, the abnormal operations of the elevator car involve the departure disablement, the door closing disablement etc. The term "departure disablement" means that the elevator car not depart after the lapse of a specified time inyerval reckoned from~the issue of a command departure and the term "door closing disablement" means that a car door can not be closed after the lapse of a specified time interval reckoned from the issue of a command foor closing signal. Those abnormal operations cause objections similar to those resulting from the door opening disablement.
In order to eliminate the latter ob~ections, there have been already proposed the following counter measures:
a) Upon the occurrence of not less than a specified number of abnormal elevator operations within a predetermined ~ 3~3 time interval, which operations are returned back to the normal elevator operation before an automatic energency operation is performed, the elevator car is p~lt out of the control not to be responsive to calls occurring after that time.
b) Upon detecting an abormal elevator operation at a floor, the response to calls for that floor is limited.
However abnormalities of the operation of the elevator car may include temporal abnormalities resulting from causes that a passenger does mischief, a floor doorsill gets clogged by dust and so on. Upon detecting such a temporal abnormality, calls are permitted to be retu~ned back to the normal service only after the operator or the like has inspected the temporal abnormality and removed its cause. This results in new objections that service to passengers are correspondingly deteriorated and the operator or the like is forced to spend his or her labor.
Accordingly it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved elevator operating system ~i~ arranged to be automatically returned back to the norn!a~
operation after the detection of an abnormality of the elevator operation when the detected abnormality is determined as resulting from a temporal cause.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides an elevator operating system responsive to the detection of an abnormality of the operation of an eIevator car to take an emergency measure which system comprisesl an elevator car, abnormality detector 3~
means for detectin~ an abnormality of the operation of the elevator car and generating a signal indicating the detected abnormality; and c~ll register means for registering car calls due to destination pushbut-tons disposed on the elevator car and floor calls due to floor pushbuttons and releasing the registration of the car and floor calls; the call register means including response limiting means responsive to the abnormality indicating signal from the abnormality detector means to limit the response to at least one sort of the car calls anclsaid calls, re-e~ecution means responsive to saiclelevator car p~lt.;.lla predetermined state to ~enerate a command re-execution signal Eor re-executing the operation identical to that detected as including the abnormality, and releasing means for releasing the limitation of the response by the re-execution means when the abnormality detector means does not de-tect the abnormality included in the operation performed with the command re-execution signal.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention the abnormality detector means may include a timer for counting a time interval for which a selected one of the door opening, door closing and departure operations of the eleva'or car is fully performed to generate a counted time interval, a first comparator for comparing the counted time interval with a first reference time interval to produce an abnormality indicating signal in response to the counted time interval not shorter than the first reference time interval, and a second comparator for comparing the counted time interval with a second reference time interval shorter than the first reference ~ime interval to produce an .
~ 7~3 abnormality indicating siynal in response to the counted time interval not shorter than the second reference time interval.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present invention will become more readily apparent ~rom the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment according to the elevator operating system of the present invention;
Figure 2 is a block diagram of the abnormality detector circuit shown in Figure l;
Figure 3 is a circuit diagram of the call register shown in Figure 1 and formed of logic elements for a floor of a building served b~ the elevator operation system;
Figure 4 is a diagram similar to Figure 2 but illustrating a modification of the arrangement shown in Figure 2; and Figure 5 is a diagram similar to~l-Figure 2 but illustrating another modification of the arrangement shown in Figure 2.
DESCRIPTI~N OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring now to Figure 1 of the drawings, there is illustrated one embodiment according to the eLevator operating s~stem of the present invention. For a better understanding of the present invention, the description will now be made in conjunction with an elevator system as shown ~ 3~
in the righthand portion in Figure 1 the operation of which is controlled the present invention. The elevator system is shown as serving a building including six floors designated hy lF, 2F, ..., 6F starting with the lowermost floor lF and comprises an elevator car 100 including a car door 102 and an electric door motor 104, a hoisting rope 106 connected at one end to the elevator car 100 and at the other end to a counterweight 108, a hoist motor 110, a sheave 112 connected to the hoist motox llO and having the hoisting rope 106 trained over the same, and an endless rope 114 connected at both ends to the elevator car lO0 and spanned between a tensioning wheel 116 disposed at the lower end of a hoistway (not shown) and a rotary disc 118 disposed in a machine room (not shown) located above the upper end of the hoistway.
