Patent ID: 7918321
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: B65H,B66B

Abstract:
1. A control system for elevators which controls operations of a plurality of elevator apparatuses each having a corresponding one of cars that can be stopped at common landing floors and corresponding ones of elevator doorways each provided at a corresponding one of the landing floors to serve for a transfer between the corresponding one of the cars stopped at the corresponding one of the landing floors and this landing floor, the control system being characterized by comprising: a landing call registration device provided at each of the landing floors so as to be operable thereat; a landing call automatic registration portion for setting that one of the landing floors at which the landing call registration device is operated as a car call floor, and registering a car call to stop any one of the cars at the car call floor; a response selection portion for selecting, based on information from each of the elevator apparatuses and information from the landing call automatic registration portion, that one of the elevator apparatuses which responds to the registered car call as a selected elevator; a passenger traveling time period calculation portion for an opening/closing control portion for controlling an opening/closing operation of the selected doorway based on information from the selected elevator and information from the passenger traveling time period calculation portion, and characterized in that the opening/closing control portion continues to hold the selected doorway in a door-open state until the passenger traveling time period elapses after registration of the car call when the selected doorway is already in the door-open state at a time of registration of the car call.