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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2006
Shiro Hikita, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoji Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Shiro Hikita, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoji Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An evacuation control apparatus for an elevator controls, in an event of a fire in a building provided with an elevator that is assigned to a plurality of floors as service floors, an operation of the elevator. The evacuation control apparatus for the elevator has an evacuation operation performing portion, a determination portion, and an evacuation operation resuming portion. The evacuation operation performing portion sets at least one of the service floors as a rescue floor, and performs evacuation operation for the elevator to convey those stranded in the building from the rescue floor to an evacuation floor. When a predetermined termination condition is fulfilled during evacuation operation, the determination portion determines that evacuation operation should be terminated. When a predetermined resumption condition is fulfilled after evacuation operation is terminated due to a determination made by the determination portion, the evacuation operation resuming portion determines that evacuation operation should be resumed.