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AssigneeFuji Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsIsao Arai, Shigeru Hanagata, Yasuhiro Yamazaki
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An automatic vending machine 1 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 venders. The intangible items are sold by transmitting the desired data from intangible item-supplying companies A, B, C through a public communication line 8 to the automatic vending machine 1 and by writing the data in a recording medium. A control computer 20 automatically calculates sales amount of each vender based on sales data of each vender output from the automatic vending machine, and adjusts the sales amount of each vender by transmitting the calculating result to a banking agency 6. According to the management method of automatic vending machine and the automatic vending machine of the invention, automatic sales of items supplied by different venders 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.
A management method of automatic vending machine, which comprises selling items supplied by different venders, automatically calculating a sales amount of each vender based on sales data of each vender prepared in the automatic vending machine by computer, and adjusting sales amount of each vender based on the calculating result.
An automatic vending machine which is capable of selling items supplied by plural venders, is connected to a control computer for controlling the automatic vending machine through a communication means, transmits sales data of each vender through the communication means to the control computer, and makes the control computer to automatically calculate sales amount of each vender.
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