JP5003060B2 - Elevator earthquake rescue operation method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an elevator rescue operation method during an earthquake.

Conventionally, when an earthquake is detected and an elevator stops urgently, a building manager or a remote monitoring person checks the situation with an abnormal light on the monitoring panel, confirms the presence of passengers (confinement) with an intercom, and then the earthquake Operate the rescue switch to enable earthquake rescue operation. In other words, if the elevator stops in an emergency due to an earthquake, the manager or a remote monitoring person confirms whether there are passengers trapped in the elevator and that the elevator is operable (no safety circuit abnormality). Make rescue operation effective. And if a passenger performs predetermined | prescribed operation | movement (it keeps pushing a door closing button), rescue operation will be implemented and a passenger can get off from an elevator safely. This predetermined action is explained to the passenger by a manager or a remote monitor.
As such a rescue operation method during an earthquake, a notification that the car was stopped in the non-service floor section after the earthquake occurred was received at the control center where the controller was stationed, and it was confirmed whether the safety circuit was normal. Later, an elevator that sends a low-speed operation permission signal during an earthquake to notify the passengers of how to operate the car, so that the rescue of passengers from the car can be prevented from being delayed due to the absence of managers or lack of elevator knowledge. There are known earthquake rescue operation methods (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2004-359405 A

  In the conventional elevator rescue operation method during an earthquake, it is necessary to be able to contact the manager or the control center, but in the case of a large-scale earthquake etc., there is a high possibility that the communication will not be possible, There is a possibility that the earthquake rescue operation cannot be made effective. That is, in the rescue operation at the time of the earthquake, in addition to confirming that the safety circuit of the elevator is not abnormal, it is a condition for the rescue operation that the passenger performs a predetermined operation. However, passengers usually do not know at all that such action is necessary. Therefore, the passenger cannot be rescued unless the passenger is informed or notified of the predetermined action in some way.However, since the manager or the person in the control center has conventionally made contact with this passenger, There was a problem of being trapped.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and by automatically communicating a description of the predetermined operation of the rescue operation for passengers confined in the car, the rescue operation at the time of the earthquake is performed at an early stage. It provides an emergency rescue operation method for elevators.

In the elevator rescue operation method according to the present invention, when the occurrence of an earthquake is detected by the earthquake detector, the elevator is emergency stopped if the elevator is not traveling in a zone where the elevator can land, In addition to notifying the remote monitoring center via the line and operating the earthquake rescue switch by operating the earthquake rescue switch in the administrator room or remote monitoring center, If contact is not made even after a while and the earthquake rescue switch is not operated , and if the safety circuit of the elevator is normal, the steps to automatically enable the earthquake rescue operation and the passengers in the car by the information device a step of notifying the operating method of seismic rescue operation should passengers carried, to indicate that seismic rescue operation is valid, the door closing button A step of flashing the button lamp, according to the operating method of seismic rescue operation, which is informed to the information device, by a passenger pressing the door-closing button is flashing, the step of running at a low speed in a direction away the counterweight and the car It is equipped with.

  According to this invention, even when the manager room or the remote monitoring center cannot be contacted, the earthquake rescue operation is enabled and the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation to be performed by the passenger is displayed to the passenger by the passenger rescue notification means. -Since it demonstrates, according to the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation displayed and demonstrated, a passenger can be rescued safely because a passenger continues pushing the door closing button.

Embodiment 1.
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating an elevator earthquake rescue operation apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the elevator earthquake rescue operation apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. It is.

  In FIG. 1, 1 is an elevator cab that can move in the vertical direction in the hoistway, 2 is a car call button for registering a destination floor installed in the cab 1, and 3 is installed in the cab 1 The door opening button 4 is a door closing button installed in the room 1. The door closing button 4 serves as a rescue operation means that travels at a low speed in a direction in which the car and the counterweight are separated by continuing to press the door closing button 4 when the emergency rescue operation is performed. In addition, when the elevator feels dangerous during driving such as vibration or abnormal noise, the elevator can be stopped by stopping the operation of the door closing button 4. 5 is an intercom button for making a call with the outside installed in the car room 1, and 6 is an information device for displaying various information of elevators installed in the car room 1, which is locked in the car when an earthquake occurs. It becomes a passenger rescue notification means for automatically displaying / notifying the operation method of the predetermined operation of the rescue operation for the passenger. In addition to the information device 6, an announcement device or an operation sign for an earthquake rescue operation may be used to contact the passenger. 7 is a car position detection device, 8 is a hall call button installed at each floor, 9 is an elevator control panel for controlling the operation of the elevator, 10 is a hoisting machine for driving the elevator, and 11 is a hoisting machine for the hoisting machine 10. A main rope for hanging up and moving the cab 1 connected to one end in the vertical direction, 12 is a counterweight connected to the other end of the main rope 11 opposite to the cab 1, and 13 is a cab 1 Is a car control cable for transmitting various information to the control panel 9, 14 is a hall control cable for transmitting various information on each floor to the control panel 9, and 15 is an earthquake detector for judging the scale of the earthquake. Reference numeral 16 denotes a remote monitoring device, which is connected to the remote monitoring center 17 via an administrator room or a communication line.

