JPH10320623A - Hot and cold automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user to clearly discriminate between hot and cold push buttons for article selection of an automatic vending machine which vend hot articles and cold articles. SOLUTION: This vending machine has a heating device 4 and a cooling device 5 for articles and can vend hot articles or cold articles by switching and driving the heating device 4 or cooling device 5. In this case, the vendable display lamp 9 of a push button 8 for article selection is provided with a light emitting diode 10 for hot article display and a light emitting diode 11 for cold article display, which are associated with the switching between the heating device 4 and cooling device 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vending machine which can switch between hot products and cold products for sale.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Sold products vary depending on the season and the location of a vending machine. For example, when it comes to coffee beverages, the demand for hot coffee is usually high, but especially in summer, the demand for ice coffee increases. It is desirable that products handled by vending machines can be changed according to the season. For this reason, a vending machine is provided with a heating device and a cooling device, and depending on the season, the heating device is operated to sell hot coffee at some times, and to switch to the cooling device at some times to sell ice coffee. Has been done. At that time, to indicate to the user whether the product currently sold is hot coffee or ice coffee, a red acrylic plate for hot and a blue acrylic plate for cold near the push button for product selection Have been placed. In this method, since the push button for selecting each product is slightly separated from the hot and cold display acrylic plate,
There is a problem in that it is difficult to identify the cold, and the push button is mistakenly pressed.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a vending machine for selling hot and cold products in which a user can clearly distinguish between hot and cold of each push button for selecting a product. Is to get it.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a heating device and a cooling device for a product, and switches the heating device or the cooling device to drive the hot product or the cold product. In a vending machine that can sell a product, a sellable display lamp of a push button for selecting a product is provided with a light emitting diode for displaying a hot product and a light emitting diode for displaying a cold product, and both light emitting diodes are switched between a heating device and a cooling device. It can be linked to.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the vending machine of the present invention,
Heating device, the circuit of either the hot product display light emitting diode or cold product display light emitting diode of each push button for product selection according to the switching between the cooling device,
When the products that can be sold by the insertion of money are determined, either the hot product display light emitting diode or the cold product display light emitting diode of the push button corresponding to those products is lit, and the purchased money is purchased. Possible products and their hot and cold distinctions are displayed simultaneously.

[0006]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the arrangement of an embodiment of the present invention.
Is a main control unit of a vending machine, 2 is a cold / hot changeover switch, 3 is a cooling / heating control device, 4 is a product heating device, 5 is a product cooling device, 6 is a currency identification device, 7 is a push button control device, and 8 is a push button control device. A push button 9 for selecting a product, 9 denotes a sale indicator of the push button, and a light emitting diode 10 for displaying a hot product (for example, red or orange) and a light emitting diode 11 for displaying a cold product
(For example, blue). The push buttons 8 and the sellable display lamps 9 are provided by the number of products handled by the vending machine.

Next, the operation will be described. If the product is now set to hot, the cold / hot changeover switch 2 is switched to the warm side, a signal indicating that the product has been set to hot is transmitted to the cooling / heating control device 3, and the cooling / heating control device 3 4 is driven to perform a predetermined temperature control. A signal indicating that the product is set as a hot product is transmitted to the push button control device 7 via the main control unit 1 at the same time. When a coin or bill is inserted, the currency discriminating device 6 determines whether the coin or bill is inserted. If the coin or bill is inserted, a commodity that can be sold with the coin or bill inserted from the main control unit 1 is determined. The sellable display lamp 9 of the push button is turned on. In this case, only the hot product display light emitting diode 10 of the lamp 9 is turned on by the hot product setting signal transmitted to the push button control device 7 first, and the cold product display light emitting diode 11 is not turned on. This allows the user to clearly identify the product that can be purchased with the amount of money entered by the user and the distinction between hot and cold with the portion of the push button, and then operates the push button 8 of the product that the user wants. Then you can buy the goods. Similarly, when the cold / hot changeover switch 2 is switched to the cold side, a signal indicating that the product has been set as a cold product is transmitted to the push button control device 7, and a signal from the main control unit 1 upon insertion of a coin or a bill, Only the cold product display light emitting diode 11 in the salable display lamp of the push button corresponding to the product that can be sold is turned on, and the hot product display light emitting diode 10 is not turned on.

The vending machine may be divided into a plurality of rooms by a heat insulating wall, and each room may independently handle hot or cold products. In this case, the above-described units may be provided corresponding to the respective chambers, and the switching between the cooling device and the heating device may be performed by the respective cold / hot changeover switches.

[0010]

According to the present invention, the light emitting diode for displaying a hot product or the light emitting diode for displaying a cold product, which is mounted on a salable display lamp of a push button for selecting a product, is turned on, so that a user can select a product. It is possible to identify at a glance the products to be obtained and the distinction between hot and cold of those products, and it is possible to eliminate troubles such as erroneous pressing of the push button. Also, from the management of vending machines,
Since the light emitting diode lighting control is performed by automatically recognizing the cold / hot switching of the vending machine, there is no need to set the color of the push button depending on whether it is hot or cold. Such a problem does not occur.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration layout diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main control part 2 Cold / hot changeover switch 3 Cooling / heating control device 4 Heating device 5 Cooling device 6 Money discriminating device 7 Push button control device 8 Push button 9 Available-for-sale display lamp 10 Light emitting diode for hot product display 11 Light emission for cold product display diode

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vending machine which has a heating device and a cooling device for a product and which can sell a hot product or a cold product by switching and driving the heating device or the cooling device, selling a push button for selecting a product. A hot-and-cold light-emitting device, wherein a light-emitting diode for displaying a hot product and a light-emitting diode for displaying a cold product are provided on a possible display lamp, and both the light-emitting diodes can be linked to switching between a heating device and a cooling device. vending machine.