JPS6014389A - Vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine that dispenses any type of goods and change depending on the amount of money deposited.

<Prior Art and Its Disadvantages> Recently, automatic vending machines (automatic vending machines) in which multiple types of goods can be purchased by inserting a required amount or more have been put into practical use. For example, when you press the selection button for one item, you can perform a purchase and issue operation, and finally, if you have finished purchasing all the desired items, you can get a refund without going through the button. Particularly, 1; C change is discharged, and a series of purchase operations from coin insertion to article and change discharge is completed. This method has the drawback that the customer service time per customer is longer because the object is achieved by repeating the item discharging operation such as selecting the desired item and finally instructing the release of change. It is not good for customers in terms of service.

<Objective of the Invention> The object of the invention is to shorten the customer service operation time per person and to reduce the time required for customer service by providing advance bulk commands for items desired to be purchased within the input amount range and parallel processing of item release and change release. Our goal is to provide this vending machine.

<Configuration and Effects of the Invention> The present invention allows the customer to know the input amount, the total amount of goods selected, and the remaining amount on the display means on various numerical displays, and further allows the customer to purchase the goods by means of selecting the goods. [Select button is always lit, selected i'A: Select button is switched to flicker display, that is, blinking display. When all the selections are completed, a command is given to issue the article by the issuing means, and the desired article and change are discharged in parallel. When all the operations in -)■ are completed, the various display means 2 selection means are turned off. That's how it is.

Therefore, according to the present invention, there is an advantage that the service to the user is improved by inputting all desired items before issuing the goods and discharging the goods and change in parallel.

<Description of Embodiment> An embodiment of this defense will be described below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a front view showing the front panel of the vending machine of this embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a control circuit block diagram of the same vending machine.

The front panel of this vending machine has a coin slot 11 bill insertion [12], a purchase cancellation button 3. Type of purchased goods (Δ−
1-1) Illuminated type selection button for manual selection and illumination of purchasable items 55. After selecting the desired item, an illuminated issue button 6 is used to command the release of the item and change and to display the display during the release, and the input amount numeric display 8° selects the total amount of input coins. A numeric display for the purchase amount of goods for displaying the amount of money for the finished goods 9. A numeric display for the remaining amount after subtracting the purchase price from the input amount 10. A discharge port 4 from which goods and change are discharged is provided. ing.

This vending machine is used for selling stamps, for example, and stores the deposits of banknotes and coins in the deposit storage section by denomination, and stores the change in the reserve fund of the gold storage section (+i!i). ,
The well-known deposit/withdrawal mechanism is used.

In FIG. 2, the authenticity of the inserted banknotes is determined by the input banknote processing mechanism 12 and stored in a banknote storage section (not shown), and the inserted coins are checked by the hard Q processing mechanism 13 to determine the denomination and authenticity. are determined and stored in a coin storage unit (not shown) according to denomination. The purchased items are then released from an item storage section (not shown) that is set up for each item.
16, the change is discharged to the discharge port 4, and change is discharged to the discharge port 4 by a change discharge mechanism 17 from a reserve storage section (not shown) provided for each denomination.

Type selection button 59 Issue button 6, Purchase cancellation button 3.
Input amount numeric display 8. Item purchase price number indicator 9.
The remaining amount numerical display 10 is a PIA (PERI PI-
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5 to the CPU 11. PTA15 is C
This is a parallel interface between P U 1' 1 and peripheral input/output devices.

The type selection button 5 and issue button 6 are illuminated pushbuttons, and the conditions for turning them on and off will be explained later in Operation 5. When each item △ to 1=1 is sold out, the display above the selection button for that item lights up.

The memory 14 connected to the CPU 11 has a J mark area shown in FIG. 3 (Δ). Memory area M1. M2.
M3 is an area for storing the input amount, the purchased item amount, and the remaining amount, and the memory M4 stores the type of purchased item.

A table of unit prices of articles is stored in the memory area M5, and the unit price of the article selected with J: on the type selection button 5 is read from this table and added to the memory area M2, and at the same time is stored in the memory area M3. The same value is subtracted from. An example of the unit price table for this item is shown in Figure 3 (
B) shows the operation of this vending machine as shown in flowchart 1 in Figure 4.
-Explained by.