The disc 118 includes a plurality of small holes 118a disposed at predetermined equal angular intervals on the peripheral portion thereof. A position detector 120 of the conventional structure is disposed to detect the small holes 118a on the disc 118 rotated in synchronism with the travel of the elevator-car lO0 through the endless rope 114 to generate pulses one for each of the small holes 118a. The position detector 1~4 also adds the pulses to one another during the up travel of the elevator car 100 and subtracts them durin~
a down travel thereof to count the actual position of the elevator car 100 whereby the same selectively delivers car position signals 120-1, 120-2~ ..., 120-6, corresponding to the actual positions of the elevator car lO0 on the floors lF through 6F respectively.
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Then an up pushbutton lG is disposed on a flatform of the first floor lF while a down push~utton 6G is disposed on a platform of the sixth floor 6G. Also an up and a down pushbutton 2G, 3G, 4G or 5G are provided on a platform of each of the floors 2F, 3F, 4F or 5F. When depressed, the up pushbutton generates an up pushbutton signal at its high level H and the down pushbutton generates a down pushbutton signal at its high level H. lGu, 2Gu, 3Gu, 4Gu and 5Gu designate the up pushbutton signals from pushbutton Gl, G2, G3, G4 and G5 respectively and 2Gd, 3Gd, 4Gd, ~G_ and 6G_ designate the down pushbutton signals from the pushbuttons G2, G3, G4, G5 and G6 respectively.
Further a speed detector 122 in the form of a tachometer generator well known in the art is mechanically connected to the sheave 112 to detect the actual speed of the eleva-tor car 100 to deliver an actual speed signal 112a to a drive control 124 of the conventional structure connected to the hois* motor 110.
Also a floor selector 126 of the well known structure is provided to determine that floor on which the elevator car 100 is predetermined to be stopped and deliver a stoppage predetermined floor signal 126a to a velocity pattern generator 128 well known in the art. The velocity pattern generator 128 is responsive to a command travel signal 12a or 12b at its high level H as will be described later applied thereto to deliver a velocity pattern 128a to the drive control 124. The drive control 118 is operative to compare the velocity pattern 122_ with the actual car speed signal 122a to control the operation of the hoist motor 118 so as to render a difference between the velocity pattern 128a and the actual speed signal 122 null. The velocity pattern 128a is one of an acceleration pattern, a constant velocity pattern and a deceleration pattern.
All the components as described above are well known in the art and the details thereof need not be described here.
In order to control the operation of the elevator car 100, the arrangement of Figure 1 comprises an abnormality detector circuit ].0, an operation control circuit 12 connected to the abnormality detector circuit 10, a call register circuit 14 connected to the abnormality sensor circuit 10 and also connected in two ways to the operation controI
citcuit 12 and a door control circuit 16 connected in two ways to the abnormality detector circuit 10 and also connected to the door motor 104 on the elevator car 100.
The abnormality detector circuit 10 is operative to detect abnormalities of the elevator operation and to be responsive to the detection of the door opening disablement to deliver a door opening disablement signal lOa at its high level H to the door control circuit 16 and responsive to the detection of an abnormal door opening to deliver an abnormal door opening signal lOb at its high level H to the call register circuit 14.
The operation control circuit 12 is operative to control the operation of the elevator car 100 such as a departure, a travel, the determination of a stoppage etc. in order to cause the elevator car to respond to a calls. For example, when the elevator car 100 is caused travel in the 3~
up direction, the operation control circuit 12 delivers a command up travel signal 12a at its high level H to the velocity pattern generator 128 and when the elevator car is caused to travel in the down direction the same delivers a command down travel signal 12_ at its high level H to the veloci.ty pattern generator 128. Also ths operation control ci.rcuit 12 delivers an on-stoppage signal 16d and a direction setting signal 16f to the call register circuit 14. The on~
stoppage signal l~d is at. its low level L during the travel of the elevator car 100 and at its high level H during -the stoppage of the elevator car 100. The direction setting signal 14E is at its high level H when the elevator car 100 is set to travel in the up or down direction.
The operation control circui-t 12 is described, for example, in Japanese laid-open patent application No.
107,050/1978 with reference to Figure 1.
