JPH07296230A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To grasp accurately quantities of commodity sold actually to solve such a problem that when a commodity of a column is changed, the commodity quantity on a sales slip differs from an actual sold commodity quantity due to forgotten entry operation or the like. CONSTITUTION:The automatic vending machine is provided with exhibited commodity each having a commodity identification code exhibiting kinds of commodity a code read means reading an identification code of the exhibited commodity, a commodity discrimination means discriminating the commodity based on the read code, a collation table between a commodity identification code and a commodity name, and a control means grasping a commodity name on sale from the exhibited commodity indicating each column commodity to count and control sales by each column so as to prevent mistake in sold commodity due to a forgotten entry operation on a key board.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine for collecting the names of sold products by column.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to grasp a product name for sales by column, a product name is input for each column by a keyboard, or a bar code of the product is read and used as data for identifying the product name.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional vending machine, when the product of a certain column is changed, the change of the product name is inputted by the keyboard or the bar code, but the change is forgotten. However, since it does not hinder normal sales,
There is a problem that the quantity of products on the sales slip and the actual quantity of products sold are different.

In view of the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic vending machine capable of accurately grasping the quantity of products actually sold.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, an automatic vending machine according to the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, includes a column having a loading slot for loading, and a column for storing a product to be sold,
A vending machine that has a selection button for selecting a product and a storage unit that stores the correspondence between the selection button and a column, and sells the product in accordance with the selected selection button after the coin is inserted. An exhibit having a product identification code indicating that, a code reading means for reading the identification code of this exhibit, a product determining means for determining the product from the read code, a collation table of the product identifying code and the product name, A control means for grasping the name of a product on sale from the exhibit showing each column product and counting and controlling the sales by column is provided.

Further, when the positional relationship between the column number and the exhibit is changed, a discriminating means for discriminating the sale product of the column by reading the identification code from the exhibit is provided.

[0007]

According to the present invention, according to the above means, the identification code provided on the exhibit is read, the product for the column is set, and the number of sales for each column is recorded.

[0008]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the structure of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a conversion table showing the relationship between identification codes and product names. Reference numeral 1 (1A to 1D) is an exhibit having a product identification code, and 2 is an identification circuit terminal composed of an electric circuit.
An identification code having 1, 12, and 13, 3 is a socket on the identification code side, 4 is a communication IC that reads the identification code 2 of the exhibit 1 and outputs a serial signal, and 5 is a plug on the communication IC 4 side, which is a socket 3 Connected. 6 is a communication IC 4
Communication line, 7 is a communication slave that communicates with the communication IC 4, and communicates the data with the master device 10. 8 is a push button IC that controls the product selection push button section. 9 is a door slave that controls the push button IC 8. .

The master device 10 is provided with a CPU and a storage device, has a calculation function, a determination function, and a storage function, and controls the entire vending machine including management of sales. The operation of the above configuration will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the communication IC 4 of the column with the column number 1 reads the identification code of the exhibit 1 (step S1), the master device 10 determines the product name based on the data, and uses it as the product name in the sales data of the column. It is stored (step S2). Next, it is determined whether or not the sale item of the column has been changed (step S3), and when the sale item of the column is replaced and the exhibit 1 is also replaced, the communication IC 4 has the code of the exhibit 1 after the change. Is read, and the changed product name is set (step S4). Next, the other columns are sequentially determined (step S
5) It is determined whether or not all columns have been determined (step S6), and when the product names have been stored for all columns, the storage operation ends.

That is, the correspondence relation with the product name is determined by the number of connected input terminals. Referring to FIG. 3, for example, the display poor 1A is the product name E, 1B is the product name C, 1C is the product name A,
1D is the product name D, respectively. Further, even when the cross wiring setting of the selection push button is changed and the positional relationship between the column number and the exhibited product is different from the conventional one, the master device 10 uses the communication IC.
The data read in step 4 is received from the door slave 9 and the code input from the communication slave 4 is matched to accurately grasp the sold product.

When a product is sold, it is surely stored as sales data of each product.

[0012]

According to the present invention, the data is changed along with the change of the exhibit by reading the identification code of the exhibit and determining the product of the column number. Therefore, when the product is replenished or the product is replaced depending on the season, It is possible to prevent mistakes in sales items due to forgetting the settings on the keyboard.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a claim correspondence of the vending machine of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the vending machine of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a conversion table according to the present invention.

4 is a flowchart showing the control operation of the block diagram of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Exhibit 2 Identification code 3 Socket 4 Communication IC 5 Plug 6 Communication line 7 Communication slave 8 Push button IC 9 Door slave 10 Master device 11 Identification code input terminal 12 Identification code input terminal 13 Identification code input terminal

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A coin having a column for storing a product to be sold with an insertion slot for inputting, a selection button for selecting a product, and a storage section for storing the correspondence between the selection button and the column. In an automatic vending machine that sells a product in accordance with a selected selection button, an exhibit having a product identification code indicating the type of the product, a code reading means for reading the identification code of this exhibit, and a code read from the read code The product discrimination means for discriminating the product, the collation table of the product identification code and the product name, and the control means for grasping the product name on sale from the exhibit showing each column product and controlling the sales for each column. A vending machine characterized by being equipped. 2. The automatic vending machine according to claim 1, further comprising a discriminating means for discriminating the product for sale in the column by reading an identification code from the exhibited product when the positional relationship between the column number and the exhibited product is changed. .