Next, an elevator rescue operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
First, the occurrence of an earthquake is detected by the earthquake detector 15 in step S1, and it is determined whether or not the elevator is traveling in step S2. If the elevator is stopped in step S2, the process proceeds to step S3, the door is opened and closed, the passengers of the elevator are dismounted, and the operation is stopped. If the elevator is traveling in step S2, it is determined in step S4 whether the elevator is traveling in a zone where landing is possible. If the elevator travels in a zone where the elevator can be landed in step S4, the process proceeds to step S5, stops at the nearest floor, opens and closes the door in step S3, and the elevator passenger gets off, and then the operation is stopped. If it is determined in step S4 that the elevator is not traveling in a zone where landing is possible, the process proceeds to step S6, where the elevator is urgently stopped. Next, the process proceeds to step S7, where it is determined by the elevator control panel 9 whether or not the safety circuit is normal. If the safety circuit is abnormal in step S7, the process proceeds to step S8, and the operation is stopped while the elevator is stopped. If the safety circuit is normal in step S7, the process proceeds to step S9, where the magnitude of the earthquake is determined. If the seismic detector 15 has not detected a gal value greater than or equal to the predetermined value, the process proceeds to step S10 and the predetermined time ( For example, after about 1 minute, the elevator automatically performs an earthquake rescue operation in which the elevator travels at a low speed in a direction in which the cab 1 and the counterweight 12 are separated. Then, the process proceeds to step S5, stops at the nearest floor, opens and closes the door in step S3, gets off the elevator passenger, and then stops driving.
If the magnitude of the earthquake is determined in step S9 and the seismic detector 15 detects a gal value greater than or equal to a predetermined value, the process proceeds to step S11, and an alarm for seismic confinement is given to the administrator room or the remote monitoring center 17. Output. If the passenger in the car room 1 and the supervisor of the manager room or the remote monitoring center 17 can be contacted in step S11, the process proceeds to step S12, and the earthquake rescue switch is operated to enable the earthquake rescue operation. At the same time, the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation is explained to the passengers by the supervisor in the management room or the remote monitoring center 17 through the intercom or the like. Then, according to the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation described above in step S13, the passenger keeps pressing the door closing button 4 so that the car room 1 and the counterweight 12 travel at a low speed. In addition, when the elevator vibrates during traveling or when there is a danger such as abnormal noise, the elevator can be stopped by stopping the operation of the door closing button 4. Then, the process proceeds to step S5, stops at the nearest floor, opens and closes the door in step S3, gets off the elevator passenger, and then stops driving.

Up to this point, it is almost the same as the conventional rescue operation method for elevators, but there may be cases where contact is not possible due to the absence of an administrator or emergency response, or the communication line of the remote monitoring center is not connected. It is expected that. In this case, the earthquake rescue switch in step S12 is not operated, and the operation method of the rescue operation is not known, and there is a high possibility that the operation will be confined for a long time.
Therefore, when the earthquake rescue switch is not operated in step S12 and the earthquake rescue operation remains invalid, and it is not possible to contact the administrator room or the remote monitoring center 17 even after a predetermined time in step S14. In step S15, the earthquake rescue operation is enabled. Subsequently, in step S16, the information device 6 displays and explains to the passenger the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation that the passenger should perform. And in order to show that earthquake rescue operation is effective in step S17, the button light of the door closing button 4 is blinked. By the blinking of the door closing button 4, the passenger keeps pressing the door closing button 4 according to the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation displayed and explained in the information device 16 in step S <b> 13, so that the cab 1 and the counterweight 12 are Drive at a low speed in the direction of leaving. If the elevator vibrates or an abnormal sound is generated during traveling, the elevator can be stopped by stopping the operation of the door closing button 4. Then, the process proceeds to step S5, stops at the nearest floor, opens and closes the door in step S3, gets off the elevator passenger, and then stops driving.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, even when the administrator room or the remote monitoring center cannot be contacted, the earthquake rescue operation is enabled and the information device operates the earthquake rescue operation to be performed by the passenger. Since the method is displayed / explained to the passenger, the passenger can be rescued safely by continuously pressing the door closing button according to the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation displayed / explained.

