Patents by Inventor Naohiko Suzuki
Naohiko Suzuki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11834295Abstract: An elevator operation managing device capable of reducing a switching of passengers at a time of getting on and getting out of a car. The elevator operation managing device includes an in-car position acquisition unit and a car allocation acquisition unit. The in-car position acquisition unit obtains an in-car position of a user based on layout information and a congestion degree obtained in a congestion degree acquisition unit. The car allocation acquisition unit performs a car allocation to allocate the user to the car based on a received boarding floor and destination floor and the in-car position obtained in the in-car position acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Nanaho Osawa, Satoko Sakajo, Naohiko Suzuki, Sakurako Tokura, Eunjin Choi
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Publication number: 20200062537Abstract: A mobile terminal (7) has an acceleration sensor (8) and a direction sensor (9). The mobile terminal (7) includes a route specifying unit (11), a calculating unit (13), a determining unit (14), and a communicating unit (16). The calculating unit (13) calculates a feature quantity of a route specified by the route specifying unit (11) on the basis of the route specified by the route specifying unit (11). The communicating unit (16) transmits call information to the communicating device (6) when the determining unit (14) determines that the route specified by the route specifying unit (11) is a boarding route.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiko SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20190144238Abstract: An elevator operation managing device capable of reducing a switching of passengers at a time of getting on and getting out of a car. The elevator operation managing device includes an in-car position acquisition unit and a car allocation acquisition unit. The in-car position acquisition unit obtains an in-car position of a user based on layout information and a congestion degree obtained in a congestion degree acquisition unit. The car allocation acquisition unit performs a car allocation to allocate the user to the car based on a received boarding floor and destination floor and the in-car position obtained in the in-car position acquisition unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Nanaho OSAWA, Satoko SAKAJO, Naohiko SUZUKI, Sakurako TOKURA, Eunjin CHOI
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Patent number: 9663324Abstract: In an elevator system in which a plurality of cars are operated in a coupled or independent manner in a single hoistway, an elevator group-control device includes a front-car car-call detection unit detecting a car call of a front car with respect to its traveling direction out of the plurality of cars or for detecting a floor and a car that are assigned a destination floor of a registered destination floor call; and a rear-car assignment-candidate exclusion unit excluding, from assignment candidate cars, a rear car in the same hoistway as the front car assigned the car call when a landing call for the same direction as the traveling direction is registered at a floor registered by the car call detected by the front-car car-call detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20160210376Abstract: An elevator facility planning support apparatus according to the present invention includes: a traffic demand receiver receiving the number of arriving passengers per unit time; an elevator specifications receiver receiving facility specifications of the elevator; a round trip time equation creating unit creating a round trip time equation that indicates that a round trip time is equal to the sum of a shuttle travel time required for the elevator to go to a reversal floor and back, a stop time of the elevator on served floors, and a boarding-and-alighting time for passengers on the served floors; and a round trip time computing unit computing the round trip time from the round trip time equation. In the round trip time equation, the round trip time is expressed by a function that includes, as variables, the number of arriving passengers per unit time and the round trip time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2015Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiko SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9278828Abstract: Provided is a group management control device for elevator in which the occurrence of useless waiting time and lateness for boarding is reduced even when there is a difference in the distance from a hall call registration device to each car. For this purpose, the group management control device for elevator which manages a plurality of elevators as a bank includes a hall call registration device, a walking time prediction section which predicts the walking time of a user on the basis of the distance from the hall call registration device to each of the elevators, and a hall call assignment section which decides an elevator to be assigned to a hall call on the basis of an evaluation value calculated by using the predicted walking time. The plurality of elevators which are managed as a bank are divided into a plurality of groups according to the distance from the hall call registration device.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaharu Eto, Naohiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 9090433Abstract: An elevator system is provided with a remote hall call registering device by use of which an elevator passenger performs a hall call registration in a position at a prescribed distance from a hall. A moving time comparison device compares the predicted moving time Te of the elevator car with the predicted walking time Tw in the case where the floor on which a remote hall call registering device is installed is set as a parking floor. A standby operation go/no go determination device makes a determination as to whether or not to perform a standby operation based on the result of the comparison of the moving time comparison device, and carries out a standby operation after responses to all calls have been finished only in the case where the standby operation go/no go determination device made a determination to the effect that a standby operation should be performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 9079752Abstract: According to the present invention, when a parking floor is set as a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor, the parking floor can be canceled. As a result of this, during the movement of a passenger from a remote hall operating panel to an elevator hall, it is possible to prevent a car from being on standby at a remote-hall-operating-panel-installed floor. Therefore, because a car to which a remote hall registration has been assigned can effectively use the moving time of the passenger and hence it is possible to improve the operation efficiency of the whole group supervisory control system. Furthermore, it is possible to reduce useless runs and hence to reduce power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2009Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Takeshima, Masayuki Mitsuda, Yoshinori Nonami, Sakurako Tokura, Naohiko Suzuki, Yoshimasa Koba, Masafumi Iwata