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.-The call register circuit 14 is operative to register and .release car calls due to a plurality of :,-destination pushbuttons (not shown) disposed in the elevator car 100 and floor calls due to the floor pushbut-tons lG
through 6G. The call register circuit 14 is responsive to calls registered thereon to deliver associated call signals to the operation control circuit 12. More specifically, when the call register circuit 14 receives car call signals 100-1_ through 100-6 for the first through sixth floors from the destination pushbuttons within the elevator car to register associated car calls for those floors, the same ~ 3~
delivers to the operation control circuit 12 associated car call signals 14-la through 14-6a at their high level H.
When up calls for the first through fifth floors are registered due to the up pushbutton signals lGu through 5Gu resulting from the up pushbuttons lG through 5G, up call signals 14-lb through 14-5b at their high level H are delivered to the operation control circuit 12. Similarly down call signals 14-2 through 14-6c at their high level H
are delivered to the operation control circuit 12 in response to the registration of down calls at the second through sixth dloors.
The door control circuit 16 is operative to control the opening and closure of the elevator door 102 The door control circuit 16 delivers to the abnormality detector circuit 10 a command door opening/c]osure signal 16_ put at its high level H when the car door 102 is closed and at its high level L when the door 102 is opened. The circuit 16 receives a door opening switch signal 16b put at its high level H from the elevator car 100 when the door 102 has opened beyond a-predetermined width and a door closing switch signal 16c put at its high level H from the elevator car 100 when the door 102 has fully closed. Those two signals are also applied to both the abnormality detector circuit 10 and the operation con~rol circuit 12. Furthermore the door control circuit 16 selectively supplies a command door opening signal 16g and a command door closing signal 16_ to the door motor 104. The command door opening signal 16_ put at its high level H is operative to drive the door motor 104 in a direction to open the door 102 while the 3~
command door closing signal 16h put at its high level H is operative to drive the door motor 104 in a direction to close the door 102.
In Figure 1 a resetting signal 16e shown as being applied to the call register circuit 14. The resetting signal 16e is put at its high level H when a resetting switcll 130 disposed on a control board (not shown) is depressed to reset a re-execution diablement signal as will be described la-ter.
The door control circuit 16 is described, for example, in Japanese laid-open patent application No.
107,050/1978 in conjunction with Figure 1.
Figure 2 shows the details of the abnormality detector circuit 10. The arrangement illustrated is operative to detect the abnormal door opening and comprises a pair of "NOT" gates 20 and 22 including respective inputs receiving the command door opening signal 16a and the door opening switch signal 16b respectiveiy and outputs-connected to a pair of inputs to an "~ND" gate 24 subse~uently connected at the output to a timer 26, and a pair of comparators 28 and 30 including respective inputs X connected to the output of the timer 26. Each of the comparators 28 or 30 includes another input Y receiving a first constant magnitude signal 32 having a first reference duration in this case of eight seconds for the purpose of detecting the door opening disablement or a second constant magnitude signal 54 having to a time interval in this~case, second reference durat'on ~ 3'7~
shorter than the first reference duration, in this case of four seconds for the purpose of detecting an abnormal door opening.
The timer 26 is operative to count a time interval for which the output from the "AND" gate 24 is at its high level H to deliver an output to the inputs X to the comparators 28 and 30 and to deliver a null output to the inputs X to the comparators 28 and 30 in response to the output from the "AND" gate 26 put at its low level ~. When the output from the timer 26 applied to the input X is equal to or greater than the constant magnitude signal 32 or 34 applied to the input Y, the comparators 28 or 30 can produce the door opening disablement signal 10_ at its high level H
or the abnormal door opening signal 10_ at its high level H
respectively. Otherwise the comparators 28 and 30 produce the door opening disablement signal 10a and the abnormal door opening signal 10_ at their low level L respectively.
Figure 3 shows in the logic foxm the cali register circuit 14 for the third floor. The arrangement illustrated comprise-s a call registration inhibiting circuit section .
