Title:
VENDING CONTROL METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3144992
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To eliminate the discharge of commodity whose quality deterioration is predicted by detecting a stock period exceeding a prescribed period and making the automatic vending machine switch itself to a sellout process.
CONSTITUTION: In a 1st storage area 7, the number (a) of days is written as a stock upper-limit period. When commodities are charged in an article payoff device group 5 and the operation is started, 0 is set as the number (b) of elapsing days in a 2nd storage area 8. A control part 1 reads the current time out of a timer part 6, adds '1' to the contents of the number (b) of the elapsing days in the 2nd storage area 8 at zero hours, and compares the contents of the 1st storage area 7 with the contents of the 2nd storage area 8. Thus, '1' is added to the contents of the 2nd storage area 8 at every zero hours and when it is decided that b=a, it is decided that the commodities in stock expire, so that the sellout process is performed even if commodities are left in the article payout device.
Inventors:
Atsunori Matsuo
Takashi Endo
Takashi Endo
Application Number:
JP21310194A
Publication Date:
March 12, 2001
Filing Date:
September 07, 1994
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Kubota Corporation
International Classes:
G07F9/00; G07F9/02; (IPC1-7): G07F9/00
Domestic Patent References:
| JP5445200A | ||||
| JP196081U |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshihiro Morimoto