Patent ID: 7134530

Claim:
An elevator system in which a car travels upward and downward among a plurality of floors, the elevator system comprising: an elevator control unit; and terminals, each of which has a wireless transmitting/receiving unit, said terminals being provided for said elevator control unit and each of said floors; wherein one of said terminals is used as an originating side, the one terminal having a means for setting a transfer destination according to a positional relationship with another of said terminals used as a final destination and for originating a signal that includes information about said final destination and said transfer destination; another of said terminals is used as a relay station that functions as said transfer destination, the other terminal having a means for sending said signal according to information about said final destination; the terminal at the final destination receives said signal between any two of said terminals, which are distant from each other, through a wireless transmitting/receiving unit of another of said terminals.