generally designated by the reference numeral 14-3A and a call register circuit section generally designated by the reference numeral 14-3B. The call registration inhibiting circuit section 14-3A is operative with calls for the door opening signal because the comparator 38 determines that the output at its high level H from the timer 26 is equal in duration to the second constant magnitude signal 34. If the output at its high level ~ from the timer is equal in duration to or greater than the first constant magnitude signal 32 applied to the comparator 28 then the comparator 28 produces the door opening disablement signal 10a at its high level H. The abnormal door opening signal 10b at its high level H causes the output from the "AND" gate 40 (see Figure 3) to be put at its high level H. Thus the third floor comprises an "AND" gate 40 inciuding one input receiving the abnormal door opening signal 10b and an output connected to a setting input to an S-R FLIP-FLOP 42 which is called hereinafter a memory and arranged to deliver a call registration inhibiting signal 42a for the third floor to a first one of five inputs to an "AND" gate 44. The "AND"
gate 44 includes an output connected to a pulse generator 46 and a setting input to an S-R FLIP-FLOP or a memory 48. The pulse generator 46 generates a pulse signal 46a put at its high level H for about 0.5 second when the output from the "AND" gate 44 rises to its high level H from its low level~
The pulse signal 46a is applied to a resetting input to the memory 42. The memory 48 is arranged to generate a signal 48a indicating that the door opening operation on the third floor is being re-executed which signal is called hereinafter an on-re-operation signal.
~ n "AND" gate 50 includes one input receiving the door opening switch signal 16b and, other input connected to the other input to the AND gate 40 and an output connected to a resetting input to the memory 48.
Also an "AND" gate 52 includes one input connected to the output of the memory 48, the other input connected to the output of the "AND" gate 40 and an output connected to a setting input to an S-R FLIP-FLOP or a memory 54. The ~ 37~
memory 54 includes a resetting input applied with the resetting signal 16e and delivers to input to a "NOT" gate 56 a re-e~ecution disablement signal 54a for disabling re-execution of the door opening operation.
The "AND" ~ate 44 includes further a second input applied with the on-stoppage signal 16d, a third input applied with the direction setting signal 16f through a "NOT" gate 58, a fourth input applied with the door closing switch signal 16c and a fifth input connected to the output of the "NOT" gate 56.
The call resister circuit section 14-3B is also operative with calls for the third floor and comprises an "AND" gate 60 including a pair of inputs receiving the on-stoppage signal 16d and the car position signal 120-3 respectively and an output connected to the other inputs to the "AND" gate 42 and 50. An "OR" gate 62 includes one input connected to the output of the memory 42, the other input connected to the output of the "AND" gate 60, and output connected to a resetting input of an S-R FLIP-FLOP 62 or a memory. Also an "OR" gate 66 includes one input receiving the designation switch signal 100-3 for the third floor, the other input connected to the output of the pulse generator 46 and an output connected to a setting input to the memory 64 which, in turn, produces the car call signal 14-3_.
Each of the second through sixth floors is operatively associated with the arrangement similar to that shown in Figure 3.
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The operation of the arrangements shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 will now be described. It is now assumed that the elevator car lies on the first floor and the door thereof is in its open position. Under the assumed conditions, the car position signal 120-3 for the third floor is at its low level and therefore the output from the "AND" gate 60 is at its low level L. Also assuming that the elevator car is operated in the normal mode, the memory 42 is reset to deliver the call registration inhibiting signal 42a put at its low level L to the "OR" gate 62. Thus the output from the "OR" gate 62 is put at its low level L. Under these circumstances, when a passenger on the first floor gats into the elevat~r car and depresses the distination pushbutton for the third floor to register car call for the third floor, the resulting distination pushbutton signal 100-3 is put at its high level H and also the ou-tput from the "OR"
gate 66 is put at a high level H to reset the memo~y 64.
Thus the car call signal 14-30 is also put at its high l~el H. Also it is assumed that a car call for the fifth floor is similarly registered by another passenger and then the elevator car has departed from the first floor.
When the elevator car lands at the third 100r in response to the car call for the third floor, ~he car position signal 120-3 is put at its high level H and the on-stoppage signal 16d is also put at its high level H. Thus the "AND"
gate 60 delivers the output at its high level H to put the output from the "OR" hate 62 at its high level H ~esulting in the resetting of the memory 64. As a result, the car call signal 14a-3a is put at its low level L.
On the other hand, the command door closing signal 16a changes from its high level H to its low level L to put the output from the ~NOT~ gate 20 at its high level H (see Figure 2). Since the car door is not yet opened, the door opening switch signal 16b is kept at its low level L and the output from the "NOT" gate 22 is at its high level H. Thus the output from the "AND" gate 24 is put at its high level El. Thus the timer 26 counts a time interval lapsed immediately after the issue of the command door opening signal. When the car door has opened beyond the predetermined width, the door opening switch signal 16b is put at its high level H to put the output from the "NOT" gate 22 at its low level L. This causes the output from the "AND" gate 22 to be at its low level L and the output from the timer 26 is of a zero second.
