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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2001
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An automatic vending machine of the invention can sell items or goods including tangible items such as drinks and intangible items such as music soft which are supplied by plural vendors. The intangible items are sold by transmitting the desired data from intangible item-supplying companies A, B, C through a public communication line to the automatic vending machine and by writing the data in a recording medium. A control computer automatically calculates sales amount of each vendor based on sales data of each vendor output from the automatic vending machine, and adjusts the sales amount of each vendor by transmitting the calculating result to a banking agency According to the management method of automatic vending machine and the automatic vending machine of the invention, automatic sales of items supplied by different vendors can be easily spread at low cost and without securing both of new installation places or sites of the automatic vending machine and communication lines.