Patent ID: 9120642
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
1. An elevator control device which has a control device body for controlling operation of one or more elevators operated between a plurality of floors of a building, and carries out emergency evacuation operation for evacuating the people in the building by using the elevator when the building suffers from an emergency, the elevator control device comprising: a damage detector which detects damage due to disaster at each floor and outputs the detected damage as damage information of each floor; and a person detector which detects a number of persons present at each floor and a position of the person and outputs these pieces of data as person number and position information, and in the emergency evacuation operation, on the basis of the person number and position information, the control device body calculates a travel time period necessary for a person present at the floor to move to the elevator hall of that floor and a boarding time period necessary for the person to get into the elevator car from the hall when the elevator car arrives at that floor, and on the basis of the travel time period, boarding time period, the position of the elevator car and the damage information, the control device body develops the evacuation operation plan so that the emergency evacuation operation to an escape floor is completed in a shortest time period, and controls the elevator operation on the basis of the developed evacuation operation plan.