Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Yoshiyuki Kato

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hajime Erikawa

Naoto Fukushima

Nobutoshi Migishima

Takashi Uzawa

Yasuhiko Miyata

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.

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Saitama, Japan

Yoshiyuki Kato