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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Gunma-ken, JP;
Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
According to a control device for automatic vending machine of the invention, a manufacturer discriminating code and a version of control program corresponding to the manufacturing discriminating code are stored in each of terminal control units in advance, and are communicated to a main control unit in first communicating operation after the terminal control unit is exchanged or newly installed. Based on the manufacturing discriminating code and the version of control program, the main control unit inspects a memory A installed in the main control unit, a memory card inserted in an expanding slot , and a management computer which is capable of communication, in this order, and obtains suitable control programs from them. Where the terminal control unit is exchanged or newly installed, the control program of the main control unit is automatically renewed to reduce time and operation which have been much spent in conventional renewal and to protect operation error therefor.