Assuming that the door opening operation is normally completed for two seconds, the door opening disablement signal 10a and the abnormal door opening signal 10 which are the outputs from the comparators 28 and 30 respectively are maintained at their low level L. However if~the floor door on the third floor is in its abnormal state for some reason and prevented from opening up to the predetermined width then the the abnormal door opening signal 10b from the comparator 30 is put at its high level H at a time point when four seconds have lapsed after the issue of the command door opening signal. This causes the output from the "A~D"
gate 40 (see Figure 3) to be put at its high level H. Thus the memory 42 is set to change the call registration inhibiting signal 42_ for the third floor therefrom to its ~ 3~
hiyh level H. Accordingly, resetting signals continue to enter the resetting input to the memory 6~ through the "OR"
gate 62 with the result that the car call for the third floor can not be registered in the call register circuit section 14~3B. This is true in the case of up and down floor cal.ls on and for the third floor because those floor calls are registered by repeating the process similar to that described above.
Assuming that the door has been able to open beyond the predetermined width at the end of seven seconds reckoned from the issue of the command door opening signal, the door opening disablement is not detected so that the door opening switch signal 16b is at its high level H to put the output from the "NOT" gate 22 at its low level L.
Thus the "AND" gate 24 has the output at its low level L and the timer 26 delivers an output of zero second to the comparators 28 and 30. Therefore the outputs from the comparators 28 and 30 are put at their low level L. This means that the abnormal door opening signal 10b is put at its low lèvel L. However the call registration inhibiting signal 42_ is maintained at its high level H because the memory 72 is in its set position.
It is assumed that, after its departure from the third floor, the elevator car has landed at the fifth floor in response to the car call therefor and the car door has normally opened on the fifth floor. ~fter the passenger has left the elevator car and the car and floor doors have been completed to be closed, a car call and a floor call for another floor may be absent. In that case, the elevator car ~ 337~
has no destination direction and is on standby with its door closed. At that time the direction setting signal 16f is put at its low level L, the output from the "NOT" gate 58 is at its high level H, the on-stoppage signal 16d is at its high level H, the door closing swltch signal 16c is at its high level ~I, and the output from the memory 54 is at its low level L because of its resetting. Also the output from the "NOT" gate 56 and the call registration inhibiting signal 42a are put at their high level H. Thus the output from the "AND" gate 44 is put at its high level H to set the memory 48. Accordingly the no-re-operation signal 48a is put at its high level H. On the other hand, the pulse generator 46 is operated to produce the pulse signal 46_ at its high level H. Thus the memory 42 is reset to put the call registration inhibiting signal 42a at its low lev~l L.
At that time the output from the "OR" gate 62 is put at its low level ~ because the car position signal 120-3 is put at its low level L to put the output from the "AND" gate 60 at its low level L. Also the output from the "OR" gate 66 is put at its high level H to set the memory 64. Thus the car call signal 14-3_ from the memory 64 for the third floor is put at its high level ~I. Accordingly the elevator car is set to travel in the down direction and departs from the fifth toward the third floor.
Then the elevator car reaches the third floor to be stopped thereon. At that time the abovementioned car call signal 14-3_ for the third fIoor is reset to its low level L. ~hen the door opening operation is re-executed on the third floor it is assumed that the door re-opening ~8 spends a time interval of not less than four seconds. The assumed conditions are detected as an abnormality. Thus the abnormal door opening signal 10b is put at its high level H
to put the output from the "AND~ gate 40 at its high level H
thereby to again set the memory 42. Accordingly the call registration inhibiting signal 42a is put at its high level H. Also since the on-re-operation signal 48a remains at its high level H, the output from the "AND" gate 52 is put at its high level H to set the memory 64. Thus the re-execution disablement signal 54_ is put at its high level H to put the output from the "NOT" gate 56 at its low level L. Therefore the output from the "AND" gate 44 is put at its low level L
and the pulse generator 46 is disabled to produce its output.
Thus the car call signal 14-3a for the third floor is not put at its high level H. This causes the door opening operation to be disabled to be re-executed. As a result, it is required to operate the resetting switch 130 (see Figure 1) by the operator to put the resetting signal 16e at its high level H to reset the memory 54 after which the calls for the third floor can be registered.
