Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Yasuhiko Miyata

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Yasuhiro Yamazaki

Hajime Erikawa

Naoto Fukushima

Seiji Ebukuro

Toshitake Maruyama

Nobutoshi Migishima

Takashi Uzawa

Yoshiyuki Kato

Masayuki Ootani

A control apparatus for vending machine free from necessity of replacing the main control program when a new function is to be supplemented to the sub-control units in the control apparatus or when an additional sub-control unit is to be added thereto, thus reducing the costs and labor. The apparatus comprising a main control unit operated by a main control program stored in a main control memory having vacant space, sub-control units controlled by the main control unit, the main control program includes data specifically set for each sub-control unit.

Control apparatus for vending machine

Cups stored in the automatic vending machine are released and dropped from a cup supply unit to a cup holding unit one at a time and drink is injected thereinto as selected by a customer. The cup holding unit holding the cup filled with drink is transported approximately horizontally by a front/back cup transport unit to a vertical cup transport unit. As the vertical cup transport unit lifts the cup upward, the vending door is opened to expose to the customer the upper portion of the cup out of the cup outlet, as if the cup were sitting on a counter table in the front of the vending machine.

Cup type automatic vending machine

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Saitama-ken, Japan

Yasuhiko Miyata