JPH064743A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To speedily select desired article and to prevent the other article from being erroneously selected by providing a kind selection button to select the kind of article and turning on a vending enable lamp only for the article of the kind selected by this button. CONSTITUTION:When the prescribed amount of money is received, all the vending enable lamps 2 are turned on corresponding to a command from a main CPU. In this case, when the cold button of a hot/cold selection button I is pushed, for example, the vending enable lamps 2 corresponding to hot article are turned off, and only the vending enable lamps 2 corresponding to cold article are turned on. Next, when the desired button such as the button of coffee, for example, is pushed among classification selection buttons II, the other vending enable lamps 2 are turned off while remaining only the vending enable lamps 2 corresponding to the article of Kilimanjaro and Moca as cold article in pushed classification articles. Afterwards, article corresponding to a pushed button is carried out by pushing a article selection button III corresponding to lighted-on article. In this case, the order of pushing buttons is not limited to this example but can be changed into the other arbitrary order.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic vending machine, and more particularly to an automatic vending machine which facilitates selection of products.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, it is known that hot products and cold products are displayed in different colors by red and blue bands below a push button so that a customer can easily select a product.

[0003]

However, when the number of pushbuttons exceeds 30, it takes time to select a desired product by simply displaying the classification by hot or cold, and eventually, selecting the desired product. There was also a problem that it could not be done. The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and has selection buttons for hot / cold, etc., and makes it easy to select a product by illuminating and displaying only the product corresponding to the selected button. The purpose is to provide a vending machine.

[0004]

According to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, a sellable lamp A for a product that can be sold by depositing is turned on, and a product selection button B for the illuminated product is pressed. In an automatic vending machine that sells corresponding products, a storage unit C that stores the type of each product, a type selection button D that selects the type of product, and a storage unit C that stores the type of product selected by the type selection button D And a lighting control means E for lighting only the sellable lamp A for the corresponding product.

[0005]

According to the above construction, when the predetermined amount of money is deposited, the sellable lamp A for the commodities that are ready for sale is turned on. Here, when the type selection button D is pressed, the lighting control means E turns on only the sellable lamp A for the pressed type of product and extinguishes the others, so that the desired type of product can be easily known. You can Then, by pressing the product selection button B for the desired product from the currently lit types of products, the selected product is sold.

[0006]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 is a product nameplate consisting of a light-transmissive panel, and "hot" and "cold" hot / cold indications are provided at the bottom. Reference numeral 2 is a lamp provided on the back of each product nameplate 1 for indicating the sale. III is a product selection button for each product nameplate 1. Although the above is the conventional configuration, the present invention further includes a hot / cold selection button I for selecting “cold” and “warm” products, and a classification selection button II for classifying and selecting products. .

Reference numeral 3 is a CPU for controlling the display device, and pushbuttons I, II, III and the salable lamp 1 are provided with an input / output section 4.
Is connected to the CPU 3 via. The CPU 3 is controlled by a main CPU (not shown) that generally controls the vending machine. Reference numeral 5 denotes a ROM that stores a control program for the CPU 3 as described below, and 6 stores whether each product is a hot product or a cold product.
Each product is a RAM that stores any of the categories of "coffee", "juice", "tea", and "soup", and these information are input in advance from a keyboard (not shown).

The control operation of the apparatus having the above structure will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, when a predetermined amount of money is deposited, an instruction from the main CPU causes a step S1.
All saleable lamps 2 are turned on. Step S
Wait for push button to be pressed at 2. Select hot / cold here
When the "cold" button of I is pressed, the process proceeds from step S2 to step S3, the sellable lamp 2 for warm products is turned off, and only the sellable lamp 2 for cold products is turned on. Next, when a desired button, for example, the "Kohhi" button is pressed from the category selection buttons II, the process proceeds from step S4 to step S5, and the category product and the "cold" product, "Kilimanjaro (cold)", are pressed , The other sellable lamps 2 for the "mocha (cold)" product are left, and the other sellable lamps 2 are turned off. After that, by pressing the product selection button III for the lit product, the process proceeds from step S6 to step S7, and the product corresponding to the pressed button is unloaded. Although the above flow is for the case where the button I, the button II, and the button III are pressed in this order, the order in which the buttons are pressed is not limited to this.

For example, if the product selection button III is first pressed as in the conventional vending machine, steps S1 and S are performed.
The process proceeds from step 10 to step S7, and the product corresponding to the pressed button is immediately carried out. If the classification selection button II is pressed first, the process proceeds from step S1 and step S10 to step S5. In step S2, the hot / cold selection button I
After pressing, if the product selection button III is pressed in step S4, the process proceeds from step S1, step S3, step S4, step S8 to step S7. Furthermore, step S
It is possible to reverse the flow by pressing the upper hot / cold selection button I or the classification selection button II at the place where the lowest product selection button III should be pressed in 6, and thus, in which order the buttons are pressed. It may be like.

In this embodiment, the hot / cold selection button I and the classification selection button II are provided as the type selection buttons. However, depending on the type of product, "cup" and "can", or "instant" if coffee is used. It can be set arbitrarily as "" and "regular". In addition, in this embodiment, the sellable lamp 2
I tried to illuminate the product nameplate 1 with, for example, push button III
It may be lighted in the vicinity of. In addition, this device controls only turning on / off the product name in order to facilitate selection of the product, and does not limit the sale.
Therefore, for example, when the extinguished product selection button III is pressed, the product is permitted to be sold.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, the type selection button for selecting the type of product is provided, and the sale possible lamp of only the type of product selected by this button is turned on. Can be selected quickly and you can avoid accidentally selecting another product.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a complaint responding to a product selection unit in the vending machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a control block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart showing a control operation of the apparatus of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Product name plate 2 Sellable lamp 3 CPU 4 Input / output section 5 ROM 6 RAM I Hot / cold selection button II Classification selection button III Product selection button

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vending machine that sells a corresponding product by turning on a sellable lamp for a product that can be sold by deposit and pressing the product selection button for the lit product stores the type of each product. Storage means, a type selection button for selecting the type of product, and a lighting control means for reading out the type of product selected by the type selection button from the storage means and turning on only the sellable lamp for the corresponding product. A vending machine characterized by that.