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Elevator control apparatus using neural network to predict car direction reversal floor

Patent 5250766 Issued on October 5, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 23, 2011. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 705070 filed on 05/23/1991

US Classes:

187/391, WITH MONITORING, SIGNALLING, AND INDICATING MEANS187/247, HAVING COMPUTER CONTROL OF ELEVATOR187/380WITH CALL REGISTRATION MEANS

Examiners

Primary: Stephan, Steven L.
Assistant: Nappi, Robert E.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 2086081 GB. 09/13/1981
  • 2222275 GB. 02/13/1990
  • 2235312 GB. 06/13/1990
  • 2237663 GB. 10/13/1990

International Class

B66B 003/00

Foreign Application Priority Data

1990-05-24 JP

Abstract

An elevator control apparatus capable of predicting reversion floors of elevator cages accurately. The control apparatus comprises a neural network, in which traffic state data are fetched into the neural network, so that predicted values of floors where the moving direction of each cage is reversed are calculated as predicted reversion floors. In the elevator control apparatus, reversion floors near true reversion floors can be predicted flexibly correspondingly to traffic state and traffic volume.

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