Patent ID: 7213685

Claim:
An elevator control device comprising: a plurality of cars running in a circulating running shaft including an ascent shaft and a descent shaft interconnected at upper and lower terminal portions thereof; a plurality of individual car control devices for independently controlling the plurality of cars; and a group supervisory control device for collective control of the plurality of individual car control devices, and including communication means for transmission of information to and reception of information from the plurality of individual car control devices; first shunting means for outputting a first shunting command for moving a car which has responded to a call request to a predetermined shunting floor, based on information concerning each car received from the plurality of individual car control devices; blocked state detection means for detecting, based on the information concerning each car received from the plurality of individual car control devices through the communication means, a blocked state in which a succeeding car is being blocked by a preceding car that is in a standby state at the predetermined shunting floor; and second shunting means for outputting a second shunting command for moving the preceding car, which is in the standby state at the predetermined shunting floor, to a new shunting floor when the blocked state detection means detects that the succeeding car is in the blocked state.