Embodiment 2.
FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram illustrating an elevator earthquake rescue operation apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the elevator earthquake rescue operation apparatus according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. It is. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to Embodiment 1 and an equivalent part, and description is abbreviate | omitted.

  In the second embodiment, in addition to the configuration of the first embodiment, the building equipment monitoring panel 18 is connected to the elevator control panel 9, and the building equipment fire information is input to the elevator monitoring panel 9. Is.

Next, the operation of the emergency rescue operation of the elevator in the second embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
Steps S1 to S17 are the same as those in the first embodiment, and a description thereof will be omitted. If a fire is detected from the building equipment monitoring panel 18 in step S18, if waiting for a predetermined time in step S14, there is a risk of being involved in the fire. Enables earthquake rescue operation. Subsequently, in step S16, the information device 6 displays and explains to the passenger the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation that the passenger should perform. And in order to show that earthquake rescue operation is effective in step S17, the button light of the door closing button 4 is blinked. By the blinking of the door closing button 4, the passenger keeps pressing the door closing button 4 according to the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation displayed and explained in the information device 16 in step S <b> 13, so that the cab 1 and the counterweight 12 are Drive at a low speed in the direction of leaving. If the elevator vibrates or an abnormal sound is generated during traveling, the elevator can be stopped by stopping the operation of the door closing button 4. Then, the process proceeds to step S5, stops at the nearest floor, opens and closes the door in step S3, gets off the elevator passenger, and then stops driving.

  As described above, according to the second embodiment, when a building fire occurs with the occurrence of an earthquake, even if the fire is detected and communication with the manager room or the remote monitoring center is not possible, the earthquake rescue operation is immediately performed. In addition to enabling, the information device displays and explains the operation method of the earthquake rescue operation that the passenger should perform, so that the passenger keeps pressing the door close button according to the displayed and explained earthquake rescue operation method, Passengers can be rescued safely without being involved in a fire.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a system block diagram which shows the rescue operation apparatus at the time of the earthquake of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the rescue operation apparatus at the time of the earthquake of the elevator in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a system block diagram which shows the rescue operation apparatus at the time of the earthquake of the elevator in Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the rescue operation apparatus at the time of the earthquake of the elevator in Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 elevator car room 2 car call button 3 door open button 4 door close button 5 intercom button 6 information device 7 car position detection device 8 landing call button 9 elevator control panel 10 hoisting machine 11 main rope 12 counterweight 13 car control Cable 14 Landing control cable 15 Earthquake detector 16 Remote monitoring device 17 Remote monitoring center

Claims (2)

When the earthquake detector detects the occurrence of an earthquake, if the elevator is not traveling in a zone where it can land, the elevator will be stopped urgently and reported to the remote monitoring center via the manager's room or communication line and managed. In the emergency rescue operation method of an elevator that activates the earthquake rescue operation by operating the earthquake rescue switch in the human room or the remote monitoring center,
If the administrator room or remote monitoring center cannot be contacted even after a predetermined period of time and the earthquake rescue switch is not operated, if the safety circuit of the elevator is normal, the earthquake rescue operation is automatically enabled. Steps ,
The information system for passengers in the car, the steps of notifying an operation method of seismic rescue operation should passengers carried,
Flashing the button light of the door-close button to show that the earthquake rescue operation is effective;
According to the operation method notification seismic rescue operation in the information device, by a passenger pressing the door-closing button is flashing, the steps of running at a low speed in a direction away the counterweight and the car,
An elevator rescue operation method characterized by comprising: When the earthquake detector detects the occurrence of an earthquake, if the elevator is not traveling in a zone where it can land, the elevator will be stopped urgently and reported to the remote monitoring center via the manager's room or communication line and managed. In the emergency rescue operation method of an elevator that activates the earthquake rescue operation by operating the earthquake rescue switch in the human room or the remote monitoring center,
Said not take a management person room or remote monitoring center and contact, if fire to detect when the earthquake rescue switch is not operated, if the safety circuit of the elevator is normal, automatically and step to enable the earthquake rescue operation ,
The information system for passengers in the car, the steps of notifying an operation method of seismic rescue operation should passengers carried,
Flashing the button light of the door-close button to show that the earthquake rescue operation is effective;
According to the operation method notification seismic rescue operation in the information device, by a passenger pressing the door-closing button is flashing, the steps of running at a low speed in a direction away the counterweight and the car,
An elevator rescue operation method characterized by comprising:

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