JPH0920396A - Beverage quantitative vending device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a beverage vending button which is not used for vending from functioning by performing a simple setting work, which is a button control of an extremely short period of time, at the time of setting. SOLUTION: When a beverage vending button 5 between beverage vending buttons 5, 6 is used for vending, but the beverage vending button 6 is not used, when a setting for the beverage vending button 6 is done, a control wherein the beverage vending button 6 is pressed for an extremely short period of time, is done. Just like this control, when a discharging period of time is short, the opening time (equivalent to a vending quantity) of a beverage discharging valve 11, which is stored in a RAM 3, is set at 0. By doing so, even if the beverage vending button 6 is pressed at the time of a beverage vending, the beverage is not discharged, since the discharging quantity is 0. That is, by simply performing such an easy setting work, the beverage vending button which is not used can be prevented from functioning.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a beverage quantitative selling device for selling a fixed amount of beverage.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional beverage quantitative selling device, a method is known in which the beverage discharge amount for each beverage selling button is set as follows. That is, a predetermined amount of beverage corresponding to each beverage sale button is actually discharged, and the opening time of the beverage discharge valve at that time is measured by a timer and stored in the storage device.
When the drink sale button is pressed at the time of sale, the drink discharge valve is opened for the time stored at the time of setting the button, and a predetermined amount of drink is discharged.

[0003]

However, the conventional beverage quantitative selling device has the following problems. That is, the beverage quantitative sales device is provided with a plurality of beverage sales buttons so as to handle a plurality of types of beverages and discharge amounts. However, depending on the installation environment, only some buttons may be used as in the case of selling only one kind of beverage into one kind of beverage container.

In such a case, in order to prevent the beverage from being discharged even if the unused beverage sale button is pressed, it is necessary to set the discharge amount to the unused beverage sale button to 0 or to eliminate the function of the button. is there. However, in the conventional setting method as described above, since the ejection amount is stored as the ejection time, it is difficult to set the ejection amount to 0. Therefore, conventionally, the operator changed the circuit to which the beverage sale button, which is not used for sale, was connected, which was troublesome. Further, if the changed device is to be moved to another place and used, it must be changed again according to the usage of the moved place. Moreover, a specialized operator was required for this work, and the settings could not be easily changed.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a beverage quantitative sales device capable of preventing an unused beverage sales button from functioning by a simple setting operation.

[0006]

A beverage quantitative sales device according to the present invention comprises a beverage sales button for selling beverages, a sales amount storage means for storing the sales amount of each beverage as the opening time of a beverage discharge valve, and a beverage. At the time of sale, when the beverage sale button is pressed, the valve opening time corresponding to the beverage sale button is read from the sales amount storage means, and the beverage discharge valve is opened during the valve opening time. In mode setting means for switching to a setting mode for setting the beverage sales amount, a timer for counting the opening time of the beverage discharge valve, and when the beverage sales button is pressed to discharge the beverage in the setting mode, the timer counts. The opening time of the selected beverage discharge valve is stored in the sales volume storage means as the beverage sales volume corresponding to the beverage sales button, and the timer is stored in the timer. Ri when open time counting beverage discharge valve is shorter than a predetermined time, and a control unit to be stored in the sales amount storage means an opening time of the beverage discharge valve for storing a beverage dispensing volume as 0.

[0007]

In order to set the discharge amount corresponding to each drink sale button, at the time of setting, a predetermined amount of drink is discharged to each drink sale button, the opening time of the drink discharge valve at that time is measured by a timer, and the sales amount storage means is provided. To memorize. When the drink sale button is pressed at the time of sale, the drink discharge valve is opened for the time stored at the time of setting for the button, and a predetermined amount of drink is discharged.

When the correspondence between the drink sale button and the discharge amount is set in this way, when the open time of the drink discharge valve is shorter than a predetermined time (very short time), the discharge amount corresponding to the drink sell button, that is, the drink. Open the discharge valve for 0
Is stored in the sales amount storage means. As a result, with respect to the beverage sale button that is not used, the discharge amount corresponding to the beverage sale button is set to 0 by the simple setting work of ejecting a very small amount of beverage at the time of setting, and the beverage sale button functions. do not do.

[0009]

1 is a block diagram showing the construction of an embodiment of the present invention. 1 is a CPU for controlling the entire apparatus, 2 is a C
ROM 3 for storing the control program of PU 1 is a RAM for storing the prescribed sales amount for each beverage as the opening time of the beverage discharge valve 11, and 4 is an input / output unit for the following devices.

Reference numerals 5 and 6 are beverage sales buttons. Reference numeral 7 denotes a stop / addition button, which, when set, stops the sale of the beverage if it is pressed during the sale of the beverage, and if it is pressed after the sale of the beverage is completed, the addition of the addition is performed. 8 is a mode setting button for switching to a setting mode for setting the sales amount for each beverage, 9 is the total time when the beverage is actually sold by operating the buttons 5, 6 and 7 in the setting mode, that is, the beverage discharge valve 11 Is a storage button for updating and storing in RAM 3 the total opening time as the sales amount of the beverage. Reference numeral 10 is a sales relay, which drives the beverage discharge valve 11 via the relay contact X.

