Single-Destination Elevator Call Panels for Lower-Cost Destination Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Elevator systems in smaller buildings face high costs due to the implementation of destination call controllers, necessitating a more cost-effective solution for elevator operating devices.
Innovation Solution
An elevator operating device with a display and input device housed in a single unit, featuring a controller that assigns a single destination floor, allowing input via a touch interface or radio communication with a user's device, and optionally expandable with a module for additional functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a destination call controller is implemented in smaller buildings, then the elevator system can handle traffic efficiently, but the costs for elevator operating devices become increasingly important
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the elevator operating device into two distinct types: floor operating devices with simplified single-floor destination selection and car operating devices with full destination input capability. This segmentation allows smaller buildings to use cost-effective floor devices while maintaining efficient destination call control through the controller that aggregates calls from multiple floors.
Solution Approach 2:
The floor operating devices perform only the essential function of single-floor destination selection rather than full destination input capability. This partial action approach reduces device complexity and cost while the central controller compensates by processing aggregated calls from multiple floors to achieve overall system efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If full destination input capability is provided at every floor, then users can select any destination, but the costs for elevator operating devices increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides destination selection functionality between floor operating devices (simplified single-floor selection) and car operating devices (full destination input). This segmentation maintains overall system versatility while reducing the complexity and cost of individual floor devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The central controller acts as an intermediary that receives simplified single-floor destination calls from floor operating devices and routes them appropriately. This intermediary function allows floor devices to remain simple while the system as a whole maintains full destination selection capability through the controller's call aggregation and routing logic.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an elevator system that has a number of elevator operating devices which are arranged on floors (F1, F2) of a building and which are connected to an elevator controller. At least one first elevator operating device is permanently assigned to a single destination floor (L) such that inputting an elevator call on the first elevator operating device generates a destination call comprising data that specifies the floor (F1, F2) on which the first elevator operating device is arranged as the boarding floor and the destination floor (L) which is permanently assigned to the first elevator operating device as the destination floor (L). The first elevator operating device has a housing in which a display device, an input device, and a controller are arranged, wherein the controller is communicatively coupled to the elevator controller and actuates the display device such that the display device displays the destination floor (L) which is permanently assigned to the first elevator operating device and confirms the elevator call on the first elevator operating device after the elevator call is input using the input device.