Product provision device
AssigneeSega Corporation
InventorAtsuhiro Yamada
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Abstract
The product provision device includes: a discharge port that discharges products; a dispensing port from which a user takes the products discharged from the discharge port; a central processing unit (CPU) that determines a provision quantity of the products; a conveyor that comprises a roller and conveys, among a plurality of product units connected in a continuous state in a product group, a product unit of the provision quantity such that the product unit of the provision quantity is discharged from the discharge port in a continuous state; and a product presentation guide that is disposed along a path from the discharge port to the dispensing port, and presents, as a product to be provided to the user, the product unit of the provision quantity discharged from the discharge port in the continuous state.
Claims7
A product provision device comprising:
- a discharge port that discharges products;
- a dispensing port from which a user takes the products discharged from the discharge port;
- a central processing unit (CPU) that determines a provision quantity of the products;
- a conveyor that comprises a roller and conveys, among a plurality of product units connected in a continuous state in a product group, a product unit of the provision quantity such that the product unit of the provision quantity is discharged from the discharge port in a continuous state;
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- a product presentation guide that:
- is disposed along a path from the discharge port to the dispensing port, and
- presents, as a product to be provided to the user, the product unit of the provision quantity discharged from the discharge port in the continuous state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.