Patent ID: 7677363

Claim:
An evacuation assistance device for an elevator which, in an event of a fire in a building provided with an elevator whose service floors are defined as each of a plurality of floors included in a service zone and evacuation stairs used to move upstairs and downstairs among the floors, sets a predetermined one of the service floors as a rescue floor and supervises an operation of the elevator so as to convey those stranded in the building from the rescue floor to an evacuation floor, wherein the floors are each separated into an elevator region in which the elevator is provided and a stair region in which the evacuation stairs are provided, the evacuation assistance device comprising: a rescue floor crowdedness detecting device for detecting crowdedness or uncrowdedness of the elevator region at the rescue floor; an evacuation guidance device installed in the building to report to those stranded in the building accessibility information representing accessibility of those stranded in the building to the elevator region at the rescue floor from the stair region when the rescue floor crowdedness detecting device detects that the elevator region of the rescue floor is uncrowded; and an emergency control device having an evacuation operation performability determining portion for determining whether or not those stranded in the building can be conveyed from the rescue floor to the evacuation floor and an evacuation guidance device control portion for controlling the evacuation guidance device based on information from the evacuation operation performability determining portion and information from the rescue floor crowdedness detecting device.