Further, the CPU 1 includes a sales time counting timer T1 for counting the valve opening time (sales volume) stored in the RAM 3, and an actual sales time counting timer for measuring the actual total opening time of the beverage discharge valve 11. And T2. The operation of the apparatus configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, press the mode setting button 8,
The mode is switched to the setting mode for setting the sales amount (opening time of the beverage discharge valve) for the beverage sales buttons 5 and 6, and the process proceeds from step S1 to step S2.

Next, when the beverage sale button (for example, 5) is pressed, the process proceeds to step S3, the sale time counting timer T1 starts counting the time, the beverage discharge valve 11 is opened to start the beverage sale, and the actual sale time is further extended. The counting timer T2 starts counting time. Here, it is assumed that the beverage sales amount initially set for the beverage sales button 5 is 150 ml, and the opening time of the corresponding beverage discharge valve is 5 seconds.

Thereafter, it is determined in step S4 whether the stop / addition button 7 has been pressed, or in step S5 whether T1 has counted up the valve opening time of 5 seconds. When the prescribed amount is sold in the cup by, for example, discharging the beverage for 4 seconds before the prescribed 5 seconds elapse, the stop / addition button 7 is pressed at that time to proceed from step S4 to step S6. In step S6, the beverage sales are stopped, and at the same time, the timer T2 is stopped. And
In this case, if the memory button 9 is turned on, step S1
The process proceeds from 0 to step S11.

On the other hand, if the specified amount is not sold in the cup even if the beverage is discharged for the specified sales time of 5 seconds, the timer T1 is counted up in step S5, and the process proceeds from step S5 to step S6. In step S6, the beverage sales are stopped, and at the same time, the timer T2 is stopped. After this, stop / to add more drinks
When the addition button 7 is turned on, the process proceeds from step S7 to step S8, and the timing of the timer T2 is restarted at the same time as the sale of the beverage. After confirming that the prescribed amount of beverage was sold in the cup after 1 second due to this beverage sale, stop /
By turning off the add button 7, step S
The process proceeds from step 7 to step S9, the beverage sale is stopped, and the timer T2 is also stopped. After that, if the memory button 9 is turned on, the process proceeds from step S10 to step S11.

The above are the steps for setting the normal beverage discharge amount, and the following are the steps of the present invention. That is, for example, if the button 5 of the drink sale buttons 5 and 6 is used for sale but the button 6 is not used, when the button 6 is set, the button 6 is used for a very short time (for example, less than 1 second). ) Just press.

That is, when the process proceeds from step S1 to step S4, if the stop / addition button 7 is pressed immediately before T1 counts up, the timer T2 is stopped and the memory button 9 is pressed as described above. And step S1
Proceed to 1. At this time, a very short ejection time (for example, less than 1 second) is stored in T2. Therefore, in step S11, it is determined whether the value of the timer T2 counted as described above, that is, whether the total time when the beverage is actually discharged is shorter than a very short time (for example, 1 second). When the discharge time is short (branch Y) as in the operation when the button 6 is set, the open time (corresponding to the sales amount) of the beverage discharge valve stored in the RAM 3 is set to 0 (step S12). .

As a result, even if the drink sale button 6 is pressed at the time of selling a drink, since the discharge amount is 0, the drink is not discharged. That is, it is possible to prevent the unused beverage sale button from functioning only by performing the above-described simple setting work. In this way, when the opening time of the beverage discharge valve is 0, the control unit may detect this and control so as not to sell.

On the other hand, when T2 is long (branch N in step S11), that is, when the drink selling button is used for selling as in the case of the above-mentioned button 5, the counted time is (5 + 1) in the above example. ) Seconds for beverage sale button 5
Of the beverage sales volume (opening time of the beverage discharge valve) of RA
It is stored in M3 (step S13). The valve opening time thus obtained may be corrected according to the nature of the beverage.

By performing the above for each beverage sale button, it is possible to set the discharge amount for each beverage sale button and prevent the unused beverage sale button from functioning.

[0020]

According to the present invention, when the amount of beverage sold to the beverage vending button is stored as the opening time of the beverage dispensing valve, the dispensing time is set to 0 for a very short period of dispensing.
To be stored. Therefore, with respect to the beverage sale button which is not used for sale, it is possible to prevent the beverage sale button from functioning at the time of setting by the simple setting work of the button operation for a very short time as described above.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram showing a beverage quantitative sales device which is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation based on the invention of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... CPU, 2 ... ROM, 3 ... RAM, 4 ... I / O,
5, 6 ... Beverage sale button, 7 ... Cancel / addition button,
8 ... Mode setting button, 9 ... Memory button, 10 ... Sales relay, 11 ... Beverage discharge valve.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A beverage sales button for selling beverages, a sales volume storage means for storing the sales volume of each beverage as the opening time of the beverage discharge valve, and when the beverage sales button is pressed at the time of beverage sales, The valve opening time corresponding to the beverage sales button is read from the sales volume storage means, and the beverage dispenser that opens the beverage discharge valve during the valve opening time is set to the setting mode for setting the beverage sales volume. A mode setting means for switching, a timer for counting the opening time of the beverage discharge valve, and the opening time of the beverage discharge valve counted by the timer when the beverage sales button is pressed to discharge the beverage in the setting mode. Is stored in the sales volume storage means as the beverage sales volume corresponding to the above, and the opening time of the beverage discharge valve counted by the timer is set to a predetermined time. Short time, the beverage amount sale device characterized by comprising a control unit to be stored in the sales amount storage means an opening time of the beverage discharge valve for storing a beverage dispensing volume as 0.