Patent ID: 8251185
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
1. An elevator rescue operation system to be used in a building in which a plurality of elevators are installed in parallel, comprising: a disaster detection unit configured to detect, when a disaster has occurred in the building, an occurrence site of the disaster; a priority response floor setting unit configured to set a floor upwardly next to the disaster occurrence site detected by the disaster detection unit as a priority response floor, and then set a floor upwardly next to the currently set priority response floor as a next priority response floor when it is determined that there are no in-building personnel on the currently set priority response floor, and inhibit the setting and reset the next priority response floor when the disaster has spread on the floor upwardly next to the currently set priority response floor; and a rescue operation unit configured to cause a corresponding elevator for a rescue operation among the plurality of elevators to respond to the priority response floor set by the priority response floor setting unit, thereby carrying out a through-car operation up to a refuge floor.