Abstract: An elevator controller which enables a stop to be made at the nearest floor in the event of a disaster and can prevent users from being shut up in an emergency landing entrance floor. The elevator controller includes an operation mode controller, a door open/close controller which causes the elevator to open the elevator door at the nearest emergency landing entrance floor for a given time when the operation mode controller has returned an operation mode from an emergency operation mode to a normal operation mode, and an informing controller which causes an informing device, which is provided in a hall of an emergency landing entrance floor for which the door open/close controller causes the door to be opened for a given time or provided in the car, to provide information to the effect that the elevator can be used when the operation mode-controller has returned the operation mode from the emergency operation mode to the normal operation mode.

Abstract: An elevator controller which enables a stop to be made at the nearest floor in the event of a disaster and can prevent users from being shut up in an emergency landing entrance floor. The elevator controller includes an operation mode controller, a door open/close controller which causes the elevator to open the elevator door at the nearest emergency landing entrance floor for a given time when the operation mode controller has returned an operation mode from an emergency operation mode to a normal operation mode, and an informing controller which causes an informing device, which is provided in a hall of an emergency landing entrance floor for which the door open/close controller causes the door to be opened for a given time or provided in the car, to provide information to the effect that the elevator can be used when the operation mode-controller has returned the operation mode from the emergency operation mode to the normal operation mode.

Abstract: In a cutting insert, a base plate is formed into a polygonal configuration having a plurality of corners. At least one cutting-edge element is mounted on an upper surface of the corner of the base plate. The cutting-edge element is composed of a high-hardness sintered section and a super-hard sintered section which are superimposed one upon the other. The cutting-edge element is brazed to the upper surface of the corner of the base plate under such a condition that the super-hard sintered section is exposed to an upper surface of the base plate. The super-hard sintered section has its upper surface which is formed therein with a chip breaker having a surface roughness within a range of from 0.5S to 10S. Furthermore, in a polygonal cutting insert having a plurality of corners which have formed therein respective chip breakers, at least one of the chip breakers is different in form from the remaining chip breakers.