Patent ID: 9663324
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B66B

Claim:
1. An elevator group-control device in an elevator system in which a plurality of cars are operated in a coupled or independent manner in a single hoistway and in which a destination can be registered by inputting the destination at a hall, the elevator group-control device comprising: a front-car car-call detector that detects a registered floor, with respect to a traveling direction of a front car out of the plurality of cars, to which a car call is registered or to which the front car is registered by the inputting of the destination at the hall; and a rear-car assignment-candidate exclusion circuitry configured to exclude a rear car, which is in the same hoistway as the front car, from assignment candidate cars, if a landing call having the same direction as the traveling direction of the front car is registered from the registered floor detected by the front-car car-call detector.