JPH08221649A - Automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent illicit vending by inhibiting a paper money from being used in the nighttime. CONSTITUTION: This automatic vending machine, equipped with a paper money reading machine A which discriminates an inserted paper money and allows an article to be vended according to the amount of the received paper money, is equipped with a setting means B which sets a time zone wherein buying with paper money is inhibited, a storage means C which stores the set contents, a timer function D, a decision means E which judges whether the current time is in the vending inhibited time zone or not, and a command signal output means F which sends out a signal for inhibiting a paper money from being accepted to the paper money reader A when the current time is in the vending inhibiting time zone.

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 which can be sold with bills, and more particularly to an automatic vending machine which prevents illegal sales at night.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional automatic vending machine, when a banknote is inserted, a banknote reader (hereinafter, abbreviated as "Bill Bali") determines whether the banknote is authentic or not, and determines that the banknote is not authentic If it judges, the bill is returned. At that time, if the judgment criteria are made strict, even if the banknote has even a small fold, the banknote is returned without being accepted, which causes inconvenience to users. Therefore, in this type of device, the criterion for the bill determination is loosened to some extent.

[0003]

Therefore, even fraudulent banknotes due to forgery or the like are permitted to be sold, and such fraudulent sales have spread particularly at night when the traffic is not visible.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an automatic vending machine which prevents illegal sales by prohibiting the use of banknotes at night.

[0005]

As shown in FIG. 1, the present invention is provided with a bill reader (A) for identifying inserted bills, and automatically sells merchandise according to the deposit amount of the inserted bills. In the vending machine, the time slot during which banknotes can be sold,
Alternatively, a setting means (B) for setting a sale prohibited time zone, a setting means (B) for setting a saleable time zone or a sale prohibited time zone by bills, and a storage means (C) for storing the setting content by the setting means ) And a clock function that keeps track of the current time
(D), a judging means (E) for judging whether the current time is a sellable time zone or a sale prohibited time zone, and the judging means (E) determines that the current time is a sellable time zone. When it is determined that the bill reading device (A) is allowed to accept bills, the bill reading device (A) is prohibited from accepting bills when the current time is determined to be the sale prohibition time zone. Command signal output means for transmitting a signal for
(F) is provided.

[0006]

According to the above construction, when the time zone during which the sale of bills is prohibited is set by the setting means (B) and is stored in the storage means (C), the current time from the clock function (D) is the above. If the determination means (E) determines that it is in the sale prohibition time zone, the command signal output means (F) outputs a signal for prohibiting the receipt of bills to the bill reading device (A). Is prohibited from selling in banknotes.

[0007]

FIG. 2 shows one embodiment of the vending machine of the present invention, which is a part of a typical structure of a VTS type cup vending machine. Master Box 1 has Master C
It has a PU 1A, a clock IC 1B for measuring time, a ROM master ROM 1C for storing a control program for the master CPU 1A, and a master RAM 1D for storing various sales data. VT for this master box 1
The following slaves are connected through the S line.

Reference numeral 2 is a keyboard slave comprising a liquid crystal display 2A and operation keys 2B, the details of which are shown in FIG. Reference numeral 3 is a bill-bill slave that identifies inserted bills and counts the deposit amount if it is a regular bill, and 4 is a coin-mech slave that identifies inserted coins and counts the deposit amount. Reference numeral 5 denotes a carry-out slave, and various loads 6 such as a raw material motor and a door switch are connected to the carry-out slave 5. 7 is a buzzer,
When a bill is to be inserted into the bill Bali slave 3 at night, an alarm sound is output to inform that the bill is not accepted.

The operation of the vending machine having the above configuration is shown in FIG.
It will be described according to the flowchart of When the switch is turned on, the process proceeds from step S1 to step S2, and it is determined whether or not the time data has been set. If not set, the data is displayed on the liquid crystal display 2A of the keyboard slave 2 as shown in Table 1 in step S3. Enter the date, day of the week, hour and minute according to the contents.

