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Title:
ACCIDENT PREVENTIVE DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH09138884
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide anaccident preventing device wherein a customer touches a commodity after the surface of the commodity heated by means of an automatic vending machine is cooled down to a safe temperature by inhibiting the take-out of the commodity until the commodity comes to have a prescribed temperature after it is heated.

Optimum time by the power of a microwave oven is previously set for the commodity. When the value of a heating timer is matched with a value showing the setting time and it is timed up, a lower cover of the microwave oven opens. The product 3 drops via a passage and it is loaded on a reception plate 2 in front of the take-out port 5a of the commodity. The drop of the product is detected by a commodity sensor. When a commodity sensor 4 recognizing that the commodity 3 is loaded on the reception plate 2 detects the commodity, a blower starts cooling and a cooling timer starts an operation. When the cooling timer is matched with setting time and it is timed up, current is made to flow in the electromagnetic solenoid 23 of a lock mechanism 10 at the take-out port 5a of the commodity, and locking is removed. At the same time, the completion of cooking in an operation pat is displayed.


Inventors:
FUKUI MASAYOSHI
Application Number:
JP31853495A
Publication Date:
May 27, 1997
Filing Date:
November 14, 1995
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SHINKO ELECTRIC CO LTD
International Classes:
G07F9/02; G07F9/10; (IPC1-7): G07F9/10; G07F9/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Haruya Saito (2 outside)