On the other hand it is assumed that when the door opening operation has been again executed to permit the door to open normally. Under the assumed conditions the abnormal door opening signal 10b is at its low level L to left the memory 42 reset. Thus it is possible to register calls for the third floor. Thus passengers can he served. Also since the door opening switch signal 16b is put at its high level H, the output from the "AND" gate 50 is put at its high level H to reset the memory 48 to put the on-re-operation ~ 3~
signal 48a at its low level L resulting in the return-back to the normal mode of operation.
When the door control circuit 16 (see Figure 1) has been actually failed to disable the door opening operation even though eight seconds would elaped after the issue of the command door opening signal, the comparator 28 causes the door opening di.sablement signal 10a therefrom to be put at its high level H. Under these circumstances the elevator car is caused to travel to the next succeding floor on which whether or not the door opening operation is detected to be disabled. Upon detecting the door opening disablement, the elevator car is put out of the control and the response to calls for the third floor are inhibited until the operator can completely remove causes for which the door is diabled to open. ~egarding the measure as described above, reference may be made to the above-cited Japanese laid-open patent application No. 107,050/1978.
While the present invention has been discribed in conjunction with an disablement occurring in the door opening operation it is to De understood that the same is equally applicable to disablement in the departure operation, the door closing operation etc.
In Figure 4 wherein like reference numerals designate the components identical to those shown in Figure
2, there is illustrated a modification of the arrangement illustrated in Figure 2. The arrangement illustrated is different from that shown in Figure 2 only in that in Figure 4 a command door closing signal 16a is directly applied to the one input to the "AND" gate 24 with the "NOT" gate 20 ~ 20 -
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omi ted and a door closing switch si~nal 16c is substituted for the door opening switch signal 16_.
The arrangement is operatively associated with those arrangements shown in Figures 1 and 3 to detect the abnormcll door closure in the manner similar to that described above in conjunction with Figure 2. Thus the comparators 28 and 30 produce a door closing disablemen-t signal and an abnormal door closing signal respectively designated also by the reference numerals 10_ and 10_ respectively.
When the door closing disablement signal lOa is put at its high level H, the door control circuit 16 effects an emergency measure to repea-t the door opening and closing operations as described, for example, in Japanese laid-open patent application No. 97,984/1979.
When an abnormality such as the abnormal door closure or the door closure disablement occurs on a floor, an emergency measure thereto is effected and the elevator car can depart from that floor after which calls for the floor is prevented from being registered. However when the elevator car is empty, the same is returned back to the ~loor on which the abnormality has occurred and the door closure operation is re-executed. As a result, when the abnormal door clsoure or the door closure disablement is determined as resulting from a temporal cause that a passenger done mischief or a floor doorsill gets clogged by dust and so on, the elevator car returned back to the normal mode of operation and the calls for the floor are again registered.
~ 37~3 This is true in the case of the arrangement shown in Figure 2.
In Figure S wherein like reference numerals designate the components identical to those shown in Figure 2 there is illustrated another modification of the arrangement shown in Figure 2 wherein an abnormal departure of the elevator car is detected. In the arrangement illustrated the "AND" gate 24 receives the on-stoppage signal 16_ and a command departure signal 16i. When a command departure is issued to put the command departure signal 16i at its high level H and the elevator car does not travel to put the on-stoppage signal 16d at its high level H, the comparator 28 is responsive to the output from the timer 26 ~reater in duration than the second constant magnitude signal 34 having a second reference duration in this case, of 40 seconds to detect the abnormal departure ~o deliver an abnormal departure signal at its high level H which signal is also designated by the reference numeral lOh. However.
when the output from `the timer 26 is larger in duration than the first constant signal 32 having a first reference duration, in this case, of 90 seconds, the comparator 28 ~etects a depàrture disablement to deliver a departure disablement signal at its high level H which is also designated by the reference numeral lOa. At that time the elevator car is put out of the control.
.. ~ . . , While the present invention has been illustrated.
and described in conjunction with a few prëferred embodiments thereof it is to be understood that numerous changes and modifications may be resorted to without departing from the ..
~ 3 spirit and scope of the present invention. For example, while the present inven-tion has been arranged to be responsive to the repetition of similar abnormalities of the door opening operation during its re-execution to prevent an elevator car involved from being returned back to the normal mode of operation through further re-execution of the door opening operations it is to be understood that the same is equal by applicable to the re-execution thereof two times or more. Also the re-execution may be effected with a time period of, for example, ten seconds. Furthermore it is not restricted to effect the re-e~ecution only with the elevator car called to that floor on which the abnormality has been detected but the re-execution may be effected with the elevator car on each of all the floors.
