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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2015
Sanden Holdings Corporation, Isesaki-shi, JP;
The Coca-cola Company, Atlanta, GA (US);
SANDEN HOLDINGS CORPORATION, Gunma, JP;
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Automatic vending machine which cools products for sale. Sale of products not in an appropriate temperature state is prevented. A cooling device executes a partial cooling operation for cooling the product located on a lower side of the plurality of products stored in a product storage chamber when lower space temperature Tinside the chamber becomes higher than upper-limit value TSof set temperature range (S→S). Then, when the lower space temperature Tis decreased to a lower-limit value TSof the set temperature range, the automatic vending machine executes an entire cooling operation for cooling all the plurality of products (S→S). Furthermore, when the lower space temperature Tbecomes higher than upper-limit value TSof the set temperature range during execution of the entire cooling operation, the automatic vending machine stops the entire cooling operation to execute the partial cooling operation (S→S).