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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
May. 22, 2017
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shirou Takeuchi, Yokkaichi, JP;
FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Kawasaki-Shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An article dispensing apparatus includes: one article discharging apparatus; and another article discharging apparatus, the one article discharging apparatus and the other article discharging apparatus being capable of being combined in a back-to-back manner. The one article discharging apparatus includes: a driving source; an output gear configured to rotate by a driving force from the driving source when a discharging instruction has been given to the one article discharging apparatus; link levers where each link lever is provided rotatably about an axis of the link lever; and a controller configured to, when the output gear is rotated from the standby position by the discharging instruction, prohibit stopping of drive of the driving source to allow the rotation of the output gear until a preset prohibited time elapses from starting of the rotation of the output gear even when supply of electric power to the driving source is interrupted.