Also the present invention has been described in conjunction with the re-execution of that operation de~ect~d as being abnormal while the elevator car is left empty, but this measure results from the influences to passengers taken into consideration. For example, those influences involve a distrust feeled by the passengers. If the re-execution less influences the passengers then the operation detected as being abnormal may be re-execution with the elevator car leaving a passenger or passengers therein.
In addition the present invention has been illustrated and described in conjunction with a single elevator car serving a building it is to be understood that the same is equally applicable to a plurality of elevator cars provi in paral~el re1-tionship on the building.-'' - 23 ~
omi ted and a door closing switch si~nal 16c is substituted for the door opening switch signal 16_.
The arrangement is operatively associated with those arrangements shown in Figures 1 and 3 to detect the abnormcll door closure in the manner similar to that described above in conjunction with Figure 2. Thus the comparators 28 and 30 produce a door closing disablemen-t signal and an abnormal door closing signal respectively designated also by the reference numerals 10_ and 10_ respectively.
When the door closing disablement signal lOa is put at its high level H, the door control circuit 16 effects an emergency measure to repea-t the door opening and closing operations as described, for example, in Japanese laid-open patent application No. 97,984/1979.
When an abnormality such as the abnormal door closure or the door closure disablement occurs on a floor, an emergency measure thereto is effected and the elevator car can depart from that floor after which calls for the floor is prevented from being registered. However when the elevator car is empty, the same is returned back to the ~loor on which the abnormality has occurred and the door closure operation is re-executed. As a result, when the abnormal door clsoure or the door closure disablement is determined as resulting from a temporal cause that a passenger done mischief or a floor doorsill gets clogged by dust and so on, the elevator car returned back to the normal mode of operation and the calls for the floor are again registered.
~ 37~3 This is true in the case of the arrangement shown in Figure 2.
In Figure S wherein like reference numerals designate the components identical to those shown in Figure 2 there is illustrated another modification of the arrangement shown in Figure 2 wherein an abnormal departure of the elevator car is detected. In the arrangement illustrated the "AND" gate 24 receives the on-stoppage signal 16_ and a command departure signal 16i. When a command departure is issued to put the command departure signal 16i at its high level H and the elevator car does not travel to put the on-stoppage signal 16d at its high level H, the comparator 28 is responsive to the output from the timer 26 ~reater in duration than the second constant magnitude signal 34 having a second reference duration in this case, of 40 seconds to detect the abnormal departure ~o deliver an abnormal departure signal at its high level H which signal is also designated by the reference numeral lOh. However.
when the output from `the timer 26 is larger in duration than the first constant signal 32 having a first reference duration, in this case, of 90 seconds, the comparator 28 ~etects a depàrture disablement to deliver a departure disablement signal at its high level H which is also designated by the reference numeral lOa. At that time the elevator car is put out of the control.
.. ~ . . , While the present invention has been illustrated.
and described in conjunction with a few prëferred embodiments thereof it is to be understood that numerous changes and modifications may be resorted to without departing from the ..
~ 3 spirit and scope of the present invention. For example, while the present inven-tion has been arranged to be responsive to the repetition of similar abnormalities of the door opening operation during its re-execution to prevent an elevator car involved from being returned back to the normal mode of operation through further re-execution of the door opening operations it is to be understood that the same is equal by applicable to the re-execution thereof two times or more. Also the re-execution may be effected with a time period of, for example, ten seconds. Furthermore it is not restricted to effect the re-e~ecution only with the elevator car called to that floor on which the abnormality has been detected but the re-execution may be effected with the elevator car on each of all the floors.
Also the present invention has been described in conjunction with the re-execution of that operation de~ect~d as being abnormal while the elevator car is left empty, but this measure results from the influences to passengers taken into consideration. For example, those influences involve a distrust feeled by the passengers. If the re-execution less influences the passengers then the operation detected as being abnormal may be re-execution with the elevator car leaving a passenger or passengers therein.
