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US 2006/0131323 A1Published application
Beverage dispenser
AssigneeSanden Corporation
InventorsTakayuki Akuzawa, Masayuki Taguchi, Isao Ishizaki, Kimihisa Ishikawa, Hideki Sadakata
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Abstract
A beverage dispenser can replace a X-Y coordinate of a predetermined cup stop position with a corrected X-Y coordinate by operating an X-axis motor and a Y-axis motor of a cup mover so that an actual cup stop position become consistent with a predetermined cup stop position and deciding the corrected X-Y coordinate based on position signals obtained from an X-axis encoder and a Y-axis encoder according to the operation.
Claims7
A beverage dispenser comprising:
- a cup mover including an X-axis motor, an X-axis encoder, a Y-axis motor and a Y-axis encoder, said cup mover capable of moving a cup holder two-dimensionally in an X-Y coordinate system;
- stop position storing means for storing X-Y coordinates of multiple cup stop positions predetermined based on position signals from the X-axis encoder and the Y-axis encoder;
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- stop position correcting means for, when an actual cup stop position on the X-Y coordinate system is different from a predetermined cup stop position on the X-Y coordinate system, operating at least one of the X-axis motor and the Y-axis motor of the cup mover so that the actual cup stop position become consistent with the predetermined cup stop position, deciding a corrected X-Y coordinate based on the position signals obtained from the X-axis encoder and Y-axis encoder according to the operation, and replacing the X-Y coordinate of the predetermined cup stop position with the corrected X-Y coordinate.
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