[0010]

[Table 1] (Current time confirmation / setting) : Cursor position Genzai 199 5 line 01 gatsu 16 nichi getsuyoujikoku 15 di 30 h

At step S4, other initial settings are made. In the next step S5, it is determined whether or not the keyboard slave 2 has been operated, and if there is an operation, the process proceeds to step S7, it is determined whether or not the operation is the setting of the banknote sale prohibited time zone, and the banknote sale is prohibited. If the time zone is set, the setting contents are set in the master RAM in step S8.
It is stored in 1D.

There are two setting modes for setting the banknote prohibited time zone, as shown in Tables 2 and 3. The setting mode shown in Table 2 is for uniformly setting the banknote sale prohibited time zone for each day of the week, and can be set up to two time zones.
FIG. 5 shows a storage map of the master RAM 1D at this time. Here, the "work area" is the master CP
For U1A, the "other area" is
This is an area where various sales data and the like input from the keyboard slave 2 are stored. Further, in the setting mode shown in Table 3, individual banknote sale prohibited time zones can be set for each day of the week. Since the display area of the liquid crystal display 2A is narrow, the input is divided into two.
Even in this setting mode, if the time is set in the place of the setting item “Minichi”, the setting content has priority.

[0013]

[Table 2] (Bill Bali sales prohibited time zone setting) Shihei Hanbai Zikantai 1 Zikantai 2 Kinshi Zikantai 2 1 : 00: 00-23: 30 00: 30-05: 30

[0014]

[Table 3] (bill validator sale prohibition time zone setting) bill selling daily Getsu mosquito Sui DISABLE Jikantai 0 0 -00 01-05 01-05 01-05 bill sale Mok Kin de Nitinol DISABLE Jikantai 00-00 02-04 00- 06 23-07

On the other hand, when a setting other than the banknote sale prohibited time zone is made in step S9, the operation corresponding to it is taken into the master CPU 1A in step S9. After that, by returning to step S5, the loop of steps S5 to S10 and step S11 is cycled.
That is, in step S6, the current time is read from the clock IC1B, and whether or not the current time is within the banknote sale prohibition time zone previously set in step S7 is determined by the master CPU 1
If it is determined by A and the current time is within the banknote sales prohibition time zone, in step S10, the master CPU 1A sends a command signal for prohibiting the bill reception to the bill validator slave 3, thereby prohibiting the sales by the banknote. Only coins will be sold during this time. On the other hand, if the current time is outside the banknote sales prohibited time zone, step S11.
At this time, the master CPU 1A sends a command signal for permitting bill acceptance to the bill validator 3, and therefore, not only coins but also bills are permitted to be sold during this time period.

In the present embodiment, the time zone for prohibiting the sale of bills is set, but conversely, the time zone for permitting the sale of bills may be set, and the sale of bills may be prohibited outside of this time zone. .

[0017]

As described above, the present invention sets a prohibition time zone (or a possible sale time zone) for bills, and prohibits the receipt of bills by the bill reading machine during the sale prohibition period. Therefore, for example, if the sale is prohibited at night, it is possible to prevent illegal sales of banknotes at night.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for responding to complaints of a vending machine according to the present invention.

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

FIG. 3 is a detailed view of the keyboard slave of FIG.

4 is a diagram showing a control operation of the apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a memory map diagram of the master ROM of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Master Box 1A Master CPU 1B Clock IC 1C Master ROM 1D Master RAM 2 Keyboard Slave 3 Bill Bali Slave 4 Coimmec Slave 5 Export Slave 6 Various Loads 7 Buzzer

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An automatic vending machine equipped with a bill reader (A) for identifying inserted bills and selling goods according to the deposit amount of the inserted bills. Setting means (B) for setting the time zone, storage means (C) for storing the contents set by the setting means, a clock function (D) for measuring the current time, and whether the current time is a sellable time zone or a sale The determination means (E) for determining whether it is a prohibited time zone, and when the determination means (E) determines that the current time is in the salable time zone, the bill reading device (A)
To the bill reading device (A) when the current time is determined to be the sale prohibition time zone. F) and a vending machine. 2. The automatic vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the storage means (C) stores a plurality of prohibited sale time zones input by the setting means (B), and a desired prohibited sale time zone can be selected. Machine. 3. The storage means (C) stores the sale prohibition time zone for each day of the week input by the setting means (B), and enables setting of the sale prohibition time zone for each day of the week. Vending machine described in.