IP Library Granted Patent US 8,245,819
Granted Patent B2
US 8,245,819 · App. 12/675,908 · Granted Aug 21, 2012

Refuge supporting device of elevator

Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,245,819
App. No.
12/675,908
Granted
Aug 21, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An evacuation support apparatus for an elevator causes an elevator to perform an evacuation operation for conveying people stranded in a building including a plurality of floors to an evacuation floor in an emergency. Further, the evacuation support apparatus for an elevator includes rescue floor setting means for setting the floor determined based on a predetermined condition as a rescue floor, the floor being selected from the plurality of floors, and response floor setting means for registering a call only for the floor on which a call input device for specific persons is operated in a case of the evacuation operation as the call for an evacuation response floor, the call input device for specific persons and a call input device for general persons being provided on each of the plurality of floors. The elevator includes a common car which moves in a reciprocating manner between the rescue floor and the evacuation floor in the case of the evacuation operation. The common car is capable of responding to the registered call for the evacuation response floor in the case of the evacuation operation.

Claims (11)

1. An evacuation support apparatus for an elevator, for causing an elevator to perform an evacuation operation for conveying people stranded in a building including a plurality of floors to an evacuation floor in an emergency, comprising:

rescue floor setting means for setting a floor determined based on a predetermined condition as a rescue floor, the floor being selected from the plurality of floors; and

response floor setting means for registering a call only for the floor on which a call input device for specific persons is operated in a case of the evacuation operation as the call for an evacuation response floor, the call input device for specific persons and a call input device for general persons being provided on each of the plurality of floors, wherein:

the elevator includes a common car which moves in a reciprocating manner between the rescue floor and the evacuation floor in the case of the evacuation operation; and

the common car is capable of responding to the registered call for the evacuation response floor in the case of the evacuation operation.

2. An evacuation support apparatus for an elevator, according to claim 1 , wherein the elevator causes the common car with a load in the car, which is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, to respond to the registered call for the evacuation response floor.

3. An evacuation support apparatus for an elevator, according to claim 1 , wherein the call input device for specific persons comprises a personal ID identification device.

4. An evacuation support apparatus for an elevator, according to claim 1 , wherein the call input device for specific persons is a hall button device for wheelchair users, which is located at a position lower than a position of the call input device for general persons.

5. An evacuation support apparatus for an elevator, according to claim 1 , wherein:

the elevator further comprises a car exclusively for specific persons; and

the car exclusively for specific persons is capable of responding only to the registered call for the evacuation response floor in the case of the evacuation operation.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2020
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: MUROLET IP LLC
Reel/Frame 053343/0443 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 1, 2010
From: HIKITA, SHIRO; KAWAI, KIYOJI; KONISHI, MASAHIKO; IWATA, MASAFUMI
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 024007/0739 →
Continuity (1)
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