Patents by Inventor Sakurako Tokura
Sakurako Tokura 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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Patent number: 10399816Abstract: An elevator system of this disclosure includes: a personal information terminal, which is carried by an elevator user and includes a display unit configured to represent a plurality of available services and a selecting unit by which it is possible to select a service by the display unit; and an elevator control device, which assigns a car of an elevator group according to call registration information from the personal information terminal and transmits information on the assigned car to the personal information terminal, wherein in a case where assigned car is changed due to the situation of the elevator group, the elevator control device changes the assigned car of the elevator group and displays a reassigned car for the user on the display unit of the personal information terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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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: 10124988Abstract: An elevator system of this disclosure includes: a personal information terminal, which is carried by an elevator user and includes a display unit configured to represent a plurality of available services and a selecting unit by which it is possible to select a service by the display unit; and an elevator control device, which assigns a car of an elevator group according to call registration information from the personal information terminal and transmits information on the assigned car to the personal information terminal, wherein in a case where assigned car is changed due to the situation of the elevator group, the elevator control device changes the assigned car of the elevator group and displays a reassigned car for the user on the display unit of the personal information terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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Patent number: 9708155Abstract: An elevator control of a one-shaft multicar system includes: a collision predictor predicting occurrence of a collision of cars against each other in a same shaft in a case a predetermined collision prediction implementation condition is held; a waiting-with-door-open determination mechanism determining whether or not a car is caused to be on standby with the door thereof kept open in a case the collision predictor predicts the collision of cars against each other in the same shaft; a waiting-with-door-open floor determination mechanism determining a waiting-with-door-open floor of the car in a case the waiting-with-door-open determination mechanism determines the car is caused to be on standby with the door thereof kept open; and a controller causing at least either of the cars, for which occurrence of a collision is predicted, to be on standby with the door thereof kept open at the waiting-with-door-open floor determined by the waiting-with-door-open floor determination mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Sakurako Tokura, Shingo Kobori
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Patent number: 9517917Abstract: An elevator system includes: a destination call registration device which accepts an operation of registering a destination call by specifying a destination floor; an exit floor selection part provided in the destination call registration device and by use of which a user selects an exit floor provided with an exit of a building as a destination floor of the destination call; an exit floor determination part which determines, on the basis of predetermined conditions, which floor is the exit floor from candidates for an exit floor which are set beforehand as floors capable of being selected as the exit floor among plural floors of the building; and a destination call registration part which registers the destination call in which the specific floor determined as the exit floor by the exit floor determination part is a destination floor in the case the exit floor selection part is operated by a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2011Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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Publication number: 20160130113Abstract: An elevator system of this disclosure includes: a personal information terminal, which is carried by an elevator user and includes a display unit configured to represent a plurality of available services and a selecting unit by which it is possible to select a service by the display unit; and an elevator control device, which assigns a car of an elevator group according to call registration information from the personal information terminal and transmits information on the assigned car to the personal information terminal, wherein in a case where assigned car is changed due to the situation of the elevator group, the elevator control device changes the assigned car of the elevator group and displays a reassigned car for the user on the display unit of the personal information terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako TOKURA
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Patent number: 9174824Abstract: An elevator system includes a group control device controlling a plurality of elevators as a group, a security gate mounted with a personal identification device that identifies a passing user and issues identification information, an access control device that issues validation information based on the information about the user included in the identification information, a communication device transmitting a service floor call registration request for each user to the group control device based on the validation information, an assignment controlling function that is provided on the group control device to determine the elevator assigned pursuant to the service floor call registration request for each user, and issue assigned elevator information for each user, and an assigned elevator notification device installed on the security gate to notify each user of the assigned elevator information.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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Patent number: 9174823Abstract: A personal authentication device provided in a destination call registration device adapted to obtain authentication information from a user. The device includes an access control device adapted to, when the personal authentication device obtains the authentication information, obtain verification information including a plurality of pieces of permitted floor information corresponding to the authentication information and position information of the destination call registration device; and a supervisory controller adapted to determine, based on the verification information, whether a destination floor inputted into the destination call registration device is a permitted floor, and, based on the registration, control an elevator car.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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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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Publication number: 20150041255Abstract: An elevator control of a one-shaft multicar system includes: a collision predictor predicting occurrence of a collision of cars against each other in a same shaft in a case a predetermined collision prediction implementation condition is held; a waiting-with-door-open determination mechanism determining whether or not a car is caused to be on standby with the door thereof kept open in a case the collision predictor predicts the collision of cars against each other in the same shaft; a waiting-with-door-open floor determination mechanism determining a waiting-with-door-open floor of the car in a case the waiting-with-door-open determination mechanism determines the car is caused to be on standby with the door thereof kept open; and a controller causing at least either of the cars, for which occurrence of a collision is predicted, to be on standby with the door thereof kept open at the waiting-with-door-open floor determined by the waiting-with-door-open floor determination mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Sakurako Tokura, Shingo Kobori
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Patent number: 8939263Abstract: In an elevator system having a destination call registration device with which a user registers a destination call before boarding the elevator car and an assigned car confirming device with which a user makes sure of an assigned car by inputting his or her personal information when an elevator has been assigned to a destination call registered from the destination call registration device, information on an assigned car and personal information of a user are stored by associating these pieces of information with each other. An assigned car confirming device provides information on the assigned car to the user on the basis of the stored personal information.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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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: 20140041968Abstract: An elevator system includes: a destination call registration device which accepts an operation of registering a destination call by specifying a destination floor; an exit floor selection part provided in the destination call registration device and by use of which a user selects an exit floor provided with an exit of a building as a destination floor of the destination call; an exit floor determination part which determines, on the basis of predetermined conditions, which floor is the exit floor from candidates for an exit floor which are set beforehand as floors capable of being selected as the exit floor among plural floors of the building; and a destination call registration part which registers the destination call in which the specific floor determined as the exit floor by the exit floor determination part is a destination floor in the case the exit floor selection part is operated by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2011Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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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: 8584810Abstract: In an elevator system, a destination call registration device converts operation key information corresponding to a pressed key into floor information by using building specification data. The destination call registration device generates a destination call registration request which includes the floor information converted from the operation key information and sends the destination call registration request to a group management control device. The group management control device registers the destination call for a destination floor indicated in the floor information. The group management control device sets building specification data and sends the building specification data to the respective destination call registration devices for conversion.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2008Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura
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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: 8505692Abstract: Provided is an elevator system which can perform an optimum assignment suited to the operation condition of elevators and can appropriately notify a user of accurate information. For this purpose, there are provided a call registration device which registers a destination call before boarding and a notification device which provides elevator information. Normally, immediately after registration of a destination call, the notification device provides information on an assigned car. On the other hand, when a prescribed assignment review condition is met, immediately after registration of a destination call, the notification device provides information to the effect that the registration has been accepted, thereafter the assignment of the elevator is reviewed, and the notification device provides information on an assigned car when the elevator responds to the destination call.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Sakurako Tokura, Yoshimasa Koba, Koji Takeshima, Masayuki Mitsuda, Yoshinori Nonami, Masafumi Iwata, Naohiko Suzuki, Shingo Kobori
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Publication number: 20120228065Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a personal authentication device provided in a destination call registration device adapted to obtain authentication information from a user; an access control device adapted to, when the personal authentication device obtains the authentication information, obtain verification information comprised of a plurality of pieces of permitted floor information corresponding to the authentication information and position information of the destination call registration device; and a supervisory controller adapted to determine, based on the verification information, whether a destination floor inputted into the destination call registration device is a permitted floor, and, based on the registration, control an elevator car.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2009Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Sakurako Tokura