In addition the present invention has been illustrated and described in conjunction with a single elevator car serving a building it is to be understood that the same is equally applicable to a plurality of elevator cars provi in paral~el re1-tionship on the building.-'' - 23 ~
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PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. An elevator operating system responsive to the detection of an abnormality of the operation of an elevator car to take an emergency measure which system comprises an elevator car, abnormality detector means for detecting an abnormality of said operation of said elevator car and generating a signal indicating the detected abnormality; and call register means for registering car calls due to destination pushbuttons disposed on said elevator car and floor calls due to floor pushbuttons and releasing the registration of said car and floor calls, said call register means including response limiting means responsive to said abnormality indicating signal from said abnormality detector means to limit the response to at least one sort of said car calls and floor calls, re-execution means responsive to the elevator car put in a predetermined state, e.g., out of service, to generate a command re-execution signal for re-executing the operation identical to that detected as including the abnormality, and releasing means for releasing the limitation of the response when said abnormality detector means does not detect the abnormality included in the operation performed with the command re-execution signal.
2. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said abnormality detector means detects said abnormality of at least one of the door opening, door closing and departure operations of said elevator car to produce said abnormality indicating signal.
3. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 2 wherein said abnormality detector means decides said abnormality in responsive to said one operation not quite performed or incompletely performed within a predetermined time interval.
4. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 3 wherein said abnormality detector means includes a timer for counting a time interval for which said one operation is sufficiently performed to deliver a counted time interval and a comparator for comparing said counted time interval with a predetermined reference time interval and producing said abnormality indicating signal by deciding said abnormality upon confirming that said counted time interval is not shorter than said reference time interval.
5. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 3 wherein said abnormality detector means has a pair of predetermined long and short reference time intervals and supplies said command re-execution signal to said call register mean when the same decides said abnormality on the basis of said short reference time interval.
6. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 5 wherein when said abnormality detector means decides said abnormality on the basis of said long reference time interval, the same produces a signal for taking an emergency measure to travel said elevator car to the nearst floor and effect the door opening on said floor.
7. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 5 wherein said abnormality detector means includes a timer for counting a time interval for which said one operation is sufficiently performed to generate a counted time interval, a first comparator for comparing said counted time interval with said long reference time interval to produce said abnormality indicating signal in response to said counted time interval not shorter than said long reference time interval, and a second comparator for comparing said counted time interval with said short reference time interval to produce said abnormality indicating signal in response to said counted time interval not shorter than said short reference time interval.
8. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 5 wherein said long reference time interval is of eight seconds and said short reference time interval is of four second.
9. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said response limiting means is responsive to said abnormality indicating signal to produce a signal for inhibiting the registration of calls concerning a floor on which said elevator car is located.
10. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said response limiting means produces said response limiting signal by confirming that said abnormality indicating signal is produced during the landing and stoppage of said elevator car.
11. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said response limiting means includes first memory means responsive to the issue of said abnormality indicating signal to store the presence of said abnormality.
12. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein when said elevator car is put in a predetermined state, said re-execution means produces a signal for registering a call for a floor on which said abnormality is detected and said response releasing means produces a signal for suspending the generation of said response limiting signal thereby to effect the re-execution.
13. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 12 wherein when said abnormality of said operation of said elevator car is not detected during said re-execution, the released state due to said releasing signal from said releasing means is maintained intact to return back said elevator car to the normal mode of operation and when said abnormality is detected, said released state is removed to cause said response limiting means to again produce said limiting signal.
14. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said re-execution means includes second memory means for storing the issue of said command re-execution signal, and said storing is erased when no abnormality is detected upon said re-execution.
15. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 14 wherein said re-execution means includes third memory means for storing the issue of said abnormality indicating signal resulting from said abnormality detector means again detecting said abnormality during said re-execution and for producing a signal for inhibiting further re-execution.
16. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 15 wherein said third memory means produces said re-execution inhibiting signal by confirming that said third memory means has said re-execution stored therein and that said abnormality detector means detects said abnormality.
17. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 15 when said third memory means stores the detection of said abnormality during said re-execution, the re-execution inhibiting state is maintained until a manual operation is performed.
18. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said re-execution means produces a re-execution signal by confirming that said abnormality indicating signal is produced, said elevator car is in its stopped state, a command destination signal is not applied to said elevator car and a car door is put in its closed position.
19. An elevator operating system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said releasing means includes a pulse generator responsive to said re-execution signal from said re-execution means to produces a pulse signal, and said pulse signal is operative to remove said response limiting signals from said response limiting means to cause calls for floors to be registered.
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