Destination selection control for elevator installation having multiple elevator cars

US7032716B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• thyssenkrupp Elevator Corporation · US

Inventors

• Peter Meyle · Neckartenzlingen, DE
• Stefan Schneider · Aachen, DE
• Gerhard Thumm · Erbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 28, 2005
• Grant date: Apr 25, 2006
• Expiry date: Apr 28, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B66B2201/463
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling an elevator installation with at least one shaft and a number of cars, it being possible to make at least two cars travel separately up and down along a common traveling path and a passenger being able to enter a destination call by means of an input unit disposed outside the shaft and the destination call being allocated to a car in dependence on an allocation assessment. To develop the method in such a way that the transporting capacity can be increased, with the cars which can be made to travel along a common traveling path hindering one another as little as possible, it is proposed according to the invention that, in the case of allocation of the destination call to one of the cars which can be made to travel along the common traveling path, the portion of the traveling path required for serving the destination call is assigned to this car and blocked for the time of the assignment for the other cars. Furthermore, an elevator installation for carrying out the method is proposed.