Claims
- 1. A method of dispatching a group of elevator cars in a building including assigning hall calls to available elevator cars for service thereto, comprising, for each specific hall call to be assigned:
- for each given car in the group
- determining if said given car is fully loaded, and if it is not, providing an available signal indicative of the fact that said given car is available to answer hall calls, but if it is fully loaded, determining whether said given car has any registered car calls, and if it has not, resetting said available signal, thereby indicating that said given car is not available to answer hall calls, but if said given car has registered car calls, determining if all of said car calls are intervening car calls between the present position of said given car and said specific hall call, and if so, providing said available signal;
- assigning hall calls to cars related to said available signals; and
- dispatching said cars to answer assigned hall calls.
- 2. A method according to claim 1 wherein:
- if said given car has registered car calls, determining if all of said car calls are intervening car calls between the present position of said given car and said specific hall call, and if not, determining if one of said car calls is for a special stop where many passengers are likely to exit from the elevator car, and if so, providing said available signal.
- 3. A method according to claim 2 wherein:
- if none of said car calls is for a special stop, determining if said given car has any intervening hall calls between the present position of said given car and said specific hall call, and if it does not, providing said available signal, but if it not, resetting said available signal.
- 4. A method of dispatching a group of elevator cars in a building including assigning hall calls to available elevator cars for service thereto comprising, for each specific hall call to be assigned:
- for each given car in the group
- determining if said given car is fully loaded, and if it is not, providing an available signal indicative of the fact that said given car is available to answer hall calls, but if it is fully loaded, determining whether said given car has any registered car calls, and if it has not, resetting said available signal, thereby indicating that said given car is not available to answer hall calls;
- assigning hall calls to cars related to said available signals if any, but allowing said given car to be available to answer hall calls even in the absence of said available signal provided there is no other car in said group with a corresponding available signal.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation application of Ser. No. 07/881,751 filed Dec. 20, 1991, now abandoned.
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