At step n1 (hereinafter step ni will be simply referred to as ni), the user's deposited money is classified 6 by denomination, and the deposited amount is stored in the memory area M1. Since it was 4r before that, the same value is stored in the memory area M3 as the remaining amount. These values are displayed on the respective input amount numeric display 8 and remaining amount numeric display 10 (n2). Depending on the remaining amount, the user determines how much of the type selection buttons 5 can be selected for purchase (n3), and lights up the type selection buttons 5 in the corresponding range (n4). Seeing this display, the user selectively presses the lit button to input the type of article (n5).

The type of the selected article is registered in the memory area M4 (n6). The selected type selection button 5 is switched from a lit display to a blinking display to notify the customer that the vending machine has memorized it, and the selected type selection button 5 is then pressed.
Disables pressing of (n7).

Next, refer to the table in the memory area M5 for the unit price of the selected item, add the bean paste to the item purchase amount area M2, and output the result to the item purchase amount numerical display 9 (n8.n
9). Furthermore, the same value is reduced from the remaining amount J rear M3 and the result is displayed and output to the remaining amount numerical display 10 (n10.n1
1). Step n3 returns to this new remaining amount. I
Return to MI and continue operation 111:. The following steps describe the type of goods that the customer wants.
When the issue button 6 is pressed (n12), the issue button 6 is lit ( ), only the type selection button 5 that is blinking is switched to the lit display, and all other type selection buttons 5 are turned off. The process moves to parallel processing of discharging and discharging change (n13). When discharging goods and discharging change is completed, the issue button 6 and type selection button 5 are turned off, and the input amount numeric display 8. Goods purchase price numerical display9. The remaining amount numeric display 10 is changed to the suffix 0 (-b), and all customer service 01 operations are completed (n14).

By the above operations, the goods) selection is performed all at once, and the goods and change are processed simultaneously in parallel, making it possible for one person to
Utari's customer service operation time can be reduced by λ0.

Next, the state in which the vending machine of the present invention is actually operated will be explained using the schematic diagram of FIG.

Figure 5 (△) represents the standby state waiting for customers.
Figure (B) shows the state when 200 yen is deposited, and all type selection buttons A~) are lit. (C) of the same figure shows the state immediately after selecting the type selection button G. At Ca2, the corresponding button switches to a blinking display, and the type selection buttons A to F in the range of 80 yen remaining are lit. N)) in the same figure further shows the state immediately after selecting the type selection button Δ, and like the type selection button G earlier, A also turns into a blinking display, and the type selection button B for the remaining amount of 50 yen is displayed. .

Turn on C. Figure (F) shows a state in which the issuance button 6 is pressed and the goods and change are being released, and the type selection buttons A and G selected by the customer (b are lit).

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a front view showing the 9-front panel of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing a control circuit of the vending machine, and Fig. 3 (A) is a control circuit of the vending machine. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a storage area of the computer. FIG. 2B is a diagram showing an example of an article-unit price table stored in memory area M5 of memory 1/I. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the vending machine. Figures 5 (△) to 5 (') are schematic diagrams showing the states of the various numeric displays 7 to 9 and type selection button 5 of the vending machine. 5...Type selection button, 6.・Light-emitting button 7...
Sold out indicator, 8...Input amount numeric indicator 9...Goods purchase amount numeric indicator 10...Remaining amount numeric indicator Patent applicant X'I Sekidenki Co., Ltd. 10- Figure 1' Connection 2 Ward Tokukai Sho GO-14389 (5) 57 + 1,000 g1 is expressed.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a vending machine that sells any type of goods at the time of one purchase, a selection means for selectively displaying the type of goods desired to purchase, and a selection means for selecting and displaying the type of goods desired to purchase, and issuing the goods after selecting all the goods desired to purchase. An issuance means for issuing a command, a display means for displaying the total amount of input money, a display means for displaying the total amount of the selected purchase desired item, and a display means for displaying the remaining amount after subtracting the total purchase amount from the input money. A vending machine comprising: a display means for displaying a display;