Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Terumi Hirabayashi

Masanori Tawada

Toshiyuki Kodera

Masamoto Mizuno

Shigemi Iwata

Kenzo Tachino

Junichi Tanino

Yasuhiro Nagata

Kazushi Kunii

Tomoichiro Yamamoto

Shigeo Kitagawa

An elevator door control apparatus includes at least one door safety device for detecting whether elevator doors are safe; an elevator control circuit for outputting a door-open/close command; and a door control circuit for controlling the opening/closing of doors on the basis of a door-open/close command issued from the elevator control circuit and for outputting a door reversal request to the elevator control circuit on the basis of the operation signal of the door safety device, wherein the door control circuit outputs a door reversal request to the elevator control circuit upon reception of the operation signal of the door safety device while the doors are being closed on the basis of a door-close command from the elevator control circuit, switches the door speed command pattern to a brake pattern from the door-close command speed pattern and thereafter switches the door speed command pattern from the brake pattern to the door-open command speed pattern when the door-open command is received from the elevator control circuit instead of the door-close command.

Elevator door control apparatus

An elevator controlling device includes hoist controller, disposed in a mechanical room, for controlling hoist; door controller, disposed in an elevator cage, for controlling the opening and closing of an elevator door; information exchanger between the hoist controller and the door controller; data setting unit for setting predetermined data to the door controller using the hoist controller; and a data display unit for displaying the contents of the data. The data setting unit sets data such as a central processing unit number, a start address of a memory to be read, and a number of bytes in the memory required for reading data, to the door controller being made up of a plurality of central processing units, and the data display unit displays the contents at addresses of the memory. The data setting unit and the data display unit may be assembled into elevator operation supervising unit connected to the hoist controller through a telephone line.

Door control and data display system

An apparatus for controlling an elevator door comprises a motor for opening and closing an elevator door, an inverter unit for controlling the driving of the motor, a door position detecting unit for detecting the position of the door, first and second sensors for respectively detecting that the door passes through a terminal reference point on the opening side and a terminal reference point on the closing side, a speed command generating unit for generating a speed command on the basis of a distance between the door position detected by the door position detecting unit to a stop target on the opening side or the closing side when the first and second sensors respectively detect the passage of the door, and a control unit for controlling the inverter unit on the basis of the speed command output from the speed command generating unit.

Apparatus for controlling elevator door

An elevator door control apparatus includes an alternating current motor for opening and closing an elevator door. An inverter for converts a DC voltage from a first DC power supply into an AC voltage and supplies it to the motor. A first switching device for connects and disconnects the inverter and the motor, and a second switching device connects and disconnects a second DC power supply and the motor. A detection device detects at least one of an abnormality of the first DC power supply and an abnormality of the motor. A control device, at normal times supplies an AC voltage from the inverter to the motor by means of the first switching device and cuts off a DC voltage from the second DC power supply to the motor by means of the second switching device. When the detection device detects an abnormality, the control device cuts off an AC voltage from the inverter to the motor by means of the first switching device and supplies a DC voltage from the second DC power supply to the motor by means of the second switching device so as to cause a braking torque to be generated in the motor.

An apparatus for controlling an elevator door based on controlling an electric motor for driving the door with a microcomputer and resetting the microcomputer when the power supply fails has a voltage monitor which detects the power source voltage and a braking circuit forcibly brakes the motor if the power source voltage detected by the voltage monitor is lower than a prescribed voltage. The motor is forcibly braked when the detected power source voltage is between the prescribed voltage and the lower limit of the range of voltages at which the microcomputer can operate.

Apparatus for controlling elevator door based on power source voltage

An apparatus for controlling an elevator door comprises a motor which closes and opens the door of an elevator and applies to the door torque necessary for maintaining a closed state of the door, an inverter apparatus for controlling the driving of the motor, a polarity deciding device for deciding the polarity of a slip frequency signal output from the inverter apparatus, and a driving stop device for causing the inverter apparatus to stop the driving of the motor when the polarity deciding device detects the inversion of the polarity of the slip frequency signal during the time that a closed state of the door is maintained by the motor.

Apparatus for controlling an elevator door using a drive motor slip

An apparatus for controlling elevator doors where door operation velocity is calculated based on the rotational velocity of the door driving motor. An abnormality detection circuit is provided to alert an elevator supervisor when the calculated door operation velocity exceeds a predetermined value. A velocity limiting circuit is provided to decelerate the doors when the door operation velocity exceeds the predetermined value.

Control apparatus for elevator doors using velocity limiting circuits

The elevator control apparatus of the present invention comprises a plurality of drive control apparatus that control the driving of various motions of the elevator, a signal mutual transmission device for connecting the plurality of the drive control apparatus and for transmitting signals among them, and a plurality of abnormality judgment devices, disposed on each of the plurality of the drive control apparatus, that monitor the motions of the elevator controlled by the plurality of the drive control apparatus by transmitting sigals among them via the signal mutual transmission device, each one of the plurality of the abnormality judgment devices individually judging the abnormality of the same motion.

Apparatus for detecting abnormalities in elevator motion

A system for controlling operation of an elevator car door includes a torque command output device for outputting a torque command for controlling a car door driving motor on the basis of a difference between a speed command commanding the operating speed of the motor and the actual speed of operation of the motor, a door position detector for detecting the position of the car door in terms of the number of pulses in a pulse train produced by an encoder connected to the motor, and a memory for storing torque limit values as a function of the door position. The system also has a controller which reads the torque limit value corresponding to the car door position detected by the door position detector. The controller then compares the read torque limit value with a torque command output from the torque command output device and generates a reversing instruction to be given to the motor upon determining that the torque command is not smaller than the torque limit value. An obstruction of the door is sensed as a rise in the torque command so that the car door is reversed to ensure safety.

Door control system using drive motor torque signals

An emergency intercommunication system for an elevator has an interphone unit and an intercommunication command switch located in an elevator car. A telephone number input apparatus for inputting the desired telephone number is provided in an elevator hall, in connection with a register apparatus for storing the input telephone number. An intercommunication command detecting section for detecting the actuation of the switch is provided in connection with an emergency call apparatus for automatically dialing the stored telephone number to connect the interphone unit with a telephone having the telephone number when the actuation of the switch is detected by the detecting apparatus. Preferably, an identification number input apparatus is provided in the elevator hall so that the register apparatus stores the telephone number only when it is input together with a predetermined identification number.

Emergency intercommunication system for elevator

A compact and simple elevator system is disclosed which does not require a counterweight, a hoistway rope, a winding drum, safety devices such as an emergency stopping device, a speed governor or the like, and in which the installation space as well as the production costs thereof can be reduced, and which is most suitable for installation in private homes. The elevator system comprises a hoistway, an elevator car accommodated in the hoistway and movable in the vertical direction, a screw shaft vertically disposed in the hoistway and having a screw thread formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof, a rotary element mounted on the elevator car and adapted to be threadedly engaged with the screw shaft, a drive source mounted on the elevator car for driving the rotary element to rotate, and a mechanism for restraining the rotation of the screw shaft at least in the normal operating condition of the elevator system, whereby when the rotary element is driven to rotate by means of the drive source, it is caused to displace vertically along the screw shaft to thereby move the elevator car in the vertical direction.

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Inazawa, Japan

Terumi Hirabayashi