Patent ID: 7913820
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: B66B

Abstract:
1. A control system for elevators for controlling operations of a plurality of elevator apparatuses, which have cars that can stop at a common landing floor and elevator doorways provided at the landing floor for allowing passengers to get on/off the cars stopped at the landing floor from/to the landing floor, the control system being characterized by comprising: a landing call registration device provided at the landing floor to be operable at the landing floor; a landing call automatic registration portion for setting as a car call floor the landing floor where the landing call registration device is operated, and making a car call registration for stopping any one of the cars at the car call floor; a response selection portion for selecting as a selected elevator that one of the elevator apparatuses which responds to the car call registration, based on information from the elevator apparatuses and information from the landing call automatic registration portion; a passenger traveling time period calculation portion for setting as a selected doorway that one of the elevator doorways of the selected elevator, which is provided at the car call floor, based on information from the response selection portion, and calculating a passenger traveling time period required for traveling of passengers from the landing call registration device to the selected doorway; and an opening/closing control portion for controlling opening/closing operations of the selected doorway based on information from the selected elevator and information from the passenger traveling time period calculation portion.