Patent ID: 7849973
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: B66B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An evacuation support system for a double-deck elevator, for allowing people stranded in a building including a plurality of floors to evacuate to an evacuation floor in an event of a fire in the building, comprising: an evacuation support apparatus including rescue floor setting means capable of selecting upper and lower floors which are adjacent to each other and satisfy a predetermined condition from the floors as upper and lower candidate rescue floors and of setting at least any one of the candidate rescue floors as a rescue floor based on the floor on which the fire occurs; and a double-deck elevator including a connected car including an upper car and a lower car which are vertically connected to each other, the double-deck elevator being for performing an evacuation operation for moving the connected car in a reciprocating manner between the rescue floor and the evacuation floor based on a command from the evacuation support apparatus, wherein the double-deck elevator stops at least any one of the upper car and the lower car at the rescue floor to allow the people to get on and off in a case of the evacuation operation and then stops the car selected from the upper car and the lower car, which has been stopped at the rescue floor to allow the people to get on and off, at the evacuation floor to allow the people to get on and off.