JPH0816895A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an automatic vending machine capable of smoothly operating even at the time of returning a large sum by printing the effect that a change and a refund can not be returned as an adjustment voucher by means of a printer. CONSTITUTION:The machine is provided with a return lever 20 for returning thrown-in money, a delivery plate 26, a coin mechanics 28, the printer 24, etc., and a control part 34 makes the printer 24 to print the effect that money over a returnable sum is returned as the adjustment voucher so as to issue. In this adjustment voucher, the thrown-in sum, a purchasing sum, the sum of a payed sum and the adjustment sum are entered. For example, it is printed that the thrown-in sum is 100,000yen, the purchasing sum is 100yen, a change payed out from the automatic vending machine is 9,900yen, and remaining 90,000yen is not adjusted. Besides, an effect that adjustment is to be executed in an office is entered for a customer. The customer brings this adjustment voucher to the office so as to adjust the 90,000yen of the remaining sum there. Consequently, the operation of the automatic vending machine is not stopped against before.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recent vending machines have come to the market where not only coins but also banknotes can be used to purchase goods, and prepaid cards can be sold at the same time. are doing. for that reason,
In some cases, 10,000 yen bills or more may be put into vending machines.

However, when such a high amount of money is thrown, if the purchaser instructs the return operation or purchases only a small amount of merchandise such as 100 yen, a large amount of the refund or change will be paid. Need to refund.

However, due to the structure of the vending machine, a refund of a certain amount or more is not paid out,
If the amount of banknotes, coins, etc. stored in the vending machine is less than the refund amount, the withdrawal cannot be made.

[0005] As described above, when the refund cannot be paid out, conventionally, the machine of the vending machine is automatically stopped and the manager of the vending machine is notified by a buzzer or the like. I had to settle the refund manually.

Therefore, there has been a problem that the vending machine's vending operation is temporarily stopped, and the work of refunding is troublesome.

Therefore, in view of the above problems, the present invention provides an automatic vending machine which can smoothly operate even when a high amount of money is returned.

[0008]

The vending machine according to the present invention comprises:
A deposit return means for returning a deposit, a bill management means for managing bills, a coin management means for managing coins, a change management means for managing change, a printer, and the deposit return means or the change management. When the amount of money returned by the means exceeds the amount of money that can be returned by the banknote management means or the coin management means, the printer has a control means for printing that fact as a settlement slip.

[0009]

[Operation] In the vending machine with the above configuration, the case of refunding a large amount of refund will be described.

When the amount of money returned by the deposit money return means or the change management means exceeds the amount that can be returned by the banknote management means or coin management means, the control means uses the printer as a settlement slip. Give it to the purchaser.

[0011] The purchaser can pass the settlement ticket thus issued to the administrator of the vending machine, and the administrator can settle the refund based on it.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

Reference numeral 10 is an automatic vending machine for selling meal tickets which is an embodiment of the present invention. On the front of the vending machine 10, a plurality of selection buttons 12 for selecting a meal ticket.
And a bill insertion slot 14 for inserting bills, a coin insertion slot 16 for inserting coins, a card insertion slot 18 for inserting a prepaid card, a return lever 20 and an outlet 22 for taking out a meal ticket. There is. In addition, outlet 2
No. 2 not only takes out food tickets, but also changes, refunds, and settlement slips described later.

Reference numeral 24 is a printer provided inside the vending machine 10, which prints the content based on the type of meal ticket designated by the selection button 12, and the outlet 22
Carry out more. The printer also prints a checkout slip, which will be described later.

Reference numeral 26 is a delivery plate,
It manages the banknotes inserted from the banknote insertion slot 14 and also manages the number of current banknotes.

Reference numeral 28 is a coin mech, which also manages the number of coins inserted from the coin insertion slot 16 and the number of coins currently stored.

Reference numeral 30 is a card reader / writer which manages data of the prepaid card inserted from the card insertion slot 18.

Reference numeral 32 is a digital display provided on the front surface of the vending machine 10 and displays the amount of money to be inserted, the amount of money to be returned, or the amount of change.

Reference numeral 34 is a control unit composed of a microcomputer. As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 34 is connected to the printer 24, the delivery plate 26, the coin mech 28, the card reader / writer 30, the display 32, the return lever 20, and the plurality of selection buttons 12, and manages each of them. are doing.

In the vending machine 10 having the above structure, when money is put into the vending machine 10 and the return lever 20 requests the return of the money, it is necessary to purchase a meal ticket and pay out the change. The return mode will be described based on the operation of the control unit 34 (see the flowchart of FIG. 3).

In step 1, the return lever 20 is set to O.
It is judged whether or not it is in the N state, and if it is in the ON state, the operation proceeds to step 3. Otherwise, go to step 2.

In step 2, it is judged whether there is change, and if there is change, the process returns to step 1, and if there is change, the process proceeds to step 3.

In step 3, the amount or change returned by the return lever 20 (hereinafter referred to as return money)
However, if it is less than or equal to the maximum amount of money that can be returned by the vending machine 10 (hereinafter referred to as the returnable amount of money), the process proceeds to step 7. Here, the returnable amount is set to, for example, 10,000 yen.

In step 4, if the refund is within the amount stored in the coin mech 28 or the delivery plate 26, the process proceeds to step 7, and if not, the process proceeds to step 5. That is, the control unit 34 always grasps the amount of money that can be returned from the delivery plate 26 or the coin mech 28.

At step 5, only the amount of money that can be returned at present is returned and the process proceeds to step 6.

In step 6, the checkout sheet is printed by the printer 2
Print at 4. As shown in FIG. 4, this checkout sheet describes the input amount, the purchase amount, the change payment amount, and the settlement amount. In the case of FIG. 4, the input amount is 100,000 yen and the purchase amount is 100 yen. The change dispensed by the vending machine 10 is 9,900 yen, and the remaining 90,000 yen is printed as an amount that has not been settled. In addition, in order to carry out this settlement, this settlement slip states that the customer should bring this settlement slip to the office and make the settlement at the office. Therefore, the customer who issued this checkout ticket brings this checkout ticket to the office, and the remaining checkout amount of 90,000 yen is settled in this checkout ticket.

In step 7, if the amount of money to be returned is the amount that can be returned, the entire amount is returned and the process ends.

As described above, the vending machine 10 according to the present embodiment.
Therefore, if the refund amount exceeds the refundable amount, a voucher is issued, and the vending machine administrator performs the checkout according to the voucher, so the operation of the vending machine is stopped as before. There is nothing to do.

In the above embodiment, step 5
In the above, the amount that can be paid out by the vending machine is returned first, but instead of this, all the amount that cannot be returned may be entered in the settlement slip and returned by the administrator.

[0030]

As described above, according to the vending machine of the present invention, when the change or refund cannot be returned, the printer prints that fact as a check sheet, so that the customer manages the check sheet. If you hand it to another person, you can get the payment. Therefore, the vending machine does not stop selling as in the past.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a vending machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a vending machine.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart in a return mode.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a checkout slip.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Vending Machine 12 Selection Button 14 Banknote Slot 16 Coin Slot 18 Card Slot 20 Return Lever 22 Takeout Port 24 Printer 26 Delivery Plate 28 CoinMec 30 Cardreader 32 Indicator 34 Control Unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A deposit return means for returning a deposit, a bill management means for managing a bill, a coin management means for managing a coin, a change management means for managing a change, a printer, and the return of the deposit. When the amount of money returned by the means or the change management means exceeds the amount of money that can be returned by the banknote management means or the coin management means, the printer has a control means for printing that fact as a settlement slip. Characteristic vending machine.