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Patent number: 8978833Abstract: A double-deck elevator group controller including a hall-installed car call registration device, cars of the first operation mode which are in charge of operation between even-numbered floors or between odd-numbered floors and cars of the second operation mode which serve all of the floors at which the cars can stop, are set, and in consideration of both combinations of boarding and alighting floors of registered from-hall car calls and an increment of the number of stops, the from-hall car calls are divided for assignment to the cars of the first operation mode and the cars of the second operation, whereby it is possible to meet from-hall car calls having arbitrary floors as the boarding and alighting floors and it is possible to improve the operation efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiko Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140371914Abstract: An elevator group management control device that can set standby actions executable when services of one-shaft multicar system elevators have been completed. The elevator group management control device includes a determination section which, for plural elevators including a one-shaft multicar system elevator in which plural cars are arranged in a same shaft, determines whether services to elevator calls have been completed and an instruction section in which, in a case services of plural cars of the one-shaft multicar system elevator have been completed, as floors where plural cars in question are on standby, a pattern is set among a first pattern in which a main floor in the vicinity of a bottom floor and a floor lower than the main floor are set, a second pattern in which the main floor and an upper floor are set, and a third pattern in which upper floors are set.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshimasa Koba, Naohiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 8905196Abstract: An elevator group control apparatus performs operation control of a plurality of elevators by detecting a downward traffic flow ratio of traffic flows departing downward from floors higher than a prescribed main floor in the total traffic flow departing from one floor to another. If the downward traffic flow ratio is not less than a prescribed reference value, a standby mode for downward traffic flow is made effective, in which at least one elevator car is caused to be on standby on a floor higher than the main floor and at least one elevator car is caused to be on standby on the main floor.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naohiko Suzuki, Yoshimasa Koba, Sakurako Tokura
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Publication number: 20140291077Abstract: In an elevator system in which a plurality of cars are operated in a coupled or independent manner in a single hoistway, an elevator group-control device includes a front-car car-call detection unit detecting a car call of a front car with respect to its traveling direction out of the plurality of cars or for detecting a floor and a car that are assigned a destination floor of a registered destination floor call; and a rear-car assignment-candidate exclusion unit excluding, from assignment candidate cars, a rear car in the same hoistway as the front car assigned the car call when a landing call for the same direction as the traveling direction is registered at a floor registered by the car call detected by the front-car car-call detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Naohiko Suzuki
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Patent number: 8751625Abstract: A notification apparatus includes a notification unit configured to notify a connected network of routing information, and a restriction unit configured to restrict notification of the routing information when a connected network is not a registered network.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naohiko Suzuki, Kensuke Yasuma
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Patent number: 8646581Abstract: An elevator group management system capable of appropriately performing car assignment processing without leaving any one behind and enabling a passenger to recognize a car to board without fail. A fellow passenger group assignment section assigns fellow passenger groups to respective passengers based on the contents of hall call registration for each floor received from a hall operation panel, and causes the hall operation panel that has sent the hall call registration to display names of the assigned fellow passenger. A fellow passenger group car assignment section executes, on the fellow passenger groups assigned by the fellow passenger group assignment section, car assignment processing of assigning any of a plurality of cars as an assigned car and, in a case of determining the assigned car, provides car control sections with a passenger guide command containing at least combination information on this assigned car that has been determined and the fellow passenger group.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masafumi Iwata, Naohiko Suzuki, Shingo Kobori, Sakurako Tokura, Yoshimasa Koba, Kouji Takeshima, Masayuki Mitsuda, Yoshinori Nonami
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Patent number: 8602172Abstract: A car-based running power computing mechanism computes running power values of each car in both cases including cases before and after a newly generated hall call is assigned. A car-based regenerative power computing mechanism computes regenerative power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based future running power computing mechanism computes future running power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based future regenerative power computing mechanism computes future regenerative power values of each car in the both cases. A car-based assigned total evaluation index computing mechanism obtains an in-travel power consumption value and an in-future-travel power consumption value based on the running power values, regenerative power values, future running power values, future regenerative power values and the like, to thereby compute assigned total evaluation indices of each car in the both cases.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2009Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naohiko Suzuki, Masafumi Iwata, Shingo Kobori, Sakurako Tokura, Yoshimasa Koba, Kouji Takeshima, Masayuki Mitsuda, Yoshinori Nonami
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Patent number: 8567569Abstract: An elevator group management system improving operational efficiency in consideration of a situation change that has occurred after a destination floor registration in a hall. An assigned car review mechanism executes assigned car review processing in units of review registration information sets each including at least one piece of provisionally assigned car registration information managed by a registered destination floor hall call management section during a review period. After ending the assigned car review processing, the assigned car review mechanism modifies the contents of the provisionally assigned car registration information in the registered destination floor hall call management section based on the contents of the review registration information set after modification. That is, the assigned car review mechanism newly registers the provisionally assigned car registration information after review and erases the provisionally assigned car registration information before review at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naohiko Suzuki, Masafumi Iwata, Shingo Kobori, Sakurako Tokura, Yoshimasa Koba, Kouji Takeshima, Masayuki Mitsuda, Yoshinori Nonami
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Patent number: D840882Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chung Woo Lee, Ian Richard Cartabiano, Naohiko Suzuki, Masaki Muromoto
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Patent number: D842176Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chung Woo Lee, Ian Richard Cartabiano, Naohiko Suzuki, Takeshi Ogawa
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Patent number: D842775Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chung Woo Lee, Ian Richard Cartabiano, Naohiko Suzuki, Masaki Muromoto
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Patent number: D856555Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Ogawa, Naohiko Suzuki